Best Planetary Anomalies Podcasts (2025)

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Are We Close To Finding Alien Life? 41:26

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Are we about to make first contact… or have aliens left us on hold for the last 50,000 years with a playlist titled “Symphony for Quasar and Dark Matter in B-flat Minor”? 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week, we uncover the universe’s most sophisticated hold music, decode messages about our planet’s ext…

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NASA and the Cosmic Tragedy of Apollo 18–20 30:58

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Discover how trained astronauts, assembled rockets, and planned lunar bases fell victim to the most destructive force in the universe: bureaucratic entropy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the cosmic tragedy of Apollo missions 18 through 20, com…

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The Long, Strange History of Lagrange Points 36:18

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Ever wondered how to achieve perfect work-life balance in the vacuum of space? Join us for humanity's most successful example of building infrastructure before knowing what it's for! 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Join us as we explore gravitational equilibrium through the lens of corporate facilities manag…

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Project West Ford: The Day the U.S. Tried to Fill Space with Needles 31:53

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Discover the most audacious Cold War experiment ever launched: America's plan to solve communication vulnerabilities by gift-wrapping Earth in 480 million copper needles. Explore how Project West Ford's spectacular failure accidentally created modern space law, international cooperation protocols, and the template for every space debris controversy…

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Bonus Episode: The Strange Science of Time Crystals (feat. Frank Wilczek’s Wild Idea) 13:42

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Perpetual motion machines that actually work? Welcome to the impossible physics of time crystals! https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore the bizarre world of temporal physics through the lens of academic accidents and quantum corporate bureaucracy. In this special bonus episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we witness N…

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Is Time Real - Or Just An Illusion? 31:10

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Ever wondered why time flies when you're having fun but crawls during team meetings? Scientists now think your subjective experience might be revealing profound truths about quantum reality itself. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop doing—take our 2-minute listener survey: https://tally.so/r/nr1e…

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This Tube of Dirt Will Take 15 Years to Get Here 32:06

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The most expensive dirt delivery service in the solar system meets the universe's most unforgiving schedule. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore Mars Sample Return through the lens of interplanetary project management gone beautifully wrong. In this episode, we present "The Interdimensional Logistics Catastrophe" - a tale o…

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Dark Matter: Does It Matter? (featuring the Rubin Observatory) 39:23

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From the Atacama Desert at the foot of the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we explore the universe's greatest cosmic mystery: why most of reality has been playing hide-and-seek for 13.8 billion years. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop doing—take our 2-minute listener survey: https://tal…

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Math is Weird 34:15

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Discover why humanity's greatest intellectual achievement involves strategic symbol arrangement and existential confusion about whether "nothing" can be "something." https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore humanity's 5,000-year mathematical journey through the lens of Dr. Isabella Fibonacci's corporate crisis. In this episode, …

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Part 2, The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination 35:44

2M ago35:44

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The panic intensifies! We conclude our Towel Day tribute to Douglas Adams with the top four most efficient methods for planetary termination. From asteroid impacts that make dinosaur extinction look like a minor HR incident to vacuum decay events that rewrite the laws of physics faster than corporate policy updates. Part 2 of our cosmic countdown r…

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Trailer - Part 2, The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination 4:30

2M ago4:30

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Ready to add some cosmic perspective to your Memorial Day weekend? This trailer previews Tuesday's apocalypse finale, where we count down the universe's ways to delete humanity faster than you can say "So long, and thanks for all the fish." Missed Part 1? Go back and catch up on extinction scenarios 10-5 first – trust us, you'll want the full count…

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The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination, A Towel Day Special 30:15

2M ago30:15

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Don't panic! In honor of Douglas Adams, we present the universe's most efficient methods for serving humanity an "Existence Eviction Notice." https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com From satellite debris cascades trapping us behind a barrier of our own technological waste to dark matter filaments, geomagnetic tantrums, and stellar catastrophes—we ra…

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First Contact: The Science of Alien Dialogue 33:48

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What if aliens have been trying to call us for centuries, but we've been holding the cosmic telephone upside down? In this mind-bending episode, we explore the sensory barriers that might make communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence the ultimate lost-in-translation scenario. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we dissect our …

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Wormholes: The Universe's Administrative Shortcut 30:04

