What Kerry Weeks has said about Probability and statistics of coincidences

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 19, 2026

Kerry Weeks, Film prop man and storyteller who told a pocketknife story at a Moth StorySLAM, has been quoted on Probability and statistics of coincidences once in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on October 19, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Kerry Weeks attributed his willingness to accept unlikely explanations to growing up as a physicist's son aware of the universe's vastness.

    “I, better than most other children, had an idea of just how vast the universe is. And therefore, how infinite the possibilities are”

    This American Life: 489: No Coincidence, No Story! (Oct 19, 2026) · Listen from 53:18

Episodes

  • 489: No Coincidence, No Story!

    This American Life · Oct 19, 2026 · 1 h 1 min

    Guest host Sarah Koenig presents listener coincidence stories—grandmothers, love, coins in the shower, lost fathers, and a pocketknife—while weighing skepticism against meaning.

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