PODCAST · comedy
Saving the World with Barry & Lucas
by Starburns Audio
Barry and Lucas want to make you feel better about the world, by smoking some weed and having a free-flowing conversation with interesting people who want to save us. It’s NPR on weed.
Episodes
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QUAR-ING TWENTIES PART 2 - Our Environment is Environ-MENTAL with Environmental Health Scientist Ed Avol
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…
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THE QUAR-ING TWENTIES Part 1 - The Power of Group Think, With Group Psychology Expert Don Forsyth
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...
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Talking About How Coffee Waste Can Power the World with Greg Barris, part 2
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...
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Talking About City Politics with Jessica Salans
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…
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Talking About Helping for the Holidays
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....
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Talking about predictions of the future Part 2 with Ayden Mayeri & Miller Davis
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...
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Talking about working for Beto O'Rourke with Keya Vakil
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...
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Talking about predictions of the future with Caitlin Stasey
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...
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Talking about the California wildfire relief effort with The Red Cross
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 you can prepare for disaster, and first-hand stories...
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Talking About Preventing Male Suicide with Kyle Stanger
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 Against Living Miserably), an award-winning charity...
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Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 3 with Harley Rouda
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 believes in housing discrimination againsts LGBTQI+ people,...
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Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 2 with Sean Casten
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 the Affordable Care Act, stop climate change, and…
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Talking To Candidates Running to Flip Districts, Part 1 with Katie Hill
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 Emily's List. We'll talk about how she grew up as a...
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Talking About the Indigenous Fight for Climate Justice with Eriel Deranger
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 for living sustainably with the land, how colonial...
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Talking About Broadway Saving The World with Hamilton's Rory O'Malley
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 called Belt The Vote. We'll talk about marriage equality,...
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Talking About Abortions and more with Kirby Howell-Baptiste
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 healthcare. We talk about weekly abortion protests, the...
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Talking About how Coffee Waste can Power the World with Greg Barris
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 times over, why we should all be using our waste as...
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Talking About The Lighter Side Of Depression And Suicide with Dave Ross and Hampton Young
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 genius or the best and if comedians need to be depressed…
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Talking About Leaving Your Faith with Samm and Katherine Hodges
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 leaving their faith. They also discuss the necessity...
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32: Talking About Being Ethnically Ambiguous with Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes
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, surprising facts about Syria, and when everyone became cool....
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31: Talking about fighting voter fraud with Melissa Schwartz
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, block-chain technology, direct democracy, and Lucas and...
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30: Talking about selfish help with Wendi Rice and Megan Starling
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-hitting RELEVANT topics. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
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29: Talking About Protecting Sex Workers with Tilly Lawless
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 and decriminalization, why a job doesn't have to be...
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28: Talking About Zero Waste with Tippi Thole
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 waste, and literally convinces Barry & Lucas to buy...
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27: Talking about mapping the brain and free will (with Dr. Heather Berlin)
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 Allstars with Neil Degrasse — she also does not…
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26: Talking About Progressive Orthodox Jews with Elad Nehorai
Elad is a writer, community builder, and activist, who also became Hassidic at the age of 23. He is writer for Forward with his colum Pop Chassid, as well as an activist for the organization Torah Trumps Hate. We'll talk about the challenges of being progressive in an insular and traditionally...
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25: Talking About Teaching Theater to Kids in Prison with Meade Palidofsky (Lucas' Mom)
It's our 25th episode everversary! Meade Palidofsky is a director, lyricist, and award-winning playwright and is the founder and artistic director of Storycatcher's theater, a nonprofit organization that teaches theater arts to incarcerated and post-release youth as part of their therapy and...
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24: Talking About Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights with Aisling Bea
Aisling Bea is a world renowned comedian, acitivist, writer, and Irish person. She is a vocal advocate for women's reproductive rights who faught successfuly to repeal the anti-choice 8th Amendment. We examine the political history of Ireland in regards to women's rights, religion, the…
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23: Talking About Living Your Best Life with author and speaker Clemantine Wamariya
This week’s episode is a must listen! Barry and Lucas have a profoundly moving, insightful and funny conversation with Clemantine Wamariya. She’s an author, a speaker, and a human rights ambassador who worked with the Obama administration, and we talk with her about her new book, “The Girl Who...
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22: Talking about being a former Bachelor who runs a for-profit fundraiser for charity (with Ben Higgins)
You definitely know Ben Higgins as a former Bachelor from the show THE BACHELOR, but what you might not know is that he co-founded a charitable for-profit coffee brand called Generous Coffee. We talk to him about how you can manage doing-good with turning a profit, how his coffee is better than...
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21: Talking Bout Asking Tough Questions with Barry and Lucas
This week we have a very special episode of Saving the World with JUST Barry and Lucas! They will grill each other on all the big questions like: do sports serve a purpose or is it just an awesome Orwellian Distraction? Does Net Neutrality matter? Is a de-nuclearized North Korea worth a second…
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20: Talking About the Benefits of Psychedelics with Shane Mauss
In addition to being a comic, Shane Mauss is an ambassador for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and an avid user of DMT, psilocybin, and even MDA. We talk about what MDA is, how we're currently in our second psychedelic revolution, why everyone should consider taking…
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19: Talking About Stopping Killer Robots with Mary Wareham
Yes, you read that correctly. Mary Wareham, a co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, leads the Human Rights Watch’s advocacy against particularly problematic weapons, and her current campaign is to STOP KILLER ROBOTS. We talk about all types of weapons, AI, blinding lasers, roombas, friendly…
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18: Talking About Everything with Johnny Pemberton and Greg Barris
Johnny Pemberton and Greg Barris are two of the smartest and funniest people on earth, which is why we had them on to talk about everything, ranging from facial recognition to the hegelian dialectic thinking to breaking a hardshell taco around a boner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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17: Talking About Hilarity for an Alzheimer’s Charity with Lauren Miller Rogen
Lauren Miller Rogen joins us to talk about her crusade to stop Alzheimer’s and help those living with the disease, her family’s battle with Alzheimers, her organization “Hilarity for Charity,” which she runs with her husband Seth Rogen (now a special on Netflix), and why it’s important to poo on...
