Two Brad For You

Flash is joined by one of his oldest friends, Matt Easton, to have a wide ranging and entertaining chat about how we find truth on the internet, coronavirus, prion disease, aliens, gain of function research and more. 

Flash and Brad are back and Brad struggles to use relevant slang right off the top. Familiar territory is quickly reached as news from the Ebola situation is covered, along with a summary/explanation of the types corona tests that you've heard about and will be hearing about for the next year, followed by some personal thoughts on the opening up situation in the UK and Germany.

Friend of the show Jared Cuthbertson drops by to talk about researchers giving psychedelics to animals and he brought along his friend Owen Roche to join the discussion and share his experience taking part in an ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Owen gave us a thoughtful and open take on his reasons for taking part, the experience itself and how he found value in the trip (no pun intended).

We are back with the panel of regular guys and their musings on politics. We start provincial with an assessment of the Alberta government and move on up from there, touching on the Canadian response to COVID unemployment, universal basic income, the circus of American politics and how "alternative media" sources play a role in all the noise.

Thank you all for listening and for helping us get to 50!!! To mark the occasion we answered your questions both personal and scientific, which gave us a chance to look back on how and why we started the podcast and to peer into the future of both the show and the state of humans on this planet. 

Award winning Canadian documentary film maker Liz Marshall joins to discuss her new film Meat The Future. The film follows cellular based meat pioneer Uma Valeti and the creation of his company Memphis Meats. Go to meatthefuturefilm.com to learn more and follow the film on Facebook and Instagram @meathefuturefilm and on Twitter @MTFFilm.

Flash is joined by friend of the show Jared Cuthbertson to breakdown the hard science showing that SARS 2 most likely didn't come from a lab and the history and current state of injecting, not disinfectant no.... but young blood to prevent aging.

Both Brads are back for this one and we take a break from corona and get back to our usual format, random, cool science stories. Today we have wart cream that helps prevent mosquito disease, modelling traffic jams, new memory pathways in your brain, dog noses and miracle hangover drugs. 

Social distancing expert and friend of the show Coleman Wilkinson, aka. @lionelsteel, took some time to go over the basics of isolation. What it does to the human body and what we can do to overcome it. Two big takeaways if there's words, read them and steer into madness. 

Good friend of the show and self-described pessimist/worrier Josh Pollard joined for this episode and we talked corona, of course, but after some epidemiology chat at the start we delve into the economics and politics side of things. What does a post-corona world look like and what cracks in our systems are showing due to the pandemic? Enjoy! 

After a short more serious intro addressing the new developments that sees many of us facing unprecedented changes to society, we welcome back Jared and Robby on the West Coast aka. The Housecoat Boys. We talk about the wild week, how weird it is, debunk some BS cures, why the world is buying up TP and give our quarantine Netflix picks.

Recorded at the end of February, the lads discuss the latest corona news and what we might expect moving forward. Then a story about some controversy regarding a new malaria vaccine trial. They also touch on and disagree on the significance of the loss of Mad Mike Hughes and then get weird with two stories about quantum entanglement and new forms of matter.

Constance Finney is an infectious disease immunologist who studies how the body handles multiple types of infections at once. We chatted parasites, the immune system, what it is like to have a tapeworm, what it is like to be a woman in STEM and much more! Featuring music by The Freak Motif

To tackle conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus all the way to Q Anon and lizard people we're joined by good friends in Vancouver, Robby Scheurs aka. Rob Micheals, and resident weird Internet stuff guru, Jared Cuthbertson.

The first official TBFY on Canadian politics. A politics chat by everyday folks for everyday folks. We chat Alberta, the Federal Conservative leadership race, the ongoing protests and a bit on the US primary.

You probably saw this coming so here it is, Flash gives some background and his thoughts on the Coronavirus outbreak. Check out the show notes on the website for sources and great Twitter accounts to follow to stay up to date.

This episode I was joined by Lucy the founder of Blue Ceiling Dance in Toronto to discuss her science inspired dance shows and Matt who lectures in astrophysics and does science-art-music outreach. They spoke about the intersections of science and art, their motivations and their latest projects, specifically the Blue Ceiling show they collaborated on titled 8 minutes and 17 seconds. Follow them o...

New year, same Brads. Flash and Brad go over their favourite topics from last year and look ahead to 2020. With appearances by Ebola and other vaccine preventable diseases, climate change, gene-editing and head transplants.