# Talk Cocktail

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520
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Official site: https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/podcast
Author: Jeff Schechtman
Episodes: 1000

## Resource

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, and thought leaders.

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## Episodes
- [As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/as-america-becomes-a-gerontocracy-its-future-keeps-getting-delayed-2) — 2026-07-18T15:06:06+00:00
- [Progress Should Be Our Most Important Product](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/progress-should-be-our-most-important-product) — 2026-07-16T13:51:21+00:00
- [Before the Trillions, There Was Once Joy in Silicon Valley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/before-the-trillions-there-was-once-joy-in-silicon-valley) — 2026-07-11T15:00:00+00:00
- [The Water Knows Something](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-water-knows-something) — 2026-07-08T15:16:29+00:00
- [As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/as-america-becomes-a-gerontocracy-its-future-keeps-getting-delayed) — 2026-07-02T15:25:04+00:00
- [AI May Be the Tool That Brings Government Back to Life?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/ai-may-be-the-tool-that-brings-government-back-to-life) — 2026-06-25T15:30:00+00:00
- [Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, And The Music That Called Us West](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/brian-wilson-the-beach-boys-and-the-music-that-called-us-west) — 2026-06-20T19:46:52+00:00
- [New York, the 1980s, and the World It Created](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/new-york-the-1980s-and-the-world-it-created) — 2026-06-13T18:11:37+00:00
- [Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/russia-s-descent-into-madness-slowly-then-all-at-once) — 2026-06-11T15:00:00+00:00
- [No Rules, No Order: The World on a Knife’s Edge](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/no-rules-no-order-the-world-on-a-knife-s-edge) — 2026-06-06T14:30:00+00:00
- [The Democracy of Grief](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-democracy-of-grief) — 2026-06-04T16:25:42+00:00
- [California's Generic Governor's Race and the End of Local Politics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/california-s-generic-governor-s-race-and-the-end-of-local-politics) — 2026-05-30T14:30:00+00:00
- [How Civilizations Lose the Signal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/how-civilizations-lose-the-signal) — 2026-05-27T21:00:13+00:00
- [Teaching Students to Navigate Algorithms and Deepfakes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/teaching-students-to-navigate-algorithms-and-deepfakes) — 2026-05-21T14:30:00+00:00
- [Why Do We Fear Waymos More Than We Fear Bad Drivers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/why-do-we-fear-waymos-more-than-we-fear-bad-drivers) — 2026-05-16T20:48:03+00:00
- [Betting on Reality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/betting-on-reality) — 2026-05-14T14:30:00+00:00
- [Beyond Doomism: Why Climate Progress Is Happening Without the Panic](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/beyond-doomism-why-climate-progress-is-happening-without-the-panic) — 2026-05-09T14:34:24+00:00
- [Power Without Ideology Is Doomed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/power-without-ideology-is-doomed) — 2026-05-06T15:30:00+00:00
- [L.A.’s Air Was Once A Punchline. It Could Be Again](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/l-a-s-air-was-once-a-punchline-it-could-be-again) — 2026-05-02T14:30:00+00:00
- [Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Outdated Legacy Software](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/iran-hungary-ukraine-the-world-is-running-on-outdated-legacy-software) — 2026-04-29T16:37:53+00:00
- [How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/how-rolling-stone-shaped-a-social-revolution-at-least-for-a-while) — 2026-04-22T15:17:56+00:00
- [AI Is Humans, All the Way Down](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/ai-is-humans-all-the-way-down) — 2026-04-18T23:35:55+00:00
- [Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/social-media-had-gun-level-immunity-that-just-ended) — 2026-04-16T18:58:09+00:00
- [Understanding Global Oil Shocks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/understanding-global-oil-shocks) — 2026-04-11T14:30:00+00:00
- [The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-unexplained-war-stumbling-toward-world-war-iii) — 2026-04-04T14:00:00+00:00
- [The Chavez Myth Comes Apart](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-chavez-myth-comes-apart) — 2026-04-01T15:43:39+00:00
- [We Cut Off Its Oil & Attacked Its Partners; China Seems Willing to Wait...Why?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/we-cut-off-its-oil-attacked-its-partners-china-seems-willing-to-wait-why) — 2026-03-28T22:30:17+00:00
- [The Brief Life of Public Outrage: Why Corporate Scandals Matter—Until They Don't](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-brief-life-of-public-outrage-why-corporate-scandals-matter-until-they-don-t) — 2026-03-25T18:12:44+00:00
- [The Service Fee That Sparked a National Firestorm](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-service-fee-that-sparked-a-national-firestorm) — 2026-03-21T14:43:38+00:00
- [Hidden Cables—Global Risk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/hidden-cables-global-risk) — 2026-03-19T15:25:13+00:00
- [The Iran Nobody in Washington Wanted to Listen To](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-iran-nobody-in-washington-wanted-to-listen-to) — 2026-03-14T15:30:00+00:00
- [American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked as Advertised](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/american-democracy-isn-t-broken-it-never-worked-as-advertised) — 2026-03-11T15:30:00+00:00
- [A View From Israel: A Conversation with Ambassador Michael Oren](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/a-view-from-israel-a-conversation-with-ambassador-michael-oren) — 2026-03-07T16:57:48+00:00
- [Democracy’s Pulse Is Beating — But For How Long?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/democracy-s-pulse-is-beating-but-for-how-long) — 2026-03-04T22:24:22+00:00
- [Silicon Valley Meets Outlaw Cannabis Culture](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/silicon-valley-meets-outlaw-cannabis-culture) — 2026-02-28T16:00:00+00:00
- [Worse Than Losing a Hockey Game: Living Next Door to the Predator](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/worse-than-losing-a-hockey-game-living-next-door-to-the-predator) — 2026-02-25T19:54:06+00:00
- [An Existential Moment for Iran](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/an-existential-moment-for-iran) — 2026-02-18T15:46:27+00:00
- [The Climate Fight Without America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/the-climate-fight-without-america) — 2026-02-14T15:00:00+00:00
- [What Comes Next For Iran On The Brink.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-cocktail-15520/what-comes-next-for-iran-on-the-brink) — 2026-02-11T21:20:51+00:00

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