Episode 115 - Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival with Paul Provenza and Amber Case

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Andy venture to Portland this week for a live Probably Science from the seventh annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival featuring comedian/director/actor Paul Provenza (twitter.com/PaulProvenza) and cyborg anthropologist Amber Case (twitter.com/caseorganic) who join together to discuss: Jesse's sitcom success! Confusing The Aristocrats with The Aristocats! Paul giving Dave Chappelle his first TV appearance! The Wild West days of early Comedy Central! Alan Dershowitz consulting on Kids Court! The economics of renting clowns vs. clown costumes! Why we're all actually cyborgs! Going through second-self adolescence! Computer-induced junk sleep! Andy's shocking discovery about the house he owned in Portland, aka the Gaytown Academy! Writing a thesis on cell phones! Digital hoarding! Being consumers vs. producers! Royal portraits as proto-Internet dating profile pics! People who brag about not watching TV!

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0:00.0	This episode of Probably Science is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio.
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0:13.1	Please welcome the hosts of the Probably Science podcast, Matt Kirshin and Andy Wood.
0:22.6	Thank you, Science.
0:32.6	Welcome to Probably Science. Thank you, guys.
0:34.6	We're here at the Taxi Magic Stage at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, of course.
0:40.8	Have you guys been going to other shows this weekend?
0:43.0	Or is everyone here just for the excellent.
0:44.9	Nice, nice.
0:46.1	This is just, and he's one of the founders of the festival, so he's just using for market research now.
0:49.8	This is...
0:50.3	I want to see if there's overlap between science people and comedy fans in general.
0:54.0	No, thanks for coming.
0:55.2	I've never heard the theme tune that loud and booming before.
0:58.7	It's a good song.
0:59.4	It's good work.
1:00.0	Well done, Jesse.
1:01.7	Jesse couldn't be here with us.
1:02.9	Our usual co-host Jesse Case, unfortunately, for good reasons, good career reasons.
1:06.3	Yeah, I think we mentioned it on the last podcast. I don't know how many of your regular listeners of the show. Or you just showed up because you thought it sounded kind of vaguely interesting.
1:13.3	But we have a normal co-host who auditioned for a pilot that we can't really talk about yet,
1:20.3	apparently because he's had to sign non-disclosure things.
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