Season 32
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.
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.
June 30, 2025
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. The Exhibition. Talking with Martin Biallas.
Michelangelo the sculptor, famously painted 34 frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in two phases, over 30 years in the 16th Century. These masterpieces are regarded as one of the greatest artworks in European art. The Exhibition allows the public to see them up close, at their own pace and close to hom…
June 27, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe. Talking with author Marlene Daut
Haiti 🇭🇹 was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1801. Henry Christophe went to sea aged 12, rose through the ranks of the French Army to become General. He first served as President of the State of Haiti and then King.