Saving the World with Barry & Lucas

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31: Talking about fighting voter fraud with Melissa Schwartz Aug 22, 2018

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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 Barry nearly derail the podcast with a lengthy, awkward, and unprecedented heated exchange. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30: Talking about selfish help with Wendi Rice and Megan Starling Aug 15, 2018

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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 privacy information.

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29: Talking About Protecting Sex Workers with Tilly Lawless Aug 08, 2018

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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 empowering to warrent human rights, and why she would refuse to talk to an alien. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28: Talking About Zero Waste with Tippi Thole Aug 01, 2018

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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 bidets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27: Talking about mapping the brain and free will (with Dr. Heather Berlin) Jul 25, 2018

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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 believe in free will. We'll talk about how the brain determines things for people before they choose to, the future of brain understanding, parenting as a brain scientist and the debate between Linguine and Rigatoni. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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26: Talking About Progressive Orthodox Jews with Elad Nehorai Jul 19, 2018

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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 conservative community, why the Jewish community should be bottom up instead of top down, and why gefilte fish is better than Kasha. And, introducing our new segment Grace.Fully.Fed with Barry's wife, Chef Grace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25: Talking About Teaching Theater to Kids in Prison with Meade Palidofsky (Lucas' Mom) Jul 11, 2018

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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 rehabilitation and has done so for the past 30 years. She has been featured in This American Life. We talk about teaching police and judges empathy through theater, the direct power that storytelling has in healing trauma, and her total indifference and contempt to our points system. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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24: Talking About Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights with Aisling Bea Jul 04, 2018

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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 difficulties of being an Irish person abroad, why Irish people can't find their houses, and what the funniest number is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23: Talking About Living Your Best Life with author and speaker Clemantine Wamariya Jun 27, 2018

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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 Smiled Beads.” It’s an incredible book (AVAILABLE NOW) which deals with her experience with atrocity as a child in Rwanda and then her life after as a refugee in the United States. We talk about the importance of language, of why it’s always better to be “us” people, why we should all be living our best lives, and why Oprah and Ellen should have a tv show together with dancing! Also Lucas mispronounces Elie Wiesel’s name! What a dummy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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22: Talking about being a former Bachelor who runs a for-profit fundraiser for charity (with Ben Higgins) Jun 20, 2018

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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 Starbucks, the difficulties of dating after being the Bachelor and why Ben mostly agrees with Mary J. Blige. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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