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Probably Science

Episode 177 - Matt Knudsen

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Comedian/actor extraordinaire Matt Knudsen (@mattknudsen) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Home Alone sequels, Ghostbuster, pseudoscience and snake oil, Coca Cola skeptics, merchant marines, Brian and Dolph, space elevators, LED light pollutionwhy global warming is good for the rich and the incredible octopus.

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0:00.0

Probably Science

0:02.0

Hey, welcome to probably science. I am Matt Kirshan. I am sat next to Andy Wood.

0:15.7

Hello there. We're indoors.

0:17.9

It's nice to be indoors today. We've given up. It's just, we, it's just too hot today.

0:22.9

We, we, we've retired to the safety of air conditioning.

0:26.1

Is the third day in a row of triple digit heat in Los Angeles, I think, or close to it.

0:30.3

Yesterday it was 102.

0:31.9

And, and that's triple digits, we should point out Celsius.

0:34.6

Yeah.

0:35.4

Dangerous.

0:36.2

Water, water could not maintain its liquid form outside.

0:40.6

It's been a, it's been triple digits Kelvin's for a while.

0:44.2

Okay, that would be the exact opposite extreme.

0:48.6

But yeah, it's measuring Celsius and yeah, it's been, it's very, very, very bad.

0:53.7

Very bad uh most people

0:55.3

are existing as vapors right our neighbors uh yeah it's so hot their moving van is loading up but i

1:01.9

haven't even seen them maybe they are no longer corporeal they're just ghosting in and out of

1:05.7

the things by the way we didn't talk about this last week but but did I show you the going away gift I got from the...

1:11.7

We got from the neighbors?

1:12.4

Yeah, I was the one who told you about it because it was on the front doorstep when I came in to record.

1:15.6

The most passive-aggressive...

1:17.3

Okay, I've lived in this house for five years, Jesse for six, and I've never spoken a word to our next-door neighbors.

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