Boomer vs Zoomer© is the brainchild of Brian Wecht, Jay Novella, Steve Novella, George Hrab, and Ian Callanan.
Brian Wecht, Ph.D. is a musician, comedian, and theoretical physicist who is best known as “Ninja Brian” from his comedy bands Ninja Sex Party and Starbomb, as well as his run on the Let’s Play channel Game Grumps. In 2015, Brian left his job as a physics professor in order to focus on his YouTube career full time. Since then, he has recorded fifteen albums (including two that reached #1 on Billboard’s year-end Comedy chart), released over 50 music videos amassing over 500M views total, performed on Conan, and toured extensively in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Brothers Steven Novella, MD and Jay Novella are two of the core members of the popular The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe science podcast, which has 150K weekly listeners and over 140M downloads aggregated over 17 years and over 900 episodes. They have given talks at organizations including Google, USDA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), NASA, the CIA, and more. The SGU has written two books: The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (2018), and The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow (to be released 2022). Steve is additionally an internationally known author and science communicator with multiple TV appearances, two popular blogs (NeuroLogica and Science-Based Medicine), and two courses on The Great Courses.
George Hrab is an Emmy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, host, and podcaster ( http://georgehrab.com/ ). His commitment to science communication has led him to emcee countless conferences and conventions all over the world, including The Reason Rally on the mall in Washington DC, The Amaz!ng Meeting and CSICON in Las Vegas, The Australian Skeptics National Convention in Sydney, LogiCal-LA in Los Angeles, Q.E.D. in Manchester, and NECSS: The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism. He’s been a TEDx speaker (Rethinking Doubt: The Value and Achievements of Skepticism) and has presented multiple talks about the importance of critical thinking, science appreciation, dealing with grief, and popular culture.
Ian Callanan is a Grammy award winning engineer and studio owner. Ian has worked in digital content production for over a decade. Furthermore, Ian has produced content as a facebook and former mixer partner (rip) and on twitch. Ian is the technical director and producer of BVZ.
Boomer vs Zoomer© is the brainchild of Brian Wecht, Jay Novella, Steve Novella, George Hrab, and Ian Callanan.
Brian Wecht, Ph.D. is a musician, comedian, and theoretical physicist who is best known as “Ninja Brian” from his comedy bands Ninja Sex Party and Starbomb, as well as his run on the Let’s Play channel Game Grumps. In 2015, Brian left his job as a physics professor in order to focus on his YouTube career full time. Since then, he has recorded fifteen albums (including two that reached #1 on Billboard’s year-end Comedy chart), released over 50 music videos amassing over 500M views total, performed on Conan, and toured extensively in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Brothers Steven Novella, MD and Jay Novella are two of the core members of the popular The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe science podcast, which has 150K weekly listeners and over 140M downloads aggregated over 17 years and over 900 episodes. They have given talks at organizations including Google, USDA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), NASA, the CIA, and more. The SGU has written two books: The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (2018), and The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow (to be released 2022). Steve is additionally an internationally known author and science communicator with multiple TV appearances, two popular blogs (NeuroLogica and Science-Based Medicine), and two courses on The Great Courses.
George Hrab is an Emmy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, host, and podcaster ( http://georgehrab.com/ ). His commitment to science communication has led him to emcee countless conferences and conventions all over the world, including The Reason Rally on the mall in Washington DC, The Amaz!ng Meeting and CSICON in Las Vegas, The Australian Skeptics National Convention in Sydney, LogiCal-LA in Los Angeles, Q.E.D. in Manchester, and NECSS: The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism. He’s been a TEDx speaker (Rethinking Doubt: The Value and Achievements of Skepticism) and has presented multiple talks about the importance of critical thinking, science appreciation, dealing with grief, and popular culture.
Ian Callanan is a Grammy award winning engineer and studio owner. Ian has worked in digital content production for over a decade. Furthermore, Ian has produced content as a facebook and former mixer partner (rip) and on twitch. Ian is the technical director and producer of BVZ.