Episode 059 - Mike Schmidt and Wendy Wason
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2013
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Comedians Mike Schmidt (twitter.com/The40YearOldBoy) and Wendy Wason (twitter.com/Wendy_Wason) join Matt and Andy this week to talk about: Testing for hairy feet! The results of Dr. Peter McGraw's E.T. experiment! Starting kitchen fires under the guise of Mr. Magic Show! Pulling your own eye in a Ziploc bag! The miraculously cured AIDS baby! Visiting a spice farm! Using poo to shield Mars mission astronauts from cosmic rays! Chimpanzees ladies pulling some Mean Girls antics! Meeting Jane Goodall! Harry Potter vs. Twilight! Herbal Viagra: Pretty much just Viagra!
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:01.9 | Welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:10.7 | I am Andy Wood, joined by Matt Kirshan. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello. |
| 0:15.6 | It was busy texting at the moment. |
| 0:16.9 | I am. |
| 0:17.3 | I was sending a very important text that was all about our show and helping to promote it and make it a better enjoyable experience for our listeners. Always doing the work. I like it. That's exactly what's happening. So for those people who haven't heard us before, we will go through the week in science news badly with some funny people. And I think we should just get straight into it because we've got a double guest episode so yeah uh we are joined by the the pair of uh mike smit to my left hey host of 40 year |
| 0:44.3 | old boy yes sure popular long-morning podcast and uh visiting um visiting California briefly but |
| 0:49.6 | all too briefly is Wendy Wayson hello thank you for you for having me. Very funny Scottish comedian. |
| 0:56.2 | What brings you here to the States? |
| 0:59.1 | I'm just sort of sniffing about, seeing what's out there for us. |
| 1:00.7 | What do you think so far? And soaking up the sunshine and regularly texting back home to say that it's not snowing. |
| 1:06.2 | You know, that kind of really annoying way. |
| 1:08.0 | Now you say you're sniffing around for us. |
| 1:09.3 | Do you mean us, the four of us, as a team? Is that? That's what I'm doing right now. Can you tell? Okay. We're all together. |
| 1:16.2 | Go for it. What's your take on the states so far around California specifically? I love it. I love it. |
| 1:21.1 | I love the warmth. I love the positivity. I love it. People are very nice and... Apart from when they get... You're just looking at me because you've heard me bitching on the way here, Matt. |
| 1:30.1 | But people are very positive and nice, even when you're out and about and talking to people in |
| 1:33.6 | the shops until they get into their cars and then they're mean and nasty. |
| 1:37.7 | See, here's the thing I actually differ from you that. Because I think in California in LA I think that then they're nice drivers but |
| 1:45.4 | inept I think really yeah I think Midwest drivers are assholes midwesterners are |
| 1:51.0 | nicer than Californians but they're meaner in the car but Californians accelerate when |
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