Intro

0:00Nihow internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Nar joined as always by my co-host, our resident PhD and number one Chimamath Polyapatillaa cosplayer Christian Chowdery, my friend. >> That's right. I can't afford um the the sweaters that he wears. >> The alpaca shipped from god knows where. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is this is nylon shipped from Tik Tok shop. >> You you don't have the spack money. >> No. Maybe one day. >> One day. Maybe not via spa but via science communication. >> U it is now we are in the holiday season so we are winding down for the year. >> Uh big shout out to everyone who's

0:41joined the show. We started less than 6 months ago. >> Yeah, >> the response has been incredible. Uh we're going to be wrapping up season 1 basically at the end of the year. I think we've made the random executive decision to decide our seasons are just going to be every year. >> Yeah. And so we started only in halfway through this year. So season one little truncated. >> Yeah. No season. >> No, the Gregorian calendar is a great calendar. >> It's a great calendar. >> So that's how we're going to do our seasons. >> Yeah. >> So this is the first of kind of our wrap-up of the year episodes. >> Yes. >> With holidays, with travel, all these things with Mariah Carey being on the radio non-stop. >> Yeah.

1:21>> Uh she's creeping up. >> It's the holiday season. So what we're going to do this episode is similar to what we've done when we did the Nobel prizes. >> Yes. >> Which is we're going to do a single story deep dive. And what we're going to talk about in this episode is the discovery of DNA. >> Yes. >> And the reason why we're going to talk about the discovery of DNA is the the unfortunate recent passing of one of the pioneers of the discovery of the double helix which was James Watson who recently passed away. >> Yes. And there's a lot of drama in this story. This will be a complex episode.

2:01We are really focused on science, experimental design, the concepts, thinking about things from from first principles. But this is one of the things I think we both do is it's a