Probably Science

Comedian and author of new book Doing Time: Comedians Talk About Standup JT Habersaat ( jtcomedy.com ) to talk about the other books on Jawbone Press ! Making bespoke action figures! Changing your brainwaves to not feel pain ! Infrared contact lenses for night vision! Other contact lenses to cheat at poker ! How joke magazine x-ray specs "work"! A shapeshifting octopus ! And whether the Loch Ness...

Globetrotting headliner Tom Rhodes ( tomrhodes.net ) has a new special, The Ripest Zebras, available on his website. He joins Jesse and Matt to talk about growing up in NASA's backyard! The chair challenge ! Wasps having surprisingly good memories ! While herrings might not ! Tom's hummingbird facts! Plus how to drop an egg ! And push straws through potatoes ! In the Patreon bonus we hear about an...

Comedian and filmmaker Ron Placone ( @ronplacone ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about his new movie Left at Wall , the guy who let venomous snakes bite him hundreds of times for science (kind of) , a color no one had seen until now , retinitis pigmentosa  and turning lead into gold .

Comedian, writer and author of upcoming novel " First Time, Long Time " Amy Silverberg ( @amysilverberg ) joins the gang to talk about Andy's Irish landscape spotting! The optimal amount of bra bounce ! Andy's Iberian adventures! Lions biting gladiators! Men fighting gorillas! And which glasses to wear to avoid the fight yourself! In the Patreon bonus we talk about lucid dreaming and a new state o...

Great stand-up and co-creator of the Marijuana-Logues Tony Camin ( @tony.camin ) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about crows' geometry skills ! Tony helping one of the fathers of decision analysis ! Why seals don't drown ! Unlikely animal friends ! And whether your month of conception shapes your body ! Tony's new album, An Ass Pocket of Whimsy will come out on Stand-Up! Records and you can find him...

Comedian and Horror Nerd Samantha Hale ( @thesamanthahale ) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about: A layer of life deep below us ! The not actually back from extinction dire wolves! The Earth's mysterious pulsations ! and Reagan's obsession with the Titanic ! In the Patreon bonus we talk about bending sounds. Click here to support Probably Science via Patreon Click here to subscribe in Apple Podcasts...

Friend of the show  Wil   Anderson ( @officialwilanderson ) joins Matt live in Perth along with marine biologist-turned-comedian Robyn Perkins ( @robynhperkins ) to talk all things coral, nudibranchs, poisonous sea creatures and surprising things to do with dry ice and mouths.

Writer/comedian Shawn Carlow ( @shawncarlow ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his new book People of the Titanic: 30 Tales of Extra-Doomed Souls Who Sailed on The Ship of Dreams , mouse-to-mouse resuscitation , what your poop schedule says about your health  and physicists creating a supersolid out of light .

Live from Perth, Matt is joined by Ross Noble , Kirsty Webeck and Paul Savage to talk about if you can cook a chicken by throwing ice cubes at it , dolphins communicating with pee streams , dormant volcanoes that aren't that dormant and astronauts' eyesight .

Comedian James P. Connolly ( @jamespconnolly ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt on location from the SLO Comedy Festival to talk about centaurs and minotaurs, plum grenades, forcing comedy on bar patrons, the asteroid that was at one point maybe going to hit us , the return of measles , Jesse's update on the state of Nashville, overly clean living conditions in space  and  microscopic obelisks in your g...

Comedian Aidan Jones ( @aidanjonescomedy ) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about  his musical comedy show Chopin's Nocturne , returning to classical music after a long break, piano tuning dorkery , doing Mozart covers , 66 million-year-old fish vomit , racy Mozart compositions , drawing dinosaurs with Zhao Chuang , talking dinosaurs with same  and jerking it during a volcanic eruption .

Comedian Alice Fraser ( @aliterative ) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Jesse's mistimed melatonin, Alice's new book A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance , Hot Frosty , Matt's upcoming Australia shows , how ants can beat humans at cooperation , increasingly dumb reality dating shows , Andy's Naked Attraction obsession, science lectures on Pornhub , b...

