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Science Vs

The Best Ever Episode of Science Vs

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.412.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week – our episode that you voted as our BEST wild card episode!! You’ll have to listen to find out what it is.  Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/SVBestEverEp In this episode talk to Brie Smith, Micah Truman, Katrina Spade and Thomas Bass.  This episode was produced by Blythe Terrell and Wendy Zukerman, with help from Meryl Horn, Michelle Dang, Rose Rimler, Courtney Gilbert and Disha Bhagat. Were edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Mix and sound design of this episode was by Bobby Lord. Mix and sound design of our original episode was by Sam Bair. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord, So Wylie and Peter Leonard. Thanks to all of the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr John Paul, Dr Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, Dr Muriel Lepesteur, Jean F. Bonhotal, Dr Mark Pawlett, Professor Komla Tsey, Dr Ruth McManus and Dr Julie Rugg. Special thanks to Jimmy Olson, Jonathan Goldstein, Julia Martin, The Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.6

Hey, Wendy Zookam in here. Our new season will be kicking off in just two weeks.

0:06.8

That's right. Set the calendar. Just getting some finishing touches on it.

0:11.2

But today we have something very special. So for the last month, we've been replaying our greatest

0:16.4

hits episodes that you guys voted for. And we've gone through the drugs category, the wellness

0:21.6

category. But today is a very special day because we are announcing which episode was voted

0:29.7

the best science versus episode of all time. And with me here is our editor,

0:36.8

Black Terrell. Hi, Black. Hey, Wendy. So we tallied up the results and two episodes tied

0:45.3

for the top spot. Again, we had another, another tie breaker. One of them, I think, benefited

0:54.4

from recent history bias because it was drum roll. Did we predict the pandemic?

1:03.8

Oh, really? Which is, we played last season. So I think that, although a very, very good episode

1:11.5

could have benefited from the fact that we played it so recently. It kind of like, also

1:16.7

freaked people the hell out. So I'm a little surprised that made the cut.

1:21.3

Yeah. Yeah. Me too. So the other tie breaker that we that we're going to call the winner

1:26.5

of this competition. We're just making up the rules now. Well, you know, we just played the other

1:31.7

one. If you want to go here, you haven't heard it. Just scroll down. All right. So

1:38.0

this is an episode that I think either again, much like the pandemic one, I think people either

1:44.4

loved it or they were like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, don't even want to listen to it.

1:50.8

Never polarizing. Polarizing. Polarizing episode. Yes. Love it.

1:54.9

And I'm here to congratulate you, Blithe, because you produced this episode.

2:01.3

It is, in fact, composting human bodies. What? What? What? Yes. That is surprising.

2:10.4

Our episode on whether you should die by composting your body. How do you feel, Blithe? Yeah.

2:16.8

I mean, right. I'm afraid it's like that one askers where they open the, they say the wrong name

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