Episode 529 - Sierra Katow
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Sierra Katow (@sierrakatow) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her new standup special Funt, the upcoming appearance on Roots of Comedy with Jesus Trejo, the underrated Earth to Ned, Sierra's computer science background and childhood obsession with Neopets, Andy's head-scratching interaction with Anthropic's Claude AI, deadly pathogens that are attracted to human blood, the importance of robot insurance, the security issues raised by quantum computing, online Oregon Trail, a black hole lurking surprisingly close to Earth and To 29 and Beyond, coming to Outpost 29 on June 7-8, with Bobcat Goldthwait, NASA's Farah Alibay, stargazing, trivia, live music, karaoke and more, sponsored by Visit 29, Merch Kitchen and Sky Watcher Star Tours. For 15% off a Sky Watcher stargazing tour, use the code "29BEYOND".
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, probably scientists. |
| 0:01.9 | Quick reminder that you have until May 10th to pick up your early bird discount passes to our event, 2.29 and beyond. |
| 0:09.2 | June 7th and 8th in 29 Palms, California. |
| 0:11.6 | You can visit 229 and beyond.com. |
| 0:14.3 | That's 229 and beyond.com to pick up those passes. |
| 0:18.9 | It's two nights of a ton of fun. |
| 0:22.7 | Bobcat Goldthwaite, returning guest Fara Alibay of NASA JPL. Of course, guided stargazing, courtesy of Skywatcher star tours, |
| 0:28.3 | who are going to be bringing top of the line telescopes for you to enjoy the dark skies of the |
| 0:32.1 | high desert. And we've got live music, karaoke, and I'll be hosting some trivia. So we hope to see a bunch of you out. |
| 0:37.9 | Pick up those tickets now. Also, big thanks to Visit 29 for helping us put this together. |
| 0:42.0 | And of course, to Skywatcher Star Tours. You can visit sky dash watcher.com and use the code 29 |
| 0:47.8 | beyond for 15% off your own private stargazing tour with them. |
| 0:53.3 | We also wanted to mention that today's guest, Sierra, |
| 0:55.6 | has a PBS documentary coming out called Roots of Comedy with Jesus Trejo, |
| 0:59.8 | streaming May 24th and broadcasting June 21st. |
| 1:03.6 | In the series, Trajo visits six U.S. regions where he meets with six rising comedians, |
| 1:07.5 | and Sierra is his comic from Los Angeles. |
| 1:10.2 | So check that out on PBS. |
| 1:12.0 | On with the show. |
| 1:13.5 | Probably Science. |
| 1:23.8 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm your host. |
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