Episodes
June 26, 2024
Is San Francisco the Worst Run City in the United States ? Part 2. Talking with Professor Patrick Murphy.
WalletHub’s study of San Francisco ranking the City dead last out 148 US cities is challenged by USF Professor of Urban and Public Affairs Patrick Murphy.
June 26, 2024
San Francisco ranks as the Worst Run City in the country. Talking with Cassie Happe of WalletHub.
San Francisco came in dead last with a rank of 148. Three of six categories measured - financial stability, public safety, the economy - were especially weak, setting off alarm bells .
June 20, 2024
BetaNXT: A Private Equity Success Story.
The future of Connected Wealth: Data Transparency.
June 19, 2024
Stem Cell Therapy: a new approach. Talking with Mattias Bernow, CEO of CellCoLabs.
Stem cell therapy, though heavily regulated in the US and EU has proved efficacious battling blood cancers. The next phase of development will see it expand into treating illnesses of old age.
June 13, 2024
Why Nuclear Power and Why Now ? Talking with Andy Poreda Responsible Investing at Sage Advisory.
Nuclear Power’s comeback in the United States.
June 12, 2024
China's Alternate Order and What America can learn from it. Talking with Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Liz Economy served as Senior China Advisor to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo from 2021 to 2024.
June 6, 2024
A Class Apart: UK Prime Ministers origins impact their world views. Talking with Professor Lee Elliot Major.
76% of British Prime Ministers since 1945 attended Oxford University. Does this narrow pool negatively affect policy making ?
June 4, 2024
A Mediterranean Union: Boosting the security on NATO's Southern flank. Talking with noted geopolitical strategist Alp Sevimlisoy, CEO of his Defense Representation Company, defending Atlanticism.
The Mediterranean Region needs to enhance its security arrangements in light of the changed geopolitical status quo.
June 3, 2024
The Trump Verdict: What's Next ? Talking with David McCuan, Professor and Chair of the Political Science Dept. at Sonoma State University.
A tectonic shift in the American political landscape.
May 30, 2024
Enough: Why it's time to abolish the Super Rich. Talking with author Luke Hildyard.
Too much wealth in too few hands ?
May 29, 2024
Neptune finishes the Round the World Ocean Global Race. Talking with skipper Tann Raffray and supporter Amy Bridge.
8 months to complete a round the world sailing race with a crew of 9 one of whom has Parkinson’s disease on a 60’ sailboat.
May 27, 2024
The Conservative Futurist. How to create the Sci Fi World we were promised. Talking to author Jim Pethokoukis.
Are you a techno optimist or techno pessimist ?
May 23, 2024
Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. The Oscar winning film's Hollywoodification of Nuclear Weapons. Talking with Haydn Belfield.
CSER, based at Cambridge University, is a center that studies extinction and civilizational collapse.
May 23, 2024
Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation and Restoring Democracy's Edge Steven Fish with Laila Aghaie.it
A critical review of the Democrats’ Dominance Deficit and what Joe Biden can do to remedy the problem for the June 27th Presidential Debate.
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 2 million members while facilitating $27 billion in loans since inception.
All personal loans are made by WebBank.
May 3, 2024
Defending Australia against China without AUKUS: The Echidna Strategy. Talking with author Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute.
An alternative gameplay to AUKUS: the Echidna Strategy.
April 25, 2024
Is AI racially biased ? Talking with Alejandro Salinas of the Stanford Law School.
Looking for and removing race and gender bias in Large Language Models.
April 24, 2024
Peak Economic Security in US China Relations. Talking with Matt Ferchen, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School
Trade between the US and China has been the basis of relations between us. But both sides are emphasizing economic security as the paramount cornerstone of the relationship.
April 19, 2024
The Science behind AI and how it will improve our lives. Talking with Charles Martin.
Searching for the emergence of signatures of Artificial General Intelligence in Large Language Models. WeightWatcher.ai