All Non-Fiction

Have you ever been standing in line at the grocery store and played eye-tag with someone, but never got up the gumption to say hello? Ever been stuck in traffic and exchanged smiles with someone from another car, but never rolled down the window to exchange phone numbers? How about the make-out session you had at that club with the stranger whose name and number you’ve since lost, or regrettably never bothered to ask for?

The Missed Connection section of Craigslist makes it possible, however remotely, that you can get a second chance to make that connection. Some posts are simple, many are strange, but most of them are (or appear to be) earnest.

In our final episode, your host imagines the backstories leading up to several of these anonymous posts; the false starts, the sideways glances, and the inevitably missed opportunities.

Listeners be warned: portions of this episode are likely to contain adult situations including (but not limited to) international soap operas, pop music icons, alcohol and/or drug use, fast food, and casual sex in public places.

 

 Episode 205: Missed Connections [11:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Episode 205: The Live Broadcast [58:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Consider this: a nationwide network of rollerskating armies made up of some of the toughest ladies you’ll ever see, speeding at high velocity around a rink, viciously slamming and bruising each other for the glory of victory, sisterhood, and bragging rights. It’s called Roller Derby, and this week we talk with some members of the Angel City Derby Girls‘ Block Steady Crew, who gear up for their first game of the season. Their opponents: Orange County’s own OC Roller Girls.

 

 Episode 204 - We All Are Derby Girls [46:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Every Wednesday, a group of women from varying backgrounds in Orange County gather in public for a silent vigil to protest war and human rights abuses across the world. And they’re not alone. Vigils like this happen worldwide, from the east end of Australia to the west coast of the United States. Though the groups are modest in size, their message is profound even in silence. This week, we spend the hour standing on a corner with the Laguna Woods Chapter of Women in Black.

 

 Episode 202: Women in Black [59:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week, our host turns 32 years old. And we celebrate this event not by singing the $10,000 copyrighted song and lauding him with gifts. No, this year we give thanks to the lady who bore the boy who became the man who became your host. That’s right: we’re giving it up to the Mom. Several friends call the mother of your host to congratulate her on his 32nd anniversary alive, and talk a little about past birthday experiences and dogs. It’s a celebration.

 

 All Non-Fiction, Episode 201: The Birthday Show [53:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week, we spend Christmas Eve at Craby Joe’s, Los Angeles’s last dive bar on Skid Row, as they close their doors after 74 years. Pour yourself one last High Life,  have a seat at the bar, and dip in and out of consciousness and conversation. It’s Closing Time.

 

 Your Dog's Breakfast Episode 108: Goodbye Craby Joe's: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week, we wipe the cobwebs from our underused bicycle and take a 20 mile ride up and down a section of the bike path along the Santa Ana River in Orange County, CA.

 

 Your Dog's Breakfast Episode 107 - The Ride [27:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What’s in your star sign?

Many read horoscopes as entertainment, and some read them as guidelines to follow. I admit I read it once a month at Susan Miller’s AstrologyZone.com, and had the chance to sit down with Susan to talk about astrology and how the movement of planets and stars affects many of us on Earth.

If you believe in that sort of thing.

 

 Your Dog's Breakfast Episode 106: Into the Astrology Zone [54:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A brief history of the Angelino man known as the Poet Laureate of Skid Row, who pulled poetry out from beneath itself in the 20th century. We’ll take a look at his life as partially told by the Esotouric bus tour, rolling through the neighborhoods in which he lived and created his greatest works, stopping by a bar or two in which he drank. Have a seat and bring a beer.

 

 Your Dog's Breakfast Episode 105: "This is Charles Bukowski" [42:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we’ll talk with two different families about their daughter’s 15th birthday celebration, a quinceañera. It’s a rite of passage for girls whose lineages are tied to Mexico and Central, or South America, marking the end of the childhood, and the beginning of their path toward adulthood.

 

 Your Dog's Breakfast, Episode 104: Quinceañera [44:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

From the unexplained flickering of lights and shifting of books to seeing apparitions and hearing voices. We’ve all heard ghost stories. Some of us even claim to have experienced them. And then there are some seek them out.

This week, we take a walk along Fullerton’s Haunted Tour, and speak with the Lead Investigators from the California Lake Forest Ghost Hunters and the San Diego Ghost Hunters.

 

 Episode 103: Ghost Stories [40:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download