Probably Science
by Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen, Jesse Case
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About this podcast
Professional comedians with so-so STEM pedigrees take you through this week in science. Incompetently. Featuring hosts Matt Kirshen, Andy Wood (and sometimes Jesse Case or Brooks Wheelan) along with a rotating cast of special guests from the worlds of comedy and science.
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- Episode 621 with Ben Acker · 1 h 13 minWriter Ben Acker @bnacker, one of the masterminds behind the Thrilling Adventure Hour, and author of Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires joins Jesse and Matt to talk about…
- Episode 620 - Marc Theobald · 1 h 17 minComedian Marc Theobald (@comedyfamilyman) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Jesse's new place, working with Tracy Morgan, manifesting, Marc's phamaceutical sales…
- Episode 619 - Sarah Morgan · 1 h 5 minWriter/performer Sarah Morgan (@slmorgo) returns to the show to talk with Andy and Matt about her new horror short film Blood & Chocolate, the importance of Neil Armstrong's moon…
- Episode 618 - Ola Dada · 1 h 11 minComedian Ola Dada (@showtime.dada) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about moving from Nigeria to Canada, summer nights in Alberta, Africa breaking apart faster than we thought…
- Episode 617 - Paul Jay · 1 h 23 minComedian Paul Jay (@pauljaycomic) returns to the show after a 14-year hiatus to talk with Jesse and Andy about the comedy message board A Special Thing, the genius of Randy…
- Episode 616 - Katie Novotny returns · 1 h 15 minWe took full advantage of our friend Katie Novotny (@katienovotnyyyyy) stuck at home recovering from surgery to get her back on the show! Her special Son of Your Dreams is free…
- Episode 615 with Luca Ferro! · 1 h 10 minChicago/NY comedian Luca Ferro (@lucaferrocomedian) joins the gang to talk about Dolphins using tools! And having names! Plus monkeys falling for (and "falling for") Monkey AI!…
- Episode 614 - Jon Bennett · 57 minComedian Jon Bennett (@jonbennettcomedy) joins Matt and Jesse to talk about how deep breaths can actually increase risk-taking behavior, the air on Titan being thick enough that…
- Episode 613 - Dave Holmes · 1 h 18 minWriter/podcaster/host Dave Holmes (@daveholmes) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about his new Substack Cocksure, his memoir Party of One, the waning days of…
- Episode 612 - Alison Leiby · 1 h 9 minComedian/writer Alison Leiby (@alisonleiby) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her new memoir I'm A Lot, AI promotional scams, chronic back pain, how happiness can…
- Episode 611 with Hannah Roeschlein · 58 minHannah Roeschlein (@handerpumprules) joins Jesse and Matt for half the episode before the computer gods get angry, forcing the two guys to finish the show solo. But between us we…
- Episode 610 - Kirk Smith · 1 h 13 minComedian Kirk Smith (@kirksmithcomedy) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his books Rice Krispies with Ketchup and Movin, pools and jacuzzis, competitive eating champions…
- Episode 609 - Ryan Conner · 1 h 17 minComedian/author Ryan Conner (@ryanconnercomedy) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new memoir 12 Guys Walk Into a Kitchen, Vietnamese refugees, Tippi…
- Episode 608 - Laura Sams Jordan · 1 h 16 minZoologist/producer/composer/podcaster Laura Sams (@lauramsams) Jordan joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about fliming grizzly bears in Alaska, studying hyenas in Africa, Laura's…
- Episode 607 - Diana Hong · 1 h 12 minComedian Diana Hong (@dhongcomedy) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss cat ownership, Shadow Force, Sawbones and the McElroy-iverse, Diana's golf career, outsider commemorative…
- Episode 606 - Charles Star · 1 h 6 minLawyer-turned-comedian and self-professed podcast slut Charles Star (@ugarles) returns to the show to talk about his podcast No Homework, celebrity roasts, Wings album covers…
- Episode 605 - James Frey · 1 h 2 minComedian and former paramedic James Frey (@jamesfreycomedy) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about firefighter dreams and emergency medicine reality, James' Ventura comedy…
- Episode 604 - Shane Mauss · 1 h 12 minComedian Shane Mauss (@shane_mauss) returns to the show to talk about his upcoming comedy special TRIPS: The First Dose, how LSD affects blind people, misophonia's link to…
- Episode 603 - Brandie Posey · 1 h 17 minComedian Brandie Posey (@brandazzle) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about the geography of Jersey, Brandie's label Burn This Records and her new comedy…
- Episode 602 - Chandler Dean · 1 h 16 minComedian/speechwriter Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his show Abolish Everything!, Jesse's over-the-top stuffed animal purchase, poop…
- Episode 601 - Amber Preston · 1 h 15 minComedian Amber Preston (@prestonparty) returns to help Andy, Jesse and Matt celebrate the big six-oh-one and talk about Artemis II, frozen urine in space, a microbe that makes…
- Episode 600 - Katie Novotny · 1 h 9 minComedian Katie Novotny (@katienovotnyyyyy) joins Matt and Andy to discuss her special Son of Your Dreams, whale junk, headbutting whales, the 20-year cycle of fashion, an evolved…
- Episode 599 - Monica Nevi · 1 h 3 minComedian Monica Nevi (@monicanevi) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about her special Big Stepdad Energy, what VO2 max means, esports scholarships, vasectomy rate spikes during…
- Episode 598 - Matthew Coe · 1 h 12 minComedian Matthew Coe (@matthew_coe__) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about parents watching comedy, Matthew's show My Therapist Knows Your Name, Matthew's hypoplastic right…
