Hello dear Hank and John listeners, it's John here. I just wanted to share with you our new podcast. It's called Crash Course The Universe and it is complexly's attempt along with myself and Dr Katie Mack an astrophysicist to share with you the baffling

thrilling, somewhat terrifying history of our entire universe from how the protons inside of me came to be to the deep future of our

universe and how everything, everything, will eventually cease to be.

Crash Course The Universe is available wherever you get your podcasts,

including where you're listening right now,

and at our YouTube channel,

YouTube.com slash Crash Course. I wanted to make this project with Dr. Mack because she is a physicist

and I am a person who just barely passed high school physics but what we share is an insatiable curiosity, a desire to understand

the world around us and to engage with the beauty of the world around us.

And it turns out that that world extends far far beyond the

confines of the little rock where we find ourselves. So here's Crash Course, the

universe. Thanks for listening.

So we live in a universe.

Yes.

How big is it? That's a great question.

It depends on what you mean by universe.

So already, already it's complicated.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no. A few years ago I came across a book by the astrophysicist Katie Mack called The End of, Astrophysically Speaking. The book tells the story of our

universe, how we understand its beginning, its expansion, and what we know about its future, including, well, the end of everything.

We are only here for a little while, of course, and the universe will be here for much longer.

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