Probably Science

Comedian and Guy Fieri apologist Shane Torres ( @shanetorres ) makes his first appearance on the show, joining Andy and Matt to talk about horse herpes and rodeo adaptation , the #DickTracyChallenge , super gonorrhea , acupuncture studies , cocaine and Parkinson's , spray-on skin update and HVAC and Legionnaires' disease.

Comedian Ian Abramson  ( @ianabramson ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about the death of Jim Jefferies, the Inland Empire, Roger Bannister , how fast the average person can run, Dick Tracy, a rocket man and the flat earth conspiracy conspiracy , Andy's connection to  a waterslide tragedy , Grantland's article about said waterslide , magic skin spray , dirty rubber duckies , the forensic mystery behi...

Actor and TOFOP co-host Charlie Clausen  ( @CXClausen ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss  Aussie soaps , dental nightmares, Mask vs. The Mask , Eric Stoltz, Daylight Saving Time and koalas , smell-the-fart acting, political reasons for slow clocks , pizza innovation and The Noid , space twins and DNA , Dolph Lundgren gym run-ins and self-driving car risks.

Comedian /writer/producer/host of Adult Swim's Soft Focus Jena Friedman ( @JenaFreidman ) joins Matt and Andy for an on-location recording talking about Cannibal Cop, Jena's cold fusion-seeking grandfather , acupuncture and opioids, how the Sackler family are murderers , Hitler's art , new battery technology , Tesla's megabattery , Dinorwig , the political economy of Chicago's improv scene and Jen...

Comedian James Fritz ( @fritzisdead ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Kentucky science, Oscars theories, magic mushrooms , neanderthal art , turkey history and Ben Franklin on birds , airplane air, soldier terminology , the early universe , scientists running for office  and Matt's recent Star Talk appearance with Stephen Hawking, Janna Levin and Michio Kaku .

Writer and friend of the show Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) returns to talk with Matt and Andy about  the prey defines the chase ,  vampire bats , memory wire, bismuth,  robo-bees , playing HQ Trivia (and using the referral codes "andytwood" or "Mattbk"), Uber scams,  plants and anesthesia , motherland vs. fatherland , curing Alzheimers in mice ,  pervy Koko the gorilla  and reading too much into...

Actress Zabeth Russell ( @zabsters ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Tom hanks killing a dog , placebo boobs, monkey sex workers ,  eye worms , fast and slow colors  ( and more color experiments ), and dinosaurs overstretching . This episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter PROBABLY30.

Comedian/actor/voiceover artist Valerie Tosi ( @valerie_tosi ) joins Andy and Matt (and Roo) to discuss  Andy's dogsitting business , whale dissection, Boston accents and pirate accents, Cheddar Man the early Brit , when humans first left Africa , potholing/spelunking , kids performing better when they're Batman , oil patterns on bowling lanes , SpaceX success , and blowing up their near misses ,...

Actor/improviser Lauren Flans ( @laurenflans ) of Another Period , Wild 'n Out and the new podcast Tell Us We're Funny and We'll Go Away joins Matt and Andy to discuss travel credit cards and Mexican drugs, Orphan Black, anti-abortion teachers, legislating numbers , different infinities , '70s poison toys , radioactive Fiestaware , Gerrymandering and its origins , a fake RHCP song , lasers that ca...

Comedian/actor/writer Kiran Deol ( @shitfromkiran ) joins Matt and Andy to help celebrate the six-year ( iron ) anniversary of the podcast and discuss crashing astronomy conferences, shooting Prince Rupert's drops , breathing oxygen at depth, predator/prey turning , chalk and cheese , monkey clones , celebrity pet adoption , crow hooks , space lungs and yucca injuries .

Comedian, star of Those Who Can't and frontman of the band SPELLS Ben Roy ( @benroy00 ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Andy's accessibility, Poison songs, evolutionary psychology, the books The Mating Mind and The Righteous Mind , space growth , living underwater , cell phone risk , bats melting in Australia , frozen alligators , gila monster saliva helping diabetes , and  bonobos liking jerks...

