Episode 144 - Dr. Christina Campbell

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Anthropologist and spider monkey expert Dr. Christina Campbell joins the gang this week to get an update on Jesse's kidney stones and talk about her field of expertise, including research on Barro Colorado Island, the snubbing of Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace, Jesse trying to adopt a wallaby, Chris Burke’s Eating Is Fun/Eating Is Serious, Dr. Campbell's book on spider monkeys, the torture tape experiment, wombats and wallabies, barrel of monkeys vs. barrel of apes, chimps catching bushbabies with spears, the relative intelligence of Koko vs. Kanzi, the 1980s orangutan movie Link, spider monkey trivia, why you shouldn't use sign language in front of primates, why you shouldn't tickle a slow loris, spider monkey sexual rendezvous and the drunken monkey hypothesis.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey, Ron, welcome to probably science. I am Matt Kirshan. I am joined by Jesse Case.
0:15.7	Hello. And Andy Wood. Hey Matt, and Jesse. And Jesse's kidneys. Yep, there they are.
0:21.6	There they are.
0:22.6	They're bearing fruit, your kidneys.
0:24.6	They're bearing fruit.
0:25.4	Yeah, I didn't mean to worry the listeners.
0:27.0	I know you guys were on edge.
0:29.0	I know you guys were at the edge of your radios wondering what was happened.
0:32.3	Sorry, I had to bail last week, guys, on the episode.
0:34.7	We should explain also that because we're pre-recording episodes for the holidays.
0:38.3	I'm out of town right now. Yeah. But also... Maybe people weren't worried.
0:41.7	Seven days worth of time has passed since you heard the last episode, but 24 hours of time has
0:46.9	passed in real... In real life. Jesse lifetime. This is like, uh, we record this podcast
0:52.0	interstellar style. Yeah. Where we go to Alpha Centauri and record
0:56.1	and then so seven days can pass here. Right. So we just do
0:59.9	like a week at a time. We're done for the year. It's very efficient.
1:02.3	It's very efficient. We have a guest. We do
1:04.3	have an amazing guest. What's going on there? We have
1:06.2	Associate Professor of Anthropology at C-Sin Northridge.
1:10.5	Christina Campbell. Thank you so much for joining us.
1:12.4	Thanks for having me.
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