In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #170 | Guest: Author Bianca Bosker. | Show Summary: Bianca Bosker gave up her job as executive tech editor at the Huffington Post in favor of tasting wines at 8 a.m., lifting and sorting heavy bottles as a “cellar rat” in one of Manhattan’s top restaurants; she sacrificed coffee, spicy foods, and sometimes even toothpaste, so as not to blunt her taste buds.     CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste takes the reader inside an elite tasting group, a Burgundy bacchanal, a Michelin-starred restaurant, an fMRI machine, and more as Bosker strives to make sense, once and for all, of our complicated relationship with fermented grape juice.

Show #169 | Guest: Amanda Micheli, filmmaker. | Show Summary: Imagine wanting a baby so badly that you're willing to let strangers vote on how suitable you are as parents. It's real. Every year, desperate couples place themselves in the hands of a Las Vegas doctor for his annual contest. Grand prize: a free round of in-vitro fertilization— baby not guaranteed.     Through this controversial contest, VEGAS BABY navigates the complexities of America’s burgeoning fertility industry and unveils the class disparity within a topic that is often clouded by judgment and stereotypes.

Show #168 | Guests: Paul Madonna, creator of All Over Coffee, and journalist Peter Moskowitz. | Show Summary: The irony can’t be missed when an artist acclaimed for his loving depictions of San Francisco gets evicted from his home in the town that made his name. That’s what happened to Paul Madonna, creator of the San Francisco Chronicle’s All Over Coffee. Meanwhile, across the country, journalist Peter Moskowitz was unearthing the political and market machinations accelerating the gentrification of New York, New Orleans, Detroit, and San Francisco. Beyond describing the epidemic that’s uprooting families and small businesses, Moskowitz details how to put a stop to it.

Show #167 | Guests: Terri Givens and Gabriel Thompson. | Show Summary: Donald Trump’s changes to immigration policy, initially supported by a majority of Americans, have faced steadily increasing disapproval. Despite that, the administration has moved to widen scrutiny to include tourists, business travelers and relatives of American residents. In Deep takes a two-pronged approach this hour, with guests Terri Givens and Gabriel Thompson.

Show #166 | Guests: Josh Kornbluth, writer, comedian, activist, and Dr. Bruce Miller, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco | Show Summary: Dementia statistics are daunting. One in three seniors dies with Alzheimers or other dementia; every 66 seconds someone in the US develops the disease. Monologist Josh Kornbluth has immersed himself in this realm, and incorporates his experience in “Josh’s Brain Improvs”, a coproduction with The Marsh theater in San Francisco.     Kornbluth bases his series of improvisations on his experiences working at the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and his work as an artist-in-residence and volunteer at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.     Josh Kornbluth has performed autobiographical one-man shows since 1987 — The San Francisco Chronicle declared, Kornbluth takes a world we ignore, or barely observe, an

Show #165 | Guest: Elizabeth Rosenthal, editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News. | Show Summary: Healthcare, Obamacare, Medicare … what does it all mean? Elisabeth Rosenthal has spent her career dissecting the monolith of today’s healthcare system, and her report back is grim. Find out how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve.     After 22 years as a correspondent at the NYT Elisabeth Rosenthal is now editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent not-for-profit newsroom focusing on policy in DC. She received a B.S. degree in biology from Stanford University, an M.A. degree in English literature from Cambridge University, and an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School.

Show #16 4| Guest: Chuck Collins, inequality expert and activist. | Show Summary: As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. Can we suspend both class wars long enough to consider a new way forward? It is time to think differently, says longtime inequality expert and activist Chuck Collins.     Born into the one percent, Collins gave away his inheritance at 26 and spent the next three decades mobilizing against inequality. He uses his perspective from both sides of the divide to deliver a new narrative. His national and local solutions not only challenge inequality but also respond to climate change and offer an unexpected, fresh take on one of our most intransigent problems.

Show #163 | Guest: Jane Mayer, New Yorker magazine writer and author of the bestelling book Dark Money. | Show Summary: Americans from every political persuasion see money in politics as a disaster. A full 80% oppose Citizens United, the court ruling that solidified the free flow of dollars from corporations and political interest groups into our elections. No one knows the depth and the players of this national crisis better than Jane Mayer, whose bestselling book Dark Money unpacks this better than anyone else. This acclaimed investigative reporter has spent more than ten years probing the shadowed figures pumping money into elections and front groups, from billionaire George Soros to the immense Koch Brothers network. She follows the money to the media groups, academic institutions, think tanks, and courthouses influenced by the plutocrats' dollars and power.

Show #162 | Guests: Sheera Frenkel, cybersecurity correspondent for Buzzfeed, and Cyrus Farivar, Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, bring their years of research and reporting to the discussion. | Show Summary: Kellyanne Conway was widely mocked when she cited "microwaves that can turn into cameras". And it's true, those don't exist - that we know of! But the same week the makers of We Vibe, a BlueTooth-enabled vibrator, paid millions to settle a lawsuit for collecting personal data. And then of course, there's Alexa, the always-on Amazon servant that may or may not have overheard a murder in Texas. The "Internet of Things" - IoT for short - is a non-stop trade-off. What do we sacrifice for convenience? Who sees the pings you send to turn on your thermostat? What agencies might be interested in the Amazon book searches you request aloud?

