Probably Science

Comedian David Huntsberger returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his podcast Intercepts , his new platform The Endless Abyss ,  the lost art of sketch comedy albums , the world's worst redaction , Redactle , how dogs build their vocabularies like toddlers , Stella the talking dog , dumb dogs , breed stereotypes , Bad Will Hunting , the worst logo and name in education , longe...

Comedian/neuroscientist Diya Basrai ( @diyabasrai ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Moravec's Paradox , whether there's something meat-specific about intelligence, a less-pessimistic AI take , a tool-using cow , Diya's comedy special  and his comedy/science live show Uncontrolled Variables .

Comedian Jon Stringer ( @jonjstringer ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about living in a converted rural Kansas church, the intricacies of comedy competitions and cruise ship comedy, dry ice PVC soupcan launchers,  the oldest known use of poison arrows , retail blowguns and their misuse , vibe-coding a band manager, why you should stop using hydrogen peroxide on cuts , sword canes and pendulou...

Comedian Imaan Hadchiti ( @imaanfrankhadchiti ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Rima syndrome, the movie Tiptoes , the passing of an art legend , sniffing farts to prevent Alzheimer's , what actually causes ice to be slippery , when physical aging really kicks in  and making paralyzed rats walk again in a really creepy way .

Comedian/actor/writer/composer Waen Shepherd ( @waenshep ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the new album from his alter ego Gary Le Strange , the biology of elves , the best chocolate chip cookie recipe , a runaway supermassive black hole , a lemon-shaped exoplanet  and the music of Gary Wilson .

Comedian/host/author Chris Duffy ( @chrisiduffy ) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new book Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy , his radio show/podcast You're The Expert , his TED podcast How To Be a Better Human , the unintentionally phallic Covid-era Terry Crews video Chris worked on with Matt and Andy , prescribing sta...

Comedian Buddy Fitzpatrick ( @buddycomic ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about  Batman's effect on subway chivalry ,  the rooms of Madonna Inn , ladyfingers , manmade fire from 350,000 years earlier than previously thought , monogamy across the animal kingdom and  an insane chain of rabies transmission via organ transplantation .

Comedian Adam Burke ( @atpburke ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about Adam's new comedy special Unamerican , debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment , classic '80s Arnold movies, Matt and Jesse performing together in Nashville, the preacher who shot an escaped lab monkey , AIs that believe themselves to be more rational than humans , 3D printing with a mosquito proboscis , Andy's upcoming or...

Comedian/writer/ NPR host Ophira Eisenberg ( @ophirae ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about her podcast Parenting Is a Joke , her upcoming special produced by Lewis Black, the effect of venting on anger , a rage room show Andy worked on , why you should leave uncontacted tribes alone , the wombat-thief influencer  and why you should speak up to seagulls .

Comedian Jess Zenisek ( @jeffzenisek ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about tennis, homophobic sports stereotypes, Jesse's new ski persona,  Mr. Wizard , Jeff's hair care regimen, a tiny tyrannosaur , a better rock-paper-scissors strategy , gray hair's relationship to cancer , t he worst music to play during sex  and the banger Parked By The Lake .

Comedian/playwright Drew Droege ( @drew_droege ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his new off-Broadway play  Messy White Gays , X-ray NBA poker fraud  and why birds sing after a solar eclipse .

Wonderful NY comic Mehran Khagani ( @themehran ) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about escaping from Iran, working at the Harvard School of Public Health, hyrax  butt drag fossil marks, Canadian  heart transplants and the  most pristine star in the universe! In the patreon bonus we get into penguin micronaps. Click here to support Probably Science via Patreon  

Comedian/actor Jen Kober ( @jenkober ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about comedy in Louisiana, Oktoberfest , buxom wenches, the connection between fish buttholes and fingers , a koala chlamydia vaccine , Jesse's newfound raccoon fame , light-powered gears that fit inside a strand of hair and Jen's membership in the Star Wars canon .

