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Here We Are

Herpes and Comedy

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Raj Sivaraman is a comedian with a PHD in virology. He joins the show to talk about living in NYC right now, comedy, and virology. Join us as we reminisce about the old days when we were all worried about herpes. Nothing like a pandemic to make one reprioritize. Sorry herpes! We overreacted. Check out Raj's work here https://rajsivaraman.wordpress.com Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple !   Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare   All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show everybody.

0:05.0

I just started doing a fun project with my friend Jesslyn McGuire who's a professional filmmaker and wonderful comedic actress and great improviser and we just came up with this cool idea called

0:16.8

the quarantine couple a little web series it's on quarantine couple dot net it's also on the front page of Shane Moss

0:25.1

MAUS.com that's kind of like a South Park version of the world that we're in

0:31.3

where everything's we're in quarantine but everything's heightened and done in kind of a

0:36.4

cartoonish exaggerated, ridiculous way and it's shot in like a curbier enthusiasm style where we kind of

0:44.1

we have the things outlined and know where things are going to go and then the

0:48.6

rest of it is improvised and then we just edit from there and it's a really cool fun project if you want

0:54.8

something for me that's a little goofier and we're still going to try to put some

0:58.4

kind of bigger ideas in there and have some conversations with more depth.

1:03.8

But each episode's just, so far,

1:07.0

they've just been two or three minute long,

1:08.8

quick, fun little ways to get a good laugh in this time. So check that out and subscribe and I've been

1:17.1

putting these here we are podcasts on YouTube so you can see my guests in person.

1:24.0

This is one of the wonderful things that's come out of this quarantine

1:27.0

is that I've started putting a bunch of stuff on YouTube

1:30.0

and it's new and I could use your support

1:32.0

so anything that you can do to

1:33.2

subscribe leave comments like share all that stuff I even started making some

1:38.6

highlights so you can check out a few minutes here and there that makes it nice and easy to share something like say Nina

1:46.3

Fefferman's like three minute breakdown of flattening the curve for for the people out there that still don't seem to get it in this with

1:58.8

all the confusing information out there.

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