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Dipak Srinivasan (@dipaksrinivasan), the External Engagements Lead with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (and Andy's former college classmate and roommate) returns to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about tomorrow's launch of NASA's first planetary defense mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will travel to the binary asteroid system Didymos over the course of next year to crash into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its path and learn about how to prevent a real-life reboot of Armageddon and/or Deep Impact.

Comedian and writer Danielle Perez (@DivaDelux) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about party lines, Russian space debris, the amazing volcano snail, checking on who's currently in space, a storm that brought out too many scorpions, Brazilian butt lifts, working on Curb Your Enthusiasm, TikTok tics and dancing mania.

Comedian, podcaster and tabletop game creator Andrew Orvedahl (@TheOrvedahl) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about the process of creating good games, orreries, more hidden passageways, cats tracking their owners' voices, a fungus that inspires necrophilia in flies, another fungus that turns ants into zombies and some neutrino news. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably

Comedian Lianna Carrera (@LiannaC) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to discuss having a deaf parent, rebellious sign language, more hidden doors, planets outside of the Milky Way, dogs with ADHD, condor chicks born from unfertilized eggs, ZW chromosomes, and elephants evolving to lose their tusks due to poaching.

Jesse, Matt and Andy get together for a spookily guest-less episode discussing TMNT live on stage, The Wombles, the broken technology of ghost-hunting, the overlooked vampire western Near Dark, Ding Dong School, attaching a pig kidney to a human and how we sense the lack of calories in fake sugar. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably

Jesse joins Matt for a mini bonus episode to plug his shows in Alameda. Tickets here.  But they get stuck into the "science" of ghosts! Vikings in America! And then they get very confused about atomic clocks.  

Comedian, book store owner and football player Julia Wilson (@julia__wilson) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss being a bit of a unit, using augmented reality to tackle your fear of spiders, a building that melts cars, overcoming fear with Wondrium, where to look for life on Mars, the most books published by one author and Julia's past as a bouncer with an adrenaline superpower. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably

Comedian and barkeep Jim Van Blaricum (@crappycinemanyc) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the final month of his outstanding bar Bernadette's, the other Jim VanBlaricum, new math and being old, more info on the whitest paint you know, meth pee, why you shouldn't swim away from a sea snake, the zookeeper who's common-law married to a crane, dolphin handjobs, so many paintball movies and an absolute chonker of a comet.

Comedian and host of the new music trivia show For What It's Worth Murray Valeriano (@murrayv) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss extinctions, drugs in the water around Glastonbury, potty-training cows to save the environment, Andy's recent Judge John Hodgman appearance, a new Isle of Wight dinosaur and dinosaur artists.

Comedian/lawyer Charles Star (@Ugarles) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about the magic of A Special Thing, multi-level marketing, entertainment and the law, a desktop gravitational wave detector that found something interesting, using bodily fluids to make concrete on Mars and capturing carbon dioxide from our cars. This episode is brought to you by Wondrium, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access by visiting Wondrium.com/probably