You’ve may have seen Chip Pope on MTV’s Austin Stories or Last Comic Standing, or enjoyed his writing on the latest incarnation of Beavis and Butthead, among many other shows. He joins Brooks, Andy, and Jesse Case this week to discuss decoding ancient writing systems, why Baby’s Day Out is hilarious, hermit crab key parties, Rugrats conspiracy theories, and using paintballs to save Earth from asteroids.
Comedians Josh Cheney and Dax Jordan join Brooks and Andy this week to talk about smashing galaxies, ball lightning, lazy science projects involving celery, and giving PTSD to mice. Oh, and Brooks finally gives the Probably Scientists what they’ve been asking for: a glimpse at his Red Hot Chili Peppers tattoo.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-043-josh-cheney-and-dax-jordan
Emery Emery, host of the podcasts The Ardent Atheist and Skeptically Yours, joins Matt, Andy, and Brooks to talk about the Bogdanov Affair, Brooks and his self-given nicknames, robot bee brains, and Emery taking his revenge on Andy for insulting Penn Jillette.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-042-emery-emery-mp3
Matt, Brooks, and Andy are together again, and they welcome comedian Richard Bain, a recent transplant to LA from Portland, to talk about insects with mechanical brains, dwarf vampire porcupine dinosaurs, a Nazi Buddha made from a meteorite, and whether voting is important.
Hampton Yount is one of the funniest young comics around, and he joined Brooks and Andy back in December of 2011 for an early Probably Science trial-run episode that was, until now, lost to the sands of time. We’re dusting off this early gem and bringing it to you now, when the ten-month-old science stories have perfectly ripened to comedic maturity. It’s a fun, funny episode — give it a listen.
Andy Haynes came up in the Pacific Northwest comedy scene before making his mark in New York and LA with appearances on Fallon and Conan, and he joins Brooks, Andy, and a tag team of Auggie Smith and Alice Wetterlund to talk about dead baby pandas, Space Shuttle flyovers, Central American revolutionaries, and the environmental scourge of grilled meat.
Mark Agee, as seen on Last Comic Standing, joins Andy and a fresh-off-the-plane Matt Kirshen on this week’s episode to discuss the downside of free drinks, the incredible Edinburgh Fringe Festival, computing withwater droplets, the evolutionary explanation of the placebo effect, and whether King Tut’s girlish figure led to his premature demise.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-038-mark-agee
The Power Violence gang of Whitmer Thomas, Budd Diaz, Rodney Berry and Clay Tatum invite the Probably Science guys over to their house, which also happens to be where Brooks now lives, and the boys chat about golden space records, hurricane preparedness, Whit’s family’s involvement in the design of Challenger’s O-rings, and living down the street from Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-037-power-violence
Shane Mauss, as seen on Comedy Central Presents and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, recently threw away his whole act and wrote a new one based around concepts of evolutionary psychology and sexual selection, which happens to be a perfect fit for Probably Science, as Brooks and Andy talk with him about learning while sleeping, the works of Michio Kaku, finding highly valuable whale vomit, and why women’s bodies do not, in fact, have the ability to “shut that whole thing down.”
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-036-shane-mauss
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
