Surely You're Joking
Science and comedy collide as physicist Dr. Kevin Peter Hickerson is joined by comedians Jimmy O Yang, Mitch Burrow, Owen Benjamin, Griff Pippin and Matthew Broussard, discuss the absurdities of the universe with intriguing and inspiring guests from the best of the academic and entertainment world.Podcasts
Robert Zubrin and the astronauts' direct advice.
Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 4:18 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 10 seconds
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Avery Broderick and the first black hole selfie.
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 6:28 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds
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Robert Picardo, Konstantin Batygin and the factor of two hypothesis.
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 54 seconds
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Mark Mammone and the alternate universe.
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 58 seconds
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Sumner Norman and the mind-reading robots.
Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 9 seconds
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James Tuttle Keane and the sketch of the farthest snowman.
Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 5:21 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds
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Kevin Hardegree Ullman, Aubree Sweeney and the cosmic piano tuning.
Published: Jan. 21, 2019, midnightDuration: 57 minutes 25 seconds
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Julie Jester and the Pasadena prank.
Published: Sept. 16, 2018, midnightDuration: 52 minutes 46 seconds
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Spyridon Michalakis and the Quantum Realm
Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 4:48 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 40 seconds
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Konstantin Batygin and the quantum planets.
Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 2 seconds
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Paul Zaloom and the puppet on mars.
Published: June 21, 2018, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds
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Robert Zubrin and the pioneering spirit.
Published: May 30, 2018, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds
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Andy Weir and the first city in space.
Published: April 25, 2018, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 39 seconds
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Michael Shellenberger and the future of San Onofre.
Published: April 13, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 51 seconds
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Richard Rieber and the Martian wheel code.
Published: March 31, 2018, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds
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Liz Friedman, Jimmy O Yang and the South Pole schwag.
Published: March 13, 2018, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds
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Sarah Keller and the Hohmann orbital ballasts.
Published: March 6, 2018, 5:33 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 45 seconds
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Manan Arya and the origami mohawk.
Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Irina Skaya and the giant ferriswheel of hooks.
Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds
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Vito Gesualdi old-timey popcorn salesman.
Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 26 seconds
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Jessie Christiansen and the Goldilocks retraction.
Published: Dec. 11, 2017, midnightDuration: 44 minutes 47 seconds
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Mitch Burrow and the alien rock.
Published: Nov. 9, 2017, midnightDuration: 1 hour 9 minutes 10 seconds
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Ken Garr and the Space Musketeers.
Published: Oct. 25, 2017, midnightDuration: 56 minutes 13 seconds
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Monica Nevi and a break in the monotony.
Published: Oct. 23, 2017, midnightDuration: 54 minutes 2 seconds
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Jess McIver and the finally not a glitch.
Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 4:42 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 40 seconds
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Barry Barish and the two extremes of discovery.
Published: Sept. 30, 2017, midnightDuration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Hakeem Oluseyi and the flattened galactic disk.
Published: Sept. 29, 2017, 5:05 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 56 seconds
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Morgan Cable and the final orbital trim maneuver.
Published: Sept. 14, 2017, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 50 seconds
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Ed Stone and the forty year old interstellar voyage.
Published: Sept. 5, 2017, midnightDuration: 19 minutes 57 seconds
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Connor Mcspadden, Keith Carey and the volumetric estimate.
Published: Aug. 31, 2017, midnightDuration: 45 minutes 49 seconds
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Gina Hall and the battle of the billionaires.
Published: July 27, 2017, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 2 seconds
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Ori Amir and the humorous activity of temporal poles.
Published: June 20, 2017, midnightDuration: 56 minutes 13 seconds
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Ryan Demarest and the Klinefelter controversy.
Published: June 8, 2017, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds
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Kristjan Stone and the origami telescope
Published: May 18, 2017, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 43 seconds
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Forrest Shaw and the solar system's organ.
Published: April 11, 2017, midnightDuration: 56 minutes 6 seconds
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Sean Carey and the seven retirement planets.
Published: March 1, 2017, midnightDuration: 1 hour 15 minutes 29 seconds
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Konstantin Batygin, Fred Adams and the Church of Planet Nine
Published: Feb. 1, 2017, midnightDuration: 1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds
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Heather Knight and the digitally altered robot photo.
Published: Jan. 19, 2017, midnightDuration: 53 minutes 57 seconds
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Matthew Broussard and the entangled hairy ball theorem.
Published: Nov. 16, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 28 minutes 3 seconds
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Wayne Federman and the rationally optimistic freeway.
