Probably Science

Little Dum Dum Club podcast host Karl Chandler  ( @KarlChandler ) joins Matt to talk about shitting Lego , the dying arctic , hiding coins in food, old racist sayings, bee rebels , Ireland's bee man and Adelaide's space scene .

Comedian/actors Asif Ali ( @alicomedy ) and Holly Burn ( @hollyburncomedy ) join Matt and Andy to talk about having a name that's offensive to fire victims, the new sketch special Goatface , the perils of shooting Wrecked in Fiji , the most populous cities, a lucky Mars landing spot , ants who collect the heads of their enemies , the reason behind spider silk strength , going without cell phones a...

Writer/comedian Steve Brett Young ( @stevebrettyoung ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his friend the Studio City Life Coach ,  Mary Mary quite contrary , unicorns , El Niño , salmon-tossing for plants , Robert De Niro surprises and birth canals around the world . This week's episode is brought to you by the new  educational comedy podcast Creature Feature .

Writer Delaney Yeager ( @delaney_yeager ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Mac and Me , Bill Gates pranks, Mars landers and Mars bars, The Seinfeld Podcast , ion drive planes , why wombats poop cubes  and CRISPR-edited Chinese babies . This week's episode is brought to you by the new educational comedy podcast Creature Feature .

Comedian Myq Kaplan ( @myqkaplan ) returns to the show to talk about Ramin Nazer , non-flushable wipes , breathing Hitler, downwind ninjas, medical mushrooms , paradoxical drug reactions and paradoxical UK legal drug responses , big holes under Greenland , regrowing frog legs and Probably Science appearing live at SF Sketchfest .

Comedian Phil Nichol ( @philnichol ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about how to stand, the safety of   d ropping pennies , sniffer bees , devout parents, Matthew Herbert's One Pig , Podtune whale music , the first domestic dogs , the new kilogram , the new Probably Science Patreon , 3D-printed sound , Teslas vs. smoke , tuskless elephants , 99 Ice Cream , scientists on money ,  Phil's show Your Wron...

Comedian Sarah Bennetto ( @sarahbennetto ) and Earwolf producer Josh Richmond ( @radiotfb ) join Matt and Andy to discuss 3D-printed audio jewelry that Andy definitely didn't invent , AI scares and deepfakes, Lyrebird software , Aussie synchrotrons, wine bottle particle accelerators , more Yahoo Serious talk , newly elected STEM politicians , scientists in Washington, whether Oumuamua is or isn't...

Globetrotting comedian Marcus Ryan ( @itsmarcusryan ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss losing money internationally, optimistic condoms, Nobel Prize winners and Nobel limitations , exoplanets and moon moons , Superman films and piss-crazed goats .

Dunking vegan bassist (and Son of Schmilsson ) Kiefo Nilsson ( @kiefonilsson ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss his upcoming live performance of Harry Nilsson's album/animated special The Point  ( Sunday, November 4th at Dynasty Typewriter ), his collaboration on a Tim Heidecker song to raise money for HIAS , the science of microphone patterns , Kiefo's citizen science wildlife tracking  ( and other...

Comedians and co-hosts of the Jammerz podcast Wendi Starling ( @wendistarling ) and Megan Rice ( @_meganrice_ ) join Matt and Andy to discuss robot microwaves, cat penises, the GATE program, Japanese asteroid rovers , mosquitos , BEES , deadliest animals , panda dating , weed making people shower and puke , sandalwood-induced hair growth and ironic purchases .

Fresh on the heels of the release of his two new Netflix specials , comedian Daniel Sloss ( @Daniel_Sloss ) returns to the show, joined by ProbSci regular and Twinsies co-host TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ), to talk with Matt and Andy about Menudo , daddy taxonomy, druggy octopodes , fake early memories , Spicey and The Juice , overrated probiotics , alien conspiracy theories , and a tire reef that...

Comedian and host of the Here We Are  science podcast  Shane Mauss  ( @shanecomedy ) returns to Probably Science to talk with Andy and Matt about psychedelics, his upcoming Stand-Up Science tour and being institutionalized when he nearly lost his mind. If you or a loved one are in distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 's number is 1-800-273-8255.

