Episode 541 - Isak Allen
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Neuroscientist-turned-comedian Isak Allen (@isakallen) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about smashing flies, using fMRI to study brain activity as it relates to music and comedy, tonal languages, the Dong Song, Neuralink, dystopian futures and Isak's new Dry Bar special Culturally Unavailable.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably science |
| 0:02.0 | Um, well right now, sorry, I just hit the microphone. |
| 0:13.0 | A fly just landed on it. |
| 0:14.0 | No, that's good. |
| 0:15.0 | That's also a nice confirmation that it is the correct microphone that selected. |
| 0:18.0 | Because we just heard a thud, and that's great. |
| 0:21.9 | And you might be impressed to know that I actually did kill the fly with my hands. |
| 0:26.5 | What? |
| 0:27.1 | Wow. |
| 0:28.1 | There's a secret to it. |
| 0:29.0 | I'll tell you guys later, but there's a secret to it. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm like five for ten right now on this. |
| 0:35.3 | We're recording. |
| 0:36.1 | What's the secret? |
| 0:36.9 | Let's share this as a pre-roll. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:39.6 | The secret is, I don't know what it is about flies, you know, like antenna and receptors |
| 0:44.6 | and stuff like that, but if you just come slowly from the top, like directly above it, |
| 0:49.6 | you can't come from the side or from the bottom or anything like that. |
| 0:52.6 | If you come directly on top of it with your hand like it's something about it doesn't pick it up until like way close so if you |
| 0:59.1 | just get about a foot from it really slowly and then just slam down really fast it won't be able to like |
| 1:05.7 | detect you from a distance and shoot off okay yeah yeah i think this part of me that also like hesitates kind of intentionally, but I want to admit it to |
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