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 ....
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 ....
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...
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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).
Dean Burnett ( @garwboy ) is a neuroscientist, comedian, blogger and author of the new book Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why , and he Skyped in with Matt and Andy to talk about the book, delving into the complex relationship that happiness and human brains have with work, love, fame, home, humor, aging and much more....
Comedian, writer and host of The Cracked Podcast Alex Schmidt ( @alexschmidty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about 3D printing, Gategate, phone facts, the English Larval Progression , Andy and Matt's recent Cracked appearance , eels on coke , black holes eating stars , cane toad sausages and lonely radiation bacteria....
Comedian Mitch Burrow ( @MitchBurrow ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about boot camp morning alarms, blueprint-building and 3D thought, deaf schizophrenia , Moshe Kasher's book , exploding head syndrome , cold water calorics test update , the unluckiest guy in Pompeii , why Guatemala's volcano is more dangerous than Hawaii's , all life on Earth by mass (and what we did to destroy it) , The Cove documentary and Mitch's podcast "We're With Them."...
Astrophysicist and professor at University of Rochester Adam Frank ( @AdamFrank4 ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth , a look at the history of scientific discoveries on planetary environments and the prospect of alien life, what the very high likelihood that extraterrestrial civilizations have existed in our universe can teach us about the fate of human life on Earth, how an inevitable growing pain of any civilization is cl...
Comedians and hosts of the upcoming Good Job You Failed podcast Vana Dabney ( @vanawrite ) and Deborah Etta Robinson ( @deborah_etta ) join Andy and Matt to discuss human echolocation, marsupials fucking themselves to death , death by fart smell, nerve regeneration (or lack thereof), the longest paths on Earth , non-detectable neutrinos , Deborah and Vana's podcast and bodybuilding goals. Watch Matt's clip on The Jim Jefferies Show here or here ....
Comedian and writer Jesse Joyce ( @jessejoyce ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about taxidermy, muskoxen , takins , red panda poop glitter , Qinling pandas, Gavin Webster's pandas , Bitcoin's energy usage , Jesse's dislike of live music, pouring warm and cold water in your ears , bad company names, patent trolls, discovering animals, Snoop's pinecone and the mysterious return of ozone ....
Comedian Robyn Morrison ( @RobynSomething ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss concert height etiquette, the best sciences on drugs, more aphantasia, snail memory , science trivia questions , sitcom tropes, Korean nukes , thermal tasters , hippo shit and drowning wildebeest ....
Neuroscientist/comedian Ori Amir ( @OriAmir ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about putting Matt in an fMRI, how your brain constructs jokes, prosopagnosia and aphantasia, politics and the brain, what computers find easy and hard , AI and game-solving , and more about Uber's bad driving . Plus, fill out this survey and we might go on a cruise together !...
Comedian Brett Erickson ( @iBrettmypants ) joins Matt and Andy on location at the Jim Jefferies Show offices to talk about meeting Slayer's guitarist Kerry King , Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars, Temple Grandin and her hug machine , aphantasia , penis transplant updates, New York water updates, DNA findings leading to the Golden State Killer , caterpillar danger , Globetrotters facts , an instrument to help reveal faint exoplanets , the Retro Encabulator , The Freeze , and large spl...
Comedian/actor/writer Emily Fleming ( @FlemilyEming ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss bad AI, gastro doctoring, constidar, Andy's phone getting stolen mid-show, the smell of Uranus , New York water, penis transplants , David Reimer , ravens ruining science , why privacy on the internet isn't privacy and kids bouncing back from bouncing ....
Comedian/neuroscientist Dr. Jono Zalay ( @JonoZalay ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss coke rats, accidental rat ejaculation, ibogaine for opiates , ketamine for depression , rodent cocktail, animal popularity , a daring baboon escape , pronouncing science words, endangered charismatic animals, chili head , the Scoville scale and Jono's licenses ....
Comedian and podcaster David Smalley ( @davidcsmalley ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bullying bullies, different names, Texan science, why meth is bad , paints for self-driving cars , herpes, 3D printing with space poop , what we should have printed , and women who lost their hair after eating bitter squash ....
