Comedian and Bone Zone podcast host Brendon Walsh ( @brendonwalsh ) joins the gang to talk about Better Than Ezra, things that track, most favored nation clauses, the ubiquity of problematic , the greatest voicemail Andy ever received, how to call in sick, Alzheimer's and Reagan , Brendon's Mike Tyson encounter, the problem with human cannibalism, cleaning your brain surgery tools, laser wound healing , Scientology vs. Christianity, drinking the Flavor Aid, toilet paper methods , Terminator 2-st...
Apr 14, 2015•1 hr 10 min
Professor of earth system science at UC Irvine and senior water scientist at NASA/JPL Jay Famiglietti ( @JayFamiglietti ) recently wrote an LA Times op-ed on the dire state of California's water supplies , catalyzing the nation and helping contribute to recent historic mandatory water restrictions from Governor Jerry Brown . Jay joins Matt, Jesse and Andy in an overly watered backyard to talk about California's drought, Jay's New York Times Quotation of the Day and his recent Real Time with Bill...
Apr 07, 2015•1 hr 8 min
Mortician, author , blogger, YouTube personality and death advocate Caitlin Doughty ( @TheGoodDeath ) invites Matt, Jesse and Andy into her home to talk about all things death, including her book Smoke Gets In Your Eyes , The Order of the Good Death , death rituals around the world, the history of embalming in the US, what goes down in a crematory, why dead bodies aren't dangerous to be around, our society's disconnect with its dead, the Disneyland of Death and how to prepare yourself and your l...
Mar 31, 2015•1 hr 24 min
Comedian/actor/writer Robin Ince ( @robinince ) and physicist/host/musician Brian Cox ( @ProfBrianCox ), both of BBC Radio's The Infinite Monkey Cage , were kind enough to sit down with Matt and Jesse while they were stateside for a recent live performance, discussing David Lynch's America, why the queen is common, Alzheimer's being treated by ultrasound , Brian's pop group D:Ream , the silliness of What The Bleep Do We Know!? , NPR's survey of great podcast episodes , The EPR Paradox , manifest...
Mar 25, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Comedian and host of Nikki & Sara Live Sara Schaefer ( @saraschaefer1 ) joins the proceedings this week to talk about her debut album Chrysalis , denim facts, David Attenborough, phony pheromones , why adolescents are dumber, old nana orcas who help the pod , time travel plans and 9/11 tales, head transplants , Tiki bars, average penis size and the labia library....
Mar 10, 2015•1 hr 30 min
Original SNL cast member and founding member of The Groundlings Laraine Newman ( @larainenewman ) joins the show this week to tell tales of the early days of Saturday Night Live , not to mention her myriad voice acting roles , smoking mimes , Tiki pioneers, teachers with wet lower lips, Dan Aykroyd's house, SNL40 , frog dissection and horror movies, spider painkillers , worms that crawl in and out , ancient twins , DNA-rendered faces , Subway Jared sightings, coffee and MS , and Delancey Place ....
Mar 09, 2015•1 hr 21 min
Original Probably Science co-host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) returns to the show after spending a year on Saturday Night Live , not to mention appearing on Girls, Conan , and Late Night with Seth Meyers , to give the inside scoop on what it's like to join the cast of the most iconic sketch comedy series ever, RHCP tattoos , Terry Crews and David Prowse, handshake-smelling , Juggalos and tattoo removal creams , bird strikes , New York stories, Brooks's new album , why bubbles don't spill ,...
Mar 03, 2015•1 hr 36 min
Nikki Glaser ( @nikkiglaser ) of Nikki & Sara Live!, Conan, @midnight, I Am Comic and much more joins Matt , Andy and Jesse this week to talk about her love of ASMR, the threat of peak phosphorus, gerbils and rats and plagues, oh my! , Genghis Khan, NYC subway deaths, cheating fingers , parasitic zombie wasp beetles , naughty aphids ruining symbiosis for everyone , light slowed down , a teaser announcement about the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and the recently re-launched LA PodFest Podcast ....
Feb 25, 2015•1 hr 52 min
British comedian and actor Barry Castagnola ( @BarryCastagnola ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss Midwest cold, royal warrants and drugs, Mick Jagger, chicks and number lines , lefthanded people, musicians and music stands, mudsharks and Who jackets, rodents of unusual size with giant teeth , high-speed lasers that can see molecules , an even larger reboot of the Large Hadron Collider , the doomsday list , a new Earthlike planet and TV apologies....
Feb 18, 2015•1 hr 39 min
Comedian Jackie Gold ( @iamjackiegold ) joins the crew this week to talk about Barbie dolls, Jackie's genetics, pheromone parties, Broken Heart Syndrome , over-the-counter meds linked to dementia , Matt's fake foreign accent , bad BICEP/good BICEP , UK lawmakers approving three-parent babies and how exactly those are made , and the wonders of J-Date....
