Probably Science

Despite a technical glitch, the excellent Adam Cayton-Holland ( @CaytonHolland ), star of Those Who Can't, the new podcast The Grawlix Saves The World , and his new album Semblance of Normalcy , talks with Andy and Matt about the word stentorian , Earth's magnetic anomaly , scientific collaborations and X shapes in the galaxy , finding out there's more than one foot , the threat of swooping magpie...

Writer, actress and story coach Lynn Ferguson ( @lynnfergy ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about house snooping and fountain misuse, chickens, wasps in figs , coyote melons, spying on penguin poop , Andy's hiking discovery , painting eyes on cow butts and whether hot water freezes faster than cold . Check out Michelle Biloon's album Permanent Hat and Sara Schaefer's book Grand !

Matt's Last Comic Standing buddy (and Season 5 winner) Jon Reep @jonreep joins Matt and Andy to talk about getting COVID, meteors and moons , Shazam for spiders , anus-escaping water beetles , unusual places to grow a penis , medieval antibiotics , Jon's new podcast Country-ish and this totally independent, unbiased ranking of podcasts that we hope to break. This episode is brought to you by  The...

Improv and comedy acting legend Mike McShane ( @thismikemcshane ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the funniest kind of nudity, cognitive impairment tests, the limits of human eating , the star that's hurtling across the universe , a sperm robot story we've done before , and mathematicians boycotting the police . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Scienc...

Comedian Jonah Ray ( @jonahray ), host of Jonah Raydio and co-guest with Matt on TONIGHT'S episode of The Great Debate on Syfy, talks about his great Seeso show Hidden America , taking over MST3K  (and his favorite episode ), how flying snakes fly , hungry hungry black holes , Twitter hacks and Bitcoin scams , talking to prairie dogs and the coming population crash . This episode is brought to you...

Comedian Steph Tolev ( @StephTolev ) joins Andy and Matt from Toronto to discuss quarantining and TikTok-ing with her family , the history of sled dogs , a black neutron star discovery , putting sheep in K-holes  and a $23 million space toilet .

Comedian and host of the outstanding podcast Scattered Chris Garcia ( @_chrisgarcia ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss getting a little too much parental help with science fair projects, dolphins using tools , 3D printing inside the body  and how burning coal 250 million years ago led to climate change . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners...

Comedian, swimmer and math major Matthew Broussard ( @mondaypunday ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about linear algebra, swimming , neanderthal DNA , DNA degradation , Alex Falcone's NASA career , ancient Irish one-percenters , twins marrying twins and twin paternity tests . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited acc...

Comedian Jake Johannsen ( @Jakethis ) of the podcast Jake This joins Andy and Matt to discuss an herbal would-be COVID-19 remedy out of Madagascar , why men and women experience alcohol differently , alcohol's lack of protection against COVID-19  and appearing on Dr. Katz .

Comedian and actor Dan Oster ( @dernerster ) joins Matt and a normally voiced Andy to discuss pantomime dwarves, a desert update, neutron stars showing their cores , a porn star and a toad-venom death , psychological pain treatments, tripping on nutmeg and Dan's A Podcast, But Evil . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with u...

Friends of the show Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) and JJ Whitehead ( @JJWhitesnake ) return to talk with Matt and a strangely deep-voiced Andy about a USB stick to protect you from the evils of 5G , controlling monkey minds via ultrasound , a super-deep octopus and monkeys stealing coronavirus samples . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listener...

Comedian, actor and voice performer extraordinaire Carlos Alazraqui (@ carlosalazraqui ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about what you can learn from hundreds of skydiving jumps, mud flows on Mars , laughing gas from penguin poop , a worm that survived being frozen for 41,000 years  and Carlos' new movie Witness Infection .

Comedian Kristin Key ( @thekristinkey ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about her new album Keeper of Feelings , the importance of moths , illicit surfing in bioluminescence , neon dolphins , Pluto's haze , SOFIA , thirsty koalas licking trees  and rain caused by nuclear testing . This episode is brought to you by  StartAPod , offering our listeners 50% off the first year of a monthly or annual subscr...