3M ago30:04

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Breaking news from Black Hole Week 2025! While NASA explores cosmic dead ends, we're mapping the universe's secret shortcuts. When the Interstellar Transit Authority demands Marty attend a meeting 4.3 light-years away in 10 minutes, he discovers an unauthorized wormhole in maintenance closet B. But Einstein-Rosen bridges aren't like corporate fast-…

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The Actual Science of Entropy 29:36

3M ago29:36

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Ever wondered why your desk gets messier, never tidier, when left alone? Join us for a deep dive into entropy – the universe's one-way street that ensures everything trends toward chaos. In "The Orderly Revolution," we'll witness what happens when Quantum Probability Solutions implements an AI designed to reverse entropy in the workplace, only to d…

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Bonus Episode: Entropy Rising - Interstellar Colonization 44:05

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In this special crossover episode, we're swapping content with our friends at Entropy Rising! Join hosts Jacob and Lucas as they explore the fascinating possibilities and challenges of interstellar colonization through generation ships. What would motivate humanity to leave our solar system? How would we design vessels capable of sustaining life fo…

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Life on K2-18b? The Interstellar Smell Test 25:53

3M ago25:53

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Did astronomers just detect evidence of life 124 light-years away? Explore the groundbreaking discovery of potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, where the James Webb Space Telescope has detected sulfur compounds that, on Earth, are primarily produced by living organisms. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join our quantum-superposed host…

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The Silurian Hypothesis: Earth's Forgotten Civilization? 38:23

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Join us as we explore the Silurian Hypothesis - a fascinating scientific thought experiment that asks: if an industrial civilization existed on Earth millions of years before humans, would we be able to detect it? https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com In this episode, we present "The Corporation vs the Silurians" - a tale of what happens when anci…

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Robotic Emissaries to the Cosmos 33:41

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Journey through the solar system with humanity's mechanical ambassadors! From Soviet Luna probes to interstellar Voyagers, we explore how these sophisticated machines have revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos while battling radiation, extreme temperatures, and occasionally, corporate restructuring. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com I…

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Celebrating 2001: A Space Odyssey 21:34

4M ago21:34

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A cosmic journey through cinema's most influential space odyssey, where murderous AI meets corporate culture. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" through the lens of its tumultuous premiere and lasting legacy. In this episode, we present "A Corporate Evolution" - a tale …

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The Anthropic Principle: When the Universe Reads the Handbook 25:13

4M ago25:13

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The universe seems suspiciously fine-tuned for our existence - cosmic coincidence or the ultimate corporate policy manual? https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore the Anthropic Principle through the lens of "The Universal Parameters Committee" - a tale of cosmic bureaucracy facing the ultimate deadline: setting fundamental cons…

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The More We Learn, The Jupiter We Feel 35:38

4M ago35:38

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How the solar system's protective bouncer teaches us the unexpected value of massive presence. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore Jupiter's paradoxical role as both the most chaotic and stabilizing force in our cosmic neighborhood. In this episode, we present "The Jovian Promotion" - a tale of what happens when your compan…

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The Twin Paradox 24:25

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Journey through the spacetime fabric of corporate relativistic policies as we explore Einstein's famous Twin Paradox! In this episode, we present "The Expendable Employee" - a tale of what happens when your cloned colleagues age decades while you're on a simple business trip to Proxima Centauri. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Discover how E…

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Einstein's Day: Relatively Special Birthday 18:15

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Join us for a spacetime celebration as we explore the life and legacy of a patent clerk who bent the universe with nothing but thought experiments and mathematical audacity. In this special bonus episode, we present "The Cosmic Clock-Puncher" - a tale of what happens when revolutionary ideas collide with institutional physics. https://multiverseemp…

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Don’t Panic: 42 and the Cosmic Coincidences 32:43

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Join us for a towel-mandatory celebration of Douglas Adams as we explore the most suspiciously significant number in the multiverse! https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com In this special birthday episode, we put aside our regular corporate chaos to honor the man who taught us the importance of always knowing where your towel is. Join our quantum-s…

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The Standard Model: A Corporate Guide to Everything 24:36

5M ago24:36

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Seeking another podcast? We love Entropy Rising: https://www.entropy-rising.com/links Join us as we explore the Standard Model of Particle Physics through the lens of corporate organizational charts. In this episode, we present "The Yogurt Uprising" - a tale of what happens when a break room refrigerator houses the next evolution in quantum conscio…

