Episode 266 - Galloway Allbright

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Galloway Allbright (@GalloWhy) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the death of expertise, extreme Michael Jackson fandom, that classic Encyclopedia Brittanica ad, the origin of bluegrass, in-flight death plans, channeling your inner Tea Leoni, a neutron star collision, the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression, genes for OCD, Cary Grant’s crazy parental history and LSD, a fundraiser for Dipak's niece, an upcoming Chinese space lab crash, China's NASA and scorpions' toxic blend.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshin. There's Andy Wood.
0:14.3	Hello.
0:15.1	This is our second goer doing an intro because some music played unexpectedly on the computer.
0:19.7	These damn articles with the auto play.
0:21.9	Auto play video, man.
0:23.2	You know, is that privilege that my biggest complaint in life is auto play video?
0:26.3	Well, I'd hope that that isn't your biggest complaint in life.
0:29.0	It's a very legitimate complaint.
0:31.3	Yeah.
0:31.6	I hate the CNN website for that reason.
0:34.6	Well, first of all, CNN is, I mean, I don't want to side with Trump on this,
0:37.8	because it's not fake news, but CNN's pretty garbage, and it's becoming garbageier.
0:42.4	I don't know. It is still, the website still is relatively, I think the TV channel, the, the
0:48.7	demands of 24-hour constant coverage means. Yeah, yeah. I was talking to somebody about this who pays for New York
0:55.3	Times and I was like, maybe I should do that because they do have high standards. Like if they have to
0:58.7	change even one thing, there's a note at the end of the article that they change that, even if it's
1:02.3	an inconsequential detail. Yeah. But like CNN, there's just typos all the time. Compared to the
1:06.5	Daily Mail that we're just, the Daily Mail does the opposite. Like when someone complains or they think they're about to be in trouble, just details just disappear from the article overnight or just change subtly or headlines just alter.
1:17.3	And people, unless you take a screenshot, there's no sign that it was ever not that.
1:21.1	Yeah.
1:21.3	And I do kind of think that the death of expertise is one of the reasons that everything is shit right now.
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