Episode 579 - Ken Reid

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Ken Reid (@kennethwreid) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about growing up a child of television, mud wrestling, Ken's podcast TV Guidance Counselor, an HIV prevention breakthrough, the insanity of Movie 43, the human washing machine no one asked for, blasting plastic waste with a plasma torch, Doja Cat's nod to Max Headroom, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, the reason plastic recycling mostly ended, Andy's Oktoberfest shows in Lake Arrowhead and John Williams polka music.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to probably science.
0:13.0	I'm your host, one of three, in fact.
0:14.7	I'm Jesse Case.
0:15.8	I'm Matt Kirshin.
0:17.0	Third base, Andy Wood here.
0:18.8	How are we doing, guys?
0:19.8	That was a bad start.
0:38.9	I think that was, even by our standards. that was a ropey one. We got there. We got through. No, we got through it. The listeners don't know this, but we'd already been record. We hit record way too early. We've been talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But we have a guest, though.
0:40.6	So that's going to help us unrope.
0:41.8	That's going to help us get this together.
0:43.0	We do.
0:45.1	A comedian and podcast.
0:49.5	As someone I first met, I think thanks to Andy, because I'm pretty sure we first met at Bridgetown.
0:50.3	I think so, yeah.
0:52.0	When Ken was there both as a comedian and also as the host of TV guidance counselor,
0:57.7	the finest and possibly only TV guide-based long-running podcast.
1:04.4	Crazy, like, you've had everyone on this show.
1:07.5	Yeah, it's weird.
1:08.4	I was one of them.
1:09.1	That people talk to me.
1:10.0	And you were one of them, yeah.
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