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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 280 - Valerie Tosi

Episode 280 - Valerie Tosi

Comedian/actor/voiceover artist Valerie Tosi (@valerie_tosi) joins Andy and Matt (and Roo) to discuss Andy’s dogsitting business, whale dissection, Boston accents and pirate accents, Cheddar Man the …

01:19:46  |   Fri 09 Feb 2018
Episode 279 - Lauren Flans

Episode 279 - Lauren Flans

Actor/improviser Lauren Flans (@laurenflans) of Another Period, Wild 'n Out and the new podcast Tell Us We're Funny and We'll Go Away joins Matt and Andy to discuss travel credit cards and Mexican dr…

01:14:12  |   Thu 01 Feb 2018
Episode 278 - Kiran Deol

Episode 278 - Kiran Deol

Comedian/actor/writer Kiran Deol (@shitfromkiran) joins Matt and Andy to help celebrate the six-year (iron) anniversary of the podcast and discuss crashing astronomy conferences, shooting Prince Rupe…

01:09:11  |   Thu 25 Jan 2018
Episode 277 - Ben Roy

Episode 277 - Ben Roy

Comedian, star of Those Who Can't and frontman of the band SPELLS Ben Roy (@benroy00) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Andy’s accessibility, Poison songs, evolutionary psychology, the books The Mati…

01:29:37  |   Fri 12 Jan 2018
Episode 276 - Ricky Carmona

Episode 276 - Ricky Carmona

Comedian Ricky Carmona (@RickyCarmona) of the podcast Who Shot Ya? joins Andy and Matt to talk about when to say Happy New Year, Weird Science vs. Real Genius, how to stop superbugs, raw water, the o…

01:17:17  |   Wed 10 Jan 2018
Episode 275 - TJ Chambers and Auggie Smith

Episode 275 - TJ Chambers and Auggie Smith

Friends of the show TJ Chambers (@TJChambersLA) and Auggie Smith (@AuggieSmith) return to kick off 2018 with TJ and Andy's new podcast Twinsies (@twinsiespod), space beer, monkeys bonin’ deer, the re…

01:18:06  |   Wed 03 Jan 2018
Episode 274 - Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton

Episode 274 - Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton

Matt’s on the road in Colorado and meets up with his old university friend Dr. Pete Newton (@newton_pete) who's now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder to talk about his TED…

01:03:48  |   Tue 26 Dec 2017
Episode 273 - Jim Jefferies

Episode 273 - Jim Jefferies

Matt and Andy make a visit to the home of Jim Jefferies (@jimjefferies) to talk about a very British car accident, self-driving cars, Ted Danson's amazing face, feeding spiders graphene, a new space …

01:10:59  |   Tue 05 Dec 2017
Episode 272 - Pat Francis

Episode 272 - Pat Francis

Host of the Rock Solid podcast Pat Francis (@pat_francis) joins Matt and Andy to talk about donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important, homeless etiquette, Voyager I…

01:31:07  |   Tue 05 Dec 2017
Episode 271 - Eli Braden

Episode 271 - Eli Braden

01:16:23  |   Thu 30 Nov 2017
Episode 270 - Dr. Danna Staaf

Episode 270 - Dr. Danna Staaf

Science writer, educator, and artist Dr. Danna Staaf recently published her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, and she joins Matt and Andy to talk about her dissertation …

01:09:14  |   Tue 21 Nov 2017
Episode 269 - Chris Turner

Episode 269 - Chris Turner

Comedian/freestyle rapper Chris Turner (@ChrisPJTurner) joins Andy and Matt to talk about archeology, volcano-based Roman shit, old wine, old Amish people, gay evolution, monkeys playing chicken and

00:55:09  |   Fri 17 Nov 2017
Episode 268 - Raj Desai

Episode 268 - Raj Desai

Comedian Raj Desai (@_rajdesai) almost makes himself late to his job writing for Sarah Silverman's I Love You, America to do a morning recording with Andy and Matt about his chromatography history, l…

00:41:52  |   Thu 09 Nov 2017
Episode 267 - Jason Saenz

Episode 267 - Jason Saenz

Comedian Jason Saenz (@jasonsaenz) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Jeff Foxworthy impressions, Saenz Signs, debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing, competition-grade oysters, squirre…

01:08:42  |   Tue 31 Oct 2017
Episode 266 - Galloway Allbright

Episode 266 - Galloway Allbright

Comedian Galloway Allbright (@GalloWhy) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the death of expertise, extreme Michael Jackson fandom, that classic Encyclopedia Brittanica ad, the origin of bluegrass, in-fli…

01:29:58  |   Mon 23 Oct 2017
Episode 265 - Live from LA PodFest with Brooks Wheelan and Dave Anthony

Episode 265 - Live from LA PodFest with Brooks Wheelan and Dave Anthony

Original co-host Brooks Wheelan (@brookswheelan) and LA PodFest co-founder/The Dollop host Dave Anthony join Matt and Andy for a live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Lo…

01:15:04  |   Fri 13 Oct 2017
Episode 264 - Alice Fraser

Episode 264 - Alice Fraser

Comedian and host of the Tea With Alice podcast Alice Fraser (@aliterative) joins Matt and Andy to discuss jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a duck update (duckdate?) with video, a body clock Nobel Pri…

01:09:31  |   Thu 05 Oct 2017
Episode 263 - Sharon Houston

Episode 263 - Sharon Houston

Comedian Sharon Houston (@sharon_houston) joins Matt and Andy to discuss flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines, duck dicks, finger phone contact, genes vs. alleles, the co…

01:13:56  |   Wed 27 Sep 2017
Episode 261 - Sara Benincasa

Episode 261 - Sara Benincasa

Comedian and author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs (and three other books) Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) invited Matt and Andy into her kitchen to talk about Burning Man, Woodstock '99, talking peo…

00:54:25  |   Fri 08 Sep 2017
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