Show #161 | Guest: Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark and Men Explain Things to Me, has had her finger on the pulse of the American culture for over three decades. From popularizing the term Man-splaining to her bestselling atlases of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City, Solnit has indelibly shaped the American feminist lexicon. | Show Summary: Rebecca Solnit sits down with Angie to discuss her new essay collection, The Mother of All Questions. Her most poignant collection to date, Solnit's focus returns unflinchingly to the male gaze, revealing instances of latent misogyny, documenting the violence incited by the rise of rape humor, and praising the women who confront these obstacles every day and refuse to be silenced.

Show #160 | Guest: Dr. Robin Zasio visits In Deep with insight and advice. The hour will also touch on her work in reality TV - Hoarders and My Extreme Animal Phobia. Dr. Robin Zasio specializes in cognitive therapy in the treatment of anxiety and compulsive behaviors, and the founder of The Anxiety Treatment Center, The Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center and The Compulsive Hoarding Center, all in Sacramento. | Show Summary: One psychologist called it "Election Stress Disorder"; others call it "The Trump Effect". Before, during, and after the election, mental health professionals nationwide reported increased anxiety in their clients - and anxiety has terrible, even life-shortening effects on the human body and mind. What's the healthiest way to cope with anxiety, and what special challenges arise when that stress derives from world events?

Show #159 | Guest: Games For Change chairman Asi Burak discusses his work with former supreme court justices, NASA, the United Nations, and even the White House to pioneer a new kind of video game ... one for social change. | Show Summary: The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experienc

Show #158 | Guest: Author, podcaster, and activist Ashton Applewhite sits down with Angie to raise a little hell about entrenched ageism in our society. | Show Summary: When Madonna accepted her Woman of the Year award at the Billboard Women in Music 2016 in December, she used the pulpit to decry ageism in the entertainment world. "People say that I'm so controversial," she said "but I think the most controversial thing that I've done is to stick around" in a business where "to age is a sin." Age discrimination is a reality well beyond media and music. Silicon Valley is regularly accused of discarding its most experienced workers in favor of a younger, less expensive workforce. The concept of the elderly having hard-earned wisdom to share has all but disappeared from modern America. In This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Applewhite traces her own journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. The book explains the roots of ageism i

Show #157 | Guest: Al Letson created and hosted the State of the Re-Union podcast, honored with a Peabody award and three consecutive Edward R. Murrow award. He then joined CIR to help launch and host Reveal, public radio’s first investigative journalism show. The show’s pilot won a Peabody Award (2013) for its investigation of the over-prescribing of opiates. | Show Summary: Host of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal radio show, Al Letson’s Summer in Sanctuary is an autobiographical narrative chronicling Letson’s summer working as a creative writing teacher at a community center in an economically challenged Florida neighborhood. Angie and Al discuss his show, and his life as both a creative soul and a journalist.

Show #156 | Guest: Ayelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children. | Show Summary: Bestselling author Ayelet Waldman joins In Deep’s Angie Coiro for a conversation on micro-dosing, family, marriage and how it all ties together (or sometimes doesn’t). Coiro sits down with Waldman for a special one-hour edition of In Deep to discuss the problems facing parents today, the underground community of micro-dosers across the country, and her new book “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life.”

Show #155 | Guests: Sheila Thomas has experience litigating both class and individual gender and race employment discrimination cases. She is adjunct faculty member at Golden Gate University School of Law, and serves on The Advancement Project’s board of directors. Dr. Clayborne Carson is the founder and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. | Show Summary: What’s the real goal of protests – and what’s the chance of those goals being achieved? What protest techniques and tactics have been effective historically?

Show #154 | Guest: New York Times best-selling author Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter, @peggyorenstein. | Show Summary: A re-broadcast of our May 14, 2016 show featuring an interview with best-selling author and journalist Peggy Orenstein. The discussion centered on her book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. An important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.

Show #153 | Guest: Adam Gazzaley is founder and director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center. He is a professor in neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the UC San Francisco and director of the Gazzaley Lab, a cognitive neuroscience laboratory. His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception, attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distraction and multitasking on these abilities. His unique research approach utilizes a powerful combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation (TMS and TES). A major accomplishment of his research has been to expand our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to cognitive decline. | Show Summary: We are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask — read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Never mind the errors i

Show #151 | Guest: Meg Elison is a Bay Area author and essayist. Her debut novel, THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award, and in its new release named as a Book of the Year by both Publisher’s Weekly and Amazon. Its sequel, THE BOOK OF ETTA, is due in 2017. | Show Summary: “Book of the Unnamed Midwife”, acclaimed in its 2014 release, is out in an updated version, with eerily appropriate timing. Americans awaiting their new president may find the plot description unnerving: When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the cl

Show #149 | Guest: Leland Faust is the founder of CSI Capital Management where he served as chief investment officer from 1978 through 2011 and managed over $1.5 billion. Since 1978 he has represented over one hundred NFL, NBA and MLB all stars. Barron’s has named him four times to its annual list of top 100 independent investment advisors in the country. He has also been named to the Sporting News’ list of the 100 most powerful people in sports, one of only two investment advisors ever to be included in that roster. He is a tri-athlete, in demand public speaker and author.He an honors graduate from UC Berkeley (economics) and Harvard Law School. | Show Summary: Leland Faust unmasks Wall Street’s unsavory tactics in powerful detail by giving readers a high-level view of how the financial services industry misleads them, overcharges them, and exposes them to needless risk. He documents the financial industry’s alluring come-ons, airbrushed risks, high-stakes gambling, half-truths, misleading statements, outlan