Speaker 1: All right, everybody, it's the mid term. It is the
Speaker 1: midterms that we're halfway through the season. Yep, we're at
Speaker 1: episode six. How do y'all feel? I hope y'all have
Speaker 1: been studying and are ready for this quiz we're about
Speaker 1: to post. Don't worry, there'll be a curve. Anybody took
Speaker 1: a class with me, you will know that it's not
Speaker 1: how it goes. I'm TT and I'm Zachiah and from
Speaker 1: Spotify Studios. This is Dope Labs. Okay, so did you
Speaker 1: watch Homecoming? Did I how many times have you watched it? Right?
Speaker 1: I've only watched it one time, but I'm planning on
Speaker 1: watching it after this because I feel like every morning
Speaker 1: I need to I need to wake up two hours
Speaker 1: early so I can start Homecoming and really get my
Speaker 1: mind right for it'll be everyone's daily devotional. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what it's like. I mean, she's been stre on y'all's next, okay,
Speaker 1: but she's really saying like, bow down for real, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have no choice. She showed us her not only
Speaker 1: that she is, you know, at the top of her
Speaker 1: game as far as vocals and entertaining, but also that
Speaker 1: she has the work ethic of there's not really nothing
Speaker 1: to compare her to she You have to have the
Speaker 1: Beyonce work ethic. That's the that's the new gold standard, honestly,
Speaker 1: Like Beyonce said that basically all she was eating was
Speaker 1: air molecules and eight counts for a year and a half.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. She was like, I rehears four months
Speaker 1: with the band and then four months with the dancers,
Speaker 1: and I was like, huh what, I don't do anything
Speaker 1: with that much advanced notice. I couldn't even get that prepared.
Speaker 1: If I wanted to write like something's happening in four months,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, get back to me in three months
Speaker 1: and twenty five days. Yeah, I'll let you know if
Speaker 1: I'm up for it. It was just great to see
Speaker 1: that type of passion, you know, and just somebody that
Speaker 1: was just working day and night. Right, And why is
Speaker 1: Beyonce never out of breath? Ever? I don't know if
Speaker 1: she has a built in what's those things that the respirator.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she has a built in respirator.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. I'm like, she was
Speaker 1: dropping down, getting up, moving around with the dancers and
Speaker 1: I'm like, the dancers gotta be tired. They not singing,
Speaker 1: They not singing, and they're heaving okay yeah, and Beyonce
Speaker 1: is like, y'all all right back there. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I would have had to crush up some a leave
Speaker 1: and make a paste. I would put the paste on
Speaker 1: my knees and saran rappids. I could not move like
Speaker 1: that for that long. That's crazy, just aching, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you know how do you get better than Beyonce?
Speaker 1: You don't. I think the only person who it's possible
Speaker 1: is Blue because she's watching Beyonce. She had Beyonce's breast milk.
Speaker 1: I think that's the only way you can get the
Speaker 1: levels Beyonce. You gotta have ingested her breast milk. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I mean, when you think about it, that's the
Speaker 1: reason why we called somebody like Beyonce a star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sheer star power for real. It's so concentrated it
Speaker 1: hurts your eyes to even look at her. It's not
Speaker 1: the sequence. Yeah, the sequence aren't even doing it. It's
Speaker 1: Beyonce herself. It's it's our ara and we're just all
Speaker 1: just happy to be there. She's a star and I'm
Speaker 1: just Stardust, just hanging out. Like so today we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about stars and not just superstars here on Earth.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about the stars in our sky,
Speaker 1: but we actually think that there's a lot of similarities
Speaker 1: between the two, between the stars and the sky and
Speaker 1: Beyonce absolutely. Okay, so let's get into the recitation. So
Speaker 1: let's start with what we know. We know that Beyonce
Speaker 1: is unlike anybody else on this planet, and we also
Speaker 1: know that stars are very unique. So we know that
Speaker 1: the Sun is a star. Yes, we know the Sun
Speaker 1: is a star. I know a little bit about those planets.
