Probably Science

Writer/comedian extraordinaire Lizzy Cooperman ( @lizzycooperman ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Invisalign, fan death , having Lyme disease , Nobel Prizes in chemistry , physics and medicine , self-eating boobs  and the end of Rosetta .

Comedian Shawn Pearlman ( @shawnpearlman ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about Shawn's early movie effects, budgie rules for not colliding , boning young spiders , amateur turtle surgery, getting intelligence from your mother , a baby with three parents and the most accurate (and adorable) dinosaur renderings yet .

Steele Saunders ( @SteeleSaunders ), host of I Love Green Guide Letters and Steele Wars , joins Matt and Andy to talk about mice and apologies, more body (not head) transplants. smoke bombs , weed vs. opioids in car crashes , bumper sticker flashing, Australians origins , and giraffes actually being many giraffes .

Matt sits down with returning guest comedian Shane Mauss  ( @shanecomedy ) to talk about his podcast Here We Are , his new tour all about psychedelics called A Good Trip , his early days as a more straightforward standup, his dalliances into evolutionary biology, the state of scientific research into recreational drugs, simulated near-death experiences, and the differences between trying ayahuasca...

Comedians Christian Duguay ( @christianduguay ) and Emily Maya Mills  ( @emilymayamills ) join Matt and Andy at Andy's new apartment to talk about screaming at roommates, burning ants, Hitler's disguises, bank robbery, infant simulators that actually increase teen pregnancy , Lucy's death , a miraculous new painkiller , ecstasy/MDMA, Tasmanian devils developing cancer resistance  and the ban on an...

Comedians Ahmed Bharoocha ( @ahmedbharoocha ) and Auggie Smith ( @auggiesmith ) join Matt and Andy for the final recording from Bluebell Ranch, which happens to coincide with an apocalyptic forest fire in the area, and the crew discuss topics including bouncy castle economics, zorbs in Russia , a new hard material , the Mohs hardness scale , Pliny the Elder , the Randi paranormal challenge , new b...

Science teacher-turned-comedian Al Jackson ( @aljackson ) joins Matt and Andy for one of the final Bluebell recordings ( also video streamed on Facebook here ) to talk about ball-boiling as contraception , why flossing may not help you , steroids in sports, Al's research , stomach taps , old cars vs. new cars , firefighting equipment sharing  and fire in space .

Dr. Farah Alibay , a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, invited Matt and Andy to her home in Highland Park to talk about her work on a real-world Armageddon mission to redirect an asteroid , CubeSats , giant geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus , the importance of planetary protection and upcoming solar system exploration missions .

Pacific Northwest comics Derek Sheen  ( @dereksheen ) and Sean Jordan ( @SeanSJordan ) join Andy and Matt back at Bluebell to talk about going to a Scientology boarding school, non-ice cream heir Tony Robbins, amateur Australian ball surgery , Juno's pics of Jupiter , AIDS ceasing to be an epidemic in Australia , good news on the ozone hole's healing , and even more good news about finding new res...

Professor Sophie Scott ( @sophiescott ) of University College London's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience welcomes Matt and past guest Nick Doody  ( @NickDoody ) to her office to discuss her research on the neural basis of human speech processing, and specifically her study of laughter .

Podcaster , host and science communicator Alie Ward ( @alieward ) appears with Matt and Andy on  Science Channel 's upcoming How To Build Everything (premiering June 22nd at 10pm) and she makes her first appearance on the podcast to discuss supernumerary nipples , McNuggetinis , owl pellet mouse skeletons, a third lizard sex ,  an inflatable space station room , Alie's aeronautic training, antibio...

Software engineer and Google employee John Eric Hoffman welcomes Matt and Andy to his house (next door to Todd Glass's, coincidentally) to talk about machine learning, neural networks, Maxwell's Demon , DeepDream , natural language processing and the recent short sci-fi film written by AI (and co-starring past guest Humphrey Ker).

This episode was taped live at the 2016 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, with Matt and Andy welcoming comedian/environmental engineer Ella Gale ( @hellakale ) and author/ podcaster / @BitchMedia editor Sarah Mirk ( @sarahmirk ) to discuss gender biases in science reporting, women in science (and comedy) and why it's hard to make bagels when it's hot outside.

