The San Francisco Experience

The San Francisco Experience

We are a data driven news commentary podcast with Global Reach, serving listeners in more than 65 countries. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective, featuring newsmakers, thought leaders and authors as guests.

Your host

Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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Recent Episodes

May 17, 2024

Soul by Soul. The Evangelical Mission to spread the Gospel to Muslims. Talking with author Adriana Carranca.

Pentecostal Evangelical missionaries head to Muslim countries to spread the Gospel.
May 16, 2024

Day of Reckoning: How the Right declared War on Democracy. Talking with author Mike Wendling of the BBC.

MAGA which has been sidelined for the last four years, will be back in the national spotlight as Donald Trump becomes the official Republican candidate for President and the campaign gets underway.
May 14, 2024

Jimmy Lai on Trial: Why the outcome is so important to US China Relations. Talking with Sebastian Lai.

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong media mogul and Democracy advocate, is being prosecuted in a show trial for his political views.
May 8, 2024

Carnaval San Francisco. Talking with Director Rodrigo Duran.

Carnaval is San Francisco’s two day extravaganza celebrating all aspects of Latin and Caribbean culture in the Bay Area.
May 7, 2024

San Francisco's tourism industry on the rebound. Talking with David Perry.

San Francisco’s tourist industry is bouncing back from the depths of The Pandemic.
May 3, 2024

Prosper Marketplace and Fintech Innovation. Talking with CEO David Kimball

Prosper was the first peer to peer lender in the US and has expanded its’ product offering and grown to 2million members and $27billion lent since inception.

Recent Blog Posts

Peking to Paris 2019 Motor Rally with Jim Gately

The 8500 mile rally began in 1907, was revived in 1997 and draws participants from around the world. Jim Gately of Incline Village, Nevada set out on the 34 day trek in 2019 across Asia and Europe with 105 other participants. Jim will join The San …

Ruth Paine, one of the few surviving Warren Commission witnesses, to appear on TSFEP.

Ruth Paine befriended Lee and Marina Oswald in February 1963. From April 1963 until November 22, 1963 they lived with her at her suburban Dallas home. She will be my guest on The San Francisco Experience next Thursday to share her memories and Warr…

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.

William D. Cohan, New York Times best selling author has written a sweeping history of General Electric and its CEO in the 1980s and 90s Jack Welch. The book has earned plaudits from The New Yorker and The Financial Times as one of the Best Books of…

TSFEP was named top 25 California News Podcasts by Feedspot.com