Matt and Andy traveled to downtown LA's Pershing Square and City Hall to take part in the March for Science , along the way speaking with various groups who had set up booths for the event, and even a neuroscientist listener who took the time to chat about her work giving cocaine to mice. Don't forget that Probably Science (and Andy and Matt individually) will be performing live at Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival on May 7th. Get your festival passes now at bridgetowncomedy.com...
Apr 28, 2017•42 min
Married comedians Mary Mack ( @marymackcomedy ) and Tim Harmston ( @timharmston ) sit down with Andy and Matt to talk about Frog rockets, orchestral doubling, Army band status, Guy Fawkes, accidentally melting science , dinobirds , kids with beaks, triple yolks, yogurt toppings economics, the book-stacking problem and why shoelaces come untied ....
Apr 19, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Comedians Bryan Vokey ( @BryanVokey ), Carmen Morales ( @thefunnycarmen ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) join Andy and Matt to discuss Georgia creationism, sperm-delivered drugs , erogenous T-Rex noses , geological Brexit , Segways on boats, Andy's mathematics puzzle, hamsters on Viagra and how memories are made ....
Apr 14, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Returning guest Henry Phillips ( @henlips ) of Punching Henry fame sits down with Matt and Andy to discuss graphene water filtration , a real-life (sort-of) Iron Man , funny foreign names, CT scan risks , CTs vs. MRIs, biologics, dumb/smart interview questions and the probability of rude names happening randomly....
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Comedian MK Paulsen ( @mkpaulsen ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Crazy Frog , public policy, October Sky, RIP radioactive boy scout , a heart of spinach , German fake suns , beating cancer and stopping aging , corrections corner, Andy's new swim teammate, strep, the Ten Commandments, tits on Nazis and chimp death rituals ....
Mar 28, 2017•1 hr 26 min
Comedian Phoebe Bottoms ( @phoebebottoms ) and returning guest TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) join Andy and Matt to discuss the Boaty McBoatface submarine , sirens and pigs , breaking up with your physics teacher, naughty snooping dildos , microphones in your pocket, why avoiding gluten might hurt you , unvaccinated Australians , OCD , which animals you can't keep as pets , why plastic is still bad , why licking video games is no fun anymore , Egg-wina and pee danger....
Mar 18, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Hot on the heels of her recent Tonight Show appearance , comedian Candice Thompson ( @jokesbyCandice ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Punching Henry, the movie Matt is in with Henry Phillips , ASMR, Richard Simmons , anti-Brit racism, what zoo animals taste like , Neanderthals' medication , mini-pigs and films about them, iCondoms , 3D printing medical supplies and pizzas , swimming pool pee and dog fMRIs ....
Mar 10, 2017•59 min
Comedian and actor Johnny Pemberton ( @johnnypemberton ) of Son of Zorn joins Matt and Andy to discuss water shortage solutions and Indiegogo lies , pipe bombs, ulcerative colitis, money you can piss on, a better way to crowdsource , training bees to play with balls , chiropractic, more opinions on cats and toxo, saving polar ice and eating da poo-poo ....
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Comedian Kate Willett ( @katewillett ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about NASA's big exoplanet announcement and Episode 70 of our show discussing exoplanet research , the twin paradox , twin astronauts , fake Twitter accounts, a study showing that cats may not make you crazy , and a chiropractor's creative menstrual invention ....
Feb 22, 2017•50 min
Comedians Ever Mainard ( @evermainard ) and Deborah Etta ( @deborah_etta ) join Andy and Matt to talk about scientific weirdos and Galois , starfish and STDs and regrowing dicks, finger regrowth , Matt's awful ex, why whales jump , unethical kitten experiments , science fairs gone wrong, more blood and shit stuff, moon stuff and monkeys and dogs judging cooperation in humans . This episode is brought to you by Audible. For a free 30-day trial, visit audible.com/psp ....
Feb 13, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Danish comedian Simon Talbot ( @simontalbot_ ) recently relocated to the US, and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about Andy's cold apartment, Jehovah's witnessing, Simon's weird blood, our no-butthole ancestor , dinosaur protein , Danish traditions, time crystals , ask-a-sociopath, talking viruses and a possible way to reverse antibiotic resistance ....