Speaker 1: Men are from Venus, I mean, what does that from Mars?
Speaker 1: Women are from Venus? Okay, yeah, which, but I also
Speaker 1: know that that's actually not true. Yeah, and all here
Speaker 1: on Earth. And then we also know that, you know,
Speaker 1: that's saying that we learned in probably like middle school.
Speaker 1: My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas or
Speaker 1: something like that. But something happened to Pluto. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: not talking about it. Yeah, so that was supposed to
Speaker 1: let you know, like Murcury, Venus, Earth, Mars, your mother
Speaker 1: didn't serve the rights and I remember that's just good Okay,
Speaker 1: so I got to go back to middle school. Basically,
Speaker 1: the other thing we know is the big Dipper and
Speaker 1: a little dipper. Right, there are constellations, but that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the extent of my knowledge in the North Star
Speaker 1: wherever it is, nor Yeah, that's right, shout out to
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman. And So I feel like when I started
Speaker 1: talking about space, there's so little that I know, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it's actually holding me back from really
Speaker 1: enjoying some of the films, Like some of the movies
Speaker 1: that I like, I'm like, why is it taking them
Speaker 1: a long time? Is that a short place to go?
Speaker 1: Because I always get gallic sees and universe and solar system,
Speaker 1: I get all those things mixed up, right. I hope
Speaker 1: that after this episode, I'm gonna go back and watch
Speaker 1: Interstellar and just try to see if I can make
Speaker 1: sense of some things. Probably won't. It was a very
Speaker 1: confusing movie.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things I've always been really really interested
Speaker 1: in is like shine and shine and shine and shineing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like when you think about the sun, how is the
Speaker 1: sun power? What is the fuel? What is power? And Beyonce,
Speaker 1: we saw a little bit of that in Homecoming yeah,
Speaker 1: we did, but I still was like, girl, what's the
Speaker 1: code so I can do a step left, left left,
Speaker 1: jump down? I'm like, I need the eight count so
Speaker 1: I can unlock a better meat. So that's a question
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have off gate, okay, Like what fuels? What's
Speaker 1: the star? What is it? I mean, I know what
Speaker 1: a star is, do we really what makes something a star?
Speaker 1: What makes something to start?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What are the properties? What are the qualities of a star? Right?
Speaker 1: I think I want to know, like what sustains a star?
Speaker 1: Like how does it keep going and going? Because I
Speaker 1: think that they last for ever, right or for a
Speaker 1: long time until they they burn out? But what keeps
Speaker 1: them going for so long? And what determines to burnout? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a really good question. And then I also have
Speaker 1: questions about just like constellations and planets in general. I
Speaker 1: know that Pluto isn't a planet anymore, but I don't
Speaker 1: really get what makes a planet, Like how do you
Speaker 1: determine whether something is a planet or not? Yeah? Or constellation?
Speaker 1: We're in constellation? Like the only constellation I really know
Speaker 1: is the Big Dipper Orion's Belt, the stars, the cosmos.
Speaker 1: That's not my strong point, not mine either, Like I
Speaker 1: think I know maybe some physics, U huh, but nah,
Speaker 1: not really. I've always been terrible at that, and so
Speaker 1: you know, we had to call in the reinforcements. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's very needed in this episode. So let's get into
Speaker 1: the dissection, and in honor of homecoming, we brought out
Speaker 1: a student this week.
Speaker 2: So my name is Amy Steele, and I'm an astronomy
Speaker 2: PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland. That's fancy speak
Speaker 2: for I'm a student.
Speaker 1: There are some basic things that we know, right T T. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that we know about
Speaker 1: stars is that they're mostly hydrogen gas.
Speaker 2: Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and
Speaker 2: stars are mostly made up out of hydrogen.
Speaker 1: I understand they're mostly hydrogen, but then what what else?
