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Probably Science

By: Andy Wood Matt Kirshen
  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • Episode 535 - Jordan Morris
    Jun 28 2024

    Writer/podcaster Jordan Morris (@Jordan_Morris) returns to the show to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his upcoming graphic novel Youth Group, the YA genre, hawk tuah, breakdancing in the Olympics, elephants calling each other by name, wartime magicians, GPT-4 passing the Turing Test, using AI to cancel customer anger, a new stab at AI alignment and creating plasma fireballs in the lab.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 534 - Bobcat Goldthwait, Rhys Darby, Dr. Farah Alibay and Natalia Reagan
    Jun 21 2024

    Matt and Andy host a live installment of the podcast from To 29 and Beyond in Twentynine Palms featuring guests Bobcat Goldthwait, Rhys Darby, Dr. Farah Alibay and Natalia Reagan, digging into topics including indoor rocketry, opening for Nirvana, projectile bibles, the Cryptid Factor podcast, Bobcat's Bigfoot movie, 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, Robin Williams and Koko the gorilla, Mars landers, returning samples to Earth, and Dr. Alibay's work on the upcoming NASA/JPL all-sky spectral survey project SphereX.

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    52 mins
  • Episode 533 - Paul Sinha
    Jun 5 2024

    Comedian, quizzer, doctor, chaser and now author Paul Sinha (@paulybengali) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new memoir One Sinha Lifetime, training for quiz shows, underperforming on Taskmaster, Paul’s Parkinson’s diagnosis, how he transitioned from medicine to comedy, being outed decades after coming out, this weekend’s To 29 and Beyond, the 29 Palms scavenger hunt that Andy developed, James Webb spotting the birth of some very early galaxies, Charles Dickens the performer, what really happened with that stingray virgin birth and how to figure out the best time to take your meds.

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    1 hr and 7 mins

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