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Episode 583 - Mehran Khaghani

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Wonderful NY comic Mehran Khagani (@themehran) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about escaping from Iran, working at the Harvard School of Public Health, hyrax  butt drag fossil marks, Canadian  heart transplants and the  most pristine star in the universe!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Probably Science

0:02.0

Hello and welcome to Probably Science.

0:13.5

I'm your host, one of two today.

0:15.5

Actually, I'm Jesse Case.

0:17.0

I'm Matt Kirsch, and we have no Andy Wood today

0:19.5

because he's still occupied with playing umpah band...

0:24.6

October Fest music.

0:26.6

It's a busy time for the Leader Hosen, Leiden.

0:30.6

He's wearing Leidenhosen somewhere near Lake Arrowhead.

0:33.6

So we have no... we have no Andy Wood right now, but I tell you who we do have.

0:40.1

One of my favorite comics and favorite humans in the world.

0:43.4

I only get to see someone I only get to see when I'm in New York, generally.

0:50.3

Because always down at the comedy seller and just generally wonderful human.

0:53.5

And also fellow fellow new citizen of the United States.

0:55.5

It's Merriang Kagani. That's right. And technically new citizen of the united states is meran kagani how that's right and technically a citizen of the uk right so born there did you know that's right as well

1:01.0

i think yes we did hi hi hi welcome welcome so you're born in the ukic let's talk about that a while back

1:06.4

let's talk about it here yeah no my mother uh knew that the UK. Yeah, no, my mother knew that the Iranian Revolution was coming.

1:13.0

And I had two older brothers, and she had bought all of their baby stuff in Herods from, you know, really shopping all around London, but Herods was like a go-to place for her in the 60s.

1:25.3

And in the 60s, I mean, it was delicious.

1:29.0

And so she went to England to, like, you know, joint, like, in part anchor baby, but in part

1:36.6

do the baby shopping.

1:39.0

Okay.

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