Published: Oct. 16, 2016, midnightDuration: 43 minutes 21 seconds
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Ed Stone and the extraterrestrial Europain geyser.
Published: Oct. 6, 2016, midnightDuration: 51 minutes 51 seconds
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Matt Kirshen and the brexiting tardigrades.
Published: Sept. 11, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 11 minutes 41 seconds
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Hakeem Oluseyi and the Olympic distraction.
Published: Sept. 10, 2016, 7:32 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds
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Courtney Dressing and the pale red dot.
Published: Aug. 26, 2016, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds
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Matthew Buckley and the disappointed ambulance chasers.
Published: Aug. 12, 2016, midnightDuration: 38 minutes 55 seconds
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Brian Brophy and the questionably sentient Pokemon.
Published: July 25, 2016, midnightDuration: 49 minutes 2 seconds
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Jerry Zucker and don't call me surely.
Published: July 1, 2016, 5:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 38 seconds
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Daniel Busby and the Rube Goldberg machine.
Published: June 27, 2016, midnightDuration: 42 minutes 45 seconds
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Prof. Peter Plavchan, Richard Chassler and the ensemble of alien mega-structures.
Published: June 19, 2016, midnightDuration: 54 minutes 55 seconds
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Danny Lobell and the firmly mansplained philosophy.
Published: June 15, 2016, midnightDuration: 40 minutes 25 seconds
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Surendra Adhikari and the melting Milankovitch cycles.
Published: June 7, 2016, midnightDuration: 53 minutes 21 seconds
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Jessie Christiansen and the hedonic treadmill of planets.
Published: May 13, 2016, midnightDuration: 51 minutes 48 seconds
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Utkarsh Mittal and the three minute thesis.
Published: May 12, 2016, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 7 seconds
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Maz Jobrani and the translated earphone jokes.
Published: May 3, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 38 seconds
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Sean Carroll, Erin Darling and the eternal godly poem.
Published: May 1, 2016, midnightDuration: 53 minutes 47 seconds
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Alan Alda and the dance music going backward in time.
Published: April 3, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 48 seconds
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Hakeem Oluseyi and the elephant eared telescope.
Published: Feb. 26, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Steve Hofstetter and the not-so-music-like music.
Published: Feb. 22, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 8 minutes 50 seconds
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Alan Weinstein and the triple blind proof black hole collision.
Published: Feb. 8, 2016, midnightDuration: 48 minutes 13 seconds
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Bobak Ferdowsi and the battle of the Martian hairdos.
Published: Jan. 28, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 4 minutes 47 seconds
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Konstantin Batygin, Amir K and the trillion percent certainty.
Published: Jan. 24, 2016, midnightDuration: 1 hour 7 minutes 17 seconds
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Bill Nye and the empennage kicking new planet.
Published: Jan. 18, 2016, midnightDuration: 50 minutes 17 seconds
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Adam Steltzner and the right kind of crazy.
Published: Jan. 13, 2016, midnightDuration: 49 minutes 14 seconds
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Drew Lynch and the talented american solstice.
Published: Jan. 13, 2016, midnightDuration: 56 minutes 39 seconds
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Rick Loverd and the venetian sky dive.
Published: Jan. 4, 2016, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 38 seconds
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Maria Spiropulu and the tantalizing massive scalar.
Published: Dec. 30, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Shyam Saladi and the random transmembrane proteins.
Published: Dec. 21, 2015, midnightDuration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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Josh Brener and the microaggressive cocci.
Published: Dec. 1, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 50 seconds
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Emily Lakdawalla and the neon dendritic channels.
Published: Nov. 22, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 9 minutes 21 seconds
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Tony Roy, Kate Quigley and the gecko powered super bra.
Published: Nov. 7, 2015, midnightDuration: 54 minutes 29 seconds
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Zachary Abbott and the deeper higher pile.
Published: Oct. 23, 2015, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
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Elena Murchikova, Matthew Broussard and the quantum loop notebooks.
Published: Oct. 11, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 51 seconds
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Kip Thorne and the four embracing vortices.
Published: Sept. 25, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 40 seconds
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Adam Steltzner and the panspermiatic lineae.
Published: Sept. 24, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 3 minutes 26 seconds
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David Politzer and the string theory of banjos.
Published: Sept. 18, 2015, midnightDuration: 1 hour 12 minutes 40 seconds
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Jimm 0 Yang and the kid who cried asteroid.
Published: Sept. 8, 2015, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 11 seconds
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