Comedian and actor Baron Vaughn of TV’s Fairly Legal (and the funniest scene that didn’t make it into The Other Guys) has been wanting to talk with the ProbSci guys about the impending technological singularity, so Brooks, Andy, and guest co-host Jesse Case get all futuristic while also discussing the Nikola Tesla museum, the HD format wars, and Bill Nye standing up to creationists.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-035-baron-vaughn
It is with a heavy heart that the Probably Science gang bid a fond farewell to Summer Country, but luckily guest Julian McCullough, co-host of the upcoming Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, is here to lift the spirits of Brooks, Andy, and Auggie Smith while discussing This American Life lies, living through massive earthquakes, the golden ratio as it pertains to your uterus, near-death experiences, and using DNA to encode the contents of a book.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-034-julian-mc-cullough
You’ve seen Kira Soltanovich on The Tonight Show, Girls Behaving Badly, and Last Comic Standing, and this week she sits down with Matt, Andy, and guest co-host Auggie Smith to talk about strobe goggles that improve your memory, predicting what people will say based on where they’re looking, tales of pregnancy, and the laziest Halloween costumes ever.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-033-kira-soltanovich
Actor and Comedian Guy Branum of No Strings Attached and Chelsea Lately joins Matt, Andy, and guest co-host Jesse Case this week as they discuss almonds, quinoa, suicide-bombing termites, and fake Einstein quotes about bees.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-032-guy-branum
Pride of Chicago Robert Buscemi is the guest this week as the crew chats about why space has a strange smell, how rivers meander, and whether playing God is, in fact, the sincerest form of flattery.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-031-robert-buscemi
Steve Agee, star of The Sarah Silverman Program, sits in with Brooks, Matt, and Andy on this week’s episode, and the gang discuss jellyfish made from rat hearts, 10-year-old Steve making a Molotov cocktail, and Mr. Wizard being a dick.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-030-steve-agee
You’ve seen the very funny Nick Turner on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and he joins the ProbSci gang this week to talk about robots that walk like people, extreme pain, Bill Nye vendettas, and Brooks’s close encounter with a rattlesnake.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-029-nick-turner
Moshe Kasher, comedian extraordinaire and author of the recently published memoir The Kasher in the Rye, makes his first appearance on Probably Science and talks about the proliferation of Genghis Khan DNA, growing up with two deaf parents, drinking a full bottle of vinegar to pass a drug test, and whether any of us really understand the recent Higgs boson news.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-028-moshe-kasher
Jordan Morris of Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit” makes his Probably Science debut as the gang delve into male contraceptives, Summer Country shenanigans, giant crocodiles, awkward moments with Yao Ming, ancient pottery and replacing Maury Povich with Brooks’s grandpa.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-027-jordan-morris
There are no two ways about it: Bil Dwyer is a delight. You may remember him as host of “Battlebots” and many other TV shows, and he joins Matt, Brooks and Andy for a loose, late-night recording covering Brooks and Bil selling shoes, learning music while you sleep, moving Easter Island statues and unsuccessfully marketing science careers to women.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-026-bil-dwyer
Standup comic and master of comedic characters Tony Sam helps us celebrate our 25th episode, and it turns out he knows a bit about science, having double-majored in molecular and marine biology and chemistry. Matt’s still out of the country, but that’s not stopping Brooks from enjoying his “Summer of Country,” and we crack open a few beers, pump some tunes and discuss working in Caribbean aquariums (aquaria?), giving HIV to BLT mice, Chinese lady astronauts, robots learning to speak, and getting asked to leave Margaritaville.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-025-tony-sam
Comedian, actress and musical improv coach Eliza Skinner makes her Probably Science debut, and she is simply a delight. We talk about her punk inclinations, her rocket scientist relatives, hands-on science museums and why you can’t use your phone on a plane. Oh, and we goad Eliza into wrapping up the episode with an improvised musical number!
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-024-eliza-skinner
Jason Nash of the long-running podcast Guys With Feelings sits in with Brooks and Andy this week to talk about parenthood, recruiting neighborhood six-year-olds to help beat Wii games, privatized space travel, and using DNA testing to help find Bigfoot.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-023-jason-nash
This week we’re on location at the home of the wonderful Duncan Trussell of the podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, and we really get into it as we tackle moon landing conspiracy theories, world record-breaking skydives, therapeutic psychedelics, Canadian football, and the top ten coolest new species.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-022-duncan-trussell
It’s our first-ever live Probably Science episode! We were lucky enough to have the very funny Eddie Ifft of the Talkin’ Shit podcast with Jim Jeffries join us on stage at The Mint on May 6th for a lively discussion of matters such as re-routing asteroids, freeing whales, global warming denial campaigns, and being the only white guy on the Pitt track team.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-021-eddie-ifft
We were lucky enough to have Blaine Capatch of Lucha VaVOOM, among many other hilarious endeavors, join us this week, and we were laughing so hard we could barely get any science in. We made a valiant effort, though, and managed to cover topics including an airborne strain of bird flu, racist babies, color-changing artificial muscles, and Blaine’s spelling bee prowess.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-020-blaine-capatch
The extremely funny Justin Ian Daniels is with us this week to talk about the Southern Gentlemen of Wrestling, his podcast The Rough House, laser pointer wi-fi, ancient blood cells, and losing control of your bowels while discharging giant firearms!
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-019-justin-ian-daniels
It’s our second week of Armenian-American comedians, with the hilarious Jackie Kashian of the podcast The Dork Forest joining us to talk about science fiction, wind farms, Donald Trump’s awful offspring, Wisconsin water parks and having Margaret Atwood tweet that your joke is “a little dark.” This was a really fun episode, and we strongly urge you to check out Jackie’s latest album “It Is Never Going To Be Bread.”
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-018-jackie-kashian
James Adomian and the gang have returned from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival up in Portland, and we’ve got stories to tell! Listen in to hear tales of late-night festival buffoonery, egg-less chickens, giant sharks and Jesse Ventura!
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-017-james-adomian
Last Comic Standing winner Alonzo Bodden rode his scooter over to Bluebell Ranch to talk with us about his many passions, including motorcycles, politics and fixing crashed aircraft. We also delve into the pitfalls of performing for college kids, the wonder of “smart sand" and the first use of fire. Oh, and we talk about that one president who got stuck in the White House bathtub.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-016-alonzo-bodden
