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Writer/comedians TJ Chambers (@tjchambersLA) and Jordan Morris (@Jordan_Morris) return to the podcast to wrap up the decade that was the 2010s, covering things along the way including penis fish, the cat that says "well, hi!", the biggest scientific happenings of the decade, Karen Gillan's box office dominance, the book Orange World and the podcast Bubble.

Author of books, graphic novels and comics including DC's Batgirl Cecil Castellucci (@misscecil) joins Matt, Andy and her neuroscientist father Vincent to talk about her new graphic novel memoir Girl on Film, which intertwines the story of her life in the arts and schooling at Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts with sidebars on the neuroscience of memory and a look at Vincent's life's work in that field.

Comedian Louis Katz (@louiskatz) of the podcast Road Heads joins Andy and Matt to discuss robot deliveries, semen shocks (and overly detailed pictures), honking dinosaurs, the Jurassic Park melodica cover, plants making noises, Mort Garson's music for plants, Brazil's museum that burned down, browncardigan.com, a robot space hotel and who's in space right now.

Comedian and game show-hosting veteran Bil Dwyer (@BilDwyer) returns to the podcast 7 1/2 years after his last appearance to talk about Dirty Rotten Cheater, more reasons to hate paper straws, the greatest prank call ever, BLEVEs, frozen dogs, shrinking birds, tattooed mummies, audiophile coral reefs and a possible fifth force of nature.

Matthew D. LaPlante (@mdlaplante), author of the new book Superlative: The Biology of Extremes, joins Matt and Andy to talk about all creatures great and small (and fast and slow and strong and old and deadly...) and look at the many surprising things to be learned from nature's outliers.

Comedian/writer/podcaster Chris Mancini (@chrisjmancini) of Comedy Film Nerds joins Andy and Matt to talk about the good Kickstarter for his graphic novel Rise of the Kung Fu Dragon Master (and a less-good one for this dumb wine thing), what the deal with Pez is, toilet stickiness, Ohio religion laws, L’Hopital’s rule, supernova blobs, pigeon bones, antibiotics resistance and why you may not have to finish taking all of yours, pig organs, tonight's northern lights, Andy's Guilty Treasure show tomorrow, suspended animation and Michael Moschen’s Labyrinth juggling. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

Comedian Noah Gardenswartz (@noahgcomedy) of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel joins Andy and Matt to discuss left-handed women’s smell, cannibal ants, cg mustaches, an ebola vaccine, anti-vax Facebook ads, mouse deer and Mars air. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably

Comedian and host of the radio show/podcast You're the Expert Chris Duffy (@youretheexpert) joins Matt and Andy to talk about rats driving cars, why measles is bad, the book Antisocial, fake news in Argentina, beavers on the moon, eagles racking up roaming charges, a thermal camera that spotted cancer, Google's quantum supremacy and the guy who coined the term, brewing beer in your stomach and why breathalyzers aren't to be trusted.

Artificial intelligence researcher and UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Dr. Stuart Russell joins Andy to talk about his new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, which explores the concept of intelligence in humans and machines, what the benefits and drawbacks of creating superhuman intelligence are, and what AI researchers can do now to help usher in a future that's more utopian than dystopian.

Comedian-turned-writer Daniel Dominguez joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new animated Netflix series Seis Manos, Nobel Prize announcements in physics, medicine and chemistry, Ursula K. Le Guin, people with Goodenough names and implanting false memories in birds. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably