Father's Day: Stories about dads
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Father’s Day, this week’s episode features stories about dads. Also in honor of Father’s Day, here’s one of our favorite science Dad jokes : What did the biologist wear to impress his date?
Designer genes.
Part 1: While Nadia Osman is growing up, her father is determined to get her to pursue a career in STEM.
Part 2: Josh Silberg finds a new appreciation for his dad’s embarrassing antics when he’s forced to be an aquarium mascot.
Nadia Osman is a comedy writer, performer, and daughter of an Egyptian Muslim immigrant. She's written for Million Volt studios, BET, the UCB theatre, Reductress, CollegeHumor, and more. Nadia created Depressed, a web series about anxiety and depression that was a Staff Pick on Vimeo and Vulture. She also co-hosts the podcast Why Do You Know That? with Steve Szlaga.
Josh Silberg is a scientist, science communicator, Ogden Nash fan, and easily distracted by odd animals. For his day job, he helps researchers at the Hakai Institute share their coastal science. He moonlights as a producer for The Story Collider in Vancouver.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.5 | I felt. |
| 0:07.4 | I was really strange. |
| 0:08.6 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.5 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.7 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:29.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm your host, Misha Gayeski, and this week we're celebrating Father's Day with stories about dads and the relationships we have with our paternal life givers and what |
| 0:38.9 | they've taught us about life, ourselves, and of course, science. I'm really thankful for my |
| 0:44.8 | relationship with my own dad. He's been a constant source of love and support and all orange |
| 0:50.3 | outfits. I even told story about him last year. It's on the podcast if you want to listen |
| 0:55.2 | to it later. But I know not everyone has a great relationship with their dad or even has a dad, |
| 1:02.1 | so if this day is hard for you and you need to skip this episode, I get it. But I hope you |
| 1:07.9 | stick around anyway. And if I had any good dad jokes, I'd insert one here, but they're not really my style. |
| 1:15.6 | Anyway, our first story is from Nadia Osmond. |
| 1:18.2 | It was recorded in February 2019 in Los Angeles at Lyric Hyperion. |
| 1:22.8 | The theme that night was on trial. |
| 1:40.3 | So I'm a writer and a performer, and my day job is as a copywriter, and there is a reason for that, |
| 1:43.2 | because I am really bad at math and science. |
| 1:47.0 | I failed pre-algebra. I failed algebra twice. I failed pre-calc twice. I never got the hang of physics or chemistry. I don't know much about human biology, |
| 1:52.4 | which is probably a little bit troublesome. I'm more of a life in the arts kind of gal. My dad, however, |
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