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Surely You're Joking — 76 episodes

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Robert Zubrin and the astronauts' direct advice.

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Avery Broderick and the first black hole selfie.

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Robert Picardo, Konstantin Batygin and the factor of two hypothesis.

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Mark Mammone and the alternate universe.

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Sumner Norman and the mind-reading robots.

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James Tuttle Keane and the sketch of the farthest snowman.

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Kevin Hardegree Ullman, Aubree Sweeney and the cosmic piano tuning.

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Julie Jester and the Pasadena prank.

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Spyridon Michalakis and the Quantum Realm

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Konstantin Batygin and the quantum planets.

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Paul Zaloom and the puppet on mars.

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Robert Zubrin and the pioneering spirit.

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Andy Weir and the first city in space.

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Michael Shellenberger and the future of San Onofre.

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Richard Rieber and the Martian wheel code.

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Liz Friedman, Jimmy O Yang and the South Pole schwag.

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Sarah Keller and the Hohmann orbital ballasts.

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Manan Arya and the origami mohawk.

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Irina Skaya and the giant ferriswheel of hooks.

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20

Vito Gesualdi old-timey popcorn salesman.

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Jessie Christiansen and the Goldilocks retraction.

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22

Mitch Burrow and the alien rock.

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23

Ken Garr and the Space Musketeers.

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24

Monica Nevi and a break in the monotony.

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25

Jess McIver and the finally not a glitch.

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26

Barry Barish and the two extremes of discovery.

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27

Hakeem Oluseyi and the flattened galactic disk.

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Morgan Cable and the final orbital trim maneuver.

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29

Ed Stone and the forty year old interstellar voyage.

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30

Connor Mcspadden, Keith Carey and the volumetric estimate.

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31

Gina Hall and the battle of the billionaires.

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Ori Amir and the humorous activity of temporal poles.

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Ryan Demarest and the Klinefelter controversy.

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Kristjan Stone and the origami telescope

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Forrest Shaw and the solar system's organ.

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Sean Carey and the seven retirement planets.

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Konstantin Batygin, Fred Adams and the Church of Planet Nine

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Heather Knight and the digitally altered robot photo.

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39

Matthew Broussard and the entangled hairy ball theorem.

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Wayne Federman and the rationally optimistic freeway.

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Ed Stone and the extraterrestrial Europain geyser.

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Matt Kirshen and the brexiting tardigrades.

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Hakeem Oluseyi and the Olympic distraction.

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Courtney Dressing and the pale red dot.

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Matthew Buckley and the disappointed ambulance chasers.

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46

Brian Brophy and the questionably sentient Pokémon.

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Jerry Zucker and don't call me surely.

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48

Daniel Busby and the Rube Goldberg machine.

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Prof. Peter Plavchan, Richard Chassler and the ensemble of alien mega-structures.

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Danny Lobell and the firmly mansplained philosophy.

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Surendra Adhikari and the melting Milankovitch cycles.

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Jessie Christiansen and the hedonic treadmill of planets.

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Utkarsh Mittal and the three minute thesis.

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Maz Jobrani and the translated earphone jokes.

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Sean Carroll, Erin Darling and the eternal godly poem.

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Alan Alda and the dance music going backward in time.

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Hakeem Oluseyi and the elephant eared telescope.

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Steve Hofstetter and the not-so-music-like music.

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Alan Weinstein and the triple blind proof black hole collision.

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Bobak Ferdowsi and the battle of the Martian hairdos.

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Konstantin Batygin, Amir K and the trillion percent certainty.

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Bill Nye and the empennage kicking new planet.

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Drew Lynch and the talented american solstice.

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Adam Steltzner and the right kind of crazy.

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Rick Loverd and the venetian sky dive.

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Maria Spiropulu and the tantalizing massive scalar.

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Shyam Saladi and the random transmembrane proteins.

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Josh Brener and the microaggressive cocci.

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Emily Lakdawalla and the neon dendritic channels.

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Tony Roy, Kate Quigley and the gecko powered super bra.

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Zachary Abbott and the deeper higher pile.

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Elena Murchikova, Matthew Broussard and the quantum loop notebooks.

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Kip Thorne and the four embracing vortices.

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Adam Steltzner and the panspermiatic lineae.

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David Politzer and the string theory of banjos.

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Jimm 0 Yang and the kid who cried asteroid.

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