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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Episode 88 with Brendon Burns!

Things get a bit less-than-scientific this week as Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian Brendon Burns joins Matt, Jesse and Andy, delving into Australian cult protest songs, finding bombs using dolphin-inspired radar, naked children on giant slip-n-slides, personality trends across the US and how to pronounce "awry."

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Episode 87 with Nate Craig!

You may know comedian Nate Craig from truTV's World's Dumbest, Comedy Central's Mash Up, or from his new album Infinity, and he joins Matt, Andy and newly anointed third host Jesse Case to talk about fake IDs, flushing out brain toxins, fast-aging breasts and farting into tissues. 

http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-087-nate-craig

Episode 86 with Karen Gillan!

Karen Gillan, star of Doctor Who and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, was kind enough to join Matt, Andy, and Jesse this week to talk about this year’s Nobel Prize winners, fact-checking the movie Gravity, reading your own obituary, and Karen’s freshly shaven head.

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Episode 85 with Rhys Darby and Brandon Fibbs Live from LA PodFest!

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

Episode 84 with Keith and The Girl!

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

Episode 83 with "The Sports Gene" author David Epstein and Paul Morrissey!

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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Episode 82 with Kathleen Ritterbush!

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

Epiosde 81 with Humphrey Ker and Bryan Cook!

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

Episode 80 with Nick Doody!

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!

http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-080-nick-doody

Summer Bonus Episode!

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!

http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/summer-bonus-episode

Episode 79 with Hank and Chris Thompson!

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

Episode 78 with Dr. Sean Carroll!

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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Episode 77 with Virginia Jones and Auggie Smith!

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

Episode 76 with Colleen Watson and Charlene Conley!

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

Episode 75 Live from Convergence Con with Dr. James Kakalios!

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

Episode 74 with David Angelo!

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.

http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-074-david-angelo