Writer Scott Vrooman ( @mescottvrooman ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss watching rocket launches, Trident missile tests , what it actually takes to make a ventilator, murder hornets , how to give CPR , the psychological health of vegetarians and meat-eaters , girlfriends' effects on risk-taking  and the new Quibi show Memory Hole . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offeri...

Erstwhile Probably Science cohost Jesse Case ( @jessecase ) of Jesse vs. Cancer fame returns (remotely) to discuss everyone's new living situations, what the old Bluebell house looks like now , Andy's neighbor's text , a new LIGO discovery , bird brain sizes , a black paint that somehow cools buildings  and analyzing whether farts can spread coronavirus . This episode is brought to you by  The Gre...

Writer Sam Pasternack ( @SamPasternack ) of The Podcasternack joins Matt and Andy while riding his quarantine exercise bike to discuss the real toilet paper problem , bomb tests and whale shark ages , a VERY personalized toilet , an unexpected downside of planting trees , a Mercury mission that just got underway and a five-year time lapse of its path to Mercury orbit . This episode is brought to y...

Comedian/actor Danny Jolles ( @DannyJolles ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss celebrity centers , political science, the astrophysicist who got magnets stuck up his nose , arm hickeys, mouse emotions , finding Clooneys when stressed , neanderthal fishing , ancient Australian fossils , wrestler Mae Young , Danny's podcast Everything But The Scores and Brooks' ridiculous one-man hungover marathon . Th...

Comedian Grant Lyon ( @grantlyon1 ) returns to the podcast on the heels of the release of his new album " Scheduled Fun Time " to talk about "Imagine" parodies , a Mars lander hitting itself with a shovel , NASA accepting applications , genetically modified neurons and implants , Earth's tiny new moon , Grant's astronaut neighbor and an animal that doesn't need oxygen to survive .

Dr. Barry Fox is a Clinical Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He also teaches An Introduction to Infectious Diseases on The Great Courses Plus , which turns out to be a very timely lecture series right now. Dr. Fox talks with Matt and Andy about infectious disease in general, and COVID-19 in particular, while helping clarify what w...

Comedian/actor Langston Kerman ( @LangstonKerman , Insecure , South Side , Bless This Mess ) joins Matt and Andy for a COVID-19 quarantine edition of the podcast, discussing oceanography, subterranean chlamydia , raining molten iron , bike speed records , tiny dinosaurs , mammoth bones , forbidden fruit and insect butter . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probab...

Comedians Sharon Mahoney ( @sharonmahoneyca ) and Byron Bertram ( @byronbertram ) join Matt and Andy to discuss glowing amphibians , COVID-19, Pence's spotty record, the Halifax Explosion and molecular oxygen being found beyond the Milky Way . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCourses...

Barry Rothbart ( @barryrothbart ) returns to Probably Science eight years after his last appearance to discuss Scorcese films, Mad Mike Hughes, an autism apology, COVID-19, relative risks and vaccines, expensive cars and being a dick , electricity from thin air , seatbelt laws and lives saved and bomb-sniffing locusts .

Video game writer/narrative director and VR advocate Rob Yescombe ( @robyescombe ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss 90s computer games on TV, Gamesmaster with Take That , Oculus Quest, inside-out tracking, parallax, light field cameras, volumetric video capture, Surinder Rattan's The Lick , making the VR whodunit The Invisible Hours  and the game RiME . This episode is brought to you by  The Great C...

Writer/producer Krister Johnson ( @KristerJohnson ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss his hilarious new Netflix show Medical Police , God's Pottery , Matt LeBlanc and a very specific accent , virus-naming , radiation-eating fungi , autism and myelin , extreme knitting and walking sharks .

Comedian Ed Salazar ( @edasalazar ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about the new Goop show, Marianne Williamson's disease theories, yoga scammers, Catholic workouts, Einstein being right again , Mercury retrograde explained , YouTube Wired experts , dorking out on musical intervals , more giant horrendous creepy-crawlies , the upcoming show The Great Debate and koala balls . This episode is brought t...