Episode 107 - Stefan Pop and Rylee Newton

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2014

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

We're going Dutch on this week's episode, as Netherlands-based comedian Stefan Pop (twitter.com/stefan_pop) joins American writer/comedian Rylee Newton (twitter.com/ryleenewton) to chat about: Dutch insults! Buying a goat for charity! Working at Microsoft! A Dutchman going to an American university in Spain! Stefan's cadaver dissections! HP Lovecraft movies! A more in-depth look at the drug Narcan! The Netherlands' speed skating dominance! Probably Eugenics! Orange light that resets circadian rhythms! Jesse’s upcoming appearance in the coffee table book Bums! A prediction of the multiverse that dates back 700 years! The first episode of Cosmos! Lightning that predicts earthquakes! Temperatures below absolute zero! Australians shooting space debris out of orbit with lasers! A person’s voice as a predictor of their personality! How neanderthals might have yelled! Stefan’s unique take on saying hello!

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0:12.9	Probably Science.
0:27.4	Hello and welcome to Probably Science, your week in science news.
0:31.7	Joining me, as I'm Jesse Case, sorry, joining me as always is Andy Wood.
0:32.2	Yes.
0:33.7	And Mr. Matt Kirshin.
0:35.0	Thank you for me to be the full title.
0:35.8	It's been a while.
0:36.9	It has been a while.
0:39.0	It has been a while. I like the more formal nature of that introduction.
0:44.3	Yeah, it does. It is weird that you're the only person to be denited, though. I remember going Sir Matt Kershan and then... And it just, they took it back a bit. They did, they did take it back. I failed to jousting. Yeah. I wasn't sufficiently chivalrous. I would love if there was some weird, like, backwritten thing they discovered the Magna Carta
0:55.9	where if England had to go to war, like, Knights had to fight.
0:58.8	So you have, like, Paul McCartney and Elton John.
1:00.6	They just, like, have to go to the Crimea.
1:03.2	Every actor over sort of six years.
1:05.3	Right, Alec Guinness or, well, he's dead.
1:07.3	Ian McKellen.
1:07.9	Ian McKelland.
1:09.8	Patrick Stewart.
1:10.8	Just like an insane amount.
1:12.1	Be the highest grossing war of all time.
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