Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ astronomy research explainers • telescope/mission proposals, observing sites • JWST exoplanet atmospheres, biosignatures • black holes, accretion, tidal disruptions • gravitational waves, mergers • supernovae, pulsars, neutrinos • cosmology, dark matter • citizen science, astronomy culture
This podcast is hosted by astronomy graduate students who translate recent research into conversational explainers that connect ideas across astrophysics. Across episodes, the show frequently moves between observations, theory, and the practical realities of how astronomy is done: proposing for telescope time, designing and selecting space missions, calibrating instruments, and turning measurements into datasets. Listeners hear about major facilities and methods such as JWST, ALMA, gravitational-wave observatories, neutrino detectors, and transmission spectroscopy, alongside discussions of the statistical and modeling tools used to interpret results, including Bayesian inference and numerical simulations.
A recurring theme is compact and extreme phenomena—black holes across mass scales, mergers, tidal disruption events, pulsars and magnetars, kilonovae, and supernova remnants—often framed through what these events reveal about galaxy evolution, cosmology, and fundamental physics. The podcast also spends substantial time on exoplanets and habitability-related questions, from atmospheres and potential biosignatures to magma worlds, M-dwarf environments, and planetary climate processes. Broader cosmic structure and history appear through topics like dark matter, the Lambda-CDM model and its tensions, galactic archaeology, and the dynamics of disks and star clusters.
Interspersed are episodes that step outside pure research to cover the scientific community and its context, including citizen science, policy and funding impacts, environmental threats to observatory sites, mental health in academia, and interviews or personal research journeys. Many episodes incorporate “space sound” or sonification links to pair astronomical concepts with audio representations.
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Episodes:
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Episode 119: Gravitational Vibes
2026-Apr-04
15 minutes
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Episode 118: Star-studded submissions
2026-Mar-14
41 minutes
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Episode 117: A Field Day
2026-Mar-02
51 minutes
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Episode 116: Love’s Gonna Get you killed, but Tide’s gonna be the death of you
2026-Feb-07
55 minutes
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Episode 115: Star Wrapped Holiday Special
2025-Dec-20
36 minutes
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Episode 114: A World of Disc-overy
2025-Dec-08
61 minutes
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Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think.
2025-Nov-21
57 minutes
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Episode 112.5: Extremely Looming Trouble?
2025-Sep-13
7 minutes
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Episode 112: It’s not fun to be in a YMC, eh?
2025-Aug-30
48 minutes
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Episode 111: Mergers for Nothing and Your Chirps for Free
2025-Aug-16
54 minutes
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Episode 110: Bayesian Biosignatures
2025-Aug-03
77 minutes
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Episode 109: Big, Small and In-Between
2025-Jul-19
44 minutes
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Episode 108: 2000 Meters Under The Mediterranean
2025-Jul-05
41 minutes
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Episode 107: Things That Go Blip in the Night
2025-Jun-21
67 minutes
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Episode 106: Sabrina’s Super Sad Sendoff
2025-Jun-12
95 minutes
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Episode 105.5: NASA Needs Your Help!
2025-May-24
9 minutes
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Episode 105: Citizen Brain
2025-May-10
49 minutes
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Episode 104: Star Destroyers
2025-Apr-27
44 minutes
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Episode 103: Lambasting Lambda CDM
2025-Apr-12
56 minutes
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Episode 102: Per-severance Ad Astra
2025-Mar-29
63 minutes
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Episode 101: Weather Woes
2025-Mar-17
57 minutes
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Episode 100: Be There or Be Ten Squared
2025-Jan-12
85 minutes
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Episode 99: The Grand Finale
2024-Dec-01
56 minutes
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Episode 98: When PIGS Fly
2024-Nov-16
57 minutes
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Episode 97: Cosmic Time Machines
2024-Oct-13
52 minutes
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Episode 96: kiErsten’s Exoplanetary Elemental Exit Episode
2024-Jul-21
57 minutes
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Episode 95: IMPReSsive Research
2024-Jul-13
44 minutes
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Episode 94: The Floor Is Lava!
