Episode 284 - Jena Friedman
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Comedian/writer/producer/host of Adult Swim's Soft Focus Jena Friedman (@JenaFreidman) joins Matt and Andy for an on-location recording talking about Cannibal Cop, Jena's cold fusion-seeking grandfather, acupuncture and opioids, how the Sackler family are murderers, Hitler's art, new battery technology, Tesla's megabattery, Dinorwig, the political economy of Chicago’s improv scene and Jena’s thesis, the ethnographic method, the Comedy Cellar podcast and rape statistics, female emotional labor and millions of penguins.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is brought to you by HelloFresh. |
| 0:02.0 | For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, |
| 0:04.2 | visit hellofresh.com and enter the code Probably 30. |
| 0:07.7 | Probably Science. |
| 0:21.2 | As people can tell from this background, Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science on the road. |
| 0:23.0 | We're recording on location. |
| 0:25.4 | As people can tell from this background music, |
| 0:27.4 | but we haven't licensed this. |
| 0:29.9 | I don't know if we have to greek out everything in the background. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm pretty sure it's going to be just a vague beat that you can hear in the background. |
| 0:36.3 | What we're doing is our friends are producing a daytime comedy show, |
| 0:51.8 | a brunch comedy show on Sunday afternoon called Red Eye Comedy. Check it out. I hope that we're doing more of them. And we've stolen one of the performers on the show before she goes up. I've wanted you on the show for ages, but you're always in different either coast or countries. It's a fantastic, Jennifer Friedman. |
| 0:55.6 | You can call me Jenny. I had a track coach in high school calling me that. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I'm... That was a stutter that ended up falling into a real name by accident. |
| 1:00.1 | Look, I... |
| 1:00.8 | Yes, I am. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah, I'm out here for a little bit. |
| 1:03.9 | Yeah, it's cool. |
| 1:04.6 | We first met... |
| 1:06.1 | In Chicago. |
| 1:06.8 | Nine years ago, I'd say, roughly. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
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