Episodes

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Episode 446 - Double Asteroid Redirection Test with Dipak Srinivasan!

November 22, 2021

Dipak Srinivasan (@dipaksrinivasan), the External Engagements Lead with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (and Andy's former college classmate and roommate) returns to talk with Andy, Jesse and Matt about tomorrow's launch of NASA's first planetary defense mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which will travel to the binary asteroid system Didymos over the course of next year to crash into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its path and learn about how to prevent a real-life reboot of Armageddon and/or Deep Impact.

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Episode 445 with Danielle Perez!

November 18, 2021

Comedian and writer Danielle Perez (@DivaDelux) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about party lines, Russian space debris, the amazing volcano snail, checking on who's currently in space, a storm that brought out too many scorpions, Brazilian butt lifts, working on Curb Your Enthusiasm, TikTok tics and dancing mania.

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Episode 444 with Andrew Orvedahl!

November 13, 2021

Comedian, podcaster and tabletop game creator Andrew Orvedahl (@TheOrvedahl) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about the process of creating good games, orreries, more hidden passageways, cats tracking their owners' voices, a fungus that inspires necrophilia in flies, another fungus that turns ants into zombies and some neutrino news.

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Episode 443 with Lianna Carrera!

November 6, 2021

Comedian Lianna Carrera (@LiannaC) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to discuss having a deaf parent, rebellious sign language, more hidden doors, planets outside of the Milky Way, dogs with ADHD, condor chicks born from unfertilized eggs, ZW chromosomes, and elephants evolving to lose their tusks due to poaching.

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Episode 442 with Jesse, Matt and Andy!

October 25, 2021

Jesse, Matt and Andy get together for a spookily guest-less episode discussing TMNT live on stage, The Wombles, the broken technology of ghost-hunting, the overlooked vampire western Near Dark, Ding Dong School, attaching a pig kidney to a human and how we sense the lack of calories in fake sugar.

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Bonus Ep! Matt's going to Alameda!

October 22, 2021

Jesse joins Matt for a mini bonus episode to plug his shows in Alameda. Tickets here!

But they get stuck into the “science” of ghosts!

Vikings in America!

And then they get very confused about atomic clocks.

Episode 441 with Julia Wilson!

October 16, 2021

Comedian, book store owner and football player Julia Wilson (@julia__wilson) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to discuss being a bit of a unit, using augmented reality to tackle your fear of spiders, a building that melts cars, overcoming fear with Wondrium, where to look for life on Mars, the most books published by one author and Julia's past as a bouncer with an adrenaline superpower.

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Episode 440 with Jim VanBlaricum!

October 8, 2021

Comedian and barkeep Jim Van Blaricum (@crappycinemanyc) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the final month of his outstanding bar Bernadette's, the other Jim VanBlaricum, new math and being old, more info on the whitest paint you know, meth pee, why you shouldn't swim away from a sea snake, the zookeeper who's common-law married to a crane, dolphin handjobs, so many paintball movies and an absolute chonker of a comet.

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Episode 439 with Murray Valeriano!

October 2, 2021

Comedian and host of the new music trivia show For What It's Worth Murray Valeriano (@murrayv) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss extinctions, drugs in the water around Glastonbury, potty-training cows to save the environment, Andy's recent Judge John Hodgman appearance, a new Isle of Wight dinosaur and dinosaur artists.

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Episode 438 with Charles Star!

September 23, 2021

Comedian/lawyer Charles Star (@Ugarles) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about the magic of A Special Thing, multi-level marketing, entertainment and the law, a desktop gravitational wave detector that found something interesting, using bodily fluids to make concrete on Mars and capturing carbon dioxide from our cars.

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Episode 437 with author Mary Roach!

September 15, 2021

Mary Roach (@mary_roach), author of the new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law, returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about traveling the world to investigate animal crimes, wily burglar bears, birds annoying the Vatican, plant toxins, The Great Emu War, and the lack of distinction between cougars, pumas, panthers and mountain lions.

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Episode 436 with Lisa Curry!

September 11, 2021

Comedian Lisa Curry (@lisa_curry) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Balloon Boy (and his father and his band), royal memorabilia, Lisa's recent trip to Dubai, priest and pope selection, a star gulping down a black hole and exploding, the effects of hot dogs on life expectancy and a better way to produce ammonia.

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Episode 435 with Caitlin Gill!

August 28, 2021

Comedian and fellow desert-dweller Caitlin Gill (@robotcaitlin) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Mt. Etna growing 100 feet, 9,000 Covid cases from Euro 2020 games and ants using soil physics to excavate tunnels that last decades.

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Episode 434 with David B. Lyons and Jesse Case!

August 18, 2021

Jesse returns to the show to help welcome David B. Lyons (@david_b_lyons), a podcaster and film location manager who not only co-created Yacht Rock but also has the inside scoop on Norbit and why Eddie Murphy loves fat suits. David and the gang also discuss three volcanoes erupting simultaneously, curbing methane emissions, wandering mammoths, a T. Rex selling at auction, the crazy story behind the Twilight Zone movie and Matt's show Memory Hole on Roku.

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Episode 433 with Nato Green!

August 7, 2021

Comedian Nato Green (@natogreen) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his work as a labor organizer, his appearance in Sorry To Bother You, bird-eating centipedes, ancient trigonometry, cranking it to prevent prostate cancer and whales benefitting from covid.

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Episode 432 with Brian Kiley!

August 1, 2021

Comedian and writer Brian Kiley (@kileynoodles) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Andy's new injury, a very reasonable argument for getting vaccinated if you were on the fence about it, Australian cockatoos teaching each other to dumpster dive, a dancing cockatoo, how to bank your voice for others to use, Alex Trebek on Conan, a Russian module mishap on the ISS, Andy's obsession with Olympic swimming and the greatness of Caeleb Dressel, petrified wood and a sponge fossil that's almost a billion years old.

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Episode 431 with Sean Devlin!

July 23, 2021

Comedian Sean Devlin joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new album Airports, Animals, magic eye posters and Brian May stereoscopy, failed flower making floral fractals, converting brain waves to speech, and dogs ignoring liars and helping out in courtrooms.

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Episode 430 with Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan!

July 16, 2021

Jordan Morris (@Jordan_Morris) and Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) return to the podcast to celebrate the release of their new graphic novel Bubble and talk about fish brains that grow when they think, bendy ice, Richard Branson kind of going to space and extreme temps in Siberia.

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Episode 429 with Justin Decloux!

July 2, 2021

Comedian and podcast host Justin Decloux (@DeclouxJ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss how Tasmanian devils get their face cancer, the benefits of mixing vaccines, the dragon man who isn't much of a dragon, figuring out when the first stars shone, and using CRISPR to treat a genetic disease. and Andy's latest writing project, Season 2 of Could You Survive The Movies?

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