Probably Science

Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan.

I'm Jesse Case.

Andy Wood here.

We got it working. Andy's had tech issues. We're starting later than we were planning to.

Andy's also not got a microphone. He's sounding remote, but he's, he's, he's in the desert. It's

going to work. It's going to work. We're all good. And we've got, we've got a guest,

I know, I know this is, you've heard me say the centers before, but this is a guest I've wanted on the show for a long time because another, one of the very few comedians who also has proper scientific pedigree and, yeah, qualifications, knowledge, and also super funny.

I kicked with it just the other day and it was awesome. Please

welcome to the podcast, Palavie Ginalan. Hey, Palavi, how are you? Hello, how's it going?

Very good. Yeah, so you, I mean, I knew you had scientific pedigree. I didn't know you also had

a weird connection to our podcast in the,

or our original first host. Yes, I went to Caltech for undergrad and Brooks Whalen was like a lab manager there, I guess at one point. I think we might have missed each other in terms of timing,

but I always thought that was cool. I was like, oh, there's someone on SNL who is reping Caltech. That's pretty cool. Normally, we're just like, you know, the bad

people on Breaking Bad or the nerdy people on the Big Bang theory. Yeah, just some kind of vaguely

dismissive adjective attached to whatever.

Yeah. Also, by the way, just, that's the first time I'd ever heard the word manager

attached to what Brooks was doing in his science days.

That would be.

The impression he gave was very much that he was a lab hobo.

Yeah.

You know, it just really depends on the vibe of the person.

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