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Pop culture breakdown: Drake is gay, Couples Therapy, Half Man, Jeff Bezos, Obsession etc.

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AsapSCIENCE

Biology, Life Sciences, Comedy, Youtuber, Science

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we get into another pop culture, gay ass conversation about Dr. Orna’s braid to Obsession (the movie) and everything in between, including Drake, 

Half Man, Bezos rocket explosion and more!


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0:00.0

Halfman is a sequel to Billy Elliott.

0:03.6

Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense.

0:09.7

Welcome back to another gay-ass conversation.

0:13.1

It's our pop culture breakdown episodes.

0:15.4

We looked at the analytics and you guys seem to love these ones.

0:17.9

So we're back.

0:19.1

We're going to be talking about couples therapy,

0:21.0

the hit television show, the movie obsession, Drake's new album, which is not really gay guy shit.

0:26.3

Actually, or is it. The show Halfman, Jeff Bezos rocket explosion, you know, everything that's going

0:33.7

on in the world, sort of outside of science. I mean, it's all tangentially related to science, but it's just fun to do a little ketchup. And who knows where else we'll go? Who knows where else will go? Um, this is LinkedIn. We're not doing like user questions today, but definitely if you have them, one of those episodes is coming up soon. So if you want to submit a question, either do it at ASAPScience.com slash chat or even in the comments on like YouTube or Spotify or anywhere. Oh true. Ask questions on YouTube. Yeah, because I know some people are too shy sometimes to like submit a voice note, which is totally fair. Oh my God. We got a voice note recently. That was someone. I have no idea how this happened but hit it and

1:12.8

then it was just like their mom making like dinner in the background and they did not realize

1:18.0

it's just like it starts and it's just like you literally all you hear is like okay should we

1:23.6

chip up with the past on like like silence just like boiling water and it's like, okay, pass. No, no, yeah. Yeah, pass the fork. Wait, that's hilarious. And it's at a minute and third. I just listened into someone's like kitchen life. So that was, if you opened up ASAP science.com slash chat, hit record. And then just somehow auto auto sent it or maybe that's like a form of

1:44.4

maybe we'll play it um where shall we start okay so the first thing we're going to talk about is the

1:50.2

hit television show couples therapy and if you know you know if you don't know get on it it's so good

1:58.5

it's just a show where they like actually watch people, you watch people go through couples therapy, but it feels so highly like high quality. It almost feels like these are scripted. The cameras are moving in like a beautiful way. It's all hidden to them. Feels scripted. What do you mean? Not feel scripted, but when we first watched it, I was like like are these people reenacting or are we

2:17.7

actually watching a therapy session more because of the quality of the film it's the first

2:22.6

time you've ever like it doesn't feel like reality show handy cam it feels like we're watching

2:26.6

kind of like a cinema very tight yeah like they are just sitting there but it's all very like

2:31.7

a high quality film with like depth of field and

2:35.2

right up on their faces. And it feels like a movie in some ways. Well, the New Yorker article

2:39.2

about Dr. Orna was saying that they've built a set so that the actual patients walk in

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