SGU Episode 860

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SGU Episode 860
January 1st 2022
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SGU 859                      SGU 861
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S: Steven Novella
B: Bob Novella
C: Cara Santa Maria
J: Jay Novella
E: Evan Bernstein
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IC: Ian Callanan
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Introduction

You're listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

S: Hello and welcome to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. Today is Wednesday, December 22nd, 2022, and this is your host, Steven Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella ...

B: Hey, everybody!

S: Cara Santa Maria...

C: Howdy.

S: Jay Novella ...

J: Hey guys.

S: Evan Bernstein ...

E: What with Christmas coming and all!

S: And, we ha a special guest, a return to the podcast of Ian Callanad. Ian, welcome back buddy.

I: What's up guys!

E: THE Ian. Oh my Gosh.

C: He speaks!

E: I've heard about you.

I: Yeah, I did my Youtuber intro so I hope that works.

S: Yeah, there you go. Ian is our tech-guru. He is a, he's our right-hand man for everything in terms of making the show actually function. And...

I: Left for Jay though.

S: Yeah.

I: Couse he is left-handed, nevermind, sorry.

S: Jay's left hand. And you did the year end review with us last year.

I: True.

S: So this is now the second year in a row so it's oficially a tradition.

I: That's right. You even invited me on after the watermelon incident. Which is...

S: I did.

I: ... Something.

B: Yeah we don't talk about that.

S: Had to give it some time. I love how like when we do our live streaming events now Ian is always this disembodied voice, right, who never shows his face.

B: Ever.

I: Truth.

S: But...

E: Ever.

S: Ian's official emoji is the watermelon. That's Ian, is the watermelon.

C: Well, yeah.

J: Watermelon!

E: That's it. That's it. Gallagher and Ian.

S: If you don't know what we are talking about, during the 12-hour show, it was like comically perfect, we couldn't have made this happen if we tried to. We were going to... we had on a guest who was in their forge and they have a press and they were crushing different things. And they were just about to crush a watermelon when Ian hit a button accidentally and we went to some other video and we missed it.

I: No, it was the internet.

S: It was a one time live event.

C: Oh it was the internet.

I: I slipped and fell, sort of. You can go watch it, it's still available, so, we don't have to go through it too much anymore, thank you.

J: Spectacular.

S: It was spectacular, yeah.

E: It's not like we were building up all day to that moment...

I: Yeah, really.

E: ...or anything like that.

S: But the thing is, it was like, it turned out to be funnier than if we just watched the watermelon get crushed. You know waht I mean?

E: True.

S: It was epic. It was epic.

J: The thing about it was it was literally like Steve said, the timing couldn't have been more perfect. It was like you were about to see something, you know exactly what you were about to see and the second it was about to begin it gort pulled away from all of us.

I: Yeah.

J: So everybody was sitting there going 'huuuh!?'

C: Oh, and it's not like it just got pulled away, he came back right after it was over.

I: The second after.

E: Oh my god, it's true.

I: What can I say, I'm a comedic genius, I'm sorry, just can't help it, it's natural.

B: Yes, Ian you are and from my point of view you just gotta, just roll with this, because I've been living with simmilar accolade if you will. For many years after the first time I ever said hello on episode 1 way back.

J: Hellouu.

E: 2005.

S: Literal first word on the SGU. It's infamous.

B: First word, I still think Steve, I still think Steve edited it and it's not what was really said. you just gotta roll with it man.

I: Ok, thank you.

E: Ian, it's not like things like this have legs

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