Comedian and filmmaker Ron Placone ( @ronplacone ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about his new movie Left at Wall , the guy who let venomous snakes bite him hundreds of times for science (kind of) , a color no one had seen until now , retinitis pigmentosa and turning lead into gold ....
Comedian, writer and author of upcoming novel “ First Time, Long Time ” Amy Silverberg ( @amysilverberg ) joins the gang to talk about Andy’s Irish landscape spotting! The optimal amount of bra bounce ! Andy’s Iberian adventures! Lions biting gladiators! Men fighting gorillas! And which glasses to wear to avoid the fight yourself! In the Patreon bonus we talk about lucid dreaming and a new state of mind. Please go and see Matt Jul 16 in Columbus OH , Jul 31 in Hartford CT , or Oct 12 in Virginia...
Great stand-up and co-creator of the Marijuana-Logues Tony Camin ( @tony.camin ) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about crows’ geometry skills ! Tony helping one of the fathers of decision analysis ! Why seals don’t drown ! Unlikely animal friends ! And whether your month of conception shapes your body ! Tony’s new album, An Ass Pocket of Whimsy will come out on Stand-Up! Records and you can find him at tonycamin.com . Click here to support Probably Science via Patreon Click here to subscribe in App...
Comedian and Horror Nerd Samantha Hale ( @thesamanthahale ) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about: A layer of life deep below us ! The not actually back from extinction dire wolves! The Earth’s mysterious pulsations ! and Reagan’s obsession with the Titanic ! In the Patreon bonus we talk about bending sounds. Click here to support Probably Science via Patreon Click here to subscribe in Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe in Stitcher...
Friend of the show Wil Anderson ( @officialwilanderson ) joins Matt live in Perth along with marine biologist-turned-comedian Robyn Perkins ( @robynhperkins ) to talk all things coral, nudibranchs, poisonous sea creatures and surprising things to do with dry ice and mouths....
Writer/comedian Shawn Carlow ( @shawncarlow ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his new book People of the Titanic: 30 Tales of Extra-Doomed Souls Who Sailed on The Ship of Dreams , mouse-to-mouse resuscitation , what your poop schedule says about your health and physicists creating a supersolid out of light ....
Live from Perth, Matt is joined by Ross Noble , Kirsty Webeck and Paul Savage to talk about if you can cook a chicken by throwing ice cubes at it , dolphins communicating with pee streams , dormant volcanoes that aren’t that dormant and astronauts’ eyesight ....
Comedian James P. Connolly ( @jamespconnolly ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt on location from the SLO Comedy Festival to talk about centaurs and minotaurs, plum grenades, forcing comedy on bar patrons, the asteroid that was at one point maybe going to hit us , the return of measles , Jesse's update on the state of Nashville, overly clean living conditions in space and microscopic obelisks in your gut ....
Comedian Aidan Jones ( @aidanjonescomedy ) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about his musical comedy show Chopin's Nocturne , returning to classical music after a long break, piano tuning dorkery , doing Mozart covers , 66 million-year-old fish vomit , racy Mozart compositions , drawing dinosaurs with Zhao Chuang , talking dinosaurs with same and jerking it during a volcanic eruption ....
Comedian Alice Fraser ( @aliterative ) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Jesse's mistimed melatonin, Alice's new book A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance , Hot Frosty , Matt's upcoming Australia shows , how ants can beat humans at cooperation , increasingly dumb reality dating shows , Andy's Naked Attraction obsession, science lectures on Pornhub , burial site clues to ancient British matriarchies and the first-ever audio and video of a meteorite's...
(Note: This episode was recorded before the Los Angeles fires) Comedian/actor Mary Lynn Rajskub ( @marylynnrajskub ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about filming her upcoming show North of North in Nunavut, her new standup special Road Gig , how Roman air pollution lowered the IQ of Europe , long eggs , the thick ice of Europa , Matt's upcoming Australia shows and Andy's upcoming Arizona ones ....
Comedian and physical therapist Laura Hayden ( @LauraHaydenFun ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her penile pictorial book What About Dick , a decrease in average body temperature , sciatica advice, the benefits of pooping before you exercise , Matt's upcoming Australia tour and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros gigs ....
Comedian Forrest Shaw ( @forrestshaw ) returns to the show to talk about stalking manatees with police helicopters, gambling addiction, his upcoming podcast I've Got a Problem , survival of the wittiest , a lost branch of humanity's family tree , Matt's upcoming comedy shows in Eureka and Medford and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros shows in Santa Barbara and Los Olivos ....
Comedian Matthew Broussard ( @mondaypunday ) returns to the show to chat with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Matthew's new special Hyperbolic , exaggerated accents , the CEO shooter, cyborg beetles , a quantum computing milestone , gray goo , online security in a post-quantum world , elliptic curves , conic sections, Fermat's Enigma and a super old bird mother ....
Comedian Becky Braunstein ( @beckyfromalaska ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about growing up Jewish in Alaska, eruv rules and topology, orcas bringing back the salmon hat fad , the dangers of squeezing limes in bright sunlight , and tiny vodka-propelled robots ....
