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Hey, Kasha, do you know what my favorite element is?

There's a lot of options here.

It's AH, the element of surprise.

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

I got one!

Kasha Patel is a stand-up comedian.

So the things that make me laugh versus the type of comedy that I do are a little bit different.

I love flapset comedy.

Ah!

Physical humor, like three stuages, and her favorite part of being a comedian is the joke writing.

People have said my comedy, I don't know what this word means when you describe comedy, but cerebral.

And I think it just means you some of my punchlines make you think about why they're funny, kind of like a slow burn.

Cerebral, because science is central to Kasha's comedy.

She often cracks jokes about scientists, critters, but also things that seem impossible to make light of, like climate change.

All I want to do is make people laugh.

I want people to look at a situation in a new way.

So today on the show, we try our best to make science comedian Kasha Patel laugh.

Kasha, any idea why you can't trust an atom?

Because they make everything up.

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