Episodes

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Episode 558 with Alice Fraser!

January 24, 2025

Comedian Alice Fraser (@aliterative) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Jesse's mistimed melatonin, Alice's new book A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance, Hot Frosty, Matt's upcoming Australia shows, how ants can beat humans at cooperation, increasingly dumb reality dating shows, Andy's Naked Attraction obsession, science lectures on Pornhub, burial site clues to ancient British matriarchies and the first-ever audio and video of a meteorite's impact.

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Episode 557 with Mary Lynn Rajskub!

January 15, 2025

(Note: This episode was recorded before the Los Angeles fires) Comedian/actor Mary Lynn Rajskub (@marylynnrajskub) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about filming her upcoming show North of North in Nunavut, her new standup special Road Gig, how Roman air pollution lowered the IQ of Europe, long eggs, the thick ice of Europa, Matt's upcoming Australia shows and Andy's upcoming Arizona ones.

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Episode 556 with Laura Hayden!

January 7, 2025

Comedian and physical therapist Laura Hayden (@LauraHaydenFun) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about her penile pictorial book What About Dick, a decrease in average body temperature, sciatica advice, the benefits of pooping before you exercise, Matt's upcoming Australia tour and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros gigs.

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Episode 555 with Forrest Shaw!

December 26, 2024

Comedian Forrest Shaw (@forrestshaw) returns to the show to talk about stalking manatees with police helicopters, gambling addiction, his upcoming podcast I've Got a Problem, survival of the wittiest, a lost branch of humanity's family tree, Matt's upcoming comedy shows in Eureka and Medford and Andy's upcoming Warsaw Poland Bros shows in Santa Barbara and Los Olivos.

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Episode 554 with Matthew Broussard!

December 10, 2024

Comedian Matthew Broussard (@mondaypunday) returns to the show to chat with Jesse, Andy and Matt about Matthew's new special Hyperbolic, exaggerated accents, the CEO shooter, cyborg beetles, a quantum computing milestone, gray goo, online security in a post-quantum world, elliptic curves, conic sections, Fermat's Enigma and a super old bird mother.

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Episode 553 with Becky Braunstein!

December 7, 2024

Comedian Becky Braunstein (@beckyfromalaska) joins Andy, Jesse and Matt to talk about growing up Jewish in Alaska, eruv rules and topology, orcas bringing back the salmon hat fad, the dangers of squeezing limes in bright sunlight, and tiny vodka-propelled robots.

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Episode 552 with Laura Kightlinger!

November 29, 2024

Comedian/writer/actress Laura Kightlinger (@KingKightlinger) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about spontaneous human combustion, Bourbon Room comedy shows in Hollywood, the story behind Andy's various bands, the Uranus story we don't want to cover, how one atom can change a parrot's color, blurb machine Peter Travers, peacock spiders, a blue whale that's been leaking oil for 26 years and a flu strain that we've basically beaten.

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Episode 551 with James Lamont!

November 19, 2024

Screenwriter James Lamont joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about writing the upcoming Paddington in Peru, alcohol detox champion hornets, Shatner's double SPATS, memory not being confined to the brain, Jesse getting checked in on by local kids and Matt's oath to take up arms for the United States.

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Episode 550 with Benny Blue!

November 7, 2024

Comedian Benny Blue (@bennyblueeyes) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about brat summer transitioning into the fall of civilization, Benny's new special Live From My Mother's Funeral, Benny and Andy's Blue Lake connection, Anarchist Cookbook adolescent shenanigans, why humans are the perfect size for speed, Matt and Andy's show with the 2022-iest name ever, the best mural ever painted and its painter, Norm MacDonald's sketch artist sketch, how an asteroid got ants into farming fungi, Jesse's love of 90-Day Fiancee, Matt's upcoming comedy shows and Andy's upcoming ska shows.

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Episode 549 with Brooks Wheelan!

