Probably Science
546 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 609 ratingsProfessional 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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Episode 483 - Erica Spera
February 13, 2023 20:01 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBComedian Erica Spera (@Spericaa) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about almost going into dentistry, prehistoric teeth, Andy's Mexican dental tourism, what we're supposed to call mummies now, monster cereals, AI Seinfeld's heel turn, Roko's basilisk, mummy chemicals, ancient stone tools and more stone tools and Soylent.
Episode 482 - Jo Rou
February 04, 2023 02:09 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBComedian/filmmaker Jo Rou (@awkwardlyjazzy) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss Santana's answer to Beats by Dre, the mystery of a gibbon immaculate conception solved, the tiny radioactive capsule that went missing in the outback, detecting cancer with customer loyalty cards, airbrushing Boris Johnson, Jesse's bad business ideas, the Snickers dick vein, World War I talk, the awful new show Power Slap and Jo's sitcom I Adore Dolores.
Episode 481 - Misophonia with Dr. Jane Gregory and Steve Hall
January 23, 2023 21:13 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBClinical psychologist and misophonia researcher Dr. Jane Gregory (@drjanegregory) and comedian Steve Hall (@astevehall) return to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about Jane's work studying misophonia, what to do if your spouse's breathing drives you insane, and what's on the horizon for treating the condition. Trigger non-warning: This episode contains NO examples of misophonia-triggering sounds. That we know of.
Episode 480 - Michael Magid
January 16, 2023 21:48 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBComedian, goalkeeper and coach Michael Magid (@michaelmagid) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to discuss Michael's football (soccer) podcast Inside the 18, his new social network The Union, quitting your gym with the help of AI, a Tesla that caused a pileup, a Tesla that thwarted a triple murder-suicide, fires in electric vs. gas cars, a breakthrough in reversing aging in mice, ripped old guys, Matt Braunger's Weight Smashers sketch, lab-grown retinal eye cells to treat blindness and Matt and Andy...
Episode 479 - Christina Martin
January 07, 2023 02:49 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBComedian turned author Christina Martin (@christinamartin) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about atmospheric rivers, shared names, Christina's book Ashes to Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer, putting on funerals for unidentified decedents, the return of a comet after 50,000 years, Newton's madness, Heaven's Gate sneaker collection, reversing erectile dysfunction in pigs and a real horror show of a pig.
Episode 478 - Sean Patton
December 31, 2022 19:48 - 1 hour - 52 MBComedian 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.
Episode 477 - Katrina Davis
December 22, 2022 21:42 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBComedian 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.
Episode 476 - David Nihill
December 13, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBComedian 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.
Episode 475 - Mike Bridenstine
December 06, 2022 05:44 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBComedian 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.
Episode 474 - Billy Wayne Davis
November 12, 2022 23:13 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBComedian 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.
Episode 473 - Joel Stein
November 01, 2022 20:59 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBJournalist-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.
Episode 472 - Susan Rogers
October 26, 2022 23:02 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBRecord 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...
Episode 471 - Charles Greaves
October 12, 2022 16:07 - 1 hour - 42 MBComedian 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.
Episode 470 - Harrison Greenbaum
October 01, 2022 18:59 - 59 minutes - 41.5 MBComedian/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.
Episode 469 - Matt, Jesse and Andy
September 23, 2022 02:42 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBMatt, 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.
Episode 468 - Auggie Smith
September 06, 2022 19:02 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBAuggie 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.
Episode 467 - Shane Mauss
August 20, 2022 00:32 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBComedian 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.
Episode 466 - JC Currais
August 05, 2022 01:31 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBComedian 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 DALL-E and the more lightweight version that we used to generate way too many pictures based on text prompts.
Episode 465 - Brian Keating
July 22, 2022 18:58 - 55 minutes - 38.6 MBUC 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.
Episode 464 - Natalia Reagan
June 30, 2022 22:12 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBAnthropologist/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
Episode 463 - Andrew O'Neill
June 23, 2022 22:59 - 57 minutes - 40.1 MBComedian 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.
Episode 462 - Peter Baynham
June 16, 2022 20:22 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBLegendary 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
Episode 461 - Science Friction with Emery Emery and Brian Malow
June 09, 2022 01:05 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBEmery 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.
Episode 460 - Robin Ince
June 01, 2022 22:25 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBComedian 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...
Episode 459 - Dave Foley
May 06, 2022 22:08 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBComedy 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.
Episode 458 - Greg Berman
April 26, 2022 19:07 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBComedian 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.
Episode 457 - Derrick Brown
April 12, 2022 20:54 - 57 minutes - 40 MBComedian, 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
Episode 456 - Tara Flynn
March 28, 2022 22:54 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBReturning 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.
Episode 455 - Wil Hodgson
March 22, 2022 21:08 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBComedian 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
Episode 454 - Paul Silky White
March 11, 2022 20:41 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBComedian 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
Episode 453 - Maggie Rowe
February 24, 2022 20:45 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBAuthor 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. This e...
Episode 452 - 10th Anniversary Special
February 05, 2022 22:02 - 1 hour - 44 MBBrooks 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
Episode 451 - Ify Nwadiwe
January 29, 2022 00:06 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBComedian 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
Episode 450 - Jordan Morris
January 11, 2022 05:55 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBWriter/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.
Episode 449 - Kimberly Clark
December 28, 2021 20:22 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBComedian 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.
Episode 449 - Kimblery Clark
December 28, 2021 20:22 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBComedian 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.
Episode 448 - TJ Chambers
December 11, 2021 22:34 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBComedian/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
Episode 447 - Matt Donnelly
December 05, 2021 21:20 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBComedian/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 and f...
Episode 446 - Double Asteroid Redirection Test with Dipak Srinivasan
November 23, 2021 04:37 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBDipak 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...
Episode 445 - Danielle Perez
November 18, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBComedian 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.
Episode 444 - Andrew Orvedahl
November 14, 2021 04:22 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBComedian, 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
Episode 443 - Lianna Carrera
November 06, 2021 22:29 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBComedian 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.
Episode 442 - Jesse, Matt and Andy
October 25, 2021 20:27 - 1 hour - 50 MBJesse, 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
Bonus Ep! Matt's going to Alameda.
October 22, 2021 04:42 - 27 minutes - 23.8 MBJesse 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.
Episode 441 - Julia Wilson
October 16, 2021 22:49 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBComedian, 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 acc...
Episode 440 - Jim VanBlaricum
October 08, 2021 23:41 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBComedian 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.
Episode 439 - Murray Valeriano
October 02, 2021 20:36 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBComedian 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.
Episode 438 - Charles Star
September 23, 2021 22:40 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBComedian/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
Episode 437 - Author Mary Roach
September 15, 2021 21:06 - 56 minutes - 39.3 MBMary 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.co...
Episode 436 - Lisa Curry
September 11, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBComedian 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.