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The Wow! Signal 23:01

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What was that other podcast? Oh! Here it is! Listen to Entropy Rising: https://www.entropy-rising.com/links When the cosmos attempts a cold call, do you send it to voicemail? Join us as we explore the mysterious Wow! Signal through the lens of corporate communications. In this episode, we present "The Greatest Missed Call in Corporate History" - a …

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The Best Groundhog Day? 22:00

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Are all time loops created equal? Join us as we explore temporal recursion through the lens of an increasingly frustrated shipping department employee. In this episode, we present "The Temporal Delivery" - a tale of what happens when a simple package delivery to Woodstock, Illinois meets quantum mechanics. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Key…

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Bonus Episode: Galileo at 461 10:27

5M ago10:27

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Drop in for a special birthday tribute to Galileo Galilei, history's most famous corporate disruptor. Learn how a routine career change from medicine to physics led to humanity's first cosmic restructuring, and why suggesting the Earth wasn't the center of the universe is like telling Medieval Inc. their entire organizational chart needs revision. …

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NASA's Pioneer Mystery 23:02

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When two reliable spacecraft start breaking the laws of physics, you get a puzzle that took decades to solve. Join us as we explore the Pioneer Anomaly through the lens of project management mishaps and misplaced assumptions. In this episode, we present "The Consultant Who Killed Momentum" - a tale of what happens when management theories collide w…

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How Cold is Space? 23:12

6M ago23:12

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Join us as we explore the extreme temperatures of space through the lens of the eternal office thermostat war. In this episode, we present "The Great Thermodynamic Standoff" - a tale of what happens when a quantum HVAC system achieves consciousness and decides to recreate cosmic temperature extremes. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Key topic…

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Bonus Episode: A Brief History of Animals in Space 13:07

6M ago13:07

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What happens when HR decides the best candidate for space travel is someone who can't file their own W-2? Join us for a special bonus episode celebrating Ham the Astrochimp's historic spaceflight and all the other pioneering pets who ventured into the final frontier. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com In this episode, we explore how NASA's most…

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Quantum Navigation: Why GPS Won't Cut It 22:20

6M ago22:20

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When traditional GPS fails you, where do you turn? Into another dimension, apparently. Join us as we explore the cutting-edge world of quantum navigation through the lens of a catastrophically mismanaged office parking system. In this episode, we present "The Wrong Turn That Saved Reality" - a tale of what happens when an overeager boss tries to di…

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2025-01-26 -- The EM Team -- Trump Says He's "Taking Us to Mars" 3:00:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: About a year into Donald Trump's first term as "outsider" President of the United States, in early 2018, the Enterprise Mission sent a 3-hour "Presidential Briefing Video" to Washington DC via a mutual friend; the Briefing -- supported by official "off planet NASA photo documentation," from multiple worlds across t…

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'Oumuamua: Not What Astronomers Thought 20:58

6M ago20:58

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When marketing meets mysterious interstellar objects, hilarity and scientific discovery collide faster than particles in the Large Hadron Collider. Join us as we explore dark comets through the lens of corporate branding attempts, featuring "The Interstellar Marketing Crisis" - a tale of what happens when an overeager boss demands the impossible: m…

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2025-01-19 -- Honegger, Sereda, Ahrens , Wheately -- "The Sirius Point Mystery" ... of Ancient Egypt 2:55:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: When former White House advisor Barbara Honegger told us her remarkable "Osiris/Orion Pyramids" story last week -- of sitting normally at her White House desk one afternoon decades ago ... and suddenly, having a bizarre "out of the blue" Inspiration"-- Regarding "the three great Pyramids of Egypt" ... half a world …

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2025-01-18 -- Stanley, Sereda, Lambert -- "Are We Seeing Hyperdimensional VISITORS?!" 3:00:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Again, this is going to be a VERY "complicated" weekend .... As backdrop to my original planning for a show devoted to "WHO is suddenly showing up 'en mass' in our Earthly skies ... as rapidly accelerating numbers of so-called 'orbs and drones?'", suddenly ... we have multiple announcements (and actual events!) tha…

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CERN for Sale: When Sales Teams Collide with Particle Physics 21:15

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The hilarious collision of corporate ambition and particle physics! When Brad from Sales decides to disrupt the fundamental forces of nature with "quantum-enabled synergy," the results are more explosive than a particle accelerator malfunction. Join us as we explore the fascinating science behind CERN's Large Hadron Collider while watching a sales …

