This segment covers how the show plans to cover the 2026 Nobel Prizes, with the Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry announcements running Monday through Wednesday of Nobel week (October 5-12). The hosts describe releasing same-day standalone explainers for each prize plus a compiled long-form episode afterward, following the format used in their episode 11 covering last year's prizes for macroscopic quantum tunneling, metal-organic frameworks, and peripheral immune tolerance. One host also argues the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics should not be covered because economics is not a real science and the prize was not part of Alfred Nobel's original will.
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The hosts reference their episode 10 Nobel predictions show, where they correctly predicted Omar Yaghi as a chemistry laureate.
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Past Nobel topics covered on the show include LIGO's gravitational wave detection and CRISPR.
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6:01So, we're beginning the fall season in science and one of our main events that we are excited for, some may say it's the >> Ballandor >> of science. It's like the Oscars is the Nobel Prizes. And we usually, like we did last year, cover the big three. >> Yep. which will be medicine on Monday. This is going to be from October 5th through 12th. We care about three days. >> Medicine Monday, physics Tuesday, chemistry Wednesday, and then the rest >> the rest. Yeah. >> Our marquee games are at the beginning
6:43of the week. And I'm really excited because we did you did you did pretty good last year. >> I did. I I got one out of the three. >> Yes. last year, which honestly I don't think you guys understand the the probability of getting this right in all of chemistry, in all of medicine, in all of physics to get the the the prediction right is is not easy, but I got Omar Yagi. >> Yes. >> Um, we've talked about him a lot actually on this podcast, not just for the Nobel Prizes, but also for his transfer to China to Singai University. >> Yes. So, um, I got that one right. And I
7:25will be making my own predictions this time as well. Actually, this is, um, this is something that you guys should say in the comments. Who do you think is going to get the medicine, physics, and chemistry Nobel prizes? I'd like to know so that I can maybe piggyback off [laughter] of your predictions when we make our our prediction episode because I'd like to I'd like to go two years in a row back to back >> back to back making a prediction. You know, >> you know who else has gone back to back with winning the Prem? Chelsea. You know who hasn't? Arsenal. >> Oh man. [laughter] >> Just saying. Just saying. >> Dude, my cousins are going to be so pissed. For those who are interested in that prediction episode, it's our episode 10. We did talk about some other
8:06things in that within that episode, but that episode 10 is where we did our Nobel Prize 2025 uh predictions, and it's a great episode. We also covered >> two of my favorite Nobel prizes. the LIGO, which is the gravitational wave observatory that first detected gravitational waves. Um, and also Crisper, which is the great genomic technology that is giving us so many strides in the biomedical field. And for those who would like to get a preview of what it'll look like when we do our Nobel Prize episodes, it's going to be a little bit different than how we do our normal episodes, because each day
8:48we're going to basically do it the day of and release standalones for each of the prizes during Nobel Prize Week. This is a big deal. >> Yeah. >> Uh this is this is our favorite time of the year. So you're going to get live, you know, daily drops and then we also will compile it into a long form episode. So last year's episode 11 was a 2 and 1 half hour epic that combined each of the days where we stay up until we're up at 2 a.m. >> Yeah. >> When it first drops, we see the drop. We then dig into >> the background of it and give an explainer just like our deep dives that you all are so used to. It's a really fun time of the year. Last year's that
9:28we covered in that that episode were it was a macroscopic quantum tunneling for physics, metal organic frameworks for chemistry and one of my favorites which was a sleeper uh peripheral immune tolerance in medicine was super fascinating. It was very very interesting and we've talked about the immune system a lot. Yeah. >> Um in correlation with a lot of our medical or bio stories. Um, so you can catch either the individual explainers or the uh the the big summary episode. It's definitely worth a watch as we prepare a month from now from one of the for one of the most exciting >> Yeah. >> science stories of the year. And let me just um let me let me just tell everyone
10:09who's in the comments and in the DMs telling us to cover the economics prize. First of all, the economics prize is not a real Nobel Prize. That's why it's called the Nobel Memorial Pri. No, it's the Memorial Prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel because in his will, he did not think that that the economics prize was something that he was going to dish out money for. Why? Because the economics is not a real science. And I don't know how many times I need to say this, but [laughter] I'm just going to say it again. It's not. So, let's just move on. [laughter] All right. We we and we will be moving on. And
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