Feb 12, 2015•1 hr 17 min
Comedy legend , podcasting pioneer and author Todd Glass ( @ToddGlass ) helps Andy, Matt and Jesse celebrate the 150th episode and the new identities they’ve been assigned by discussing stalagmites and stalactites, Jesus painting restoration , anonymous donors, a guy with endless déjà vu , ketamine and anesthetics, boners and massages, bouncing water , sex education, unboiling an egg , getting paid to donate your poo , hookworms vs. gluten , wiping vs. bidets, Gaye vs. Thicke , and why you shoul...
Feb 04, 2015•2 hr 3 min
Former psychology major and tight end-turned-comedian Patrick Keane joins the proceedings this week to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Chinese diaper trains, Wims and Pims, the video of Stefan Pop's visit to Bluebell Ranch , celebrity photographs and autographs, snow shoveling and heart attacks , polar bear wangs and pollution , some annoying truth-stretching in The Imitation Game , Alan Turing stories from the first and fifth episodes of Probably Science, Jesse's squirting update, listener...
Jan 26, 2015•1 hr 44 min
Television's Tone Bell finally makes his Probably Science debut this week to help the gang with topics including Ted Bundy's jello woes, Tone's cat restructuring, a punk rock Joe Strummer snail , weird shipwreck metal , ancient milk drinking , how Facebook likes can predict personality , ketamine's depression uses , Andy's Uber/Lyft tales, an unbeatable poker computer and things Jesse would do for $500,000....
Jan 14, 2015•1 hr 37 min
Comedian and co-host of The Dollop Gareth Reynolds joins Jesse, Andy and Matt this week to talk about Hollywood tourists, Gareth's important moss experiments, airborne farts , the point of the narwhal's point , an antibiotic breakthrough , what self-tickling tells us about brains , materiAl vs. materiEl , why lady jizz ain't jizz , why lady jizz may in fact be jizz , HIV getting milder and Native American art....
Jan 13, 2015•1 hr 34 min
Matt, Jesse and Andy haven't seen each other in about a month, so this week's episode is a guest-free chance for everyone to catch up on each other's December goings-on, including Andy's Nicaraguan war stories and Jesse's bro-lesque competition, along with updates on SpaceX's aborted launch , Elon Musk's Reddit AMA , a British effort to send a probe to the moon ( and how you can add your DNA to the mission ), the slurred singing of drunk birds , the complexity of music as it relates to popularit...
Jan 08, 2015•1 hr 28 min
The ProbSci gang aren't all back in town together just yet, so to hold you over until our next new episode, please enjoy Jesse's interview with Lizard Case, a Nashville songwriter and tavern proprietor who also happens to be his father. Happy New Year!
Jan 01, 2015•42 min
Actor/ podcaster /improv master/festival producer Janet Varney ( @janetvarney ) sits down with the crew on this week's episode to talk about voicing the hero of The Legend of Korra , the hilarious Bachelor parody Burning Love , Janet's first LA acting gig on Catwoman, growing up near Biosphere 2 , Janet's award-winning science fair project on burning stuff, trash-eating seagulls , Radiolab's look at violence in baboons , Andy and Janet's Serial obsession , a corpse flower bloom , new evidence on...
Dec 23, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Anthropologist and spider monkey expert Dr. Christina Campbell joins the gang this week to get an update on Jesse's kidney stones and talk about her field of expertise, including research on Barro Colorado Island , the snubbing of Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace , Jesse trying to adopt a wallaby, Chris Burke’s Eating Is Fun/Eating Is Serious , Dr. Campbell's book on spider monkeys , the torture tape experiment , wombats and wallabies, barrel of monkeys vs. barrel of apes, chimps catchi...
Dec 16, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Shop Amazon for the holidays and enjoy comedian and musician Mike Phirman ( @phirm ) as he joins the crew to talk about kidney stones and Jesse's trip to urgent care, Mike's iodine allergy, the millenial malady of text neck , a man who can sort of hear wifi , the sound of Comet 67P and Philae , Hard 'n' Phirm's ode to the numerical value pi , Chicken Monkey Duck , Build-a-Song , Trace Elements , the bluegrass mashup Rodeohead , more Vomit Comet talk, why we need to be done with fossil fuels by 2...
Dec 09, 2014•1 hr 22 min
As you shop using the Probably Science Holiday Gift Guide , listen to the wonderful Alison Haislip of Attack of the Show fame as she talks with Andy, Jesse and Matt about world peace, annoying parkour people, the daily life of Valley Villagers, finding a 26-year-old letter to Tony Hawk in the garage, Matt's recommended gentle comedy The Castle , Alison's four-year stint at Space Camp, getting serenaded by wannabe Top Gun pilots, Charles Manson's nuptials , organic molecules discovered on Comet 6...
