Archive for category: Guests

Season 3, Episode 4: raising the bar for… Child protection Private detective Sam Brower is the investigator who pushed forward the long and hard legal battles against the radical FLDS and Warren Jeffs as chronicled in his astonishing and haunting book, Prophet’s Prey. Raised in the Mormon Church (mainstream LDS), Sam [...]

Season 3, Episode 5: Raising the bar for… Teachers Nínive Calegari is a veteran teacher with almost ten years’ experience in the classroom, including experience in both charter schools and large comprehensive high schools. She is the cofounder and former executive director of 826 Valencia, and most recently served as [...]

  Season 3: Episode 2, Raising the bar for… Lesbian pulp fiction Favorite beverage: Old Vine Zinfandel Favorite bar: Tempest Lounge (Tacoma, WA)   Ann Bannon has been called “The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction” for her landmark “Beebo Brinker Chronicles”, a series of five original paperback novels published by [...]

Season 3: Raising the bar for.. The Social Order Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with fifteen published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry. Luis’ poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary [...]

Mountaineering

              Season 1, Ep 24    Winda Benedetti on Video games Citzen Gamer

Season 1, Ep 22    Sally Bock on Child safety Sally at Pyramid Communications

    Season 2, Ep 13    Susie Bright on Erotic literacy Susie at the Huffington Post

Season 1, Ep 25     Peter Byck on Climate change solutions Carbon Nation peter byck | director + producer

Season 2, Ep 11 Dick Cantwell on Beer

      Season 1, Ep 10    Alexis Chamow on Post-partum parenting

Mike Daisey’s Blog Season 2, Mike Daisey on Corporate accountability

Season 1, Ep 2    Jonathan Evison on The Great American Novel Season 1, Ep 19    Jonathan Evison on Literary fiction West of Here: The Book

Season 1, Ep 15    Dian Ferguson on Public access programming

  Season 1, Ep 16    Rachel Flotard on Indie music Rachel Flotard on Twitter

Season 2, Ep 9     Amanda Ford on Fitness MOVE: it’s essential

Season 2, Ep 4    Jodie Foster on Mental health  

Season 2, Ep tbd  Jay Friedman on Food & Sex Favorite beverage:  ”I’m not much of a drinker, actually.” Favorite bar:  the lounge at Canlis (Seattle, WA) — “The piano player’s repertoire fascinates me, and I’d fully trust the bartender to prepare something alcoholic or non-alcoholic.” Jay Friedman is a professionally [...]

Season 2, Ep 16  Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine on Venture capital

Season 2, Ep 17 Alex Gibney on Ken Kesey