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Dec. 20, 2021

Spotify Podcast Ratings

Spotify let’s you rate my Podcast. So look for The San Francisco Experience Podcast on Spotify and add your rating. It’s quick and easy to do.  Even if you don’t regularly listen to TSFE on Spotify, please make a point to …

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Dec. 19, 2021

35 year old Chilean leftist wins the Runoff election for President.

With 99% of the vote counted in Sunday’s second round of the   Presidential  election, Gabriel Boric, the 35 year old former student leader won the race with 55% of the vote. Pictured taking a selfie with his supporters his 10% lead…

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Dec. 13, 2021

Chile's runoff presidential election turns back the clock. Blogpost preview for Friday's podcast from Santiago.

We lived in Chile in the 1980s while Pinochet was President. Next Sunday this country of 20 million, faces a starkly polarized  choice in a runoff presidential election, the likes of which they haven't seen since the 1970 election that brought …

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Dec. 11, 2021

Being the Ricardos: photo blogpost to next week’s film review

Make sure to listen to Wednesday’s podcast, when Shaun Chang of the Hill Place Film and Television Blogpost will review “Being the Ricardos”, which opened in American theaters Friday, December 10th.  Amazon Prime will begin s…

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Dec. 9, 2021

TSFE Podcast Platforms

TSFE - The San Francisco Experience Podcast is featured on 30 podcast platforms including Facebook, TuneInRadio, Anchor and Amazon Music.  Here is a listing of all the platforms where you can hear us:

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Dec. 2, 2021

Spotify’s 2021 report card on The San Francisco Experience Podcast.

Spotify is fast becoming one of the leading Podcast platforms.  The Sweden based platform is a global leader in all forms of audio programming. They are one of the 20 podcast platforms that carry The San Francisco Experience (TSFE).  Here…

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Nov. 27, 2021

Solar Earth Technologies - Solar Power 2.0. Talking with CFO Anders Kruus

When we think of solar power we visualize vast solar panel farms in the desert. And that was certainly the case with 1.0 as shown on the cover photo.  But the future of solar power infrastructure may look more like this in future if Solar Eart…

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Nov. 22, 2021

Combat Sports Announcer and Broadcaster A.J. Kirsch

Our Wednesday podcast guest will be A.J. Kirsch, pro wrestler turned “In the Ring” announcer and personality. He’s pictured here with Dwayne “The Rock”  Johnson. A.J. helped the Rock launch his successful YouTube …

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Nov. 15, 2021

Hollywood Confidential: In conversation with Tommy Lightfoot Garrett.

Hollywood publicist Tommy Lightfoot Garrett is our guest on Tuesday, November 16. The actor, award winning author and veteran publicist will share with our listeners his decades of Hollywood movie industry experience.  Here is a selection of T…

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Nov. 15, 2021

I’ve been Walking. Los Angeles Photographs.

Janet Sternburg is a fine arts photographer, a writer of library books, a maker of theater and films and an educator. She and her husband, Steven Lavine live in Little Tokyo, downtown Los Angeles, close to the Arts District. In 2020, as COVID lockd…

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Nov. 8, 2021

Witness to History: Tom Keener at Dallas Love Field, November 22, 1963

Our podcast guest on Thursday is Dallas native Tom Keener. He and his family were on hand to greet the President and First Lady on arrival in Dallas. Mrs. Keener, Tom’s mother is visible in the foreground wearing sunglasses and young Tom was …

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Nov. 7, 2021

Dallas, Texas: My Hometown.

In our continuing series profiling a global city from a resident’s perspective, we focus on Dallas, the 9th largest city in the United States, with a population of 1.3 million. Our special guest will be Tom Keener.  Houston and San Anton…

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Nov. 1, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Today’s blogpost feature is a preview of Thursday’s podcast about Tarantino’s 2019 film.  Tom Lisanti and Shaun Chang, who profiled Carol Lynley in our podcast in October will be the guests. There are a number of fascinating …

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Oct. 24, 2021

My Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska - the Last Frontier. A blog preview with Tim McGargill.

The 49th state Alaska, joined the Union in 1959. Anchorage it’s largest city with a population of almost 300,000 represents more than 50% of its’ residents. And one of of its’ citizens, Tim McGargill, will share with us his impress…

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Oct. 18, 2021

Arson Profiler: Ed Nordskog. A blogpost preview of Thursday’s podcast.

Ed Nordskog is an arson profiler, with 21 years experience in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.  He has investigated 2100 arson cases, and handled 600 bomb calls. He will highlight two of his most celebrated cases from his Fireraiser…

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Oct. 17, 2021

Carol Lynley: Her Hollywood Career. A preview of Wednesday’s Podcast

Since she was a child, Carol graced TV and movie screens from 1956 to 2002. She progressed from child model, to teenage idol, to ingenue.  Author Tom Lisanti,  and Shaun Chang of the movie/TV blog “Hill Place” will discuss her…

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Oct. 10, 2021

My Hometown: Liverpool, England.

The next in our series of city profiles from a resident’s point of view is Liverpool, England. Today’s blogpost preview of the Wednesday October 13, podcast will feature actor Frank Cannon, my cousin, who will give us a witty, historic p…

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Oct. 3, 2021

Michael Dobbs: author of King Richard

Michael Dobbs is the author of King Richard an American Tragedy. Within the field of presidential historians, his specialty is presidential crisis history.  In the cover photo, he is pictured as a young 7 year old boy with his Mother and broth…

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Oct. 2, 2021

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate, An American Tragedy

This is a blogpost preview to Wednesday’s podcast interview with Michael Dobbs, author of King Richard.  Michael Dobbs was a journalist with the Washington Post, the newspaper whose reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein famously expos…

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Sept. 27, 2021

Mexican Americans with Moxie

Today’s blogpost preview features author Professor Frank Barajas and his new book, Mexican Americans with Moxie. He recounts the history of the Mexican and later Mexican American community in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles and how they t…

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Sept. 19, 2021

Migrations by J.L. Torres - a Blogpost preview of our upcoming author interview.

        Migrations is a collection of short stories chronicling the American experience of primarily Puerto Rican immigrants to the United States. But the themes are universal to all immigrants. The characters…

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Sept. 14, 2021

Christians Against Christianity: How Right Wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith.

Today’s blogpost preview features a brief profile of renowned biblical scholar, Dr. Obery Hendricks, author of Christians against Christianity.  Dr. Hendricks will be discussing his book in our podcast Wednesday, September 15. A lifelong…

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Sept. 12, 2021

My Hometown: Amsterdam - Blogpost Preview.

  On  Thursday, September 16, TSFE will features an overview of Amsterdam, the next global city in our Hometown series.  Seen through the eyes of a local resident, in this case Marcel van Walt van Praag, he will share with us a Birds…

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Aug. 7, 2021

Elisabeth de Mariaffi author of The Retreat

Canadian author Elisabeth de Mariaffi is our guest Wednesday August 11, to discuss her new thriller The Retreat. Set in a remote mountain resort in the Canadian Rockies, the protagonist Maeve Martin, 34, has aged out of the super competitive dance …

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