Golden Gate Xpress Podcasts

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Co-host Chris Ramirez and guest host Sabita Shrestha, photo editor,  sat down with SF State professor Russell Jeung, founder of Stop AAPI Hate and recently-named one of TIME’s most influential people of 2021. Chris and Sabita asked about the reason for starting the project and...

Welcome to Chiva Pod, a bilingual podcast for the Latinx community in the San Francisco Bay Area! It’s the tenth Day of Hispanic Heritage Month! Host, Sebastian takes a different approach for stories during Hispanic Heritage Month. Chiva Pod is continuing the Herencia series by asking Latino/a Studies professors, what their playlist for this month looks like? Is it a reflection of their identity,...

Gator Talk is off this week!  Welcome to Chiva Pod , a bilingual podcast for the Latinx community in the San Francisco Bay Area! Host, Sebastian takes a different approach for stories during Hispanic Heritage Month. Chiva Pod is launching this series by asking Latino/a Studies professors, what their playlist for this month looks like? Is it a reflection of their identity, their community, or...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Seb is out this week. Co-host, Chris Ramirez, with guest Campus Editor, Eve DeBord, sat down with SF State professor and California gubernatorial election candidate, Michael Loebs, to learn more about his platform with the California National Party. Chris and Eve also asked about h...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Host, Sebastian Mino-Bucheli, with guest Social Media Editor, Anaïs Ophelia-Lino breaks down news coming out of Afghanistan with a lens from San Francisco State. We covered a protest that went out in San Francisco, asked what’s going to happen with refugees coming in and the reflec...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. New co-host, Chris Ramirez, breaks down your campus-related questions, from vaccine requirements to when the sauna in the Mashouf Wellness Center will be back in business. This week, SF State saw half of its student body back in person for classes — the first time since the Spring...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s 19 episode, host Sebastian gives the fans a treat for the final episode of the season: a preview of his new show, Chiva Pod, a bilingual podcast for the Latinx community! Sebastian puts a spotlight on Latin America with the headlines made in Colombia, Puerto Rico, D...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Guest host, Lucky Whitburn-Thomas tells us the story of Me Me Khant, a local spoken word poet and how she began writing poetry in Myanmar during a revolution in 2007. As of recently, Myanmar is back in the news because of the military recall of the presidential elections in a coup...

Welcome to the Chomp Pod, a sports podcast that brings the Bay Area sports news to SF State. In the Chomp Pod’s third episode, SF State Campus news reporters and hosts, Nick Mazzoni and Jack Davies will be covering the latest in Bay Area sports. Nick and Jack talk about SF State is planning to have sports being back this fall, NFL Draft, where the Golden State Warriors before the NBA playoffs, and...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Guest host, Dan DeJesus puts the spotlight on one of the newest trends to hit the cryptocurrency market this year, NFTs. But what is a NFT? Stick around for this episode that explains the new "digital collectibles" that have gain popularity this year. 

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Guest host, Ari Arciaga leads this special opinion episode for AAPI Month where she talks about recent hate crimes and model minority myth with a variety of sources. 

Hola que tal, this is your multimedia editor, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli!  Firstly, Happy Mothers’ Day - Feliz Día de las Madres! Shout out to my mamá and abuela for being supporters of podcasting and being the first to tell me, they enjoyed the show, Gator Talk. Gracias por todo. Please thank your moms and grandmas! Secondly, I’m also here with a quick update for GGX Pod listeners who follow Gat...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news.  Guest host, Sean Watkins sat down with Ken Newman, co-founder and president of Blanket the Homeless, to discuss his organization and how they provide for the homeless, as well as the issues the city of San Francisco continues to face regarding their massive homeless populatio...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Guest Host, Elizabeth Freeman knows less than the average stormtrooper when it comes to Star Wars trivia, so in celebration of May the Fourth this year, or as it’s better known, "Star Wars Day", she went through the journey of a "padawan" to get an understanding of the hype surroun...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Happy hour zoom calls with friends you hadn’t talked to in ages and Instagram tag challenges helped keep us connected. Guest Host, Sydney Vargas started to think about online friendships since this phenomena in maintaining long distance fr...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s twelfth episode, Golden Gate Xpress copy editor Sabita Shrestha takes over the host spot for the episode. Sabita wanted to deeper into anti-Asian hate and racism, so she reached out to Professor Mai Nhung Le, who is the current chair of Asian American Studies Depart...

Welcome to the Chomp Pod, a sports podcast that brings the Bay Area sports news to SF State. In the Chomp Pod’s second episode, SF State Campus news reporters and hosts, Nick Mazzoni and Jack Davies will be covering the latest in Bay Area sports. Nick and Jack talk about the Giants and A’s baseball, where the Golden State Warriors are at in this point in the basketball season and the latest news i...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s eleventh episode, host Sebastian invited past sources and San Franciscans on social media to share what they call this place that we live in? This is a celebratory episode for San Francisco's birthday! 

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s tenth episode, host Sebastian invited San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar, she oversees District 7 that encompasses Ingleside, Parkside, West Portal and more neighborhoods. San Francisco State University just so happens to be in her district! 

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s ninth episode, host Sebastian invited Editor in Chief of the San Diego State's the Daily Aztec, Brenden Tuccinardi. Since most colleges held Spring Break this year, San Diego State was amongst the other half of colleges that did not. San Diego State held "Wellness D...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s eighth episode, host Sebastian invited Ed Holmes , commonly known as Bishop Joey for a special episode dedicated to Saint Stupid’s Day held on April 1 every year in the city of San Francisco.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s seventh episode, host Sebastian invited Professor Emil Guillermo, who taught Diversity in Journalism at San Francisco State University while also being a columnist for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, as a guest onto for the main story to talk ab...

Welcome to the Chomp Pod, a sports podcast that brings the Bay Area sports news to SF State. In the Chomp Pod’s Pilot episode, SF State Campus news reporters and hosts, Nick Mazzoni and Jack Davies analyze the recent headlines made by the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics’s, March Madness, the current spot that the Golden State Warriors are at and Nick has a very special guest intervi...

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. In Gator Talk’s sixth episode, host Sebastian shares the main story spot with Golden Gate Xpress campus new reporter; Sydney Vargas. She conducted an interview with Karla Beauty Marx about Endometriosis Week.

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. Esta es la primera vez que se traduce un episodio de Gator Talk. ¡Muchas gracias por escuchar! El 18 de febrero, Demócratas en el Congreso presentaron un proyecto de ley de inmigración sin nombre que permitiría a 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados en los Estados Unidos que s...