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Horatio Sanz and Joel Spence join Matt Besser for this week’s improv4humans! They’ll perform scenes about underwear drones, cool car chase maneuvers, a realistic game of Assassin, and more.

Put on your finest loungewear and raise your favorite coffee mug because this week’s episode of Getting Curious is an EVENT! After six years of incredible work, NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars in one Earth day, and Jonathan is speaking with Christina Hernandez, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, all about what to expect. Listen in to learn more about the Red Planet, the Perseverance mission, and Christina’s advice for the next generation of NASA innovators.

The hilarious Alec Mapa joins Matt and Dave discuss Alec’s podcast Alec Mapa: Hot Mess with Matthew Dempsey Psychotherapist, how you’re not required to achieve during this time, thoughts on Gays Over Covid, reminding yourself and others that Instagram isn’t real, M. Butterfly, Alec paying his dues after his big break, how he met his husband, everyone’s reviews and reflections about this week’s inauguration and their hopes for the future, reminiscing about how close social gatherings used to be, Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Raise By Wolves, I May Destroy You, Game of Thrones, Pretend It’s a City, the Everyone Is Gay on TicTok New York Times Article, gay pop, Dave’s time being a VJ and if he’d do it in 2021, Tom Cruise, Sting, hosting the GayVN Awards and the “merch” Alec got.

On this week’s ATTITUDES! Erin rips into Vagisil for their new product aimed specifically at teens, and all the problems with their justifications for its existence. Then, Bryan profiles civil rights activist Bayard Rustin before discussing the outrage of One Million Moms (which is really just one mom) against an American Girl doll with lesbian aunties. Scandalous!

On a special Valentine Day, join Matt Besser and Danielle Schneider as they call up former UCB Family Feud producer James Mannion to help resolve their disputes about the Family Feud format, strange survey responses, Steve Harvey, and more.

This week on Getting Curious, we’re celebrating 200 episodes and five years of the show with a look back at some of our favorite segments on empowerment, advocacy, and exploration. We’re so grateful to all of our listeners and guests for taking this journey with us, and we’ll be back next week with an all new episode that’s truly out of this world!

Actor Bryan Cranston feels very lucky about being happily paid to be Conan O’Brien’s friend. Bryan sits down with Conan to talk about brushes with Charles Manson, establishing contact with Vince Gilligan on The X-Files, and portraying characters with complex moralities from Breaking Bad to his new show Your Honor. Later, Conan responds to a listener voicemail regarding his strangest purchases.

Co-hosts Sarah Costello & Kayla Kaszyca sit down with Cameron to discuss aspec identity, getting excluded from the queer community, and their private and public instances of coming out.

Howard Kremer and Engineer Brett Morris join Matt Besser to review their favorite music picks from 2020, featuring top tracks from Laura Jane Grace, Food House, Pop Smoke, HappyHappy, Viagra Boys, Billie Eilish, Malin Pettersen, Deau Eyes, Rico Nasty, Bruce Peninsula, Naked Giants, The Lawrence Arms, Igorrr, Chatterbox and the Latter Day Satanists, Ashnikko, and Man Man.

Ophira Eisenberg and “token Republican” Weston Wamp join Negin to share their thoughts on Biden’s stimulus package and Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial. They also dive into how friendships have been affected by the pandemic.

We live in a world with hot pink macaroni and cheese now. Get used to it! This week, Bryan profiles self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde before diving into a recent story about a London school headmaster who came out to his students during an assembly. Then, Erin discusses the Biden administration’s positioning on the Hyde Amendment and other women’s health issues – and why we should still be saying, “hmmm.”

Tim Meadows, Lisa Gilroy, Toni Charline, and Ronnie Adrian join Matt Besser this week for scenes about telling a good snow story, Cruella de Vil’s true age, the deepest sleeper, and more.

This week on Getting Curious, we’re learning about three women who shaped the movement for civil rights in the United States—Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin—but whose stories have too often been footnotes in books about their famous sons. The writer and scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs joins Jonathan to discuss her new group biography The Three Mothers, her work studying Black motherhood as a Gates scholar and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Cambridge University, and her approach to public projects like Stockton, California’s Status of Women Report. Follow Anna on Twitter @annas_tea_ and on Instagram @annastea_honesty. Make sure to check out The Three Mothers, published by Flatiron Books, on sale now.

