Episodes
Sept. 17, 2025
Supervisor Joel Engardio loses the Recall Election. Talking with Albert Chow
Supervisor Joel Engardio is recalled - first time a sitting member of the Board of Supervisors is recalled. Why was this unprecedented vote successful ?
Sept. 10, 2025
Redux Americana: Atlanticism, the US and the Third Age of Global Conflicts. Talking with Alp Sevimlisoy.
NATO, a 32 nation defense treaty, founded 76 years ago in 1949, has survived the Cold War and collapse of the USSR. Today it confronts Russian aggression in Ukraine with an uncertain outlook.
Sept. 9, 2025
CryptoCurrency: Unraveling investment strategies for Crypto enthusiasts. Talking with Mukarram Mawjood.
Cryptocurrency investing has heretofore not been eligible for 401k investments. But a recent clarification by the Department of Labor has changed that. The Bullionite firm specializes in alternate investments for its clients.
Sept. 5, 2025
The Neptune Project and Sailing for Parkinsons: Talking with Skipper Tan Raffray, Bertrand Delhom and Amy Bridge.
Sailing for Parkinsons is a regatta to be held at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon as a fundraiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and other charities. Can sailing as an athletic exercise help people with Parkinsons ?
Sept. 4, 2025
Artificial Intelligence meets Cybersecurity: Talking with Caleb Mattingly, Founder, Secure Cloud Innovations.
Cybersecurity is vital to protect infrastructure at risk like GPS, air traffic control, electrical grid, the financial system among many other sectors. Will AI make it harder or easier for bad actors to attack and disable our national infrastructure ?
Sept. 3, 2025
Fireproofing your home during California Wildfire Season. Talking with Steve Hawks of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety.
Science based actions homeowners can take to reduce the risk of wildfire. Starting with improved building materials and clearing landscaping and brush from close to the structure.
Aug. 19, 2025
Playback: Talking with author Carla Malden.
The Summer of Love 1967 was a special moment in the counter culture history of the 1960s. A young millennial woman longs to travel back in time to that era to re-set her modern day life. Richly described scenes evoke the promise and energy of that time.
Aug. 13, 2025
Artificial Intelligence meets Cybersecurity: a marriage made in heaven or hell ? Talking with Andrew Reddie.
Artificial Intelligence is playing a growing role in the development of cybersecurity.
Risk = Threat X Vulnerability X Consequence
Aug. 6, 2025
Talking with World Business Academy CEO Rinaldo Brutoco
A wide ranging discussion about the recently passed Reconciliation Bill and its likely impact on the US Economy. The uncertain effect that tariffs may have as well as the importance of a healthy balance in the US economy between the manufacturing and service sectors. Onshoring.
Aug. 5, 2025
Commune, a documentary film. Talking with Jonathan Berman and Christian Ettinger.
The Black Bear Ranch commune was established in 1968 by a group of young men and women from San Francisco . They sought to create a society based on self sufficiency and communal living.
Aug. 1, 2025
Podcasting 101 - Making a successful podcast - A tale of two podcasts. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
Podcasting has evolved into a mainstream form of media. But style and presentation varies enormously. In this episode, Shaun spotlights two podcasts of differing styles that illustrate big differences in how podcasters engage and retain their listeners.
July 31, 2025
Speaking Up, Standing Strong: Confronting Anti-Semitism together. In conversation with Oleg Ivanov, Executive Director Stand with Us, Northern California.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in American society. In this podcast we explore the history and why at this moment in time this vile prejudice against the Jewish people has re-emerged and how we can combat and defeat it.
July 29, 2025
The Comeback. The 2024 Elections and American Politics. Talking with co-author Jack Pitney.
The 2024 Campaign was like no other in modern American Presidential History. The Comeback is a succinct and data rich analysis of how Donald Trump reclaimed the Presidency.
July 28, 2025
Analog Sun - a Fable. Talking with author Alex Woodard.
Alex has two addictions: drugs and digital technology. Robbed and injured, he is forced to live in an analog world when his smartphone is stolen. But the people he meets along the way open doors to a new world of experiences and emotions that confuse him.
July 23, 2025
When it all Burns. Fighting Fire in a Transformed World. Talking with Jordan Thomas.
The Los Padres Hotshots are Wildfire fighters who serve on the frontlines of forest fires in California. They are the elite firefighters who lead our fight to contain and extinguish these vast, threatening fires that are growing in destructive force.
July 22, 2025
Lotic AI: Artificial Intelligence meets Behavioral Science. Talking with CEO and Founder William Welser IV
Artificial Intelligence harnessed by behavioral scientists working with your personal biometrics can help you identify better behaviors in your day to day life.
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.