Ep. 800: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 1

We are live.

We are live on YouTube.

We are live on Twitch.

We are live.

And I'm looking on off-screen.

[laughs]

Let me just get my-

Waiting for confirmation of our reality?

So you, you're calling this The Beginning and The End of Everything.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

All right.

Okay, I'll do that.

I like that.

I've said the beginning of the universe, the next one's gonna be the end of the universe, but I like that it's a two-parter.

Yeah.

The Beginning and The End of Everything, although really, do we call this everything?

I mean-

And then part one, the beginning, part two, the end?

I, I, I re-

Or history of everything

...

So The Beginning and End of Everything, part one, the beginning, part two, the end.

Yeah.

[laughs] Welcome to sausage being made, everyone.

I don't like this.

I don't like this.

Okay, hold on.

Let me think this through.

Um-

I'm an astronomer, therefore I'm not allowed to name things, and yet you let me name things.

Yeah.

And then you change them because I should not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it's, you know, it's only when it crosses my threshold.

Um, no, so what I'm calling this, the 800, this is the beginning of the universe, and then the next episode is called The End of the Universe.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

I've decided.

I've, I have chosen.

All right.

'Cause as long as we call it The History of the Universe, then we have to include the messy middle part, and we're not going to.

We're just covering the beginning and the end.

Yeah, that's it.

The beginning of the universe and the end of the universe.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

'Cause we do not understand the middle bits yet.

No.

I have chosen.

[laughs]

Okay.

Um, uh, a- a- and when confirming our existence?

Yeah.

We're confirmed on, on both platforms.

Over on Twitch, I like to thank-- I'd like to say hi to Balaji, Guidobita Bibra, Ian, who has many letters after that, uh, Ataxora, uh, Guidobibra, Alan Gross.

Uh, over on YouTube, I'd like to say hello to Null Denominator, to...

I, I may have said those backwards.

I think I just thanked YouTube and called it Twitch.

Yeah.

I'm now over on Twitch, where I would like to say hello to Null Denominator, uh, to Broken Symmetry, to Not The Brain, to Guido B, to, uh, Ironheart 50, to Broken Symmetry, to Sishu.

Hello.

And Alan is on both platforms.

You're hearing us-

Whoa

...

in server-determined offsets in time.

That's weird.

[laughs]

But hey, we're not gonna judge you.

[laughs]

You do you, man.

Um-

All the better that way

... okay, so, so we have a gigantic announcement-

We do

... for Astronomy Cast, but I think we're just gonna announce it in the episode, and that way, um, you-

It goes out in the episode.

Yeah, it's just gonna go out in the episode, and we, we're, we're tight on time-

Yeah

... 'cause we're gonna do two episodes today.

So we need to kind of, we need to be able to turn this ship around quickly.

So, um, so we're just gonna-

One of us woke up in Vancouver and is going to, or on Vancouver Island, and is going to bed in England.

Yes.

[laughs]

Yeah, or not going to bed.

He's gonna be on the, go to bed on an airplane and then-

Oh, there

... wake up out of whack, out of time eight hours, wandering in a fugue state for a week as his body adjusts to being in the, in the, uh, United Kingdom.

Uh, okay, let's go.

Let's do it.

Let's start.

Okay.

And then we'll do the announcement.

Okay.

I'm starting my audio software.

The audio software, I have pressed record.

It is recording.

I have pressed record on the video software.

The video software is recording.

Okay, here we go.