- Episode 597 - Jackie Kashian · 1 h 5 minComedian Jackie Kashian (@jackiekashian) returns to the show to talk with Jesse and Matt about her new standup special Alter-Kashian, huge amounts of hydrogen inside the Earth's…
- Episode 596 - Forrest Shaw · 1 h 16 minComedian and former marine biologist Forrest Shaw (@forrestshaw) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about his new live show The Ocean Hates You, his addiction…
- Episode 595 - Aisha Alfa · 1 h 5 minComedian Aisha Alfa (@aishaalfa) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about comedy in Winnipeg, Jesse's Megyn Kelly-loved Olympics tweet, the cult movie Phantom of the Paradise…
- Episode 594 - David Huntsberger · 1 h 8 minComedian David Huntsberger returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his podcast Intercepts, his new platform The Endless Abyss, the lost art of sketch comedy…
- Episode 593 - Diya Basrai · 1 h 10 minComedian/neuroscientist Diya Basrai (@diyabasrai) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Moravec's Paradox, whether there's something meat-specific about intelligence, a…
- Episode 592 - Jon Stringer · 1 h 10 minComedian Jon Stringer (@jonjstringer) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about living in a converted rural Kansas church, the intricacies of comedy competitions and cruise ship…
- Episode 591 - Imaan Hadchiti · 1 h 14 minComedian Imaan Hadchiti (@imaanfrankhadchiti) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about Rima syndrome, the movie Tiptoes, the passing of an art legend, sniffing farts to prevent…
- Episode 590 - Waen Shepherd · 1 h 12 minComedian/actor/writer/composer Waen Shepherd (@waenshep) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about the new album from his alter ego Gary Le Strange, the biology of elves, the best…
- Episode 589 - Chris Duffy · 1 h 10 minComedian/host/author Chris Duffy (@chrisiduffy) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new book Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present…
- Episode 588 - Buddy Fitzpatrick · 1 h 17 minComedian Buddy Fitzpatrick (@buddycomic) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Batman's effect on subway chivalry, the rooms of Madonna Inn, ladyfingers, manmade fire from…
- Episode 587 - Adam Burke · 1 h 23 minComedian Adam Burke (@atpburke) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about Adam's new comedy special Unamerican, debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment, classic '80s Arnold…
- Episode 586 - Ophira Eisenberg · 1 h 24 minComedian/writer/NPR host Ophira Eisenberg (@ophirae) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about her podcast Parenting Is a Joke, her upcoming special produced by Lewis Black, the…
- Episode 585 - Jeff Zenisek · 1 h 12 minComedian Jess Zenisek (@jeffzenisek) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about tennis, homophobic sports stereotypes, Jesse's new ski persona, Mr. Wizard, Jeff's hair care…
- Episode 584 - Drew Droege · 52 minComedian/playwright Drew Droege (@drew_droege) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about his new off-Broadway play Messy White Gays, X-ray NBA poker fraud and why birds sing after…
- Episode 583 - Mehran Khaghani · 54 minWonderful NY comic Mehran Khagani (@themehran) joins Jesse and Matt to talk about escaping from Iran, working at the Harvard School of Public Health, hyrax butt drag fossil…
- Episode 582 - Jen Kober · 1 h 11 minComedian/actor Jen Kober (@jenkober) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about comedy in Louisiana, Oktoberfest, buxom wenches, the connection between fish buttholes and fingers…
- Episode 581 - NASA Exoplanet Science Ambassador Anjali Tripathi · 1 h 20 minNASA astrophysicist and JPL Exoplanet Science Ambassador Anjali Tripathi joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about exoplanets and the different ways of finding them including…
- Episode 580 - Michelle Murphy · 1 h 21 minComedian Michelle Murphy (@meeshoffleash) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about playing tennis for Grinnell, the Enhanced Games, celebrities trying their hands at winter…
- Episode 579 - Ken Reid · 1 h 15 minComedian Ken Reid (@kennethwreid) joins Jesse, Matt and Andy to talk about growing up a child of television, mud wrestling, Ken's podcast TV Guidance Counselor, an HIV prevention…
- Episode 578 - Ryan O'Flanagan · 1 h 11 minComedian Ryan O'Flanagan (@ryanoflan) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Ryan and Andy's chance encounter in a bar in Leadville, Married With Children tattoos, neanderthals…
- Episode 577 - Myq Kaplan · 1 h 11 minComedian Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan) returns to the show to talk to Andy, Jesse and Matt about growing out his eyebrows during the pandemic, babies distinguishing Ps from Bs…
- Episode 576 with Macey Isaacs! · 1 h 1 minComedian and host of the SSRI'M OK podcast Macey Isaacs joins the gang to talk about a meteorite that's older than our planet! AI and attachment theory! And some more AI nonsense…
- Episode 575 - Matt Parker · 1 h 6 minComedian/mathematician/YouTuber/author Matt Parker (@standupmaths) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about his new book Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, his…
- Episode 574 - Josh Gondelman · 59 minComedian Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his new special Positive Reinforcement, his newsletter, his wife Maris Kreizman's new book of essays…
- Episode 573 - Kai Humphries · 1 h 9 minComedian Kai Humphries (@kaihumphries) joins Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about his new special Gallivanting, the passing of Hulk Hogan, superheating solid gold, the Air Bud…
- Episode 572 - Eric Rocha · 1 h 11 minComedian Eric Rocha (@ericrochacomedy) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about competing namesakes, fezzes, last suppers, Jesse's macronutrient gas, sleep hygiene, comedy on…
