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Episode 408 - Alex Schmidt

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Returning guest Alex Schmidt (@AlexSchmidty) of the podcast Secretly Incredibly Fascinating joins Andy and Matt to swap Jeopardy stories and discuss Doug the cat ruining equipment, grapefruit facts, The Ray Cat Solution to use glowing cats to warn future humans about radioactive waste, the monolith in Utah, Europa's mysterious glow and a beetle you can run over with a car.

This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free 14-day trial with unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week's episode of Probably Science is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus.

0:03.9

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0:07.5

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0:08.6

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0:13.7

And while you're there, start your own journey with a free 14-day trial.

0:17.5

So it may become clear in this podcast that it was recorded a couple weeks ago.

0:22.6

Yeah, there might be a story that has moved on quite a bit since we broke it.

0:27.1

So see if you can work out which one it is.

0:29.3

I'll give you a clue.

0:30.5

It's the one about the monolith.

0:32.7

Yep.

0:34.0

With that, enjoy.

0:35.8

Probably Science.

0:46.3

Hey, everyone, welcome to Probably Science.

0:48.6

I'm Matt Kirshan.

0:49.7

And I'm Andy Wood.

0:51.6

Oh, God, it seems like we have nothing but Jeopardy winners on this podcast these days.

0:58.8

I'm leery of Jeopardy Overload.

1:01.1

I don't know if there's going to be Jeopardy fatigue among our listeners, but, you know,

1:04.5

strike while the iron's hot as well.

1:06.3

Yeah, this is a returning guest friend of the show.

1:09.4

And previously the host of the cracked podcast, now the host of the secretly incredibly fascinating podcast.

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