The Best of the Origins Podcast, Part 1:
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
4.4 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 191 minutes
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Summary
As promised at the beginning of this month, here is the first of two “Best of” selections from the Origins Podcast. I apologize that this hasn’t come out sooner, but the lazy days of August caught up with all of our production team. In any case, here, on the last day of August (in all US timezones), enjoy this collection of great clips from many of our exciting guests over the first two years of the podcast. These were all recorded before the pandemic and so we were able to travel to talk with my guests at their location, or bring them to our origins studio. As a result, they were all shot with 3 cameras, so the video record is better than one gets on zoom. This video version is available now to paid subscribers, and this audio version is available to all subscribers. A Youtube version will be released later this week. I hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed putting this compilation together.
For those of you who are Origins veterans, we will give you a chance to relive the highlights from podcasts with some of the most remarkable scientists, artists, and writers on the planet. For those of you who are newer subscribers this will give you a chance to see some tidbits from some fascinating conversations with fascinating individuals, and perhaps encourage you to explore our backlist for the full discussions.
We will return with new content in September, and will release the second “Best Of” compilation sometime later in the fall. Once again, thanks for your support of Critical Mass, which remains an essential part of allowing The Origins Project Foundation to continue its programming.
Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Origins Podcast. I'm your host Lawrence Krause. I hope those of you are living in the Northern Hemisphere are having a great summer. And to top off our summer and to give me a short break, we're releasing |
| 0:24.3 | in the month of August two episodes of highlights, best up videos from our four years of Origins |
| 0:31.7 | podcast. It's hard to believe we've been going over for over four years now. And when we go back |
| 0:37.3 | and look at the episodes we've done, |
| 0:39.0 | it's really humbling to see the amazing guests who've agreed to be on |
| 0:42.1 | and the fun times we've had. |
| 0:45.0 | And so we tried to compile for you a set of best-up videos |
| 0:48.8 | and we'll be releasing two podcasts, |
| 0:52.2 | the first for the first two years and the second for the second two years. |
| 0:56.4 | In this first podcast, we go back to the very beginning of the origins podcast with our earliest guests |
| 1:04.0 | that included Rikyu Jervais and Noam Chomsky, among others, among Nobel laureates, Sheldon Glashow, scientist Alan Stern, astrophysicist, |
| 1:18.1 | musician Brian May. The list goes on and on. And it's amazing to go back and see all the |
| 1:26.2 | variety of people we interviewed. And in those days, we were |
| 1:29.4 | traveling around the world. It was before the pandemic. And we visited Brian May in England |
| 1:35.7 | and Neil deGrasse Tyson in New York and Stephen Greenblatt in Boston at Harvard. And, of |
| 1:43.6 | course, Ricky in England. |
| 1:45.4 | I hope you enjoy these early episodes. |
| 1:48.5 | And for those of you who are new to the Origins Podcast, |
| 1:52.2 | I hope this will give you a chance to see that our backlist is worth listening to. |
| 1:56.9 | Either way, I hope you have a great summer, |
| 2:00.1 | and I hope you enjoy this first podcast of best of videos from the Origins Podcast. |
| 2:05.5 | And I hope you all consider supporting us and continuing to support us on Critical Mass because that provides us a necessary support to keep the podcast going and also for the Origins Project Foundation to do its work. |
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