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SciShow Tangents

Trick or Treat Month: Theories with Dan Schreiber!

SciShow Tangents

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared! Our yearly cavalcade of terror rolls on with a new Grand Marshall of Terror: podcaster, author, and mad genius Dan Schreiber! And he's here to tell us about the weirdest, creepiest, most otherworldly theories ever devised of! There are lots of science-y ideas out there, and not all of them can be right, after all!

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to SciShow Tangents, the fritely competitive science-knowledge

0:21.2

scream case!

0:22.2

I'm your ghost, Hank Gangrene, and joining me this week as always is mad scientist scary

0:28.5

Riley and our resident every wolfman Sam skulls brains great well done the old calendar

0:39.3

says it's Halloween time once more and as you know here at SciShow Tangents we love getting

0:43.0

to the Halloween spirit and by we it's SciShow Tangents we mean mostly Sam this here's

0:48.9

no different for isn't it October will be trick or treat month as Sam and Sarah

0:55.5

has invited some ghoulish guests over to Tangents Manor to join us this month in fact

1:01.3

I hear one of them approaching the door now trick or treat hey mystery guest radio producer

1:08.4

writer podcaster and comedian Dan Schreiber so I get to see you all thanks for uh having

1:13.3

me on as this trick or treat mystery guest love it so in honor of you being here I am

1:20.9

on the spur of the moment coming up with a topic and that topic is what's your favorite

1:25.2

fish even though there's no such thing as a fish what's the best fish objectively Dan

1:32.5

you go first oh god um well I can't I have to stick with my with my whole premise here

1:39.9

there is no fish I can't I pass no what the heck they don't exist always had well human

1:46.8

than human human there it is there it is that's what I wanted to hear from a true

1:52.3

petted human is the best fish I think it's a shark you think just all sharks one of the sharks

2:00.7

any particular shark just sharks in general not whale shark any other kind of shark

2:05.1

all shark they're so boring I like when they can go out and get really get you for me I think it's

2:13.0

like a seahorse one of those sneaky like it is as if you're going to be taxonomic about it kind

2:21.7

of a fish it's a fish kind of closer to fish it's a fish um but it looks like just a little guy

2:27.7

it looks like nothing else in the planet earth what is that even what are they like closely related

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