Episode 393 - Mike McShane

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Improv and comedy acting legend Mike McShane (@thismikemcshane) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the funniest kind of nudity, cognitive impairment tests, the limits of human eating, the star that's hurtling across the universe, a sperm robot story we've done before, and mathematicians boycotting the police.

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0:00.0	This episode of Probably Science is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus.
0:04.3	For an entire month of access for free, go to the greatcoursesplus.com slash probably.
0:10.8	Probably science.
0:24.2	Hey everyone. Welcome to Probably Science.
0:25.1	I'm Matt Kirshan.
0:26.3	And I am Andy Wood.
0:27.2	Hey, Andy.
0:28.1	Hello, Matt.
0:30.4	We're on a time crunch for this recording.
0:33.8	We can't mess around and we've got a guest that I've wanted on for ages.
0:36.2	So let's just jump, why do we just jump straight into our guest?
0:36.7	Yes.
0:38.2	Just a guest that you may know from whose lines in any way, or office space, or Robin Hood, Prince of
0:43.0	Thieves, or any number of other things. It's Mike McShane. Hi, guys. Hey, Andy. Hey, Matt. Hey, how are you?
0:49.5	Pretty good, pretty good. I'm just hanging out of it. We got, I've just moved into a new place and we're getting
0:54.4	everything set up. So I've got the mic kind of Jimmy rigged up against my, my drafting table.
1:01.7	And so, yeah, it's kind of, I feel like a frontier podcast person.
1:05.6	You're in Los Angeles, though?
1:07.1	I'm in Los Angeles. I'm in Sherman Oaks, which a friend of mine is from the south
1:12.0	pronounced as Shireman Oaks, and I went, is that a character from Chaucer? And I was like, it's
1:18.3	Shireman Oaks, the gentle people. It seems, yeah. What do you do on your Drossman table?
1:25.9	Well, you know, I used to be an illustrator, and I love working at a drafting table.
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