Probably Science

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 w...

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...

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 Pr...

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 reco...

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 o...

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 liste...

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 micropla...

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...

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 loo...

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...

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 .

Comedian/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

Comedian/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 Abraca...

Dipak 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 nex...