The very funny Tom Sibley makes his first Probably Science appearance this week alongside Brooks, Matt, and Andy to brainstorm alternate endings to The Grey, debunk Miracle Balance energy bands, discuss alcoholic fly larvae, and explain why he was sent to the bathroom whenever his teacher wanted to talk about science.
Episodes
Episode 48 with Marianne Sierk!
MarianneSierk of Tru TV’s World’s Dumbest and the upcoming re-boot of Best Week Ever joins Matt, Andy, and Brooks this week to trade Breaking Bad impressions with Andy, talk about un-discovering an island, delineate the downsides of co-education, and give her take on the validity of art therapy.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-048-marianne-sierk
Episode 47 with TJ Miller!
If you’ve been to the movies in the last few years, you’ve no doubt seen TJ Miller, and chances are he was the guy who made you laugh the hardest. He invited Matt, Brooks, and Andy over to his apartment to learn a little about congressmen who don’t believe in evolution, the scary aspects of astronomy, Matt and Andy’s competing Movember mustaches, TJ’s surprising juggling skills, and the arteriovenous malformation that almost killed him while shooting Yogi Bear 3-D. Oh, and Gorburger. We can’t emphasize that enough. Go watch Gorburger right now.
Episode 46 with Taylor Williamson!
Taylor Williamson of America's Got Talent, Last Comic Standing and The Late, Late Show joins Matt and Andy to discuss grapple forks and rock buckets, show-off sharks, the diabetes/flu link, and the novelization of D3: The Mighty Ducks.
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Episode 45 with Mike Siegel!
This week’s episode of Probably Science gets really handsome with guest Mike Siegel of TBS Movie Extra, the Travel Tales podcast, and film and television roles too numerous to mention. Mike sits down with Matt, Brooks, and Andy this week to discuss venomous duck-billed platypuses, the world’s largest teepee, a planet made of diamond, impromptu wrestling matches, and concrete that patches itself.
Episode 44 with Chip Pope!
You’ve may have seen Chip Pope on MTV’s Austin Stories or Last Comic Standing, or enjoyed his writing on the latest incarnation of Beavis and Butthead, among many other shows. He joins Brooks, Andy, and Jesse Case this week to discuss decoding ancient writing systems, why Baby’s Day Out is hilarious, hermit crab key parties, Rugrats conspiracy theories, and using paintballs to save Earth from asteroids.
Episode 43 with Josh Cheney and Dax Jordan!
Comedians Josh Cheney and Dax Jordan join Brooks and Andy this week to talk about smashing galaxies, ball lightning, lazy science projects involving celery, and giving PTSD to mice. Oh, and Brooks finally gives the Probably Scientists what they’ve been asking for: a glimpse at his Red Hot Chili Peppers tattoo.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-043-josh-cheney-and-dax-jordan
Episode 42 with Emery Emery!
Emery Emery, host of the podcasts The Ardent Atheist and Skeptically Yours, joins Matt, Andy, and Brooks to talk about the Bogdanov Affair, Brooks and his self-given nicknames, robot bee brains, and Emery taking his revenge on Andy for insulting Penn Jillette.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-042-emery-emery-mp3
Episode 41 with Richard Bain!
Matt, Brooks, and Andy are together again, and they welcome comedian Richard Bain, a recent transplant to LA from Portland, to talk about insects with mechanical brains, dwarf vampire porcupine dinosaurs, a Nazi Buddha made from a meteorite, and whether voting is important.
Episode 40 with Hampton Yount!
Hampton Yount is one of the funniest young comics around, and he joined Brooks and Andy back in December of 2011 for an early Probably Science trial-run episode that was, until now, lost to the sands of time. We’re dusting off this early gem and bringing it to you now, when the ten-month-old science stories have perfectly ripened to comedic maturity. It’s a fun, funny episode — give it a listen.
Episode 39 with Andy Haynes!
Andy Haynes came up in the Pacific Northwest comedy scene before making his mark in New York and LA with appearances on Fallon and Conan, and he joins Brooks, Andy, and a tag team of Auggie Smith and Alice Wetterlund to talk about dead baby pandas, Space Shuttle flyovers, Central American revolutionaries, and the environmental scourge of grilled meat.
Episode 38 with Mark Agee!
Mark Agee, as seen on Last Comic Standing, joins Andy and a fresh-off-the-plane Matt Kirshen on this week’s episode to discuss the downside of free drinks, the incredible Edinburgh Fringe Festival, computing withwater droplets, the evolutionary explanation of the placebo effect, and whether King Tut’s girlish figure led to his premature demise.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-038-mark-agee
Episode 37 with Power Violence!
The Power Violence gang of Whitmer Thomas, Budd Diaz, Rodney Berry and Clay Tatum invite the Probably Science guys over to their house, which also happens to be where Brooks now lives, and the boys chat about golden space records, hurricane preparedness, Whit’s family’s involvement in the design of Challenger’s O-rings, and living down the street from Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-037-power-violence
Episode 36 with Shane Mauss!
Shane Mauss, as seen on Comedy Central Presents and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, recently threw away his whole act and wrote a new one based around concepts of evolutionary psychology and sexual selection, which happens to be a perfect fit for Probably Science, as Brooks and Andy talk with him about learning while sleeping, the works of Michio Kaku, finding highly valuable whale vomit, and why women’s bodies do not, in fact, have the ability to “shut that whole thing down.”
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-036-shane-mauss
Episode 35 with Baron Vaughn!
Comedian and actor Baron Vaughn of TV’s Fairly Legal (and the funniest scene that didn’t make it into The Other Guys) has been wanting to talk with the ProbSci guys about the impending technological singularity, so Brooks, Andy, and guest co-host Jesse Case get all futuristic while also discussing the Nikola Tesla museum, the HD format wars, and Bill Nye standing up to creationists.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-035-baron-vaughn
Episode 34 with Julian McCullough!
It is with a heavy heart that the Probably Science gang bid a fond farewell to Summer Country, but luckily guest Julian McCullough, co-host of the upcoming Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, is here to lift the spirits of Brooks, Andy, and Auggie Smith while discussing This American Life lies, living through massive earthquakes, the golden ratio as it pertains to your uterus, near-death experiences, and using DNA to encode the contents of a book.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-034-julian-mc-cullough
Episode 33 with Kira Soltanovich!
You’ve seen Kira Soltanovich on The Tonight Show, Girls Behaving Badly, and Last Comic Standing, and this week she sits down with Matt, Andy, and guest co-host Auggie Smith to talk about strobe goggles that improve your memory, predicting what people will say based on where they’re looking, tales of pregnancy, and the laziest Halloween costumes ever.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-033-kira-soltanovich
Episode 32 with Guy Branum!
Actor and Comedian Guy Branum of No Strings Attached and Chelsea Lately joins Matt, Andy, and guest co-host Jesse Case this week as they discuss almonds, quinoa, suicide-bombing termites, and fake Einstein quotes about bees.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-032-guy-branum
Episode 31 with Robert Buscemi!
Pride of Chicago Robert Buscemi is the guest this week as the crew chats about why space has a strange smell, how rivers meander, and whether playing God is, in fact, the sincerest form of flattery.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-031-robert-buscemi
Episode 30 with Steve Agee!
Steve Agee, star of The Sarah Silverman Program, sits in with Brooks, Matt, and Andy on this week’s episode, and the gang discuss jellyfish made from rat hearts, 10-year-old Steve making a Molotov cocktail, and Mr. Wizard being a dick.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-030-steve-agee