Episodes
July 16, 2025
American Zealots. Inside Domestic Right Wing Terrorism. Speaking with author Arie Perliger.
Far Right violence and extremism on the rise in America. Why ?
July 14, 2025
Apple in China. The Capture of the World's Greatest Company. An in depth interview with author Patrick McGee.
Apple’s iPhone production is concentrated in China where it has built the most advanced electronics supply chain in the world. Will this geographic concentration be the downfall of Apple ?
July 12, 2025
Space in the Bay Area. Research, Technology, Commercialization. Talking with Sean Randolph.
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the largest concentrations of Space related research and manufacturing companies in the US.
July 11, 2025
A CIA False Flag Plot. Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, August 1963. Setting up the Fall Guy. Talking with Jefferson Morley.
A CIA operative who managed the DRE, the anti Castro student group has been named, George Joannides ska Howard Gebler. DRE baited Oswald in New Orleans to get him to be interviewed on radio and TV 90 days before the JFK assassination. They actively promoted the recordings to show Oswald as a radic…
July 10, 2025
The Power of the Independent Voter. Talking with Adam Brandon
The rising generation of voters in the US - Gen Z and Millennials - as a very high proportion of independent voters. Unlike their Baby Boomer parents who register Democrat or Republican the younger generation refuses to be locked into that binary straight jacket of politics.
July 5, 2025
My Mom Jayne. A film by Mariska Hargitay. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
Jayne Mansfield was a movie star in the late 2950s and early 60s. But as her film career began to decline she made a series of choices in her personal life that added chaos to her professional life.
July 2, 2025
The Great Progression 2025 - 2050. Talking with Futurist and Author Peter Leyden.
AI, Clean, cheap abundant energy and genetic engineering technology will spur a profound transformation of our lives over the next 25 years.
July 1, 2025
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy ? Talking with author Professor James Fishkin.
Extreme polarization in our politics can be addressed and reduced through Deliberative Polling, a technique developed by Professor Jim Fishkin of Stanford University.
June 30, 2025
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. The Exhibition. Talking with Martin Biallas.
Michelangelo the sculptor, famously painted 34 frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in two phases, over 30 years in the 16th Century. These masterpieces are regarded as one of the greatest artworks in European art. The Exhibition allows the public to see them up close, at their own pace and close to hom…
June 27, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe. Talking with author Marlene Daut
Haiti 🇭🇹 was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1801. Henry Christophe went to sea aged 12, rose through the ranks of the French Army to become General. He first served as President of the State of Haiti and then King.
June 25, 2025
Nature's Genius: Evolution's lessons for a Changing World. Talking with author David Farrier.
Evolution is meeting the challenges of today’s environment by adaptation as it has done for 4 billion years.
June 20, 2025
10 year Moratorium on State Regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Talking with Justin Hendrix.
Will over regulation of AI by the states hamstring development and hand a first place win in the AI stakes to China ?
June 18, 2025
Accountability in Politics: Is there such a thing ? Talking with Lura Forcum
The Independent Center focuses on the growing segment of voters who are Independents. And demographics indicates that Millennials and Gen Z are more than 50% Independents foreshadowing a tectonic shift in American politics.
June 16, 2025
Los Angeles Anti ICE Riots and the California National Guard. Talking with Professor Jack Pitney.
Anti ICE riots in Sanctuary City Los Angeles prompted the Trump Administration to federalize the California National Guard. The Governor successfully sued to have the Guard reinstated under his command. The Trump Administration has appealed the decision and pending the outcome, the Guard will conti…
June 10, 2025
Why Nothing Works - Who killed progress and how to bring it back, Talking with author Marc J. Dunkelman
By pushing power down to the individual concentrating up to power brokers - Mayors, electeds etc it is harder to get big projects done. We have created a vetocracy where one person can stop a project that might have benefited the society as a whole. Individual over Society.
June 9, 2025
America's Antisemitism Problem. Talking with Dr. Arie Perliger, Professor of Security Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
San Francisco was the site of two Antisemitic incidents in 2024, at UCSF, one of the nation’s leading medical research universities and SF Hillel at San Francisco State University. Antisemitism has spread through America’s universities like a plague.
June 3, 2025
San Francisco's Comeback. Talking with Erica Sandberg.
Mayor Lurie is tackling the problems he inherited from London Breed who was defeated in her re-election bid. So far San Franciscans for the first time in 5 years say that San Francisco is on the right track.
May 30, 2025
Science Cuts will mortgage our Tech Future. Talking with Sean Randolph, Bay Area Council
Science Cuts will hurt the Silicon Valley Tech industry.
May 29, 2025
1925: A Literary Encyclopedia. Talking with author Tom Lutz.
1925 was a major year for American Literature with the publication of Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “In Our Time” among many other works. This book is a reference guide to the significant works of 1925.
May 21, 2025
Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War against the West. Talking with Ambassador John J. Sullivan
Ambassador Sullivan served as the Deputy Secretary of State 2017-2019 and Ambassador to Russia 2019 -2022 in both the Trump and Biden Administrations. He played a pivotal role shaping US policy in the Ukraine War.
May 20, 2025
Ambassador William H. Luers. May 15, 1929 - May 10, 2025. An American Diplomat, Patron of the Arts, Museum Director, Author. In Memoriam.
Today’s episode features a profile of the late Ambassador Bill Luers and his book “Uncommon Company”. Bill was a proponent of showcasing American artists and writers to promote our foreign policy goals.
May 14, 2025
Inside the Reagan White House. A front row seat to Presidential Leadership with lessons for today. Talking with author Frank Lavin, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
A memoir that tracks Frank’s professional development in the White House and shares his personal impressions of the President and First Lady.
May 13, 2025
Russia and US relations: the role of a Citizen Diplomat. Talking with Bill Boerum former Chairman Sister Cities International.
Citizen diplomats try to keep US Russian contacts alive.
May 12, 2025
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. Talking with co-author Amie Parnes
The tumultuous 2024 presidential campaign based on 150 well informed sources, written as the history unfolded.