Episode 545 - Helen Hong
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Comedian/actress/podcaster Helen Hong (@funnyhelenhong) joins Matt and Andy to talk about peeing in pools and reservoirs, male stripper shows, Helen's excellent quiz podcast Go Fact Yourself, pre-Darth Vader David Prowse PSAs, the dye in Doritos that can make mice transparent, a SpaceX rocket punching a hole in the ionosphere, mailing poo in a box and making pyrex invisible with vegetable oil.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Matt Kirshin. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Andy Wood. |
| 0:14.0 | And I've stolen yet another comic that I was just on in Vegas with at the comedy seller. |
| 0:19.0 | It's the brilliant comedian, actor, podcaster, all sorts. |
| 0:24.5 | It's Helen Hong. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, Helen. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey, hey, hello. |
| 0:27.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, thanks for jumping on. |
| 0:31.1 | We had a fun week in Vegas. |
| 0:33.1 | We did. |
| 0:34.2 | We did. |
| 0:34.6 | Although, as you say on stage mat, it's like five days too long. Seven days is |
| 0:39.3 | five days too long to be in Vegas. It completely is. Yeah. Seven days of gigs? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, |
| 0:45.4 | you do Monday through Sunday. A full week in Vegas is way too long to be in Vegas. It is. And like, |
| 0:52.5 | the gig part of it's pretty fun and easy because it's |
| 0:54.9 | showcase style. So you're on with three other comics. You're only doing 15 to 20 minutes every night. |
| 0:59.5 | You do two shows a night, but it's just, you know, it's a short set. And the comedy club is |
| 1:03.6 | literally just down the elevator from your room. So it's like it's not like it's a that part is arduous, but it also means that it just |
| 1:12.6 | You have to get out of the hotel otherwise you just see the same corridor and |
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