Probably Science

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 teac...

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 M...

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...

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 behi...

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 Jen...

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...

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 ,...

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 ca...

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...

Comedian Ricky Carmona ( @RickyCarmona ) of the podcast Who Shot Ya? joins Andy and Matt to talk about when to say Happy New Year, Weird Science vs. Real Genius, how to stop superbugs , raw water , the other John Snow , laser eagles , slowing down light , power plant mirrors that explode birds, things deadlier than sharks and parking mathematics .

Friends of the show TJ Chambers ( @TJChambersLA ) and Auggie Smith  ( @AuggieSmith ) return to kick off 2018 with TJ and Andy's new podcast Twinsies ( @twinsiespod ),  space beer , monkeys bonin' deer , the recent SpaceX launch , traveling salesbees , sleeping jellyfish , Matt Walker on sleep ( and on Probably Science ), how to keep your exercise resolution , and  Tommy Wiseau's surprise tenant .

Matt's on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton ( @newton_pete ) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren't all they're cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia, safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins , anaconda attacks in the field, the perils...

Matt and Andy make a visit to the home of Jim Jefferies ( @jimjefferies ) to talk about a very British car accident , self-driving cars , Ted Danson's amazing face, feeding spiders graphene , a new space tire , Mars temperatures, cricket commentary, onion ubiquity , Dubai space agriculture , business class from the ground, and upsetting rock stars.

Host of the Rock Solid podcast Pat Francis ( @pat_francis ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important , homeless etiquette, Voyager I firing up again , coffee and health , grammar rules and beard posturing .