2024-Jun-30
46 minutes
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Episode 93: Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Primordial Black Hole Machiney
2024-Jun-20
49 minutes
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Episode 92.5: The Ship of 3-seus
2024-Jun-17
8 minutes
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Beyond- Astronomy is a little Mental
2024-Jun-04
49 minutes
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Episode 91: A Uranian FareWill
2024-May-23
79 minutes
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Episode 90: The Great H0 Debate
2024-Apr-29
64 minutes
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Episode 89: Extremely Emotional Exoplanets
2024-Apr-16
50 minutes
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Episode 88: The Luck of the Irish
2024-Mar-30
54 minutes
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Episode 87.5: The Shamrock Shake-Up
2024-Mar-17
16 minutes
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Episode 87: Unexpected Gravitational Waves
2024-Mar-11
45 minutes
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Episode 86: Indigenous Astronomy Part II - Science of the First Astronomers
2024-Feb-23
76 minutes
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Episode 85: Indigenous Astronomy Part I - Living Descendants of the First Astronomers
2024-Feb-04
59 minutes
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Episode 84.5: Come Podcast With Us!
2024-Jan-08
9 minutes
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Episode 84: Abominable Ice
2023-Dec-10
53 minutes
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Episode 83: Stellar Shrinkflation
2023-Nov-27
49 minutes
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Episode 82: So the universe thinks it can dance?
2023-Nov-12
54 minutes
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Episode 81: Hubble’s Hydra
2023-Oct-29
51 minutes
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Episode 80: The Pulsar Boomerang
2023-Oct-15
47 minutes
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Episode 79: The Vanishing Act
2023-Sep-29
44 minutes
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Episode 78: There’s More Air out There
2023-Sep-17
54 minutes
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Episode 77.5: Astro[sound]bites on three continents
2023-Jul-31
12 minutes
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Episode 77: The Air out There
2023-Jul-03
47 minutes
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Episode 76: Black In Astro 2023
2023-Jun-18
59 minutes
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Episode 75: Stellar Snacks
2023-May-29
57 minutes
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Episode 74: Super Co-Host, Super Alex, Supernova
2023-May-15
49 minutes
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Episode 73: Astrophysical Prison Break
2023-Apr-29
40 minutes
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Episode 72: A Trip to the Optometrist
2023-Apr-15
42 minutes
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Episode 71: Galaxies Say Halo
2023-Mar-26
46 minutes
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Episode 70: Astronomy 10 Years into the Future Part II
2023-Mar-11
59 minutes
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Episode 69: Astronomy 10 Years into the Future Part I
2023-Feb-26
52 minutes
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Episode 68: Breaking the Stigma around Community College Part II
2023-Feb-12
54 minutes
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Episode 67: Breaking the Stigma Around Community College Part I
2023-Jan-29
56 minutes
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Episode 66: B-Field Bonanza
2022-Dec-17
40 minutes
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Episode 65: A Tale of Sixes
2022-Dec-04
44 minutes
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Episode 64: Our Take on Landmark Papers Part II
2022-Nov-21
49 minutes
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Episode 63: Our Take on Landmark Papers Part I
2022-Nov-09
52 minutes
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Episode 62: Skeletons and Monsters
2022-Oct-22
50 minutes
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Episode 61: What’s the Tea on JWST?
2022-Oct-11
43 minutes
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Sabrina Holds a Press Conference
2022-Aug-15
23 minutes
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Episode 60: An Ear for Education (Sonification 2)
2022-Aug-02
73 minutes
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Episode 59: Staring into the Voids in the Universe
2022-Jul-06
40 minutes
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Episode 58: Funky Fluids
2022-Jun-20
44 minutes
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Episode 57: Hot Planet Summer
2022-Jun-04
41 minutes
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Episode 56: Overpowered in the Universe
2022-May-21
40 minutes
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Episode 55.5: Four Moving For-ward
2022-May-07
7 minutes
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Episode 55: Exoplanets, Exits, and Exciting New Directions
2022-Apr-24
45 minutes
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Episode 54: Dusting off the Disks
2022-Apr-10
45 minutes
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Episode 53: Lethargic Lads and Ladies
2022-Mar-27
41 minutes
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Episode 52: Spectacular Stellar Streams
2022-Mar-12
50 minutes
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Episode 51: A Picture of Polarization
2022-Feb-26
43 minutes
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Episode 50:50 Careers in 50 Minutes
2022-Feb-12
49 minutes
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Episode 49.5: Astro[sound]bites is Hiring!
