Episodes

Episode 406 with Charlie Fonville!

Producer and current Jeopardy champion Charlie Fonville (@charliefonville) joins Matt and Andy, whose four-day Jeopardy streak Charlie put an end to just yesterday, to talk about sharing the stage with the legendary Alex Trebek, the game theory of Jeopardy, including Daily Double and Final Jeopardy betting strategies, the Two-Thirds Rule, and Andy's odd-seeming bet when facing Stratton's Dilemma, then diving into stories about the return of a rocket from 54 years ago, the launch of a doghouse-shaped satellite, mapping bees, more election fraud claims debunked with math, making diamonds at room temperature in minutes and Charlie's podcast Unremembered Hollywood.

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Episode 405 with Alex Falcone!

Comedian Alex Falcone (@alex_falcone) of the podcast Read It and Weep (and a great NASA rejection letter) joins Andy and Matt to talk about why Benford's Law doesn't apply to election data, Hamburglar voting irregularities, Andy's upcoming Jeopardy appearance (this Monday, November 16th), whether or not Alex Falcone was named after Alex Trebek, some good news on using psilocybin to treat depression, British soldiers on acid , a ridiculously named new Covid-19 drug and Canada's top science prize recognizing work on gels that mimic human tissues. 

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Episode 404 with James Austin Johnson!

Episode 403 with Michael Marshall!

Author Michael Marshall (@m_c_marshall) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book The Genesis Quest, which explores the century-long effort to understand how life began on Earth and the many interesting characters who dedicated themselves to solving this massive scientific puzzle.

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Episode 402 with John Hastings!

Comedian John Hastings (@thejohnhastings) joins Andy and Matt to talk about the questionable comedy of Roy Chubby Brown, neanderthal genes and covid-19, water bodies under the surface of Mars, and using balanced rocks to increase nuclear safety.

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Episode 400 with Brooks Wheelan and Jesse Case!

The gang's back together to celebrate 400 episodes of Probably Science! Erstwhile hosts Jesse Case (@jessecase) and Brooks Wheelan (@brookswheelan) join Matt and Andy to discuss counting magicians, Jesse's proximity to train tracks, Ig Nobel prizes for alligators on helium and narcissist eyebrows, detecting phosphine in the clouds of Venus, finding super old sperm in amber, an earthquake hack to measure ocean warming and podcast recommendations including Our Fake History, Entry Level and Jesse vs. Cancer.

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Episode 399 with Dr. Kat Arney!

Jesse Case rejoins the show for a cancer special with science writer Dr. Kat Arney (@Kat_Arney), author of Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal.

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Episode 397 with Mia Jackson!

Mia Jackson (@miacomedy) join Matt and Andy to talk about old-time casino heists, asteroids that are the greatest basketball player of all time, ancient Americans, songbirds warming up and 100-million-year-old microbes that are still alive. Check out Mia’s performances on Unprotected Sets on Epix, and her Comedy Central half hour.

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Episode 396 with Adam Cayton-Holland!

Despite a technical glitch, the excellent Adam Cayton-Holland (@CaytonHolland), star of Those Who Can’t, the new podcast The Grawlix Saves The World, and his new album Semblance of Normalcy, talks with Andy and Matt about the word stentorian, Earth’s magnetic anomaly, scientific collaborations and X shapes in the galaxy, finding out there's more than one foot, the threat of swooping magpies and what, exactly, ropey means.

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Episode 395 with Lynn Ferguson!

Episode 394 with Jon Reep!

Matt’s Last Comic Standing buddy (and Season 5 winner) Jon Reep @jonreep joins Matt and Andy to talk about getting COVID, meteors and moons, Shazam for spiders, anus-escaping water beetles, unusual places to grow a penis, medieval antibiotics, Jon's new podcast Country-ish and this totally independent, unbiased ranking of podcasts that we hope to break.

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Episode 393 with Mike McShane!

Improv and comedy acting legend Mike McShane (@thismikemcshane) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the funniest kind of nudity, cognitive impairment tests, the limits of human eating, the star that's hurtling across the universe, a sperm robot story we've done before, and mathematicians boycotting the police.

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Episode 392 with Jonah Ray!

Comedian Jonah Ray (@jonahray), host of Jonah Raydio and co-guest with Matt on TONIGHT'S episode of The Great Debate on Syfy, talks about his great Seeso show Hidden America, taking over MST3K (and his favorite episode), how flying snakes fly, hungry hungry black holes, Twitter hacks and Bitcoin scams, talking to prairie dogs and the coming population crash.

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Episode 390 with Chris Garcia!

Comedian and host of the outstanding podcast Scattered Chris Garcia (@_chrisgarcia) joins Matt and Andy to discuss getting a little too much parental help with science fair projects, dolphins using tools, 3D printing inside the body and how burning coal 250 million years ago led to climate change.

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Episode 389 with Matthew Broussard!

Comedian, swimmer and math major Matthew Broussard (@mondaypunday) joins Andy and Matt to talk about linear algebra, swimming, neanderthal DNA, DNA degradation, Alex Falcone's NASA career, ancient Irish one-percenters, twins marrying twins and twin paternity tests.

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Episode 387 with Dan Oster!

Comedian and actor Dan Oster (@dernerster) joins Matt and a normally voiced Andy to discuss pantomime dwarves, a desert update, neutron stars showing their cores, a porn star and a toad-venom death, psychological pain treatments, tripping on nutmeg and Dan's A Podcast, But Evil.

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