Wendy Zukerman (Host)

Oh, I love this question. Because I feel like we do so much homework on this show that no one gets to see. So when someone asks this kind of question, I'm like, yes! For me, when I'm making an episode, my first step is to go online and try and understand what is the misinformation, or at least what people are saying about a particular topic.

Oh, I love this question. Because I feel like we do so much homework on this show that no one gets to see. So when someone asks this kind of question, I'm like, yes! For me, when I'm making an episode, my first step is to go online and try and understand what is the misinformation, or at least what people are saying about a particular topic.

A diet, for example, you'll start to see people are saying that it makes them smarter and gives them all this energy and makes their body look a certain way. And so I'll start to turn that into scientific questions. Does this diet affect your brain? How does it affect your body? And then I'll just dive into the scientific research and start chatting to scientists.

A diet, for example, you'll start to see people are saying that it makes them smarter and gives them all this energy and makes their body look a certain way. And so I'll start to turn that into scientific questions. Does this diet affect your brain? How does it affect your body? And then I'll just dive into the scientific research and start chatting to scientists.

And I won't stop until I feel like the answers have really started to coalesce. where I feel like I've got the scientific consensus or as close to it as possible, and now I can start to build an episode.

And I won't stop until I feel like the answers have really started to coalesce. where I feel like I've got the scientific consensus or as close to it as possible, and now I can start to build an episode.

Thank you. So I actually did stand up a couple of times. Whoa. Yeah, when I was doing a job I didn't really like, and I wanted to put some fire up my a**. Yeah, just erred. Here is why I do not do stand-up comedy anymore, because Rose, would you like to hear the one joke that I remember? From your routine? Yeah. Yes, I do. It was something like this. It was something like this. Okay, so...

Thank you. So I actually did stand up a couple of times. Whoa. Yeah, when I was doing a job I didn't really like, and I wanted to put some fire up my a**. Yeah, just erred. Here is why I do not do stand-up comedy anymore, because Rose, would you like to hear the one joke that I remember? From your routine? Yeah. Yes, I do. It was something like this. It was something like this. Okay, so...

Tuna are so amazing. Aren't they these amazing creatures? They're just so majestic in the ocean, just so beautiful. And it's amazing that evolution created this creature that swims in a little capsule with lemon and pepper all in there. So it's so convenient that we could just eat it all up.

Tuna are so amazing. Aren't they these amazing creatures? They're just so majestic in the ocean, just so beautiful. And it's amazing that evolution created this creature that swims in a little capsule with lemon and pepper all in there. So it's so convenient that we could just eat it all up.

Thanks, Rose. Thanks, Wendy. Today's Ask Wendy, Me Anything was brought to you by Amazon. Thanks to Amazon, healthcare just got less painful. Welcome back. Rose just told us why we really can't believe the telepathy you might hear about on the telepathy tapes. But now we're going to broaden out to the land of how science has tested telepathy problems.

Thanks, Rose. Thanks, Wendy. Today's Ask Wendy, Me Anything was brought to you by Amazon. Thanks to Amazon, healthcare just got less painful. Welcome back. Rose just told us why we really can't believe the telepathy you might hear about on the telepathy tapes. But now we're going to broaden out to the land of how science has tested telepathy problems.

Mm-hmm. And at this point, someone sends... An image of a pirate crocodile. Yeah, exactly.

Mm-hmm. And at this point, someone sends... An image of a pirate crocodile. Yeah, exactly.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

So what does Chris make of this?

So what does Chris make of this?

Bob wasn't really concentrating during the experiment. Yeah, I'm going to throw out his data.

Bob wasn't really concentrating during the experiment. Yeah, I'm going to throw out his data.