Episode 590 - Waen Shepherd

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Comedy

4.8 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Comedian/actor/writer/composer Waen Shepherd (@waenshep) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the new album from his alter ego Gary Le Strange, the biology of elves, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe, a runaway supermassive black hole, a lemon-shaped exoplanet and the music of Gary Wilson.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm your host, one of three in fact, I'm Jesse Case.
0:15.0	Number two, Andy Wood.
0:17.0	I'm Matt Kirshin. We're joined, um, we're joined a comedian, actor, writer, musician. I don't know what...
0:25.6	I don't know either.
0:26.6	All sorts of creative people. Who knows? Who knows? But one of my favourite humans around and someone who has resurrected his character, Gary Lestrange is back.
0:42.5	Gary Lestrange, who British comedy fans may know as the finest,
0:45.3	new wave, new romantic.
0:47.3	I don't even, like,
0:51.8	yeah, I mean, these days I might call him an electro-goth.
0:52.6	I'm not sure.
0:53.6	Yeah, nice. But yeah, he's a sort of a new wave-ish character.
1:00.2	At least he is sometimes.
1:02.2	You know, he's dabbled in other genres.
1:05.4	But essentially he started out as a what we'd call a new romantic.
1:11.9	So about 20 years too late.
1:14.2	Okay.
1:15.3	So a lot of his work is inspired by, I don't know, acts like Gary Newman and UltraVox, John Fox, the Human League,
1:29.6	acts like that from way back.
1:32.4	Absurdily well observed.
1:34.4	Do you guys ever listen to the New Wave satellite radio?
1:38.5	No, no.
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