Probably Science

Zach Reino ( @zachreino ), actor/writer/host of the improvised musical podcast Off Book , joins Matt and Andy to discuss ancient Chinese medicine's surprisingly recent history ,  Germany's weird Chinese tradition ,  Arthur C. Clarke's three laws , reactivating dead pigs' brains , a brain implant that produces speech , HIV curing a bubble boy , why vitamins from pills don't work and the Galileo Fal...

Comedian Dave Waite ( @davewaitecomedy ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about khaki diaper butt , geography pride, a black hole image , the video Janna sent about said black hole , world records for rabbit fur and big pizzas , Stonehenge builders , measles and chicken pox and smiling .

Comedian  Doug Mellard ( @dougmellard ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about All Space Considered , asteroid fossils , the Thatcher Effect , upside-down viewing , Tom Cruise's middle tooth , Catalina, earthquake prep podcasts , octopus attacks and octopus wrestling , the rules of kabaddi , eye bees , a four-legged whale fossil , Matt and Andy becoming parasite-famous , a Japanese bomb on an asteroid...

Writer/comedian friend of the show Nick Doody ( @NickDoody ) returns to discuss linguistics, space herpes , atoms and the strong force, the reason for zebra stripes or maybe not , a physics theory as to why time flies more as we age , the first female Abel prize winner , famous Norwegians, lady strokes from lady strokes , the Citizens of Nowhere podcast  and  Bigipedia .

Returning guests Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) and Brendon Burns ( @brendonburns ) join Matt and Andy to talk about air travel,  SpaceX's new not-quite-manned flight , monkey peril, the Mars mission that may not be, rare semi-identical twins and a lot of talk about Brendon's stonefish encounter . Listen to Brendon's Dumb White Guy podcast  and Sarah's show The Fear .

Cannabis educator Emma Chasen  ( @echasen ) and comedian Marcus Coleman  ( @MrMarcusColeman ) join Matt and Andy for a live show in Portland as part of the Listen Up! festival, discussing the complex science of the effects of cannabis, the difficulties in researching it, and the many hard-to-dispell myths surrounding it.

The final stop of the Probably Science Australia tour brings Andy and Matt to Melbourne on Valentine's Day, where they welcome Sheree Marris ( @shereemarris ), author of Kama SEAtra , and returning guest Wil Anderson  ( @Wil_Anderson ) to discuss the sex lives of aquatic creatures, male seahorses who birth thousands of babies, necking sea slugs, barnacle penises, cross-dressing cuttlefish and the...

Andy and Matt welcome comedian Liz Miele ( @lizmiele ) and astrophysicist/software engineer  Samuel Hinton  ( @samreay ) to the stage in Brisbane to talk about Brewsvegas pool parties , Australia's most retweeted tweet , the fun of e-scooters, lax Australian airport security, the various ways Matt has broken teeth, dyslexic comedians, Liz's veterinarian parents, resume padding, being on Australian...

Matt and Andy descend upon Sydney for the third leg of the Australian tour, welcoming Ig Nobel Prize-winning researcher Callum Ormonde and comedian Jen Carnovale ( @Jen_Carnovale ) to talk about living down your sister's reputation, what to put in a microwave, the Ig Nobel Prize itself , how Callum accidentally unboiled an egg, past Ig Nobel nominees and winners who studied things like  how a Moro...

The second stop of the Probably Science Australia tour brings Andy and Matt to Perth to talk with Carey Marx  ( @careymarx ) about watching the Super Bowl in Australia, the Perth's Fringe World Festival , working as a magician, drop bears , when kangaroos learned to hop , the correct population of Perth, vanadium mining, global warming making the oceans bluer , how America's colonization cooled Ea...

Matt and Andy make the first stop of their Australian tour in Cairns thanks to the generosity of Inspiring Australia and The Australian Society for Parasitology to talk to Dr. Michael Smout about the healing power of worm spit and Dr. Claudia Cobos about peptides found in sunflowers that can be used to treat diseases of the gut. And thanks to James Cook University for the tour of their Eduquarium...

Andy and Matt travel to SF Sketchfest to be joined by the hilarious Laurie Kilmartin ( @anylaurie16 ), Dr. Judy Melinek  ( @drjudymelinek ) and Dr. Jen Gunter ( @DrJenGunter ) and discuss autopsies, forensic pathology, debunking GOOP, Twitter being a dick to Laurie, doctors taking on the NRA, reproductive rights and Dr. Melinek's book Working Stiff .  Click here for Australia tour dates and  click...

Writer /comedian/ podcaster Bridget Phetasy ( @BridgetPhetasy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Australia,  Monopoly game study , the big data book Everybody Lies , homespun back pain cures , weed towns, conspiracy theories that are wrong but fun, China plants on the moon , a meteorite hitting the super blood wolf moon and Marie Kondo according to a psychologist . This week's episode is brought to...

Comedian Seth Herzog ( @Thezog ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about being part of the Roots , his mom's Maury impression , Andy being accosted by Bridget Everett , the Ultima Thule flyby and what New Horizons found on Pluto , mysterious radio bursts , silent speaking , expensive ugly shoes , David Avocado Wolfe , Derren Brown and pigment in a very old artist's teeth . This week's episode is brought...

Returning guests Henry Phillips ( @Henlips ) and Auggie Smith ( @AuggieSmith ) join Andy to discuss rebel honeybees , trying to guess the twist in this trailer ,  presidential poo , a retinal link to SAD , the craziest thing a human's ever coughed up , gambling tips, ridiculous FAQs , the new Henry's Kitchen Master Class and the (sort of) fastest animal around . This week's episode is brought to y...

While Matt's on the road, he sits down with Malaysia's Godfather of Stand-up Comedy Harith Iskander ( @HarithIskander ) in his home country to talk about Voyager going interstellar , New Horizon's latest flyby , X-chromosome life-expectancy , wasp-based antibiotics , early feathery fossils ,  computer-tested BO and armpit bacteria .

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...