At Least There's This

On this ep I'm joined by comedian, engineer, scientist, and recent plant mom, Pallavi Gunalan for a conversation about saving the world, and creating space for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

I got to talk with biologist and film maker Nate Dappen of Day's Edge Productions about Nature... which is kind of everything, so in a way we talked about everything. Find out more about Day's Edge here: http://www.daysedge.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This episode I get to talk to Flight Systems Engineer and all around amazing person, Tracy Drain. We talk about her love of space, her love of talking to people, and her love of talking to people about space. It all kind of comes together in the end. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

If you're interested in hearing more about what Chet does, see the links below: https://laughterleague.org/ https://marchforscience.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Katie Golden helps me kick of season 2.5 with a joy filled convo about horror, mental health, and bats! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Science! The Show is a live stream science and comedy show that brings cutting edge scientists and amazing comedians to make science more accessible. This episode features Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite, Big Mouth) and Dr. Jason Rhodes (NASA-JPL), and we talk about dark matter and dark energy. If you like it, search for Science! The Show where ever you get your podcasts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Alex is joined again by Jon Gabrus to talk- nominally- about the beach, but actually about everything else in the world right now. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

On this weeks episode Alex sits down with doctor, journalist, poet, disease detective, and so much more, Seema Yasmin, to talk about the power of Muslim Women --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week Alex sits down with film maker and explorer Trevor Wallace to talk about the rich tapestry of history we are all a part of, and dope horse lords with golden pants. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

On this episode science communicator Angela Manci shows us just how weird, wild, and wonderful the microscopic world around us is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Is struggle always such a bad thing? Do you gain anything by choosing how and what you struggle for? In my conversation with mental health and recovery advocate (and also my brother) we talk about how choosing what you struggle for helps you struggle better --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

What are the invisible forces shaping your life and culture and why do the smell so good? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This episode Alex is joined by the caramel voiced scientist, professor, and podcaster Shane Campbell-Staton to talk about how we all got here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week I sidle up next to Andrew Ti (Yo Is This Racist) to talk about poker, being analytic, and finding a safe way to practice aggression. It’s MANIAC DAY, BABY! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

I get to set down with ‘weed journalist’ Sean Cooley to talk about what’s good in your mouth when your high... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week on My Podcast Hero Ultimate, Alex must face his most challenging interviewee ever when Ify steps into the booth. Will Alex be able to to draw out that good, emotionally relevant but still funny shit from Ify without resorting to his ultimate technique? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

An episode in which Hana Michels extols to me the virtues of a TV show featuring the most disgusting main character of all time. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week I sit down with the wonderful Maggie Mae Fish to talk about the joy and hope inherent in terrible films. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Well hello stranger. Alex is joined by his long time comedy partner/ best bud to talk about the joys and pains in making new friends. Engineer Samee makes a repeat appearance in this one too. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Time Traveling stoner movies, romantic surfer bank heists, and the perfect actor for existential dread. Thrillest’s Andy Kryza and I talk about Keanu Reeves! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week I get to sit down with my producer and friend Samee to talk about a sport that’s apparently not just for frat bros. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

On this weeks episode Micheal Swaim and Abe Epperson of the Small Beans network join me to make some sweet sweet meaning all over the Coen Brothers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week Alex is joined by podcast legend Jack O’Brien (The Daily Zeitgeist, Cracked) to talk about podcasts. Just an hour of two grown men talking about podcasts on a podcast, time in no way bends in on itself. Their conversation never fractles out into an infinitely self replicating, mind bending podcast. It’s just good, wholesome fun. This I swear. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

In this episode Gabrus gives me two of the best metaphors for life I’ve heard in a long time (only one of which is puke based) and we talk about the big and little pleasures inherent in a day at the beach. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

