The Nato Sessions

3200 Stories/Nato Green

Welcome to The Nato Sessions with comedian Nato Green, a series of Conversating & Podcastery with Famous Smart People. (Guests are guaranteed famous, smart, and also people, without specification, limitation, or exclusion.) Produced by Dan Wolf for 3200 Stories - www.3200stories.org. Theme music by DJ Real.

  1. J Elvis Weinstein

    06/22/2015

    J Elvis Weinstein

    Today's guest is comedian and writer J Elvis Weinstein. He's known for his work on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Cinematic Titanic, Freaks and Geeks, and America's Funniest Home Videos. We talk about all that plus Bill Hicks, the early alt comedy scene in LA, and the Jews of Minnesota.

    55 min
  2. Chinaka Hodge

    05/27/2015

    Chinaka Hodge

    Today's guest is writer/poet/activist Chinaka Hodge. We talk about Oakland, Mesherle, gentrification, poetry, adolescence, zombies, and the rap video we were in together.

    54 min
  3. Rachel Brahinsky

    03/17/2015

    Rachel Brahinsky

    In this episode, Nato talks to University of San Francisco Geography professor Rachel Brahinsky. They discuss the complicated history of Hunter’s Point and San Francisco gentrification as a tale of resistance as much as of displacement.

    1 hr

  4. 01/29/2015

    Tom Ammiano and Guy Branum

    On The Nato Sessions, I talk to politician and comedian Tom Ammiano and comedian and writer Guy Branum about the history of camp as an indigenous gay style of humor, drag, HBO’s Looking, and homophobia.

    37 min
  5. Dylan Brody

    01/06/2015

    Dylan Brody

    Today’s guest on The Nato Sessions is humorist, storyteller, writer, comedian Dylan Brody. We talk about the depths of depression, the power of humor in darkness, and writing Ross Perot jokes for Jay Leno when that was a thing.

    56 min
  6. Andy Kindler

    12/02/2014

    Andy Kindler

    Today’s guest on The Nato Sessions is comedian Andy Kindler (Bob’s Burgers, Maron). Andy strongly identifies with 1960s counterculture, so Nato takes Andy on a pilgrimage to the Haight-Ashbury. We discuss counterculture, nostalgia, the birth of alternative comedy, and why atheists are so obnoxious.

    55 min
  7. Jeff Chang

    11/11/2014

    Jeff Chang

    Today’s guest on The Nato Sessions is Jeff Chang, author of the recently “Who We Be: the Colorization of America.” We talk about the difference between race conversation and race spectacle, whether capitalism can end racism, and who is more cynical.

    59 min
  8. Louis Katz

    10/28/2014

    Louis Katz

    Today’s guest is comedian Louis Katz (Comedy Central Presents, Totally Biased). We talk about his class of SF comics, about being a nerdy Jew in an Asian-American sketch group at UC Berkeley, and growing up in a political house in Los Angeles.

    50 min
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Welcome to The Nato Sessions with comedian Nato Green, a series of Conversating & Podcastery with Famous Smart People. (Guests are guaranteed famous, smart, and also people, without specification, limitation, or exclusion.) Produced by Dan Wolf for 3200 Stories - www.3200stories.org. Theme music by DJ Real.

Information

  • Creator
    3200 Stories/Nato Green
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2015
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    The Nato Sessions