Technology fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Yan Zhu ( @bcrypt ) joins Matt and Andy to dig deep into online security, privacy, encryption, HTTPS Everywhere , podcast patent trolls, Privacy Badger , the Tor browser , the future of online ads, Edward Snowden, the Silk Road, the upcoming Probably Science live show at SF Sketchfest on January 14th and a bonus audio snippet about Yan's legendary landlord....
The hilarious Travis Clark ( @thatguytravis ) joins returning guests Dax Jordan ( @daxjordan ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) to form the first episode with a Space Camp alumni majority and talk about Andy’s UFO sighting that *may* have been a Trident missile test , breaking the blood brain barrier , 24 as a 90s show , GPS versus sextants , DARYL and what it stands for , jet packs , rocket belts , wing things and personal helicopters , Norm at brunch , Dr. Dick’s blood , dementia and Dr. Deme...
Danes and Brits come together this week in the form of Sofie Hagen ( @SofieHagen ) and Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ), both lending their expertise to discussions on the Hollywood sign, Halloween, the emergency wizard costume, Danish science, rice pudding traditions, useful German words, being thrown free , a chimera twin baby , new ghosts, a new bat , spider bites , China’s space plans , eyesight, face blindness, the bacon cancer scare , Andy’s comedy doppelgänger , Danish TV, the hilarious Klo...
Hilarious actor/comedian Kerry Godliman ( @KerryAGodliman ) is stateside to film a new Christopher Guest film, and she chatted with Matt and Andy about science vs. art, cadaver fists , the persistence of the plague , embarrassing bodies, a c lickbait generator , Doug Stanhope's feud with Matt and bee farmers ....
Kelly Carlin wears a lot of hats as a monologist, actress, radio host , producer and author of her new memoir A Carlin Home Companion , and she invited Matt and Andy over to her place to talk about calculus, mind-body connections, right answers in math, whether snake fear is hard-wired , monkeys balls , Hurricane Patricia that may or may not be climate change-related , science and the Canadian election , the editor of the BMJ slamming David Hunt , magnetic brain control , the Gripsholm Lion, Ken...
Author Johann Hari ( @johannhari101 ) was stateside recently to return as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher , and he invited Matt and Andy over to his hotel room to talk about the emotional deafness of the rich, his book Chasing The Scream and the failed 100-year war on drugs, the government's persecution of Billie Holliday, new theories of addiction, Rat Park , Portugal's radical policy changes and the way to sell America on drug decriminalization....
Comedy's Jacob Sirof ( @jacobsirof ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about new jobs, orgasm fungi , Star Wars science, Andy's nephews singing Weird Al , Wales and fake waves , a Chinese telescope on the moon , cheating Jews, converting vaccine skeptics and pig genes ....
Dave Anthony ( @daveanthony ) of The Dollop , Walking The Room and Maron fame joins Matt and Andy to talk about navigating LA by satellite dishes, penis-at-twelve children in the Dominican Republic , mothers of boys gaining Y chromosomes , why we want to squeeze cute stuff , Rodney Stanger , the apparently kid , look at that horse , the mountain lion on a pole, the epidemic of Netflix documentaries like Cowspiracy , anti-burp compounds , fixing brain cancer with antidepressants and blood thinner...
New Zealand's Tim Batt ( @Tim_Batt ) and Guy Montgomery ( @guy_mont ), hosts of The Worst Idea of All Time Podcast , join Matt and Andy to discuss Grown Ups 2 , T-shirt cannon injuries, monkey selfies , urinal science and the best toilets in NZ, AIDS news , the AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the climate change “lawsuit” , a 1000-year-old treatment for styes that may generate new drugs , a new target for New Horizons , new Pluto pics , and the Apollo 13 stage show . To watch video of Probably Scien...
This week's episode was recorded live from the Audible Los Angeles Podcast Festival , with Andy Wood ( @andytwood ) and Matt Kirshen ( @mattkirshen ) welcoming original third host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ), along with comedy legend Patton Oswalt ( @pattonoswalt ) and Caltech theoretical physicist/cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll ( @seanmcarroll ). To support Probably Science and LA PodFest while getting a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook download, visit audible.com/lapodfest ....
