Episode 108 with Drs. Larry Price, Jamie Rollins and Janna Levin!

To help us make sense of the biggest cosmology story of recent years, we invited three of our favorite physicists back to the show. Matt and Jesse are joined by an in-studio Dr. Larry Price, and, thanks to technical wizardry, NYC-dwelling Prof. Janna Levin and a Washington State-based Dr. Jamie Rollins, as they talk us through The Big Bang, what Inflation means, what this BICEP2 experiment did, whether it's important, what the Asian guy with the champagne meant when he said “It's five sigma at point two” to the Russian man and woman in that viral video, what was going on with that colder-than-absolute-zero story we didn't understand last week, whether academic journals are glory hunters, how multiverses fit in with this Inflation thing, and what we should take away from the whole story. And Andy missed all this to make sure a TV show about skaters getting hit in the testicles got made.

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Episode 107 with Stefan Pop and Rylee Newton!

We're going Dutch on this week's episode, as Netherlands-based comedian Stefan Pop stops by Bluebell Ranch with TV camera crew in tow, joining writer/comedian Rylee Newton to talk about Dutch insults, the health benefits of orange light, medieval multiverse theories, lightning as a predictor of earthquakes, temperatures below absolute zero and how neanderthals might have yelled.

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Episode 106 with Jimmy Shubert and Matt Davis!

You've seen comedian and actor Jimmy Shubert in The Italian Job, Reno: 911!, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and King of Queens, among many other credits, and he joins Just For Laughs Montreal and SF Sketchfest veteran Matt Davis to talk with the gang about baby tumors that have teeth, Brooks Wheelan's 12 Years a Slave sketch on SNL, dark matter that may have killed off the dinosaurs, a drug that cures heroin overdoses, Nick Doody opening for Bill Hicks, Italian robots that can tell when you're lying and the upcoming Krullapalooza charity benefit show with Zach Galifianakis, Tig Notaro and Patton Oswalt.

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Episode 105 with James Bachman and Danny Lobell!

James Bachman of the hilarious and influential sketch comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look and Danny Lobell of the excellent Modern Day Philosophers podcast join Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about a recently unearthed 30,000-year-old megavirus, the risks of being an older dad, almost failing out of Cambridge, a 3D-printed electronic heart-glove, the brilliant "Numberwang" sketch that James wrote, and Matt and Andy's appearance at the Hollywood Improv this Friday.

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Episode 104 with Andrew Solmssen!

It's a tech-heavy week for Probably Science, as comedian and IT-Pro-To-The-Stars Andrew Solmssen joins the proceedings to talk about the severity of Apple's SSL security flaw, an incredible space rock crash on the moon, a crystal that's 4.4 billion years old, Andrew's current favorite gadget, the site that tracks ISS crossings, the site that tells you how many people are in space, and The Radioactive Boy Scout.

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Episode 103 with Wendy Wason!

The hilarious Wendy Wason is visiting from Scotland and was kind enough to stop by Bluebell Ranch for her second appearance on the podcast, chatting with the gang about the beauty of mathematical equations, a correction to our optimistic stem cell story, a proof that's bigger than all of Wikipedia, Andy's swim meet and Wendy's upcoming role on Sherlock.

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Episode 102 with Professor Matthew Walker, Kurt Braunohler and Daniel Van Kirk!

The ProbSci gang travel to San Francisco this week for a live performance at Punchline Comedy Club as part of SF Sketchfest. Professor Matthew Walker, a sleep specialist in the psychology department of UC Berkeley, joins comedian Kurt Braunohler and Transformers: Age of Extinction star Mark Wahlberg for a fascinating discussion of something we all spend a third of our lives doing and most of us still know very little about.

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Episode 101 with Graham Elwood!

Comedian and host of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast Graham Elwood ventures to Bluebell Ranch this week to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his upcoming Ear Buds podcast documentary, the LA PodFest Kickstarter video that Jesse edited, Squarespace's Super Bowl ad, Bill Nye debating a creationist, suing NASA for not looking hard enough for aliens, why sloths poop on the ground, and the surprising sum of all positive integers.

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Episode 100 with Karen Gillan, Bonus Brooks Wheelan and Greatest Hits!

The wonderful Karen Gillan, star of Doctor Who and the upcoming films Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy, returns to Bluebell Ranch to help Matt, Jesse and Andy celebrate Probably Science's 100th episode with a discussion of Jonas Salk, Ernest Rutherford, gun synchronizers, making your own stem cells, charting the development of a British child, trampoline parks, baboon trials of birth control for men, the upcoming live Probably Science show at SF Sketchfest, a message from former co-host and current SNL cast member Brooks Wheelan, and a compilation of some of the best moments from the show's first 100 episodes featuring Chris Hardwick, Kyle Kinane, Wil Anderson, James Adomian, Mike Schmidt, Wendy Wason, Glenn Wool, Lady Carol, Auggie Smith, Daniel Sloss, and Brendon Burns!

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Episode 99 with Dwayne Perkins!

The hilarious Dwayne Perkins, author of Hot Chocolate For The Mind, joins Matt, Jesse and Andy on the first Squarespace-sponsored episode of Probably Science to talk about the comedic dilemma of Piscopo-ing, dogs aligning themselves with Earth's magnetic field to poop, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a computer 1,500 years ahead of its time, Dwayne's picture frame doppelgänger, the fruit that brought down Gigantopithecus, recordings of hallucinated music, and Andy's almond butter-baited rat trap.