Speaker 1: In the cores of stars?
Speaker 2: You have fusion going on, where you're combining hydrogen into helium,
Speaker 2: and that process releases not really that much energy, but
Speaker 2: it happens so many times that it ends up being
Speaker 2: a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: Yes, fusion, I remember you explaining that. Yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: you put to nuclei together and it gives off a
Speaker 1: lot of energy.
Speaker 2: That energy comes out at us the light that makes
Speaker 2: us hot.
Speaker 1: So hydrogen is like the IT factor. Yeah, the stars,
Speaker 1: that's what's making them glow, and so that IT factor
Speaker 1: can determine whether or not you're a big star or
Speaker 1: a little star. So that's the difference between being Rihanna
Speaker 1: or Rita Aura. Yeah. But stars have the same risk though, right,
Speaker 1: Like they can run out of fuel or not be relevant. Right,
Speaker 1: So what happens when a star runs out of fuel,
Speaker 1: like or it runs out of hydrogen.
Speaker 2: It's not like a star can go to a gas station.
Speaker 2: So it forms with a set amount of hydrogen and
Speaker 2: it uses up that hydrogen over the course of its lifetime,
Speaker 2: and when that hydrogen is gone, it's gone.
Speaker 1: So wait a second, does that mean that someday that
Speaker 1: the Sun is gonna run out of hydrogen? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's still like at least five billion years away. Oh
Speaker 1: so we're good. We're good. Okay, So now we know
Speaker 1: that it's not complete lights out for the Sun. The
Speaker 1: first thing that we have to know about a real
Speaker 1: star is that everything revolves around you, literally, but also
Speaker 1: everything exists because of you. So when the Sun, our
Speaker 1: star was being formed, it was basically like, okay, ladies,
Speaker 1: Dallat's get information.
Speaker 2: A stellar system isn't formed for the planets. The planets
Speaker 2: form as a result of the star forming itself. The
Speaker 2: star is the star of the show.
Speaker 1: And all of the planets, the Earth, the Moon, all
Speaker 1: of that is just leftovers from the formation of the Sun.
Speaker 1: We're just a byproduct. We're just like a little crumb.
Speaker 1: The Sun is the cookie.
Speaker 2: The Sun is the cookie, The Sun is the cake.
Speaker 1: It just like we saw in Homecoming, Beyonce was dancing,
Speaker 1: those people are moving around her doing all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, if I had to say, who are
Speaker 1: my favorite planets that orbit Beyonce lay Twins, Yes, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. They really know how to shine and they
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be as well known without Beyonce. Like they
Speaker 1: are stars in their own right. Yeah, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but with Beyonce bringing them close to her definitely took
Speaker 1: them to another level. They're always together. Would they exist
Speaker 1: as real planets? Okay, so let's pull back a bit.
Speaker 1: If our solar system is made up the Sun the
Speaker 1: cookie and we're just the crumbs off the cookie, how
Speaker 1: did the cookie get made? How is the Sun formed?
Speaker 1: We want to see the ingredients. Yea, how many chocolate chips.
Speaker 2: The way that it starts is you have this cloud,
Speaker 2: huge cloud of gas and dust, and there's some little
Speaker 2: bit of motion to.
Speaker 1: It, but you need some kind of external stimulus, like
Speaker 1: you need something else nearby to go off and give
Speaker 1: a little bit of energy. Right, So sometimes it could
Speaker 1: be like a supernova nearby.
Speaker 2: Eventually it'll start to spin and flatten like a pancake.
Speaker 2: Once the conditions are right for hydrogen to start fusing
Speaker 2: into helium, that process that makes stars shine. The star
Speaker 2: turns on and then the leftover bits that stuff starts
Speaker 2: to clump together, possibly sweeping up material as it's orbiting
Speaker 2: its new baby star. And that's how the planets form.
