Episode 511 - Aparna Nancherla

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about her new book Unreliable Narrator, the ubiquity of impostor syndrome in Hollywood, childhood memories of carob, a new insanely hot pepper, roosters recognizing themselves in mirrors, a drunk dude fighting his reflection, and AI besting humans at Street Fighter.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshin.
0:13.0	I'm Andy Wood.
0:15.0	And I'm a Parnanenan-Chir. No.
0:17.0	I'm Jesse Case. I'm sorry, I'm Jesse Case.
0:21.4	Oh, that's it. It's strange that you made that mistake, though, because our guest actually has the name that you nearly accidentally said.
0:29.0	I accidentally say that name all the time, and we finally found someone with the name.
0:35.9	Yeah. I know. It's a very common name.
0:39.7	Yes.
0:41.5	It's got to be awkward the number of times people just put in Aparnanicella as their sort of like fake name when they're filling out online forms.
0:49.3	Yes.
0:49.7	Like a partnerichella at Google.gml.com and everything.
0:52.4	And then you're getting all this junk.
0:54.1	I know. Birthday, January 1st're getting all this junk. I know.
0:54.9	Birthday, January 1st, yeah.
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:58.8	Yeah, it's the most common password.
1:00.2	Born 1900 as well, weren't you?
1:01.1	I believe you were born 1900.
1:02.7	Yes, yes, I was born January 1st, 1900.
1:05.3	That's right.
1:06.6	And also, weirdly, it's weirdly appropriate as well that so many people are doing that to you
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