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Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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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Episode 392 - Jonah Ray

Probably Science ·

2020/07/16

Comedian Jonah Ray (@jonahray), host of Jonah Raydio and co-guest with Matt on TONIGHT'S episode of The Great Debate on Syfy, talks about his great Seeso show Hidden America, taking over MST3K (and his favorite episode), how flying snakes fly, hungry hungry black holes, Twitter hacks and Bitcoin scams, talking to prairie dogs and the coming population crash. This episode is brought to you by StartAPod, providing our listeners with a special offer by visiting StartAPod.com/probably

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Episode 391 - Steph Tolev

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2020/07/10

Comedian Steph Tolev (@StephTolev) joins Andy and Matt from Toronto to discuss quarantining and TikTok-ing with her family, the history of sled dogs, a black neutron star discovery, putting sheep in K-holes and a $23 million space toilet.

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Episode 390 - Chris Garcia

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2020/07/04

Comedian and host of the outstanding podcast Scattered Chris Garcia (@_chrisgarcia) joins Matt and Andy to discuss getting a little too much parental help with science fair projects, dolphins using tools, 3D printing inside the body and how burning coal 250 million years ago led to climate change. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 389 - Matthew Broussard

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2020/06/26

Comedian, swimmer and math major Matthew Broussard (@mondaypunday) joins Andy and Matt to talk about linear algebra, swimming, neanderthal DNA, DNA degradation, Alex Falcone's NASA career, ancient Irish one-percenters, twins marrying twins and twin paternity tests. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 388 - Jake Johannsen

Probably Science ·

2020/06/16

Comedian Jake Johannsen (@Jakethis) of the podcast Jake This joins Andy and Matt to discuss an herbal would-be COVID-19 remedy out of Madagascar, why men and women experience alcohol differently, alcohol's lack of protection against COVID-19 and appearing on Dr. Katz.

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Episode 387 - Dan Oster

Probably Science ·

2020/06/06

Comedian and actor Dan Oster (@dernerster) joins Matt and a normally voiced Andy to discuss pantomime dwarves, a desert update, neutron stars showing their cores, a porn star and a toad-venom death, psychological pain treatments, tripping on nutmeg and Dan's A Podcast, But Evil. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 386 - Sarah Morgan and JJ Whitehead

Probably Science ·

2020/05/30

Friends of the show Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) and JJ Whitehead (@JJWhitesnake) return to talk with Matt and a strangely deep-voiced Andy about a USB stick to protect you from the evils of 5G, controlling monkey minds via ultrasound, a super-deep octopus and monkeys stealing coronavirus samples. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 385 - Carlos Alazraqui

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2020/05/24

Comedian, actor and voice performer extraordinaire Carlos Alazraqui (@carlosalazraqui) joins Matt and Andy to talk about what you can learn from hundreds of skydiving jumps, mud flows on Mars, laughing gas from penguin poop, a worm that survived being frozen for 41,000 years and Carlos' new movie Witness Infection.

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Episode 384 - Kristin Key

Probably Science ·

2020/05/18

Comedian Kristin Key (@thekristinkey) joins Matt and Andy to talk about her new album Keeper of Feelings, the importance of moths, illicit surfing in bioluminescence, neon dolphins, Pluto's haze, SOFIA, thirsty koalas licking trees and rain caused by nuclear testing. This episode is brought to you by StartAPod, offering our listeners 50% off the first year of a monthly or annual subscription by visiting StartAPod.com/probably

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Episode 383 - Scott Vrooman

Probably Science ·

2020/05/10

Writer Scott Vrooman (@mescottvrooman) joins Matt and Andy to discuss watching rocket launches, Trident missile tests, what it actually takes to make a ventilator, murder hornets, how to give CPR, the psychological health of vegetarians and meat-eaters, girlfriends' effects on risk-taking and the new Quibi show Memory Hole. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering our listeners a free trial by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably This episode is brought to you

