Probably Science

Comedy legend , podcasting pioneer and author Todd Glass ( @ToddGlass ) helps Andy, Matt and Jesse celebrate the 150th episode and the new identities they’ve been assigned by discussing stalagmites and stalactites, Jesus painting restoration , anonymous donors, a guy with endless déjà vu , ketamine and anesthetics, boners and massages, bouncing water , sex education, unboiling an egg , getting pai...

Former psychology major and tight end-turned-comedian Patrick Keane  joins the proceedings this week to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Chinese diaper trains, Wims and Pims, the video of Stefan Pop's visit to Bluebell Ranch , celebrity photographs and autographs, snow shoveling and heart attacks , polar bear wangs and pollution , some annoying truth-stretching in The Imitation Game , Alan Tur...

Television's Tone Bell  finally makes his Probably Science debut this week to help the gang with topics including Ted Bundy's jello woes, Tone's cat restructuring, a punk rock Joe Strummer   snail ,  weird shipwreck metal ,  ancient milk drinking ,  how Facebook likes can predict personality ,  ketamine's depression uses , Andy's Uber/Lyft tales,  an unbeatable poker computer  and things Jesse wou...

Comedian and co-host of The Dollop   Gareth Reynolds joins Jesse, Andy and Matt this week to talk about Hollywood tourists, Gareth's important moss experiments, airborne farts , the point of the narwhal's point , an antibiotic breakthrough , what self-tickling tells us about brains , materiAl vs. materiEl ,  why lady jizz ain't jizz , why lady jizz may in fact be jizz , HIV getting milder  and Nat...

Matt, Jesse and Andy haven't seen each other in about a month, so this week's episode is a guest-free chance for everyone to catch up on each other's December goings-on, including Andy's Nicaraguan war stories and Jesse's bro-lesque competition, along with updates on SpaceX's aborted launch , Elon Musk's Reddit AMA , a British effort to send a probe to the moon  ( and how you can add your DNA to t...

The ProbSci gang aren't all back in town together just yet, so to hold you over until our next new episode, please enjoy Jesse's interview with Lizard Case, a Nashville songwriter and tavern proprietor who also happens to be his father. Happy New Year!

Actor/ podcaster /improv master/festival producer Janet Varney  ( @janetvarney ) sits down with the crew on this week's episode to talk about voicing the hero of The Legend of Korra , the hilarious Bachelor parody Burning Love , Janet's first LA acting gig on Catwoman, growing up near Biosphere 2 , Janet's award-winning science fair project on burning stuff, trash-eating seagulls , Radiolab's look...

Anthropologist and spider monkey expert Dr. Christina Campbell  joins the gang this week to get an update on Jesse's kidney stones and talk about her field of expertise, including research on Barro Colorado Island , the snubbing of Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace , Jesse trying to adopt a wallaby,  Chris Burke’s Eating Is Fun/Eating Is Serious , Dr. Campbell's book on spider monkeys , th...

Shop Amazon for the holidays  and enjoy comedian and musician Mike Phirman  ( @phirm ) as he joins the crew to talk about kidney stones and Jesse's trip to urgent care, Mike's iodine allergy, the millenial malady of text neck , a man who can sort of hear wifi , the sound of Comet 67P and Philae , Hard 'n' Phirm's ode to the numerical value pi , Chicken Monkey Duck , Build-a-Song , Trace Elements ,...

As you shop using the Probably Science Holiday Gift Guide , listen to the wonderful Alison Haislip  of Attack of the Show  fame as she talks with Andy, Jesse and Matt about world peace, annoying parkour people, the daily life of Valley Villagers, finding a 26-year-old letter to Tony Hawk in the garage, Matt's recommended gentle comedy The Castle , Alison's four-year stint at Space Camp, getting se...

It's time for the first  Probably Science Holiday Gift Guide ! While you're taking care of all your seasonal shopping needs there, you can enjoy this week's episode with former tennis pro and current comedy pro  Michael Kosta , who joins the gang to talk about Matt turning into a real boy, being a good samaritan with a lost phone, the horror of found comedy notebooks, hippie journals, Michael and...

Producer of The Meltdown , co-host of The Indoor Kids  podcast and former couples therapist Emily Gordon joins the festivities this week to talk about rage oranges, webcams, Jesse making three Subway trips in a day,  why rocket science is so damn hard , co-ed fraternities, people trying to get free therapy at parties, Emily's blog , decorating your house with Dave Kloc posters , astronomy sleuths...

