Hey, It's Me
Welcome to Hey, It's Me, a new podcast hosted by Rachel Zucker and Mike Sakasegawa. In each episode, Rachel and Mike discuss whatever happens to be on their minds, whether that be relationships, pop culture, art, or even the very podcast they're currently recording. We don't know what we're doing h…
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Mike Sakasegawa is a writer, photographer, book artist, and the host of the arts and literature podcast Keep the Channel Open, and the short fiction podcast LikeWise Fiction.
His writing has appeared in Last Exit, Catapult, PetaPixel, and Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.
His photographs have been feat…
Episode 152: Rachel Lyon
Writer Rachel Lyon returns to the show to discuss her latest novel, Fruit of the Dead, a contemporary retelling of the Persephone myth in which a young woman is seduced by wealth and privilege in a story about addiction, class, sexual assault, and power. In our conversation, we talked about how mal…
Episode 153: Jennifer Baker
Writer, editor, and podcaster Jennifer Baker's debut YA novel, Forgive Me Not, imagines a near-future America in which the juvenile criminal justice system has been "reformed" to allow young people to undergo grueling Trials instead of incarceration. It's an incisive and powerful story about carcer…
Episode 154: Rachel Edelman
In the opening poem of Rachel Edelman's debut collection, Dear Memphis, the speaker returns to their home city after a long time away, traversing a landscape that is both familiar and foreign, a place to which she belongs but also doesn't. Over the course of the collection, Edelman asks questions a…
Episode 155: Sarah Gailey
Writer Sarah Gailey returns to the show for a discussion about their new novella, Have You Eaten? This serialized story follows four young queer characters as they traverse an America in the process of collapse, taking care of each other along the way. In our conversation, Sarah and I talked about …
Episode 156: Perry Janes
Perry Janes's debut poetry collection, Find Me When You're Ready, follows its speaker from childhood in Detroit to young adulthood in Los Angeles, a coming-of-age story in five acts, told through a series of lyric moments. The poems in this collection confront childhood sexual abuse and the story o…
Episode 158: Marisa DeLuca
The paintings in Marisa DeLuca's series Spectre document the changing urban landscape of the city she lives in—Oceanside, California—mourning spaces made ephemeral by the forces of gentrification. In our conversation we talked about the difference between painting and photography, how process affec…
Episode 159: Abbie Kiefer
The poems in Abbie Kiefer's debut collection, Certain Shelter, are, in my reading, about aftermath. They are about grief and loss, whether that is the loss of the speaker's mother to cancer or her hometown's changing landscape. But they are also about change and rebirth, and both the anxiety and th…
Episode 23: We're Always Only Ever Actually Talking About Ourselves
Mike and Rachel talk about Starfleet Academy.
(Recorded September 4, 2026.) Transcript Show Notes
Starfleet Academy
Paradise
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom's video thread Episode Credits
Music: Podington Bear
Editing: Shea Aguinaldo and Mike Sakasegawa
Trans…
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