We're Back to Science Harder Than Ever

Have you been missing your weekly dose of science?? Well, we've got good news: Science Vs is BACK next week, and we’ll be tackling ADHD, squirting, creatine, the carnivore diet, bird flu, fluoride, meth, memory and much more. New episodes start March 27. Fact ya soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Wendy Zukerman?

  Wendy here. Get ready for a brand new season of Science Versus, and we are gonna start with a splash. Squirtin'. It is magical. It's super magical to me and so mysterious. We'll find out once and for all what squirting really is. Is it pee? Is it something else? It feels different when I pee, and it feels different when I squirt. We'll go from vagina fluids to fluoride and find out, is it really safe to put it in the water? To even ask the question, you'd be considered a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist, probably up until 10 years ago. We're dishing out the latest science on ADHD, because the internet seems to be saying that we've all got it.

• 0:45Wendy Zukerman?

  Experiencing indecision, you might have ADHD. Having trouble keeping up at work, you might have ADHD.

• 0:53Wendy Zukerman?

  We're guzzling up the internet's new darling supplement. Creatine. To find out, can it really get you jacked and improve your mental health? Because you know, some scientists are really excited about it. I was like, yeah, yeah. And I said, wow. And from getting jacked to feeling jacked. We're gonna talk about meth. More and more Americans are using it. But does it really deserve its reputation as the scariest drug out there? What's it actually like to try it? Meth makes your whole body kind of tingly, almost like glistening, almost like Edward in Twilight. I love meth.

• 1:35Wendy Zukerman?

  Because it felt like I was flying, like it's amazing.

• 1:39Speaker 01

  Oh, maybe I took too much. Did I [BLEEP] my brain up?

• 1:45Speaker 02

  We would get high and go straight to death on the inside, and it was killing me.

• 1:50Wendy Zukerman?

  We'll find out if bird flu is really about to lead to the next pandemic. When would you worry? I'm already worried. Sorry if that's not coming across. Let me make it very clear. I am worried. We'll also hear from the tech millionaire who wants to live forever and says that measuring his erections is all part of the plan. Brian Johnson, how is your Johnson?

• 2:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, thank you for asking. When I started doing this stuff, people are like, who is this vampire billionaire, eccentric, weird guy trying to live forever?

• 2:22Wendy Zukerman?

  Do you really think you're not gonna die?

• 2:26Speaker 03

  I do.

• 2:28Wendy Zukerman?

  So get ready. We'll also dive into telepathy to find out are there really mind readers out there? We'll hear whether the carnivore diet can make you healthy, how you can improve your memory, whether the full moon makes us all a little crazy. And so much more. Starting next week, tell your friends, tell your mum, let the whole world know. Because you don't want to miss a second of this season.

• 2:56Speaker 04

  One time I got so, I got so high, I tweezed out all my pubes.

• 3:01Wendy Zukerman?

  Oh, wow. And starting from a strong base?

• 3:04Speaker 04

  From like a solid base, yeah.

• 3:06Wendy Zukerman?

  Your knowledge is going to go up from a solid base on March 27th. That's when Science Versus will be back on Spotify and all podcast apps. Back to you soon.