Hey Human Podcast

E225 Astrophysicist human, Dr. Erin Macdonald, refers to herself as a “tattooed Scottish-American Slytherin N7 Rebel from Starfleet Academy.” She’s an educator (find her on Twitch and YouTube — “Dr. Erin Explains the Universe”), voice actor, and she hosts a Star Trek Sunday Brunch where she discusses the show with someone who’s watching it for […]

E224 Human Mark Islam is an associate producer for The Amazing Race and he’s one of my most favorite people on the planet. He’s a performing-songwriter who has hosted many songwriter events with his famous friends (and their famous friends) to raise tens of thousands of dollars for charity. He’s everybody’s favorite plus one and […]

E223 David Greenberger has been listening to elderly and disabled people tell their stories, share their thoughts, and dream their dreams, his whole life. Sometimes the word-bursts came in non sequitur, sometimes as a memory so vivid, it was like David had stepped back in time and experienced it first-hand with its storyteller. He knew […]

E222 Anonymous Police Officer human is a retired SWAT negotiator, law enforcement deputy, and police training director. He gives his perspective on police brutality, police unions, BLM, protests, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, No-knock warrants and he also touched on his experience as a hostage negotiator.  For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com

E221 Muslim American, playwright, actor human, Amir Abdullah chats about his experiences with racism and Islamophobia, Shakespeare and the theatre, his tight knit family, activism, and the places he finds solace and understanding about himself and the world at large. No stranger to television, film and stage, some of Amir’s credits include, Empire and Chicago […]

E220 Hypnotherapist and past-life regression therapist human Lisa Machenberg is an instructor at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California, where she teaches medical hypnosis, crisis intervention, hypnotic regression, defense mechanisms, and ethics & law. Her hypnotherapy practice includes, fertility, pain management, fears and phobia elimination and habit control. You may have seen Lisa on […]

E219 Mike Disa is an animator, writer and director and has animated some of the biggest Disney movies on the planet, including Tarzan, Mulan, Hercules, and Pocahontas. He was raised in a violent neighborhood in Chicago and by the time he made it to adulthood (a feat in itself) he’d already been “a thief, a […]

E218 Gary Dontzig is a multi-Emmy-winning television writer and producer (Murphy Brown), a screenwriter and actor, a vegan and a cancer survivor human. He’s written and produced for many hit shows, including Suddenly Susan, Becker, Hannah Montana and A Different World. His acting resume lists Laverne & Shirley, Logan’s Run, Chico and the Man, and […]

E217 Historian, songwriter and artist human, Elizabeth Elkins is keenly aware each step she takes is rooted in histories known and unknown and is determined to dig deep and expose what she can through written word and song. Her book, Hidden History of Music Row (co-authored with Vanessa Olivarez and Brian Allison) comes out on […]

E216 Bosnian refugee human, Enes Cerić, was born and raised in Jajce, Bosina, to a Muslim family. While he was in college, the unimaginable happened. The Bosnian war (Apr 6, 1992 – Dec 14, 1995) atrocities and genocide have been well-documented and to this day, thousands of people are still missing. Neighbors turned to enemies, […]