November 2, 2024

Comedian and former Probably Science cohost Brooks Wheelan (@brookswheelan) joins Jesse and Andy to talk about his new special Alive In Alaska, Tony Hinchcliffe entering the election arena, cats beating babies at word association, Don't Wake Daddy, snake talk just for Brooks, the Teddy Roosevelt biography The River of Doubt, Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties, the ever-changing landscape of standup and Andy's upcoming gigs with Warsaw Poland Bros.

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Episode 548 with Jeffrey Jay!

October 18, 2024

Comedian Jeffrey Jay (@heyjeffreyjay) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss UnCertified Fresh, the Matt Walsh-iverse of awful movies, Earth gaining a second moon, the orbital path of that object, an octopus that punches fish to make them help it hunt and choceted EEG caps for cats.

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Episode 547 with DJ Qualls and Kelly Blackheart!

October 10, 2024

DJ Qualls (@TheOnlyDJQualls) and Kelly Blackheart (@kellyblackheart) of the Locked & Probably Loaded podcast join Matt and Jesse to talk about DJ's upcoming movie Carved, Nashville dive bars, the Ark Encounter, the Ig Nobel prize for butt-breathing, extreme aging, re-creating Mars in a lab and resurrecting the woolly mammoth.

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Episode 546 with Maronzio Vance!

September 30, 2024

Comedian Maronzio Vance (@maronziovance) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about Andy's upcoming ska festival and Oktoberfest polka band gigs, Taipei's innovative trash system, dating Prince-obsessed women, dogs' incredible ability to remember the names of toys, the gut-first path of Parkinson's and comedy's legendary Tribble runs.

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Episode 545 with Helen Hong!

September 20, 2024

Comedian/actress/podcaster Helen Hong (@funnyhelenhong) joins Matt and Andy to talk about peeing in pools and reservoirs, male stripper shows, Helen's excellent quiz podcast Go Fact Yourself, pre-Darth Vader David Prowse PSAs, the dye in Doritos that can make mice transparent, a SpaceX rocket punching a hole in the ionosphere, mailing poo in a box and making pyrex invisible with vegetable oil.

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Episode 544 with Sam Pasternack!

September 9, 2024

Writer/producer Sam Pasternack (@sampasternack) returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Andy and Jesse about awful bar trivia, Sam's new book "Walker," the history of pedestrianism, Land's End to John o' Groats, Andy's Burning Man updates, the dilemma of trombone utility and using massive python meals to help develop new human heart medicines.

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Episode 543 with Frank Conniff!

August 29, 2024

Mystery Science Theater alum, comedian and author Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) joins the crew to talk about his new audiobook Dark Apnea.

Plus horoscope doubts! Carl Sagan predicting the future! And where dinosaur killing asteroids came from!

In the patreon bonus ep we talk about saving the banana from extinction.

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Episode 542 with Mark Cohen!

August 21, 2024

Comedian Mark Cohen (@mark_coco_cohen) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss the two aging bursts humans experience, restoring Tonka trucks, weaning crocodiles off of cane toads, Mark's video game creations, using slime mold to help map dark matter, and stock photo artists who play Lawn Mowing Simulator. and Mark's possible record-breaking stint at The Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas.

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Episode 541 with Isak Allen!

August 10, 2024

Neuroscientist-turned-comedian Isak Allen (@theisakallen) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about smashing flies, using fMRI to study brain activity as it relates to music and comedy, tonal languages, the Dong Song, Neuralink, dystopian futures and Isak's new Dry Bar special Culturally Unavailable.

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Episode 540 with David Epstein and Paul Morrissey! (re-release)

August 4, 2024

We've got just the prescription for everyone out there with Olympic fever: A re-release of a 2013 episode in which Matt and Andy interview David Epstein, a Sports Illustrated journalist and the author of the outstanding book The Sports Gene, along with college basketball player-turned-comedian Paul Morrissey, to discuss the field of sports genetics research and try to get to the bottom of how elite athletes are made. Enjoy!