Episode 131 - Roisin Conaty

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2014

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

British comedy phenom Roisin Conaty (twitter.com/roisinconaty) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy this week to talk about: The oppressive Los Angeles heatwave! Bits and bobs! The vastly underrated music of Cheap Trick! An amazing listener-created theme song! Send us your space questions for an upcoming guest! Growing up believing eyelashes were autonomous organisms! The Forer Effect explaining how psychics and astrology dupe people! Using psychedelic mushrooms to quit smoking! A woman with no cerebellum! Scorpions that live in your books and have weird sex! A decades-old fetus found inside a woman's abdomen! Jurassic squirrels! Andy's high school water polo teammate Andrew WK! The benefits of having your baby sleep on a sexy animal fur! Skipping breakfast might be correlated with diabetes! Off-brand Halloween costumes! Superfluid helium vortices! What's the greatest invention of all time? The LA Podcast Festival!

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0:00.0	Hello, probably scientists. Andy here with a quick announcement before this week's
0:04.0	episode kicks off. I wanted to remind all of you that were just over a week out from the third
0:08.3	annual LA podcast festival, a three-day celebration of all things podcasting with over 30 of your
0:14.0	favorite podcasters recording live for your enjoyment. Those include Mark Maren with WTF,
0:19.1	Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler, Jimmy Pardo's Never
0:21.7	Not Funny, Super Ego, with the newly added permanent cast member, Paul F. Tompkins, Will Anderson's
0:26.7	Tofop, this week with Larry Miller, the Todd Glass Show, Go Bayside, the Dana Gouldauer, so many,
0:32.0	dozens more. It's a great time. I may be biased as one of the producers, but it is always
0:36.5	my favorite weekend of the
0:37.7	year. It's a great chance to see all your favorite podcasters live and get to hang with them.
0:41.8	In addition to all the great podcast recordings, the weekend also includes a stand-up show with
0:46.4	an incredible lineup on Saturday the 27th, as well as meet and greets, happy hours, a closing
0:51.6	party on Sunday the 28th that it features a live karaoke
0:54.7	band. It's a blast. I recommend anybody in the LA area come check it out. There are passes available
0:59.9	by day or for the full weekend. All the information is over at LAPodfest.com, but if you're
1:04.7	going to buy a ticket, we recommend you go to probably science.com first and click on our link so
1:09.2	everyone knows that you came through us. For those of
1:11.4	you who can't make it to the festival in person this year, we've got a very exciting addition to the
1:15.0	event, which is a live video stream. For one low price, you can watch all of the podcast
1:19.7	recordings throughout the entire weekend and for three weeks after. All you have to do is go to
1:23.8	LAPodfest.com slash live and use the offer code science that will kick $5 off of the
1:29.8	already low price of $25. So for just $20, you can see over 30 podcast recordings over the
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