Bay Curious - Are There Really More Dogs Than Children in S.F.?

It's a dog show! We answer how many dogs could fit on a Muni train ... and other pressing canine questions.


Reported by Lisa Pickoff-White and Ryan Levi. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Ryan Levi, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Erika Kelly, Amanda Font, and Julia McEvoy. Holly Kernan is Vice President for News. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

The NewsWorthy - Spygate, NFL New Policy & Tinder Places (+ Royal Wedding with Lauren Zima) – Thursday, May 24th, 2018

All the news you need to know for Thursday, May 24th, 2018! 

Today, we're talking about why President Trump has come up with the term 'Spygate," the NFL's new controversial policy about kneeling and a warning for parents about teething meds.

Plus: noteworthy new features from Bank of America, YouTube and Tinder.

All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

 Then, hang out after the news for Three Question Thursday. This week, Entertainment Tonight host Lauren Zima is sharing what it was like to cover the Royal wedding from Windsor Castle and what the couple is up to next.

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.

Serious Inquiries Only - SIO140: Surviving Gay Conversion Therapy, with Tim Rymel

Time Rymel grew up under the incredibly dogmatic and restrictive religion of Pentecostalism. At a young age, Tim realized he just wasn't attracted to women like he was "supposed" to be. But, his intense belief system didn't allow for that sort of thing, so Tim felt compelled to pursue gay conversion therapy. After he was "cured," he married a woman and became a leader in "ex-gay" ministry. Eventually, though, things began to unravel... Check out Tim's website, and also his Facebook group. Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com  

The Gist - Thanks for Protesting … Now Stop

On The Gist, the NFL can’t give a decent explanation for its kneeling ban.

Philip Roth’s novels about Jewish life earned him every accolade short of, famously, the Nobel Prize. Mark Oppenheimer, the host of the podcast on all things Jewish (Unorthodox), argues that Roth’s “radical candor” was sharply original before becoming a model to imitate. 

In the Spiel, there are a lot of “peripheral rogues” in Trump’s orbit (how about those “taxi king” headlines?), but their public reckonings don’t necessarily spell trouble for the president himself.

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Song Exploder - Jon Hopkins – Luminous Beings

Jon Hopkins is an electronic music producer whose been nominated twice for the UK’s Mercury Prize. Along with his frequent collaborator, Brian Eno, he co-produced Coldplay’s Grammy-award winning album, Viva la Vida. In May 2018, Jon Hopkins released his fifth album, Singularity. It was named Best New Music by Pitchfork. In this episode, Jon Hopkins takes apart the song "Luminous Beings," which was inspired in part by the meditative and therapeutic effects of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms. Jon talks about his own experience with drug, and how it shaped this song. He also details the less magical moments where he hated the music was he making, and had to destroy it as part of the creative process.

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