Probably Science

Comedian Aparna Nancherla ( @aparnapkin ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about her new book Unreliable Narrator , the ubiquity of impostor syndrome in Hollywood, childhood memories of carob , a new insanely hot pepper , roosters recognizing themselves in mirrors , a drunk dude fighting his reflection , and AI besting humans at Street Fighter .

Comedian, musician and now author Dave Hill ( @mrdavehill ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his lifelong love of hockey, his new book The Awesome Game , bowling lane oil patterns , figuring out how cats purr , bespectacled chickens , and the first-ever fine issued for space junk .

Andy's away, but Matt and Jesse are joined by Kevin Kataoka and returning guest Brian Malow to talk about pseudolegal grifts ! Why you shouldn't talk to the police ! Scientists who've grown a human embryo!   Brian May side projects! Hedy Lamarr's  inventions! Military subterfuge and ghost armies! And sailing a satellite out of orbit! You can join our Patreon to hear a bonus story about NFL jersey...

Comedian/biomedical engineer Pallavi Gunalan ( @PallaviGunalan ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about her path from science to comedy,  working on open-source ventilators , the oldest living skydiver , the oldest surfer , growing human kidneys in pigs , the surprising intelligence of jellyfish  and a misread of one of Newton's laws .

Andy's back from Burning Man to give the gang an update on how not big of a deal the rain was and to talk about  Jesse's love of the band Ghost , middle-age music obsessions, the viral sensation "Sitting" by Brian Jordan Alvarez , debunking a Da Vinci tree rule ( and figuring out what, exactly, bunk is ), the greatest-ever opening line of a textbook , the risks of eating a single super-hot chip an...

Comedian, Kimmel writer and now author Jesse Joyce joins us to talk about his new book about the killer of Lincoln's killer ! Plus live brain worms ! The Indian moon landing ! Unimpressive household robots! And who should go to Mars ! Click here for a free trial of Scribd and read/listen to Jesse's book.

Comedian, actor and host of The John Fugelsang Podcast and SiriusXM's Tell Me Everything John Fugelsang ( @JohnFugelsang ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about  Prince's showstopping Beatles solo , reconciling science and the Bible, Russia crashing a lander into the moon , the steampunk LK lunar module , warnings of the submersible implosion , the 1970s SoCal Hurricane Kathleen , the reason it...

Comedian DeAnne Smith ( @DeAnne_Smith ) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about DeAnne's new special Chiweenie in a Tank Top , getting Canadian citizenship, advances in pig-human transplantation , the possibility of regrowing human teeth , the game Pizza Party  and  the Radiolab episode about Alpha Gal .

Comedian Jamel Johnson ( @NonProfitComic ), host of too many podcasts to count , joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to mourn Paul Reubens, discuss Amazing Larry and his deleted scene , the Cabazon dinosaurs , Sonic & Knuckles , Michael Jackson's Sonic connection , how to help striking film and TV workers , a tick bite that can cause a meat allergy , leprosy on the rise in Florida , Mars spinning (slightly...

American Gladiator Danny Lee "Nitro" Clark joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the hit Netflix documentary Muscles & Mayhem , how his "raw meat" tryout ad-lib landed him the role of a lifetime, the analogies between management's treatment of the Gladiators and the current WGA/SAG strikes, the odd experience of seeing yourself as an action figure , nostalgia for the monoculture, Nitro's romanc...

Comedian/writer/director Bethany Dwyer ( @BethanyDwyer ) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about her horror film Grandpa , self-repairing metal , action movie one-liners , why dolphins and orcas won't be returning to land , the resurrection of 46,000-year-old nematodes  and the list of human evolution fossils .

Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) returns to the podcast to celebrate 500 episodes of Probably Science and talk about Probarbenheimer, the demise of Summer Country, a new venomous snake , a solar telescope array that cost half as much as White Chicks , unlocking car doors with tennis balls  and creating weather forecasts with AI .

