Episode 77 was recorded on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Shoba Rao considers "The Power of Asking Why" in taking personal responsibility for one's health.

Fulbio Parodi, in "A Spoon Worth of Purpose" urges mindfulness of humanity's use of nanoplastics and their role in our environment.

Anna Garcia and Santosh Kumar evaluate the speeches. 

In our external video, we visit North Valley Toastmasters, a club which meets at Denny's in Milpitas, every Friday morning at 7am.

Neetish Pathak hosts this episode.

Rundown Timing

List of Graphics

• Tag - Neetish Pathak / Host
• Tag - Shoba Rao / "The Power of Asking Why" 
• Tag - Anna Garcia / Speech Evaluator
• Tag - Fulbio Parodi / "A Spoon Worth of Purpose"
• Tag - Santosh Kumar / Speech Evaluator
• lower 3d - District 101 Toastmasters, D101TM.org
• lower 3d - Toastmasters International, www.Toastmasters.org 
• Credit Roll 
• In memory of Birgit Starmanns / Co-Producer, Toastmasters Bay to Bay
• North Valley Toastmasters segment produced by Stanley Ng

Crew

• Producer - Neetish Pathak, David Simon, Stanley Ng
• Director - David Simon 
• Switcher - Patricia Neme (6:00 arrival)
• Sound - Scott Van Duyne 
  
• Graphics - Fred Bockmann 
  
• Floor Director - Stan Ng 
• Camera - Margaret Lane 
• Camera - Becky Sanders 
  
• Camera - Stacie Delakovias 
• Camera - Alan Zoraster 

Not Available: Batya Bell, Ryan Mast

No response: Tom Upton

Taping Timeline

5:15 : Crew Dinner is served! 

5:30 : General Crew Call. Set up the studio for lighting: set pieces and chairs should be in place

6:00 : Studio is ready for lighting. Tech lights with help of lighting control monitor, stand-ins.

6:30 : Cast Call Time please be present so we can go over details, questions, etc, and familiarize yourself with the studio. We will meet in the lobby while studio prep condinues. If you have not already done so, please review past episodes (see the sidebar on the right) to get an idea of what we're after.

7:00 : Studio is ready. Blocking Rehearsal for Cast and Crew; Cue-to-Cue dry run to iron out last-minute glitches.

7:15-7:45: Roll Tape!

7:45-8:00: Clean up Studio

Please be prompt and willing to take direction. We'd like to roll tape no later than 7:20 in order to wrap by 8:00. It will help if all questions are asked and answered early in the evening before we start taping!

Cast and Crew: If you can't make it please let Stan know immediately.