(Note: This episode was recorded before the Los Angeles fires) Comedian/actor Mary Lynn Rajskub ( @marylynnrajskub ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about filming her upcoming show  North of North in Nunavut, her new standup special Road Gig , how Roman air pollution lowered the IQ of Europe , long eggs , the thick ice of Europa , Matt's upcoming Australia shows and Andy's upcoming Arizona ones...

Comedian and physical therapist Laura Hayden ( @LauraHaydenFun ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her penile pictorial book What About Dick , a decrease in average body temperature , sciatica advice, the benefits of pooping before you exercise , Matt's upcoming Australia tour and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros gigs .

Comedian Forrest Shaw ( @forrestshaw ) returns to the show to talk about stalking manatees with police helicopters, gambling addiction, his upcoming podcast I've Got a Problem , survival of the wittiest , a lost branch of humanity's family tree ,  Matt's upcoming comedy shows in Eureka and Medford and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros shows in Santa Barbara and Los Olivos .

Comedian Matthew Broussard ( @mondaypunday ) returns to the show to chat with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Matthew's new special Hyperbolic , exaggerated accents , the CEO shooter, cyborg beetles , a quantum computing milestone , gray goo , online security in a post-quantum world , elliptic curves , conic sections, Fermat's Enigma and a super old bird mother .

Comedian Becky Braunstein ( @beckyfromalaska ) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about growing up Jewish in Alaska, eruv rules and topology,  orcas bringing back the salmon hat fad , the dangers of squeezing limes in bright sunlight , and tiny vodka-propelled robots .

Comedian/writer/actress Laura Kightlinger ( @KingKightlinger ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about spontaneous human combustion, Bourbon Room comedy shows in Hollywood , the story behind Andy's various bands ,   the Uranus story we don't want to cover , how one atom can change a parrot's color , blurb machine Peter Travers , peacock spiders , a blue whale that's been leaking oil for 26 years...

Screenwriter James Lamont joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about writing the upcoming Paddington in Peru , alcohol detox champion hornets , Shatner's double SPATS , memory not being confined to the brain , Jesse getting checked in on by local kids and Matt's oath to take up arms for the United States.

Comedian Benny Blue ( @bennyblueeyes ) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about brat summer transitioning into the fall of civilization, Benny's new special Live From My Mother's Funeral , Benny and Andy's Blue Lake connection , Anarchist Cookbook adolescent shenanigans , why humans are the perfect size for speed , Matt and Andy's show with the 2022-iest name ever , the best mural ever painted  an...

Comedian and former Probably Science cohost Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) joins Jesse and Andy to talk about his new special Alive In Alaska , Tony Hinchcliffe entering the election arena, cats beating babies at word association , Don't Wake Daddy , snake talk just for Brooks , the Teddy Roosevelt biography The River of Doubt , Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties , the ever-changing landscape of s...

Comedian Jeffrey Jay ( @heyjeffreyjay ) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss UnCertified Fresh, the Matt Walsh-iverse of awful movies, Earth gaining a second moon , the orbital path of that object , an octopus that punches fish to make them help it hunt  and  choceted EEG caps for cats .

DJ Qualls ( @TheOnlyDJQualls ) and Kelly Blackheart ( @kellyblackheart ) of the Locked & Probably Loaded podcast join Matt and Jesse to talk about DJ's upcoming movie Carved , Nashville dive bars, the Ark Encounter , the Ig Nobel prize for butt-breathing , extreme aging , re-creating Mars in a lab  and resurrecting the woolly mammoth .

Comedian Maronzio Vance ( @maronziovance ) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Andy's upcoming ska festival and Oktoberfest polka band gigs, Taipei's innovative trash system , dating Prince-obsessed women, dogs' incredible ability to remember the names of toys , the gut-first path of Parkinson's  and comedy's legendary Tribble runs .

Comedian/actress/podcaster Helen Hong ( @funnyhelenhong ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about peeing in pools and reservoirs , male stripper shows, Helen's excellent quiz podcast  Go Fact Yourself , pre-Darth Vader David Prowse PSAs , the dye in Doritos that can make mice transparent , a SpaceX rocket punching a hole in the ionosphere , mailing poo in a box  and making pyrex invisible with vegetable...