Probably Science

Daniel Van Kirk ( @danielvankirk ) of The Wahlberg Solution , Hindsight , Sklarbro Country and much more joins Matt and Andy to talk about Wahlberg  and sleeping, cow insemination, memory games, who can’t be president, Cruz behind the scenes , the Trump petition , outrage culture, the climate and smoking, Merchants of Doubt , profound bullshit ,  David Avocado Wolfe , the surprising appearance of...

Technology fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Yan Zhu ( @bcrypt ) joins Matt and Andy to dig deep into online security, privacy, encryption, HTTPS Everywhere , podcast patent trolls, Privacy Badger ,  the Tor browser , the future of online ads, Edward Snowden, the Silk Road, the upcoming Probably Science live show at SF Sketchfest on January 14th and a bonus audio snippet about Yan's leg...

The hilarious Travis Clark ( @thatguytravis ) joins returning guests Dax Jordan  ( @daxjordan ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) to form the first episode with a Space Camp  alumni majority and talk about Andy’s UFO sighting that *may* have been a Trident missile test , breaking the blood brain barrier , 24 as a 90s show , GPS versus sextants , DARYL and what it stands for , jet packs , rocket be...

Danes and Brits come together this week in the form of Sofie Hagen  ( @SofieHagen ) and Sarah Morgan  ( @sarahlmorgan ), both lending their expertise to discussions on the  Hollywood sign, Halloween, the emergency wizard costume, Danish science, rice pudding traditions, useful German words, being thrown free , a chimera twin baby , new ghosts, a new bat , spider bites , China’s space plans , eyesi...

Hilarious actor/comedian  Kerry Godliman ( @KerryAGodliman ) is stateside to film a new Christopher Guest film, and she chatted with Matt and Andy about science vs. art, cadaver fists , the persistence of the plague ,  embarrassing bodies, a c lickbait generator , Doug Stanhope's feud with Matt  and bee farmers .

Kelly Carlin wears a lot of hats as a monologist, actress, radio host , producer and author of her new memoir A Carlin Home Companion , and she invited Matt and Andy over to her place to talk about calculus, mind-body connections, right answers in math, whether snake fear is hard-wired , monkeys balls , Hurricane Patricia  that may or may not be climate change-related , science and the Canadian el...

Author Johann Hari ( @johannhari101 ) was stateside recently to return as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher , and he invited Matt and Andy over to his hotel room to talk about the emotional deafness of the rich, his book Chasing The Scream and the failed 100-year war on drugs, the government's persecution of Billie Holliday, new theories of addiction, Rat Park , Portugal's radical policy change...

Comedy's Jacob Sirof ( @jacobsirof ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about new jobs, orgasm fungi , Star Wars science, Andy's nephews singing Weird Al , Wales and fake waves , a Chinese telescope on the moon , cheating Jews, converting vaccine skeptics  and pig genes .

Dave Anthony ( @daveanthony ) of The Dollop , Walking The Room and Maron fame joins Matt and Andy to talk about navigating LA by satellite dishes, penis-at-twelve children in the Dominican Republic , mothers of boys gaining Y chromosomes , why we want to squeeze cute stuff , Rodney Stanger ,  the apparently kid ,  look at that horse , the mountain lion on a pole, the epidemic of Netflix documentar...

New Zealand's Tim Batt ( @Tim_Batt ) and Guy Montgomery ( @guy_mont ), hosts of The Worst Idea of All Time Podcast , join Matt and Andy to discuss Grown Ups 2 , T-shirt cannon injuries, monkey selfies , urinal science and the best toilets in NZ, AIDS news , the AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the climate change “lawsuit” , a 1000-year-old treatment for styes that may generate new drugs ,  a new targe...

This week's episode was recorded live from the Audible Los Angeles Podcast Festival , with Andy Wood ( @andytwood ) and Matt Kirshen ( @mattkirshen ) welcoming original third host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ), along with comedy legend Patton Oswalt ( @pattonoswalt ) and Caltech theoretical physicist/cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll ( @seanmcarroll ). To support Probably Science and LA PodFest whi...

British comedy phenoms Josie Long  ( @JosieLong ) and Stuart Goldsmith  ( @ComComPod ) join Matt and Andy to discuss how condensation works, what voltage is, Josie’s foray into community college, magnetic wormholes , debunking spinach debunking, psych experiments that can't be reproduced  and a brand new hominid . Catch Probably Science this Saturday at noon PDT at the Los Angeles Podcast Festival...

