Meredith Hodnot

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299 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Meredith Hodnot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Unexplainable · Bird people and deep space shrapnel · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

causing this feedback loop that doesn't just trigger a single subatomic avalanche, but a whole bunch of overlapping avalanches.

So that piling of avalanches gets you over that threshold and like sparks the lightning bolt.

But there's another theory that lightning is triggered by a kind of deep space shrapnel that comes from like supermassive black holes and dying stars.

And that, Charlie writes, I love this line, cosmic rays, this like deep space shrapnel, he writes, travels billions of light years across the universe and slams into the Earth's atmosphere.

And that could be the thing that's tipping lightning over the edge in Cosmic Rays.

I know, right?

I mean, my band name, right?

Which are, you know, bombarding us all the time.

Supernova explosions, supermassive black holes, dying stars.

It's sort of like the debris of a really, you know, bombastic universe that is flying all over the place and can come from billions of light years away.

Yeah, it could be.

And this is also still a theory.

I know, right?

See what I'm saying?

Cooler than Zeus.

Yeah.

So like...

The actual mechanism is still a mystery.

It could be one of these theories.

It could be all of these theories.

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