British comedy phenoms Josie Long ( @JosieLong ) and Stuart Goldsmith ( @ComComPod ) join Matt and Andy to discuss how condensation works, what voltage is, Josie’s foray into community college, magnetic wormholes , debunking spinach debunking, psych experiments that can't be reproduced and a brand new hominid . Catch Probably Science this Saturday at noon PDT at the Los Angeles Podcast Festival ( @lapodfest ) with special guests Patton Oswalt ( @pattonoswalt ) and Dr. Sean Carroll ( @seanmcarrol...
Pride of Fargo Amber Preston ( @PrestonParty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about midwest accents, farmers and fake interview pick-up techniques, whether video games produce violent people or not , smoking birds , violent ancient farmers , books that purify water , the most electric place on earth , and whether swimming in lightning dangerous ....
Comedian/actor extraordinaire Matt Knudsen ( @mattknudsen ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Home Alone sequels, Ghostbuster , pseudoscience and snake oil , Coca Cola skeptics, merchant marines, Brian and Dolph, space elevators , LED light pollution , why global warming is good for the rich and the incredible octopus ....
Past guest and current host of Syfy's Reactor David Huntsberger ( @huntsbergerjunk ) joins the proceedings to welcome a Skyped-in Jesse Case and talk about rodeo facts, the awakeness drug Provigil , buff babies, cheating in war, Chinese fire drills , Korean pears for hangovers , neanderthals' massive eyes that may or may not have caused extinction , tiny new unafraid dwarf lemurs and official Probably Science T-shirts ....
Friends of the show and past guests Matt Braunger ( @braunger ) and Auggie Smith ( @auggiesmith ) return to the show to talk with Matt and Andy about Toblerone sizes, early detection cancer urine tests , shirtcocking, the EPA’s river fuck-up , arsenic and widows, why women are always cold , dumb kids and money-raising, using shade balls to protect reservoirs , the web’s too-weak random numbers , Benford’s Law , beauty myths and contagious hotness and tiger calls ....
The hilarious Jesse Popp ( @JessePopp ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his former life as a blackjack card-counter, a newly discovered tessellating pentagon , Penrose tiling , Fermat's Last Theorem, space lettuce , giant marrows , angry people in local newspapers , pumpkins smashing cars, a goat-throwing festival , dreamy eye movements , brain-scanning software , Hannibal's mask prototypes , brain dipsticks and trepanning. Don't forget to visit LAPodFest.com to get tickets to watch Probably S...
Multi-talented comedian/musician Drennon Davis ( @DrennonDavis ) is coming off of a breakout performance on Conan with friend of the show Karen Kilgariff , and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about why Macs suck, past guest Matt Faulkner's latest Tesla coil project , Drennon's inventor/cold fusion proponent grandfather and his many projects , earthquake-jumping and rock-balancing , old mice with young blood , more fantastical EM drive stuff , chatting bonobos , 3D-printed drugs , David Lynch impr...
The hilarious Hampton Yount ( @hamptonyount ) returns to the show to talk with Matt and Andy about Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, corny jet boat guides, paying for a Pluto probe or an NFL stadium , slowing air travel , Ant-Man science, colonizing the moon , the XFL , anti-piss walls , bacon-flavored kale , being controlled by semen , a malaria vaccine and the LA PodFest live video stream - use the code “science” for $5 off....
Dipak Srinivasan of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University played a pivotal role in the New Horizons mission whose probe just passed by Pluto, and since he was also Andy's roommate back in their college days he was kind enough to talk with Andy and Matt about his work on the project. Launched in 2006, New Horizons traveled over three billion miles to gather the most comprehensive data about Pluto that mankind has ever seen, including stunning imagery of mountains and frozen p...
You've seen and heard funnyman Eddie Pepitone ( @eddiepepitone ) on Community, Maron, Bob's Burgers, Old School, his podcast Pep Talks and the documentary The Bitter Buddha , and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about being self-critical, an upcoming mini-ice age that might not be upcoming , animal testing and monkey mind melds , Mike Myers movies and Andy's giant head, athletes in movies, the hilarious sci-fi comedy Other Space , citrus and cancer , toothy fish and fairy fossils, mockingbirds tor...
