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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 314 - Marcus Ryan

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2018/11/06

Globetrotting comedian Marcus Ryan (@itsmarcusryan) joins Matt and Andy to discuss losing money internationally, optimistic condoms, Nobel Prize winners and Nobel limitations, exoplanets and moon moons, Superman films and piss-crazed goats.

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01:14:09

Episode 313 - Kiefo Nilsson

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2018/10/31

Dunking vegan bassist (and Son of Schmilsson) Kiefo Nilsson (@kiefonilsson) joins Andy and Matt to discuss his upcoming live performance of Harry Nilsson's album/animated special The Point (Sunday, November 4th at Dynasty Typewriter), his collaboration on a Tim Heidecker song to raise money for HIAS, the science of microphone patterns, Kiefo's citizen science wildlife tracking (and others doing similar work), the Fermi Paradox, the Parker Solar Probe's recent milestones and the demise of the Kepler

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01:13:11

Episode 312 - Wendi Starling and Megan Rice

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2018/10/24

Comedians and co-hosts of the Jammerz podcast Wendi Starling (@wendistarling) and Megan Rice (@_meganrice_) join Matt and Andy to discuss robot microwaves, cat penises, the GATE program, Japanese asteroid rovers, mosquitos, BEES, deadliest animals, panda dating, weed making people shower and puke, sandalwood-induced hair growth and ironic purchases.

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01:21:14

Episode 311 - Daniel Sloss and TJ Chambers

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2018/10/15

Fresh on the heels of the release of his two new Netflix specials, comedian Daniel Sloss (@Daniel_Sloss) returns to the show, joined by ProbSci regular and Twinsies co-host TJ Chambers (@tjchambersLA), to talk with Matt and Andy about Menudo, daddy taxonomy, druggy octopodes, fake early memories, Spicey and The Juice, overrated probiotics, alien conspiracy theories, and a tire reef that's poisoning the sea.

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01:23:12

Episode 310 - Shane Mauss

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2018/10/04

Comedian and host of the Here We Are science podcast Shane Mauss (@shanecomedy) returns to Probably Science to talk with Andy and Matt about psychedelics, his upcoming Stand-Up Science tour and being institutionalized when he nearly lost his mind. If you or a loved one are in distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's number is 1-800-273-8255.

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01:23:10

Episode 309 - Whitney Chitwood and Carly Ballerini

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2018/09/28

Comedians Whitney Chitwood (@WhitneyChitwood) and Carly Ballerini (@ballca) join Matt and Andy to talk about Nazi boots, the ghost of Cole Porter, Carly’s very interesting transplant, goats and happy people, this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, billionaires in space, a Soyuz hole, lucid dreams through meds (and the old-fashioned way), have you ever had a dream like this?, man’s egg mishap and Whitney and Carly's tour.

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01:07:57

Episode 308 - How To Invent Everything author Ryan North

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2018/09/18

In addition to being a programmer and computational linguist, Ryan North (@ryanqnorth) is the writer behind Dinosaur Comics, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, the Adventure Time comic book series, and Romeo and/or Juliet, and he joins Andy and Matt to discuss his new book How To Invent Everything, a survival guide for stranded time travelers who need to figure out where they've landed in time, and how to get civilization back to the present by inventing everything from writing and farming to buttons and

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01:25:30

Episode 307 - Dipak Srinivasan

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2018/09/07

Dipak Srinivasan of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory makes his third Probably Science appearance to give the inside scoop on a number of current and upcoming projects and missions including, but not limited to, the Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons checking out Ultima Thule, the Space Launch System, NASA's STEREO and the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft lander.

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01:21:25

Episode 306 - Jordan Morris

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2018/08/20

Creator of the hit podcast Bubble Jordan Morris (@Jordan_Morris) returns to the show to talk with Andy and Matt about bad accents, why the earliest galaxies are local, Andy's tail, the big toe evolving last, The Lottery, the recipe for mummies revealed, The Core, dolphin hybrids, Patton Oswalt and David Byrne on the Wholphin DVD and the Bermuda Triangle mystery possibly being solved.

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01:29:45

Episode 305 - Brandie Posey

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2018/08/16

Comedian and co-host of the Lady to Lady podcast Brandie Posey (@Brandazzle) joins Andy and Matt to talk about her aphantasia, science museums, ska daddies, lazy homo erectus, phone-induced blindness, cheating bots, There's Waldo, the Arabian sand boa, yeast radiation alarms, an aphantasia support group on Facebook, a software engineer's aphantasia experience, and Brandie's album, podcast and tour.

