Hello, SFIA audio listeners.

In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,

we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

To hear it and every episode early and ad-free, plus hours of bonus content,

check out go.nebola.tv slash Isaac Arthur and use my code, Isaac Arthur.

Welcome to the SFIA monthly live stream

Q&A audio recordings. About a year back in September of 2018, I decided to start doing a

monthly live stream at the suggestion of YouTube and recently got a request to put those out

in audio-only form for our folks listening on iTunes,

SoundCloud, and so forth.

I figured it was probably a good idea and also that it was past time for me to start

updating our playlists here, which have been rather neglected in recent years, and maybe

get back into the habit of doing some exclusive content for our audio-only listeners like the series

introductions we had for the early playlist, so stay tuned for those in coming weeks, hopefully.

A quick note on the audio, if you're a regular listener, you'll probably notice a big drop-off

in quality. It's very different talking to a microphone while moving your head around

and looking at questions and answering them live and off the top of your head compared to

narrating a script you've written and editing out all the bad takes. Realistically, it isn't

practical to edit these to remove all the long pauses, ums and oz, and clicking noises associated to having the gain on the

microphone up, and I apologize for that in advance. Also, needless to say, if you're listening to

these, they are not live, and even new entries would have to follow many hours after the live

show, unless I find out an easy way to stream to YouTube and our

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