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Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And, hey, if you are new welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick. And hey, if you are new to the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast, I thought we do a brief explainer of who we are. We don't usually do a bumper at the beginning of our shows to say like, here's who we are. This is our deal. But we thought we might have some new people on board because we just recently added a new

video component of our podcast. We've been running a long time. God, how many years at this point?

I know we've always been here. Yeah, I think I've been on this show since 2015 or so. Rob,

you've been doing it significantly longer than that. But as an audio format podcast, so for many years, we've covered

topics, a lot of topics related to science, a general nexus of kind of science and culture,

but we have interdisciplinary tastes. We like to talk about stuff where science connects to

literature or mythology, all kinds of stuff like that. So that's who we are. We've

been around a long time and the video thing is new. So if you are here watching us on Netflix,

you're at the beginning of a new phase. Yeah. And as you hear us refer back to old episodes,

you might wonder, well, where are these episodes? I do not see them. Well, you may be able to hear them. Just go to wherever you get your podcasts, look for stuff to blow your mind. Go ahead and subscribe. You'll also find all of our podcast episodes there from years and years back. That's right. So end bracket on the prelude there. Today on the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast, we're going to be talking about a substance called polywater.

And I think the first thing we need to establish about polywater is that polywater does not exist.

So this is not going to be one of those episodes where we're talking about an interesting,

hypothetical, maybe existing substance. It's not like the, you know, the various candidates

for dark matter, like axions or weekly interacting massive particles. You know, these substances

where there's a reasonable debate about whether they exist or there's a theoretical reason to keep looking for them and tests to see if they exist.

Polywater is not like that. Today, no credible scientist thinks polywater is real.

And there's really no theoretical reason to think it might be real or to

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