Episode 479 - Christina Martin
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Comedian turned author Christina Martin (@christinamartin) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about atmospheric rivers, shared names, Christina's book Ashes to Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer, putting on funerals for unidentified decedents, the return of a comet after 50,000 years, Newton's madness, Heaven's Gate sneaker collection, reversing erectile dysfunction in pigs and a real horror show of a pig.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm your host, one of three, in fact. I'm Jesse Case. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Andy Wood. And I'm Matt Kirshin, calling from, it's rainy, rainy, L.A. afternoon. |
| 0:23.9 | Oh, is it? It's already started there? Yeah. Damn it. Oh, we're all in different places right now, I guess. |
| 0:30.5 | We are. Why are you saying, damn it, Andy. Were you hoping to... Well, I'm driving back from the desert as soon as we |
| 0:35.3 | stopped recording, and part of why I was leaving now is to, I thought I was going to beat the, I thought it was going to be like 48 hours straight of this torrential rain. |
| 0:43.1 | I thought I was going to beat it if I leave in two hours, but I will not. |
| 0:45.9 | No, no, you're hitting it. |
| 0:48.9 | Damn it. |
| 0:49.7 | I prefer beating it in the rain. |
| 0:53.3 | Have you heard that people are saying, like, what's atmospheric river? |
| 0:56.8 | I don't know what that means besides water from the sky. |
| 0:59.8 | But have you heard that in... |
| 1:01.3 | I have not heard that phrase. |
| 1:02.4 | That does sound like someone just not remembering the word. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, that's one of those blood hunter moon things where we're just making shit up. |
| 1:10.7 | That's not. There's no atmospheric river oh no |
| 1:13.8 | a powerful California atmospheric river a storm incoming let's introduce her yeah something we |
| 1:19.9 | didn't make up is having a guest today we do and someone someone who's no stranger to rain on |
| 1:25.6 | account of living in England how'ss that for a smooth link. |
| 1:28.9 | Ooh, that was flawless. |
| 1:30.5 | Someone who knows for Young's back from where she did stand-up, |
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