Episode 577 - Myq Kaplan

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan) returns to the show to talk to Andy, Jesse and Matt about growing out his eyebrows during the pandemic, babies distinguishing Ps from Bs, linguistics, sign language variations, standups aping Shane Gillis, the Mr. Beast voice, birds' preference for crapping in the air, strong link versus weak link problems, Ryan North, whether you should pay for bad art, what sequels always get wrong and Myq's great Substack.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to probably science. My name's Andy Wood.
0:14.3	I'm Jesse Case and, you know, Matt's not here.
0:19.0	He might be joining us. I believe he is once again cruisebound. So he is... But he's been replaced with someone that has the power of two men. That's true. We're joined by a very funny comic, one of our favorites. Coming from Boston. Now he's out west. It's Mike Kaplan, everybody. Hello, this is Mike Kaplan. and I'm sorry to, I mean, I know science is all about, you know, you do your best until you get better information.
0:44.7	And I am, I think, I mean, depending where you are, maybe I'm west of you, but I am in New York City.
0:50.4	Okay, so are European listeners, he's out west?
0:53.8	Yes.
0:54.7	And everything is west if you go far enough. Okay, so our European listeners, he's out west. Yes. And that's...
0:56.3	Everything is west if you go far enough.
0:58.5	Yeah.
0:59.3	Yeah.
0:59.7	So, you know, turn those maps upside down and don't sweat it.
1:04.1	Don't sweat it.
1:04.9	Enough of this north-centric bullshit.
1:07.1	We're just floating in space, people.
1:09.3	Turn that map upside down. Turn that map upside down.
1:11.0	Turn that map upside down.
1:14.3	Did you guys ever have a teacher who had an upside down globe with the countries all labeled reading that way because it's arbitrary that we have a north up?
1:25.9	Absolutely.
1:27.0	No, I didn't have teachers with that sort of what they'd have to have a screwdriver or something to do that.
1:31.9	No way.
1:33.0	No, I guess label makers or something else.
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