Episode 130 - Daniel Sloss

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Rising comedy star and pride of Scotland Daniel Sloss (twitter.com/Daniel_Sloss) returns to the show to chat with Andy, Jesse and Matt about: Bill Nye's comedy roots! Daniel's mother's Twitter activity (twitter.com/drles)! Semen's state of matter! The Jack The Ripper story everyone's talking about! Extreme haunted houses! Brain-to-brain communication! A testicular meeting of the minds! The purpose of monocles! The surprisingly early invention of telegraphy! Fake Victorian robot Boilerplate! A newly discovered dinosaur that's heavier than a 747! Buzz Lightyear's Flying Tossers! Pedo-tumors! Deep-sea mushrooms that defy classification! Andy and Jesse's roommate wants the new, hip psychedelic drug! The ash that'll cover us all when Yellowstone blows! An amazing new video of a volcanic shockwave!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to probably science, your week in half-assed science news.
0:19.3	I'm Andy Wood. I'm here with Jesse Case.
0:20.9	Hey, buddy.
0:21.5	Matt Kirshan is here.
0:22.5	Hello.
0:23.2	We don't often remind listeners what this show is up top in case we have new listeners, right?
0:27.5	That's true.
0:28.2	Sure, sure.
0:29.0	Do we know what the show really is?
0:30.0	I don't really know if we know what it. in the car and I was realizing how totally under-informed we are. Like, Bill Nye was guest hosting it and he was answering listener email.
0:41.2	And maybe he'd prepared the answers ahead of time, but it felt like he just knew all these
0:44.0	things.
0:44.6	Yeah, but that's because Bill Nye and...
0:47.3	He and I have the same degree from the same college.
0:49.2	Like, he doesn't have...
0:50.0	I don't think he has a graduate degree or anything.
0:51.5	He's just a smart guy who, like, stays informed. Then Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the normal host of StarTalk, right?
0:55.2	Right.
0:55.5	But I'm saying Bill Nye chooses to be more informed than we are.
0:58.7	But it's also their full-time jobs.
1:00.8	It's like, hey, you're hosting StarTalk this week.
1:03.1	Instead of you're going to do all this other stuff, and then here's a slice of an hour. Yeah, did you see the, the, the, uh,
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