131. Commusings: The Rona

When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The Kinn in Los Angeles, Jeff sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medici ...  Show more

The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.In this episode, Jeff plays a round of Frogger through stray shopping carts and bite-sized ballerinas to pick up Micah from rehearsal. Somewhere between the cur ...  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 ...