Episode 012 - Auggie Smith

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2012

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Auggie Smith (auggiesmith.com), winner of the Seattle and San Francisco International Comedy Competitions, sits down with the boys in Andy’s backyard to talk about: Auggie and Andy trying out for Jeopardy! Matt explains what “gunged” means! Guiding lightning with lasers! Matt’s Dickensian childhood! Babies are smarter than computers! Is Carl Weathers a poor man’s Clark Gable? Who’s your favorite painter? Did Bill Murray think “Garfield” was a Coen Brothers movies? Brooks and Andy’s juvenile “Into the Wild” fixations! What do you do when your island ends up underwater? Setting the 3-D nanoprinting speed record! Going to space: Bad for your eyes? Chuck Yeager: Bigger badass than Buzz Aldrin? Thumbs up or thumbs down on foreskins and motorcycles? Isaac Newton’s apocalyptic predictions! Has anyone turned down being knighted?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:01.9	Welcome to Probably Science. I am Andy Wood with me.
0:12.4	As always, is Brooks Wheelan.
0:15.3	And Matt Kirshan.
0:17.1	Hello. I'm going to go with a more conventional greeting there.
0:20.3	I'm not sure what Brooks's preoccupation is tonight.
0:23.6	I'm saying, care. Okay. That's how it's going to be tonight, I guess. We're doing a late-night
0:27.7	record in the backyard here, Bluebell Ranch, my place. And who's our special guest, Andy Wood?
0:32.8	Funny you should ask, because listeners may not know that I spent a long time in Portland, Oregon.
0:37.7	That's where I started doing comedy.
0:38.9	I lived there about nine years.
0:40.4	And I had the pleasure of sharing many a stage with our guest tonight, who is a great
0:45.7	community who also moved down here from Portland recently.
0:47.7	And he's the only comic ever to win the Seattle International Comedy Competition and
0:52.2	the San Francisco International Comedy Competition in the same year.
0:56.8	That was, I believe, two years ago. His name is Augie Smith.
1:00.3	Hello, Andy.
1:01.8	He's also from the British, Little Britain in Portland. It's a little neighborhood.
1:06.4	He's from Britain in the 50s.
1:09.8	He's from an Ealing comedy.
1:11.7	He just came over, he came over to clean out my chimney, actually.
1:14.7	We thought we'd get him on the podcast.
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