Hungry for More : an Epicurean's Dilemma

This was a treat with a capital T. Trish interviews Italian-American chef Lidia Bastianich. She's an Emmy award winning television host, author and restauranteur who moved to New York at the age of 12. She and her family had to escape their life in Istria, where she left her Grandma Rosa and lived in a refugee camp for 2 years. She tells wonderful, idyllic stories of Grandma Rosa and then, living...

Trish Glose talks to Rebecca Bender, CEO and founder of RBI and human trafficking survivor. Rebecca grew up in Southern Oregon and says she had big dreams for herself. She found herself moving to Las Vegas with her boyfriend, what she says she hoped would be the beginning of an exciting new life, but instead, turned into a nightmare the first night she was there. She was forced into sex traffickin...

Trish Glose talks to the Executive Director of Healthcare Ready, Nicolette Louissaint. The organization focuses on the country's healthcare supply chain and making it stronger before, during and after disasters. Nicolette was appointed to serve on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Advisory Council in 2019. She talks about the immediate needs of people displaced from their home aft...

He survived Hurricane Katrina and the hurdles and challenges he faced are the reasons he's in his current line of work. Daniel Aldrich is a professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the director of Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University. He's also carried out more than five years of field work in Japan, India, Africa, and the Gulf Coast. He was...

Tragedy hit close to home for Trish, as she and most of Southern Oregon watched parts of their community go up in flames on August 8, 2020. The devastating Almeda Fire severely burned the towns of Talent and Phoenix and now many are wondering what's next. Trish talks to Jeff Schlegelmilch the director of the National Center of Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute at Columbia University abo...

Trish Glose talks to Rebecca Bender, CEO and founder of RBI and human trafficking survivor. Rebecca grew up in Southern Oregon and says she had big dreams for herself. She found herself moving to Las Vegas with her boyfriend, what she says she hoped would be the beginning of an exciting new life, but instead, turned into a nightmare the first night she was there. She was forced into sex traffickin...

Sumptuous and wino... just a couple of definitions for "lush" and we're not mad at either. Trish talks to Sommelier Sarah Tracey, certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers and founder of The Lush Life. She talks about her love of music and how one bad night after playing a club with her band (and an offer to travel to Tuscany) ultimately pushed her into the world of wine. She goes into her diffe...

She can DRAW Snoopy (and all the other Peanuts characters)!!! Trish interviews cartoonist Paige Braddock, the Chief Creative Officer of the Approvals Team at the Schulz Studio. She and her team oversee the art and editorial content for all Peanuts products around the globe. Paige says while she can draw all the Peanuts characters, the team usually pulls from Charles Schulz's work and modify it. Sh...

Trish Glose learns all about astrology and horoscopes with Lisa Stardust, an astrologer based in New York City. She's been a part of the astrology community for more than 10 years and has written horoscopes for major publications, including The Hoodwitch and Teen Vogue. She breaks down what it means to write out horoscopes, what's been happening with the planets over the last few months, and what...

Trish Glose interviews Julie Grauert, a retired news anchor turned advocate for curing spinal cord injury. Julie talks about growing up in Lake Oswego, Oregon before heading east to school. She worked at a television station in Portland and while she loved the job, she says her real dream was getting to New York City by the age of 30. Julie talks about her on air jobs in the big city, meeting the...

Trish Glose interviews the "King of Pot", now turned "King of Hemp". It's Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc. and one of the biggest pot smugglers on the West Coast in the sixties. He talks about how he got into the world of smuggling, the infrastructure he built, and how ultimately, he got caught. He tells tales from the co-ed prison he was in, what he did when he got out and how now, his life's fo...

Trish Glose interviews Dr. Elia Gourgouris, also known as "The Happiness Doctor." Dr. Elia is the president of The Happiness Center, an organization that's "dedicated to helping others find personal success and happiness." The two talk about his work as a clinical psychologist for nearly 20 years before he says the job was starting to burn him out, both physically and emotionally. He recalls that...

