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Probably science.

Hello and welcome to probably science.

My name's Andy Wood.

I'm Matt Kirshan.

We are, you might notice this is a slightly different audio tone to normal.

It's almost as if there's some kind of pandemic going on, and we're recording from three separate locations simultaneously.

Yeah, it's almost as if the thing we've been talking about the last few episodes got as bad as we

were thinking. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to be doing at least one and probably more episodes

coming up that are specifically related to the whole coronavirus thing.

So I thought right now, because you're probably,

you might be a bit coronavirused out,

we were going to do just a regular episode with other.

Turns out some other science has happened in the meantime.

There's been other stories, and we have... So we might cover some of that.

Remember when there was other news?

Oh, man, those are the days.

Other things.

So I'm so happy to have this guest, a fantastic comic and writer.

I worked with on a show a while back, and he keeps going on to substantially bigger and better things.

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