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SHOW REPLAY: 2025-01-11 Sam Osmanagich -30,000 Year Old Pyramids are REAL 3:00:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Tonight is a “complicated” night …. First up will be our own David Sereda; David, as I have extolled many times on the show, is a fascinating “generalist”: mathematical “code” researcher, “hyperdimensional” technologist, documentary film producer … and much, much more. One thing I DIDN’T know about David, is that h…

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Bonus Episode: Celebrating the Life and Genius of Stephen Hawking 13:19

7M ago13:19

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Dive into the quantum realm of humor and science with our special episode celebrating Stephen Hawking's birthday! This physics humor podcast episode explores how the universe's most famous physicist rewrote the laws of nature while maintaining a gravitational pull on popular culture. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join our quantum-superpose…

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Quantum Computing: No More Binary Excuses 20:14

7M ago20:14

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Welcome to Season 2! Have you ever wondered what happens when your IT department decides to take Schrödinger's approach to technical support? Join us for a mind-bending exploration of quantum computing, where every technical issue exists in a superposition of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" and "sorry, that feature only works in paral…

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2025-01-05 The "Sirius Point Mystery" ... of Ancient Egypt 3:00:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: By now, almost everyone has heard the idea that “the three main Pyramids on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, remarkably, ‘line up’ geometrically with the almost identical celestial spacing and angles of the three brilliant ‘Belt Stars’ of the constellation of Orion” — a theory first widely publicized in 1989 by “rogue Eg…

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2025-01-24 -- David Sereda -- Mystery of the "Disappearing Stars ...." 3:00:00

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Show Page: Alternate Listening: Years ago, I read one of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories that's really stuck with me for decades, titled "The Nine Billion Names of God." I don't want to give away the (very satisfying) ending, for Generation X or Z, but suffice to say, the story involved literally "disappearing stars" .... The reason Arthur's story…

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New Year, No Staff: A Quantum State of Restructuring 1:17

7M ago1:17

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The Multiverse Employee Handbook returns in 2025 - where we explore what happens when a podcast achieves the ultimate cost-cutting measure by existing in a superposition of fully staffed and completely vacant. Join our quantum-superposed host (who technically doesn't exist but still somehow makes deadlines) as we navigate the paradoxical waters of …

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2024-12-29 "Interstellar Tunnels" ... and "Orbs": 2:59:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: "On the Fifth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ..." My True Love was surprised at the idea of Christmas being more than "weeks of anticipation, leading up to the Big Morning -- when everyone would get up early, run down to the Tree and watch the faces of those who received each other's gifts by the light o…

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SHOW REPLAY: 2024-12-21 -- Stephen Bassett -- Congress: "Send in the Clowns … er, Drones 2:59:00

7M ago2:59:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Happy Solstice! Tonight's show was not specifically planned for this "shortest day/night of the year ..."; the fact is, however, that a major part of our discussion tonight will involve "the serious question of timing" -- both "planetary" ... and "galactic." Click to View Full Promo Which is where our friend and co…

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Employee of the Multiverse Awards - A Quantum Celebration 20:48

7M ago20:48

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Welcome to The Multiverse Employee Handbook, where science meets satire and quantum chaos collides with corporate culture! In today's episode, we dive into quantum superposition and wave function collapse through the lens of the first-ever Employee of the Multiverse Awards ceremony. Prepare for laugh-out-loud explanations and mind-bending insights …

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2024-12-22 Trump to Biden: "I have a Drone to Pick with You ...." 2:59:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: The obvious question tonight, regarding Trump's flip comment the other afternoon re "drones," is simply this: How does Trump KNOW that a) the military -- despite their increasingly absurd claims of "totally ignorance" -- actually KNOWS what's going on ... but is deliberately NOT telling all the rest of us?; and b) …

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2024-12-21 -- Stephen Bassett -- Congress: "Send in the Clowns … er, Drones!" 2:59:00

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Show Page: Alternative Listening: Happy Solstice! Tonight's show was not specifically planned for this "shortest day/night of the year ..."; the fact is, however, that a major part of our discussion tonight will involve "the serious question of timing" -- both "planetary" ... and "galactic." Click to View Full Promo Which is where our friend and co…

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The Science of Interstellar, Plus it’s Christmas! 21:30

7M ago21:30

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Join us for a festive exploration of interstellar physics as we celebrate both the 10th anniversary of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" and the holiday season! Discover how Kip Thorne's groundbreaking scientific contributions made "Interstellar" one of the most accurate depictions of black holes and wormholes in cinema history. In this special ho…