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Comedian and barkeep Jim Van Blaricum (@crappycinemanyc) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about the final month of his outstanding bar Bernadette's, the other Jim VanBlaricum, new math and being old, more info on the whitest paint you know, meth pee, why you shouldn't swim away from a sea snake, the zookeeper who's common-law married to a crane, dolphin handjobs, so many paintball movies and an absolute chonker of a comet.

Comedian and host of the new music trivia show For What It's Worth Murray Valeriano (@murrayv) joins Jesse, Andy and Matt to discuss extinctions, drugs in the water around Glastonbury, potty-training cows to save the environment, Andy's recent Judge John Hodgman appearance, a new Isle of Wight dinosaur and dinosaur artists.

Comedian/lawyer Charles Star (@Ugarles) joins Andy, Matt and Jesse to talk about the magic of A Special Thing, multi-level marketing, entertainment and the law, a desktop gravitational wave detector that found something interesting, using bodily fluids to make concrete on Mars and capturing carbon dioxide from our cars.

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Mary Roach (@mary_roach), author of the new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law, returns to the podcast to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about traveling the world to investigate animal crimes, wily burglar bears, birds annoying the Vatican, plant toxins, The Great Emu War, and the lack of distinction between cougars, pumas, panthers and mountain lions.

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Comedian Lisa Curry (@lisa_curry) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to talk about Balloon Boy (and his father and his band), royal memorabilia, Lisa's recent trip to Dubai, priest and pope selection, a star gulping down a black hole and exploding, the effects of hot dogs on life expectancy and a better way to produce ammonia.

Comedian and fellow desert-dweller Caitlin Gill (@robotcaitlin) joins Matt, Jesse and Andy to discuss Mt. Etna growing 100 feet, 9,000 Covid cases from Euro 2020 games and ants using soil physics to excavate tunnels that last decades.

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Jesse returns to the show to help welcome David B. Lyons (@david_b_lyons), a podcaster and film location manager who not only co-created Yacht Rock but also has the inside scoop on Norbit and why Eddie Murphy loves fat suits. David and the gang also discuss three volcanoes erupting simultaneously, curbing methane emissions, wandering mammoths, a T. Rex selling at auction, the crazy story behind the Twilight Zone movie and Matt's show Memory Hole on Roku.

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Comedian Nato Green (@natogreen) joins Andy and Matt to talk about his work as a labor organizer, his appearance in Sorry To Bother You, bird-eating centipedes, ancient trigonometry, cranking it to prevent prostate cancer and whales benefitting from covid.

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Comedian and writer Brian Kiley (@kileynoodles) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Andy's new injury, a very reasonable argument for getting vaccinated if you were on the fence about it, Australian cockatoos teaching each other to dumpster dive, a dancing cockatoo, how to bank your voice for others to use, Alex Trebek on Conan, a Russian module mishap on the ISS, Andy's obsession with Olympic swimming and the greatness of Caeleb Dressel, petrified wood and a sponge fossil that's almost a billion years old.

Comedian Sean Devlin joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new album Airports, Animals, magic eye posters and Brian May stereoscopy, failed flower making floral fractals, converting brain waves to speech, and dogs ignoring liars and helping out in courtrooms.

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