Matt and Andy descend upon Sydney for the third leg of the Australian tour, welcoming Ig Nobel Prize-winning researcher Callum Ormonde and comedian Jen Carnovale ( @Jen_Carnovale ) to talk about living down your sister's reputation, what to put in a microwave, the Ig Nobel Prize itself , how Callum accidentally unboiled an egg, past Ig Nobel nominees and winners who studied things like how a Moroccan emperor managed to father almost a thousand children , magnetically levitating a frog, why old m...
Feb 26, 2019•1 hr 25 min
The second stop of the Probably Science Australia tour brings Andy and Matt to Perth to talk with Carey Marx ( @careymarx ) about watching the Super Bowl in Australia, the Perth's Fringe World Festival , working as a magician, drop bears , when kangaroos learned to hop , the correct population of Perth, vanadium mining, global warming making the oceans bluer , how America's colonization cooled Earth's climate , Australia's slow Internet, GOOP's upcoming Netflix show , Carey demonstrating spoon-b...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 29 min
Matt and Andy make the first stop of their Australian tour in Cairns thanks to the generosity of Inspiring Australia and The Australian Society for Parasitology to talk to Dr. Michael Smout about the healing power of worm spit and Dr. Claudia Cobos about peptides found in sunflowers that can be used to treat diseases of the gut. And thanks to James Cook University for the tour of their Eduquarium to see gorgeous marine life, a lot of which can kill you. Portlanders can come and see Probably Scie...
Feb 13, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Andy and Matt travel to SF Sketchfest to be joined by the hilarious Laurie Kilmartin ( @anylaurie16 ), Dr. Judy Melinek ( @drjudymelinek ) and Dr. Jen Gunter ( @DrJenGunter ) and discuss autopsies, forensic pathology, debunking GOOP, Twitter being a dick to Laurie, doctors taking on the NRA, reproductive rights and Dr. Melinek's book Working Stiff . Click here for Australia tour dates and click here to donate to Tuesday's Children, a charity for those impacted by 9/11 ....
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 18 min
Writer /comedian/ podcaster Bridget Phetasy ( @BridgetPhetasy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Australia, Monopoly game study , the big data book Everybody Lies , homespun back pain cures , weed towns, conspiracy theories that are wrong but fun, China plants on the moon , a meteorite hitting the super blood wolf moon and Marie Kondo according to a psychologist . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature ....
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 30 min
Comedian Seth Herzog ( @Thezog ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about being part of the Roots , his mom’s Maury impression , Andy being accosted by Bridget Everett , the Ultima Thule flyby and what New Horizons found on Pluto , mysterious radio bursts , silent speaking , expensive ugly shoes , David Avocado Wolfe , Derren Brown and pigment in a very old artist's teeth . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature ....
Jan 17, 2019•1 hr 36 min
Returning guests Henry Phillips ( @Henlips ) and Auggie Smith ( @AuggieSmith ) join Andy to discuss rebel honeybees , trying to guess the twist in this trailer , presidential poo , a retinal link to SAD , the craziest thing a human's ever coughed up , gambling tips, ridiculous FAQs , the new Henry's Kitchen Master Class and the (sort of) fastest animal around . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature ....
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 35 min
While Matt's on the road, he sits down with Malaysia's Godfather of Stand-up Comedy Harith Iskander ( @HarithIskander ) in his home country to talk about Voyager going interstellar , New Horizon's latest flyby , X-chromosome life-expectancy , wasp-based antibiotics , early feathery fossils , computer-tested BO and armpit bacteria ....
Jan 03, 2019•1 hr
Little Dum Dum Club podcast host Karl Chandler ( @KarlChandler ) joins Matt to talk about shitting Lego , the dying arctic , hiding coins in food, old racist sayings, bee rebels , Ireland's bee man and Adelaide's space scene ....