The Dork Forest host Jackie Kashian ( @jackiekashian ) returns to the show along with fellow former guests Mark Agee ( @markagee ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) to talk with Andy about Jurassic World, Terminator: Genisys and problematic scenes in Top Five, the actual reason why swimming pool water irritates your eyes , Kage Baker's The Company book series , Wisconsin-born nerds, plants react to the sound of being eaten alive , Gandhi's letter to Hitler , Billy Joel marrying his fourth Christ...
Throwing Shade co-host Bryan Safi ( @BryanSafi ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about science fair cheating, sex and alcohol vs. religion and kids vs. actual science , Daily Mail and buff kangaroos , Vernon Chatman’s essay-cheating book , the Philae comet lander waking up , time-traveling wave-particles , chimps that cook and sauerkraut's effect on anxiety ....
Jesse gives another update on his health situation from back in Nashville, revealing that he'll be starting up a podcast of his own titled Jesse Vs. Cancer in the near future, before Matt and Andy welcome pride of New Orleans Sean Patton ( @mrseanpatton ) to the show to talk about the payoff of the daffodil tea bit from last week, Sean's mom dressing as a hipster for Halloween, the normcore movement, Sean's underage Jesse memories, trucker hats, the fake black lady in Spokane , Roderick on the L...
Matt, Andy and returning guest Auggie Smith get together to give a brief update on Jesse's health (while being very rudely interrupted by a leafblower) and go through story corrections and thank-yous. If listeners want to send well-wishes Jesse's way, feel free to email probablyscience@gmail.com and/or tweet @jessecase .
Throwing Shade co-host and Gay of Thrones director/writer Erin Gibson ( @gibblertron ) joins the gang to talk about Arnie at Starbucks, working at Gap, oil men and Texas textbooks, a chocolate science scam , herpes-based skin cancer therapy , Jesse's high school crack day, dementor wasps and zombie cockroaches , charismatic megafauna and the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, Erin's parallel universe Morrissey theory, autism and MDMA , more shit transplants, Corrections Corner and Menu4Mars ....
The hilarious Kira Soltanovich ( @kiracomedy ) returns to Probably Science to chat with the gang about naming her upcoming comedy special (and her upcoming daughter), Jesse's Smother Party and his big gay Irish following, hippie schools with cartoons and kissing teachers, a naked roommate appearance, Kira's fundraiser , Was That Science?, Corrections Corner: Wagga Wagga edition, getting attacked by a bug, how to say places, badly named bars, Alzheimer's and video games ( and a debunking ), jacki...
Comedian Chris Crofton ( @thecroftonshow ) of The Chris Crofton Show and the column Advice King joins the festivities to talk about doing comedy in front of your parents, Andy and Jesse's next door neighbors moving out, the worst things to buy at the grocery store, greased watermelon pool games, the crazy creator of the Erector Set , getting rid of that white stuff on chocolate , more Sex At Dawn discussion, walrus poon, NASA's impossible EM space drive that may in fact be a reality , conspiracy...
Dr. Christopher Ryan ( @ChrisRyanPhD ), author of the New York Times bestseller Sex At Dawn , joins Matt, Andy and comedian guests Caitlin Gill ( @robotcaitlin ) and Lisa Best ( @lisabestcomedy ) for a live installment of Probably Science recorded at the 2015 Bridgetown Comedy Festival ( @bridgetown ) in Portland, Oregon to talk about the prehistoric roots of modern sexuality, the devastating impact of agriculture on our species, why humans and bonobos are so horny and whether it's actually in o...
Comedian Rye Silverman ( @ryesilverman ) joins Jesse, Andy and eventually Matt to discuss the legendary Marty & Elayne , trans facts, the Riddick man , how to spot a ghost, Andy's Lasik surgery, Rye as ModCloth's first transgender model , the origins of life on earth , fracking and earthquakes , Yellowstone magma , Bitcoin vulnerablility , a shapeshifting frog , a catfish that looks like Greedo and Rye's new album Intimate Apparel ....
Comedian Ryan Singer ( @RySing ) joins the proceedings this week to talk about Eskimos, heart-to-heart hugs, the origin of toasting , when to use questions to influence people , the return of brontosaurus , the head transplant volunteer and the fears about what could happen to him , deaf people sneezing silently , wiping memories and the need for reinforcement , Western Razor (use code "science" for $5 off), lip-synching and the death of comedy, the world's first battery rocket , a mesh that sep...
