Probably Science

Writer/podcaster Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his  upcoming graphic novel Youth Group , the YA genre, hawk tuah , breakdancing in the Olympics , elephants calling each other by name , wartime magicians , GPT-4 passing the Turing Test , using AI to cancel customer anger , a new stab at AI alignment   and creating plasma fireballs in th...

Matt and Andy host a live installment of the podcast from To 29 and Beyond in Twentynine Palms featuring guests Bobcat Goldthwait, Rhys Darby, Dr. Farah Alibay and Natalia Reagan, digging into topics including indoor rocketry, opening for Nirvana, projectile bibles, the Cryptid Factor podcast , Bobcat's Bigfoot movie , 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty , Robin Williams and Koko the gorilla, Mars la...

Comedian, quizzer, doctor, chaser and now author Paul Sinha ( @paulybengali ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new memoir One Sinha Lifetime , training for quiz shows, underperforming on Taskmaster , Paul's Parkinson's diagnosis, how he transitioned from medicine to comedy, being outed decades after coming out, this weekend's To 29 and Beyond , the 29 Palms scavenger hunt that Andy developed ,...

Comedian, actor and host of The Tomorrow Show Ron Lynch (@ronlynch1) checks in with Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the groundbreaking show Home Movies , Ron's geology degree, microplastics in your balls , Terrence Howard's magnificent bullshit , reducing the carbon footprint of cement , using the Sun as a giant telescope and of course To 29 and Beyond , coming to Outpost 29 June 7-8.

Comedian Omid Singh ( @omid_singh ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Omid's Lil Special , the recent additions to the To 29 and Beyond lineup, including Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero's Endless Honeymoon podcast and Rhys Darby , southern indifference to northern lights, Omid's dream song, Dubai construction projects,  The Line in Saudi Arabia , red flags in the AI world , repurposing cof...

Comedian Shane Mauss ( @shane_mauss ) returns to the podcast in the midst of his A Better Trip tour to talk with Matt and Andy about having his van broken into, his new line of plant activated products , the connection between Amanita muscaria mushrooms and Mario and Santa , the trendiness of ketamine, a psychedelic toad venom that may have therapeutic uses (and that, of course, Shane has already...

Comedian Sierra Katow ( @sierrakatow ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her new standup special Funt , the upcoming appearance on Roots of Comedy with Jesus Trejo , the underrated Earth to Ned , Sierra's computer science background and childhood obsession with Neopets , Andy's head-scratching interaction with Anthropic's Claude AI , deadly pathogens that are attracted to human blood , the...

Comedian Bec Hill ( @bechillcomedian ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about What3Words , Bec sneaking dicks into things , a surprise from decades-old cans of salmon , ghost particles , a possible Stonehenge moon connection , ancient Stonehenge feasts , Willy's LA Chocolate Experience , A Problem Squared , Enemy In Paris and of course To 29 and Beyond , coming to Outpost 29 on June 7-8, with Bo...

Comedian Joshua Snyder ( @nerdyvirgin ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Bobcat Goldthwait headlining To 29 and Beyond , Jesse's love life, building a guitar, a lack of solar eclipse whimsy,  the Star Trek punk on a bus , toxic epi-pens in space , a mouse with legs instead of genitals , dog comprehension , the great podcast Free With Ads and a SPATS update.

Comedian Carmen Morales ( @TheFunnyCarmen ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about Matt's chipped tooth, the pros and cons of home dentistry, a nuclear fusion record , CRISPR and HIV , Andy's friend's Pioneertown-to-Big Bear breakdown , a million mice eating seabirds alive , letdowns from CBD , Carmen on HBO , updates from the Large Hadron Collider and our live event To 29 and Beyond, taking pla...

Comedian/juggler Marcus Monroe ( @marcusmonroe ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about inventing the knorch , siteswap juggling notation , getting banned from Delta Airlines , a Montana man pleading guilty to creating massive franken-sheep , getting helium from the moon  and  To 29 and Beyond, now taking place June 7th and 8th .

Actress/writer Tara Flynn returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about having no sense of smell, Renaissance Faires, the magic of the Irish, fake Scottish Wikipedia , fake grunge slang , a death ray science project , a fish as loud as an elephant , boiling water to remove microplastics , a 13,000-year-old sand dune , Liver King , Oscar talk, T o 29 and Beyond coming to 29 Palms on J...