Dec 26, 2018•59 min
Comedian/actors Asif Ali ( @alicomedy ) and Holly Burn ( @hollyburncomedy ) join Matt and Andy to talk about having a name that's offensive to fire victims, the new sketch special Goatface , the perils of shooting Wrecked in Fiji , the most populous cities, a lucky Mars landing spot , ants who collect the heads of their enemies , the reason behind spider silk strength , going without cell phones and why screen time disrupts sleep . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational com...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Writer/comedian Steve Brett Young ( @stevebrettyoung ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his friend the Studio City Life Coach , Mary Mary quite contrary , unicorns , El Niño , salmon-tossing for plants , Robert De Niro surprises and birth canals around the world . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature ....
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Writer Delaney Yeager ( @delaney_yeager ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Mac and Me , Bill Gates pranks, Mars landers and Mars bars, The Seinfeld Podcast , ion drive planes , why wombats poop cubes and CRISPR-edited Chinese babies . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature ....
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Comedian Myq Kaplan ( @myqkaplan ) returns to the show to talk about Ramin Nazer , non-flushable wipes , breathing Hitler, downwind ninjas, medical mushrooms , paradoxical drug reactions and paradoxical UK legal drug responses , big holes under Greenland , regrowing frog legs and Probably Science appearing live at SF Sketchfest ....
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Comedian Phil Nichol ( @philnichol ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about how to stand, the safety of d ropping pennies , sniffer bees , devout parents, Matthew Herbert's One Pig , Podtune whale music , the first domestic dogs , the new kilogram , the new Probably Science Patreon , 3D-printed sound , Teslas vs. smoke , tuskless elephants , 99 Ice Cream , scientists on money , Phil's show Your Wrong and Everybody's Talking About Jamie ....
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Comedian Sarah Bennetto ( @sarahbennetto ) and Earwolf producer Josh Richmond ( @radiotfb ) join Matt and Andy to discuss 3D-printed audio jewelry that Andy definitely didn't invent , AI scares and deepfakes, Lyrebird software , Aussie synchrotrons, wine bottle particle accelerators , more Yahoo Serious talk , newly elected STEM politicians , scientists in Washington, whether Oumuamua is or isn't an alien spacecraft , whether the human life span is genetic , whether Parkinson's comes from the ap...
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Globetrotting comedian Marcus Ryan ( @itsmarcusryan ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss losing money internationally, optimistic condoms, Nobel Prize winners and Nobel limitations , exoplanets and moon moons , Superman films and piss-crazed goats ....
Nov 06, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Dunking vegan bassist (and Son of Schmilsson ) Kiefo Nilsson ( @kiefonilsson ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss his upcoming live performance of Harry Nilsson's album/animated special The Point ( Sunday, November 4th at Dynasty Typewriter ), his collaboration on a Tim Heidecker song to raise money for HIAS , the science of microphone patterns , Kiefo's citizen science wildlife tracking ( and others doing similar work ), the Fermi Paradox , the Parker Solar Probe's recent milestones and the demise ...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Comedians and co-hosts of the Jammerz podcast Wendi Starling ( @wendistarling ) and Megan Rice ( @_meganrice_ ) join Matt and Andy to discuss robot microwaves, cat penises, the GATE program, Japanese asteroid rovers , mosquitos , BEES , deadliest animals , panda dating , weed making people shower and puke , sandalwood-induced hair growth and ironic purchases ....
Oct 24, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Fresh on the heels of the release of his two new Netflix specials , comedian Daniel Sloss ( @Daniel_Sloss ) returns to the show, joined by ProbSci regular and Twinsies co-host TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ), to talk with Matt and Andy about Menudo , daddy taxonomy, druggy octopodes , fake early memories , Spicey and The Juice , overrated probiotics , alien conspiracy theories , and a tire reef that's poisoning the sea ....
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Comedian and host of the Here We Are science podcast Shane Mauss ( @shanecomedy ) returns to Probably Science to talk with Andy and Matt about psychedelics, his upcoming Stand-Up Science tour and being institutionalized when he nearly lost his mind. If you or a loved one are in distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 's number is 1-800-273-8255....