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Episode 382 - Jesse Case

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2020/04/28

Erstwhile Probably Science cohost Jesse Case (@jessecase) of Jesse vs. Cancer fame returns (remotely) to discuss everyone's new living situations, what the old Bluebell house looks like now, Andy's neighbor's text, a new LIGO discovery, bird brain sizes, a black paint that somehow cools buildings and analyzing whether farts can spread coronavirus. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering our listeners a free trial by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably This episode is

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Episode 381 - Sam Pasternack

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2020/04/12

Writer Sam Pasternack (@SamPasternack) of The Podcasternack joins Matt and Andy while riding his quarantine exercise bike to discuss the real toilet paper problem, bomb tests and whale shark ages, a VERY personalized toilet, an unexpected downside of planting trees, a Mercury mission that just got underway and a five-year time lapse of its path to Mercury orbit. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners three months of unlimited access for only $30

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Episode 380 - Danny Jolles

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2020/04/04

Comedian/actor Danny Jolles (@DannyJolles) joins Andy and Matt to discuss celebrity centers, political science, the astrophysicist who got magnets stuck up his nose, arm hickeys, mouse emotions, finding Clooneys when stressed, neanderthal fishing, ancient Australian fossils, wrestler Mae Young, Danny's podcast Everything But The Scores and Brooks' ridiculous one-man hungover marathon. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners three months of

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Episode 379 - Grant Lyon

Probably Science ·

2020/03/30

Comedian Grant Lyon (@grantlyon1) returns to the podcast on the heels of the release of his new album "Scheduled Fun Time" to talk about "Imagine" parodies, a Mars lander hitting itself with a shovel, NASA accepting applications, genetically modified neurons and implants, Earth's tiny new moon, Grant's astronaut neighbor and an animal that doesn't need oxygen to survive.

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Episode 378 - Dr. Barry Fox

Probably Science ·

2020/03/20

Dr. Barry Fox is a Clinical Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He also teaches An Introduction to Infectious Diseases on The Great Courses Plus, which turns out to be a very timely lecture series right now. Dr. Fox talks with Matt and Andy about infectious disease in general, and COVID-19 in particular, while helping clarify what we do and don't know about the pandemic in which we find ourselves. For up-to-the-minute coronavirus

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Episode 377 - Langston Kerman

Probably Science ·

2020/03/18

Comedian/actor Langston Kerman (@LangstonKerman, Insecure, South Side, Bless This Mess) joins Matt and Andy for a COVID-19 quarantine edition of the podcast, discussing oceanography, subterranean chlamydia, raining molten iron, bike speed records, tiny dinosaurs, mammoth bones, forbidden fruit and insect butter. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 376 - Sharon Mahoney and Byron Bertram

Probably Science ·

2020/03/13

Comedians Sharon Mahoney (@sharonmahoneyca) and Byron Bertram (@byronbertram) join Matt and Andy to discuss glowing amphibians, COVID-19, Pence's spotty record, the Halifax Explosion and molecular oxygen being found beyond the Milky Way. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

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Episode 375 - Barry Rothbart

Probably Science ·

2020/03/02

Barry Rothbart (@barryrothbart) returns to Probably Science eight years after his last appearance to discuss Scorcese films, Mad Mike Hughes, an autism apology, COVID-19, relative risks and vaccines, expensive cars and being a dick, electricity from thin air, seatbelt laws and lives saved and bomb-sniffing locusts.

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Episode 374 - Rob Yescombe

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2020/02/20

Video game writer/narrative director and VR advocate Rob Yescombe (@robyescombe) joins Matt and Andy to discuss 90s computer games on TV, Gamesmaster with Take That, Oculus Quest, inside-out tracking, parallax, light field cameras, volumetric video capture, Surinder Rattan's The Lick, making the VR whodunit The Invisible Hours and the game RiME. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting

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Episode 373 - Krister Johnson

Probably Science ·

2020/02/11

Writer/producer Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) joins Matt and Andy to discuss his hilarious new Netflix show Medical Police, God's Pottery, Matt LeBlanc and a very specific accent, virus-naming, radiation-eating fungi, autism and myelin, extreme knitting and walking sharks.

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