# Exploration: LIVE!

#### with  [Natalie Rotter-Laitman](/content/search?q=%22Natalie%20Rotter-Laitman%22/index.html) and [Charlie Bardey](/content/search?q=%22Charlie%20Bardey%22/index.html)

Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman explore some of the most (and least) pressing ideas, theories, axioms, and concepts out there.

## [Naked Guy Wine w/ Courtney O'Donnell](/content/exploration-live/naked-guy-wine-w-courtney-odonnell/index.html)

[7/15/2026](/content/exploration-live/naked-guy-wine-w-courtney-odonnell#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Backpack skirt over the edge, Long ice cream lines, Accidental repost, Naked guy wine, Do I smell?, Complimentary dessert  
**Guest:** Courtney O'Donnell

## [Cup Continuity](/content/exploration-live/cup-continuity/index.html)

[7/8/2026](/content/exploration-live/cup-continuity#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Three day outfit, Malcolm + Grimes, Backpack journeyer, Cup continuity

## [Scholars Gather (w/ Celeste Yim)](/content/exploration-live/scholars-gather-w-celeste-yim/index.html)

[7/1/2026](/content/exploration-live/scholars-gather-w-celeste-yim#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** I remember snow, Scholars gather, Pronouns show your work, Misgender, I can tell, Tattoo casual, Please don't make me throw  
**Guest:** Celeste Yim

## [They Put Squirrels In The Park (w/ Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce)](/content/exploration-live/they-put-squirrels-in-the-park-w-jane-wickline-and-liva-pierce/index.html)

[6/24/2026](/content/exploration-live/they-put-squirrels-in-the-park-w-jane-wickline-and-liva-pierce#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Phone call hits, The fact Ellen was Dory, Logistics of bots, Snowflake manners, Orange pee string on finger, Can you really ask me to hold it?, They put squirrels in the park, Second birthday works, Alternate life trip, Fashionable kindergartener  
**Guests:** Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce

## [Dear Botanic Garden](/content/exploration-live/dear-botanic-garden/index.html)

[6/17/2026](/content/exploration-live/dear-botanic-garden#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Dear Botanic Garden, Seat elbow, Fight intimacy

## [Hit or Miss](/content/exploration-live/hit-or-miss/index.html)

[6/10/2026](/content/exploration-live/hit-or-miss#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Phone behind laptop screen, Hit or miss

## [You're Not Gonna Be High](/content/exploration-live/youre-not-gonna-be-high/index.html)

[6/3/2026](/content/exploration-live/youre-not-gonna-be-high#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** I’m writing, Doing bad in a hobby, You’re not gonna be high, Leftover salad

## [If I Dump, You'll Dump (w/ Nori Reed)](/content/exploration-live/if-i-dump-youll-dump-w-nori-reed/index.html)

[5/27/2026](/content/exploration-live/if-i-dump-youll-dump-w-nori-reed#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** It don’t take much, Could I get that?, I’m taking you guys in, Car home leave, If I dump, you’ll dump  
**Guest:** Nori Reed

## [Girls Are Here (w/ Ru Anderson)](/content/exploration-live/girls-are-here-w-ru-anderson/index.html)

[5/20/2026](/content/exploration-live/girls-are-here-w-ru-anderson#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Girls are here, Backchannel failure, Staying present, People who don't say 'occupied' when I knock on the bathroom door  
**Guest:** Ru Anderson

## ['Sun Is Good For You' Is Good For You](/content/exploration-live/sun-is-good-for-you-is-good-for-you/index.html)

[5/13/2026](/content/exploration-live/sun-is-good-for-you-is-good-for-you#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Emotional affair, 'Sun is good for you' is good for you, Partner collapse, Hiding in plain sight

## [You Are Evaluating Me](/content/exploration-live/you-are-evaluating-me/index.html)

[5/6/2026](/content/exploration-live/you-are-evaluating-me#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** You are evaluating me, 80% Health, Wine physical

## [Puffy Notebook](/content/exploration-live/puffy-notebook/index.html)

[4/29/2026](/content/exploration-live/puffy-notebook#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** What the hells?, Taking action vs Inception street, Puffy notebook

## [Second Time Harmony (w/ Drew Anderson & Marcia Belsky)](/content/exploration-live/second-time-harmony-w-drew-anderson-marcia-belsky/index.html)

[4/22/2026](/content/exploration-live/second-time-harmony-w-drew-anderson-marcia-belsky#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Filling dead air when convo hits a wall “so, what’s new?”, Theatre to comedy pipeline, Divinity came to me at the bar show, Second time harmony  
**Guests:** Drew Anderson & Marcia Belsky

## [That's Weird, My Husband (w/ Amy Zimmer)](/content/exploration-live/thats-weird-my-husband-w-amy-zimmer/index.html)

[4/15/2026](/content/exploration-live/thats-weird-my-husband-w-amy-zimmer#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Help me, Rhonda, Having less screen time than your dad, That’s weird, my husband, Our plans are written in centuries, Movies are basically directors asking “do y’all ever feel crazy or not really” for 90 minutes, Dorothy waking up me at gay guy b’day  
**Guest:** Amy Zimmer

## [Why American Idol Was Moving (w/ Patrick Doolittle)](/content/exploration-live/why-american-idol-was-moving-w-patrick-doolittle/index.html)

[4/8/2026](/content/exploration-live/why-american-idol-was-moving-w-patrick-doolittle#player/index.html)

**Ideas Covered:** Perfect plastic, Group chat communism, Why American Idol was moving, Getaway bias  
**Guest:** Patrick Doolittle