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The Art of Dying, a Zen Approach

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160806F.mp3 Show #137 | August 6, 2016 | BJ Miller summarizes the lessons of his work at UCSF Medical Center's Zen Hospice Project in two words: "Love matters". Dr. Miller brings his life experience as a student of art, an amputee, and a Buddhist to his goal of making San Francisco a great place to die. The Project combines spiritual centeredness and palliative care to bring patients, their families, and their caregivers the space to embrace the end of life. While in college BJ Miller lost his legs and part of an arm in an accident. He went on to compete in the Paralympics, study art, and move into medicine, first in rehabilitative care, then finding his calling in hospice work. Angie and BJ will discuss end-of-life issues in all their facets: physical, spiritual, legally, and as a reflection of America's culture. Guest: Dr. BJ Miller is Zen Hospice Project’s Senior Director and Advocate. BJ also serves as Assistant Clinical Professor...

When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160730F.mp3 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...

A Columnist’s Perspective – Cats, Politics, Children, and San Francisco

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160723F.mp3 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. Guests: Journalist ...

A Look Behind the Curtains of Silicon Valley Tech

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160716F.mp3 Show #134 | July 16, 2016 | Technology veteran and now author, Antonio García Martínez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkeys. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness—their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). Guests: Author Antonio Garcia Martínez is a former Facebook executive, and also previously CEO of Adgrok, which he sold to Twitter, and a former strategist at Goldman Sachs. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley is his first book. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Brock Turner Verdict, the Judge, and the Victim

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160702F.mp3 Show #133 | July 2, 2016 | Why has the verdict of one sexual assault trial caused a multi-country storm of fury? The debate over former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner's sentence incorporates sexism, racism, classism, and a clash over how much leeway a judge has in the sentencing process. Angie probes the call for Judge Aaron Persky to step down or be removed, the unexpected reach and impact of the victim's statement, and the appropriate relationship between societal standards and the legal system. Guests: Sajid A. Khan has been a Public Defender in San Jose, CA since 2008. He has a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a law degree from UC Hastings. Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst with Rewire and co-host of This Week in Blackness Prime. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Science of Keeping Troops Alive, Well, and Whole

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160625F.mp3 Show #132 | June 25, 2016 | Mary Roach’s new book Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War tackles the science behind being a soldier. In it, Mary visits a re-purposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for facing combat wounds. She also samples caffeinated meat, sniffs a WWII stink bomb, and tends to the missiles on a nuclear submarine. Once you listen to this insightful interview, you'll never see the art of war the same way again. Guests: Mary Roach is a funny and fascinating writer who first arrived in San Francisco in the early 1980s. She’s written six hugely popular science books including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013). Clearly a common theme throughout Mary's books is a literary treatment of the human body. When asked by NPR how she picks her topics, she replied,...

From Prestigious Award Winner to Hot Dogs, Chef Bradley Ogden

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160618F.mp3 Show #131 | June 18, 2016 |What does a life in the restaurant industry teach you about the world inside and outside the kitchen? In Deep takes advantage of Chef Bradley Ogden's new presence in Menlo Park - with fresh takes on classic American diner food and hot dogs (!) - to discuss his life and the American restaurant industry. Among the topics: food fads, responsible sourcing, the impact of growing fiscal inequality on staffing and profits, tipping pro and con, and the celebrity chef phenomenon. Guests: Chef Bradley Ogden was hired in Kansas City as a sous chef in 1979. Since the, he learned his craft under James Beard; opened The Lark Creek Inn in Northern California (which has now grown into a multi-restaurant conglomerate) and restaurants throughout California, in Las Vegas, and in Houston. He's garnered awards from every corner of the business. Permalink for this podcast here....

Living in a world with Lies, Incorporated

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160611F.mp3 Show #130 | June 11, 2016 | Ari and Angie examined our post-truth political landscape: distortions of truth transformed into common knowledge by a powerful network of special-interest groups and politicians. Guests: Ari Rabin-Havt, the co-author with Media Matters of Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics, where he carefully documents the carefully concealed, ever-growing industry of organized misinformation, paid to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. His revelatory history of this public-deception industry uncovers the ideological groups shaping American politics with coordinated assaults on the truth. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160528F.mp3 Show #129 | May 28, 2016 | Anita Monga and Rob Byrne from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival discuss the power and impact of this bygone film era and why the medium is relevant for today’s audiences. Guests: Rob Byrne focuses on film restoration and silent film era research. He’s currently President of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Board. Anita Mong is the Festival’s Artistic Director and a veteran film booker. Permalink for this podcast here....

Relentless Undercurrent of Danger and Death: Dying Words and AIDS

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160521F.mp3 Show #128 | May 21, 2016 | Angie sits down with Samuel Freedman and Kerry Donahue whose incredible audio documentary and accompanying book Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz tells Schmalz's story on how he reported about AIDS while dying of the disease, and his impact and legacy on journalism. Jeff Schmalz was a journalistic prodigy. He was hired by The New York Times while still a college student, and he was essentially running its metropolitan coverage by his mid-20s. From his crisply pressed trousers and shirts to his unerring sense of how to structure a feature story, he was a consummate Timesman. People in the newsroom speculated that someday he could be “on the masthead” – the list of the top editors on the world’s most important newspaper. All the while, though, Jeff was struggling with his identity as a gay man. Guests: Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New...