
Talk Cocktail
by Jeff Schechtman
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How Silicon Valley Buys Its Future: The Stanford Within Stanford
Sep 2, 2026
29m 51s
The Cruelest Game
Aug 26, 2026
34m 50s
An Inversion of AI’s Discontent
Aug 20, 2026
32m 21s
The Age of AI Will Require Intuitive Leadership, Not More Data
Aug 13, 2026
33m 45s
Does Fascism Have American Roots?
Aug 8, 2026
35m 25s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/2/26 | 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 new book “How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University,” was a machine: venture capitalists scouting freshmen, “pre-idea funding,” yacht parties, and a secret elite — all riding on a culture of cutting corners that influenced everyone from his classmates to the university president. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 29m 51s | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | 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 Open gets under way this week, Futterman, veteran sports journalist for The Athletic and author of The Cruelest Game, goes inside the sport’s real battleground — the head — where even the greatest lose nearly half the points they play, and the hardest thing any champion does is learn when to leave.Then there’s the money. At the top, fifty to a hundred million a year rides on winning, and every sponsor becomes one more voice in your head. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 34m 50s | ||||||
| 8/20/26 | 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 recent column — titled “‘We were a dying little town’: How Silicon Valley data centers are reshaping rural America” — she maps a strange disconnect: the dread over data centers looms large in the Bay Area, cradle of the artificial intelligence boom, while places bearing the weight, like Ellendale, North Dakota, have made their peace. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 32m 21s | ||||||
| 8/13/26 | 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 makes information infinite and answers instant, he says the real edge is disciplined intuition — a trainable "third system" of judgment no machine can copy. Can today's leaders relearn to trust the instinct the data keeps drowning out? Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 33m 45s | ||||||
| 8/8/26 | 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’ve been flooded with books warning about fascism — how to recognize it, how it spreads, how democracies lose their way. Almost all begin with the same assumption: Fascism was a European creation that eventually washed up on American shores.Joseph Kelly says we’ve got it backwards.Kelly, a professor at the College of Charleston and author of The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism 1818-1915, joins me in this WhoWhatWhy Podcast to explains why fascism is less an ideology than a corruption of democracy itself. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 35m 25s | ||||||
| 7/30/26 | Can Code Have a Conscience? | The AI debate is endless. One writer decided to measure it by asking not how smart the machines are, but how humane they are.Talking about artificial intelligence has become its own industry. AI will save us or doom us. It will cure cancer or end work. Panels, manifestos, congressional hearings, op-eds without end — and through all of it, the machines keep getting better at talking back, and no one can tell you whether the thing you confided in last night was good for you or not.My guest on this recent WhoWhatWhy podcast, Erika Anderson, has stopped arguing and started measuring. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 35m 25s | ||||||
| 7/25/26 | Design as an Act of Inclusion | The digital world is being rebuilt around AI, and for the first time in a generation the concrete of that world is still wet. Lainey Feingold thinks that's the opportunity! Technology can now read any text aloud, describe any image, caption any voice in real time — the most powerful equalizer disabled people have ever had, if it's designed in rather than bolted on. Feingold, a disability rights lawyer who won talking ATMs and accessible banking without ever filing a lawsuit, has gathered thirty-nine authors from ten countries into Digital Accessibility Ethics. Their case: build for the person at the edge and everyone gets a better product. Who do we decide to build for? Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 37m 43s | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | The Real California That Gavin Newsom Will Have to Defend | The author and journalist Mark Arax joins me on the California Sun podcast to discuss his recent sweeping essay in the Guardian, published under the headline “California: Land of Plunder and Hypocrisy.” From the Gold Rush to the artificial intelligence boom, Arax explores how California’s myths, ambitions, and repeated reinventions have often concealed a far more complicated history of extraction, contradiction, and self-deception. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe | 40m 26s | ||||||
| 7/18/26 | gerontocracywealth transfer+3 | Samuel Moyn | YaleWhoWhatWhy | — | gerontocracywealth transfer+3 | — | 44m 09s | ||
| 7/16/26 | technological advancementartificial intelligence+4 | James Pethokoukis | Talk CocktailSpaceX | America | technological advancementartificial intelligence+5 | — | 40m 28s | ||
| 7/11/26 | technologyAI+3 | Matthew Stepka | AtariGoogle+3 | Silicon Valley | Silicon Valleyenlightened AI+3 | — | 39m 37s | ||
| 7/8/26 | waterpersonal transformation+3 | Kate Washington | Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims | — | waterswimming+5 | — | 16m 40s | ||
| 6/25/26 | artificial intelligencegovernment+4 | Beth Simone Noveck | WhoWhatWhyTalk Cocktail+1 | — | artificial intelligencegovernment reform+4 | — | 35m 14s | ||
| 6/20/26 | musicBeach Boys+4 | David Beard | Beach BoysAll Summer Long : Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin’ to SMiLE | Southern CaliforniaCalifornia | Beach BoysBrian Wilson+5 | — | 47m 16s | ||
| 6/13/26 | New York City1980s+4 | Dylan Gottlieb | — | New York | New York1980s+5 | — | 39m 13s | ||
| 6/11/26 | RussiaPutin+4 | Marc Bennetts | Kremlin | Russia | RussiaPutin+5 | — | 34m 00s | ||
| 6/6/26 | world orderglobal conflict+4 | Peter Apps | ReutersThe Next World War | BeijingWashington+5 | world ordermajor war+6 | — | 35m 24s | ||
| 6/4/26 | griefloss+3 | Danielle Crittenden | Dispatches from Grief | — | griefloss+5 | — | 32m 02s | ||
| 5/30/26 | California governor's racelocal politics+3 | Joe Mathews | California SunTalk Cocktail Podcast | California | Californiagovernor's race+5 | — | 32m 59s | ||
| 5/27/26 | civilizationcommunication+4 | Simon Pearce | EmotifLiminal Lens Substack | Roman EmpireUnited States | civilizationcoordination+6 | — | 45m 36s | ||
| 5/21/26 | digital literacyeducation+4 | Valerie ZieglerJoel Breakstone | Stanford’s Digital Inquiry GroupCalifornia Sun+1 | — | digital literacyalgorithms+5 | — | 38m 48s | ||
| 5/16/26 | autonomous vehiclestransportation innovation+4 | William Riggs | WaymosUniversity of San Francisco | San Francisco | autonomous vehiclesWaymos+5 | — | 33m 17s | ||
| 5/14/26 | prediction marketseconomics+3 | Robin Hanson | George Mason University | USIran | prediction marketsRobin Hanson+5 | — | 43m 15s | ||
| 5/9/26 | climate changecollective action+4 | Pablo Dias | SOLARCYCLE | China | climate progressrenewable energy+4 | — | 30m 57s | ||
| 5/6/26 | authoritarianismpolitical theory+3 | John Ambrosio | — | MinneapolisIran | authoritarian regimeideology+3 | — | 34m 44s | ||
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