Comedian and former marine biologist Forrest Shaw (@forrestshaw) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about his new live show The Ocean Hates You, his addiction podcast I've Got A Problem, bonnethead sharks, the rise of online sports gambling, a Kalshi market about aliens, and the myth of alpha wolves.
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Comedian Aisha Alfa (@aishaalfa) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about comedy in Winnipeg, Jesse's Megyn Kelly-loved Olympics tweet, the cult movie Phantom of the Paradise, Andy's family friend Olympic ice dancer, the German word for a living stork with an arrow in it, the penis injection Olympic ski jumping controversy, an amazing artificial lung feat, Jesse's artificial lung cat bed, Aisha's newsletter and Andy's upcoming ska shows.
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Comedian David Huntsberger returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his podcast Intercepts, his new platform The Endless Abyss, the lost art of sketch comedy albums, the world's worst redaction, Redactle, how dogs build their vocabularies like toddlers, Stella the talking dog, dumb dogs, breed stereotypes, Bad Will Hunting, the worst logo and name in education, longevity in meat-eaters and the foresight of The Machine Stops.
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Comedian/neuroscientist Diya Basrai (@diyabasrai) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Moravec's Paradox, whether there's something meat-specific about intelligence, a less-pessimistic AI take, a tool-using cow, Diya's comedy special and his comedy/science live show Uncontrolled Variables.
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Comedian Jon Stringer (@jonjstringer) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about living in a converted rural Kansas church, the intricacies of comedy competitions and cruise ship comedy, dry ice PVC soupcan launchers, the oldest known use of poison arrows, retail blowguns and their misuse, vibe-coding a band manager, why you should stop using hydrogen peroxide on cuts, sword canes and pendulous doorknockers.
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Comedian Imaan Hadchiti (@imaanfrankhadchiti) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Rima syndrome, the movie Tiptoes, the passing of an art legend, sniffing farts to prevent Alzheimer's, what actually causes ice to be slippery, when physical aging really kicks in and making paralyzed rats walk again in a really creepy way.
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Comedian/actor/writer/composer Waen Shepherd (@waenshep) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the new album from his alter ego Gary Le Strange, the biology of elves, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe, a runaway supermassive black hole, a lemon-shaped exoplanet and the music of Gary Wilson.
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Comedian/host/author Chris Duffy (@chrisiduffy) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new book Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy, his radio show/podcast You're The Expert, his TED podcast How To Be a Better Human, the unintentionally phallic Covid-era Terry Crews video Chris worked on with Matt and Andy, prescribing standup to improve mental health, training Swedish crows to pick up cigarette butts and a frozen worm revived after 46,000 years.
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Comedian Buddy Fitzpatrick (@buddycomic) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Batman's effect on subway chivalry, the rooms of Madonna Inn, ladyfingers, manmade fire from 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, monogamy across the animal kingdom and an insane chain of rabies transmission via organ transplantation.
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Comedian Adam Burke (@atpburke) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about Adam's new comedy special Unamerican, debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment, classic '80s Arnold movies, Matt and Jesse performing together in Nashville, the preacher who shot an escaped lab monkey, AIs that believe themselves to be more rational than humans, 3D printing with a mosquito proboscis, Andy's upcoming orchestra shows and Matt's upcoming San Deigo standup show.
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Comedian/writer/NPR host Ophira Eisenberg (@ophirae) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about her podcast Parenting Is a Joke, her upcoming special produced by Lewis Black, the effect of venting on anger, a rage room show Andy worked on, why you should leave uncontacted tribes alone, the wombat-thief influencer and why you should speak up to seagulls.
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Comedian Jess Zenisek (@jeffzenisek) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about tennis, homophobic sports stereotypes, Jesse's new ski persona, Mr. Wizard, Jeff's hair care regimen, a tiny tyrannosaur, a better rock-paper-scissors strategy, gray hair's relationship to cancer, the worst music to play during sex and the banger Parked By The Lake.
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Comedian/playwright Drew Droege (@drew_droege) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his new off-Broadway play Messy White Gays, X-ray NBA poker fraud and why birds sing after a solar eclipse.
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Wonderful NY comic Mehran Khagani (@themehran) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about escaping from Iran, working at the Harvard School of Public Health, hyrax butt drag fossil marks, Canadian heart transplants and the most pristine star in the universe.
In the Patreon bonus ep we get into penguin micronaps.
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Comedian/actor Jen Kober (@jenkober) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about comedy in Louisiana, Oktoberfest, buxom wenches, the connection between fish buttholes and fingers, a koala chlamydia vaccine, Jesse's newfound raccoon fame, light-powered gears that fit inside a strand of hair and Jen's membership in the Star Wars canon.
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NASA astrophysicist and JPL Exoplanet Science Ambassador Anjali Tripathi joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about exoplanets and the different ways of finding them including radial velocity, transits and gravitational microlensing, the challenges of studying planetary atmospheres, why telescopes are built in deserts or in space, Anjali's time at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, science communication projects like the Logic 44ever rap video, the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, dark matter, lasers in astronomy, Halloween at the White House, the odd “smells” of other planets and how to take a virtual tour of JPL.
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Comedian Michelle Murphy (@meeshoffleash) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about playing tennis for Grinnell, the Enhanced Games, celebrities trying their hands at winter sports, Jesse's accidental mermaid book purchase and the Dr. Seuss book he was aiming for, Burning Man missionaries, LSD to fight anxiety and surprisingly not too uncommon iridescent mammals.
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Comedian Ken Reid (@kennethwreid) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about growing up a child of television, mud wrestling, Ken's podcast TV Guidance Counselor, an HIV prevention breakthrough, the insanity of Movie 43, the human washing machine no one asked for, blasting plastic waste with a plasma torch, Doja Cat's nod to Max Headroom, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, the reason plastic recycling mostly ended, Andy's Oktoberfest shows in Lake Arrowhead and John Williams polka music.
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Comedian Ryan O'Flanagan (@ryanoflan) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Ryan and Andy's chance encounter in a bar in Leadville, Married With Children tattoos, neanderthals and homo sapiens interbreeding, a novel telescope shape to help search for exoplanets, an insane impression of a neanderthal voice and Ryan's podcast Laser Show.
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Comedian Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan) returns to the show to talk to Andy, Jesse and Matt about growing out his eyebrows during the pandemic, babies distinguishing Ps from Bs, linguistics, sign language variations, standups aping Shane Gillis, the Mr. Beast voice, birds' preference for crapping in the air, strong link versus weak link problems, Ryan North, whether you should pay for bad art, what sequels always get wrong and Myq's great Substack.
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