One hundred ninety-nine episodes.

When I started this podcast in January of 2015, it was just for fun, a side thing to get some of my outreach

desires loose. I just bought a microphone, downloaded a simple editing software, wrote seven

episodes, and put them out there in the wild. And now it's this amazing community of supporters

and patrons and listeners. I get the best fan mail of any

scientist from around the world. I'm humbled. Every single time you click the download button

or the play button and my voice comes through your speakers to transmit some complete knowledge

of time and space. I can't explain how much of a joy

it is to share all this amazing science in this beautiful universe that we live in with you.

Thank you. But we're not quite there yet. One hundred ninety nine episodes and we still haven't reached this show's goal of complete knowledge of time and space.

Like I said, like I've always said, my plan is that as long as people keep sending me questions, I'm going to keep answering them.

We're not stopping until we've explored every little corner, every little facet of astronomy and physics.

199 episodes and the party is just getting started.

So I thought a fun way to celebrate would be to make this episode and the next.

For those of you who haven't had enough coffee yet, that would be episode number 200,

as a sort of clip show.

Now, those of you who grew up in the 90s or earlier

will most likely understand this reference when a long-running sitcom had to fill in an episode

to finish out this season or to celebrate some important milestone. They would just dig through

the archive and find the funniest bits. For those of you who grew up later, consider a clip show like a longer

a TikTok or YouTube video that strings together a bunch of other videos. But I am not a sitcom,

and my longtime editor, Kathy, and please everyone give a round of applause, or at least a firm

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