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Probably Science

Episode 289 - Jono Zalay

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Comedian/neuroscientist Dr. Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) joins Matt and Andy to discuss coke rats, accidental rat ejaculation, ibogaine for opiates, ketamine for depression, rodent cocktail, animal popularity, a daring baboon escape, pronouncing science words, endangered charismatic animals, chili head, the Scoville scale and Jono's licenses.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Probably Science

0:01.9

Hello and welcome to probably science.

0:14.3

Oh, I'm Matt Kirshan.

0:15.8

That's you over there.

0:16.6

Yeah, that is me.

0:17.3

I didn't know it.

0:18.2

We should have worked this out by now with many, many hundreds of episodes in.

0:22.6

I love that you're wearing a circa 2014 ridiculousness hoodie. I am. Yeah. I lost mine.

0:28.0

This is my, this is my office hoodie. It was chilly today, so I was wearing it. And now I'm still wearing it in your substantially warmer apartment.

0:34.7

Do people tend to, when you're wearing that, send you unsolicited videos of Russian people

0:38.9

on top of radio towers doing handstands?

0:41.0

They do, yeah.

0:42.6

They'll sometimes send me like their nephew,

0:45.1

like humorously falling off a skateboard,

0:49.2

and I'll be like, no, that won't do

0:50.7

because there isn't the risk of someone having died in that clip.

0:55.6

Little ridiculousness fact. The stuff that ended up on the air, no one died. But the stuff

0:59.8

that the researchers would send us on a daily basis, almost certainly people, you would

1:05.1

like stop sending us Russian stuff. We've talked about this on the show before.

1:08.0

It's not racist that would think to say that Russian home videos.

1:11.2

No, I don't think there's racist and there's lighties.

1:12.9

Very, very frequently, there were stuff with Russian characters or containing Russian characters.

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