Feb 06, 2017•1 hr 11 min
British comic James Acaster ( @JamesAcaster ) stopped by to talk with Matt and Andy about city rivalries, science marches, conga/flute/didgeridoo combos, Jerusalem Syndrome and Paris Syndrome , human/pig chimeras , cats possibly being as intelligent as dogs , Matt not knowing how big an otter is, giant otter fossils , slowing down light , a light speed sonic boom and James' band Luna Dott Raids the Bee Pigeon ....
Jan 30, 2017•1 hr 11 min
Podcaster Andrew Ti ( @ANDREWTI ) of the popular show ( and blog ) Yo, Is This Racist ? joins Andy and Matt to talk about injecting frog neurotoxins in eyes , unethical self-experiments, the EPA vs. Trump , fake news inoculation , a free course on critical reasoning , poop stuff, mouse lasers , dumb psychopaths and who is, in fact, racist....
Jan 26, 2017•1 hr 26 min
Comedy writer and improviser Laura Willcox ( @Laura_Willcox ) and comedian Andy Peters ( @andy_peters ) join Matt and Andy to talk about famous and not famous namesakes, failing low-level tests, sharks reproducing asexually , dud rockets, rhino shit as social media , cat marking and the parasites in it , a massive Venus wave , the truth about lemmings and other potentially dodgy kids' films , plus alchemy ....
Jan 18, 2017•1 hr 33 min
Actor/author Maggie Rowe ( @ThisMaggieRowe ) has written for Arrested Development and produced both Hollywood Hell House and Hollywood Purity Ball , and her new book Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience chronicles her early experiences as a born-again Christian and her time spent in an Evangelical psychiatric facility. Maggie joins Matt and Andy to discuss entropy and evolution , false memory and sleep , synaesthesia and lightning strikes , icebergs and global warming , the antimatter...
Jan 10, 2017•1 hr 23 min
British standup and sketch comic Steve Hall ( @stevehallcomedy ) happened to be stateside for the holidays, so he stopped by to talk with Matt and Andy about pamphlets and Thomas Paine, the passing of dark matter-discoverer Vera Rubin , ants using tiny sponges to carry honey , new evidence that suggests an iceberg didn't cause the Titanic to sink , why sustainable fishing might not be the best , molten underground rivers , Bill Gates and an effective Ebola vaccine , Dr. Jane Gregory's Cognitive ...
Jan 03, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Sylvia Tara ( @SylviaTaraPhD ) holds a PhD in biochemistry, and in her new book The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means For You she examines the function and behavior of fat, why it's essential to our lives, how our genetics, gender, hormones and microbiomes affect it and much more. Her book is on sale December 27th, and you can pre-order it here or visit thesecretlifeoffat.com for more information. This episode is brought to you by Curiosit...
Dec 20, 2016•47 min
Comedian and former marine biologist Forrest Shaw ( @forrestshaw ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss face painting and Mexican fireworks and lax laws, manatee preservation and their removal from storm drains , a bid to save the smallest porpoise , Chinese appetites for rare animals , a feathery dinosaur tail encased in amber , SSREs and the bees of the ocean ....
Dec 17, 2016•1 hr 22 min
Comedy Central Roast writer Bryan Olsen ( @olsen__ ) and comedian Dominic Harris ( @DomComedy ) sit down with Matt ( @mattkirshen ) and Andy ( @andytwood ) to talk about battery pigs, Dom's lost episode, Saint Bernard and Air Bud, Buzz and Antarctica , Dominic the debutante , dog memory , gut Parkinson's , fecal transplants again , new elements , the chemistry helpline, uncombable hair syndrome , platypus venom that can help diabetes and Dominic's new album. This episode is brought to you by Cur...
Dec 05, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Comedian and movie reviewer Cecily Knobler ( @Cecilysaysstuff ) joins returning guest Auggie Smith ( @auggiesmith ) and Andy ( @andytwood ) to discuss hospice humor, intervention critiques, Andy Dick stories, sex addiction getting depathologized , Auggie's issues with addicts, Cecily's neuropsychology background, Myers-Briggs personality types, high school kids undercutting Martin Shkreli's expensive drugs , Google's AI that can lip read better than humans , SNL's Trump responsibility, naming Se...
