Kyle opens up about his most recent Night Guy outing and gets Mother involved with a new segment, Mother’s Movie Minute! Then the gang asks Sarah Kleinman, Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Midwife, to clear up the Blastoff midwifery mystery. She takes us through the various roles of a midwife, shares her thoughts on epidurals, and sets us straight on the idea of “birthing hips.” Oh, and Tig’s still got it.

Attention to all of our listeners who keep getting injured, we are positive that your luck is about to change for the better! Today we’re joined by writer/author Lara Schoenhals to share her journey on how she became the author of “White Girl Problems” with a stroke of luck. Avoid getting redneck crazy and instead listen to this episode!

Do you never look in a mirror? Well join the club because neither does the Blastoff crew! Tig, Kyle, and David welcome expert physicist and author (The Universe in the Rearview Mirror) Dave Goldberg to discuss the universe. There will be talk of anti-matter, uncley-matter, the expanding universe, the arrow of time, and time travel.

After a flurry of solo episodes, everyone is back in the hatch to catch up! Tig, Kyle, and a shirtless David give us an update on upcoming projects, “reoccurring” nightmares, and their dating life. There’s also a nice chat about poop pills!

Yup, you guessed it — it’s time for a Kyle Dunnigan solo episode! Kyle takes a break from his writing in New York to perform some listener-suggested Punkys and get into it with multiple  special guests. First, Kyle interviews fellow “Inside Amy Schumer” writer Kurt Metzger about everything under the sun, from aliens to Jehovah’s witnesses. After talking to Kurt, Kyle sits down briefly with Amy Schumer and asks her about God. Kyle’s third and final interview is with lifelong friend Michael Andersson, who offers a different take on God than the previous guests and shares some of his particularly fascinating insights as a person living with bipolar disorder, and Kyle tells a riddle. This episode was brought to you by Trump Hospital.

It’s David Huntsberger’s time for a solo episode in the hatch! After answering some listener questions, David gets into the topic of dreams and why we have them. He’ll call up a Blastronaut, his neuroscientist buddy Jono Zalay, and even his mother to discuss lucid dreaming, recurring themes in dreams, and how dreams are sometimes prophetic. Can David battle his cold and make it to the end of the show? Tune in to find out!

Tig is back in the hatch but this time she’s solo. After giving us a quick update on what’s going on with her life, Tig is joined by actress, improviser, and internet person Stephanie Allynne to discuss Religious Science. They’ll talk about Stephanie’s childhood cooperative learning game “Harvest Time,” being positive by not dwelling on the future, and that old woman who lived in a shoe. Plus, they’ll explore Stephanie’s connection to Angelina Wells.

The live streak continues as we come to you from Montreal on this week’s Professor Blastoff! We find out why Kyle always carries a spare bed, David tells us about his recent lost luggage debacle and surly Tig discusses her desire for a large watch before Aaron breaks down why everything that preceded his introduction was wrong. The gang then throws it to the professor and first-time Earwolf guest Bo Burnham to talk about hemorrhoids, the best Starburst flavors and eventually get to the night’s topic — the Internet. Bo explains how he got his start on the Internet, talks about Reddit, Vine, and his relationship with music as Aaron tries his best to compare YouTube to Charles Darwin.

Hop onboard a LIVE Swamp Rocktacular episode of Professor Blastoff straight from Portland! We go down memory lane as Tig, Kyle, and David recall the origin of Swamp Rock before introducing special guest Aaron Reichenberger, law student & Editor-in-Chief of the Willamette Law Review, to discuss law. We’ll learn how certain dilemmas can drastically effect the outcome of a court case, if you can indeed sue yourself, a surprising fact in another edition of “What’s Nuts?”, and the connection between air quotes & bunnies!

The hatch hiatus continues as Professor Blastoff comes to you live from The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY! David, Tig and Kyle hilariously interact with some old friends who serendipitously reunited in the audience at the show before engaging in an incredibly memorable acapella rendition of an A-Ha classic. After spending way too much time talking about gonorrhea, the gang welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg, author of the New York Times Bestseller “The Power of Habit”, to talk about all things related to habits and play a rather scathing round of What’s Nuts? Charles talks about the difference between good and bad habits before the Blastoff crew reveal their own personal bad habits, and eventually the audience gets in on the action and share their own vices with our expert guest. And yup, you guessed it — we also Name That Punky!

Once again the Blastronaut crew comes to you from the road on today’s LIVE episode from Seattle! After a story about the origin of Kyle’s stomach picture, the gang is joined by chemical engineer and fellow Blastronaut Kathryn Cogert to discuss Bioenergy. They’ll get into the food to fuel dispute, dispel common myths about bio fuels and bioenergy, and talk about the future of energy usage. Plus, they all play a remarkable game of Name That Punky!

The break from the hatch continues this week as Professor Blastoff comes to you Live from Philadelphia! Tig and Kyle get into an epic shouting match right out of the gate, and David explains the origins of a Philadelphia legend before we learn exactly where the mysterious dusty stage blender came from. Audience member and loyal Blastronaut Emily Moignard joins the gang on stage to offer some insight on her fascinating job as an in-home family therapist as well as shed some light on what lead her down that career path. The sanctity of our Christian podcast is broken numerous times as Emily details the story of her family and grills Kyle, Tig and David about their familial relationships, including a closer look at Kyle’s relationship with MOTHER! And of course, it wouldn’t be a live episode without a hilarious round of Name That Punky!

The Blastoff crew comes to us this week from a hotel hatch in Montreal, Canada! After discussing some important topics such as social anxiety, sweating onstage, and diarrhea pools, they welcome guest expert/blastronaut Katie Pagnucco to talk about Ecology and invasive species. Katie explains why islands are most often impacted by invasive species, Kyle & David share some stories of having a species invade their home, and everyone does some improv! “Yes, and” indeed!

We take a break from the hatch yet again to bring you another unforgettable live episode of Professor Blastoff, this time all the way from Atlanta! After discussing the fact that they almost didn’t make it to the venue, Kyle tries some new potentially inappropriate impressions and, courtesy of Aaron, we finally learn the origin of the chicken parking lot bit. Tig’s childhood friend Aimee Schmidt, a southern studies major who wears many hats, stops by to school the gang on all things related to the south — including hospitality, BBQ, fried Oreos and everything in between. David brings up the south’s troubled past, which leads to a thoughtful discussion on the current state of affairs in modern southern society. And of course, it wouldn’t be a live episode without a hilarious game of Name that Punky!

Tig, David, Kyle & Aaron welcome you back to the hatch on this week’s Professor Blastoff! David showcases his ignorance to yoga techniques, Kyle discusses his facial hair and Tig shares her distaste for country music artist Aaron Tippin as well as Kyle’s new look. Aaron throws in his two cents on the facial hair debate before welcoming guest expert Alysha Reinard, who calls in all the way from the University of Colorado to talk about her research on space weather. Alysha goes into great detail about her studies, how she initially got into the field and she and Kyle bond over their shared love for the Joaquin Phoenix film Space Camp.