Oct 8, 2026
Listen in as I talk with JoAnne Winter and Vanessa Flores Chacko of Z Space. We chat about the theater production group. Their program Word for Word’s next production, Assimilation, includes two short stories, one by E.L. Doctorow and another by Tatyana Tolstaya.
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Oct 7, 2026
Chris Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death, which have each been translated into over twenty languages. Chris’ long running podcast, Tangentially Speaking includes more than 800 episodes, has been downloaded over 30 million times and has featured guests such as Rick...
Oct 1, 2026
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with the origin story of Raina and Vanessa’s show, Valkyries, Say Less. It goes something like this …
The two went to the first-ever Valkyries game, technically a preseason game, at Chase Center, in 2025. Once she discovered discounted tickets, Vanessa got about...
Sep 29, 2026
When Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely and Raina Mast aren’t going bananas about the Golden State Valkyries, they’re teaching kids in San Francisco.
In this episode, meet and get to know Vanessa and Raina, cohosts of the Valkyries, Say Less podcast.
We begin with Vanessa. Her parents met in San Francisco in 1970. Her mom...
Sep 24, 2026
Listen in as I talk with Kate Campbell, cofounder of WhoDidWhat?, a congressional accountability tracker. Their website goes live October 12. Once it’s up, folks all over the country will be able to access their congressperson’s voting recording, committees they serve on, any petitions with their names on it, and a...