Paula Poundstone--veteran comedian perhaps best known as a regular panelist on NPR's popular weekly quiz show, "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me" and cat fancier extraordinaire--provides an update on her family's current feline population (holding steady at 16), recent...
Jane Velez-Mitchell--award-winning television journalist and best-selling author who hosts the nightly "Jane Velez-Mitchell" show on HLN (CNN's sister network)--discusses some of her childhood, tracing her path of becoming someone who speaks and works so...
Marisa Miller Wolfson--the writer-director of "Vegucated," the award-winning documentary tracking three dyed-in-the-wool meat and cheese eating New Yorkers who accept a challenge to go vegan for six weeks (WMNF presented the film's Tampa Bay area...
Dr. Terrie M Williams--a biologist and researcher whose new book is "The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, A Marine Biologist, and the Fight To Save A Species"--discusses her background and the array of animals she'd studied over the course of her career, and just...
Diane Weigandt--an expert on raw food diets for dogs and cats--discusses what spurred her initial interest and research into raw food diets for dogs and cats, noting her history as a lifelong animal lover and the sort of kid who often tended to sick or injured...
David Kirby--investigative journalist and author, most recently of "Death At SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity"--discusses the relatively short period he spend reporting, researching and writing the new, nearly 500-page book, which we...
Roberto Martin--author of the new cookbook "Vegan Cooking For Carnivores: Over 125 Recipes So Tasty You Won't Miss The Meat" and who serves as personal chef for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi--discusses his history as a cook in Southern California at such...
In an effort to continue experimenting with different approaches to presenting guests and information on "Talking Animals"--and a parallel desire to give voice to a broader array of animal organizations and leaders--we returned to a format we try to employ about...
Tony Angell--co-author (with John Marzluff) and illustrator of "Gifts Of The Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds To Behave Like Humans," a fascinating book that's both scholarly and anecdotal in making the convincing case for crows being...
This part of June marks the ninth anniversary of "Talking Animals" and to celebrate in recent years, I've tried to present a special guest or two--at least, special to me! So today's guest is Carrie Brownstein--musician, writer and actress who's the...