Speaker 1: Lots of these crimes are just aggregating together and making
Speaker 1: bigger cookies. Yeah, bigger crumb balls, right, what are those
Speaker 1: donut holes? Munchkins? Bigger little munchkins. But how do you
Speaker 1: tell this is just a clump of crumbs or this
Speaker 1: is a legit planet?
Speaker 2: So to be a planet, there are these three rules
Speaker 2: that you have to abide by, according to the International
Speaker 2: Astronomical Union.
Speaker 1: So first you have to orbit the Sun. You actually
Speaker 1: have to travel around the Sun and follow that path
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: So this is also why the Moon is not considered
Speaker 2: a planet because its primary orbit is around the Earth.
Speaker 1: So the second thing is that you have to be
Speaker 1: the largest thing in your orbit. And the third thing
Speaker 1: is that you need to be roughly spherical.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the asteroids that you'll see, they're
Speaker 2: elongated or they look like someone took two balls and
Speaker 2: just slapped them together.
Speaker 1: Like an asteroid. Asteroids are just two rocks slammed together,
Speaker 1: and they have this really weird shape. So they could
Speaker 1: never be a planet. Your faith could never you bad built.
Speaker 2: And so you have to have enough mass to have
Speaker 2: smoothed yourself into a roughly spherical shape.
Speaker 1: So now that we have laid down the rules for
Speaker 1: what it takes to be a planet, what about the
Speaker 1: differences we see between the planets, right? I know that
Speaker 1: like Saturn has rings yep, and Neptune is like has
Speaker 1: like a lot of water. I'm just out here guessing.
Speaker 1: Let's see what Amy has to say.
Speaker 2: Venus, Earth, and Mars are all pretty rocky, and then Jupiter, Soturn,
Speaker 2: you're in a Snaptune, those are all gassy. Overall, you
Speaker 2: have the small rocky things close to the star where
Speaker 2: it's hotter, and then you have the things that are
Speaker 2: more full of you know, gases that could potentially be
Speaker 2: boiled away if they were too close to something hot.
Speaker 1: Those are farther out. Oh So that makes sense, right,
Speaker 1: because if we have any of those gassy things, they
Speaker 1: need to be in the core somewhere where they're protected
Speaker 1: from the sun. Otherwise they're all evaporated off and all
Speaker 1: we have left is the rock exactly. So these planets
Speaker 1: are set up perfectly in order to sustain themselves. So
Speaker 1: that's really interesting because that's kind of what Amy's job is.
Speaker 1: So she looks at debris from the formation of stars
Speaker 1: and she tries to figure out what they're made of.
Speaker 1: So not our star, not the sun, but the formation
Speaker 1: of other stars. She looks at the debris around them. Well,
Speaker 1: why is there something going on with that? Like? Why
Speaker 1: is that stuff important? If it's just debris. When I
Speaker 1: think of debris, I think of trash on the side
Speaker 1: of the road, just blowing in the wind, But any things,
Speaker 1: it's important.
Speaker 2: Knowing what those asteroids and comments are made of is
Speaker 2: pretty important in terms of figuring out how the Solar
Speaker 2: system formed.
Speaker 1: In other words, in order to understand how a star
Speaker 1: is formed, you got to know what's going on around it.
Speaker 2: You want to see what the material around those stars
Speaker 2: it's made of, so that we can begin to assess
Speaker 2: just how unique or not unique the rocky material in
Speaker 2: our solar system actually is.
Speaker 1: Yes, and this gets me to my favorite thing, aliens. Right,
Speaker 1: because if the dust and rocks that surround other stars
Speaker 1: are similar to the dust and rocks that surround our star,
Speaker 1: the Sun, it helps us put our own star, our
Speaker 1: solar system in context. I feel like if those dust
Speaker 1: and rocks look like our dust and rocks, that means
Speaker 1: there could be an Earth in their solar system. Oh,
Speaker 1: I see where you're going. So you think that it's
Speaker 1: possible for there to be another Beyonce in another universe?
