Episode 502 - Danny Lee "Nitro" Clark

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

American Gladiator Danny Lee "Nitro" Clark joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the hit Netflix documentary Muscles & Mayhem, how his "raw meat" tryout ad-lib landed him the role of a lifetime, the analogies between management's treatment of the Gladiators and the current WGA/SAG strikes, the odd experience of seeing yourself as an action figure, nostalgia for the monoculture, Nitro's romance with Ellen Degeneres, the role genes play in determining your endurance ability, introducing height classes into basketball, and Tony Vainuku's other Netflix doc about Manti Te'o.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm Andy Wood.
0:13.3	I'm Jesse Case.
0:15.0	I'm Matt Kirshan. How's it going, everyone?
0:17.4	Good, good.
0:18.4	Yeah, yeah, doing our right, you know.
0:21.4	We got a fun guess.
0:22.2	I think we should get straight into this because, you know, we've had guests from
0:25.6	different categories of life.
0:28.0	We've had scientists guests and actors and comedians, but...
0:31.3	Astronauts.
0:32.5	Astronaut, sure.
0:33.6	We have had an astronaut, but I believe...
0:36.8	Am I right about this going back through our archives,
0:39.2	but I think this might be our first American gladiator.
0:41.5	I think this might be our first.
0:43.0	It's probably our first American gladiator.
0:45.5	I think so.
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:47.9	We have with us today, none other than Dan, Nitro Clark.
0:51.3	Dan, thank you so much for joining us.
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