Comedian and Guy Fieri apologist Shane Torres ( @shanetorres ) makes his first appearance on the show, joining Andy and Matt to talk about horse herpes and rodeo adaptation , the #DickTracyChallenge , super gonorrhea , acupuncture studies , cocaine and Parkinson's , spray-on skin update and HVAC and Legionnaires' disease....
Comedian Ian Abramson ( @ianabramson ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about the death of Jim Jefferies, the Inland Empire, Roger Bannister , how fast the average person can run, Dick Tracy, a rocket man and the flat earth conspiracy conspiracy , Andy's connection to a waterslide tragedy , Grantland's article about said waterslide , magic skin spray , dirty rubber duckies , the forensic mystery behind Legionnaires' disease , essential oils for boy boobs , California's silly Prop 65 cancer warning , ...
Actor and TOFOP co-host Charlie Clausen ( @CXClausen ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Aussie soaps , dental nightmares, Mask vs. The Mask , Eric Stoltz, Daylight Saving Time and koalas , smell-the-fart acting, political reasons for slow clocks , pizza innovation and The Noid , space twins and DNA , Dolph Lundgren gym run-ins and self-driving car risks....
Comedian /writer/producer/host of Adult Swim's Soft Focus Jena Friedman ( @JenaFreidman ) joins Matt and Andy for an on-location recording talking about Cannibal Cop, Jena's cold fusion-seeking grandfather , acupuncture and opioids, how the Sackler family are murderers , Hitler's art , new battery technology , Tesla's megabattery , Dinorwig , the political economy of Chicago's improv scene and Jena's thesis, the ethnographic method , the Comedy Cellar podcast and rape statistics , female emotion...
Comedian James Fritz ( @fritzisdead ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Kentucky science, Oscars theories, magic mushrooms , neanderthal art , turkey history and Ben Franklin on birds , airplane air, soldier terminology , the early universe , scientists running for office and Matt's recent Star Talk appearance with Stephen Hawking, Janna Levin and Michio Kaku ....
Writer and friend of the show Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) returns to talk with Matt and Andy about the prey defines the chase , vampire bats , memory wire, bismuth, robo-bees , playing HQ Trivia (and using the referral codes "andytwood" or "Mattbk"), Uber scams, plants and anesthesia , motherland vs. fatherland , curing Alzheimers in mice , pervy Koko the gorilla and reading too much into animal communication ....
Actress Zabeth Russell ( @zabsters ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Tom hanks killing a dog , placebo boobs, monkey sex workers , eye worms , fast and slow colors ( and more color experiments ), and dinosaurs overstretching . This episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter PROBABLY30....
Comedian/actor/voiceover artist Valerie Tosi ( @valerie_tosi ) joins Andy and Matt (and Roo) to discuss Andy's dogsitting business , whale dissection, Boston accents and pirate accents, Cheddar Man the early Brit , when humans first left Africa , potholing/spelunking , kids performing better when they're Batman , oil patterns on bowling lanes , SpaceX success , and blowing up their near misses , vaping risks and clove cigarettes ....
Actor/improviser Lauren Flans ( @laurenflans ) of Another Period , Wild 'n Out and the new podcast Tell Us We're Funny and We'll Go Away joins Matt and Andy to discuss travel credit cards and Mexican drugs, Orphan Black, anti-abortion teachers, legislating numbers , different infinities , '70s poison toys , radioactive Fiestaware , Gerrymandering and its origins , a fake RHCP song , lasers that can rip apart empty space , whales that talk , elephant painting, Svengali and Machiavelli , poisonous...
Comedian/actor/writer Kiran Deol ( @shitfromkiran ) joins Matt and Andy to help celebrate the six-year ( iron ) anniversary of the podcast and discuss crashing astronomy conferences, shooting Prince Rupert's drops , breathing oxygen at depth, predator/prey turning , chalk and cheese , monkey clones , celebrity pet adoption , crow hooks , space lungs and yucca injuries ....
Comedian, star of Those Who Can't and frontman of the band SPELLS Ben Roy ( @benroy00 ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Andy's accessibility, Poison songs, evolutionary psychology, the books The Mating Mind and The Righteous Mind , space growth , living underwater , cell phone risk , bats melting in Australia , frozen alligators , gila monster saliva helping diabetes , and bonobos liking jerks ....