Speaker 1: Highly unlikely, but could it be. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: more likely that there's Aliens then there's another Beyonce. Do
Speaker 1: you think it's possible that Yonce is an extra terrestrial? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Her a salon that would make complete sense to me.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, if you said, heyby Ransom, test,
Speaker 1: Beyonce does not have the same composition as the rest
Speaker 1: of y'all. I would say accurate, not surprised. The odds
Speaker 1: are in her favor. Okay, she got different kind of dust,
Speaker 1: she had different interstellar debris, everything different. It's crazy to
Speaker 1: think that our solar system is just one of many
Speaker 1: solar systems that's in our galaxy, and then our galaxy
Speaker 1: is just one tiny part of this huge universe. Right.
Speaker 1: You remember in Men in Black? When did you watch
Speaker 1: Men in Black? Yeah, at the end of the first
Speaker 1: Men in Black, when they were looking for that ball
Speaker 1: thing and it turned out to be a marble and
Speaker 1: it was all these galaxies and stuff like that. That was
Speaker 1: the only time that my brain was able to understand
Speaker 1: that there are other galaxies out there. I was like,
Speaker 1: there's other galaxies, and these aliens are just playing marbles
Speaker 1: with the galaxies. But when we get back, we're going
Speaker 1: to start talking about things that are outside of our
Speaker 1: solar system. And we've just been talking about things that
Speaker 1: are in our solar system, our sun and the planets
Speaker 1: around it. But there are whole other solar systems just
Speaker 1: like ours. Y'all thought y'all have a special didn't you.
Speaker 1: And we're back, so we've been talking mostly about our
Speaker 1: solar system, our Sun, our Earth, and the neighboring plants
Speaker 1: around it. But our solar system is just a small
Speaker 1: part of the Milky Way galaxy. And the Milky Way
Speaker 1: has over two hundred billion stars in it, which means
Speaker 1: billions of the planets, dust and debris that are a
Speaker 1: byproduct from the formation of those stars, and enough gas
Speaker 1: and dust to make billions more. But when we think
Speaker 1: about that, how big is the Milky Way really?
Speaker 2: So one way that you can think about that is
Speaker 2: in terms.
Speaker 1: Of light years.
Speaker 2: So a light year is a distance that light travels
Speaker 2: in one year.
Speaker 1: That distance a light year is huge, huge, As an
Speaker 1: understatement for real, one light year is five point nine
Speaker 1: trillion miles. So you can do a round trip from
Speaker 1: the Earth to the Sun over thirty thousand times. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: And the size of the Milky Way galaxy going from
Speaker 2: one end to the other is about one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: light years.
Speaker 1: So now we're just this is just getting ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: we already said it's crazy, you're gonna go over thirty
Speaker 1: thousand times to Sun back to dirt, to Sun back
Speaker 1: to dirt. Now you're telling me multiply that by one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand too much, cannot compute and that's so crazy. Right,
Speaker 1: So when we think about all those miles that makes
Speaker 1: up our Milky Way, and then we're in our galaxy,
Speaker 1: we're saying there are over two hundred billion stars. I
Speaker 1: think about us being able to see those stars. Like
Speaker 1: I used to go look at the stars at my grandparents'
Speaker 1: house and they didn't have a lot of light pollutions,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of see everything. And it just
Speaker 1: really occurred to me, like, hey, girl, you looking at
Speaker 1: other solar systems that are light years away, and because
Speaker 1: they're light years away, that light has to travel to me.
Speaker 1: That's not even what it looks like anymore. Oh, Like,
Speaker 1: refresh the screen. I want to see what the stars
Speaker 1: look like right now? How do we make sense of
Speaker 1: all that? Like the only thing I really remember about
Speaker 1: the stars was being able to see the Big Dipper
Speaker 1: and the Little Dipper, right, but I don't really know, Like,
Speaker 1: how do we determine what a constellation is?
