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SciShow Tangents

Smell

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

If SciShow Tangents had a smell what would it be? It’s full of knowledge, so maybe a dusty old book? We talk a lot, so maybe all of our nasty breath? We talk about butts a lot… you know what? Podcasts don’t smell, and maybe that’s for the best.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SciShow Tangents, the lightly competitive knowledge showcase. I am your

0:21.4

host, Hank Green, and joining me this week as always is science expert, Sarri Riley.

0:26.0

Hello. And also our resident devry van Sam Schultz. What's up? I have a question for you too

0:32.3

that I would like to have a fight about. The question is what is the best flower? I don't know any

0:37.3

flower at all. You don't know any flowers? Look Sam, have you walked around Missoula Montana this week?

0:43.2

It's amazing out there. I can see them. They don't have their name tags over them. I don't know what they are.

0:50.2

I don't really like flower smell to be honest with you. Well, when the when the irises are up,

0:55.8

you can come over to my house and I will stick your head in a bunch of irises. And you'll change

1:01.0

your mind. It is the best smell in the world. But anyway, I don't care what your favorite smelling

1:05.2

flower is. That's just one part of a flower. Tell me a good flower. I don't even care if it's your

1:09.9

actual favorite. I like bleeding hearts. They're nice. What's a daisy? That's mine, I guess. Wow.

1:16.0

Is that boring one? No, it's nothing. You can it can be your favorite, but like,

1:20.8

care a little bit about one of the greatest inventions of evolution. This is like flowers are one

1:27.7

of the great joys of my life. I'm just surprised that Sam, a man who takes a lot of joy in a lot of

1:33.4

things. We go Rachel's really into plants right now and we go to the plant store every weekend or so.

1:40.4

She's like, Oh, would you like to you should pick one out too? And it's just these are all green.

1:45.2

They got leaves. This one's purple. This one's like orange, but they're all kind of the same.

1:53.5

That's all right. Well, you know, Sam, I'm going to let you live your life. Thank you. And I'm

1:57.4

going to say that maybe my favorite flower is the arrow leaf balsam root. That's a stupid flower.

2:03.6

Wow. Only because it seems to be Catherine's favorite flower. She hasn't said this to me, but

2:09.4

every time we're anywhere where there's a balsam root, she's like talking about it. She's talking

2:13.6

about it for like minutes. And I'm like, I mean, it's one of the flowers. There's others around,

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