NASA astrophysicist and JPL Exoplanet Science Ambassador Anjali Tripathi joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about exoplanets and the different ways of finding them including radial velocity, transits and gravitational microlensing , the challenges of studying planetary atmospheres, why telescopes are built in deserts or in space, Anjali's time at the White House Office of Science and Technology Po...

Comedian Michelle Murphy ( @meeshoffleash ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about playing tennis for Grinnell, the Enhanced Games , celebrities trying their hands at winter sports , Jesse's accidental mermaid book purchase  and the Dr. Seuss book he was aiming for , Burning Man missionaries, LSD to fight anxiety  and surprisingly not too uncommon iridescent mammals .

Comedian Ken Reid ( @kennethwreid ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about growing up a child of television, mud wrestling,  Ken's podcast TV Guidance Counselor , an HIV prevention breakthrough , the insanity of Movie 43 , the human washing machine no one asked for , blasting plastic waste with a plasma torch , Doja Cat's nod to Max Headroom , Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains , the reas...

Comedian Ryan O'Flanagan ( @ryanoflan ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Ryan and Andy's chance encounter in a bar in Leadville, Married With Children tattoos , neanderthals and homo sapiens interbreeding , a novel telescope shape to help search for exoplanets , an insane impression of a neanderthal voice  and Ryan's podcast Laser Show .

Comedian Myq Kaplan ( @myqkaplan ) returns to the show to talk to Andy, Jesse and Matt about growing out his eyebrows during the pandemic, babies distinguishing Ps from Bs, linguistics, sign language variations, standups aping Shane Gillis, the Mr. Beast voice, birds' preference for crapping in the air , strong link versus weak link problems , Ryan North , whether you should pay for bad art, what...

Comedian and host of the SSRI'M OK podcast Macey Isaacs joins the gang to talk about a meteorite that's older than our planet ! AI and attachment theory ! And some more AI nonsense before Andy's connection quit in a fury! In the Patreon bonus we find out why living near the ocean extends your life. Follow Macey on instagram and check out her podcast, and her Don't Tell special when it drops! Click...

Comedian/mathematician/ YouTuber /author Matt Parker ( @standupmaths ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his new book Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World , his podcast A Problem Squared , his  Edinburgh Fringe show Getting Triggy With It , Mathstodon , a hawk that uses traffic patterns to target prey , desire paths , Earth's leaking core , the Gibeon meteor , Matt's comedy tour...

Comedian Josh Gondelman ( @joshgondelman ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his new special Positive Reinforcement , his newsletter , his wife Maris Kreizman's new book of essays , the geek/nerd/dweeb/dork Venn diagram , Nancy Kerrigan and Chris Farley ,  a new ass-grass fad among chimps , ass/gas/grass bumper stickers, neanderthals eating maggots and rotten meat , how surprisingly warm Uranus is...

Comedian Kai Humphries ( @kaihumphries ) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about  his new special Gallivanting , the passing of Hulk Hogan, superheating solid gold , the Air Bud cinematic universe and an enormous 80,000-year-old blob in Utah .

Comedian Eric Rocha ( @ericrochacomedy ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about competing namesakes, fezzes, last suppers, Jesse's macronutrient gas, sleep hygiene, comedy on airplanes, what would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the ISS , a neanderthal fat factory , Matt's standup tour and Andy's Colorado ska tour .

Comedian and Jimmy Kimmel Live! writer Bryan Cook ( @bryancooking ) returns to the show for a technical difficulty-laden episode in which Jesse and Andy talk with Matt while he's on a cruise ship, covering topics including comedy on a boat, candlepin bowling, a new interstellar object , crypto failures, Anthropic's Claude having an identity crisis , the Sean Connery classic Zardoz , an AI band wit...

The gang's back together again to talk about how your pets alter your immune system , a plan to bomb an island full of invasive mice , why the Pentagon wants you to believe in UFOs  and a rare post-orgasm illness that causes days of flu-like symptoms .