Episodes
July 6, 2020
Spanish Missions: The Spine of Modern California
35 million Californians live within 50 miles of one of the 21 historic Franciscan Missions: They are a key part of the California identity. But the recent destruction of statues of Father Junipero Serra, have challenged the l...
July 2, 2020
Homelessness in the Tenderloin: San Francisco's Shame.
The mushrooming of 443 homeless tents on the sidewalks of the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's poorest and most disadvantaged neighborhoods, caused a group of neighbors, including the well-connected UC Hastings Law School t...
June 30, 2020
Junipero Serra: the Missions and Presidios of California
The destruction of statues of Junipero Serra in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and in front of Los Angeles' founding church, Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles, was a wanton act of vandalism. Serra, a Franciscan Friar was canoni...
June 28, 2020
Two steps forward and one back: San Francisco and Covid-19.
Cutting edge research coming out of University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the antiviral field. Are Kinase Inhibitors the magic bullet to kill the Coronavirus ? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-h...
June 25, 2020
The Boogaloo Bois : Extremists or Fantasists ?
When Steven Carrillo scrawled BOOG in his own blood across the hood of his white van, the US Air Force Sergeant cast his fate with the extremist anti government movement, the Boogaloo Bois. Facing two death penalty charges fo...
June 23, 2020
The Rainbow Honor Walk: San Francisco pays homage to the LGBTQ Community
San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk serves to acknowledge and memorialize Great men and women of the LGBTQ Community. 44 large bronze plaques have been laid along Castro Street and Market Street sidewalks to memorialize peop...
June 21, 2020
San Francisco celebrates 75 years of birthing the UN in 1945.
In the closing days of World War II, San Francisco hosted the organizing conference which created the UN. The conference took place at the War Memorial Opera House from April 25 to June 26, 1945. Why did San Francisco get thi...
June 20, 2020
Post Covid 19 trends for Work, Health, Retail, Dating and Gyms. Don’t be Dense !
Many of our changed behaviors during the Covid 19 confinement are being translated into new policies and procedures by Employers, Healthcare Providers, Retailers and even Significant Others. The overriding theme of the change...
June 17, 2020
Tearing down San Francisco's Asian Art Museum for being too white.
As the statue removal movement sweeps across America and England, it has hit the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Artists, academics and art historians are demanding that a bust of its' founder, Avery Brundage be removed fr...
June 15, 2020
Police unions root out racism from the ranks: a few bad apples or systemic racism ?
The SFPD, LAPD and SJPD police unions announced a reform agenda to combat racist police officers. The plan lays the groundwork for new policies and procedures to be crafted for their departments and beyond. But is the problem...
June 14, 2020
San Francisco tackles Police Reform.
San Francisco has seen a 47% drop in Use of Force Incidents involving the police and the public from 2016 through 2019. But racial disparities remain. Mayor Breed’s 4 point reform plan is reasonable. But her first attempt to ...
June 10, 2020
Assassination of Olof Palme Solved. Maybe....Maybe not.
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engstrom as Palme's assassin. It's taken 34 years of mystery, conspiracy and botched investigations in which 130 different people claimed to be the assassin since 1986 to reach a conclusi...
June 8, 2020
Ilhan Omar to Minneapolis Police: You’re toast !
Three issues are covered in this episode: 1) Abolition of the Minneapolis Police Force, 2) the Justice and Policing Bill of 2020, 3) political fallout of Police Reform on the 2020 Presidential Election. #Joerogan. #8cantwait ...
June 5, 2020
Minneapolis to abolish its’ Police Department ?
The killing of George Floyd has unleashed a flood of police reforms.Minneapolis is considering abolishing its force while Los Angeles and San Francisco are planning to defund their police departments. And what impact will abo...
June 4, 2020
Trump and Obama agree on one issue: The need for police reform.
While the President and former President acknowledge that reform is necessary, they approach the issue from opposite ends of the political spectrum. What impact will the call for police reform have on the November Presidentia...
June 2, 2020
Riots, Looting, Curfews and Chaos in America"s Cities : Is Police Brutality the Cause ?
The proximate cause of the riots and looting is the heinous murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police office Derek Chauvin. But the ensuing civil unrest has been co-opted by a host of bad actors like Antifa who have exp...
May 30, 2020
Conspiracy Theories around Covid 19.
The Covid 19 pandemic has spawned many conspiracy theories. Cutting through misinformation and getting to the facts is key. But what is fact and what is fiction ? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to ...
May 28, 2020
Remoteotopia: A New World Order post Covid 19.
Does the Covid 19 pandemic represent an epochal inflection point in American history ? Will we look back on this time as one of those watershed moments of how things used to be so much better or worse ? Or will the confinem...
May 27, 2020
Superspreaders of Covid 19: Who are they ? How do we control them ?
The 80/20 Rule in business says that 20% of your sales team generates 80% of the company's revenue. In a sense something similar applies to Covid - 19. A small number of C-19 victims can infect a huge number of people. And ...
May 25, 2020
Re-opening America and the Joe Rogan Experience.
Two news stories this past week included the piecemeal re-opening of the American Economy in the wake of Covid-19 and the acquisition of the internet’s most popular podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience. The two stories illustrat...
May 24, 2020
The Streets of San Francisco. Michael Douglas. Karl Malden. 1972-1977.
The 119 episodes of the TV series were filmed on location in San Francisco. To retain San Francisco authenticity, a sound stage was built in the City to film non-location, indoor scenes. Early 1970s San Francisco comes alive ...
May 22, 2020
Podcast 101: the What, Why, Who of podcasting.
Podcasting has become an important information medium in the last 15 years with Apple, Spotify, Google, Anchor, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and iHeart Radio investing heavily in distribution. While barriers to entry are low, survi...
May 20, 2020
She's going to shoot the President. Sara Jane Moore. 1975
On September 22, 1975 would be assassin Sara Jane Moore waited outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco's Union Square to kill President Gerald Ford. The first shot missed the President's head by 5 inches. Our 38th Pres...
May 18, 2020
California's Curbside Comeback
California began Phase 2 of the Shelter in Place orders which began eight weeks ago. Many of the state's 58 counties entered the early stages of re-opening the California economy - the 7th largest in the world if California w...