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Hello and welcome to probably science.

This is Andy Wood speaking.

I'm Matt Kirshin.

That was more formal than usual.

I've got to change it up.

I've worried too many times the beginnings of all these podcasts are indistinguishable.

That's a problem for... You answered it like... You started it like someone in the 70s answering the phone. This is I. It is Andy Woods residents. Ahoi-hoi. You know that story behind why Montgomery

Burns says, ahoy, hoi-hoe? Because that was what, uh, that was what Alexander Graham Bell's, he was like, well, I invented the phones.

I'm also going to invent the rules for the phone.

And he said, when you answer the telephone, you should say, oh, hoi, ho.

That's going to be the new thing we say with telephones.

Can I say this beginning is already different because you've never told that story within

the introduction of the show.

So this is different than the other introductions.

And this introduction is also different because it contains the voice of a first-time guest,

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