Show #136 | July 30, 2016 | Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home for an endearing family of wild gray foxes, or that wolves have returned to California after a ninety-year absence, led by the remarkable journey of the wolf OR-7? Author Beth Pratt Bergstrom joins Angie for a discussion of the evolving state of wild animals in urban environments.
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors is available from Heyday Books.

Guest:
Author Beth Pratt-Bergstrom has worked in environmental leadership roles for more than twenty-five years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. As the California Director for the National Wildlife Federation, she says, “I have the best job in the world—advocating for the state’s remarkable wildlife.” Her conservation work has been featured by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, BBC World Service, CBS This Morning, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR, and she has written for CNN.com, Boom: A Journal of California, Yellowstone Discovery, Yosemite Journal, and many others. She is the author of the novel The Idea of Forever and the official Junior Ranger Handbook for Yosemite. Beth lives outside of Yosemite, “my north star,” with her husband, four dogs, two cats, and the mountain lions, bears, foxes, frogs, and other wildlife that frequent her NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat backyard.

Show #135 | July 23, 2016 | In 1983, Jon Carroll stepped into the shoes of legendary columnist Charles McCabe at the San Francisco Chronicle. He stepped down in 2015. In those three decades he churned out over eight thousand columns – writing, as he put it himself, “about cats, politics, children, religion, more cats, travel, word games and strange, almost unknowable things.” He sits down with Angie to discuss his career and his life since retirement.

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Journalist Jon Carroll retired last November after 33 years at the Chronicle. Carroll collected a host of accolades and awards over his decades in journalism including the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Magazine Award.

Bob Hoffman is the author of Marketers Are From Mars, Consumers Are From New Jersey , former head of two advertising agencies, and writer of the industry blog, The Ad Contrarian which was named one of the world’s most influential advertising and marketing blogs by Business Insider. In 2012 Bob was selected Ad Person of the Year by the S.F. Advertising Club.
Sandy Pelland is the founder of lifestyle destination website MomLifeTV and member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Her site’s mission: Being a Mom is one of the most rewarding experiences. But, parenting isn’t always easy. Sometimes you just need help. At MomLifeTV, we’ve assembled talented professionals and organizations who give you great tips, advice and information. We also feature great stories from Moms, to help you, on your journey through Motherhood.
Noah Swartz is a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He works on the various software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger. Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a technomancer and free software/culture advocate.Dave Yoon is co-founder/creator of Been Choice which adds a new twist to the ad blocking game: users can opt in to see advertising, and get paid in exchange for being tracked! Earlier this week the Apple App Store pulled Been Choice over privacy concerns; Been Choice has resubmitted it for approval. Dave spent a decade with MIO Partners (McKinsey Investment Office) as Engagement Manager, then Portfolio Manager, before co-founding Been, Inc.

Show #80 Hour 1 April 11, 2015 | Guest: Scott J. Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University | Show Summary: Economists may disagree on cause and cure, but they agree America's middle class is vanishing - some tiny percentage achieving riches, the vast majority becoming lower-class or impoverished. Could the answer be in a new bill of rights? The right to a job; the right to a home; the right to a decent wage - what if these were guaranteed? Scott Myers-Lipton of San Jose State University founded the successful effort to raise San Jose's minimum wage to $10. He discusses his new book, Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty (Paradigm Publishers, April 2015.)

Show #80 Hour 2 April 11, 2015 | Guest: Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford University | Show Summary: Indiana Governor Mike Pence knew well enough that his state's RFRA would be controversial that he held the signing ceremony in private. Even so, the nationwide reaction rocked the state government and Chamber of Commerce, and a bill adjustment is promised. Indiana isn't the first nor the last to consider moves ostensibly designed to protect religious freedoms. But how to define those freedoms - and how to assure that the bills don't trample the freedoms of others - is a multi-faceted issue that incorporates the Constitution, LGBT rights, Citizens United, and past and pending lawsuits. Stanford's Professor Bernadette Meyler walks Angie and the audience through the many considerations and precedents to the case.