Episode 083 - David Epstein and Paul Morrissey

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2013

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It's sports week here at Probably Science HQ, as Matt and Andy welcome to the show Sports Illustrated journalist and author of The Sports Gene David Epstein, as well as comedian Paul Morrissey, who played and coached college basketball, to dig into the meaty topics that David's excellent books discusses, including: Major league hitters who can't touch a 60mph softball! Being a short, white hustler at Venice Beach pickup basketball games! The excellence of Jamaican sprinters and Kalenjin distance runners! Being compared to Jimmy the Greek! What other sports could Lebron James have played? The anatomy of great pitchers! Getting critiqued by Malcolm Gladwell! Debunking the 10,000 hour rule! The genetics of wanting to train hard! The link between elite athletes and ADHD! The dangers of all-male stock trading! Andy's swimming career! The heart condition that claims the lives of many athletes! David's training advice for Matt!

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:01.9	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:10.6	Welcome to Probably Science. It's the first day of fall. It's a beautiful Los Angeles
0:15.5	Sunday afternoon here. Is it really? I had no idea that it was...
0:18.7	Well, maybe yesterday was. It's usually the 21st, right?
0:21.6	Oh, yes.
0:22.1	I hadn't even thought it through.
0:23.6	It's, uh, that's the voice of Matt Kirshin, seated to my right.
0:26.9	Hello, and that was Andy Wood, introducing and being interrupted by me.
0:30.1	Just, you know, we got to get this meteorological stuff down.
0:32.9	I got to get the, uh, it's important for the listeners all around the world to know exactly what the weather is when we're recording it. It is noon Greenwich Time Now, so you can reset your watches to this
0:45.2	podcast. This is a really special episode. I've been looking forward to this. We've been
0:48.9	trying to coordinate this for over a month now. And we've mentioned it and trailed it a couple of
0:53.1	times. So you had you had plenty of time
0:55.2	listeners to get yourselves up to speed on the guest we're going to have on today. If you didn't,
0:59.4	that's your fault. But it's the, this is a sports episode. So all the nerds turn off your iPods
1:05.9	because you're, otherwise you're going to get slammed in a locker. You're going to get pantsed. I'm going to be here, by the way, as a representative of the non-sports playing community.
1:14.6	Because we're going to have two guests on.
1:16.6	We should probably get straight to our first guest because we're going to be Skyping in with David Epstein, the author of the sports gene, which would be mentioning at various occasions throughout previous podcast.
1:27.7	But we have another sports playing guest.
1:30.5	A comedian, an athlete, a former ABC sports reporter.
1:34.7	Paul Morrissey is with us.
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