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The California Sun presents conversations with the people that are shaping and observing the Golden State
Jeff Schechtman hosts California Sun Podcast, a news show with 333 episodes published.
Matthew Stepka is a product of Silicon Valley — a teenager who built worlds on an Atari, a founder of one of the first internet cafés, and a Google insider shepherding its mission projects. He offers a deeply personal ac
Jonathan Weber, a longtime San Francisco journalist, is the author of the new history " City on the Edge : Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco." He explains how the internet took root in the
One year after the death of the legendary Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, author David Beard joins us to talk about his new book, " All Summer Long : Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE." Beard discus
CalMatters columnist Dan Walters joins the podcast to talk about California's strangest governor's race in a half-century: a field with no clear frontrunner, marquee names who sat out, and a billionaire's fortune that co
Ivo Jeramaz grew up in the same Croatian soil as his uncle Mike Grgich — the man who made the Napa Valley Chardonnay that beat the French at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which recently turned 50. Jeramaz later followe
With eleven days to go before the June 2 primary, Joe Mathews examines how California's race for governor has become strangely disconnected from the state itself. With almost all the campaigns built around generic nation
William Riggs is a professor of engineering and management at the University of San Francisco and an expert on transportation innovation. He says San Francisco — now ground zero for America's autonomous vehicle future, w
Kate Washington spent years giving everything to everyone else — caregiving, motherhood, a failing marriage — until she was empty. Her answer was cold water: 50 dunks in California rivers, creeks, and swimming holes befo
Dillon Osleger has spent a decade rebuilding what America has been quietly erasing — the trails, wagon roads, and Indigenous paths that once knitted California and the West together. As a geologist, trail builder, and pu
Julia Turner and Julia Wick have spent their careers covering Los Angeles — and like anyone who's lived here long enough, they couldn't always figure it out either. So they did what journalists do. They started digging.
Peter Richardson, author of the new book " Brand New Beat : The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine," discusses the pioneering music magazine's San Francisco decade — between 1967 and 1977 — when the Bay Area's countercu
Ann Carlson discusses her new book " Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air ." Smog was once as much a symbol of L.A. as palm trees — a bane to public health and a national punchlin
Severin Borenstein, a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and an expert on the economics of energy, explains how the Iran war is disrupting global oil markets and why California faces especially sharp pric
Miriam Pawel, author of the definitive Cesar Chavez biography, " The Crusades of Cesar Chavez ," reflects on the recent shattering of the Cesar Chavez myth — and the harder questions beneath it: what was known, what was
Caroline Tracey explores the world's threatened salt lakes with a focus on California — Mono Lake, Owens Lake, and the Salton Sea — where irrigation diversions have transformed stunning desert ecosystems into sources of
Joe Flint, a media reporter for the Wall Street Journal, joins us as Hollywood heads into Oscar weekend — a moment when the world celebrates the glamour of the movies even as the business faces deep uncertainty. Flint lo
Chef Geoff Davis opened Burdell in Oakland to cook the soul food his grandmothers made — a distinct American cuisine rooted in migration and adaptation rather than Southern tradition. In 2024, Food & Wine named it the "R
Valerie Ziegler, a high school teacher in San Francisco, and Joel Breakstone, executive director of Stanford's Digital Inquiry Group, talk about digital literacy in the classroom. Many self-described "screenagers," they
When California legalized recreational cannabis, Silicon Valley envisioned a new Gold Rush. Tushar Atre — a tech entrepreneur, surfer, and disruptor — thought he could bridge two worlds: venture capital and the black mar
Danny Goldberg, author of the new book " Liberals with Attitude : The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles," was there in 1991 when an unlikely Los Angeles coalition fought to hold the city's pol
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California Sun Podcast is hosted by Jeff Schechtman. The show is categorised under news (commentary) and has published 333 episodes.
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