Pride of Fargo Amber Preston  ( @PrestonParty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about midwest accents, farmers and fake interview pick-up techniques, whether video games produce violent people  or not , smoking birds , violent ancient farmers ,  books that purify water ,  the most electric place on earth , and  whether swimming in lightning dangerous .  

Comedian/actor extraordinaire Matt Knudsen  ( @mattknudsen ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Home Alone sequels, Ghostbuster , pseudoscience and snake oil , Coca Cola skeptics, merchant marines, Brian and Dolph, space   elevators , LED light pollution ,  why global warming is good for the rich  and the incredible octopus .

Past guest and current host of Syfy's Reactor David Huntsberger ( @huntsbergerjunk ) joins the proceedings to welcome a Skyped-in Jesse Case and talk about rodeo facts, the awakeness drug Provigil , buff babies, cheating in war, Chinese fire drills , Korean pears for hangovers , neanderthals' massive eyes that may or may not have caused extinction ,  tiny new unafraid dwarf lemurs  and official Pr...

Friends of the show and past guests Matt Braunger  ( @braunger ) and Auggie Smith  ( @auggiesmith ) return to the show to talk with Matt and Andy about Toblerone sizes, early detection cancer urine tests , shirtcocking, the EPA’s river fuck-up , arsenic and widows, why women are always cold , dumb kids and money-raising,  using shade balls to protect reservoirs , the web’s too-weak random numbers...

The hilarious Jesse Popp  ( @JessePopp ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his former life as a blackjack card-counter, a newly discovered tessellating pentagon , Penrose tiling , Fermat's Last Theorem, space lettuce , giant marrows , angry people in local newspapers , pumpkins smashing cars, a goat-throwing festival , dreamy eye movements , brain-scanning software , Hannibal's mask prototypes , b...

Multi-talented comedian/musician Drennon Davis  ( @DrennonDavis ) is coming off of a breakout performance on Conan with friend of the show Karen Kilgariff , and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about why Macs suck, past guest Matt Faulkner's latest Tesla coil project , Drennon's inventor/cold fusion proponent grandfather  and his many projects , earthquake-jumping and rock-balancing ,  old mice with...

The hilarious Hampton Yount  ( @hamptonyount ) returns to the show to talk with Matt and Andy about Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, corny jet boat guides, paying for a Pluto probe or an NFL stadium , slowing air travel , Ant-Man science, colonizing the moon , the XFL , anti-piss walls ,  bacon-flavored kale , being controlled by semen , a malaria vaccine  and the LA PodFest live video stream...

Dipak Srinivasan of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University  played a pivotal role in the New Horizons mission  whose probe just passed by Pluto, and since he was also Andy's roommate back in their college days he was kind enough to talk with Andy and Matt about his work on the project. Launched in 2006, New Horizons traveled over three billion miles to gather the most comprehen...

You've seen and heard funnyman Eddie Pepitone  ( @eddiepepitone ) on Community, Maron, Bob's Burgers, Old School, his podcast Pep Talks  and the documentary The Bitter Buddha , and he joins Matt and Andy to talk about being self-critical, an upcoming  mini-ice age  that might not be upcoming , animal testing and monkey mind melds , Mike Myers movies and Andy's giant head, athletes in movies, the h...

The Dork Forest  host Jackie Kashian ( @jackiekashian ) returns to the show along with fellow former guests Mark Agee ( @markagee ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) to talk with Andy about Jurassic World, Terminator: Genisys and problematic scenes in Top Five, the actual reason why swimming pool water irritates your eyes ,  Kage Baker's The Company book series , Wisconsin-born nerds, plants react...

Throwing Shade  co-host Bryan Safi ( @BryanSafi ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about science fair cheating, sex and alcohol vs. religion and kids  vs. actual science , Daily Mail and buff kangaroos , Vernon Chatman’s essay-cheating book , the Philae comet lander   waking up , time-traveling   wave-particles , chimps that cook  and  sauerkraut's effect on anxiety .

Jesse  gives another update on his health situation from back in Nashville, revealing that he'll be starting up a podcast of his own titled Jesse Vs. Cancer in the near future, before Matt and Andy welcome pride of New Orleans  Sean Patton  ( @mrseanpatton ) to the show to talk about the payoff of the daffodil tea bit from last week, Sean's mom dressing as a hipster for Halloween, the normcore mov...

Matt, Andy and returning guest Auggie Smith get together to give a brief update on Jesse's health (while being very rudely interrupted by a leafblower) and go through story corrections and thank-yous. If listeners want to send well-wishes Jesse's way, feel free to email probablyscience@gmail.com and/or tweet @jessecase .