• The First Battle For Disability Rights
    May 17 2026

    Mitch gives an update on what he has been up to, which includes narrating his first audiobook called An Independent Man: Ed Roberts & The Fight For Disability Rights by Scot Dan Forth. Included in the podcast is the first chapter of the book that tells the incredible first battle for disability rights at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s.

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    29 mins
  • Love (A Short Story) By William Maxwell
    May 12 2026

    Mitch reads and chats about William Maxwell's short story Love published in 1983 and found in A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker 1925-2025.


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    11 mins
  • ERIC SWALWELL, CESAR CHAVEZ & ME
    May 6 2026

    The growing pains of a changing society and the reading of a short story by Kate Chopin called The Story of an Hour, published in 1894.

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    18 mins
  • The Mystic & The Monk: The Art of Letting Things Alone
    Apr 27 2026

    Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi, and Why I Left Broadcast Journalism

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    20 mins
  • THE ELEVATOR DOWN
    Apr 21 2026

    Passing Through Mongolia America

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    8 mins
  • AFTER THE SORROW
    Dec 31 2025

    A Quote from Min Jin Lee:

    "Somewhere after being sorry, there has to be another day..."

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    8 mins
  • A CHRISTMAS TALE
    Dec 28 2025

    Is This The Christmas Spirit?

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    21 mins
  • A MONSTROUS BIRTH
    Nov 29 2025

    Reflections On Frankenstein & Going To The Movies

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    15 mins