Speaker 2: Constellations are just a way of dividing up the sky
Speaker 2: or the celestial sphere into different regions.
Speaker 1: So currently we have eighty eight constellations, So like, how
Speaker 1: on the surface of the Earth we have different countries
Speaker 1: cities states. Similarly, constellations help us organize the sky, and
Speaker 1: constellations have served a lot of practical purposes over the years,
Speaker 1: like agriculture. Yeah, way back before calendars, people used to
Speaker 1: use constellations to keep track of when the harvest crops.
Speaker 1: That's just crazy. Or navigation. You know, Molana, yes, is
Speaker 1: out there on the sea. You say the line where
Speaker 1: this guy needs to see it calls me, that's exactly
Speaker 1: the part where I start tearing up. And she was
Speaker 1: putting her hand up and navigating that boat. Yeah, same thing.
Speaker 1: And the interesting thing about constellations is that even though
Speaker 1: we look at them and say like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: this constellation, it's the Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Orion's belt.
Speaker 1: Two things that I found really interesting. One is that
Speaker 1: those stars aren't necessarily close to each other, right, So
Speaker 1: you could have a star that's really bright and it's
Speaker 1: close to you, or a star here that's dim, but
Speaker 1: it's dim because it's super far away compared to that
Speaker 1: bright star. And then the other thing is that the
Speaker 1: names we use for constellations, most of them come from
Speaker 1: like Greek mythology or ancient Roman stories, but they weren't
Speaker 1: the only ones that were looking at the star. Come on, somebody,
Speaker 1: so the Messiah. Native American tribes, all of these different
Speaker 1: groups have had different names for those constellations in the sky,
Speaker 1: but only some of those names are in your textbook,
Speaker 1: SIPs Tea. I ain't saying, but I'm just saying so
Speaker 1: in our galaxy, constellations are there to help us make
Speaker 1: sense of things. But there are other things in our
Speaker 1: galaxy that, no matter how hard we try, they may
Speaker 1: never make sense. Like black holes. We just got the
Speaker 1: very first picture of a black hole a couple weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I don't know about you, but that terrified me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see a black hole. Everybody dies
Speaker 1: in the movies when there's a black hole. Right, that
Speaker 1: black hole isn't even in our galaxy. I don't need
Speaker 1: that disrupting the space time continuum. Let things be as
Speaker 1: they are. Right. And so now people say, oh, pretty
Speaker 1: soon we should have a picture of a black hole
Speaker 1: in our galaxy. No, I don't want no smoke from
Speaker 1: a black hole. Listen, leave it be. It might not
Speaker 1: light flash photography. You need to carry on as you were.
Speaker 1: It's like the Sas squad. Stop looking for it. Black holes.
Speaker 2: I just my brain kind of gets a little too
Speaker 2: hot when I try to make sense of black holes.
Speaker 1: Black Holes are massive pits where gravitational force is so
Speaker 1: strong it sucks in everything in its path, debris, dust, planets, light.
Speaker 1: And the way a black hole is formed is when
Speaker 1: a star dies and collapses in on itself. I got
Speaker 1: some stuff to throw on a black hole. I've got
Speaker 1: plenty stuff to throw on the black hole. Take mine, Witchie.
Speaker 2: The Milky Way our galaxy. We have our own supermassive
Speaker 2: black hole, and it's called Sagittaries a star, and we
Speaker 2: just looked at a sort of an image of one
Speaker 2: in the galaxy see M. Eighty seven, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1: So we do know we have one Sabarius a star.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little nervous. Right where are you a
Speaker 1: black hole in our galaxy? And are you close to us?
Speaker 1: That's what I write, because are we like right on
Speaker 1: the edge? Are we about to fall in? Are we
Speaker 1: in danger? Earth? You in danger? Girl?
Speaker 2: So we are not close to the center of our galaxy.
