Probably Science

Neuroscientist-turned-comedian Isak Allen (@isakallen) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about smashing flies, using fMRI to study brain activity as it relates to music and comedy, tonal languages, the Dong Song, Neuralink, dystopian futures and Isak's new Dry Bar special Culturally Unavailable.

We've got just the prescription for everyone out there with Olympic fever: A re-release of a 2013 episode in which Matt and Andy interview David Epstein, a Sports Illustrated journalist and the author of the outstanding book The Sports Gene, along with college basketball player-turned-comedian Paul Morrissey, to discuss the field of sports genetics research and try to get to the bottom of how elite athletes are made. Enjoy!

Comedy legend Cathy Ladman (@cathyladman1) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about creepy Foundation for a Better Life billboards, cancer battles, 1970s acid, the CrowdStrike software crash, how propofol tips your brain into chaos, the merits of comedy classes, Brazilian cocaine sharks and Cathy's September 7th Vegas show.

Producer David Brown joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about creating entertaining science programming, the new Peacock show The Hungry Games: Alaska's Big Bear Challenge that David produced, Rhys Darby narrated and Matt and Andy worked on, the Emmy-winning pop-science show Could You Survive The Movies?, Andy's Top Gun cameo, Fat Bear Week, Goro's pecs, a south-of-the-border Orson Welles experience, using AI to figure out the sperm whale phonetic alphabet, Larry the cat and Boris Johnson and The Higgins Boys & Gruber.

Comedian Todd Barry (@toddbarry) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about his new special Domestic Shorthair, an FDA ban of a citrus soda ingredient, ginger ale vs. ginger beer, the quackery of Dr. Idz, new images of an asteroid that just whizzed by Earth, Jesse's air force base food poisoning story, whether toxoplasmosis causes crazy cat lady syndrome and Jackson Galaxy's Cat Camp.

Comedian Sid Singh (@mrsidsingh) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about being a Brexit and Biden bellwether, Mozart the millenial, weird tunings, 432 Hz bullshit, old-ass Washington cherries, SPATS updates, a clever way to curb rhino horn poaching, meat rice, debunking Novi's etymology and ant surgeons.

Writer/podcaster Jordan Morris (@Jordan_Morris) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his upcoming graphic novel Youth Group, the YA genre, hawk tuah, breakdancing in the Olympics, elephants calling each other by name, wartime magicians, GPT-4 passing the Turing Test, using AI to cancel customer anger, a new stab at AI alignment and creating plasma fireballs in the lab.

Matt and Andy host a live installment of the podcast from To 29 and Beyond in Twentynine Palms featuring guests Bobcat Goldthwait, Rhys Darby, Dr. Farah Alibay and Natalia Reagan, digging into topics including indoor rocketry, opening for Nirvana, projectile bibles, the Cryptid Factor podcast, Bobcat's Bigfoot movie, 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, Robin Williams and Koko the gorilla, Mars landers, returning samples to Earth, and Dr. Alibay's work on the upcoming NASA/JPL all-sky spectral survey project SphereX.

Comedian, quizzer, doctor, chaser and now author Paul Sinha (@paulybengali) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new memoir One Sinha Lifetime, training for quiz shows, underperforming on Taskmaster, Paul’s Parkinson’s diagnosis, how he transitioned from medicine to comedy, being outed decades after coming out, this weekend’s To 29 and Beyond, the 29 Palms scavenger hunt that Andy developed, James Webb spotting the birth of some very early galaxies, Charles Dickens the performer, what really happened with that stingray virgin birth and how to figure out the best time to take your meds.

Comedian, actor and host of The Tomorrow Show Ron Lynch (@ronlynch1) checks in with Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the groundbreaking show Home Movies, Ron's geology degree, microplastics in your balls, Terrence Howard's magnificent bullshit, reducing the carbon footprint of cement, using the Sun as a giant telescope and of course To 29 and Beyond, coming to Outpost 29 June 7-8.