Probably Science

Comedian JC Currais (@jcstandup) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to discuss using dead spiders as robots, returning samples from Mars, a chess-bot that broke a little boy's finger and the miracle of OpenAI's DALL-E and the more lightweight version that we used to generate way too many pictures based on text prompts.

UC San Diego astrophysicist, podcaster and YouTuber Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the inflation model versus the cyclic model of the universe, multiverses, how an astrophysicist conducts an experiment, working on BICEP at the South Pole, Brian's books Losing the Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible and joining Brian's mailing list for your chance to win an actual meteorite from SPACE. 

Anthropologist/comedian Natalia Reagan (@natalia13reagan) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss her path from acting to the sciences, childhood fear of King Kong, primatology, a harrowing car accident, mites having sex on your face, rocket craters on the moon and spider monkey genitalia. This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY

Comedian Andrew O'Neill (@destructo9000) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy just before Andrew and Matt head off to Glastonbury to talk about Andrew's new BBC Radio 4 sitcom Damned Andrew, summoning the writing gods, working with Alan Moore, the feasibility of breathing through your butt, reverse mermaids and a fluffy crab that wears a sponge as a hat.

Legendary comedy writer Peter Baynham (@peterbaynham) of the podcast Brain Cigar joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about sharks and megalodons, how bikes stay upright, another great collection of science article art and more, slinging a payload into the sky, discovering ancient Amazon settlements using lidar and some crazy cave art. This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY

Emery Emery (@emeryemeryii) and Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian) return to the podcast to talk with Matt and Jesse about their recent movie Science Friction, images of a supermassive black hole, a reduction in pollution leading to more hurricanes, and insane depth-of-field on a record-breaking camera.

Comedian and co-host of The Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince (@robinince) returns to the podcast while on a North American tour to talk with Matt and Andy about the love of science, using stories and mythology to convey real concepts, the different levels of infinity, a James Webb telescope update, an illustration of how the universe's expansion affects our perception of galaxies, dolphins recognizing their friends by the taste of their pee and strange data coming from Voyager I and Robin's books The Importance of Being Interested and the upcoming Bibliomaniac.

Comedy legend Dave Foley (@DaveSFoley) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Dave's painfully funny and woefully overlooked movie The Wrong Guy (available on YouTube and BluRay), early humans and their versions of movies, aphantasia updates, preserved blood vessels in dinosaur fossils, finding DNA and RNA bases in meteorites, and the upcoming reboot of Kids in the Hall, premiering May 13th on Prime Video.

Comedian Greg Berman (@bermancomedy) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to discuss Greg's recent motorcycle accident, his meditation podcast, Yakov Smirnoff, Chinese action hero Kevin Lee, Twitter news, detecting aphantasia by looking at pupils, the lack of reliability of brain scan studies, and making Uranus a priority.

Comedian, publisher and poet Derrick Brown (@derrickbrown) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to discuss gondola comedy, reality dating shows, the real meaning of the term fuckboy, cold spark machines, the speed of sound on Mars, a fossil of a dinosaur killed in an asteroid strike and splitting up T rex into three species. This episode is brought to you by Manscaped, offering Probably Science listeners 20% off and free shipping by using the promo code PROBABLY