Comedian/writer/actress Laura Kightlinger ( @KingKightlinger ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about spontaneous human combustion, Bourbon Room comedy shows in Hollywood , the story behind Andy's various bands , the Uranus story we don't want to cover , how one atom can change a parrot's color , blurb machine Peter Travers , peacock spiders , a blue whale that's been leaking oil for 26 years and a flu strain that we've basically beaten ....
Screenwriter James Lamont joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about writing the upcoming Paddington in Peru , alcohol detox champion hornets , Shatner's double SPATS , memory not being confined to the brain , Jesse getting checked in on by local kids and Matt's oath to take up arms for the United States....
Comedian Benny Blue ( @bennyblueeyes ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about brat summer transitioning into the fall of civilization, Benny's new special Live From My Mother's Funeral , Benny and Andy's Blue Lake connection , Anarchist Cookbook adolescent shenanigans , why humans are the perfect size for speed , Matt and Andy's show with the 2022-iest name ever , the best mural ever painted and its painter , Norm MacDonald's sketch artist sketch , how an asteroid got ants into farming fungi ,...
Comedian and former Probably Science cohost Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) joins Jesse and Andy to talk about his new special Alive In Alaska , Tony Hinchcliffe entering the election arena, cats beating babies at word association , Don't Wake Daddy , snake talk just for Brooks , the Teddy Roosevelt biography The River of Doubt , Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties , the ever-changing landscape of standup and Andy's upcoming gigs with Warsaw Poland Bros ....
Comedian Jeffrey Jay ( @heyjeffreyjay ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss UnCertified Fresh, the Matt Walsh-iverse of awful movies, Earth gaining a second moon , the orbital path of that object , an octopus that punches fish to make them help it hunt and choceted EEG caps for cats ....
DJ Qualls ( @TheOnlyDJQualls ) and Kelly Blackheart ( @kellyblackheart ) of the Locked & Probably Loaded podcast join Matt and Jesse to talk about DJ's upcoming movie Carved , Nashville dive bars, the Ark Encounter , the Ig Nobel prize for butt-breathing , extreme aging , re-creating Mars in a lab and resurrecting the woolly mammoth ....
Comedian Maronzio Vance ( @maronziovance ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Andy's upcoming ska festival and Oktoberfest polka band gigs, Taipei's innovative trash system , dating Prince-obsessed women, dogs' incredible ability to remember the names of toys , the gut-first path of Parkinson's and comedy's legendary Tribble runs ....
Comedian/actress/podcaster Helen Hong ( @funnyhelenhong ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about peeing in pools and reservoirs , male stripper shows, Helen's excellent quiz podcast Go Fact Yourself , pre-Darth Vader David Prowse PSAs , the dye in Doritos that can make mice transparent , a SpaceX rocket punching a hole in the ionosphere , mailing poo in a box and making pyrex invisible with vegetable oil ....
Writer/producer Sam Pasternack ( @sampasternack ) returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about awful bar trivia, Sam's new book "Walker ," the history of pedestrianism , Land's End to John o' Groats , Andy's Burning Man updates, the dilemma of trombone utility and using massive python meals to help develop new human heart medicines ....
Mystery Science Theater alum, comedian and author Frank Conniff ( @FrankConniff ) joins the crew to talk about his new audiobook Dark Apnea . Plus horoscope doubts ! Carl Sagan predicting the future ! And where dinosaur killing asteroids came from ! In the patreon bonus ep we talk about saving the banana from extinction. Sign up here !...
Comedian Mark Cohen ( @mark_coco_cohen ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss the two aging bursts humans experience , restoring Tonka trucks , weaning crocodiles off of cane toads , Mark's video game creations, using slime mold to help map dark matter , and stock photo artists who play Lawn Mowing Simulator . and Mark's possible record-breaking stint at The Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas....
Neuroscientist-turned-comedian Isak Allen ( @isakallen ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about smashing flies, using fMRI to study brain activity as it relates to music and comedy, tonal languages, the Dong Song, Neuralink, dystopian futures and Isak's new Dry Bar special Culturally Unavailable ....
We've got just the prescription for everyone out there with Olympic fever: A re-release of a 2013 episode in which Matt and Andy interview David Epstein , a Sports Illustrated journalist and the author of the outstanding book The Sports Gene , along with college basketball player-turned-comedian Paul Morrissey , to discuss the field of sports genetics research and try to get to the bottom of how elite athletes are made. Enjoy!...
Comedy legend Cathy Ladman ( @cathyladman1 ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about creepy Foundation for a Better Life billboards, cancer battles, 1970s acid, the CrowdStrike software crash , how propofol tips your brain into chaos , the merits of comedy classes, Brazilian cocaine sharks and Cathy's September 7th Vegas show ....
Producer David Brown joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about creating entertaining science programming, the new Peacock show The Hungry Games: Alaska's Big Bear Challenge that David produced, Rhys Darby narrated and Matt and Andy worked on, the Emmy-winning pop-science show Could You Survive The Movies? , Andy's Top Gun cameo , Fat Bear Week , Goro's pecs , a south-of-the-border Orson Welles experience , using AI to figure out the sperm whale phonetic alphabet , Larry the cat and Boris Johnson ...