The frequent podcast guest herself, Lil Zam, Jamie Loftus joins me to talk about some childrens books that made her feel like you didn’t need to be a wizard to be powerful. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Comedian, Member of The Cooties, and Host of the Podcast Bad Science, Ethan Edenburg comes on the podcast to talk about Bjork and being ‘totally in it’. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Alex and guest Soren Bowie (American Dad, Cracked’s After Hours), get really misty eyed on this one, folks. Listen in for a beautiful love story, some dope space facts, and a cosmic journey of epic proportions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Comedian and Streamer Jordan Pridgen introduces Alex to a whole world of RPG’s outside of the usual humdrum wizards and dragons, they discus the magic in descovering the ‘moment’ together, and they Invent dad quest, the best RPG about making your dad proud there ever was. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Please enjoy an episode wherein guest Diogo and co-host Katie want to talk about the wonderful weird world of wrestling while Alex tries to Woman-handle them into discussing a dead French philosopher. NOTE: I accidentally attributed a Roland Barthes quote to Bertrand Russell. To be fair to me they basically have the same damn name. To be unfair to me... I’m an idiot!!!?! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This episode Alex and author/ war corespondent/ host of the podcast Behind The Basterds, Robert Evans have a very mature discussion about the individual and cultural effects of certain substances. They by no means get reeeeeeeal FAR OUT, MAN! Nor do they get groovy in a cosmic sort of way, dig? They’re simply two mature adults talking about the nature and function of certain... things. So be chill, ok? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Alex is joined by artist and writer Randall Maynard to discuss the forced optimism of making art when you’ve been dealt a bad hand. Also the world might be falling apart outside of their recording booth. Will they live!!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

In a tragic barbershop quartet accident one man lost the ability to feel shame. That man went on to become best selling author, comedy writer, and music maker Daniel O’Brien. What happened next will shock you! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

In this episode I let Caitlin Durante, Co-host of The Bechdal Cast, take over and try to convert my audience to the church of Paddington. We also put a call out there for love. Let’s see if we can make this happen listeners. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Journalist Saundra Sorenson joins me in the booth for a little mindfulness meditation on the mind numbing horror of a prehistoric fish and other wonders brought to you by the BBC and Sir David Attenborough. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

A bunch of sweaty people slamming their bodies together and it's not an orgy?! Writer and podcaster David Bell comes on the podcast to talk about how moshing makes the world a better place. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

This week I'm joined by my podcast big- Comedian, Writer, and podcast host Amanda Salvatore- and we talk about podcasting like a bunch of recursive dorks. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

What can simultaneously strengthen your friendships while keep the chaos of existence at bay? According to comedy writer and prolific podcaster Tom Reimann, boardgames! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

The Hot Goss's Rebecca Edwards said she wanted to come on the podcast to talk about how wonderful siblings are, but she mostly just made fun of her family. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Is that sweat on your mat or are you bleeding? Writer, actor, and host of the podcast 'That's My Story, Period.' Steph Garcia, joins Alex to talk making time for yourself, motherhood, and moving meditation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Can throwing things at someone as hard as you can help you make friends? Yes if it's during a sanctioned dodgeball game. This week performer, member of the Story Pirates, and international dodgeball athlete Lindsey Ford joins me in the booth to convince me that reliving my childhood gym class trauma might actually be a good thing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

How can the silly, selfish, and un-self aware life of birds make us rethink the foibles of our own species? In this episode I'm joined by Katie Goldin, the mind behind @Birdsrightsactivits on twitter, for a humanizing conversation about birds. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Apparently the library is actually pretty cool. Who knew? Katie Willert of Cracked's 'After Hours' did, and she joins me this week to talk about it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Comedian Teresa Lee comes on the podcast to show Alex the world's been looking at supermodels all wrong... there's a joke in there somewhere. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Alex and guest Nicky Young (writer, editor, writers PA for the Gifted) get weird on this one, but you also might learn a thing or two about the everyday courage of just surviving, so there's something in this episode for everybody. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Comedian and Producer Bridgett Greenberg comes on the show to talk about space exploration, feeling small in a good way, and all the cool kids who made out at her Bat Mitzvah. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Nick Skardarasy- host of the We Rebel podcast- joins Alex to talk about Grass Roots Movements and how they're reshaping the political landscape. Heads up, if you like listening to two cis straight white men caveat everything they say for forty five minutes, this episode is for YOU!!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Alex and co-host/ show ruiner/ music nerd Matt Grosinger are joined in the booth by Alex Stein of the Alex Stein Podcast to talk about the courage behind The Beach Boy's album, Pet Sounds. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Writer, Podcaster, and Internet Person Michael Swaim ' lightens' the mood by talking to Alex about his favorite ball of gas up in space, the sun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Andy Erikson- Last Comic Standing, Scream Queens- brings a little magic to the booth and talks to Alex about Harry Potter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Actor and Comedian Katy Stoll jumps on mic to talk about badass women. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support

Comedy Writer Dan O'Keefe (Seinfeld, Silicon Valley, The League) joins Alex to talk about Elvis Costello and symbolically defanging your problems through music. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/atleastpod/support