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Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait Joins The Expanse Podcast Ep. 8: Listen Now

The Expanse producers and co-creators Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham talk sleep walking and Scientology inspired casting.

Mar 23, 2017, 10:31 AM ET

The Roci crew is still docked with the husband-and-wife crew of the Somnambulist. Neither of whom are thrilled to see them there, though the wife, Melissa, is the angrier of the two.

Have you seen The Expanse? If the answer is no, you should stop and go watch it because it is good. If the answer is yes, then we have something for you. The Churn, an Expanse post-show podcast from our friends at Syfy Wire is a weekly deep dive into the show with the show's producers and co-creators Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham (they wrote the books the series is based on, BTW). And in our look at Episode 9, "The Weeping Somnambulist", Syfy Wire's now Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait nerds out about space and the science of The Expanse; while Ty and Daniel talk sleep walking and Scientology inspired casting - yep, Scientology.

Listen below!