The San Francisco Experience
News & Politics Podcasts
We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.
Location:
United States
Genres:
News & Politics Podcasts
Description:
We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.
Language:
English
Contact:
415-271-3943
Website:
https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy
Episodes
Artificial Intelligence meets Cybersecurity: Talking with Caleb Mattingly, Founder, Secure Cloud Innovations.
9/4/2025
Cybersecurity is all about protecting computer systems, networks and data from digital attacks. Will Artificial Intelligence reduce the power of the hackers and bad actors or enhance it ?
Duration:00:29:33
Fireproofing your home during California Wildfire Season. Talking with Steve Hawks of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety.
9/3/2025
IBHS is the leading safety institution that establishes standards that are used in building standards particularly at risk for fire among other risks. With September and October being the peak of wildfire season in Northern California, Steve Hawks joins us to discuss improving building standards to mitigate wildfire risk.
Duration:00:29:05
Playback: Talking with author Carla Malden.
8/19/2025
Carla Malden is an accomplished screen writer, novelist and memoirist. Among her literary works is the memoir "When do I Start", which she co-authored with her father, Academy award winning actor Karl Malden.
Duration:00:44:09
Artificial Intelligence meets Cybersecurity: a marriage made in heaven or hell ? Talking with Andrew Reddie.
8/13/2025
Artificial Intelligence is shaping the future of Cybersecurity.
Risk = Threat x Vulnerability x Consequence
Duration:00:45:59
Talking with World Business Academy CEO Rinaldo Brutoco
8/6/2025
Rinaldo discusses the potential impact of tariffs on the corporate sector and the need to revamp the insurance industry before it collapses.
Duration:00:37:18
Commune, a documentary film. Talking with Jonathan Berman and Christian Ettinger.
8/5/2025
The Black Bear Ranch was established as a commune in Summer 1968 by a group of young men and women from San Francisco. Located 318 miles North East of San Francisco in remote Siskyou County on 80 acres, it still exists. The re-mastered 2005 film was re-released in Summer 2025.
Duration:00:36:57
Podcasting 101 - Making a successful podcast - A tale of two podcasts. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
8/1/2025
Shaun highlights two podcasts Still the Place and We are Knot Done Yet that feature actresses who starred in Melrose Place and Knots Landing respectively, reminiscing about the shows. But the styles of the two podcasts are in stark contrast with lessons for making a successful show.
Duration:00:53:50
Speaking Up, Standing Strong: Confronting Anti-Semitism together. In conversation with Oleg Ivanov, Executive Director Stand with Us, Northern California.
8/1/2025
Chabad of the Neighborhood, West Portal Avenue, San Francisco welcomed a live podcast discussion about Anti-Semitism at the historic Empire Theater, the home of Chabad of the Neighborhood. Rabbi Mendel Levin and Devorie Levin were our hosts for the evening.
Duration:00:56:59
The Comeback. The 2024 Elections and American Politics. Talking with co-author Jack Pitney.
7/29/2025
The 2024 campaign and in particular the 57 days between Biden's disastrous debate June 27th and Harris' formal acceptance of the Democratic Nomination August 23 was one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in modern Presidential history. The Comeback relates Donald Trump's unlikely return to the White House.
Duration:00:41:55
Analog Sun - a Fable. Talking with author Alex Woodard.
7/28/2025
Adam has two addictions: drugs and digital technology. Robbed and finding himself in an alley without his smart phone, he is untethered from the internet and his self created reality. He stumbles into town and meets several characters on an involuntary road trip who show him a life and experiences beyond the digital world.
Duration:00:40:15
When it all Burns. Fighting Fire in a Transformed World. Talking with Jordan Thomas.
7/23/2025
The Los Padres Hotshots are an elite corps of Wildfire Fighters - like Navy Seals - who race into California's wildfires with chainsaws, shovels and pick axes, to halt the advance of fires. As civilians flee the fire, Hotshots aggressively arrest the advance of flames by carving fire lines through the blazing forests and undergrowth. Wildfires have given way to Megafires.
Duration:00:44:14
Lotic AI: Artificial Intelligence meets Behavioral Science. Talking with CEO and Founder William Welser IV
7/22/2025
While millions of Americans track their biometrics daily - steps, heart rate, blood pressure - how do we interpret that data and give it context ? Can we use it to improve the quality of our lives, and make better health decisions ? Lotic AI enables you to do that.
Duration:00:44:10
American Zealots. Inside Domestic Right Wing Terrorism. Speaking with author Arie Perliger.
7/16/2025
Political violence in America is on the rise. As the Nation has grown more diverse through immigration, militant violence has grown. Attacks have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, law enforcement and have been perpetrated by anti government extremists, religious extremists and lone wolf shooters.
Duration:00:35:58
Apple in China. The Capture of the World's Greatest Company. An in depth interview with author Patrick McGee.
7/14/2025
With a market Capitalization of $ 3.1 Trillion, Apple makes 500,000 iPhones everyday mostly in China. 90% of iPhones are produced there. Apple has built the world's most advanced electronic production supply chain in China, not America.
Duration:01:04:42
Space in the Bay Area. Research, Technology, Commercialization. Talking with Sean Randolph.
7/12/2025
The Bay Area is home to a significant space industry. It benefits from the national labs located here, research universities and venture capital industry.
Duration:00:38:35
A CIA False Flag Plot. Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, August 1963. Setting up the Fall Guy. Talking with Jefferson Morley.
7/11/2025
George Joannides was a CIA Branch Chief at the CIA Miami Station. He was responsible for the Anti Castro student group the DRE. The DRE baited Oswald in New Orleans for passing out pro Castro flyers. They also ensured that Oswald was interviewed on radio and TV as a left wing Castro sympathizer. Those clips were used after the assassination to bolster the Oswald lone nut Castro supporter image.
Duration:00:48:36
The Power of the Independent Voter. Talking with Adam Brandon
7/10/2025
Independent voters, especially among Gen Z and Millennials is a growing cohort and eschews the binary choice of Democrat or Republican parties, unlike their Baby Boomer parents. Such a political realignment could help break the polarized politics that plagues our country.
Duration:00:40:58
My Mom Jayne. A film by Mariska Hargitay. Talking with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
7/5/2025
Jayne Mansfield was a Hollywood film star of the late 1950s and early 60s. Her daughter Mariska Hargitay has directed this documentary with a strong personal memoir of her Mother. It can be seen on HBO.
Duration:00:45:54
The Great Progression 2025 - 2050. Talking with Futurist and Author Peter Leyden.
7/2/2025
An era of great technological change is unfolding before us which will transform every aspect of our lives sooner than you think.
Duration:00:43:04
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy ? Talking with author Professor James Fishkin.
7/1/2025
To reduce the chasm of polarization in American Politics, Professor Fishkin has developed a successful process of Deliberative Polling that he has employed in 160 cases in the US and overseas to great success.
Duration:00:53:49