Episode 095 - Dr. Ainissa Ramirez and Sarah Tiana

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This episode kicks off two weeks in a row of real science, as Matt, Jesse and Andy welcome Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, author of Newton's Football, and comedian/football fan Sarah Tiana (twitter.com/sarahtiana) to discuss Dr. Ramirez's new book, and more specifically: Footballs in humidors! Football suicide pools! Andy's football ignorance! The brutal early days of the sport! Football's concussion epidemic! A new style of safer tackling! Refrigerator Perry's rapping prowess! Desperation giving rise to the A-11 offense! Vince Lombardi's background as a science teacher! Choosing plays based on game theory! Waffle House waiters who are like quarterbacks! Risk-averse monkeys! The toe-less placekicker! Greg Cook's injury giving rise to the West Coast offense! The origin of the no-huddle offense! The reasons for the Michigan/Ohio State rivalry! Compulsory pep rallies! Andy's football announcer grandfather Bob Ufer!

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0:00.0	Hello, probably scientists. Andy here with a quick announcement. We failed to mention on this
0:03.9	week's episode that we will be appearing live in San Francisco in February at the SF Sketchfest,
0:09.9	one of the best comedy festivals in the world. It's right up there with the Bridgetown
0:14.1	Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, I would say. But then I may be biased. We are appearing there
0:19.1	live at the Punchline Comedy Club on Saturday, February 8th at 4 p.m.
0:25.6	Guests to be announced, and being San Francisco, we've got a wealth of people to choose from
0:30.9	both comedically and scientifically.
0:32.7	So I think you can be very happy with what we come up with.
0:36.1	Tickets and information are at sfsketchfest.com.
0:39.6	So get those tickets now and we hope we'll see a bunch of you in person.
0:42.7	Also, I want to thank all of you who have been donating and listening.
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1:13.0	So go check out probably science.com and tell your friends and enjoy this week's
1:16.5	episode with Dr. Anisa Ramirez and comedian Sarah Tiana.
1:21.8	Probably Science.
1:35.2	Hey, welcome to a properly science. I'm Matt Kirshan. I'm joined, as always, by Andy Wood.
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