This week’s episode comes to you from the second annual LA Podcast Festival, with Matt and Andy welcoming Rhys Darby and Brandon Fibbs to talk about sea serpents, Sasquatch whisperers, space lawyers, astronaut reality shows, and the technological prowess of the New Zealand Army.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-085-live-from-la-pod-fest-with-rhys-darby-and-brandon-fibbs
Podcasting pioneers Keith Malley and Chemda of the long-running show Keith and The Girl join Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to talk about die-hard fans, Brooks’s Saturday Night Live debut, tomato/potato plants, having babies after menopause, and why Popular Science decided to disable their comments.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-084-keith-and-the-girl
It’s sports week at Probably Science, as Matt and Andy welcome David Epstein, a Sports Illustrated journalist and the author of the outstanding new book The Sports Gene, along with college basketball player-turned-comedian Paul Morrissey, to discuss the burgeoning field of sports genetics research and try to get to the bottom of how elite athletes are made.
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Matt, Andy and Jesse are joined this week by USC paleontology PhD candidate Kathleen Ritterbush to talk about teaching science to boatloads of evangelicals, 201 million-year-old sea snail and sponge fossils, being the third man on The Dating Game and having your wedding ring made out of fossils.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-082-kathleen-ritterbush
Matt and Andy are back this week, welcoming the very funny Humphrey Ker and Bryan Cook to the program to talk about going on strike against Joan Rivers, moving someone else’s hand with your mind, getting fooled by a fake story about testicle-biting fish, and a lengthy explanation of the British phenomenon of pantomimes.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-081-with-humphrey-ker-and-bryan-cook
Matt’s been out of the country, Andy’s been out of town, and Brooks just got hired to write for Saturday Night Live — those are our excuses for the delay in getting a new episode up, but luckily Matt was able to do a remote recording with the very funny Nick Doody, his co-writer on the BBC radio show Bigipedia. We’ll be back soon with more new episodes, and congratulations, Brooks!
Matt’s been in the UK and Andy’s been in Portland, so rather than leave the audience twisting in the wind for a few weeks, they decided to record some remote bonus interviews. These weren’t supposed to be very science-y, but in the course of talking with Jesse Case, Dr. Richard Flower, Dr. Anna Collu, Jeff Mounts and Emily Mounts, the discussions actually ended up having a fair amount of legitimate science, and a bit of history as well. Keep your standards low, and enjoy!
This week Matt and Andy welcome comedy/science sibling duo Hank Thompson, a comedian and producer atTYT Comedy, and Dr. Chris Thompson, a post-doctoral fellow at Scripps Research Institute in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, to talk about songbirds, sibling rivalry, albino African clawed frogs, and taxi drivers with giant hippocampi.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-079-hank-and-chris-thompson
Matt and Andy ventured back to the Caltech campus this week for a mind-bending talk with theoretical cosmologist and author Dr. Sean Carroll about dark matter, dark energy, Boltzmann brains, the arrow of time, multiple universes and consulting on the production of Thor.
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It’s a week of Portland-to-LA transplants, as comics Virginia Jones and Auggie Smith join Matt and Andy to talk about using sound waves to make things levitate, controlling stem cells with magnets, a blue planet that rains glass, and the stranger who wanders into Andy’s house during the recording to take a shower.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-077-virginia-jones-and-auggie-smith
San Francisco-based comedian Colleen Watson and Portland-based festival producer/podcaster Charlene Conley herald Matt’s triumphant return from Convergence Con this week, digging into meaty topics including the vegan/goth Venn diagram overlap, Portland-based Sasquatch clubs, cutlery’s effect on flavor, and the possibility of unlimited teeth.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-076-colleen-watson-and-charlene-conley
This week’s episode was recorded live at the 2013 Convergence Con in Minneapolis, with Matt welcoming The Physics of Superheroes author Dr. James Kakalios, Comedian Tommy Ryman and Dan Schlissel from Stand Up Records to discuss superconductors, solid state physics, things with “nano” in their titles, telescopic eyes, quantum computing, and how to transport science on a boat.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-075-live-from-convergence-con
David Angelo earned an Emmy nomination for his writing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and he brings his considerable talents to this week’s episode, joining Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about batteries made with wood, light-sensitive cabbage, nuclear-propelled space travel, eEconomics, and martial arts legend Benny “The Jet” Urquidez.
Theoretical physicist, author and Barnard College of Columbia University professor Janna Levin lends some much-needed science cred to the proceedings this week, helping school Matt and Andy on relativity, Hawking radiation, the sound of vibrating spacetime, the music of Warren Malone, and pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about black holes.
Well look who’s come crawling back — it’s Probably Science prodigal son Brooks Wheelan! Matt and Andy get caught up on the goings-on of Brooks’s podcasting Rumspringa while discussing the possible discovery of woolly mammoth blood, sneaky cockroaches, and the radiation problem that might keep us from going to Mars.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-072-brooks-wheelan
If you don’t already love Rory Scovel from his memorable Conan appearances, you’ll be a fan when he appears on TBS’s Ground Floor this fall, and he joins Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to discuss measuring absolute zero, saving babies with 3D printers, people with bendy, chimp-like feet and super-creepy shoeless pictures of Mr. Belvedere star Brice Beckham.
Probably History is back! Comedian and sociologist Pat Reilly joins Jesse, Andy, Richard and (briefly) Matt to take a look at the infamous House of Borgia, the Renaissance family that brought us Pope Alexander VI, incest, murder and the Banquet of Chestnuts!
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/probably-history-episode-003-the-borgias
This week Matt and Andy travel to the campus of Caltech to welcome actual PhD candidates, actors and science communicatorsCrystal Dilworth and Alexandra Lockwood to the show to talk about shocking people’s brains to make them smarter, searching for exoplanets, knighting penguins and mourning Kepler.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-070-crystal-dilworth-and-alexandra-lockwood
You’ve seen the hilarious John Roy on Conan, Ferguson, and IFC’s Maron in Space, and he joins Matt, Andy, and Jesse this week to talk about the new cocaine vaccine, Juggalo science, and why there are 480,000,000 needles orbiting Earth.
Australian comedian/writer/performer Celia Pacquola and American comedian/writer/performer TJ Chambers join Matt and Andy this week to dig into the listener mailbag and, for the most part, avoid discussing Gallagher while delving into 3D-printed guns, mainlining oxygen, body farms and the reasons for studying duck genitalia.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-068-celia-pacquola-and-tj-chambers
