Master of What?

Master of What?

By Andrew Guest and David BreaultScienceSocial SciencesEducationNature
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Master of What? episodes

  • Master of What - Presidential Succession

    What happens if the president dies in office? What if they don't want to be president for a few hours? Can the VP remove the president and just go wild? What on earth is a Spiro Agnew? This is the one where we dust off the time machine and learn how dangerous giving a speech can be.

    40 min
  • Master of What - Psychopharmacology

    What is Hava? Do truth serums work if you just don't say anything at all? Could you eat a fruit bat whole? Nematodes are real? It's the one where we learn what electrolytes actually are!

    49 min
  • Master of What - Dictatorships in Movies

    Its the second movie episode! In this one we learn that fascism is bad, and that you probably can't win a war by dropping roses on your enemy. Maybe child gladiatorial combat isn't the best way to run a society . . .

    43 min
  • Master of What - Animals in Movies

    Is Jimbo Cameron the best filmmaker of all time? What actually is a revenant? Who is Wilhelm and why is he screaming? It's the episode where Andrew is sad about what Star Trek has become.

    45 min
  • Master of What - Space Treaties

    Should the government blow up a nuclear bomb on the moon? Does JFK sound just like Bernie Sanders? How DO magnets work? In this episode, David learns that sometimes countries say things that aren't true.

    41 min
  • Master of What - Astrobiology

    Is this an ASMR podcast? Definitely not. It's not April Fools Day but that's when we recorded this so it's close enough. This is the episode where Andrew's terrible taste in movies is revealed, we discover that Mordor is actually on the moon of Pluto, and that playing video games might actually teach you things. How do you pronounce Enceladus anyway?

    37 min
  • Master of What - NATO

    What is NATO? How many countries does Andrew even know? Is being a pirate still not allowed? Its the extra short edition of Master of What, consider this a snack sized episode.

    28 min

About Master of What?

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David and Andrew are two Masters in their respective academic fields of Biology and Political Science. They spend 40(ish) minutes a week teaching each other about topics from DNA to dictatorships, or…