Episode 558 - Alice Fraser
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Alice Fraser (@aliterative) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Jesse's mistimed melatonin, Alice's new book A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance, Hot Frosty, Matt's upcoming Australia shows, how ants can beat humans at cooperation, increasingly dumb reality dating shows, Andy's Naked Attraction obsession, science lectures on Pornhub, burial site clues to ancient British matriarchies and the first-ever audio and video of a meteorite's impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Andy Wood. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Jesse Case. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Matt Kirshin. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a... two of us are in Australia right now. |
| 0:20.0 | Two of us are in America. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm in Perth, having left Sydney a couple of days ago, about to start being in Perth for a month. |
| 0:26.3 | So Perth people come and say hi. |
| 0:28.3 | And we have a guest who is also in Australia, but unlike me, she is from Australia, returning guest, friend of the show, podcaster, comedian, and author as of very recently, Alice |
| 0:39.5 | Fraser. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, Alice. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:42.9 | I'm very good. |
| 0:43.9 | Are you previously an author, or is this book number one? |
| 0:46.8 | The book is a passion for passion, a delirious love letter to romance. |
| 0:50.7 | Yes, this is my first published book, although I have, you know, a number of books under the bed as all nerdy children who had no friends probably generated. |
| 1:02.0 | Love letters to different emotions. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, different genres. |
| 1:05.0 | So this is the first book that isn't like about a princess called Alice who has a sword. |
| 1:10.0 | And everyone likes her. |
| 1:15.0 | This is ridiculous, but what time is it over? |
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