Hey Human Podcast

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

E121 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, […]

E215 Clairvoyant, medium, paranormal investigator, actor and celebrity impersonator human, Richard-Lael Lillard, has been outside of the “norm” since he was a little boy. He saw and heard things other people couldn’t. He knew things, secret things, and as he grew up, he realized that his “weird” was actually a gift and with his gift […]

E214 Transgender woman, playwright and advocate human, Jesse Robkin, was one of Hey Human® podcast’s first ever guests in 2016. Since then she has graduated from college, written a play (Austin’s Home) and continued with her transition. She has big plans and finally feels like she’s in a grounded place. The future is bright. For […]

E213 Educator human, Tony Green, has been teaching Social Studies and African American Studies at California’s Bishop O’Dowd school for over three decades. He’s seen a lot of this country’s turmoil. Why are we fighting against a shared human history that dates back to our collective First Mother, Mitochondrial Eve? We discuss the past, the […]

E212 Sex, love and relationship coach human, Aleah Rose, helps women, men, and couples who want to awaken and explore their intimacy and sexuality. Known as The Sexy Mystic, she incorporates a wide range of practices from conscious communication and intimacy coaching to incorporating elements of Sacred Kink, Tantra, Sacred plant medicine, and Sex Magic. […]

E211 Food, wine, art and design writer human, Argot Murelius, travels the world experiencing and writing about the world’s culinary and visual arts. She is the Executive Director of 12Forward, and profiles innovators and chefs for White Paper, the magazine tied to White Guide (Scandinavia’s premier restaurant guide). The daughter of a diplomat, her childhood […]

E210 Retired research scientist human, Chauncey Bowers, spends his days crafting and performing brilliant, surreal songs and hilarious, insightful Facebook posts. He’s a layered enchilada of Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Hunter S. Thompson and that quirky science professor you had, who you thought may have secretly discovered a doorway to another dimension. In this episode, […]

E209 Human Dylan Scott has been to jail, a psych ward and rehab. He’s been on life support, in a black-out and on the edge of, well, all the edges. He had dreams that he derailed and now he has new dreams. He’s been sober for a while and he’s figuring things out. His story […]

E208 Matchmaker human, Sherrie Adams, knows a thing or two about modern love. She’s helped countless couples connect and find “happily ever after.” Sherrie offers tips and practices to help you on that first date, and talks about the ups and downs of dating in the modern world, as well as what the future holds […]

E207 Human Adrian Gomez is a skinhead. Maybe not the kind you’ve heard of (me neither). The original skinheads were from UK working-class outsider subculture, mixing mod fashion and black Jamaican music (and fashion) inspired by Jamaican “rude boys.” Adrian discovered the music that spoke to him when he was a young man. He, and […]

E206 Award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, producer and writer human John Penney also teaches directing at the Los Angeles Film School. He makes wine (along with a business partner) that is delicious. For those of you into the horror genre, you may recognize some of John’s films, including: Return of the Living Dead 3 and The Kindred, […]

E205 Human Donavan Freberg is a character. Technically, as an actor and voice over actor, he’s been many characters. Son of advertising genius (and satirist, v.o. actor, recording artist, puppeteer, comic) Stan Freberg and producer Donna Freberg, Donavan grew up under the free-spirited wing of Hollywood elite. As Donavan describes it; “childhood was a Wonka […]

E204 Satirical cartoonist human MADEbyJIMBOB‘s wildly popular and often trolled Instagram account, @madebyjimbob, covers topics like socialism, religion, cults, Trump, Obama, conspiracy, technocracy, science, dictators, activism and everything in between. We dig into his thought processes and beliefs and how he translates them into his art and commentary. This is JIMBOB’s second appearance on the […]

E203 Human Tony Kim‘s childhood had its traumas. He was in and out of foster care and had to find his way through a lot of bumps and falters. He served in the military (Navy) and broke a few rules. He’s done drugs, lived in his car, done stand up, built things and went from […]