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Probably science.

Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science.

I'm Matt Kirshin.

I'm Andy Wood.

I'm going to just jump straight into the guest here, because I get someone I've wanted to get for a long time.

We do a podcast that is in the comedy and science world, and I'd say arguably arguably the biggest comic who lives in both those camps and also lives in London and previously lived in Ireland and is joining us

via the internet. It's Dara O'Brien. Hey Dara. How are you? I don't think good morning because

for you it is. But yeah, it's an absolute pleasure to find together.

We've spoken about this in the past and why should you do this.

And now I'm here so you can totally find out that I've been bluffing all these years by just, you know,

scratching really at the surface and quickly discovering the base metal beneath the idea.

I'm fairly sure, like, we should go into your background,

but I'm still fairly sure that you are,

you both are and were better at science and maths than I was.

Oh, see, the joy of it is that I know exactly where you're coming from that,

because maths does create that kind of tendency to very directly league table people.

You're very aware of it.

And even when you go in through maths, I owned it up to the primary degree,

but you are aware of a almost feudal triangle of winnowing going on as year by year, which you've noticed anyway

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