Comedian Karl Hess ( @karlhess ) of the podcast Yelling About Pâté and the live show Amuse Bouche returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about urban legends, ancient Chinese secrets , a possible bit of alien technology that crashed into the ocean , a Cuban lung cancer treatment , Kyle Kinane getting his van stuck in Joshua Tree , the poop-filled beaches of Texas , an extremely shiny...

Dan Schreiber of the podcasts No Such Thing as a Fish and The Cryptid Factor , as well as the new book The Theory of Everything Else , joins Matt and Jesse to talk about  Nobelitis , using insects to turn beer waste into beef , an ancient slasher dolphin with weird teeth , using shopping cart sensors to identify stroke risk  and Keith Alberstadt's bat attack.

On a very special guest-less episode, Matt, Jesse and Andy talk about the fate of the OceanGate Titan, extreme undersea pressure, the curse of the Titanic, whether the Kursk could have been saved , the slightly dubious age-defying claims of a man who lived underwater for several months , the approval of lab-grown meat , Jesse and Andy's latest video game forays, what kangaroos did before they hopp...

Comedian John Conroy ( @ConroyFTW ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Grimace's birthday , driving Ronald McDonald around, finding the building blocks of life on Enceladus , federal capital offenses , frog pants , how many people haven't tried ChatGPT  and nanotattoos that don't need batteries or wires .

Comedian Anna Valenzuela ( @annavisfunny ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about her myriad jobs including trolley operator and karate instructor, China's space monkey sex plans , why race car drivers blink at the same point on the track  and why Michael Caine never blinks at all .

Comedian and comic book author Izzy Salhani ( @luckysalhani ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about bear-baiting, fighting a bunch of kids, a Renaissance fair accident, clay quality,  octopus-inpired camouflage ink , Richard Branson's rocket plane taking to the skies again , orcas learning to attack boats  and orca fads .

Comedian Liz Miele ( @lizmiele ) returns to the show to talk about her tour documentary Jet-Lagged , growing up in a veterinarian household,  Australian wildlife adventures , a koala chlamydia vaccine , aesthetic scrotal preferences , an Onion classic , Liz's book Why Cats Are Assholes , gymnastics limitations  and exceeding astrophysics limitations .

Neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Dr. Heather Berlin ( @heather_berlin ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about hosting the upcoming PBS series Your Brain , the hard problem of consciousness, evolutionary mismatches, panic attack strategies, flow state performance, debating Deepak Chopra about god , the Stanford marshmallow experiment , impulse control, the downside of getting a hangry ju...

Comedian and host of the podcasts High and Mighty and ActionBoyz Jon Gabrus ( @Gabrus ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his hilarious show 101 Places to Party Before You Die , the WGA strike, whether AI can write a 30 Rock scene , the shrinking middle class in entertainment, buffet memories, the benefits of an all-female Mars mission team , curing parrot loneliness with video calls , the...

Longtime Conan writer and co-creator of Eagleheart Andrew Weinberg joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about his ridiculously funny new show Jury Duty , which follows the workings of a jury trial through the eyes of Ronald Gladden, a juror who is unaware the entire case is fake, the insane hoops they had to jump through to bring the show to life, the truth about weed and creativity , and the unsurp...

Comedian Andy Hendrickson ( @andyhendrickson ) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about magic tricks that only work on monkeys with opposable thumbs , how mirrors know where eggs are , a math formula for achieving orgasm , how quickly you can create false memories  and Andy's neighbor Tony's commentary track on Birdemic 3 .

Comedian Nate Craig ( @hypeman ) returns to the podcast to talk about a deadly fungal infection , terrible maps , building cities on shaky ground, the history of plate tectonics, nanoplastics interfering with chicken embryos  and a 3D-printed cake .

Comedian Noman Hosni ( @NomanHosni ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Tunisia,  bad fan art , hair transplants, a bad embryo swap , Paris' City of Science and Industry , a blood test for anxiety , storing carbon dioxide in the ocean as baking soda , how much lift the space shuttle lander can generate and mapping the brain of a fruit fly .