Episode 079 - Hank and Chris Thompson

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2013

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Hank Thompson is a comedian and producer at The Young Turks (youtube.com/TYTComedy), and his brother Dr. Chris Thompson is a post-doctoral fellow at Scripps Research Institute in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. This powerful comedy/science sibling duo join Matt and Andy this week to discuss: Sibling rivalry! Vocal communication in animals! Learned vocalization! Dolphins who know their own names! Inverted commas! Everything you ever wanted to know about songbirds! Chicago ladies! 3D syrinx models! Burning out parts of bird brains! Terrible Hunger Games writing! Taxi drivers' enlarged hippocampi! Axons, neurons, dendrites and synapses! The effect of Prozac on birds' songs! Getting harrassed by amateur birders! Albino African clawed frogs! Inheriting the chess team captain crown! Andy's upcoming 1,000-mile road trip with a Belgian stranger! The Jimmy Dore Show on TYT Comedy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:01.9	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:10.7	I'm Andy Wood, and I'm back.
0:15.0	I'm back home here in Valley Village here in the backyard.
0:17.5	It's back from Chicago.
0:18.4	I'm Matt Kirshan, and I've been waiting.
0:20.8	I left a candle burning. I'm Matt Kirshin and I've been, I've been waiting.
0:22.4	I left a candle burning.
0:25.0	I tied a ribbon around a tree.
0:29.1	We did have a moment when we were singing a duet that we weren't aware we were singing while we were both looking at the moon, a la an American tale.
0:32.7	Is that what it was from?
0:34.2	I was just doing it.
0:35.5	I wasn't aware it was a filmic reference.
0:38.8	Listen,
0:40.9	we've done episodes with comedians and we've done episodes
0:41.8	with scientists.
0:43.2	This is our first episode
0:44.8	with a comedian
0:46.3	and scientist
0:47.9	sibling pair.
0:50.1	Yes.
0:51.0	We were a...
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