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Probably Science

Episode 210 - Ella Gale and Sarah Mirk

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This episode was taped live at the 2016 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, with Matt and Andy welcoming comedian/environmental engineer Ella Gale (@hellakale) and author/podcaster/@BitchMedia editor Sarah Mirk (@sarahmirk) to discuss gender biases in science reporting, women in science (and comedy) and why it's hard to make bagels when it's hot outside.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of Probably Science, Matt Cushing and Andy Wood.

0:10.0

Thank you.

0:17.0

I guess we should have said the theme song.

0:19.0

Was that you just doing that? That's how good I got.

0:22.6

I couldn't, I wasn't looking.

0:23.6

I didn't know whether it was you doing that or someone from the sound booth or

0:27.6

or even at first, because it took me second to even realize it was amplified.

0:31.6

I was like, is there a listener to the show in the audience who was disgruntled at the lack of a theme tune just then?

0:36.6

Who has taken upon themselves to do that

0:39.3

and then other people who are probably in the room who've never heard the show

0:42.3

and are like why is this person doing this

0:46.8

what a peculiar outburst

0:49.5

I don't even know whether this is pro or anti

0:53.1

I think it's just like a melodic Tourette's thing that happens sometimes when I get in front of crowds.

0:58.5

I'm not sure.

0:59.4

Particularly apt one.

1:01.6

The most useful of all the forms of...

1:04.0

The most useful Tourette's.

1:07.7

Yeah.

1:08.4

If you're categorizing it.

1:13.4

That sounds like a Nicholas Sparks novel for some reason.

1:16.4

I'm not sure I know who that is.

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