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 […]

 

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

 

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

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 […]

 

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

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 […]

 Episode 202: Women in Black [59:00m]

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. […]

 All Non-Fiction, Episode 201: The Birthday Show [53:19m]

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

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]

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 […]

 Your Dog's Breakfast Episode 106: Into the Astrology Zone [54:57m]

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 […]

 

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

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]

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 […]

 Episode 103: Ghost Stories [40:12m]