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Episode 98 with Dr. Peter McGraw and Caleb Bacon!

Professional comedy analyzer Dr. Peter McGraw returns to the show this week and is joined by professional comedy writer Caleb Bacon to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about the upcoming book The Humor Code, Japan's comedic oligarchy, Tanzania's laughter outbreak, the incredible Dennis Miller Generator that a dedicated listener created and Michael McDonald's backing vocals on "Peg."

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Episode 97 with Emily Heller and Auggie Smith!

Comedians Emily Heller and Auggie Smith join Matt and Andy this week to kick off 2014 with a lively discussion of Emily's incredible creation Suck My Dick, New Yorker, eighth grade science fairs, belly button cheese, boiling-water-to-snow-to-hospital shenanigans, the truth about the polar vortex, double asteroids, microbes gettin' it on and the Upworthy Generator.

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Episode 96 with Lee Billings and Dr. Bjoern Benneke!

There aren't many questions bigger than "Are we alone in the universe?" This week's episode might not provide an answer, but Matt, Jesse and Andy interview two people with great insight on the subject: Lee Billings, author of the recent Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars, and Dr. Bjoern Benneke, a postdoctoral scholar in planetary science at Caltech, were kind enough to shed some light on exoplanet hunting, Dyson spheres, the Drake equation, and the philosophical significance of finding out if there's anyone else out there.

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Episode 95 with Dr. Ainissa Ramirez and Sarah Tiana!

This episode kicks off two weeks in a row of actual science, as Matt, Jesse and Andy welcome professor and scientist Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, author of Newton's Football: The Science Behind America's Game, and comedian/football fan Sarah Tiana to discuss the brutal early days of the sport, football's concussion epidemic, Refrigerator Perry's rapping prowess, desperation giving rise to the A-11 offense, Vince Lombardi choosing plays based on game theory, loss-averse monkeys, toe-less placekickers, Greg Cook's injury that led to the West Coast offense, the reasons for the Michigan/Ohio State rivalry and Andy's football announcer grandfather.

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Episode 94 with Daniel Sloss!

Scottish comedy wunderkind Daniel Sloss recently made his US late night debut on Conan, and he stopped by Bluebell Ranch to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about Scottish pride, upkilt photographs, Daniel and his father's diamond-bladed Robot Wars competitor Bot Out Of Hell, a new drug that fixes bent boners, drunk adolescent mice, where humans really sit on the food chain, the nuts and bolts of being hanged, drawn and quartered and the fact that everyone's fingers connect.

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Episode 93 with Jason John Whitehead!

This episode is a glorious shambles. With Andy out of town, Canadian/British comedian Jason John Whitehead drops in on Matt and Jesse attempting to make a Thanksgiving bonus episode in Jesse's bedroom, chatting about birthright trips to Israel, Thanksgiving stuff, Jesse's typewriter collection, mighty hunters, genetic inheritence of fears, seahorse fluid dynamics, illegal koala handling and goosing.

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Episode 92 with Andi Osho!

Hilarious British comedian/writer/actor Andi Osho recently moved stateside and appeared on @midnight and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and this week she helps Matt, Jesse and Andy with a listener suggestion-themed show covering topics including ridiculously fast LED-based Internet connectivity, a scientific analysis of urinal splashback, the importance of the direction of a dog's tail wag, why spoilers might be a good thing, and the fact that Jesse's dad trained to be a mall Santa.

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Episode 91 with Samm Levine and Susan Burke!

Actor Samm Levine of Freaks and Geeks and Inglourious Basterds fame joins comedian and writer of the Sundance Jury Prize-winning film Smashed Susan Burke to help Matt, Andy and Jesse discuss Short Circuit 2 nostalgia, losing to Jon Hamm in the Leonard Maltin game, monkeys who are hardwired to be scared of snakes, using teeth to make replacement eye lenses, actress Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping spread-spectrum invention and the fake Zagat binder that Jesse takes with him when eating in restaurants alone.

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Episode 90 with Scotty Landes and Heather Thomson!

Hilarious writers/comedians/actors/producers Scotty Landes and Heather Thomson join Matt, Andy, and Jesse this week for the show.  Man about town James Austin Johnson sits in for color commentary.  They get to the bottom of: Pepto Bismol!  Scientific Hippie poetry!  Sitting in the shower!  Women are better multitaskers!  Self-pleasuring in cars!  Rubbernecking!  Professional hugging!  The science of Captchas!  Second rate sex parties!  Selling your own blood!  Robotic dogs!  Facial recognition software!  Animals doing math!  Sam Elliott!  India's space program!  Scratch-off tickets and champagne!

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Episode 89 with Dr. Jamie Rollins and Dr. Larry Price!

Caltech and LIGO physicists Jamie Rollins and Larry Price join Andy, Jesse and Matt to up the Science:Probably ratio for just one week as they discuss: Why we don't go straight through tables! What's inside an atom! Why chemistry isn't their forté! Dark matter and WIMPS! Gravity waves and what LIGO actually is! How to measure something that's smaller than the smallest thing you can think of! Putting experiments in space! What inspired Einstein to come up with relativity (hint - the two of them didn't agree on it)! How scientists fake getting a result to test each other! The feebleness of gravity!

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