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#839 - Across The Pond (Reece Williamson)

Reece is back again almost a full year later some changes have occurred not just with the pandemic but also a haircut or two. Working on a new channel with him and two other past guests decided to rebrand their old show and create the same style of improv in a different form. Improv and conversation kind of go hand and hand and even though I'm vague in this episodes details its only because with conversation its just a good time.

#838 - Recreational Power (Jay Sloan)

Jay is back again and from his first episode where we talked all sorts of thing from dreams to aliens we had to go back and speculate more. What are dreams what is reality and why are we trying to discover other dimensions and is this really life or does it go farther and this is just training wheels. So many thoughts and recorded so early but half the fun is being caught off guard with interdimensional creation talk.

#837 - Fifty Shades Of Blue (Stuart Blues)

The sequel to the prequel and it's the same conversation you can only get when you are on the same frequency. Stuart joins me again to create the conversational flow that leaves you wondering did that just go on for two hours. One of the conversations where you might not remember all of it but you know it made you feel some type of way.

#836 - Carly Anne York (Biology Professor & Science Communicator)

Carly is a biology professor who studies animal behavior and physiology particularly fascinated with the squid she works to try and educated making some complicated science processes easier to understand and fun to overall create a enjoyable experience with science. We talk about the level of how we understand intelligence is in comparison to our own which might be flawed, speaking in a language is one thing but being able to but fitting through a hole a quarter your size might be another form. Carly also runs her own animal sanctuary truly absorbing everything she loves about her work and passion to help understand and teach more about animals and their never ending astounding abilities.

#835 - Over By The Lab Coats (Kelly Diffie)

This is the part where a disclaimer should be that were not scientists but I think we can find a lab coat at a 20 hour pharmacy and play the part. Kelly is back again and here to chat it up from rants to thoughts its got everything you need all for a modest price of your time.

#834 - Pondering Pandemia (Edward Champion)

The direction of content is one of unpredictable proportions whether you are creating a vine to a tik tok or even a radio show to a podcast the amount of creativity and the outlets to do so is endless. Ed joins me again after almost a year to catch up and even get into some political stuff with all the back and forth of the news like a beach ball at a nickelback concert.

#833 - Kristyn J. Miller (Medieval Germanic Myths & Old English Epics)

Kristyn is a fiction author, essayist, and blogger with a passion for the intersection of language, cultural history, and literature. With interests that extend from the Iron Age Europe through the 19th century. She blog's about everything from oral traditions to romantic poetry, but also specializes in Middle High German, Icelandic, and Old English epics. From looking at these texts through the lens of cultural and linguistic history: how they came to be popular, how the language was used, and what they can tell us today. Graduated magna cum laude from University of Redlands with a degree in literature, with an emphasis on medieval Germanic epics. Her critical essay “Swords, Serpents, and Symbolic Imagery: Examining the Sigemund Passage in Beowulf” received departmental honors. Currently pursuing her master’s in history and archival studies at Claremont Graduate University, with an emphasis on museum studies and the cultural history of medieval Germanic Europe.

#832 - Repeated Timeline (Mark Selleck)

Mark joins me again for another episode where we still talk history of ancient Greece but really focus in on the fact of history is doomed to repeat itself and without proper change the same results. Even though I'm not a scientist through the many conversations and deciding to test a few friends with a social experiment of my own creation and getting Mark's thoughts on the work in progress.

#831 - Embedded Energy (Sierra Grana)

Sierra joins me again and not only a pandemic has happened but also various trips to Egypt and new life goals on the horizon. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is one of the hardest things and waiting for the right time and hoping it all comes together like its supposed too seems to go against chasing your dreams but might open a door of infinite opportunities.

#830 - Miranda Brown (Historian of Chinese food & Medicine)

Miranda is a Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her PhD in Chinese History from U.C. Berkeley in 2002 and has lived in the balmy mid-West ever since. She has published two books in early Chinese history, including (The Art of Medicine in Early China: the Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive). Later in life she discovered her true passion: Chinese food. In which she is currently working on a book that examines the history of dairy in China that might fascinate you.