Comedian Ricky Carmona ( @RickyCarmona ) of the podcast Who Shot Ya? joins Andy and Matt to talk about when to say Happy New Year, Weird Science vs. Real Genius, how to stop superbugs , raw water , the other John Snow , laser eagles , slowing down light , power plant mirrors that explode birds, things deadlier than sharks and parking mathematics ....
Friends of the show TJ Chambers ( @TJChambersLA ) and Auggie Smith ( @AuggieSmith ) return to kick off 2018 with TJ and Andy's new podcast Twinsies ( @twinsiespod ), space beer , monkeys bonin' deer , the recent SpaceX launch , traveling salesbees , sleeping jellyfish , Matt Walker on sleep ( and on Probably Science ), how to keep your exercise resolution , and Tommy Wiseau's surprise tenant ....
Matt's on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton ( @newton_pete ) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren't all they're cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia, safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins , anaconda attacks in the field, the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole country's behavior, and whether you'd eat lab...
Matt and Andy make a visit to the home of Jim Jefferies ( @jimjefferies ) to talk about a very British car accident , self-driving cars , Ted Danson's amazing face, feeding spiders graphene , a new space tire , Mars temperatures, cricket commentary, onion ubiquity , Dubai space agriculture , business class from the ground, and upsetting rock stars....
Host of the Rock Solid podcast Pat Francis ( @pat_francis ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important , homeless etiquette, Voyager I firing up again , coffee and health , grammar rules and beard posturing ....
Comedian/ musician Eli Braden ( @EliBraden ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss jazz addicts , the flat-earth rocket guy and his earlier flight , conspiracy theories, not a head transplant , prehistoric women's strength , why boning is heart-safe , mnemonics, grossing out chimps , health codes and California D....
Science writer, educator, and artist Dr. Danna Staaf recently published her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods , and she joins Matt and Andy to talk about her dissertation on the reproduction and early life of Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, the fact that calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe for cephalopods in general....
Comedian/freestyle rapper Chris Turner ( @ChrisPJTurner ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about archeology, volcano-based Roman shit, old wine , old Amish people , gay evolution , monkeys playing chicken and the theory of mind . This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter "probably30" at checkout....
Comedian Raj Desai ( @_rajdesai ) almost makes himself late to his job writing for Sarah Silverman's I Love You, America to do a morning recording with Andy and Matt about his chromatography history , looking more closely at the placebo effect , and how the extinction of dinosaurs made way for mammals to come out during the day ....
Comedian Jason Saenz ( @jasonsaenz ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Jeff Foxworthy impressions, Saenz Signs , debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing , competition-grade oysters, squirrels and lepers , armadillo leprosy in Florida, gold and the documentary series Connections , a good moonbase location , Pluto's Cave , herbal meds and cancer , blood sweat and Jason's hilarious Comedy Central series Ya Killin' Me ....
Comedian Galloway Allbright (@GalloWhy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the death of expertise, extreme Michael Jackson fandom , that classic Encyclopedia Brittanica ad , the origin of bluegrass , in-flight death plans , channeling your inner Tea Leoni , a neutron star collision , the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression , genes for OCD , Cary Grant's crazy parental history and LSD , a fundraiser for Dipak's niece , an upcoming Chinese space lab crash , China's NASA and scorpions' toxic blend ....
Original co-host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) and LA PodFest co-founder/ The Dollop host Dave Anthony join Matt and Andy for a live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Podcast Festival.
Comedian and host of the Tea With Alice podcast Alice Fraser ( @aliterative ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a duck update (duckdate?) with video , a body clock Nobel Prize , Dr. Matt Walker's new sleep book , a LIGO Nobel Prize and Janna Levin's book on it , the downside of grass-fed beef , and cargo cults ....
Comedian Sharon Houston ( @sharon_houston ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines , duck dicks , finger phone contact , genes vs. alleles, the concept of zero , chisanbop counting , zapping people out of vegetative states , spider sacrifice and more duck dicks....
Comedian Casey Ley ( @caseywley ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about Andy's car, gay genes , gay face and AI , the first openly gay guy ever , snow leopards becoming less endangered , the end of Cassini , whether or not Saturn would float in water , the first live 4K video from space , the life of Sam Blackman , and Casey's podcast . This episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh. Visit hellofresh.com and use the promo code "probably30" to save $30 off your first week of deliveries....
