Murals and COVID, Household Fabrics, Medical Clowns, Future Pandemics, Drive By Musicians, After the Storm, Burger History

Murals Against COVID-19 (0:00:00) There is some really cool urban art in our cities. They make the city more beautiful, give our streets more personality, and it gives us a fun reason to take a picture next to a painted wall. But can they do more than just make a bland wall look more interesting? That’s exactly what Ruben Rojas believes. He’s an artist and activist whose murals can be seen in cities around the world. His “mission is to ignite creativity and inspire others to see the world through the lens of love” and recently he started a campaign to create 1000 murals on closed businesses in Santa Monica in response to the coronavirus. Cleaning Household Fabrics (0:16:42) You know that moment when you see that your kids’ sheets haven’t been washed in a few weeks, and you feel both disgust and frustration that they either forgot or were too lazy to throw them in the wash on Saturday? Now as gross as that may seem, do you ever stop to think about the last time you washed your couch cushions? Or the bathmat? How about your living room drapes? And although you wash your pillowcase often, has your pillow itself ever gotten a good scrub? Well before you enter into full-blown anxiety over the dirt and germs secretly hiding in the fibers that fill our homes, we’ve invited expert and owner of Go Clean Co, Sarah McAllister, on the show to tell us everything we need to know about properly cleaning our household fabrics. Medical Clowns (0:33:43) The atmosphere in hospitals across the country these days has been gloomier than usual. There’s little room for laughter amidst the hordes of COVID patients in New York and some rising numbers in other cities. But what if laughter had healing capacities? We've all heard that laughter is the best medicine, but I think many of us would also prefer taking morphine over watching Seinfeld to manage our pain. But what would you say to a visit from a professional medical clown? Around the world these clowns are dedicating their careers to bringing humor and fun to hospital patients.