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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Ultra-Deep Background on Dave Grohl: Part 3
Description:  Whenever you’re having a bad day, I want to think of this number…the probability of you existing—that you’re this sentient being, alive in this vast universe—is exceedingly small…in fact, it’s about zero…
Your mom and dad have to meet…they have to stay together long enough to have kids…then that egg and that sperm have to connect, and so on…
A guy by the name of Dr. Ali Binazir has calculated the odds of you being you…by that number is 1 followed by 2,685,000 zeroes…
By way of analogy, here’s how...