A Sesame Workshop Series, Dog Separation Anxiety, 'Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance,' Billionaire Space Travel, 25th Vision Festival

Sesame Workshop is producing a new documentary series titled, "Through Our Eyes," which tells stories through the eyes of children who are dealing with major issues like homelessness, parental incarceration, military caregiving, and climate displacement. Sesame Workshop director Kay Wilson Stallings and episode director Kristi Jacobson join us to discuss. 

Sarah Fraser, co-founder of Instinct Dog Training, joins us to answer listeners' questions on dog training, behavior, adoptions, and dealing with separation anxiety as dog parents return to the office.

A new book explores the complications and frustrations of navigating the American yoga world as a Black, queer, self-described fat woman. Author, wellness advocate, and yoga instructor, Jessamyn Stanley, joins us to discuss her second book, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance. 

Is outer space for billionaires or for the rest of us? Well, the answer is complicated. Chronically underfunded NASA decided about a decade ago that, in order to carry out missions that further our scientific understanding of our universe, publicly funded science needed to develop a symbiotic relationship with private space companies, like Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. To talk about that symbiosis, we're joined by Dr. Philip Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida and now-retired founder of NASA’s "Swamp Works" at Kennedy Space Center.

 Bass player William Parker & dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker join us to discuss the Vision Festival, a local free jazz festival now in its 25th year and running July 22 through July 31.

This episode is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.