Comedian and author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs (and three other books) Sara Benincasa ( @SaraJBenincasa ) invited Matt and Andy into her kitchen to talk about Burning Man, Woodstock '99, talking people down from drugs, creating cryptocurrencies , Space Camp vs. Space Academy, whiskey dilution , faces trained on Skype , Zika for brain tumors , and the secret messages contained in dogs' sneezes ....
Applied Physics Laboratory engineer (and Andy's old college roommate) Dipak Srinivasan returns to the podcast to talk about his work on the Mercury MESSENGER mission , the Pluto New Horizons flyby (that'll also soon be visiting Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 ), and most importantly, the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa , the most likely place in our solar system to find extraterrestrial life....
Comedy's Kara Klenk ( @karaklenk ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about why Trump isn't good for comedy , bad forensics , hungry thinky worms , penis biting, bleach enemas to cure autism , slugs , Canaanites who just won't die and The Goldwater Rule ....
Comedian Heather Thomson ( @CasualVelvet ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss early email addresses, Woodboys, laws of mathematics that don't apply in Australia , why chimps are pussies , how humans can out-jog horses , antibiotic lies , reversing brain damage with oxygen , Moon water , and the avocado hand epidemic ....
Comedian Jim Hegarty ( @jimhegarty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about good and bad TV, the Up Series , fireworks contamination , dog domestication , junk DNA , the crazy fly book price , Brewster's Millions rules, egg shapes and egg refrigeration ....
Jason Reich ( @jasonmreich ), the head writer of The Jim Jefferies Show , joins Matt and Andy to discuss eating street apples and syringes, Vegas strategy, an HIV cure , why job interviews are bullshit , old dads with geeky sons follow-up, gonorrhea vaccines , vaquitas , fireworks technology , Alex Jones before and (redder) after and what Goop has in common with Infowars ....
Cognitive behavior therapist Dr. Jane Gregory joins Matt and Andy to talk about her work and how she helps people suffering from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and more, along with her fantastic blog Cognitive Behave Yourself in which she puts her money where her mouth is and subjects herself to some of the techniques that she asks her patients to use.
Comedy's Maggie Maye ( @Maggiemayehaha ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss first TV bed-sharers , rival Amarillo songs, coconut oil , why it's too hot to fly , heat-based reptile sex swapping , older dads and geeky sons , neutron decay , lying chatbots and wobbling suitcases ....
Writer and comedic actor Lucas Kavner ( @lucaskavner ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about rebooted shows, reporting on robots, dog and wolf sharing , how breakfast affects benevolence , Einstein's impossible experiment finally performed , gut bacteria and dinosaur sex ....
Comedian Curtis Cook ( @Curtis_Cook ) writes with Matt on The Jim Jefferies Show , and he sits down to discuss fancy premiere parties and imposter syndrome, catapult-making, how depressing the first Peanuts comic strip is , how AI will beat humans at everything by 2060 , Moravec's paradox , dino feathers and scales , getting re-upped on your vaccines , rust getting unfairly blamed for tetanus and parasitic worm healing ....
Renee Colvert ( @ReneeColvert ) of the hit podcast Can I Pet Your Dog? joins Matt and Andy to discuss Paris disagreements, dog podcasting, universal healthcare , Savage/Soundgarden, Australian healthcare, another LIGO victory , Janna Levin's book , the Parker Solar Probe , the monkey mafia who steal your stuff and sell it back to you for a cracker , measuring sheep pain , and hand-washing rules ....
Comedian and Jim Jefferies Show writer Subhah Agarwal ( @Subhah ) joins co-writer Matt and Andy to talk about actuarial tables and suicide, copying comics, asteroid timing , river meandering , a perfect dino , stable flamingos , Italian vaccines , mussel gloop for scarring , pretty pics of Saturn's rings and a puffy styrofoam planet ....
Neil deGrasse Tyson ( @neiltyson ), astrophysicist, science communicator and author of the fantastic new book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry , joins Matt and Andy for a Definitely Science episode, discussing, well, the entire universe: Its origins, the forces that govern it, general relativity, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the fact that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you, and the questions that Neil would ask a physicist in the year 2317. This episode is br...
Live from the 10th annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, Matt and Andy welcome Reed College professor and cultural anthropologist specializing in health and medicine in southern Africa Dr. Betsey Brada , anthropologist specializing in bardic song in contemporary Russia Dr. Brian Horne , and the voice of Crow on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return Hampton Yount ( @hamptonyount )....
Comedy powerhouse Russell Howard ( @russellhoward ) joins Matt and Andy to chat about unintentional rudeness, new spider species , birds of paradise dances, Catalina and gerbil smuggling, more spiders, scaring off mice, artificial wombs and throwing things ....
