131. Commusings: The Rona

Jeff has a field-tested method for embarrassing his daughters: impromptu pull-ups on subway scaffolding, a wake-up song called "School Days," and a rotating cast of accents that would make a dialect coach wince.In this episode, Jeff traces the accents — a southern drawl for Matth ...  Show more

Eighty-two percent of pregnant women who got a COVID vaccine early in pregnancy miscarried — that's the claim now ricocheting across the internet, revived by newly released Fauci text messages and repeated to millions on Joe Rogan's podcast. In this bonus episode, Jeff walks thro ...  Show more

This week we talk about the only thing there is to talk about right now — the Coronavirus crisis. We look back over the past few weeks to see how our thinking about the virus has changed, and we try and figure out how to get ourselves to emotionally care about things that are dis ...  Show more

This week in the Quar, Dr. Dave reminds us to make sure we don’t avoid seeing a doctor just out of fear of the virus. Plus Jerry O’Connell has had just about enough of this quarantine business. Plus more really gross “Would You Rathers” submitted by pint-sized listeners.See Priva ...  Show more

In which we discuss covid developments, euphoria characters, depression, and the feminine urge to be insane 

This week Connor and Dan dive head first into the very topical issue of refugees and totalitarian states. Though they get there through a real roundabout way via Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and his books Homo Sacer and State Of Exception. Spoiler alert: this sh ...