Episodes

June 29, 2024

BetaNXT: A Private Equity success story. Talking with Chairman and CEO Stephen Daffron.

End to end solutions across the investment lifecycle.
June 28, 2024

The Biden Trump Debate: A pivotal moment in the 2024 race for the White House. Talking with Jack Pitney.

President Biden’s goal in the debate was to dispel concerns about his age, cognitive skills and physical strength. He failed dismally prompting calls from his own party to end his campaign for a second term.
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 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 ?
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 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.
Guest: Steven Fish
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.
Guest: Mike Wendling
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.
Guest: Sebastien Lai
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.
Guest: Rodrigo Duran
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.
Guest: David Perry
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.
Guest: David Kimball
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.