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Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshenprobablyscience.com
Professional comedians with so-so STEM pedigrees take you through this week in science. Incompetently. Featuring hosts Matt Kirshen, Andy Wood (and sometimes Jesse Case or Brooks Wheelan) along with a rotating cast of special guests from the worlds of comedy and science.
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Episodes

Episode 455 - Wil Hodgson

Comedian Wil Hodgson ( @WilHodgson ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss professional wrestling in England, giant spiders invading the east coast , ants and microchips that can sniff out cancer , and a vulva-shaped concept spacecraft . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...

Mar 22, 20221 hr 13 min

Episode 454 - Paul Silky White

Comedian Paul "Silky" White ( @paulsilkywhite ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Matt's UK covid adventures, Learned League , cooperating magpies , how to salute magpies , a possibly furry snake , Paul's Seychelles money , the recent discovery of Shackelton's ship and the excellent book about said ship . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...

Mar 11, 20221 hr 11 min

Episode 453 - Maggie Rowe

Author and actress Maggie Rowe ( @thismaggierowe ) returns to the show to chat with Matt, Andy and Jesse about her new book Easy Street: A Story of Redemption from Myself , as well as a black hole igniting a star formation , the recent sale of the Full House/Manson House , progress on the James Webb telescope , the impending crash of the ISS in 2031 , a SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon , a look at what a flat Earth would actually be like and the actual definition of a scientific theory . Thi...

Feb 24, 20221 hr 13 min

Episode 452 - 10th Anniversary Special

Brooks joins Andy, Matt and Jesse in celebration of a decade of Probably Science, talking about Pam & Tommy, wrestlers getting funny, aluminum, blasting tardigrades to distant stars using lasers , Station Eleven, which celebs should quit social media and Brooks' enthusiasm about the new Jackass movie. This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...

Feb 05, 20221 hr 4 min

Episode 451 - Ify Nwadiwe

Comedian and actor Ify Nwadiwe ( @ifynwadiwe ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about VR games, dolphin genitalia , how ice changes the way water boils and China's artificial moon . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...

Jan 29, 20221 hr 8 min

Episode 450 - Jordan Morris

Writer/podcaster Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) returns to the show to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about Tucker Max , peacocking, getting omicron, pitcher plants that call bats to poop in them , teaching goldfish to drive , lickable TVs , organic molecules on Mars and Jordan's graphic novel Bubble ....

Jan 11, 20221 hr 15 min

Episode 449 - Kimberly Clark

Comedian Kimberly Clark ( @ClarkKimberlyL ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about the 'cron, Yankee Candle Amazon reviews tanking whenever Covid spikes , sleeping bags to fix astronauts' squished eyeballs , a scent from babies' heads that makes men more docile , and Kimberly's recent appearance on Netflix's They Ready ....

Dec 28, 202158 min

Episode 448 - TJ Chambers

Comedian/writer TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) returns to the show to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about early covid days and The Great Debate , Viagra and Alzheimer's , not knowing how drunk you are and a new way to get ammonia . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Dec 11, 20211 hr 1 min

Episode 447 - Matt Donnelly

Comedian/magician/podcaster Matt Donnelly ( @sweetmattyd ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about getting into magic later in life, podcasting with Penn Jillette , doing some mind-noodling on Fool Us , new faces in magic to look out for , the fight over the blackest black , using mirrors to figure out if animals are self-aware , self-replicating xenobots , and Matt's magic insider podcast Abracababble . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off an...

Dec 05, 20211 hr 24 min

Episode 446 - Double Asteroid Redirection Test with Dipak Srinivasan

Dipak Srinivasan ( @dipaksrinivasan ), the External Engagements Lead with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (and Andy's former college classmate and roommate) returns to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about tomorrow's launch of NASA's first planetary defense mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) , which will travel to the binary asteroid system Didymos over the course of next year to crash into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its path and learn about ...