Speaker 2: We are in the outskirts. We are in the boonies.
Speaker 1: I want to be I don't want to be in
Speaker 1: the city next to the black hole. Another thing that
Speaker 1: can happen when the star dies is that it can
Speaker 1: become a white dwarf. What's that?
Speaker 2: So if the sun is a flame, then a white
Speaker 2: dwarf is the ember after the flame is gone.
Speaker 1: I think a black hole is like something that leaves
Speaker 1: this gaping opening and everybody misses them. Like Nipsey Hustle,
Speaker 1: a black black hole. Rest in peace will never be
Speaker 1: the same, and so like it affects affects everybody. But
Speaker 1: then a white dwarf is a star that kind of
Speaker 1: just has, you know, run its course and it's now,
Speaker 1: you know, a legend or something like that, like we'll
Speaker 1: never forget the shine it had, and now they're just
Speaker 1: enjoying their time as a white dwarf. Kind of like
Speaker 1: Diana Ross. She not dead, she's not dead, but she's
Speaker 1: her career is her singing career is done. She's not singing.
Speaker 1: She just did something recently because it was her seventy
Speaker 1: fifth Oh god, okay, let's do something. Let's keep it.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. This reminds me of that time when I
Speaker 1: said Anita Baker and you thought I met Josephine Baker.
Speaker 1: Every time I think about that time and You're like
Speaker 1: the lady in black and white with the bananas. Who
Speaker 1: knows who knows? Who? Can never be really sure about
Speaker 1: who's Anita Baker and who's Josephine Baker? No one. I
Speaker 1: love it. So that was a lot for both of us, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we are in our recording studio and it
Speaker 1: is hot in here from all of us being like what,
Speaker 1: my brain is overheated. But I think we learned a lot,
Speaker 1: and there was one thing that I think that Amy
Speaker 1: brought up that is very very cool. It brought me
Speaker 1: a lot of hope. Yes, maybe there is a future
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: This is so cheesy, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
Speaker 2: It's just that we're made of star stuff and it's
Speaker 2: so cool to think about.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: All of the things that we have on the Earth
Speaker 2: that are heavier than hydrogen were formed through the evolution
Speaker 2: of stars.
Speaker 1: And we're made of those elements. We are made of
Speaker 1: the same elements of a star of the sun. Beyonce
Speaker 1: Beyonce too. I'm gonna say it with even more conviction
Speaker 1: now when I tell people you can't shave me, I say,
Speaker 1: you can't shave the sun. And I really want to telescope, Like,
Speaker 1: after thinking about this, is it gonna it's gonna make me? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be good for it. I mean for me,
Speaker 1: it'll be bad if I got to tell us, because
Speaker 1: the idea of that much space around me, it crushes
Speaker 1: my brain where I'm just like, I'm not even the
Speaker 1: size of a molecule of hydrogen when you think of
Speaker 1: the universe, when we think about what a molecule of
Speaker 1: hydrogen is to us, we're not even that small. We're
Speaker 1: smaller than that. Good grief and that type of awareness
Speaker 1: paralyzes me. I'm like, ooh, all this space, you are
Speaker 1: now free to roam. I feel like now free to
Speaker 1: roam about the cabin. Yeah, except I'm not. I want
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Speaker 1: produced by us T. T. Shadia and Zakiah Wattley. What's that?
Speaker 1: Missy Elliott had that song? All I know is the
Speaker 1: Tyree song? Yeah, there's that one. The signs of love,
Speaker 1: These are the signs of love making. Hey are you
Speaker 1: that Zodie yack freak looking for fuckercon? But then that
Speaker 1: Beyonce and Missy Elliott? Which one? Oh wait, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what you're talking about. You
Speaker 1: just said, whoa, I don't know what's song that you're
Speaker 1: trying to shame. No, I'm not trying to say I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get to where you at. Let me look
Speaker 1: it up.