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Zachary Abbott and the deeper higher pile. Oct 23, 2015

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Kevin Jimmy and Griff meet up with Zachary Abbott, who plays Prof. Smith in the cult films The PHD Movie II: Still in Grad School that Premiered in select locations this week! Surprisingly, Zachary is not really a professor at all.

Elena Murchikova, Matthew Broussard and the quantum loop notebooks. Oct 11, 2015

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With Owen on the road and Griff in Romania, Kevin and Jimmy meet up with guest comedian, Matthew Broussard (MTV2) and astrophysicist and science advisor consultant for the movie Interstellar, Dr. Elena Murchikova. In between long bouts of mansplaining from the hosts, Elena talks about her work on set to help create a convincing Murph character, endorse the science of the film, contemplate interplanetary Uber and n-dimensional iPads.

Kip Thorne and the four embracing vortices. Sep 25, 2015

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Owen, Jimmy, and Kevin talk about Interstellar with Prof. Kip Thorne. Kip was not only Executive Producer and science advisor for blockbuster film, but he wrote the first draft treatments of the plot. While pondering time travel effect on free will it is discovered that Andy and Kip haven't read each other's work. And EXCLUSIVE to SYJ, Kip reveals the status of his bet with Stephen Hawking!

Adam Steltzner and the panspermiatic lineae. Sep 24, 2015

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Water on Mars! By sheer serendipity the whole SYJ crew meet up with Adam Steltzner from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, just hours after NASA makes one of the most important announcements of all time - that Mars still has flowing water (and so possibly, life) right now! At JPL, Adam is lead EDL engineers (a.k.a. landing guy) for the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers on Mars do he had a lot to say about this. But the comedians spend half the time talking about The Martian and Adam's epic hair.

David Politzer and the string theory of banjos. Sep 18, 2015

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Kevin, Jimmy, and Griff are joined by frequently touring, auditioning, and otherwise distracted co-host, Owen Benjamin, to help welcome the first guest of the show, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor David Politzer. David explains the downside to winning a Nobel Prize, who in the science media circuit is legit, planting pineapple(s), and of course, his favorite topic: banjos! Owen and David are both musicians, so they bond over hashing out what to do when someone says your music has mistakes.

Jimm 0 Yang and the kid who cried asteroid. Sep 08, 2015

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In the inaugural (and zero indexed) episode of Surely You're Joking, Dr. Kevin Peter Hickerson, Griff Pippin, and Jimmy O Yang discuss the latest asteroid hoax, why we should still be worried anyway (even though it is just a hoax), GMO mouse brains controlled by light, comedy cultivation, and what on Earth could be outside of Oklahoma.

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