4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2014
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Shop Amazon for the holidays and enjoy comedian and musician Mike Phirman (@phirm) as he joins the crew to talk about kidney stones and Jesse's trip to urgent care, Mike's iodine allergy, the millenial malady of text neck, a man who can sort of hear wifi, the sound of Comet 67P and Philae, Hard 'n' Phirm's ode to the numerical value pi, Chicken Monkey Duck, Build-a-Song, Trace Elements, the bluegrass mashup Rodeohead, more Vomit Comet talk, why we need to be done with fossil fuels by 2100, the link between gut bacteria and mental health, a vaginal Crocodile Mile and the clearest-ever image of planetary formation.
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0:00.0 | Hello, there, Probably Scientists. Andy here with a quick announcement. The holidays are upon us, |
0:04.2 | and if you're doing your shopping online, I want to remind you to visit probablycience.com |
0:08.2 | and click on Shop Amazon. There you can find our Amazon affiliate link, and if you click on that, |
0:12.3 | you just shop as you normally would on Amazon, and at no extra cost to you, it kicks back some |
0:16.3 | money to the podcast. It's the most painless and helpful way for you to contribute to the show, |
0:24.5 | and we really appreciate everyone who's been doing that. One of our listeners wrote in to suggest that people also replace their Amazon bookmark in their browser with the link you see |
0:28.9 | there, which is a great idea. Then you don't have to think about it. Next time you go to Amazon, |
0:32.4 | it'll already be built in. Also on that page, you'll find the first official probably science |
0:36.6 | holiday gift guide. |
0:38.1 | We've put together dozens of podcast approved products for you to peruse. |
0:42.1 | Ooh, that's a lot of peas. |
0:43.4 | And those include comedy albums from past guests such as Karen Kilgariff, Baron Vaughn, Mike Kaplan, T.J. Miller, Tim Minchin, Matt Brong or Kyle Canane, so many more. |
0:52.8 | And books from past guests, including |
0:54.6 | Chris Hardwick, Dr. Sean Carroll, Dr. Jan 11, astronaut Chris Hadfield, David Epstein's book |
0:59.7 | The Sports Gene. You'll also find just stuff we think is awesome. And some books and albums |
1:04.9 | by guests we haven't had on yet. So you can check out that page if you want to try to guess |
1:09.1 | where the spoilers are. And I'll admit Brian May is a long shot. |
1:12.5 | But if anybody listening is a friend of the band, queen, please put in a good word for us. |
1:16.4 | We've got to make that happen somehow. |
1:18.0 | All right. |
1:18.4 | Enjoy this week's episode. |
1:19.8 | Probably science. My name's Andy Wood. I'm joined as always by Matt Kirshan. |
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