SacTown Talks
Hosted by Hector Barajas · Jarhett Blonien
4.7from 29 ratings
- 230
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 29
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About SacTown Talks
Weekly News Roundups and Conversations with California’s Leaders in Politics and Policy.
- Publisher
- Jarhett Blonien
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 230 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Decision-Makers to Their Inner Circle: The Future of Politics & Public Affairs
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is the “Dirty Dozen” Misleading Parents? The Science Behind Your Produce
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Are Food Safety Fears Making Us Less Healthy? | Amy Myrdal Miller
Inside a recent episode
From Decision-Makers to Their Inner Circle: The Future of Politics & Public Affairs
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's two underlying psychological principles, and I'm going to nerd out for a minute. But one of them is based on the research from Robin Dunbar, and he mapped really how many relationships can the average person maintain. he found there's a very small group of like your best friends you know around five people there's a slightly smaller group of like or a slightly larger group of like close connections people you trust people you're seeing on a regular basis then maybe there's a group of 30 you would consider friends and on and on i think the biggest uh circle that he had was about 5 000 people that maybe you knew by name about 1500 people that maybe you knew by face And within that 1500, there's a group of 150, which is known as the Dunbar 150, which is the most meaningful amount of connections that one person can sustain. […]
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- Libby Hall
- Cameron English
- Amy Myrdal Miller
- Jodie Muller
- Brooke Armour
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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Who hosts SacTown Talks?
Hector Barajas host the show. Published by Jarhett Blonien.
How often do new episodes come out?
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