Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 373 I'm Thomas Smith who boy well

super excited about this episode it's a lot of fun we got more astrophysics for you and Brian

Dr. Brian Gillison I are going to do well let's face it it's him Dr. Brian Gillison is going to rewrite a

science headline in hilarious fashion because I saw a headline and it seemed like from a you know

moderately legitimate source not obviously BS the headline is NASA confirms that cosmic object is

so bright that it defies laws of physics it's definitely not an optical illusion so that caught my

eye it's really interesting and what I love about having the show is if I see something like this I

just send it to like an expert that I know and I'm like hey is this real is this something what is

this and Brian after some back and forth Brian thought this makes for a perfect episode because

we can evaluate some bad science journalism or maybe it's not so bad we'll see and he can

teach us some really cool physics so I'll have to get Brian on and see how it stacks up before

that couple quick notes for one we're actually scheduled to record Armageddon the this month's bonus

for serious movies on that seriously bad awful movies in addition to Dr. Brian Gillison Lydia will

also be joining us and another bonus guest it's going to be so much fun please patreon.com slash

series pod second tier and above we'll get access to that it'll be so much fun you don't want to

miss it secondly you may have noticed this episode is late which I hate but it's because I just

finished the final part on the James Webb telescope for where there's woke I'm sure you've heard

me plug that by now but I just have to say I have never worked so hard on anything in my life I

really haven't it doesn't really matter because if if you don't like it then it sucks it doesn't

that I work hard on I think that sucks but like Rick I just want to communicate how much I put into

this this last episode goes into the history the actual history of the lavender scare and James

Webb's alleged role in it and I put easily hundreds of hours into this one episode it's I've never

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