Comedian Ricky Carmona ( @RickyCarmona ) of the podcast Who Shot Ya? joins Andy and Matt to talk about when to say Happy New Year, Weird Science vs. Real Genius, how to stop superbugs , raw water , the other John Snow , laser eagles , slowing down light , power plant mirrors that explode birds, things deadlier than sharks and parking mathematics .

Friends of the show TJ Chambers ( @TJChambersLA ) and Auggie Smith  ( @AuggieSmith ) return to kick off 2018 with TJ and Andy's new podcast Twinsies ( @twinsiespod ),  space beer , monkeys bonin' deer , the recent SpaceX launch , traveling salesbees , sleeping jellyfish , Matt Walker on sleep ( and on Probably Science ), how to keep your exercise resolution , and  Tommy Wiseau's surprise tenant .

Matt's on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton ( @newton_pete ) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TEDx Talk on why "food miles" are aren't all they're cracked up to be, his journey away from and back to academia, safari tours in Botswana, hunting pangolins , anaconda attacks in the field, the perils...

Matt and Andy make a visit to the home of Jim Jefferies ( @jimjefferies ) to talk about a very British car accident , self-driving cars , Ted Danson's amazing face, feeding spiders graphene , a new space tire , Mars temperatures, cricket commentary, onion ubiquity , Dubai space agriculture , business class from the ground, and upsetting rock stars.

Host of the Rock Solid podcast Pat Francis ( @pat_francis ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important , homeless etiquette, Voyager I firing up again , coffee and health , grammar rules and beard posturing .

Comedian/ musician Eli Braden ( @EliBraden ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss jazz addicts , the flat-earth rocket guy  and his earlier flight , conspiracy theories, not a head transplant , prehistoric women's strength , why  boning is heart-safe , mnemonics, grossing out chimps , health codes and California D.

Science writer, educator, and artist Dr. Danna Staaf recently published her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods , and she joins Matt and Andy to talk about her dissertation on the reproduction and early life of Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, the fact that calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe...

Comedian/freestyle rapper Chris Turner  ( @ChrisPJTurner ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about archeology, volcano-based Roman shit, old wine , old Amish people , gay evolution , monkeys playing chicken and the theory of mind . This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter "probably30" at checkout.

Comedian Raj Desai ( @_rajdesai ) almost makes himself late to his job writing for Sarah Silverman's  I Love You, America to do a morning recording with Andy and Matt about his chromatography history , looking more closely at the placebo effect , and how the extinction of dinosaurs made way for mammals to come out during the day .

Comedian Jason Saenz ( @jasonsaenz ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Jeff Foxworthy impressions, Saenz Signs , debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing , competition-grade oysters, squirrels and lepers , armadillo leprosy in Florida, gold and the documentary series Connections , a good moonbase location ,  Pluto's Cave , herbal meds and cancer ,  blood sweat  and Jason's hilarious C...

Comedian Galloway Allbright (@GalloWhy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the death of expertise, extreme Michael Jackson fandom , that classic Encyclopedia Brittanica ad , the origin of bluegrass , in-flight death plans , channeling your inner Tea Leoni , a neutron star collision , the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression , genes for OCD , Cary Grant's crazy parental history and LSD , a fundraiser...

Original co-host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) and LA PodFest co-founder/ The Dollop host Dave Anthony join Matt and Andy for a live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Podcast Festival.

Comedian and host of the Tea With Alice podcast Alice Fraser  ( @aliterative ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a duck update (duckdate?) with video , a body clock Nobel Prize , Dr. Matt Walker's new sleep book , a LIGO Nobel Prize  and Janna Levin's book on it , the downside of grass-fed beef , and cargo cults .

Comedian Sharon Houston ( @sharon_houston ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines , duck dicks , finger phone contact , genes vs. alleles, the concept of zero , chisanbop counting , zapping people out of vegetative states , spider sacrifice and more duck dicks.