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01:10:20

Episode 304 - Thomas Patterson

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2018/08/08

Thomas Patterson (@thomasdynamic), music supervisor for the new AMC series Lodge 49 (@Lodge49), joins Andy and Matt to discuss the heat, will.i.am's Future, Lodge 49 and its soundtrack, Andy's initiation into the Fraternal Order of Eagles, why baby talk is good, plastic causing a greenhouse nightmare, how sleep clears the brain of toxins, a supercomputer modeling one second of brain function, how we forgot how to swim, The Dollop episode on swimming pools, modified mosquitoes and why Earth is

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01:10:52

Episode 303 - Sarah Albritton and Josh Cheney

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2018/08/06

Comedians Sarah Albritton (@SarahAlbritton) and Josh Cheney (@joshcheeeneee) join Matt and Andy to discuss Sleeping With Sarah, narcolepsy, narcoleptic dogs, Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, the 100 prisoners problem, massive sloth tunnels, weight on various planets, drinking Mars and trippy cicadas.

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Episode 302 - Lisa Curry

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2018/07/26

Comedian Lisa Curry (@lisa_curry) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Olympiads, the other Lisa Curry, reservoir shade balls, Bruce Lee as Kato, secret snakes, skiffs, car vibrations, prison experiment problems and old bread.

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01:20:09

Episode 301 - Guy Branum

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2018/07/19

Comedian, TV host and author of the upcoming memoir My Life as a Goddess Guy Branum (@guybranum) returns to the podcast to talk with Andy and Matt about shipping stories, his knowledge of international law, legal murders in Yellowstone, how dingos changed shrubs, shark pathogens, Nanaimo bars, dogs in fMRIs, Matt in an fMRI, 19th Century female mathematicians, senior wranglers and British TV shows you should be watching on YouTube.

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01:15:20

Episode 300 - Brooks Wheelan, Jesse Case, Andy Wood...

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2018/07/12

The gang's all back together again to celebrate 300 episodes of Probably Science while discussing barely any science at all, instead reminiscing about the last six years, getting nostalgic for Country Summer and trying to figure out which actors have achieved the coveted SPATS (piloting a spacecraft, plane, automobile, train and sea ship on film).

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01:27:06

Episode 299 - Neuroscientist Dean Burnett

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2018/07/06

Dean Burnett (@garwboy) is a neuroscientist, comedian, blogger and author of the new book Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why, and he Skyped in with Matt and Andy to talk about the book, delving into the complex relationship that happiness and human brains have with work, love, fame, home, humor, aging and much more.

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01:07:47

Episode 298 - Alex Schmidt

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2018/06/29

Comedian, writer and host of The Cracked Podcast Alex Schmidt (@alexschmidty) joins Matt and Andy to talk about 3D printing, Gategate, phone facts, the English Larval Progression, Andy and Matt's recent Cracked appearance, eels on coke, black holes eating stars, cane toad sausages and lonely radiation bacteria.

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Episode 297 - Mitch Burrow

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2018/06/21

Comedian Mitch Burrow (@MitchBurrow) joins Andy and Matt to talk about boot camp morning alarms, blueprint-building and 3D thought, deaf schizophrenia, Moshe Kasher’s book, exploding head syndrome, cold water calorics test update, the unluckiest guy in Pompeii, why Guatemala’s volcano is more dangerous than Hawaii's, all life on Earth by mass (and what we did to destroy it), The Cove documentary and Mitch’s podcast “We’re With Them."

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01:26:44

Episode 296 - Astrobiology with Adam Frank

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2018/06/14

Astrophysicist and professor at University of Rochester Adam Frank (@AdamFrank4) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, a look at the history of scientific discoveries on planetary environments and the prospect of alien life, what the very high likelihood that extraterrestrial civilizations have existed in our universe can teach us about the fate of human life on Earth, how an inevitable growing pain of any civilization is climate

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01:11:50

Episode 295 - Vana Dabney and Deborah Etta Robinson

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2018/06/05

Comedians and hosts of the upcoming Good Job You Failed podcast Vana Dabney (@vanawrite) and Deborah Etta Robinson (@deborah_etta) join Andy and Matt to discuss human echolocation, marsupials fucking themselves to death, death by fart smell, nerve regeneration (or lack thereof), the longest paths on Earth, non-detectable neutrinos, Deborah and Vana's podcast and bodybuilding goals. Watch Matt's clip on The Jim Jefferies Show here or here.

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