Beyond Face Value

 Matt Martinez is the owner and host of The Human Glue Project podcast. We talked about the importance of human connection, the loneliness epidemic in the United States, the role that social media plays in our day-to-day interactions and Matt's love for country music. 

Continuing our conversation with Ashley, we discussed race in America, the killing of George Floyd, and the aftermath. Then we closed off what it was like to be in a Fall Out Boy music video and getting to be on stage with her favorite band.

In this episode we talk to published writer and professor Ashley Jean Granillo about publishing a book in kindergarten, her Mexican roots and experiencing racism as a Latinx person in Southern California.

For our first episode we talked with Phil Gussin, a political science teacher, about his former life as a plumber, political discourse in America, climate change and people protesting COVID-19 shutdowns. We also get into his music taste and weird things he's seen on the internet in the past week.