Chef Iliana Regan sits down with Cameron to discuss being on the road in an Airstream, getting a Michelin star, and her bnb, the Milkweed Inn.

Nick and Conan sit down to talk about how being a late bloomer informed the making of Big Mouth, collaborating with longtime partner John Mulaney on Oh, Hello: the P’dcast, and finding positives within a long stretch of quarantine. Later, Conan and his team answer listener questions about homeopathic remedies and more. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.

The truly hilarious and enchanting Sam Pancake joins Matt and Dave to discuss L.A.’s latest lift on the lockdown, what making “friends with the void” looks like and how to cope with loneliness, growing up in West Virginia, understanding what parents were trying to do as an adult, the passive insane ways people avoid saying “gay”, self soothing techniques as a kid, butching it up, taking on a mean girl persona to fit in, losing so many people to AIDS, healing, Sam’s sober journey, losing a tooth in front of Megan Mullally, genre movies and behind the sceen stories, Shelly Winters, Cloris Leachman, Faye Dunaway, Steve McQeen, airport movies, Genre magazine, the beginning of Sam’s career, dealing with hurt people who hurt people, reliable fuck buddies, how to be slutty during this pandemic, and the power of treatment and therapy (https://wila.org/ )

On this week’s ATTITUDES! Erin discusses why golf clubs are still allowed to legally discriminate against women after a Scottish course recently changed its policy to be more inclusive (and not necessarily for the right reasons). Then, Brian covers some of the best things to come out of Joe Biden’s first week in office, from his appointment of Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense to sweeping executive orders expanding civil rights protections and more.

Liz Plank and John Fugelsang join Negin to compare Canada’s stimulus package to Joe Biden’s pandemic relief proposal. They also discuss Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ run for governor of Arkansas and open up about the highs and lows of getting a “dream job.”

In December 2020, the UK High Court determined that trans, non-binary, and gender diverse young people in the UK must have legal approval before they can start puberty blockers—even if these young people, their families, and their doctors advocate for treatment. This week on Getting Curious, Lui Asquith joins Jonathan to break down what hormone blockers are, why this case is so significant, and how it fits into a broader discussion about trans rights in the UK and beyond. Lui Asquith (pronouns they/them) is Director of Legal, Policy and Operations at Mermaids. Lui is a qualified lawyer, with a background in LGBTI activism. They moved to Mermaids over two years ago to focus on improving the lives of trans, non-binary and gender diverse young people on the front line. Founded in 1995, Mermaids is a UK-wide charity working to support thousands of transgender, non-binary and gender diverse children, young people, and their families. Lui is on Twitter @luiasquith. Mermaids is on Instagram @mermaidsgender, Twitter @Mermaids_Gender, and Facebook @MermaidsGender.

Actor and game show host Anthony Anderson feels bloated, hungover, and constipated about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Anthony sits down with Conan to discuss working in showbusiness with his mother, throwing his son a Bro Mitzvah, and playing dominoes with Michael Jordan. Later, Conan pitches a potential history podcast on the Russian Revolution.

Andy Daly, Toni Charline, and Tim Meadows join Matt Besser this week for scenes about ordering lard, crying about the movie Hook, the responsibilities of the Second Gentleman, and much more!

Joe! Kamala! Michelle! Bernie’s mittens! Cameron Esposito and Farnoosh Torabi join Negin to break down their favorite moments from Inauguration Day. They also dissect Trump’s final speech as president and discuss what he’ll do without Twitter.

Erin and Bryan revel in the joyous circumstances of the week with a heaping dose of ATTITUDES! First, Bryan discusses a new court ruling that states falsely claiming someone is gay does not legally constitute “defamation per se.” Then, Erin covers a Supreme Court decision allowing the FDA to continue enforcing restrictions on abortion drug mifepristone, despite easing regulations on other essential medications during the pandemic.

This week on Getting Curious, the writer, activist, and educator Dean Spade joins Jonathan to discuss how we can meet our neighbors’ survival needs through mutual aid, and better understand the systems we live under in the process. Listen in to learn about what mutual aid is, how it differs from charity, and why local wisdom is essential for sweeping change. Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), was published by Verso Press in October 2020.

Showrunner Noelle Stevenson sits down with Cameron to discuss the personal significance of pronouns, decisions when rebooting “She-Ra and the Princess of Power,” and naked bodies.