Episodes
April 20, 2021
Poorly Understood: What America gets wrong about poverty. Speaking with co-author Professor Mark Rank about his book.
Poverty in the United States is more widespread than in the other developed OECD countries due to our skimpy social safety net. For instance, 60% of Americans will experience poverty sometime in their life between 18 and 75…
April 16, 2021
Leaving California: Allison Pullins and Neal Richardson discuss their decision to relocate to North Carolina.
A young family weighs a difficult decision to leave San Francisco and move to North Carolina. Mixed emotions confront Allison and Neal as they decide to leave their adopted home in San Francisco for North Carolina. A wistful…
April 14, 2021
Bitcoin and Coinbase: What you should know before investing. In conversation with Anders Kruus, Financial Advisor.
Coinbase went public today, making it easier for individual investors to transact in Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and Litecoin. Will Coinbase make Crypto more accessible like Apple and Microsoft made clunk…
April 9, 2021
George Floyd Trial and Police Reform: A discussion with Martin Kuz, West Coast Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.
Minneapolis and the nation as a whole are holding their collective breath as the George Floyd murder trial unfolds. Just as the repercussions of his killing by police officer Derek Chauvin last year are still working their …
April 7, 2021
Frida Kahlo: Appearances can be deceiving. A conversation with Hillary Olcott, Coordinating Curator, Frida Kahlo Exhibit, DeYoung Museum.
The Frida Kahlo Exhibit is a collection of the artist's most personal artifacts including clothing, photographs, prosthetics, paintings, and jewelry which was stored at her home in Mexico City from the time of her death, 195…
April 1, 2021
Christo's Running Fence - 45 years later. An interview with Eric Stanley, Historian, Sonoma County Museum.
Running Fence was a 24.5 mile massive art installation on the hills of Sonoma and Marin Counties, ending with a dive into the Pacific Ocean. Rated by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the most important artworks of the s…
March 31, 2021
A tale of two Covids: Canada and the United States' different paths. In conversation with Trevin Stratton, Chief Economist of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Canada's Pandemic management in 2020 was exemplary by any measure, lower infection rates and lower mortality rate belied the nation's sense of collective responsibility for all Canadians health. The US has much to learn from…
March 26, 2021
Asian American Violence and Hate: An interview with US Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki
Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic one year ago, Asian Americans have faced racist violence at a much higher rate than in previous years. In New York City for instance, hate crimes against Asian Americans have jumped 1…
March 25, 2021
Hate Studies Institute, Gonzaga University. In conversation with Kristine Hoover, Director
Spokane, Washington is the site of the Gonzaga University campus and the Institute of Hate Studies. Located not far from the Idaho panhandle where White Supremacist groups and ideology have flourished, the Institute is on th…
March 22, 2021
California Recall garners more than 2 million signatures. An interview with Professor David McCuan
It looks like the Recall organizers who want to oust California Governor Gavin Newsom have successfully gathered more than enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. Political Scientist Professor at Sonoma State Univ…
March 18, 2021
Harvey Milk Terminal Murals at SFO: Meet the Artist Emily Fromm
The Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport is our newest and repurposed facility. Local artist Emily Fromm was selected by the SF Arts Commission to create four large mosaic murals in the departure hal…
March 17, 2021
CRISPR People. The Science and Ethics of editing the Human Genome
Two women Emanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the gene editing technique known s CRISPR-CAS9. But in 2018 the first humans were born with edited genes in China, tw…
March 10, 2021
David beats Goliath: How a gym owner took on Governor Cuomo and won. An interview with Charlie Cassara.
When Governor Cuomo of New York issued his lockdown orders March 20, 2020, he failed to designate fitness centers as essential services. Notwithstanding the health benefits of exercise and the fact that 73% of the 525,000 Co…
March 6, 2021
Recall the San Francisco School Board: A conversation with Community Leader Joel Engardio
The SF School Board is threatened with being recalled because after one year of Covid related lockdowns, the 127 public schools in the City are still closed to its' 59,000 students. The City is actually suing the School Boar…
March 4, 2021
From Side Hustle to Startup: Ed Rocha gives us a road map to build a business.
Serial Entrepreneur and business coach Ed Rocha sets out a clear step by step strategy to take your gig, side hustle or past time from a concept to a profitable business. He practices what he preaches, having successfully la…
March 2, 2021
Brexit: The Establishment Civil War. A Conversation with author Josh Hamilton.
The 2016 vote by 52% of the UK electorate to leave the European Union came at the end of a contentious campaign where Social Media dominated. Targeted micro marketing crafted by firms like Cambridge Analytica foreshadowed ev…
Feb. 27, 2021
Working from home: You knew it was too good to last.
While most of corporate America has been telecommuting to work from their homes for the last 11 months, that's about to change if Goldman Sachs' CEO David Solomon has his way. He views working from home as an aberration "tha…
Feb. 25, 2021
Is the Iran Nuclear Deal back on ? A conversation with Bill Boerum
The Biden Administration is seeking to revive negotiations with Iran on the 2015 Obama Administration deal. The Trump Administration abrogated the agreement in 2018. And since then Iran's foes in the Persian Gulf - Dubai, Ba…
Feb. 21, 2021
Recall Fever: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
California voters are especially testy these days as we enter our 12 th month of Covid lockdown. Not only is the Governor threatened with Recall over his handling of the crisis, but the San Francisco District Attorney is too…
Feb. 18, 2021
Black History Month: In conversation with Jonathan Speed
February is Black History Month when we celebrate and acknowledge the many accomplishments of African Americans throughout the history of the United States. In today's episode, successful Venture Capitalist Jonathan Speed, a…
Feb. 13, 2021
Age Discrimination and Telehealth : A Conversation with Andrew Broderick
The Medical profession has aggressively adopted the video call and the Zoom meeting during the Covid lockdown. Over 25 million video doctor visits have taken place in 2020. But as this digital health revolution got underway,…
Feb. 8, 2021
Ambassador Ric Grenell and the California Recall
Ambassador Ric Grenell served as US Ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020. Subsequently he served as Acting Director of National Intelligence in 2020, a cabinet level post. A favorite of Donald Trump for his blunt and fort…
Feb. 6, 2021
Governor Newsom's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.
The first week of February 2021 was not very good to the Governor of California. First, the Recall signature campaign was closing in on 1.4 million signatures with six weeks left before the deadline. Then two Republican cand…
Feb. 5, 2021
Labyrinth of the Wind (2)
Labyrinth of the Wind is the critically acclaimed debut novel of Madhav Misra, our guest in the Meet the Author series. Madhav takes us back in time to the late 1970s when Teheran, Iran was an international city, awash in p…