Popular science author Mary Roach 's ( @mary_roach ) books have tackled a wide variety of topics including  sex , the afterlife ,  digestion  and space travel .  In her soon-to-be-released book Grunt , she takes on the curious science of humans at war, delving into combat medic training, stink bombs, genital transplant surgery, the war on heat, shark repellant and diarrhea as a threat to national...

Comedian/rapper/writer Zach Sherwin ( @ZachSherwin ) can be seen on Epic Rap Battles of History , among many other places, and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about writing a JAP battle rap battle on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , p-branes, playing Einstein , the new Ghostbusters script , Andy's bidet, magician hacks and Joel Hodgson's ventriloquism mask invention , Shy Tony , silver underwear , John Oliver...

Fahim Anwar ( @fahimanwar ) recently made his first appearance on Conan  as well as the Tina Fey movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and he joins Matt and Andy to discuss birthday escape rooms, engineering degrees to subsidize comedy, bringing people back from the dead , more head transplant news , archaeology vs. paleontology,  another EM Drive debunking  from Sean Carroll, tons of oral spider sex , enz...

Comedy's Andrew Michaan ( @AndrewMichaan ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Andy's Lemonade ignorance, c elebrity deaths,  Catholic aliens, black holes , the  Large Hadron Collider , bed bugs , a penis spider bite , IUDs in space  and jellyfish stings .

April Richardson ( @apey ) of Almost Genius , Go Bayside and @midnight joins Matt and Andy to talk about living next door to The Flash, Johnny Depp's Aussie apology , Orson Welles' Paul Masson ad , Dyson face , Andy’s possible bidet purchase , a dung-based clue to Hannibal’s crossing route , a paralyzed man (sort of) playing guitar , dinosaurs  and their eggs and a real-time re-creation of the sin...

Comedian/actors Jon Huck ( @jonhuck ) and Sunah Bilsted ( @thesunah ) join Matt and Andy to talk about showering techniques, new pets, that Warner Bros. frog, chemistry on acid, a Carl Sagan tribute act, the historic SpaceX landing , hyperhidrosis, antiperspirant conspiracies , a too-stealthy sea vessel , the upcoming book Grunt , Hawking and the Russians sending a tiny craft to Alpha Centauri , a...

Jason Belleville ( @bigbelleville ) has written for Ground Floor and Angie Tribeca , among many other shows, and he joins Matt and Andy to discuss mustaches and tattoos, academic papers, encyclopedias , Stan and Donavan Freberg, using giant lasers to hide from aliens , grammar correction  and being an asshole , Andy getting a thing wrong, growing skin and nude mice , a battery-operated salty fork...

Comedians Jessica Michelle Singleton ( @JMScomedy ) and Christina Walkinshaw ( @walkinsauce ) join Matt and Andy to discuss bachelor parties, dating, Alaska, super coffee, Google’s April Fools, Microsoft AI , a scientifically impossible Indiegogo , Edx.org's free learning, Vasalgel in rabbits , butt stuff, bunnies in wine glasses , rabbit kidneys , long term good drug effects and fracking-induced...

Tom Bell ( @tombellforever ) of The Leisure Class/Project Greenlight and comedy duo Tommy and the Weeks joins Matt and Andy for a bedroom recording involving a call from a private investigator, Boaty McBoatface , Diana and Mother Teresa, Bob the Robot and Horrible Science, following our robot overlords to disaster , unscrambling eggs to cure cancer , an academic paper that cites The Creator, a vid...

Original Probably Science co-hosts Jesse Case  ( @jessecase ) and Brooks Wheelan  ( @brookswheelan ) return to the show to celebrate Episode 200!

Rick Rosner  ( @dumbassgenius ) has the second-highest IQ score in the world, and his resume  includes stints as a bouncer, a stripper, a nude art model and a writer on numerous TV shows. Rick joins Matt, Andy and returning guest Dax Jordan  ( @daxjordan ) to discuss  What3Words , xkcd's take on passwords , IQ tests, Rick's Errol Morris interview , spending ten years in high school, stupid Califor...

Alice Wetterlund ( @alicewetterlund ) of Silicon Valley and Girl Code joins Matt and Andy to discuss Equinox, aliens, Star Trek, why humans have chins , navigating in Ghana , space lasers and exploding e-cigarettes .