Dec 02, 2014•1 hr 36 min
It's time for the first Probably Science Holiday Gift Guide ! While you're taking care of all your seasonal shopping needs there, you can enjoy this week's episode with former tennis pro and current comedy pro Michael Kosta , who joins the gang to talk about Matt turning into a real boy, being a good samaritan with a lost phone, the horror of found comedy notebooks, hippie journals, Michael and Andy's Ann Arbor roots, impending earthquakes , Jesse's survival kit, British army surplus stores, bei...
Nov 25, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Producer of The Meltdown , co-host of The Indoor Kids podcast and former couples therapist Emily Gordon joins the festivities this week to talk about rage oranges, webcams, Jesse making three Subway trips in a day, why rocket science is so damn hard , co-ed fraternities, people trying to get free therapy at parties, Emily's blog , decorating your house with Dave Kloc posters , astronomy sleuths uncovering the origins of Monet paintings , Brooks being cast in an upcoming movie , schizophrenia act...
Nov 18, 2014•1 hr 34 min
This week's guest is that rarest of Probably Science breeds: A comic with a PhD. Scientist-turned-comedian Tim Lee joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about crispness, anadromous fishes , California water subsidies, Australia's Big Banana , the problem with butt implants, next-generation CubeSats using iodine propellant , working in financial dark pools , The financial exposé Flash Boys , Jesse getting tricked by a prostitute, the lack of free speech in academia, the horror of bad seminars, the 1...
Nov 12, 2014•1 hr 41 min
British comic par excellence Holly Walsh (twitter.com/wiggywalsh) joins the proceedings this week to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about British podcasting wigs, courtroom caricature artists, a dog that looks like Frederick Douglass, bum-to-bum golden retriever humping, the Pope's bold stance on evolution and the Big Bang , Matt's Bloodhound Gang fandom, Pussy energy drink , the love hormone that controls sexual behavior in mice , the science of blue balls, oxytocin parties , pheromone parties ...
Nov 05, 2014•1 hr 32 min
Time-traveling Aussie comedy phenom, TOFOP host and all around great guy Wil Anderson returns to the show on a spooky Halloween week to talk with the gang about: Bungee jumping pranks! Grown-ass adults who believe in ghosts! Presidents lying about their religion! Wil being sent back from the future to save this podcast! The depressingly high percentages of Americans who believe in haunted houses, Atlantis and Bigfoot! Seatbelt conspiracy theorists! Incorrect bible quotes in We Are The World! The...
Oct 29, 2014•1 hr 40 min
Comedy and music virtuoso Henry Phillips (twitter.com/HenLips) visits with Matt, Jesse and Andy on the heels of recording his upcoming Netflix special to talk about: Bad comedy introductions! Walking miracles! Being an awkwardness magnet! Elvis fandom! Physics and free will! Listener theme songs! Guitar worship! Disrespecting the legacy of Eddie Van Halen! Revisionist comedy and music history! The awesomeness of Jellyfish! Reheated pasta may be less fattening! Henry's Kitchen ! The music of Jose...
Oct 21, 2014•1 hr 31 min
Saturday Night Live/Mad TV Alum Jeff Richards (tastyjeff.com) pops in to talk to Andy and Jesse about: Why school sucks! Freddie Mercury's jacket! Lost cities revealed by lasers! Crystals that let us breathe underwater! Facebook's experimenting apology! Silence of the Lambs impressions... a lot of them! Why fat guys are better lovers! Stu's attempts at home improvement! Lab-grown genitals!
Oct 14, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Colonel Chris Hadfield (twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield) is a highly decorated Canadian astronaut, test pilot, engineer and former commander of the Internation Space Station, and on his most most recent mission became famous for his thousands of photographs and hundreds of videos shot on the ISS, including a music video cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity that has been viewed hundreds of millions of times. Matt, Jesse and Andy were honored to be able to talk with Col. Hadfield about his experiences in...
Oct 08, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Visit lapodfest.com/live to watch the video archive of this episode and dozens of other podcasts and panels recorded live at LA PodFest and use the offer code "science" for $5 off. You can also visit probablyscience.com for more background on the show and email questions, corrections and story suggestions to probablyscience@gmail.com. This week's episode was recorded live from the third annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival, where Matt, Jesse and Andy welcomed musician/comedian/actor/skeptic Tim M...
Oct 01, 2014•1 hr 34 min
Returning guest Jordan Morris (twitter.com/Jordan_Morris) of Jordan, Jesse, Go! and @midnight fame joins Matt, Jesse and Andy this week to share stories about Burning Man and to pick the brain of Caltech computer scientist Dr. Matt Faulkner, who built an insanely awesome musically controlled Tesla Coil at this year's burn. Topics discussed include: Deciduous breasts! Googling with Bing! Lying about your Burning Man car rental! Refilling your pudding phallus! Dollywood! Eighty-dollar car washes! ...
Sep 23, 2014•1 hr 22 min
