0:08 – Banter – Cat and Brian discuss the recent earthquakes in Southern California, preparedness and how to plan for the next Big One here; plus: the Kaiser auditorium development is up for a vote in front of the Oakland City Council, but here’s the context you rarely hear about.
0:34 – Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), The Wild Places (2007), The Old Ways (2012), The Lost Words: A Spell Book (with the artist Jackie Morris, 2017). His most recent book is Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
1:08 – A former Border Patrol Agent on the crisis at the border: Jenn Budd (@BuddJenn) is a former Senior Patrol Agent and Intelligence Agent with the U.S. Border Patrol and an independent blogger.
1:34 – The aggressive attention from the US anti-abortion movement on restricting abortion has little concern for contraception, and often women bear the burden of preventing pregnancy. Whether through the pill, IUD or other methods, what kind of impacts does that have? And how close are we, or should we be, to men bearing some of the same responsibility? We speak with Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD is Associate Professor at the Alden March Bioethics Institute with a secondary appointment in the Department of OBGYN at Albany Medical College in New York. Her main research areas are in gender studies and bioethics, especially reproductive ethics.