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On this episode Rachel kicks it with friends, writers and hosts of the WILDLY successful podcast, WILD, Megan Tan and Erick Galindo. 

“WILD” Season 2 picks up the story that Megan tells in the Season 1 episode “How Do I Love Someone,” with Megan broken-hearted but still looking for the love of her life. Meanwhile, Erick’s hope for finding true love in the style of his favorite rom-coms has been all but dashed. Together, Erick and Megan present a powerful and surprising longform story about love – for other people and for one’s self – through an experimental format that fuses documentary-style conversation with cinematic fictional flashbacks performed by a cast of actors led by Melinna Bobadilla (Orange is the New Black, Gentefied), Gabrielle Ruiz (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and comedian Atsuko Okatsuka (The Intruder).

Erick is a Telly Award and James Beard Foundation-winning Latino filmmaker, journalist, and culture writer who has published and produced work for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, KPCC/LAist and more. In addition to “WILD,” Erick is the creator, head writer, executive producer and host of hit podcasts including “The Ballad of Chalino Sanchez” and “Out of The Shadows.” He is also the co-creator, writer and executive producer of “The Mexican Beverly Hills, a sitcom currently in development at CBS.

Previously named Producer of the Year by Adweek, Megan is a producer for LAist Studios, where she created and hosted “Snooze,” a joyful, feel-good podcast about how people conquer the things they have been putting off. While at LAist Studios, she co-created “WILD” and produced the critically-acclaimed and award-winning series “California Love.” With a background in photojournalism and documentary film, she started her own audible-visual style while hosting, producing, and managing Radiotopia’s “Millennial.” She previously produced shows and episodes for Gimlet Media’s “The Habitat,” Pineapple Street Media, TED, WNYC’s “Radiolab,” “This American Life,” NPR’s “All Things Considered,’ and KALW’s “The Stoop.”