Amateur herpetologist and accomplished snake hunter Rob Hoover joins us today. Hear interesting facts about ball pythons, the western hognose, triplets + 1, and living in South Carolina.

Hoover's Greatest Hits playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUciFSNyUE&list=PLzQ5fGXyvEl-aY7M2H0alZCkFsgKU5owo

Charlie Business! Hear what he's been up to, where he's going, and why he has an unusual collection of pink flamingo paraphernalia. Also featuring a spirited match of Intellectual Pursuit "Venus" edition.

Johnny is back! We talk about Kiss, making pasta with Nick, and play a terrific round of WWII trivia. 

Join us in a spirited conversation with Mr. Garden State himself, "This is Gary", where we discuss ISO standards, bridge loans, home improvements, and the grammatically correct way of communicating how many children you have.

We have a kid on our podcast today, Olivia Contreras! She is a senior at Berkeley High School, and is deciding where to go to college next year. We also play Intellectual Pursuit, our fast paced trivia game using an old Trivial Pursuit game from the 80s. Oh, and the artist's name that Olivia liked whose name she couldn't remember is Alice Phoebe Lou.

Jeremy Mulder is a gem! He's a brilliant story teller and a creative force. On the pod he talks about riding the subways of life, practicing the ubass in the middle of the night in SF with a baby strapped to himself, Burning Man shenanigans, and two recent projects: his book "Initial Imprint - A Collection of First Memories" and his brilliant narration of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1PhUHbtBsQ4IG42eMRimna?si=VAU9Jd9nTW-2ZZtewUGj3A.

Jeremy's first 1000 memories will be published soon. He continues to collect memories via his Jeremy-bot http://bit.ly/firstmemoryproject

The show also features personalized ring-tones by co-creator Tal Ariel.

This is our first Intellectuals Variety Show! A pu pu platter of entertainment with trivia, a Johnny Joke, shit we want to buy, and a discussion about future guests. Original music by Deacenuts. Leave us a voicemail and we may play it back in a future episode https://anchor.fm/khalua/message

Ricky Lee is universally beloved. We discuss his rag to riches story, from growing up in Queens, to reminiscing a shithole Wendy's on Queens Boulevard, to owing everything that is good in his life to Tony.