4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2012
⏱️ 66 minutes
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You've seen the very funny Mark Agee (twitter.com/MarkAgee) on Last Comic Standing, and he makes his Probably Science debut this week, joining Andy and a fresh-off-the-plane Matt Kirshen to talk about: Performering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Taking Brooks's grown-up appliances! Living in comedian squalor! Putting a wrench in the works of conversations! Nash equilibria! Game theory! Why do people keep working after making their fortunes? Heisenberg -- not as uncertain as we'd thought? Matt's jet lag! Don't drink on planes! Getting paid in drink tickets! King Tut's girlish figure! Could epilepsy have saddled human civilization with monotheism? John Wayne Gacy's head injury! Pedophilia sympathy! Studying the innate clocks of mice! The concept of second sleep! Go-go juice! The evolutionary explanation of the placebo effect! The high cost of turning on our immune systems! Cocktails vs. mixed drinks! Computing with water droplets!
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0:00.0 | Probably Science |
0:02.0 | Welcome to Probably Science. |
0:10.0 | I am Matt Kirshan back after a while. |
0:15.0 | Who is that across the table? |
0:16.9 | I know. |
0:17.7 | As I take my glasses on and off. |
0:19.3 | It's me, the English guy, who supposedly is one of the regulars on this podcast, but has been away for a month. |
0:25.2 | Your name is still in the iTunes host descriptor there. |
0:29.9 | Yeah, maybe the first one listed even. |
0:32.0 | It's I am a special guest host. |
0:33.7 | You have abandoned us time and again to be off doing actual comedy. |
0:37.9 | So you just got back from Edinburgh. |
0:39.1 | I did just get back from Edinburgh. |
0:40.3 | Where you were doing what? |
0:41.9 | Well, I was mostly doing set list, which is the show I've been helping out with in general. |
0:47.6 | That's the improvised stand-up show. |
0:49.7 | That is the improvised stand-up show, yeah. |
0:51.4 | And it's been a joy. |
0:53.5 | It's been, it was lovely again. |
0:56.0 | Comics really get off on doing it. |
0:58.3 | Nice. |
0:59.1 | It's being made for a TV thing, so people wanted to do it, and people were taking an interest in it. |
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