Season 3

July 20, 2020

Let our kids go back to school !

Over 20 European countries have re-opened their schools but the US lags far behind. Our decentralized and locally controlled as well as politicized schools - school boards are elected and funded with local property taxes - a…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
July 16, 2020

The Coming Population Bust

The world's population stands at 7.8 billion today and has increased by 5.8 billion since 1950. But the British medical journal The Lancet and the University of Washington in Seattle have authored a study which posits that t…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
July 15, 2020

Urban Hiking: Your Gym Replacement.

With San Francisco"s gyms closed for four months, hiking the urban environment of one of America's most beautiful cities affords lots of opportunities for vigorous exercise. But how is urban hiking different from walking ? W…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
July 12, 2020

Facebook: a free speech forum or an advertising surveillance app ?

The Social Media giant is weathering a month long boycott by some of its advertisers, a critical civil rights audit and controversy about political speech. Yet Mark Zuckerberg’s founding principles for Facebook remain: voice…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
July 9, 2020

Disinformation and Fake News: How to spot it and How to avoid it.

With the 2020 Presidential election less than 4 months away, Social Media and with it Fake News stories will loom large no doubt, much as they did in 2016. The BBC has a dedicated weekly program called BBC Trending which fo…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 …
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 …
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 canon…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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-…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 f…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 peo…
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 th…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 chang…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 f…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 proble…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 conclus…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 ab…
Guest: Jim Herlihy
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 Presidenti…
Guest: Jim Herlihy