Probably Science

Comedian 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.

Comedian, 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...

Comedian 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 .

Jesse, 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...

Jesse 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 .  

Comedian, 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 epis...

Comedian 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 movie...

Comedian 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 .

Comedian/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 l...

Mary 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  Wond...

Comedian 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 .

Comedian and fellow desert-dweller Caitlin Gill ( @robotcaitlin ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Mt. Etna growing 100 feet , 9,000 Covid cases from Euro 2020 games and ants using soil physics to excavate tunnels that last decades . This episode is brought to you by  Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting  Wondrium.com/probably

Jesse returns to the show to help welcome David B. Lyons ( @david_b_lyons ), a podcaster and film location manager who not only co-created Yacht Rock but also has the inside scoop on Norbit and why Eddie Murphy loves fat suits. David and the gang also discuss three volcanoes erupting simultaneously , curbing methane emissions , wandering mammoths , a T. Rex selling at auction , the crazy story beh...

Comedian Nato Green ( @natogreen ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his work as a labor organizer, his appearance in Sorry To Bother You , bird-eating centipedes , ancient trigonometry , cranking it to prevent prostate cancer and whales benefitting from covid . This episode is brought to you by  Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting  Wondrium....

Comedian and writer Brian Kiley ( @kileynoodles ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Andy's new injury, a very reasonable argument for getting vaccinated if you were on the fence about it , Australian cockatoos teaching each other to dumpster dive , a dancing cockatoo , how to bank your voice for others to use , Alex Trebek on Conan , a Russian module mishap on the ISS, Andy's obsession with Olympic s...

Comedian Sean Devlin joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new album Airports, Animals , magic eye posters and Brian May stereoscopy , failed flower making floral fractals , converting brain waves to speech , and dogs ignoring liars and helping out in courtrooms . This episode is brought to you by  Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium...

Jordan Morris (@ Jordan_Morris ) and Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) return to the podcast to celebrate the release of their new graphic novel Bubble and talk about fish brains that grow when they think , bendy ice , Richard Branson kind of going to space  and extreme temps in Siberia . This episode is brought to you by  Wondrium , offering Probably Science listeners a 14-day free trial with unlimi...

Comedian and podcast host Justin Decloux ( @DeclouxJ ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss how Tasmanian devils get their face cancer , the benefits of mixing vaccines , the dragon man who isn't much of a dragon , figuring out when the first stars shone , and using CRISPR to treat a genetic disease . and Andy's latest writing project, Season 2 of Could You Survive The Movies? This episode is brought to...

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka ( @AtsukoComedy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Andy's summer of pyromania, a hiccup-curing doohicky , a newly discovered plant organ , that $24 million book on Amazon , Tasmanian devils eating too many penguins , Benedict Cumberbatch's penglings , ineffective spider makeup and Atsuko's latest album But I Control Me . This episode is brought to you by Wondrium , offering...

Writer/performer J. Elvis Weinstein ( @JElvisWeinstein ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about being in the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000, figuring out which of the echidna's numerous penises get erect , invasive species hitching rides on ocean litter , Australia's largest dinosaur , pupil size as an intelligence marker , first views of a giant moon rocket , the anonymous rich person h...

Comedian and novelist Caimh McDonnell ( @Caimh ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book The Stranger Times , a Trojan Horse method to fight cancer , the cast of Friends doing a Windows 95 promo , laser-based communication for the next lunar mission  and tossing a frisbee to a dog on the moon.

Professional wrestler Colt Cabana ( @ColtCabana ), host of The Art of Wrestling and Wrestling Anonymous , joins Matt and Andy to discuss Andy's recent Jeopardy Tournament of Champions appearance , pigs breathing through their butts , robotic third thumbs , Colt's merchandise , turtles also joining in on the butt-breathing , tardigrades surviving being shot  and psychedelic fungi making Brood X cic...

Comedian, theoretical physics grad and mathematics enthusiast Dara Ó Briain ( @daraobriain ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss stages of mathematical rigor , Évariste Galois , Catalina bison, Dara's new obsession with astrophotography from his London garden (examples of which are here and here ), Andy's crappy cell phone moon pic and this podcast's new mission to help Dara get to Bortle 1 . This epis...

Science comedian Brian Malow ( @sciencecomedian ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss dressing up with Mitch Hedberg, stoned cavemen creating high art , Fast, Cheap & Out of Control , the world's first wooden satellite  and a promising malaria vaccine . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a 14-day free trial with unlimited access PLUS 20% off...

Bethany Black ( @beffernieblack ) joins Matt and guest host Nick Doody ( @nickdoody ) to talk about buying fireworks in France, being banned from all school trips, growing teeth everywhere , surprisingly useful destructive asteroids , the Chicxulub crater , a possible new force of nature and Stephen King books set near us.