My Podcast Blog

Aug. 2, 2021

My Hometown: Quito, Ecuador.

In our continuing series of global cities featured through the eyes of a resident, we will profile, Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Our guest will be Fabian Borrero, Entrepteneur and Adventurer.  Ecuador’s flag sports the same colors as th…

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Aug. 2, 2021

My Hometown: Quito, Ecuador.

In our continuing series of global cities featured through the eyes of a resident, we will profile, Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Our guest will be Fabian Borrero, Entrepteneur and Adventurer.  Ecuador’s flag sports the same colors as th…

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July 25, 2021

My Hometown: Barcelona

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

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July 25, 2021

My Hometown: Barcelona

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

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July 23, 2021

Collateral Damage, by Mark Shaw

Today’s blogpost previews Monday’s podcast, an interview with author Mark Shaw. His latest book, Collateral Damage, looks at the three deaths of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, JFK in 1963 and Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 and links them.What could …

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July 20, 2021

Social Media Profiles: the real, the fake and the extreme. In conversation with Professor Chris Bail of Duke University.

Is online anonymity the primary driver of the extremist commentaries that have polarized American politics and society generally ?   Tune in to Tuesday’s podcast when Professor Chris Bail who heads up the Polarization Lab at Duke, will …

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July 1, 2021

Auckland My Hometown

We are launching a new series on July 8 called My Hometown. Each of the 10 episodes will feature a profile of a city and an interview with one of its residents to give us a native's sense of what it's like to live there. Covid lockdowns for the las…

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June 13, 2021

Author Cate Holahan discusses her new domestic thriller Her Three Lives..

Cate Holahan will be our guest on Thursday June 17 to talk about her fifth and latest thriller Her Three Lives. Cate graduated from Princeton in 2002 and pursued a career in journalism, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and Businessweek. …

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June 11, 2021

G7 meets in Cornwall, England June 11-13 to co-ordinate global economic recovery.

The G7 is a group of developed global economies - UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy - which will meet 6/11 -13 to co-ordinate global economic policies post Covid pandemic. It is President Biden’s first trip abroad as President …

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June 5, 2021

Baseball Card Mania: the big business of trading sports cards.

Walmart and Target recently announced they would stop selling sports trading cards for the safety of their customers.  Was there some terroristic bio threat to one of America's treasured childhood past times, buying collecting and trading baseb…

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May 30, 2021

Covid baby bust signals continued fall in US birth rate.

The world's fertility rate has been steadily declining for the last 70 years, first in the developed world and more recently in developing countries. In 1950 for instance, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. But by 2017, …

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May 22, 2021

Orexit: 5 Oregon counties vote to join Idaho

The state of Oregon is located in the Pacific NW. With a population of 4.7 million it is about one tenth the size of California. It's climate is dictated by its geography. The western one third of the state from the Pacific Ocean, East to the Cascad…

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May 16, 2021

BBC Trending - Social Media Watchdog

Tuesday May 18's podcast will feature an interview with Mike Wendling, editor of BBC Trending, the BBC's weekly program that tracks social media. Mike brings an American perspective to the most British of Britain's great institutions, the BBC, still…

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May 13, 2021

Canada’s mysterious brain disease.

New Brunswick is one of Canada's 10 provinces , known as the Maritimes, along with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It borders the state of Maine to the West and South. The provincial capital is Fredericton and Moncton is another large city in …

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May 9, 2021

Vaccinated but won’t go to work ?

Jaime Dimon, Chairman of JP Morgan, pictured, has told staff to come back to the office in June. He said he's done with Zoom meetings and wants the real thing. He said that young professionals want to hustle and they need to be in the office to do t…

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April 25, 2021

DNA testing - The journey of a lifetime. Preview to next week's podcast.

Wednesday’s podcast is an interview with author Libby Copeland, an award winning journalist. In her latest book she  takes us on a journey filled with twists and turns through America’s latest past time - online DNA testing.  R…

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April 19, 2021

American Poverty continues to grow

Today's blogpost is a preview of my interview with Professor Mark Rank, co-author of  " Poorly Understood: What America gets wrong about poverty."   Mark Rank is a social scientist and the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at W…

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April 16, 2021

Leaving California : are we reaching an inflection point ?

In today's podcast I interviewed a couple who are relocating their family to North Carolina from San Francisco. It has been a tough decision for these two transplants to make. While family considerations are a major part of their concerns, so m…

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April 13, 2021

Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin, Ethereum - Is it an investment for you ?

A currency is a system of money used in a particular country and regulated by its' government. The economy and the management of its currency is one of the main political objectives of political parties as they seek to be elected. Control of its cur…

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April 9, 2021

George Floyd confronts Derek Chauvin

In today's podcast, Martin Kuz, the West Coast correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, shared his impressions of Minneapolis, the George Floyd killing and calls for police reform in the city of Minneapolis. As a native Minnesotan and 25 yea…

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April 7, 2021

Frida Kahlo : the enigma.

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyacan, outside Mexico City. Throughout her life, she endured much physical pain due to a bout of polio and later on, an accident on a bus. She married renowned artist and muralist Diego Rivera in 1929.  But in …

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April 1, 2021

Christo’s Running Fence, Sonoma 1976

Christo’s 24.5 mile Running Fence art installation across Sonoma County, dramatically dives into the Pacific Ocean near Bodega Bay. Bodega Bay was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1963 thriller/horror movie, The Birds. And Christo outdi…

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March 27, 2021

Hate

Two podcasts in the space of one week dealing with hate was more than I bargained for. The interview with Kristine Hoover, the Director of Gonzaga University's Institute of Hate Studies was planned some time ago. I had wanted to interview her about…

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March 20, 2021

Newsom Recall Poster Art

2,117,000 recall petition signatures were turned in on March 17 the deadline. 1.5 million valid signatures are required to qualify the recall for the ballot.  An outside vendor validated the signatures at a 83% rate, or almost 1.7million valid …

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