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Comedians Whitney Chitwood ( @WhitneyChitwood ) and Carly Ballerini ( @ballca ) join Matt and Andy to talk about Nazi boots, the ghost of Cole Porter, Carly’s very interesting transplant, goats and happy people , this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners , billionaires in space , a Soyuz hole , lucid dreams through meds ( and the old-fashioned way ), have you ever had a dream like this? , man’s egg mishap and Whitney and Carly's tour ....
Sep 28, 2018•1 hr 23 min
In addition to being a programmer and computational linguist, Ryan North ( @ryanqnorth ) is the writer behind Dinosaur Comics , Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , the Adventure Time comic book series , and Romeo and/or Juliet , and he joins Andy and Matt to discuss his new book How To Invent Everything , a survival guide for stranded time travelers who need to figure out where they've landed in time, and how to get civilization back to the present by inventing everything from writing and farming to butt...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Dipak Srinivasan of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory makes his third Probably Science appearance to give the inside scoop on a number of current and upcoming projects and missions including, but not limited to, the Parker Solar Probe , New Horizons checking out Ultima Thule , the Space Launch System , NASA's STEREO and the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft lander ....
Sep 07, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Creator of the hit podcast Bubble Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) returns to the show to talk with Andy and Matt about bad accents, why the earliest galaxies are local , Andy's tail, the big toe evolving last , The Lottery , the recipe for mummies revealed , The Core , dolphin hybrids , Patton Oswalt and David Byrne on the Wholphin DVD and the Bermuda Triangle mystery possibly being solved ....
Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Comedian and co-host of the Lady to Lady podcast Brandie Posey ( @Brandazzle ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about her aphantasia, science museums, ska daddies , lazy homo erectus , phone-induced blindness , cheating bots , There's Waldo , the Arabian sand boa , yeast radiation alarms , an aphantasia support group on Facebook , a software engineer's aphantasia experience , and Brandie's album , podcast and tour ....
Aug 16, 2018•1 hr 30 min
Thomas Patterson ( @thomasdynamic ), music supervisor for the new AMC series Lodge 49 ( @Lodge49 ), joins Andy and Matt to discuss the heat , will.i.am's Future, Lodge 49 and its soundtrack , Andy's initiation into the Fraternal Order of Eagles, why baby talk is good , plastic causing a greenhouse nightmare , how sleep clears the brain of toxins , a supercomputer modeling one second of brain function , how we forgot how to swim , The Dollop episode on swimming pools , modified mosquitoes and why...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Comedians Sarah Albritton ( @SarahAlbritton ) and Josh Cheney ( @joshcheeeneee ) join Matt and Andy to discuss Sleeping With Sarah , narcolepsy, narcoleptic dogs , Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry , the 100 prisoners problem , massive sloth tunnels , weight on various planets , drinking Mars and trippy cicadas ....
Aug 06, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Comedian Lisa Curry ( @lisa_curry ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Olympiads, the other Lisa Curry, reservoir shade balls , Bruce Lee as Kato , secret snakes , skiffs , car vibrations , prison experiment problems and old bread ....
Jul 26, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Comedian, TV host and author of the upcoming memoir My Life as a Goddess Guy Branum ( @guybranum ) returns to the podcast to talk with Andy and Matt about shipping stories, his knowledge of international law, legal murders in Yellowstone , how dingos changed shrubs , shark pathogens , Nanaimo bars , dogs in fMRIs , Matt in an fMRI , 19th Century female mathematicians , senior wranglers and British TV shows you should be watching on YouTube ....
Jul 19, 2018•1 hr 20 min
The gang's all back together again to celebrate 300 episodes of Probably Science while discussing barely any science at all, instead reminiscing about the last six years, getting nostalgic for Country Summer and trying to figure out which actors have achieved the coveted SPATS (piloting a spacecraft, plane, automobile, train and sea ship on film).
Jul 12, 2018•1 hr 15 min
