On the surface, Orange Coast College students Mike Webster and Brian Baumgartner are oil and water. Baumgartner is analytical, data driven and delivers everything with a deadpan accuracy that would be off-putting if it weren’t for his wicked sense of humor and his giant heart. Webster is an ideas man with a frenetic energy and inability to sit still that seems to be cocaine-driven, but isn’t.
“He’s naturally very twitchy,” Baumgartner said of Webster. “Some people first meeting him start to think maybe it’s drugs, but it’s more than he just needs to be in motion doing something. People ask me about him a lot. I can only say ‘yeah, that’s just the way he is.’ It’s just he needs to be doing things.”
Somehow together, they seem to make the…