Dec 01, 2016•1 hr 38 min
Comedian Eric Lampaert ( @EricLampaert ) and returning guest JJ Whitehead ( @JJWhitesnake ) join Matt and Andy to discuss NASA's Space Poop Challenge , paper bike helmets , an end to zika's global health emergency , the hanging of a shipwrecked monkey and a circus elephant , JJ's new album and two moose found locked together in ice . This episode is brought to you by Curiosity Box by Vsauce . To get your mystery box full of geeky science toys and gear along with a FREE Vsauce beanie, visit curio...
Nov 23, 2016•1 hr 21 min
Comedian, engineer and outspoken moderate Toby Muresianu ( @tobymuresianu ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss President-Elect Trump on vaccines , Vice President-Elect Pence on smoking , Macedonian Facebook clickbait , polling methodologies, the supermoon , dog domestication , brain wifi that reverses monkey paralysis and a new type of bond ....
Nov 15, 2016•1 hr 7 min
Comedian and former environmental scientist Grant Lyon ( @grantlyon1 ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, naked cow science, why reservoirs aren't all good , surgery farts , nightmare machines , sentencing algorithms , a third hominid and Patient Letter O . This episode is brought to you by Curiosity Box by Vsauce . To get your mystery box full of geeky science toys and gear along with a FREE Vsauce beanie, visit curiositybox.com/probablyscience ....
Nov 11, 2016•1 hr 17 min
Comedian , podcaster and author Moshe Kasher ( @moshekasher ) returns to the show, inviting Andy and Matt over to his place to talk about playground games, Moshe's entomologist stepdad, s tealthy spider eaters , mice fall for the same tricks as humans , the rise of renewables , vaccine deniers who accidentally proved the counterargument , conspiracy theories, the AIDS denial mom , the Duesberg hypothesis , an accidental discovery of a way to slow aging in the brain and porn theaters....
Nov 02, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Comedian, musician and bestselling author Greg Behrendt ( @gregorybehrendt ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the joys of riding bikes , Laird Hamilton shooting the pier in Malibu , teachers' penises, c od accents , N azis on meth , Provigil and sleep , b lack widow spider viruses , a c orrection to the intelligence story , Alan Turing music and Dr. Strange....
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 25 min
Writer/comedian extraordinaire Lizzy Cooperman ( @lizzycooperman ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Invisalign, fan death , having Lyme disease , Nobel Prizes in chemistry , physics and medicine , self-eating boobs and the end of Rosetta ....
Oct 17, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Comedian Shawn Pearlman ( @shawnpearlman ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about Shawn's early movie effects, budgie rules for not colliding , boning young spiders , amateur turtle surgery, getting intelligence from your mother , a baby with three parents and the most accurate (and adorable) dinosaur renderings yet ....
Oct 10, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Steele Saunders ( @SteeleSaunders ), host of I Love Green Guide Letters and Steele Wars , joins Matt and Andy to talk about mice and apologies, more body (not head) transplants. smoke bombs , weed vs. opioids in car crashes , bumper sticker flashing, Australians origins , and giraffes actually being many giraffes ....
Sep 30, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Matt sits down with returning guest comedian Shane Mauss ( @shanecomedy ) to talk about his podcast Here We Are , his new tour all about psychedelics called A Good Trip , his early days as a more straightforward standup, his dalliances into evolutionary biology, the state of scientific research into recreational drugs, simulated near-death experiences, and the differences between trying ayahuasca and DMT....
Sep 16, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Comedians Christian Duguay ( @christianduguay ) and Emily Maya Mills ( @emilymayamills ) join Matt and Andy at Andy's new apartment to talk about screaming at roommates, burning ants, Hitler's disguises, bank robbery, infant simulators that actually increase teen pregnancy , Lucy's death , a miraculous new painkiller , ecstasy/MDMA, Tasmanian devils developing cancer resistance and the ban on antibacterial soap ....
Sep 06, 2016•1 hr 15 min
