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California Sun Podcast

Mar 12, 2026

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 looks at the industry’s economic upheaval: mergers, mounting debt, streaming disruption, and the...


Mar 5, 2026

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 "Restaurant of the Year." But it was a 20% service fee at the bottom of Burdell's receipts that...


Feb 19, 2026

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 say, can no longer tell real from fake. Together, Ziegler and Breakstone are at the forefront...


Feb 12, 2026

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 market. On Oct. 1, 2019, he was shot execution-style on his own property, hands bound....


Feb 5, 2026

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 police department accountable for the beating of Rodney King. Thirty-four years later, after George Floyd...