Hello and

welcome to dear Hank and John.

Or as I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank and Dr. Katie Mac.

Hello, it's a podcast where two brothers and sometimes a special guest, answer gressions give you dubious advice

and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon and also talk about

the universe together.

John, one time at the end of my physics lecture,

I went to my professor and I said,

I said, what happened before the Big Bang though?

And he said, sorry, there's no time.

That's the bad joke that Dr Mac is that funny

good answer it's it's it's hilarious though. Yes. Thank you. Definitely. So we're joined today by noted Canadian American astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack who is the co-host with me of a hit

new podcast called Crash Course the Universe that is the history of the entire universe right Katie yes it's it's we're doing the whole thing all yeah not just we tell the story from the first second until before the first second until the deep future. I'm sorry excuse me. We take like half

of episode one to get to second. That's true. There's a lot of picoseconds

involved a phrase I didn't even know before this.

But then you also look at like what's going to happen.

Because we can draw the line out pretty effectively.

And this podcast was really inspired by my reading of Dr. Max's incredible book,

The End of Everything Astrophysically speaking, which discusses the end of everything

and really got my head going. It's not that discouraging to me personally because I won't be here,

but some of my protons will be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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