Episode 598 - Matthew Coe
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Matthew Coe (@matthew_coe__) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to talk about parents watching comedy, Matthew's show My Therapist Knows Your Name, Matthew's hypoplastic right heart syndrome, the closing of the foramen ovale, a Japanese study of falling cats, a robot handling potato chips, and an averted Moon asteroid close call.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. I'm your host, one of three in fact. I'm Jesse Case. |
| 0:15.6 | Number two, Andy Wood here. I'm Matt Kirshund. We're all back together again. I am, we're all recording in different cities again. |
| 0:22.1 | We're all over the place. |
| 0:36.7 | Jesse's in Nashville. Andy right now. San Diego, I believe. Yes. Mm-hmm. And Matt is in Tehran. Bad sea. Yeah. Bad ball. That was an oversight. Yeah. On your part. I got the booking. there'd been some cancellations. |
| 0:38.1 | No one said why there was a dropout. |
| 0:39.5 | But, uh... This is Ayatollifest, right? |
| 0:41.0 | You signed up for... On your part. I got the booking. There'd been some cancellations. No one said why there was a dropout. |
| 0:39.0 | But this is Ayatollah Fest, right? You signed up for Ayatollapest. I can't resist. I cannot resist a gig. Yeah. Someone offers me a spot. I will take it. |
| 0:49.0 | No, I'm actually... This is immediately off the rails. We immediately end up the rails. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm actually proud of myself because I I'm firstly, I'm in Portland right now. As is our guest today, Matthew Coe, who is featuring for me at Helium for this weekend. There's a new room in Helium. Are you aware of this, Andy? There's two, helium now has two rooms. What was the base, I don't know what it was. There's a store room. It's now a cool, like, 90-seater comedy club is great. Whoa. On the same floor? It's on the, it's on the downstairs. Okay, that wasn't their business. Yeah, they must have had to buy it, because it was just a stairwell they owned. Yeah, maybe, yeah, because you can go, you can go round or through. |
| 1:28.9 | Anyway, this is unnecessary logistic. |
| 1:31.0 | All you have to know is I'm in Portland. Matthew Coe, who's our guest, hey Matthew, is also on with me. Nice. So, as is friend of the show, Virginia Jones, she's emce. Oh, cool. So we're on, I think the weekend will probably be done by the time this episode goes out |
| 1:47.4 | You might catch one episode, you might catch Sunday, who knows |
| 1:49.6 | But I'm proud of myself because after the show |
| 1:53.1 | Other friend of the show, Sean Jordan |
| 1:55.1 | Came by, he caught the last 20 minutes of the show |
| 1:58.2 | And then we went off to the clown bar open mic I can't't remember what the name is the bar, but it's the bar in Portland that is clown-themed. How? How, how... How was that? I will say also, I ended up not going. I left before you guys went to the clown bar open mic, and how embarrassed I felt that the young guy, |
| 2:18.3 | who should be the one like grinding up till 4 a.m. |
| 2:21.3 | was the one who went to bed, |
| 2:22.3 | and you both went to a midnight open mic. |
| 2:25.3 | I felt very embarrassed. |
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