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Probably Science

Episode 483 - Erica Spera

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Erica Spera (@Spericaa) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about almost going into dentistry, prehistoric teeth, Andy's Mexican dental tourism, what we're supposed to call mummies now, monster cereals, AI Seinfeld's heel turn, Roko's basilisk, mummy chemicals, ancient stone tools and more stone tools and Soylent.

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0:00.0

Probably Science

0:02.0

Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan.

0:14.1

And I'm Andy Wood.

0:15.0

And I'm Jesse Case.

0:17.0

And thank you to everyone who came and saw the show in Seattle.

0:21.1

I saw some probably science listeners and I met a couple and waved a couple from the stage.

0:26.9

So thanks a lot for coming by.

0:28.8

That was a lot of fun.

0:29.6

I'm now in Vegas where, oh, I've just eaten an extraordinary amount of Italian food with our guest,

0:37.3

who is also on the show with me at the Rio at the comedy cellar.

0:39.6

Erica Spara. Hey Erica. Hello everyone. Thanks for having me. Um, Erica's cousin.

0:45.5

Thanks for joining. Erica's cousin is a restaurateur. Oh, is that that was the end? What? Yeah,

0:52.2

that's why. So Andy, yeah, Andy and Jesse kept getting text from me going like, like postponing the recording of this, going like, yeah, it's going to be another 15.

1:01.3

That's going to be another 15.

1:02.4

Well, Erica, do you want to explain?

1:06.0

Erica comes from a large Italian New Jersey family.

1:10.3

Okay.

1:14.4

Yeah, so have you guys ever heard of the show? Um, Cake Boss?

1:22.0

Cake boss. Of course. Yeah. Okay. So those are my cousins. No way. Yeah. They're my mom's first cousins. I think that makes them my first cousin once removed or something, but Italian families, cousins a cousin is what it is.

1:28.3

Right, right, right.

1:28.9

And I went on like a nice walk the other day down the strip.

1:31.5

I've never been to Vegas.

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