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Probably Science

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.

Science Comedy Science & Medicine News
Update frequency
every 9 days
Average duration
74 minutes
Episodes
591
Years Active
2012 - 2025
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Episode 300 - Brooks Wheelan, Jesse Case, Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen

Episode 300 - Brooks Wheelan, Jesse Case, Andy Wood and Matt Kirshen

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 Countr…

01:15:20  |   Thu 12 Jul 2018
Episode 299 - Neuroscientist Dean Burnett

Episode 299 - Neuroscientist Dean Burnett

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,…

01:27:06  |   Fri 06 Jul 2018
Episode 298 - Alex Schmidt

Episode 298 - Alex Schmidt

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 rec…

01:07:47  |   Fri 29 Jun 2018
Episode 297 - Mitch Burrow

Episode 297 - Mitch Burrow

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, c…

00:57:58  |   Thu 21 Jun 2018
Episode 296 - Astrobiology with Adam Frank

Episode 296 - Astrobiology with Adam Frank

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 t…

01:26:44  |   Thu 14 Jun 2018
Episode 295 - Vana Dabney and Deborah Etta Robinson

Episode 295 - Vana Dabney and Deborah Etta Robinson

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…

01:11:50  |   Tue 05 Jun 2018
Episode 294 - Jesse Joyce

Episode 294 - Jesse Joyce

Comedian and writer Jesse Joyce (@jessejoyce) joins Andy and Matt to talk about taxidermy, muskoxen, takins, red panda poop glitter, Qinling pandas, Gavin Webster's pandas, Bitcoin's energy usage, Je…

01:18:26  |   Thu 24 May 2018
Episode 293 - Robyn Morrison

Episode 293 - Robyn Morrison

Comedian Robyn Morrison (@RobynSomething) joins Andy and Matt to discuss concert height etiquette, the best sciences on drugs, more aphantasia, snail memory, science trivia questions, sitcom tropes,

01:14:23  |   Thu 17 May 2018
Episode 292 - Ori Amir

Episode 292 - Ori Amir

Neuroscientist/comedian Ori Amir (@OriAmir) joins Matt and Andy to talk about putting Matt in an fMRI, how your brain constructs jokes, prosopagnosia and aphantasia, politics and the brain, what comp…

01:24:32  |   Thu 10 May 2018
Episode 291 - Brett Erickson

Episode 291 - Brett Erickson

Comedian Brett Erickson (@iBrettmypants) joins Matt and Andy on location at the Jim Jefferies Show offices to talk about meeting Slayer's guitarist Kerry King, Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on…

01:36:55  |   Thu 03 May 2018
Episode 290 - Emily Fleming

Episode 290 - Emily Fleming

Comedian/actor/writer Emily Fleming (@FlemilyEming) joins Matt and Andy to discuss bad AI, gastro doctoring, constidar, Andy’s phone getting stolen mid-show, the smell of Uranus, New York water, peni…

01:26:50  |   Thu 26 Apr 2018
Episode 289 - Jono Zalay

Episode 289 - Jono Zalay

Comedian/neuroscientist Dr. Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) joins Matt and Andy to discuss coke rats, accidental rat ejaculation, ibogaine for opiates, ketamine for depression, rodent cocktail, animal popula…

01:15:00  |   Wed 18 Apr 2018
Episode 288 - David Smalley

Episode 288 - David Smalley

Comedian and podcaster David Smalley (@davidcsmalley) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bullying bullies, different names, Texan science, why meth is bad, paints for self-driving cars, herpes, 3D pri…

01:22:06  |   Wed 11 Apr 2018
Episode 287 - Shane Torres

Episode 287 - Shane Torres

Comedian and Guy Fieri apologist Shane Torres (@shanetorres) makes his first appearance on the show, joining Andy and Matt to talk about horse herpes and rodeo adaptation, the #DickTracyChallenge, su…

01:10:55  |   Wed 04 Apr 2018
Episode 286 - Ian Abramson

Episode 286 - Ian Abramson

Comedian Ian Abramson (@ianabramson) joins Andy and Matt to talk about the death of Jim Jefferies, the Inland Empire, Roger Bannister, how fast the average person can run, Dick Tracy, a rocket man an…

01:08:54  |   Wed 28 Mar 2018
Episode 285 - Charlie Clausen

Episode 285 - Charlie Clausen

Actor and TOFOP co-host Charlie Clausen (@CXClausen) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Aussie soaps, dental nightmares, Mask vs. The Mask, Eric Stoltz, Daylight Saving Time and koalas, smell-the-fart ac…

01:17:31  |   Sat 24 Mar 2018
Episode 284 - Jena Friedman

Episode 284 - Jena Friedman

Comedian/writer/producer/host of Adult Swim's Soft Focus Jena Friedman (@JenaFreidman) joins Matt and Andy for an on-location recording talking about Cannibal Cop, Jena's cold fusion-seeking grandfat…

01:01:08  |   Mon 12 Mar 2018
Episode 283 - James Fritz

Episode 283 - James Fritz

Comedian James Fritz (@fritzisdead) joins Andy and Matt to discuss Kentucky science, Oscars theories, magic mushrooms, neanderthal art, turkey history and Ben Franklin on birds, airplane air, soldier…

00:59:23  |   Thu 08 Mar 2018
Episode 282 - Sarah Morgan

Episode 282 - Sarah Morgan

Writer and friend of the show Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) returns to talk with Matt and Andy about the prey defines the chasevampire bats, memory wire, bismuth, robo-bees, playing HQ Trivia (and u…

01:20:50  |   Sat 24 Feb 2018
Episode 281 - Zabeth Russell

Episode 281 - Zabeth Russell

Actress Zabeth Russell (@zabsters) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Tom hanks killing a dog, placebo boobs, monkey sex workerseye worms, fast and slow colors (and more color experiments), and dinosau…

01:11:50  |   Wed 14 Feb 2018
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