A podcast made while waiting for the BART each morning
I'll say it once, but I'll say it again: this episode is a parody.
I eat an apple as I wait for train and talk about about my fondness for tin foil and my disdain for individual (as opposed to collective responses) to our environmental problems.
We waited over 13 minutes for the BART today and interviewed two fellow passengers about Silicon Valley.
Izzy gives us a Yiddish lesson while waiting for der ban (the train).
In today's episode, we learn yet again that it's hard to count (and that Berkeley is a suburb).
Inspired by Astra Taylor's documentary, What is Democracy?, we ask fellow BART passengers the very same question.
It's all in the title.
Today, we talk about the anxieties and joys of professional emailing. To share your work-emailing cheats (i.e. easy ways to say no politely yet firmly; un-cheesy wording for the e-introduction, etc.), feel free to drop 'em in this very google doc.
Maiden Screech correspondent, Izzy Meckler, joins us to discuss the bi-monthly BART Board meeting.
In San Francisco, pedestrians frequently have to hit 'beg buttons' in order to cross the street.
Vehicular correspondent Theo Schear plays a BART-slash-transit-inspired playlist as he drives across the Bay Bridge to work.Check out Theo on Instagram or on his radio show, Baydio, and write to maidenscreech@protonmail.com if you'd like to be a correspondent.
Counting is more stressful than I thought, or a de-stressor becomes a stressor.
Is the media calling out "powerful men," or just building them up?
Luck is meeting an urban planner as we wait for the BART. Kismet is realizing that you have a mutual friend.
We aren’t being metaphorical. Today’s guest Linda does in fact own a soapbox.
In the inaugural episode of Maiden Speech, we talk BART, the templatization of podcasts, and more. If you're interested in becoming a correspondent, please email us at maidenscreech@protonmail.com.
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