One year down—and what comes next

1:42:16as this this concept be it's it's I it's almost it's it's convenient >> The grand illusion. >> funny that we talked about the Mayans >> Yeah. >> earlier in the Amazon story and kind of that word root came back at the end here. We are again at two hour mark. For those who are still listening, which apparently is many of you because the stats are telling us >> Yeah. >> especially on on Apple podcast that many of you are listening all the way through which we are super grateful for. Thank you for making it through. We had a little bit more of a relaxed episode today. Just kind of meandering through >> Hey, we deserve it. It's been a year, okay? [laughter] >> We wanted to sort of just enjoy for a second and not be totally uh over

1:42:57analytical about the substance but it it really is a blessing um to be able to have so many of you all want to listen to these concepts, these ideas. Again, we really focus on frontier research and try to give the story arc, experimental design, and an understanding of what are we actually talking about when we say we have a high temperature memristor or that we've discovered a dark matter halo or we uh we uh model um um uh or uh MOFs uh uh organic frameworks >> um >> uh MOFs >> MOFs >> metal organic >> metal organic frameworks >> from the Nobel Prizes last year. We're going to cover the Nobel Prizes this year again. Uh we have a great episode that I'm excited about about the summer

1:43:39transfer window for American scientists. I mean, these are things that I think we find interesting and entertaining to know about and it's great to share them with you all all the time. Uh I will end with one last reminder. We're trying to build community this year. So, please go ahead and head over to ffpod.com/survey. Especially if you're still listening now, you are part of the core audience. We want to know about who you are, what you want to hear about. We don't know what to do for our community. Should we do an Instagram group? Should we do uh uh a Discord? A Discord? A TikTok group? A YouTube thing? Uh do we do something on our own? You know, where do you all live? Apparently, none of you are on X

1:44:21because we have no None of you engaged with us on X, which is fine. One less thing for us to manage. >> Yeah. >> Um but, you know, you guys always a- ask us questions and we've been really focused on just making sure the show's produced and I think now we're ready to try to figure out how do we make this a community of those of the curious and help kind of all of us connect and share in a way where we can build something powerful than its individual parts. Uh and with that, I think for the comment to leave in the comments if you made it this far is which book in the collection is your favorite. If you've already read it or you're most interested by it, uh let us know in the comments. I will leave the final word to our resident PhD before we wrap up this

1:45:03incredible 50 episode 52, our 1-year anniversary. How many weeks in a year? 52. >> Yeah. >> We did it. >> We did it. >> Um I just have to say thank you so much to all of our listeners, to all of the community that is FFP. Um I really, you know, when we started me and Lester a year ago, I don't think either of us had any idea of what this podcast would become for like us. It's really it's really like kind of become a big part of our lives. A welcome part of our lives and the whole reason is because we've got a community of you guys trying to consume

1:45:45our content, share our contact. Um we really appreciate it. There there's there's no words to say, you know, just how transformative this whole experience has been. And we hope to continue this for many years to come. So, please continue supporting us. Um giving us all of the shares, you know, talk talk about us in your labs, talk about us in your classes, in your workplace. I know there's a lot of you that just do random things. There's always room to talk about stuff that we cover in FFPPod. >> You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain, and we will be dying as heroes

1:46:26in the quest to continue to cover frontier in the history of science in a way that is accessible to everybody. I am Lester Nare, joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD and my biffles Christian A. Choudhury. Uh we love you all. Thank you again so much. Oh, we didn't yet put these books on the third shelf. But you'll see them on the third shelf in the next episode, and we will see you all next week. >> [music]