Comedians Whitney Chitwood ( @WhitneyChitwood ) and Carly Ballerini ( @ballca ) join Matt and Andy to talk about Nazi boots, the ghost of Cole Porter, Carly's very interesting transplant, goats and happy people , this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners , billionaires in space , a Soyuz hole , lucid dreams through meds ( and the old-fashioned way ), have you ever had a dream like this? , man's egg misha...

In addition to being a programmer and computational linguist, Ryan North ( @ryanqnorth ) is the writer behind Dinosaur Comics , Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , the  Adventure Time comic book series , and Romeo and/or Juliet , and he joins Andy and Matt to discuss his new book How To Invent Everything , a survival guide for stranded time travelers who need to figure out where they've landed in time, and...

Dipak Srinivasan of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory makes his third Probably Science appearance to give the inside scoop on a number of current and upcoming projects and missions including, but not limited to, the Parker Solar Probe , New Horizons checking out Ultima Thule , the Space Launch System , NASA's STEREO  and the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft lander .

Creator of the hit podcast Bubble Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) returns to the show to talk with Andy and Matt about bad accents, why the earliest galaxies are local , Andy's tail, the big toe evolving last , The Lottery , the recipe for mummies revealed , The Core , dolphin hybrids , Patton Oswalt and David Byrne on the Wholphin DVD and the Bermuda Triangle mystery possibly being solved .

Comedian and co-host of the Lady to Lady podcast Brandie Posey ( @Brandazzle ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about her aphantasia, science museums, ska daddies , lazy homo erectus , phone-induced blindness , cheating bots , There's Waldo , the Arabian sand boa , yeast radiation alarms , an aphantasia support group on Facebook , a software engineer's aphantasia experience , and Brandie's album , podc...

Thomas Patterson ( @thomasdynamic ), music supervisor for the new AMC series Lodge 49 ( @Lodge49 ), joins Andy and Matt to discuss the heat , will.i.am's Future, Lodge 49 and its soundtrack , Andy's initiation into the Fraternal Order of Eagles,  why baby talk is good , plastic causing a greenhouse nightmare , how sleep clears the brain of toxins , a supercomputer modeling one second of brain func...

Comedians Sarah Albritton  ( @SarahAlbritton ) and Josh Cheney ( @joshcheeeneee ) join Matt and Andy to discuss Sleeping With Sarah , narcolepsy, narcoleptic dogs , Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry , the 100 prisoners problem , massive sloth tunnels , weight on various planets , drinking Mars and trippy cicadas .

Comedian Lisa Curry ( @lisa_curry ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Olympiads, the other Lisa Curry, reservoir shade balls , Bruce Lee as Kato , secret snakes , skiffs , car vibrations , prison experiment problems and old bread .

Comedian, TV host and author of the upcoming memoir My Life as a Goddess Guy Branum ( @guybranum ) returns to the podcast to talk with Andy and Matt about shipping stories, his knowledge of international law, legal murders in Yellowstone , how dingos changed shrubs , shark pathogens , Nanaimo bars , dogs in fMRIs , Matt in an fMRI ,  19th Century female mathematicians , senior wranglers and Britis...

The gang's all back together again to celebrate 300 episodes of Probably Science while discussing barely any science at all, instead reminiscing about the last six years, getting nostalgic for Country Summer and trying to figure out which actors have achieved the coveted SPATS (piloting a spacecraft, plane, automobile, train and sea ship on film).

Dean Burnett  ( @garwboy ) is a neuroscientist, comedian, blogger and author of the new book  Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why , and he Skyped in with Matt and Andy to talk about the book, delving into the complex relationship that happiness and human brains have with work, love, fame, home, humor, aging and much more.

Comedian, writer and host of The Cracked Podcast Alex Schmidt ( @alexschmidty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about 3D printing, Gategate, phone facts, the English Larval Progression , Andy and Matt's recent Cracked appearance ,  eels on coke , black holes eating stars , cane toad sausages and lonely radiation bacteria.

Comedian Mitch Burrow ( @MitchBurrow ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about boot camp morning alarms, blueprint-building and 3D thought, deaf schizophrenia , Moshe Kasher's book , exploding head syndrome , cold water calorics test update , the unluckiest guy in Pompeii , why Guatemala's volcano is more dangerous than Hawaii's , all life on Earth by mass (and what we did to destroy it) , The Cove docu...