Episode 145 - Janet Varney

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Actor/podcaster/improv master/festival producer Janet Varney (@janetvarney) sits down with the crew on this week's episode to talk about voicing the hero of The Legend of Korra, the hilarious Bachelor parody Burning Love, Janet's first LA acting gig on Catwoman, growing up near Biosphere 2, Janet's award-winning science fair project on burning stuff, trash-eating seagulls, Radiolab's look at violence in baboons, Andy and Janet's Serial obsession, a corpse flower bloom, new evidence on human/neanderthal breeding, obscene gestures in various cultures, Matt cowering from the sun, spider sex and hairy mouthparts, the brilliant comedy of Kasper Hauser and their book SkyMaul, Janet's incredible festival SF Sketchfest, the largest genetic analysis of gay brothers, an email from a sex worker listener and a detailed account of Jesse's most humiliating moment ever.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:11.0	I'm Andy Wood, and I'm joined by Matt Kirshin.
0:15.1	Hey, Andy.
0:15.7	And Jesse Case.
0:17.0	Hey.
0:17.8	How are you feeling, Jesse?
0:20.3	I'll tell you.
0:21.8	We should tell the listeners again that this is being, we recorded three or four in consecutive days.
0:27.3	So, yeah, Jesse hasn't had kidney stones for a month.
0:30.3	Right.
0:30.7	This is a three-day window of our lives, what you're hearing.
0:35.1	It's been shitty, man.
0:36.6	I passed one in the yard, so it's mixed in with the soil somewhere.
0:40.4	I don't know where, but I got more.
0:43.8	How do you know how many you have?
0:45.8	From an ultrasound.
0:48.5	Oh, okay.
0:49.6	And no babies, though.
0:51.0	I thought about swallowing like a little plastic baby first to get a laugh.
0:53.8	I really did. I was like, ifowing like a little plastic baby first to get a laugh. I really did.
0:54.4	I was like, if I stop and get one of those, like...
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