AMA | October 2025

Hello everyone, welcome to the October 2025 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Usually one of the things that slows me down when I'm doing the AMAs, the Ask Me Anything episodes, is I gotta think of something to say here in the intro. I suspect nobody cares about the intro, I suspect many of you skip it, but I want to start with something interesting. I'll be honest, right now, this semester, there's been enough going on.

I have nothing interesting to say right now. Here's the most interesting thing that I have to say, um, the Philadelphia sports scene has been a disaster. You know, I live in Baltimore, but we're next to Philadelphia, and I grew up in Philadelphia, so all of my teams are still Philadelphia teams. Um, both the Eagles and the Phillies had very, very high hopes, and also the Penn State football team, which is not Philadelphia, but uh Pennsylvania, really high hopes, completely dashed in different ways.

The Eagles won the Super Bowl last year, so they can't really complain, but this year They're not nearly doing as well. The Phillies zoomed into the playoffs and then completely crashed and burned. It's gotten so bad that my beloved Philadelphia 76ers are like the hope for Philadelphia sports fandom. That's not a good position to be in, because the Sixers have not been making people happy when the chips are down for the last

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