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Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 8min

Episode 469 - Matt, Jesse and Andy

Matt, Jesse and Andy are back together to talk about Matt's wedding, the chess tournament anal bead rumors, how to cheat at roulette, batteries made from crab shells, finding organic matter on Mars, making super hot stuff, breakthroughs in carbon capture, the real story behind Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale and where to find quaaludes these days.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 1h 14min

Episode 468 - Auggie Smith

Auggie Smith joins Matt and Jesse to discuss his new Dry Bar special, Tasmanian Tigers, plants that love booze, finding a massive fossil in your garden and leaky rockets.
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Aug 20, 2022 • 1h 7min

Episode 467 - Shane Mauss

Comedian Shane Mauss (@shane_mauss) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about his upcoming Mind Under Matter science/comedy festival, Dan Ariely's study of pain, Peak-End Theory, advances in nuclear fusion and self-pleasure in space.
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Aug 5, 2022 • 1h 2min

Episode 466 - JC Currais

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.
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Jul 22, 2022 • 56min

Episode 465 - Brian Keating

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. 
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Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 8min

Episode 464 - Natalia Reagan

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
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Jun 23, 2022 • 58min

Episode 463 - Andrew O'Neill

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.
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Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 10min

Episode 462 - Peter Baynham

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
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Jun 9, 2022 • 1h 19min

Episode 461 - Science Friction with Emery Emery and Brian Malow

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.
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Jun 1, 2022 • 1h 5min

Episode 460 - Robin Ince

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.

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