Episode 538 - David Brown

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Producer David Brown joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about creating entertaining science programming, the new Peacock show The Hungry Games: Alaska's Big Bear Challenge that David produced, Rhys Darby narrated and Matt and Andy worked on, the Emmy-winning pop-science show Could You Survive The Movies?, Andy's Top Gun cameo, Fat Bear Week, Goro's pecs, a south-of-the-border Orson Welles experience, using AI to figure out the sperm whale phonetic alphabet, Larry the cat and Boris Johnson and The Higgins Boys & Gruber.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm one of your hosts, one of three in fact. I'm Jesse Case.
0:16.2	I'm Matt Kirshan. And I am Andy Wood, and we have a very special guest, somebody who Matt and I have spent many an hour working with over the last, I want to say, a five years or so.
0:28.9	Yeah, you for five years, me for like, I think, a couple of years.
0:33.4	Certainly some work that got me through lockdown that kept a roof over our heads.
0:39.3	Indeed, indeed.
0:40.1	Yeah, for the last, I guess 10 years or so, Matt, you and I have worked on a fair number of science shows.
0:46.4	And for me, a lot of those were run by the great David Brown.
0:51.9	Oh, well, hello, everybody.
0:54.0	That's the first time I've ever been referencing great, but I'll take it.
0:57.1	That's our guest.
0:57.8	Is that our guest?
0:58.6	That is our guest, David Brown.
0:59.8	Oh, I thought you were just talking about some guys convenient.
1:03.5	Wow.
1:04.8	Incredible.
1:05.0	Executive, executive producer of, we were just talking before the show, three projects
1:08.8	that I've worked on, two that Matt has worked on. The YouTube original, Could You Survive the Movies with Jake Roper of Vsauce fame.
1:17.6	And Pindrop, aka Non-Fungible Planet, and coming out, or just came out last week,
1:23.6	Hungry Bears, Alaska's Big Bear Challenge on Peacock. The most recent one of those.
1:28.3	Andy, come on. You're smarter than that. The name of the show is The Hungry Games, Alaska's
1:32.0	Big Bear Challenge. What did I just say? I don't know what you said about. Did I say Hungry Bear?
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