Sean Carroll

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

I don't know if you know, but recently the Golden Globes happened.

This is one of those award shows where they give prizes to movie stars and TV stars and things like that.

But they had a new category at the Golden Globes this year, Best Podcast.

The Mindscape podcast did not win Best Podcast.

It was not nominated.

It was probably not even noticed by the people who did the nominating and deciding who was going to be on the list.

You know, what can we say?

Our civilization continues to let me down in various ways.

But I can't complain too much.

The winner of Best Podcast this year was Amy Poehler, who won for her podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler, which I think I've mentioned previously.

And it's a good podcast.

All of the people who actually were nominated, entertainers, comedians, and whatever, not a lot of natural philosophers were represented.

But I bring this up not just because I want to put the idea in the minds of anyone listening that maybe I should be nominated in the future, but there was an episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler featuring Kate McKinnon.

I haven't actually heard this episode, but Jennifer, my wife, has heard it.

I've heard other episodes.

And one of the things that happened in the interview with Kate McKinnon is that she expressed her enthusiasm for a YouTube channel by an Australian guy named Bruce the Plumber.

And the YouTube channel is called Drain Cleaning Australia.

Yes, you heard that correctly.