2022-Feb-05
7 minutes
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Episode 49: A Fine Dining Experience
2022-Jan-30
48 minutes
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Episode 48: The Astrophysical Merry-Go-Round
2022-Jan-15
44 minutes
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Episode 47: Gracefully Aging Galaxies
2021-Dec-19
43 minutes
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Episode 46: Brown Dwarfs in Unusual Places
2021-Dec-04
38 minutes
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Episode 45: Jamming with the GBT
2021-Nov-21
50 minutes
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Episode 44: Fast and Slow
2021-Nov-06
41 minutes
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Episode 43: Welcome to the World of Science Communication
2021-Oct-23
54 minutes
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Episode 42: Where Sci-Fi Meets Reality
2021-Oct-09
47 minutes
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Episode 41: Weighing the Universe
2021-Sep-25
45 minutes
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Episode 40: Space Summer Surprise
2021-Sep-11
50 minutes
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Episode 39: Polarizing Protostars
2021-Jul-03
50 minutes
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Episode 38: Keep Your Head in the Clouds
2021-Jun-19
48 minutes
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Episode 37: How to Date a Star
2021-Jun-06
42 minutes
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Episode 36: A Dance with Dark Matter
2021-May-22
43 minutes
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Episode 35: The Road Less Traveled
2021-May-08
51 minutes
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Episode 34: Where Classifications Crumble
2021-Apr-24
43 minutes
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Episode 33: Beyond A[S]B -- Scintillating Sounds of Science
2021-Apr-11
67 minutes
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Episode 32: Highlights of Undergraduate Research
2021-Mar-28
47 minutes
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Episode 31: Hypervelocity Heavens
2021-Mar-13
42 minutes
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Episode 30: Carnivorous Cosmos
2021-Feb-27
39 minutes
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Episode 29: Walking on Sunshine
2021-Feb-13
47 minutes
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Episode 28: Blink and You'll Miss It
2021-Jan-17
42 minutes
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Episode 27: Where the Sidewalk Bends
2021-Jan-02
47 minutes
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Episode 26: Surfing on a Dream
2020-Dec-20
46 minutes
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Episode 25: Beyond A[S]B -- Great Advisors, Gap Years, and Getting into Grad School
2020-Dec-05
59 minutes
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Episode 24: The Stargazing Automata, Part IV
2020-Oct-11
51 minutes
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Episode 23: The Stargazing Automata, Part III
2020-Sep-26
48 minutes
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Episode 22: The Stargazing Automata, Part II
2020-Sep-12
51 minutes
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Episode 21: The Stargazing Automata, Part I
2020-Aug-29
51 minutes
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Episode 20: Power Law School
2020-Aug-15
42 minutes
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Episode 19: Little Green Men, or Big Glowing Trees?
2020-Aug-01
39 minutes
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Episode 18: Hazy High-z
2020-Jul-19
41 minutes
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Episode 17: Beyond A[S]B -- Success and Publishing in Astronomy
2020-Jul-04
46 minutes
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Episode 16: The Elementals
2020-Jun-22
44 minutes
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Episode 15: Minor Planets, Major Problems
2020-Jun-07
42 minutes
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Episode 14: Baby Photos
2020-May-23
44 minutes
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Episode 13: My Chemical AstRomance
2020-May-09
42 minutes
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Episode 12: Beyond A[S]B -- Our First Research Experiences
2020-Apr-25
49 minutes
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Episode 11: The Chaotic Universe
2020-Apr-11
40 minutes
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Episode 10: Baryonic Banter
2020-Mar-21
40 minutes
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Episode 9: Beyond the Grave
2020-Mar-08
39 minutes
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Episode 8: Beyond Exoplanets with TESS
2020-Feb-22
45 minutes
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Episode 7: Constants....Or Not?
2020-Feb-08
35 minutes
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Episode 6: Farewell Spitzer
2020-Jan-25
35 minutes
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Episode 5: Astrophysical Beasts and Where to Find Them
2020-Jan-11
40 minutes
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Episode 4: Cosmic Recycling
2019-Dec-22
32 minutes
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Episode 3: 6 Unbelievable Facts about Black Holes
2019-Dec-07
32 minutes
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Episode 2: Getting to Know the Neighbors
2019-Nov-23
36 minutes
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Episode 0: What, Who, and Why?
2019-Nov-02
7 minutes
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Episode 1: Disks, Discs, and Disques
2019-Nov-02
31 minutes
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