This week's guest is that rarest of Probably Science breeds: A comic with a PhD. Scientist-turned-comedian  Tim Lee  joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about crispness,  anadromous fishes , California water subsidies,  Australia's Big Banana , the problem with butt implants,  next-generation CubeSats using iodine propellant ,  working in financial dark pools , The financial exposé  Flash Boys , Je...

British comic par excellence  Holly Walsh  (twitter.com/wiggywalsh) joins the proceedings this week to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about British podcasting wigs, courtroom caricature artists, a dog that looks like Frederick Douglass, bum-to-bum golden retriever humping, the Pope's  bold stance on evolution and the Big Bang ,  Matt's Bloodhound Gang fandom,  Pussy energy drink ,  the love hormon...

Time-traveling Aussie comedy phenom,  TOFOP  host and all around great guy  Wil Anderson returns to the show on a spooky Halloween week to talk with the gang about: Bungee jumping pranks! Grown-ass adults who believe in ghosts! Presidents lying about their religion! Wil being sent back from the future to save this podcast! The depressingly high percentages of Americans who believe in haunted house...

Comedy and music virtuoso Henry Phillips (twitter.com/HenLips) visits with Matt, Jesse and Andy on the heels of recording his upcoming Netflix special to talk about: Bad comedy introductions! Walking miracles! Being an awkwardness magnet! Elvis fandom! Physics and free will! Listener theme songs! Guitar worship! Disrespecting the legacy of Eddie Van Halen! Revisionist comedy and music history! The...

Saturday Night Live/Mad TV Alum Jeff Richards (tastyjeff.com) pops in to talk to Andy and Jesse about: Why school sucks! Freddie Mercury's jacket! Lost cities revealed by lasers! Crystals that let us breathe underwater! Facebook's experimenting apology! Silence of the Lambs impressions... a lot of them! Why fat guys are better lovers! Stu's attempts at home improvement! Lab-grown genitals!

Colonel Chris Hadfield (twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield) is a highly decorated Canadian astronaut, test pilot, engineer and former commander of the Internation Space Station, and on his most most recent mission became famous for his thousands of photographs and hundreds of videos shot on the ISS, including a music video cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity that has been viewed hundreds of millions of tim...

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Returning guest Jordan Morris (twitter.com/Jordan_Morris) of Jordan, Jesse, Go! and @midnight fame joins Matt, Jesse and Andy this week to share stories about Burning Man and to pick the brain of Caltech computer scientist Dr. Matt Faulkner, who built an insanely awesome musically controlled Tesla Coil at this year's burn. Topics discussed include: Deciduous breasts! Googling with Bing! Lying abou...

British comedy phenom Roisin Conaty (twitter.com/roisinconaty) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy this week to talk about: The oppressive Los Angeles heatwave! Bits and bobs! The vastly underrated music of Cheap Trick! An amazing listener-created theme song! Send us your space questions for an upcoming guest! Growing up believing eyelashes were autonomous organisms! The Forer Effect explaining how psychic...

Rising comedy star and pride of Scotland Daniel Sloss (twitter.com/Daniel_Sloss) returns to the show to chat with Andy, Jesse and Matt about: Bill Nye's comedy roots! Daniel's mother's Twitter activity (twitter.com/drles)! Semen's state of matter! The Jack The Ripper story everyone's talking about! Extreme haunted houses! Brain-to-brain communication! A testicular meeting of the minds! The purpose...

Comedian/writer/producer Bethany Dwyer (twitter.com/BethanyDwyer) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to talk about: Internet indignation over leaked celeb nudes! Burning Man stories! A moment of silence for the dead space geckos! Self-love in space! The effects of breastfeeding on depression! Dead stars reigniting! Solving the paradoxes caused by traveling back in time! Getting angry at time-tra...

Matt is back from his travels abroad, and he welcomes British writer/actor/producer Adrian Poynton (twitter.com/AdrianPoynton) to the podcast to talk about: The listener-made country/western re-imagining of the ProbSci theme! Getting kicked out of chemistry class! A pseudo-scientific look at the history of shoe sizes! Secret codes for elevators! Salmon cannons! Right-wing Internet comments! Gettin...

Actress, Who Charted? host and documentary director Kulap Vilaysack (twitter.com/kulap) joins returning guest Mark Agee (twitter.com/markagee) to talk with Andy and Jesse about: Andy's Burning Man address (it's 5:30 and A)! The fact that no one knows about this podcast! Comic book jocks! Discovering your parents aren't who you thought they were! Kulap's upcoming documentary Origin Story (originsto...