Trackside Science

Trackside Science

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Trackside Science episodes

  • (51) Science from Australia!

    Episode 51 - Our Down Under connection! In 2021 we got an email from a listener from New Zealand working in Australia as a Physics Science Communicator. It took years to get over the shock that someone we didn't already know was actually listening to us, but we did and now he is here!

    Drinks

    Jeff - Folgers

    Rob - Austin Eastciders

    Errol - Hop Nation Brewing

    The Dish (2000) - IMDb

    Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    45 min
  • (50) International Podcast Day

    Remember how you waited anxiously as a kid for it to come? Not having to go to school on that day? Family from all over pulling into the driveway with gifts and food for the International Podcast Day celebration? Yah, we don't either.

    #internationalpodcastday

    Alcohol

    Jeff - Southern Tier Brewing Imperial Pumking Ale

    Rob - Canada Dry Black Cherry Sparkling Seltzer Water

    Podcasts we mentioned

    Deviant Criminology - https://deviantcriminology.squarespace.com

    Hot Shot Wake Up - https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/

    Sounds and Music

    International Podcast Day 2024 promo (internationalpodcastday.com)

    Remixed by Jeff with:

    Breaks Dig It Beat by DCDJ (freesound.com)

    trap loop by emceeiscokid (freesound.com)

    Bass Drop Pitch Sweep FX by Stereo Surgeon (freesound.com)

    Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    52 min
  • Impromptu Science (49)

    No plan or pre-recording preparation whatsoever…the difference between dentists & endodontists… old microscopes… Rob's home office inspection… regulation of medical data.. college graduation in state prisons.. pubpeer.com… problematic paper screener … (https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener)... Jeff's anxiety about teaching in the federal prison (update, students were nice but it was way more difficult teaching there than the state prison)

    RIP Vanessa, Rob's former colleague in South Dakota

    Alcohol

    Jeff - All the Holiday Things, Wild Leap Brewing

    Rob - Be Hoppy Pale Ale, Wormtown Brewing

    Sounds & Music

    All sound are from freesound.org unless otherwise noted

    Opening bit:

    Squeaky Car Door (coltures)

    Car Acceleration Inside Car.wav (alexftw123)

    City ambience with soft rain…(felix.blume)

    Opening a door in the city and going inside (evsecrets)

    engine_turn_signal_subaru_forester_1989. (mario1298)

    G13-46-Abrupt Car Stop.wav(craigsmith)

    Footsteps on tiled bathroom (brandonb1111)

    service_elavator.mp3 by morgantj

    Car Explosion w Debris.mp3 by PNMCarrieRailfan

    1 hr
  • (48) Science Video Game - PhD Simulator

    We relive the highs and lows of graduate school through a spot-on video game.

    PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang (wmz.ninja)

    Email: [email protected]

    Instagram: Tracksidescience

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience

    Alcohol

    Jeff - Dekalb County's fine tap water

    Rob - Shark Jumper IPA Night Shift Brewing

    Sounds & Music

    Front Bumper - combination of:

    A rapper in trouble - after he made a bad joke! by fmceretta (freesound.org)

    Team Masaka - Sad Moan - by TeamMasaka (freesound.org)

    Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    57 min
  • (47) What connects you to science?

    Episode 47 - What connects you to science?

    Rob's a conference guy, he likes interacting with people. Jeff's a reading-papers-in-a-quiet-house kind of guy. Rob likes the cutting edge while Jeff gravitates towards the arcane. Rob's beer is bigger than Jeff's.

    Email: [email protected]

    Instagram: Tracksidescience

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience

    Alcohol

    Rob - Flemington Fog Juicy Hazy India Pale IPA, Flemington NJ

    Jeff - Fluffiest Otter Stout, Sandy Springs GA

    Sounds & Music

    Matrix_RetroError

    ThatJeffCarter_electro-magnetic-interference

    Dangerbabe_Android-keypad-dialing

    Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    56 min
  • (46) ChatGPT: good for a fart joke?

    Is it a Promethean kind of thing? An end of the world thing? It's definitely a protecting people with Fecal Incontinence kind of thing. It's definitely not able to cite it's sources.

    Email: [email protected]

    Instagram: Tracksidescience

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience

    Alcohol

    Rob - Be Hoppy Indian Pale Ale Wormtown Brewery Worcester, Mass

    Jeff - Gates of Smordor Stout Westbrook Brewing Mount Pleasant South Carolina

    Sounds & Music

    Spike Jones - The Tennessee Waltz

    Pastabra - Squeaky office chair

    MATRIXXX - Door, Closing.wav

    Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    55 min
  • (45) Has Money Destroyed Science?

    Should we pay scientists to speak? What do people in prison think about paid experts? Is the United Federation of Planets communist? Does getting paid fat stax help your work/life balance?

    Email: [email protected] Instagram: Tracksidescience

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience

    Alcohol

    Jeff - Dragon's Milk

    Rob - Fifty Million Dollar Man Double IPA

    Sounds & Music

    InspectorJ - door-front-opening, Letsmakemuffins - footsteps echo hall, SpaceJoe Coins Drop - 8, Johnnie_Holiday FX Mario Coin (JH),Rear bumper: Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org) & Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952, Archive.org)

    53 min
  • (44) Is it a calling, or just a job?

    In August of 2022 we had special guest Dr. Peter Haugen on to talk about work identity. By the end, we are just sappy Dads who miss our kids being little.

    Email: [email protected]

    Instagram: Tracksidescience

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience

    Alcohol

    Dr. Haugen - Gin & Tonic

    Rob - Equilibrium Brewing - Strata Outta the Laboratory Triple India Pale Ale

    JEff - Orpheus Brewing - Do or Die Chocolate Imperial Stout

    Dr. Amy Wrezniewski

    Sounds & Music

    The game show theme and creepy church organ were straight-up lifted off Youtube

    pickup coin by MusicLegends

    Rear bumper

    Freight Train Crossing.wav by Sailor55 (Freesound.org)

    Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952), (Archive.org)

    58 min

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A science podcast marinated in just the right amount of alcohol, or caffeine (depending on the time zones involved). Your MCs are a former virologist-turned community college teacher and an active…