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🗓️ 23 May 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is how to do everything. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Mike. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Ian. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, we'll tell you how to handle that whale that just washed up on your beach. |
| 0:10.0 | And we'll tell you what you should be terrified of this week. |
| 0:13.2 | But first, hey Adrian, what can we help you with? |
| 0:16.1 | So I'm calling you because I am about to graduate with my PhD |
| 0:21.1 | and I am wondering how to introduce myself once I have my degree. |
| 0:25.0 | So I don't really want to call myself a doctor because I don't know how to solve any actual |
| 0:32.4 | medical problems and I also don't really want to sound pretentious |
| 0:36.8 | I think it sounds kind of kind of pretentious to say |
| 0:40.7 | Doctor down or or Dr or, you know, something like that. |
| 0:45.0 | Can I ask what, what's your PhD in? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, so my PhD, I study methane, |
| 0:51.0 | which is a really fantastically interesting molecule. |
| 0:55.0 | That's the level of specialization that we're at. |
| 0:59.0 | A man can focus just on one molecule for his career? |
| 1:02.6 | Not only that, on manholes mostly. |
| 1:05.4 | So I basically study manholes and a little bit of sewage treatment plants, |
| 1:10.0 | but I like to try to keep it mostly to manholes. |
| 1:11.8 | Okay. Wait, so if a cow burps |
| 1:15.8 | that's you're right there you're on it I'm on it I'm on it that's my thing you know |
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