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16: Talking About Jet Skiing for Goats with Kurt Braunohler
In this episode, the hilarious actorvist and comedian Kurt Braunohler joins us to talk about electrocuting Asian carp, fake river guides and how he jet skied down the Mississippi River to donate goats and chickens to needy families. And we learn how chickens have sex! (By scissoring!) See...
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15: Talkin Bout Serial Killers and Homeless Youth w/ Henry Zebrowski
Henry Zebrowski, host of Last Podcast on the Left, co-creator of Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell on Adult Swim, Sea Otter in Wolf of Wall Street, and Barry’s close friend, joins us for a wild conversation about serial killers, magical masturbation rituals and his work with My Friend’s Place, an...
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Talking about tough love and saving kids (with Roast Battle creators Brian Moses and Coach Tea)
Brian Moses is a hilarious comic and Coach Tea is a hilarious DJ who also helps rehabilitate juveniles on probation, together they are the creators of the cult sensation “Roast Battle” which has become its own Comedy Central series. We’ll talk about the power of roasting, the limits of speech…
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Talking about voting laws with Lucas’ Dad (Alan Neff)
Alan Neff is so much more than Lucas’ father, he’s also an attorney, voting rights activist, writer and teacher. We will talk to him about gerrymandering, Michael Cohen, whether or not Lucas is his favorite son and the definition of a Dad joke. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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Talking about Flulanthropy (with Flula Borg)
The German sensation, Flula, has been seen in Pitch Perfect, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and all over Youtube and now he joins us to explain "Flulanthropy", the future of social media, and why showing your pee pee is better than being barefoot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn...
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Talking about stopping Fracking in LA (with Seven McDonald and Andrew Dove)
Did you know there was a ton of new oil fields being built in Culver City, and that fracking is a problem in Los Angeles? We didn't either! Until we had a great conversation with Seven and Andrew who are both working to STOP FRACKING. We'll also talk about how NYC banned fracking, how to rebrand...
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Talking about listening to women talk about women
Lucas Neff welcomes guest host Keilla Roldan and guests Katrina Eroen, Laura Donney, to talk about why it's "Her Time Now", the true amount of global sadness, women fighting back, Stalin and Keilla sings jingles for that sweet corporate moolah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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Talkin Bout Arty Art Stuff (with Kai Daniels)
We talk to Kai Daniels, a local Los Angeles art preparator and curator about: the importance of vulnerability, how to fix art, what makes art art and what would happen if you met a dragon in real life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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Talking about Goddamn Bees (with a real Bee Keeper)
Bees are more incredible than you know, and we welcome Eli Lichter Marck, a real bee keeper, to e explain everything about bees from: how they have sex, to how they puke honey, to how they dance, to why they’re feminist and woke. And we ask your listener questions. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
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Talking About How to Run for Office (with Jessica Salans)
Jessica one day decided she was going to run for city council in Los Angeles. Then she did. And got 14% of the vote. We’ll find out how, why and also discuss her new venture Ground Game LA as well as exploring whether you’d rather have no nose or no front tooth. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
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Talkin About Transcendental Infant Decimal Meditation (with Johnny Pemberton)
Johnny Pemberton is an absolute comedic genius, hosting the Live to Tape podcast, starring in the FOX show Son of Zorn and NBC's Superstore, and also a genius genius. We'll get high and talk to him about how TM changed his life and could change the world, peak oil and pitching a show to the...
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Breaking Into Comedy Writing and Selling Bikinis for Charity (with Scotty Landes)
Scotty Landes is a writer of comedy and horror who has a new movie with Blumhouse, has written for Workaholics and also sells "Mudflap" bikinis to benefit the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. He has a great cause, a voice like leather and stories about cold sending postcards to producers to break…
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Talking About Dogs Finding Homes (with Katie Levine)
Barry and Lucas welcome Katie Levine. She’s the head of podcast production at Nerdist but, more importantly, she works with the Best Friends Society of Los Angeles and NKLA to make sure dogs from high kill shelters end up in great homes. We’ll talk about animals, farts, cuteness, laws to end…
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Saving Adorable Tiny Monkeys (with Kyle Salazar)
Barry and Lucas get high with documentarian Kyle Salazar (The Vervet Forest), who brings his own homegrown strain of weed with him! They talk about Kyle’s volunteer work with the Vervet Monkey Foundation in South Africa and his documentary, Barry’s childhood lion obsession, giving candy to German...
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Talking About Old People Making Films (with Nora Kirkpatrick)
Barry and Lucas get high & save the world with actress and musician Nora Kirkpatrick (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Virtually Mike and Nora on Hulu)! They talk about her work teaching filmmaking to incarcerated youth, the MPTF retirement community, compassionate moms, undercover cops,...
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Barry and Lucas want to make you feel better about the world, by smoking some weed and having a free-flowing conversation with interesting people who want to save us. It’s NPR on weed.
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