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Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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Professional comedians with so-so STEM pedigrees take you through this week in science. Incompetently. Featuring hosts Matt Kirshen, Andy Wood (and sometimes Jesse Case or Brooks Wheelan) along with a rotating cast of special guests from the worlds of comedy and science.
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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…
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(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 Austr…
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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 Bar…
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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.…
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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 wha…
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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…
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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 …
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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.…
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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.…
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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 …
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Writer/producer Sam Pasternack (@sampasternack) returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about awful bar trivia, Sam's new book "Walker," the history of pedestrianism, Land's End to John o' Groats, Andy's Burning Man updates, the dilemma of trombone utility and using massive python meals to help develop new human heart medicines.…
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Mystery Science Theater alum, comedian and author Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) joins the crew to talk about his new audiobook Dark Apnea. Plus horoscope doubts! Carl Sagan predicting the future! And where dinosaur killing asteroids came from! In the patreon bonus ep we talk about saving the banana from extinction. Sign up here!…
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Comedian Mark Cohen (@mark_coco_cohen) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss the two aging bursts humans experience, restoring Tonka trucks, weaning crocodiles off of cane toads, Mark's video game creations, using slime mold to help map dark matter, and stock photo artists who play Lawn Mowing Simulator. and Mark's possible record-breaking stint at…
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