Mayim Bialik on the Surprising Risks of Academia and Stability of Show Biz (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 2 Replay)

People I (Mostly) Admire

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This new Jeopardy! host is best known for playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, but she has a rich life outside of her acting career too, as a teacher, mother — and a real-life neuroscientist. Steve learns more about this one-time academic and Hollywood non-conformist, who is both very similar to him and also quite his opposite.

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0:00.0	Today's episode is a re-broadcast of one of our very first episodes with actress Mayan
0:13.8	Biola kiss my guest.
0:15.6	It definitely holds a special place in my heart.
0:18.4	When we started this podcast, I knew the easiest path to follow would be for me to have
0:22.8	highly academic conversations with highly academic guests.
0:26.7	I would have in those kinds of conversations for 30 years, that's easy for me.
0:31.2	But what I really wanted was for the show to be highly personal, to feel intimate somehow,
0:36.7	but I rightfully didn't have a lot of confidence I'd be able to pull that off.
0:40.7	My conversation with Mayan was the first time I took a chance and I lowered my guard and
0:45.6	I showed the regular me rather than the academic me.
0:49.3	To my great surprise, we clicked.
0:51.9	Mayan actually seemed to like me, I never expected that.
0:55.7	It was this episode that convinced me I could just be myself on this podcast and everything
1:01.0	would be okay.
1:02.0	So if you like people I mostly admire, you mostly have Mayan to think for it.
1:06.3	And what better time to revisit this episode than with Mayan kicking off a new gig as
1:11.1	one of the new hosts of Jeopardy.
1:18.5	I struggled all the way through undergrad and I struggled all the way through grad school
1:21.8	as well because I'm not a natural science learner.
1:24.8	And I'm a person who wants to understand deeply the mysteries of the universe.
1:28.6	And even if you're a stay-at-home mom after that, even if you become an actor on a TV show,
1:33.4	the knowledge that I have as a scientist has transformed my understanding of my religious
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