Show Summary: What does a life in the restaurant industry teach you about the world inside and outside the kitchen? In Deep takes advantage of Chef 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.

Show Summary: 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.

Show Summary: 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.

Show Summary: 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.

Show Summary: Peggy Orenstein joins Angie Coiro for a discussion of her new book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. These two award-winning journalists sat down on a Monday evening at Kepler’s Books for an important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.

Show Summary: Colorado based writer and filmmaker Nile Southern’s newest book is a compilation of his father, Terry Southern’s letters. The book, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, is a homage to the senior Southern’s love of language and storytelling. Terry was nominated for two Academy Awards - Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider - and was an influential writer known for his unique, comic voice.

Show Summary: Oakland journalist and playwright Sara Shourd survived 410 days of Iranian solitary confinement and wrote about it in Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement.

Show Summary: Hawaiian Musician and activist Makana has created a stir with his unofficial Bernie Sanders campaign anthem, Feel the Fire among other original, political works.

Show Summary: Oakland award-winning journalist and science writer Kara Platoni sits down with Angie to discuss latest developments in the science of sensory perception and her book We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time.

Show Summary: Community and labor activist Fred Ross’s story remains poignant and relevant today, though he first started organizing in the 1930s. Author Gabriel Thompson joins Angie to talk about his book America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the 20th Century.