Jeff Schechtman

08 January 2026 Tom Freston on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California Last week, MTV officially shut down, ending an era that revolutionized music, video, and shaped California’s youth culture. Tom Freston co-founded the television ch... See more

Eleven federal workers reveal what it felt like to be fired by Musk’s DOGE — the emails, the trauma, and the institutional destruction we’ve never heard about. On this recentWhoWhatWhy podcast I talked with journalist Sasha Abramsky, the author of America... See more

This year, podcasts became the essential space where complexity found its voice — not just reflecting our world, but helping us understand the forces remaking it. The conversations continue, but the stakes have shifted. In this second set of five episodes... See more

18 December 2025 Our best podcast episodes of 2025 Out of the 47 California Sun podcast episodes we shared with you in 2025, we’ve curated seven for our “best of” list — an odd number, perhaps, but a lucky one as we are about to begin our seventh year tog... See more

We’re not one nation split by politics — we’re 11 regional cultures that have been at war since the colonies. And now the divisions are life and death. What if the America we think we know has never actually existed? The divisions tearing us apart aren’t ... See more