Episode 082 - Kathleen Ritterbush
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2013
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Matt, Andy and Jesse welcome paleontology PhD candidate Kathleen Ritterbush to the show this week to discuss: Being the third man on The Dating Game! Roommate update: Stu's birthday is 9/11! Falling for the testicle-biting fish hoax! PhD superstitions and paperwork! Using fossils to determine skin and hair color! Teaching science to a boatload of evangelical kids! Thinking dinosaurs and humans coexisted! Paleontologists with Indiana Jones props! Kathleen comes bearing gifts of fossils! How fossils form! Chambered nautilus: The first submarine? The near-extinction of the amenites! What do we learn about marine ecology from mass extinctions? Studying the hydrodynamics of shells! Figuring out if you're looking at the fossil of a sponge! The bad science in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening! Jesse gets compared to a schlubby squid! Cephalopod cosplay! Getting your wedding ring made out of snail fossils!
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Andy. With me, as always, Matt Kirshan. |
| 0:13.7 | Hey, how's it going? Jesse, Jesse Case is joining us as our semi-regular and very welcome |
| 0:19.5 | co-host. We're going to get into our special guest |
| 0:22.4 | in a second, but... We just found something out, so we're like, we have to start recording now |
| 0:25.8 | before we talk any more about this. All right, I was just telling you guys, I can get you guys |
| 0:31.4 | a gig if you want to do it. And that gig is... Being the comic relief on the dating game. |
| 0:35.6 | Being the third contestant. Being the third contestant that they know they're not going to pick and you just get to say whatever you want. |
| 0:40.4 | It's like mall rats. |
| 0:41.1 | It's a great. |
| 0:41.4 | It's a great gig. |
| 0:42.1 | It's a little bit of money. |
| 0:43.0 | How did you get? |
| 0:43.7 | You've been on TV multiple times you're saying on the dating game. |
| 0:46.3 | I've been on the dating game a lot. hitting and not the front page of your Facebook, not the background of your Twitter wallpaper. It's a little embarrassing. |
| 0:56.0 | But do you have them all recorded? |
| 0:57.9 | No, no. I don't, I mean, |
| 1:00.1 | I've a lot of them haven't even seen. |
| 1:03.0 | Wait, do the viewers not recognize |
| 1:04.2 | wait, that's the schlub |
| 1:06.2 | from two weeks ago. |
| 1:08.5 | Thank you. |
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