Nov 23, 20211 hr 8 min

Episode 445 - Danielle Perez

Comedian and writer Danielle Perez ( @DivaDelux ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about party lines, Russian space debris , the amazing volcano snail , checking on who's currently in space , a storm that brought out too many scorpions , Brazilian butt lifts, working on Curb Your Enthusiasm, TikTok tics and dancing mania....

Nov 18, 20211 hr 12 min

Episode 444 - Andrew Orvedahl

Comedian, podcaster and tabletop game creator Andrew Orvedahl ( @TheOrvedahl ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about the process of creating good games, orreries , more hidden passageways , cats tracking their owners' voices , a fungus that inspires necrophilia in flies , another fungus that turns ants into zombies and some neutrino news . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Nov 14, 20211 hr 26 min

Episode 443 - Lianna Carrera

Comedian Lianna Carrera ( @LiannaC ) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to discuss having a deaf parent, rebellious sign language, more hidden doors , planets outside of the Milky Way , dogs with ADHD , condor chicks born from unfertilized eggs , ZW chromosomes , and elephants evolving to lose their tusks due to poaching ....

Nov 06, 20211 hr 13 min

Episode 442 - Jesse, Matt and Andy

Jesse, Matt and Andy get together for a spookily guest-less episode discussing TMNT live on stage , The Wombles , the broken technology of ghost-hunting , the overlooked vampire western Near Dark , Ding Dong School , attaching a pig kidney to a human and how we sense the lack of calories in fake sugar . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Oct 25, 20211 hr 12 min

Bonus Ep! Matt's going to Alameda.

Jesse joins Matt for a mini bonus episode to plug his shows in Alameda. Tickets here. But they get stuck into the "science" of ghosts! Vikings in America! And then they get very confused about atomic clocks ....

Oct 22, 202127 min

Episode 441 - Julia Wilson

Comedian, book store owner and football player Julia Wilson ( @julia__wilson ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss being a bit of a unit, using augmented reality to tackle your fear of spiders , a building that melts cars , overcoming fear with Wondrium , where to look for life on Mars , the most books published by one author and Julia's past as a bouncer with an adrenaline superpower. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited ac...

Oct 16, 20211 hr 20 min

Episode 440 - Jim VanBlaricum

Comedian and barkeep Jim Van Blaricum ( @crappycinemanyc ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the final month of his outstanding bar Bernadette's , the other Jim VanBlaricum , new math and being old, more info on the whitest paint you know , meth pee , why you shouldn't swim away from a sea snake , the zookeeper who's common-law married to a crane , dolphin handjobs , so many paintball movies and an absolute chonker of a comet ....

Oct 08, 20211 hr 12 min

Episode 439 - Murray Valeriano

Comedian and host of the new music trivia show For What It's Worth Murray Valeriano ( @murrayv ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss extinctions , drugs in the water around Glastonbury , potty-training cows to save the environment , Andy's recent Judge John Hodgman appearance , a new Isle of Wight dinosaur and dinosaur artists ....

Oct 02, 20211 hr 3 min

Episode 438 - Charles Star

Comedian/lawyer Charles Star ( @Ugarles ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about the magic of A Special Thing , multi-level marketing, entertainment and the law, a desktop gravitational wave detector that found something interesting , using bodily fluids to make concrete on Mars and capturing carbon dioxide from our cars . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Sep 23, 20211 hr 9 min

Episode 437 - Author Mary Roach

Mary Roach ( @mary_roach ), author of the new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law , returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about traveling the world to investigate animal crimes, wily burglar bears, birds annoying the Vatican, plant toxins, The Great Emu War, and the lack of distinction between cougars, pumas, panthers and mountain lions. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/...

Sep 15, 202157 min

Episode 436 - Lisa Curry

Comedian Lisa Curry ( @lisa_curry ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Balloon Boy ( and his father and his band ), royal memorabilia, Lisa's recent trip to Dubai, priest and pope selection , a star gulping down a black hole and exploding , the effects of hot dogs on life expectancy and a better way to produce ammonia ....

Sep 11, 20211 hr 10 min

Episode 435 - Caitlin Gill

Comedian and fellow desert-dweller Caitlin Gill ( @robotcaitlin ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Mt. Etna growing 100 feet , 9,000 Covid cases from Euro 2020 games and ants using soil physics to excavate tunnels that last decades . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Aug 28, 20211 hr 3 min

Episode 434 - David B. Lyons and Jesse Case

Jesse returns to the show to help welcome David B. Lyons ( @david_b_lyons ), a podcaster and film location manager who not only co-created Yacht Rock but also has the inside scoop on Norbit and why Eddie Murphy loves fat suits. David and the gang also discuss three volcanoes erupting simultaneously , curbing methane emissions , wandering mammoths , a T. Rex selling at auction , the crazy story behind the Twilight Zone movie and Matt's show Memory Hole on Roku . This episode is brought to you by ...

Aug 19, 20211 hr 12 min

Episode 433 - Nato Green

Comedian Nato Green ( @natogreen ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his work as a labor organizer, his appearance in Sorry To Bother You , bird-eating centipedes , ancient trigonometry , cranking it to prevent prostate cancer and whales benefitting from covid . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Aug 07, 20211 hr 6 min

Episode 432 - Brian Kiley

Comedian and writer Brian Kiley ( @kileynoodles ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Andy's new injury, a very reasonable argument for getting vaccinated if you were on the fence about it , Australian cockatoos teaching each other to dumpster dive , a dancing cockatoo , how to bank your voice for others to use , Alex Trebek on Conan , a Russian module mishap on the ISS, Andy's obsession with Olympic swimming and the greatness of Caeleb Dressel , petrified wood and a sponge fossil that's almost a bil...

Aug 02, 20211 hr 5 min

Episode 431 - Sean Devlin

Comedian Sean Devlin joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new album Airports, Animals , magic eye posters and Brian May stereoscopy , failed flower making floral fractals , converting brain waves to speech , and dogs ignoring liars and helping out in courtrooms . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Jul 22, 20211 hr 7 min

Episode 430 - Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan

Jordan Morris (@ Jordan_Morris ) and Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) return to the podcast to celebrate the release of their new graphic novel Bubble and talk about fish brains that grow when they think , bendy ice , Richard Branson kind of going to space and extreme temps in Siberia . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a 14-day free trial with unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably...

Jul 17, 20211 hr 12 min

Episode 429 - Justin Decloux

Comedian and podcast host Justin Decloux ( @DeclouxJ ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss how Tasmanian devils get their face cancer , the benefits of mixing vaccines , the dragon man who isn't much of a dragon , figuring out when the first stars shone , and using CRISPR to treat a genetic disease . and Andy's latest writing project, Season 2 of Could You Survive The Movies? This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a 14-day free trial with unlimited access by ...

Jun 28, 20211 hr 13 min

Episode 428 - Atsuko Okatsuka

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka ( @AtsukoComedy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Andy's summer of pyromania, a hiccup-curing doohicky , a newly discovered plant organ , that $24 million book on Amazon , Tasmanian devils eating too many penguins , Benedict Cumberbatch's penglings , ineffective spider makeup and Atsuko's latest album But I Control Me . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a 14-day free trial with unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probab...

Jun 23, 20211 hr

Episode 427 - J Elvis Weinstein

Writer/performer J. Elvis Weinstein ( @JElvisWeinstein ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about being in the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000, figuring out which of the echidna's numerous penises get erect , invasive species hitching rides on ocean litter , Australia's largest dinosaur , pupil size as an intelligence marker , first views of a giant moon rocket , the anonymous rich person hitching a brief ride into kind-of space with Bezos and Matt's upcoming live shows in Fort Collins an...

Jun 18, 20211 hr 11 min
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