Season 3 Episode 9: Jonathan Davis of Korn and Mary Roach
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis delves into his past as a mortician with popular science bestselling author, Mary Roach. Mary wrote the hit book “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” and the two have no shortage of gory details to discuss. We talk about the biology of human corpse decomposition and preservation, embalming techniques (including but not limited to anal suturing), Elvis’s autopsy and more!
Season 3 Episode 8: Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and Guido van Rossum
Rock icon Rivers Cuomo goes deep on coding talk with Python computer language creator and programming icon, Guido Van Rossum. We talk about the history of The Sweater Song, coding vs songwriting, the history of Python and much, much more!
Season 3 Episode 7: Alec Benjamin and Author of Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anne Lembke
Singer/Songwriter Alec Benjamin talks about his song about social media addiction with Stanford Professor and MD, Dr. Anna Lembke, author of The NY Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation.
Season 3 Episode 6: Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock and Paul Stamets
Listen to this fungi fantastic episode about psilocybin research! Mycologist Paul Stamets, and Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock discuss mushroom properties that can stave off dementia, decrease social ills and hear about Isaac’s experience with UFOs.
Season 3 Episode 5: Margo Price and Dr. Monica Mclemore
Country singer Margo Price talks about "Fight To Make It" a song on which she teamed up with Mavis Staples and Noise For Now to raise awareness and support for reproductive justice. Dr. Monica Mclemore, nurse-scientist and reproductive healthcare advocate joins us to tell us about the often surprising statistics uncovered by reproductive healthcare research.
Season 3 Episode 4: Nick Kroll and Dr. Emily Breidbart
Actor/Comedian Nick Kroll talks about his hit show on Netflix Big Mouth and about his personal experience with delayed puberty with NYU Langone Pediatric Endocrinologist Dr. Emily Breidbart. We talk about puberty disorders, how to treat them, transgender medicine, endocrinology, comedy, and more!
Season 3 Episode 3: mxmtoon and Dr. Cassandra Quave
Singer/songwriter and apartment plant enthusiast mxmtoon talks about the loss and sense of place that inspired her song "Florida" with ethnobotanist, Dr Cassandra Quave. Dr. Quave is the author of "The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest For Nature's Next Best Medicines". We cover plant identification, traditional medicine and how to talk to your plants.
Season 3 Episode 2: Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant
Arlo Guthrie talks about the lyrics to the 1967 anti-war masterpiece, “Alice’s Restaurant” - we talk at length about the 1960s and being Woody Guthrie’s son. Tufts University Nutritional Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Messer talks about her awakening as a scholar-activist in the 1960s and the foundations of her term “food wars” which describes the relationship between food scarcity and armed conflict.
Season 3 Episode 1: Jeff Tweedy: Less Than You Think
Jeff Tweedy talks about the lyrics to "Less Than You Think" from Wilco's 2004 Grammy Winning Album, "A Ghost is Born" with Cornell University computational psychologist, Dr. Shimon Edelman
Live Bonus Episode: Kilo Kish: New Tricks
Recorded live at 2022 On Air Fest in Brooklyn, NY on February 26th. Rapper and visual artist Kilo Kish and NYU neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki talk brain plasticity, memory formation and more!
Season 2 Episode 10: Pat Metheny: Bright Sized Life
What Neuroimaging Can Tell us About Improvisation in Music. Jazz Guitar Legend Pat Metheny and neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Limb talk language and music connection, freestyle rap brain scans and more! AIRS 3/16/22
Season 2 Episode 9: Davóne Tines: The Black Clown
Unmasking Systematic Voter Suppression with Science. Join opera phenom Davóne Tines and data scientist/civil rights activist Todd Hendricks for a discussion about fighting gerrymandering in the courts with math and science. AIRS 3/9/22
Season 2 Episode 8: Ruth B: Spaceship
Spaceship: Aerospace Engineering and Life on Mars
Ethiopian-Canadian pop star Ruth B and NASA engineer Christina Hernandez talk rocket science, space travel and life on Mars.
Season 2 Episode 7: Portugal. The Man: Feel It Still
Building a Data Revolution in Indian Country. PTM’s John Gourley and Zach Carothers and data scientist, Dr. Desi Small-Rodriguez discuss indigenous data sovereignty, the missing and murdered indigenous women project and our collective path forward. AIRS 2/23/22
Season 2 Episode 6: Duran Duran: Save a Prayer
The God Particle According to Modern Physics. Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and Particle Physicist Brian Cox discuss time travel, the intersection of politics and science and more! AIRS 2/16/22
Season 2 Episode 5: Majid Jordan: Waves of Blue
Canadian R&B duo Majid Jordan speak with aquanaut Fabien Cousteau (grandson of Jacques Cousteau) about the construction of his monolithic underwater space station, Proteus and marine conservation. Airs 2/9/22
Season 2 Episode 4: Blondie: Rapture
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, co-founders of Blondie speak with renown climatologist, Dr. Michael E. Mann about ancient climate history, preventing climate armageddon, climate and agriculture and more! Airs 2/2/22
Season 2 Episode 3: José González: El Invento
Critically acclaimed Swedish Argentine singer, José González speaks with leading US epidemiologist, Dr. Mike Osterholm about future pandemics, virus mutations and more! Fun fact: Jose has a background in biochemistry and was pursuing a phD in the study of viruses before he began making records. Airs 1/26/22
Season 2 Episode 2: Lamb of God: Checkmate
Lead singer of the multi-platinum selling heavy metal band, Lamb of God, Randy Blythe joins Georgia State Social Psychologist, Dr. Tony Lemieux for a conversation about identity politics, intergroup conflict in America, pathways to radicalization, mob psychology and more!
Season 2 Episode 1: SIA: Elastic Heart
Australian singer and pop icon, SIA joins us for a lively discussion with psychologist Dr. Alexandra Katehakis about attachment theory, infant brain development and sex addiction. Airs 1/12/22