Trish Glose talks to the woman behind the popular online blog, "What to do in Southern Oregon." Lanessa Pierce started it when she herself was looking for inexpensive, fun things to do with her family. It grew from there into the business it is today. Lanessa talks about growing up in Southern California, not being at fan (at first) of Southern Oregon, some of her favorite adventures, and of cours...

Trish Glose talks to comedian Leanne Morgan about her roots, where she found her humor, how she got her start and why she's different than other comedians out there. She also talks about her podcast, "Sweaty and Pissed : Menopause and more", and how the funny and informative discussions have helped others maneuver their way through the sometimes difficult ordeal. It's a sweet and genuine conversat...

Trish Glose interviews Restless Network founder, Olivia DeRamus. Olivia, originally from Washington, D.C. was looking for a world of new experiences and decided to head west for college. She says she was loving life at her California university, but everything changed when, at the age of 19, she was sexually assaulted. Despite winning her two university tribunals, her attacker decided to sue her f...

Trish Glose talks to chef Tim Keller about his journey through many kitchens, including some in Southern Oregon. He explains where his love of cooking came from, how he really always wanted to be a rock star, and why he thinks chefs hop from kitchen to kitchen. He also tells the story about one of the worst things that happened to him inside a kitchen and what it was like to work with Robin Willia...

Trish Glose interviews former KTVL co-worker, April Warnecke. The two talk about that first TV job and April's journey to where she is now, a morning meteorologist in Phoenix for "Good Morning Arizona." April goes into the challenges she and fellow co-workers have faced during the pandemic, how she literally married the sports guy, and forecasting Arizona's very interesting weather. A lot of laugh...

Trish Glose talks to well known free-diving, spear fisher woman Valentine Thomas. She talks about growing up in Montreal, Canada, being bullied in high school and having no friends and eventually going to law school to study criminology law. She moved to London where she eventually got into hedge funds and became highly successful, but left it all behind to pursue her passion of spear fishing and...

For the 100th episode of Off Script, Trish Glose talks to the lovely and talented Kate Mulligan, best known in Southern Oregon for her work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Kate talks lovingly about her father, Jim Mulligan, who was one of the first writers of the show "Laugh In" and "M*A*S*H", but who also has a very long, impressive resume of shows he was a part of. When he passed, Kate found...

Trish Glose interviews former professor and the coordinator of Recruitment and Retention at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, Paul Mitchell. The two talk about how journalism has changed in the last couple of decades, when it comes to reporting and teaching young journalists. He brings up some of those success stories he's had a hand in and also talks about how C...

Trish Glose chats with restaurant owner Braden Hitt. Hitt owns Over Easy in downtown Medford. The two talk about Braden growing up in Oklahoma City, moving to Portland to pursue his chef dreams, and how ended up in Southern Oregon. He tells some great stories of faux pas in the kitchen, injuries he's sustained over the years, and his favorite story about a famous person. The two also talk about ho...

Trish Glose talks to semi-retired plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Ron Worland. He talks about growing up on the East coast, having a twin and signing with the Ford agency to do commercials and other modeling work. He says it was all to pay for medical school. He also goes into the motivation behind excelling in reconstructive surgery, the late night trauma calls, and why it's his passion to tr...

Trish Glose hears all about the shenanigans of Doug Irvine. Now owner of Irvine & Roberts Vineyards in Ashland, Doug shares growing up in both Southern California and Southern Oregon, the fun trouble he got into in high school, the interesting way he started dating his wife and what it was like having Chuck Norris as an uncle. Lots of laughs and a sweet story about his dad's advice he'll never for...

Trish Glose talks to registered dietitian, Julie Kokinakes about food, diet, lifestyle choices and why consumers should question the guidelines. Kokinakes walks us through some popular diets and talks about, in her opinion, what works and what doesn't. An eye-opening interview on food and what consumers may not know.

Trish Glose interviews fellow journalist and friend, Barrett Tryon, who anchors the morning show in Lansing, Michigan. He talks about growing up in Sarasota, Florida, always knowing he wanted to be in the news business, and how this career got him behind the anchor desk. They also talk about how the Coronavirus pandemic has changed his daily life and his scare with skin cancer.