Episodes
May 7, 2025
Sailing Around the World with Parkinson's Disease. Talking with Ethan Henderson of The Michael J Fox Fdn and Amy Bridge of the Neptune Project.
Working to find a cure for Parkinson’s by fundraising for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Sailing as a physical therapy for people living with Parkinson’s.
May 1, 2025
Spark SF Public Schools. Talking with President Ginny Fang.
SFUSD has over 50,000 students, a budget of $1.2 billion but still struggles to fund key programs. SparkSF, a non profit, was created 10 years ago to mobilize philanthropic and community donations to support our students.
April 30, 2025
US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order. Talking with author Dr. Rich Outzen
Is Coercive Diplomacy as efficacious today as it once was ? Or have targets - like Russia - learned to hedge the risks from US economic, military and diplomatic sanctions.
April 28, 2025
TCM Classic Film Festival 2025. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place TV and Movie Blog.
The annual TCM film festival took place in Los Angeles April 24 - 27. A celebration of classic films and their fans.
April 25, 2025
Canada's Historic Election. Talking with Marci Surkes.
Canada 🇨🇦 holds national elections on Monday April 28. Dominating the campaign and top of mind for every voter are the impact of tariffs on the Canadian economy. Resilience is central to the debate as well as President Trump featuring prominently in the discourse. The Liberals led by Mark Carney wh…
April 22, 2025
The Return of the Strong Gods. Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West. Talking with author Rusty Reno.
The Postwar consensus, based on Karl Popper’s Open Society and Hayek’s Road to Serfdom is based on secularity, individualism and internationalism, has served to keep the Peace for 80 years since 1945. But it’s coming to an end. What will replace it ?
April 18, 2025
The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck. How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's all Female Concentration Camp. Talking with author Lynne Olson.
How four young French women who were in the Resistance made a huge impact on the all female concentration camp in Germany.
April 14, 2025
The Telepathy Tapes: A British Perspective. Talking with Michael Marshall.
The Telepathy Tapes have been a worldwide podcasting phenomenon. Today’s episode brings a British point of view.
April 9, 2025
Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade. Talking with author, Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
Jim teams up with Huckleberry Finn to raft down the Mississippi to freedom: the runaway slave and irreverent scamp are an unlikely duo. But 140 years after the
publication of Twain’s greatest novel, Jim continues to be misunderstood.
April 7, 2025
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities. Talking with John King, The San Francisco Chronicle's former urban design critic.
The Ferry Building of San Francisco, like many of its citizens, has faced hard times, lost its purpose but reinvented itself for the 21st Century.
April 3, 2025
The Lost and The Found. A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances. Speaking with author Kevin Fagan.,
Homelessness in San Francisco has a human face. And from time to time, there are success stories when someone is rehabilitated, often with the intense help of family. The Lost and The Found relates two such cases.
April 2, 2025
Canada: A defining moment for our neighbor to the North. Talking to Marci Surkes, former advisor to Justin Trudeau, the outgoing Prime Minister.
Canada 🇨🇦 faces an uncertain future as it looks forward to a General Election April 28, 2025. New Prime Minister Mark Carney stares down a shaky economy and new US tariffs. He has said that the key relationship with America 🇺🇸 is over, causing Canadians even more angst.
March 19, 2025
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the new Millennium. Talking with author Martin Gurri.
A tsunami has dethroned the elites from being in charge of information flow to the public. Politicians, Government, Universities are no longer the gatekeepers of what is important for the public to know.
March 17, 2025
The Open Society as an Enemy: How Free Societies turned against themselves. Talking with Professor J. McKenzie Alexander
Karl Popper, the great philosopher and LSE Professor once said: “ Be intolerant of intolerance”. For all who would curtail our Freedom of Speech.
March 13, 2025
Safe and Sound: a proven program that reduces childhood abuse, neglect and trauma. Talking with Pegah Faed, CEO of Safe and Sound.
With 4500 reports of child abuse in San Francisco annually, we need to maintain excellent programs like Safe and Sound to treat the problem.
March 11, 2025
The Zodiac Killings: Still Unsolved. Talking with Shaun Chang of the Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
The Zodiac killings took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 70s. But they were never solved. In this episode we discuss two films about this True Crime Story.
March 5, 2025
The Science of Weird Shit: Why our minds conjure the Paranormal. Talking with Professor Chris French.
Paranormal phenomena and the psychology behind them. Anomalistic Psychology.
March 3, 2025
In conversation with Dr. Deepak Srivastava, President of Gladstone Institutes.
Gladstone Intitutes is a leading biomedical research facility doing cutting edge medical research, employing 600 scientists. They bring together stem cell, Gene editing and Artificial Intelligence technologies to craft cures for disease.
Feb. 27, 2025
A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging. Talking with co-author Ed Thompson.
Men’s healthcare has advanced significantly in the last 30 years in part because of cultural shifts in society and the evolution of masculinity.
Feb. 24, 2025
Extreme Wealth is the leading social problem of our time. Author Sarah Kerr discusses her new book, Let's Talk Wealtherty.
Technology company founders more often than not have created extreme wealth for themselves through their companies. And significant social problems have followed.
Feb. 17, 2025
The United States, Russia and Ukraine: Peace Talks begin. Talking with noted global strategist Alp Sevimlisoy, Defense Policy expert and CEO of his Defense Representation Company.
The US Russia peace talks get underway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday February 18th.
Feb. 17, 2025
Presidents' Day: What do we celebrate ? Talking with Professor Jack Pitney.
What began as a commemorative to First President George Washington has evolved into a celebration of all 45 US presidents.
Feb. 12, 2025
Thanks to Life : A biography of Violeta Parra, the Chilean folksinger. Talking with Ericka Verba.
Violeta Parra was a Chilean folksinger with a broad following in Chile and abroad.
Feb. 10, 2025
Tusk: Building a new search engine. Talking with founder and CEO, Jeff Bermant
Search Engines like Google are a major source where Americans get their news. But Google News has a 63% left bias versus 6% right bias. Other search engines have similar biases.