Dylan and Matt welcome Brian Wecht aka “Trey Magnifique” (NEW ALBUM Bebop Cowboy Out NOW) aka "Ninja Brian" of Ninja Sex Party, also of Starbomb, co-host of Leighton Night with Brian Wecht and a former theoretical physicist with over 30 published papers.

Believe it or not, they actually touch on most of that in just one episode. We begin with an unnamed game only Brian could play. In an attempt to merge his passions for both music and science, today’s guest is given popular song lyrics of questionable scientific merit and asked, science fact or fiction? (Incidentally a much cleaner name for the game had our hosts only thought of it before recording.) Could Mars actually support a colony (Rocket Man)? Can you really see Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti (Toto’s Africa)? And, of course, the math behind Owl City's "Fireflies.” Is a 1,000-hugs-from-10,000-lightning-bugs ratio a win or a brutal self-own?

Also covered: how "preprint culture" and AI have sped up the pace of theoretical physics research (in the episode before this Matt and Dylan debated the origin of the Double Stuff Oreo so they can relate.) why he left academia for music after a job offer from Game Grumps' Arin Hanson, playing exaggerated stage personas, his new album Bebop Cowboy (out on September 18th) his own podcast, Leighton Night with Brian Wecht and what make the soprano saxophone the stupidest of all the sax’s.

We know Brian. But we barely know him.

Find Brian: New album Bebop Cowboy, out now

Leighton Night with Brian Wecht (wherever you get podcasts)

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Are you currently In LA? Well Dylan’s Band, Nice Boat Invites you to join them at their Record release event Sun, Sept 27, 3–5pm at Maritime Records, Highland Park (free, all ages)