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

THE QUAR-ING TWENTIES Part 1 - The Power of Group Think, With Group Psychology Expert Don Forsyth

Mar 20th, 2020 1h 39m

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 stud

Talking About How Coffee Waste Can Power the World with Greg Barris, part 2

Jan 23rd, 2019 42m 33s

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 R

Talking About City Politics with Jessica Salans

Jan 16th, 2019 41m 16s

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 homelessne

Talking About Helping for the Holidays

Dec 19th, 2018 1h 3m

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!S

Talking about predictions of the future Part 2 with Ayden Mayeri & Miller Davis

Dec 12th, 2018 1h 36m

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

Talking about working for Beto O'Rourke with Keya Vakil

Dec 7th, 2018 1h 4m

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

Talking about predictions of the future with Caitlin Stasey

Nov 29th, 2018 1h 27m

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 japane

Talking about the California wildfire relief effort with The Red Cross

Nov 21st, 2018 1h 5m

In this very special episode, we've got Red Cross spokesperson Dan Halyburton, who is currently on the ground in California, handling the relief effort for the Paradise Camp Fire. We discuss what the Red Cross actually does for people, the ways

Talking About Preventing Male Suicide with Kyle Stanger

Nov 7th, 2018 1h 14m

Kyle Stanger is the founder of Boys Get Sad Too, a clothing line that raises awareness about the high male suicide rate in the UK, where currently 87 men end their lives every week. Kyle's clothing line donates proceeds to CALM (the Campaign Ag

Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 3 with Harley Rouda

Oct 31st, 2018 33m 33s

Harley Rouda is a successful business owner who is running in California's 48th district. He believes the pressing issues facing America today are climate change, infrastructure, and affordable healthcare. His opponant, Dana Rohrabacher believe

Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 2 with Sean Casten

Oct 24th, 2018 45m 52s

Sean Casten is running in Illinois's 6th district, which has been Republican since 1973. He is a molecular biologist, who for decades has run profitable, clean energy businesses, and in that time helped create 6,000 jobs. He wants to protect th

Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 1 with Katie Hill

Oct 17th, 2018 36m 37s

Katie Hill is running in California's 25th district, which has been republican for 40 of the last 50 years. Katie has been an advocate for homeless rights as the executive director of PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) and has worked with Emi

Talking About the Indigenous Fight for Climate Justice with Eriel Deranger

Oct 10th, 2018 1h 12m

Eriel Deranger is the executive director of Canada's only indigenous-led climate justice organization, called Indigenous Climate Action. She is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, and we talk with her about the indigenous model fo

Talking About Broadway Saving The World with Hamilton's Rory O'Malley

Oct 3rd, 2018 1h 13m

Rory O'Malley is a Tony Nominated actor, singer, and actorvist. He was in Book Of Mormon, the new Lifetime show American Princess, and on stage during the Mike Pence performance of Hamilton The Musical. He also started a voting initiative calle

Talking About Abortions and more with Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Sep 28th, 2018 1h 28m

In addition to being one of our best friends, one of our co-stars on Downward Dog, and a wonderful actress and comedian, Kirby Howell-Baptiste volunteers for an organization called LA For Choice, where she assists women in safely accessing heal

Talking About how Coffee Waste can Power the World with Greg Barris

Sep 20th, 2018 1h 3m

Greg Barris is a comic chameloen, street wizard, culture jammer, and innovative thinker when it comes to alternative sources of energy, among other things. We'll talk about how the amount of coffee waste we already have can power the world 2.5

Talking About The Lighter Side Of Depression And Suicide with Dave Ross and Hampton Young

Sep 12th, 2018 1h 15m

In this hot fourway with comics and hosts of Suicide Buddies, Dave Ross and Hampton Yount recount their experiences with depression and the ways they found transformation and connection. We also get into whether or not it's better to be a geniu

Talking About Leaving Your Faith with Samm and Katherine Hodges

Sep 5th, 2018 1h 35m

Katherine Hodges and her husband Samm Hodges (creator of the critically acclaimed ABC series Downward Dog, on which Lucas and Barry became the best of friends) come on to discuss growing up devoutly Christian, meeting each other, and eventually

32: Talking About Being Ethnically Ambiguous with Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes

Aug 29th, 2018 1h 16m

Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes are cohosts of the podcast Ethinically Ambiguous, which tackles being brown in America, and being Iranian and Syrian respectively. We talk about what it's like to grow up split between two cultures, surpris

31: Talking about fighting voter fraud with Melissa Schwartz

Aug 22nd, 2018 1h 13m

Melissa Schwartz is a software engineer who, in an effort to combat voter fraud, is developing an app that secures fair and transparent elections through an independant exit poll audit. We talk about election fraud, the future of elections, blo

30: Talking about selfish help with Wendi Rice and Megan Starling

Aug 15th, 2018 1h 19m

Wendi Rice and Megan Starling of the selfish help podcast JAMMERZ join Barry and Lucas for a topic jumping episode: humans holding each other accountable, the ability to make meaningful personal change, the Doe Fund, and a variety of hard-hitti

29: Talking About Protecting Sex Workers with Tilly Lawless

Aug 8th, 2018 1h

Tilly Lawless is a queer sex worker and feminist who has fought tirelessly to protect the rights of sex workers. You can find her writing online, watch her Ted Talk, or listen to this podcast. We talk about the difference between legaliaztion a

28: Talking About Zero Waste with Tippi Thole

Aug 1st, 2018 1h 23m

Tippi Thole is able to live a life where she has reduced her waste to less than one mason jar per week. She's an advocate for the zero waste movement, and she'll explain how the heck she does it, shares the unexpected benefits of being zero was

27: Talking about mapping the brain and free will (with Dr. Heather Berlin)

Jul 25th, 2018 1h 24m

Dr. Heather Berlin knows A LOT about the brain and a bunch of other stuff. She's a Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the ICAHN School of Medicine, she's the host of Superhuman Showdown on Discovery and Startalk A