In our final episode of the first season, we do a quick recap of how we think the season went, what we liked about the guest interviews and Treat of the Day, how to improve both segments (including the possibility of adding games with guests), how we can interact more directly with our listeners, and other ideas for the upcoming season.

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In the penultimate episode of our first season, we invite Shanna Polley — artist, musician, sound designer, music teacher, and an honorary member of Stanford EdTech, especially given that she’s the newly engaged fiancée of our very own William Bottini — to the café where we discuss her creative process, her auspicious start to songwriting at 13 years old, her artistic inspirations (both famous and non-famous), the fulfilling and challenging aspects of her musical success, and her advice to aspiring young musicians. We also talk about some of her weirdest sound designs, opening up rat brains for research, something about William that we didn't know, and Spongebob the Musical... again!

For our Treat of the Day, we review the snowmen that William photographed in Fort Tryon Park on the first day of snow, which leads to a chat about upcoming Christmas plans and our favorite Christmas traditions. We also catch up on other things about Shanna that we didn't get to, and we even get an update on Jessica's feral cats adjusting to the presence of a dog.

Check out https://snakeskinmusic.bandcamp.com/ to learn more about Shanna & her work. Her newest album, Heart Orb Bone, will be released early 2021.

In this episode, we welcome Bindu Madhava, formerly of AV Tech at Stanford Medicine and currently a senior digital media specialist at Stanford EdTech. We discuss his upbringing in Bangalore, India when 16mm and video cameras first arrived, the cinematographer who became his first mentor, the Bollywood and Hollywood films that have inspired him, and the "Hollywood Dream." We also talk about his reasons for emigrating to the United states, his professional career leading up to Stanford, the projects he has been recently working on, and his process for incorporating storytelling into everything he does.

Our Treat of the Day concerns the Facebook group, Every Spongebob Frame in Order, and the joy that it provides William while quarantining. This leads to a discussion about the online communities that have sustained us, from virtual theatre to TV-show-related memes to online film blogs, not just during shelter-in-place, but throughout our lives.