Episodes

  • QUAR-ING TWENTIES PART 2 - Our Environment is Environ-MENTAL with Environmental Health Scientist Ed Avol

    QUAR-ING TWENTIES PART 2 - Our Environment is Environ-MENTAL with Environmental Health Scientist Ed Avol
    Mar 25 2020
    Barry and Lucas continue their Quar-ing Twenties series with another really smart and hopeful guest. Ed Avol is a Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, with expertise in exposure assessment and acute/chronic respiratory and cardiovascular effects of airborne pollutants in populations at risk. He was also part of BARACK OBAMA’S Clean Air Act commission. Remember Obama? He was one of the people who helped rid LA of it’s smog problem in the 90s and has a lot to say about the many ways our environment affects our health, good ozone vs. bad ozone, how farts might be killing us and why this pandemic could lead to action in climate change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • THE QUAR-ING TWENTIES Part 1 - The Power of Group Think, With Group Psychology Expert Don Forsyth

    THE QUAR-ING TWENTIES Part 1 - The Power of Group Think, With Group Psychology Expert Don Forsyth
    Mar 20 2020
    WE’RE BACK! AND THE SAME AS EVER! For part 1 of this special on-going “Quar-ing Twenties” Barry and Lucas talk to Don Forsyth, a professor in the Leadership School at the University of Richmond and a social and personality psychologist who studies groups, leadership, ethical thought, and moral judgment. We get into how group psychology could be an interesting way this quarantine can bring up together, the idea of relative morality, the nature of “group buffoons”,  the movie version of the novel version of the novel Corona-virus, and why Barry is a narcissist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Talking About How Coffee Waste Can Power the World with Greg Barris, part 2

    Talking About How Coffee Waste Can Power the World with Greg Barris, part 2
    Jan 23 2019
    Everyone's favorite guest Greg Barris is back to update us on his mission to use coffee to power the world. We surprise Lucas' dad to ask for some unexpected legal advice, formulte a mission for 2019, and Greg makes fun of us for being richie Ritzy boyz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • Talking About City Politics with Jessica Salans

    Talking About City Politics with Jessica Salans
    Jan 16 2019
    Jessica Salans is one of the founders of Ground Game LA, an organization that grew out of her 2017 campaign for LA city council. She is now a field manager for the city councilman in the 11th district of Los Angeles. We'll talk about homelessness, what constituents really look like, and whether or not to watch Welcome to Marwen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Talking About Helping for the Holidays

    Talking About Helping for the Holidays
    Dec 19 2018
    Barry and Lucas talk about ways to help for the holidays, and also finally get to know each other better. We find out how to donate toys to kids, the most scared Lucas has ever been, and why Barry poops standing up. Happy holidays everybody! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Talking about predictions of the future Part 2 with Ayden Mayeri & Miller Davis

    Talking about predictions of the future Part 2 with Ayden Mayeri & Miller Davis
    Dec 12 2018
    Newlyweds Ayden Mayeri (Homecoming, New Girl) & Miller Davis (head writer of Gorburger) are Lucas and Barry's good friends. We talk about self-driving cars, whether or not there will be a WWIII, and if Miller would want to be a dog-sized spider robot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Talking about working for Beto O'Rourke with Keya Vakil

    Talking about working for Beto O'Rourke with Keya Vakil
    Dec 7 2018
    This week we're joined by Keya Vakil, who spent 3.5 months in Houston working as a field organizer on the Beto O'Rourke campaign. We talk about what it really means to drop everything and go work on a campaign, conceptions and misconceptions of Texas, whether or not Beto will run in 2020, and how to calculate the diameter of a hat with a four foot circumference. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Talking about predictions of the future with Caitlin Stasey

    Talking about predictions of the future with Caitlin Stasey
    Nov 29 2018
    Caitlin Stasey, notable Australian actor (Please Like Me) and founder of the feminist website herself.com joins us to go over some expert predictions of the future that we found online. We talk about everything from prosthetic brains and japanese toilet innovation to how to kill a cow with your bare hands. It's our funniest and most enjoyable one yet! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 28 mins