Comedian Sean Patton ( @mrseanpatton ) returns to the podcast to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about his new special Number One , comedian affectations, paradox-free time travel , alternate Hitler histories , water pipe robots to deal with leaks and how the sun put water on the moon ....
Comedian Katrina Davis ( @katrinasivad ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss gene-edited hens , baby dinosaurs running on the beach , snake clitorises and the correlation between vaccination status and car crashes ....
Comedian David Nihill ( @davidnihill ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss getting kicked out of science class, the potential impact of the release of OpenAI's mind-blowing ChatGPT , big news on the nuclear fusion front , Artemis 1 splashing down , Steve Aoki's upcoming trip to the moon , David Guetta's greatest moment and self-medicating great bustards ....
Comedian Mike Bridenstine ( @brido ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his podcast Hunk , a promising new HIV vaccine , the decline of key changes in popular music , the tyranny of the I V vi IV chord progression , how bin chickens learned to wash cane toads , a blast of light from a black hole , spurious correlations , how long we've known how far away the moon is , Andy's favorite dumb shirt IG account and the Nazi brothers who started competing shoe brands ....
Comedian Billy Wayne Davis ( @BillyWayneDavis ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his upcoming special TESTIFY (recorded at the International Church of Cannabis ), learning how to grow weed, the woman who only eats cheesy potatoes , seismic waves on the surface of Mars , the recent northern California fireballs , very low frequency sound that makes you dance without knowing it , bodies moving after death and The Last Electric Knight ....
Journalist-turned-podcaster Joel Stein ( @thejoelstein ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about his excellent new show Story of the Week , Elon charging for Twitter, out-of-touch billionaires, Joel's book In Defense of Elitism , why you shouldn't pick your nose , the Madagascan primate that eats its boogers , Tribble runs, smelly time travel, writing for Time magazine , meeting falconers, the problem with Halloween ghost costumes and Matt's upcoming tour with Sarah Millican ....
Record producer, audio engineer and professor Dr. Susan Rogers ' remarkable recording career included working as a staff engineer for Prince in his Purple Rain heyday, not to mention projects with David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. After two decades in the business, she shifted her focus to the science of music cognition, and she brings her extensive knowledge of all things audio to the new book This Is What It Sounds Like: What The Music You Love Says About You , digging i...
Comedian Charles Greaves ( @Greaves_Charles ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Jam In The Van , Nashville Armored Combat , chess boxing , spinlaunching a payload to 30,000 feet , how spinlaunching works , trying to solve the mystery of squirting , microwaving fish to make sustainable LEDs , and the dog Andy found on the road in Joshua Tree....
Comedian/magician Harrison Greenbaum ( @harrisoncomedy ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about doing comedy in Cirque du Soleil , the overlap between psychology, comedy and magic, men making riskier bets after a positive foretune-telling , dogs sniffing out stress in humans , successfully crashing DART into an asteroid and the heyday of vector graphics in the arcade ....
Matt, Jesse and Andy are back together to talk about Matt's wedding, the chess tournament anal bead rumors , how to cheat at roulette , batteries made from crab shells , finding organic matter on Mars , making super hot stuff , breakthroughs in carbon capture , the real story behind Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale and where to find quaaludes these days ....
Auggie Smith joins Matt and Jesse to discuss his new Dry Bar special , Tasmanian Tigers , plants that love booze , finding a massive fossil in your garden and leaky rockets ....
Comedian Shane Mauss ( @shane_mauss ) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about his upcoming Mind Under Matter science/comedy festival , Dan Ariely's study of pain , Peak-End Theory , advances in nuclear fusion and self-pleasure in space ....
Comedian JC Currais ( @jcstandup ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to discuss using dead spiders as robots , returning samples from Mars , a chess-bot that broke a little boy's finger and the miracle of OpenAI's D ALL-E and the more lightweight version that we used to generate way too many pictures based on text prompts ....
UC San Diego astrophysicist , podcaster and YouTuber Brian Keating ( @DrBrianKeating ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the inflation model versus the cyclic model of the universe, multiverses, how an astrophysicist conducts an experiment, working on BICEP at the South Pole , Brian's books Losing the Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible and joining Brian's mailing list for your chance to win an actual meteorite from SPACE ....
Anthropologist/comedian Natalia Reagan ( @natalia13reagan ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss her path from acting to the sciences, childhood fear of King Kong, primatology, a harrowing car accident, mites having sex on your face , rocket craters on the moon and spider monkey genitalia. This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...
Comedian Andrew O'Neill ( @destructo9000 ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy just before Andrew and Matt head off to Glastonbury to talk about Andrew's new BBC Radio 4 sitcom Damned Andrew , summoning the writing gods, working with Alan Moore, the feasibility of breathing through your butt , reverse mermaids and a fluffy crab that wears a sponge as a hat ....
Legendary comedy writer Peter Baynham ( @peterbaynham ) of the podcast Brain Cigar joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about sharks and megalodons , how bikes stay upright , another great collection of science article art and more , slinging a payload into the sky , discovering ancient Amazon settlements using lidar and some crazy cave art . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...
Emery Emery ( @emeryemeryii ) and Brian Malow ( @sciencecomedian ) return to the podcast to talk with Matt and Jesse about their recent movie Science Friction , images of a supermassive black hole , a reduction in pollution leading to more hurricanes , and insane depth-of-field on a record-breaking camera ....
Comedian and co-host of The Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince ( @robinince ) returns to the podcast while on a North American tour to talk with Matt and Andy about the love of science, using stories and mythology to convey real concepts, the different levels of infinity, a James Webb telescope update , an illustration of how the universe's expansion affects our perception of galaxies , dolphins recognizing their friends by the taste of their pee and strange data coming from Voyager I and Robin's b...
Comedy legend Dave Foley ( @DaveSFoley ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Dave's painfully funny and woefully overlooked movie The Wrong Guy (available on YouTube and BluRay ), early humans and their versions of movies , aphantasia updates, preserved blood vessels in dinosaur fossils , finding DNA and RNA bases in meteorites , and the upcoming reboot of Kids in the Hall, premiering May 13th on Prime Video ....
Comedian Greg Berman ( @bermancomedy ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to discuss Greg's recent motorcycle accident, his meditation podcast , Yakov Smirnoff, Chinese action hero Kevin Lee , Twitter news, detecting aphantasia by looking at pupils , the lack of reliability of brain scan studies , and making Uranus a priority ....
Comedian, publisher and poet Derrick Brown ( @derrickbrown ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to discuss gondola comedy, reality dating shows, the real meaning of the term fuckboy , cold spark machines , the speed of sound on Mars , a fossil of a dinosaur killed in an asteroid strike and splitting up T rex into three species . This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY...
Returning guest Tara Flynn ( @taraflynnirl ) of the podcast Now You're Asking joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to discuss bad Uber drivers, Andy's new stargazing tour guide gig , the most boring person in the world , how close Big Bird was to being on Challenger , pizza dough that rises without yeast , the comedy of Ben Bailey , a new and better ink for your colon tattoos , using okra to filter microplastics out of water and a possible fifth state of matter ....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ....
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 ....
