Bear Minds

Join Jonah and Arjun, two Bay Area comedians, as they review the incredibly unpleasant experience of eating a 1/2 pound bag of “cheese” from a dollar store

Hey y’all. The NFL season has ended so Touchdowner is switching things up. Instead of talking about an NFL season that is over, we are going to be reviewing things. What kind of things? All kinds of things. Irreverent things, rnadom things, things that don’t quite make sense. This week we are reviewing being super nice to everyone for 24 hours!

Jonah and Arjun talk about the less than exciting conclusion of the 2018-2019 NFL season, as well as look to the future of the league and the podcast.

It’s the week before the Super Bowl and Jonah and Arjun are completely distracted. Listen as they talk about everything from football to rent control in a desperate attempt to stay on topic.

This week Jonah and Arjun return to the podcast. With only one game left in the season the two discuss the potential matchups and also Jonah shows how irritating Pats fans are

After a long break due to finals and me playing Jonah in fantasy Touchdowner is finally back. In this episode we discuss the playoff picture that is slowly coming into focus as well as contemplate on the Browns new and miraculous turnaround

Jeremy Hammer is the founder and CEO of BearX (formerly Bear Founders), an online portal into UC Berkeley’s community of innovators and entrepreneurs. In this podcast, YJ sits down with Jeremy to dig deeper into the unique journey through life that lead him to founding BearX. We talk about his high school hustle of flipping used Audi’s, trading playing cards, joining the Navy for 6 years and taking online classes on the side, to eventually getting into UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and starting his current venture, BearX. BearX started as one of many projects for Jeremy, and is currently a part of Skydeck Accelerator’s hotdesk program. What started as a project meant to scratch his own itch of not knowing about all the startups and projects in the ecosystem is quickly becoming UC Berkeley’s hub for startups, founders, and talented students to quickly connect and form relationships.

Niraj Naik is a qualified pharmacist who comes from a background of working long hours for several years as a community pharmacist.  Becoming a certified “legal drug dealer” at the ripe age of 24, he got to witness first-hand, many clients going home with shopping bags full of drugs each month, rarely getting better and usually going on to suffer from other diseases. He also learnt of the debilitating side effects of the prescription medication which drove many of the patients to have to take more and more drugs to ease the side effects.

Join comedians Arjun Banerjee and Jonah Pollack for another hilarious episode of Touchdowner, a comedy podcast about the NFL. This week we look at all the action from Week 10.

Back from their Halloween bye, Berkeley student and comedian Arjun Banerjee is joined by his cohost and comedian Jonah Pollack, as they bring you the second episode of Touchdowner. Touchdowner is a weekly comedy podcast centered around skewering the NFL’s decision makers and its players. It airs every Wednesday. This week we talk about all of the action from Week 9 of the NFL season as well as interview Former Cleveland Browns Head Coach “Hue Jackson”.

Berkeley student and comedian Arjun Banerjee is joined by his cohost and comedian Jonah Pollack, as they bring you the second episode of Touchdowner. Touchdowner is a weekly comedy podcast centered around skewering the NFL’s decision makers and its players. It airs every Wednesday. This week we talk about all of the action from Week 7 of the NFL season as well as interview Former Denver Broncos Quarterback “Chad Kelly”.

Epsiode Dump Alert! Berkeley student and comedian Arjun Banerjee is joined by his cohost and comedian Jonah Pollack, as they bring you the second episode of Touchdowner. Touchdowner is a weekly comedy podcast centered around skewering the NFL’s decision makers and its players. It airs every Wednesday. This week we talk about all of the action from Week 6 of the NFL season as well as interview Arizona Cardinals Offensive Coordinator “Mike McCoy”.

Berkeley student and comedian Arjun Banerjee is joined by his cohost and comedian Jonah Pollack, as they bring you the first episode of Touchdowner. Touchdowner is a weekly comedy podcast centered around skewering the NFL’s decision makers and its players. It airs every Wednesday. This week we talk about all of the action from Week 5 of the NFL season as well as interview “Cris Collinsworth”.

Christelle is a French engineer and co-founder of Hiven, a home-based coworking community which allows local professionals to work from a variety of conducive living rooms, revitalize the local economy, support local businesses, and build community. I sincerely cannot wait for the day I'm able to work from home from anywhere in the world on a whim through the magic of Hiven. This is truly the modern digital nomad's dream come true.

Ahmud is an Australian entrepreneur and cofounder of Humm, a new generation hybrid software toolkit for cognitive enhancement. He's worked in Australia's top finance firm as well as in racecar engineering before diving head first into the deep end of wearable tech innovation. Visit www.humm.tech to learn more about Humm, whether for career opportunities or just to try to get your hands on the new Edge device for esports gamers. https://www.humm.tech/esports

Mariel Goddu is a third year PhD student at UC Berkeley's Cognitive Science department. Her research is focused on developmental psychology - in other words, she studies how children think. In this episode, she sheds light on some of the latest developments in her research with causal reasoning abilities in toddlers, and then we get...just a little bit deeper. For more of Mariel's research, visit: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariel_Goddu

Seelam Reddy immigrated to the States from India at the age of 20, and has since worked for much of his career in the aerospace industry, most notably at Aerojet, Northrup, and Hughes/Boeing. He is now a State Assembly write in candidate for the June 2018 primary. In this episode, we’ll get a

Join us this week for a chat with UC Berkeley Professor and Economist Hilary Hoynes! We analyze the changing labor market, the break down of the cash welfare system, and...marriage? Lead writers on this episode include Ava Davis, Lina Craighill and Anna Zhao. Assistant writers include Alex Tellez, Alanna Zhang, Kaitlin Weinstein. Produced by Kaitlin Weinstein and Anna Zhao. Created, hosted, and edited by Lina Craighill.

We sit down with two UC Berkeley undergrad students of seemingly opposite political affiliations, to discuss topics surrounding feminism and how we participate in political discourse.

Professor Denero recently joined the UC Berkeley faculty after a stint as a senior researcher on the Google Translate team. John Denero has also become sort of a cult hero among the Computer Science students at UC Berkeley, regularly being featured on a popular Facebook group, UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens. We ask him how he feels about this in the podcast. In this podcast, we delve into many interesting facets of John Denero’s life ranging from his viewpoints on philosophy, the ethics of computer science, artificial intelligence’s impact on society, Google translate’s progress, CS61A and how great students prepare for the class, and much more. Enjoy!