Comedian/musician Adam Newman ( @adam_newman ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about sweep picking , Antarctic scientists developing their own accent , Adam and Jesse's dreadlock pasts, Adam's upcoming special Jew Versus The Volcano , Purim talk , how humans lost their tails , the Willy Wonka AI experience debacle in Glasgow  and its insane script , Wake Up and Smile , the upcoming live event T...

Comedy legend Wendy Liebman ( @WendyLiebman ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Wendy and Jesse's Letterman overlap , Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist , Wendy's psychology background and transition into comedy, the evolutionary advantage of ADHD , bizarre AI rat genitalia , using AI to advance fusion research , OpenAI's amazing/terrifying Sora breakthrough and Will Smith actually eating spa...

Comedian Jeffrey Baldinger ( @Jeffbaldinger ) joins Matt and Jesse to talk about earthquakes, Santa Claus' dad,  a strange new type of star in the middle of our galaxy  and distinguishing between earthquakes and nuclear tests .

Comedian, actor and author Matt Knudsen ( @mattknudsen ) returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Have I Seen You In Anything? , working on soap operas, being in an iconic I Think You Should Leave sketch , going back to school, learning to tap dance, testosterone reducing the Audience Effect  and a bat that uses its huge penis as an arm .

Comedian Leah Bonnema ( @LeahBonnema ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Matt and Leah's road gig adventure, Jesse being snowed in, going to the bathroom outside, the science behind the munchies , Japan's Moon Sniper making contact with the lunar surface , Leah's love of Love Island, 45,000-year-old tools and bones found in eastern Asia , the Levallois technique and  everyone's lack of awar...

Comedian and author Moshe Kasher ( @moshekasher ) returns to the show to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about his upcoming book Subculture Vulture , chronicling his deep involvement in the seemingly disparate worlds of Hasidic Judaism, deaf culture, comedy, sobriety, rave culture and Burning Man, as well as digging into the possible de-extinction of the dodo .

Comedian Kim McVicar ( @KimMcVicar ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about  famous hecklers , Kim's dancing background, musicals and their parodies , coin flips not being as 50/50 as you think , neanderthal early birds , Daylight Saving Time talk, holiday penile fractures  and the crazy waves hitting the west coast right now.

While the gang take a little holiday break, we thought it was worth revisiting Andy's conversation with AI researcher and UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Stuart Russell from wayyyyy back in 2019. Now that we're well into the era of generative artificial intelligence, it's interesting to look back at what experts were saying about AI alignment just a few years ago, when it seemed to many...

Comedian Shane Torres ( @shanetorres ) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his new special The Blue Eyed Mexican , his unique Covid experience, more SPATS chats, finding the lost space tomato , what happens when you take your gun into an MRI scanner , someone else who wasn't as lucky with the MRI , the most extreme rogue wave on record , and the sound that warns a tornado i...

Comedian and author Ryan Conner ( @rconnercomedy ) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his porn doppelganger, the process of researching and writing  his new satirical novel The Party , an AI ProbSci ripoff,  SpaceX rockets punching holes in the sky , deep brain stimulation to help TBI patients  and a tree-dwelling shrimp found in the Cyclops Mountains .

Comedian Dustin Ybarra ( @dustin_ybarra ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about the recent Formula 1 race in Las Vegas, Erdős–Bacon numbers , the first mammal embryos grown in space , space travel's effect on erectile dysfunction , trying to deter orcas with heavy metal , a message laser-beamed from 10 million miles away , the rise of 6G and the ouster and return of OpenAI's Sam Altman after a...

Comedian Jenny Zigrino ( @jennyzigrino ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about skunks, the Vegas F1 race, smelling in stereo , the upside of anger in completing tasks , dominant eyes, Iceland volcanos  and the ultra-creepy hamster test or sperm penetration .

Comedian Steve Benaquist ( @stevebenaquist ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Halloween, Unversal Monsters , neck bolts, Frankenstein's Doug , sandbagging, goldbricking, carpetbagging and teetotaling, a radioactive toy from the 1950s , an unfortunate pig heart update , people who can't feel pain , Frozen Dead Guy Days , physics-defying sperm , a wind-powered car that goes faster than the w...