Talk Cocktail

by Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas.

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The inversion of AI’s discontent: Looking at the Myth of the Bad Data Center

Emily Hoeven expected the towns hosting America’s new data centers to be the angriest. She found the opposite. In our recent California Sun podcast, a...

32m

•Sep 9, 2026

How Silicon Valley Buys Its Future: The Stanford Within Stanford

Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University at the age of 17 wanting in. What he found, as he recounts in our recent California Sun Podcast and in his n...

29m

•Sep 2, 2026

The Cruelest Game

Lose a pickup basketball game and you shrug it off. Lose a tennis match, Matthew Futterman learned, and it feels like you got beaten up. As the US Ope...

34m

•Aug 26, 2026

An Inversion of AI’s Discontent

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Emily Hoeven expected the towns hosting America’s new data centers to be the angry. She found the opposite. In a rece...

32m

•Aug 20, 2026

The Age of AI Will Require Intuitive Leadership, Not More Data

We're told the leader with the most data wins. Ronald Kraft, PhD, argues in his new book “The 7 Laws of Intuitive Leadership,” the opposite. As AI mak...

33m

•Aug 13, 2026

Does Fascism Have American Roots?

What if the roots of fascism weren’t European at all, but embedded in America’s founding struggles over democracy and race?For more than a decade, we’...

35m

•Aug 8, 2026