Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. <br/><br/><a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jeffschechtman.substack.com</a>
Talk Cocktail
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Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. <br/><br/><a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jeffschechtman.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
June 20, 2026
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, And The Music That Called Us West
<p>One year after the death of the legendary Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, author <strong>David Beard</strong> joins me on the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.californiasun.co/podcast/david-beard-on-brian-wilson-the-beach-boys-and-the-music-that-called-us-west/"><strong>California Sun podcast</strong></a> to talk about his new book, “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/all-summer-long-9798216351221/">All Summer Long</a>: Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin’ to SMiLE.” Beard discusses how the Beach Boys didn’t just make iconic music but defined Southern California itself — surf, sun, cars, the postcard invitation west — while Wilson quietly pushed pop into uncharted territory for the whole country. </p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at <a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 13, 2026
New York, the 1980s, and the World It Created
<p>New York in the 1980s was a city in convulsion — deindustrializing, gentrifying, financializing — and the young urban professionals who flooded its trading floors and law firms weren't just a cultural moment. They were the architects of the America we live in now. Historian Dylan Gottlieb explains how the yuppie takeover of New York wrote the blueprint for today's inequality — and why we're still living inside it.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at <a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 11, 2026
Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once
<p>Putin didn’t seize a democracy — he hollowed one out. Twenty-five years inside Russia’s slow spiral, and what it tells us about our own moment.</p><p>My guest on this recent <a target="_blank" href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/russias-descent-into-madness-slowly-then-all-at-once/"><strong>WhoWhatWhy</strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/russias-descent-into-madness-slowly-then-all-at-once/"><strong> podcast</strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/russias-descent-into-madness-slowly-then-all-at-once/">, </a><strong>Marc Bennetts,</strong> arrived in Moscow in January1997, before most of the world had ever heard of Vladimir Putin. He stayed for 25 years. He watched Putin rise, the economy boom and bust, and freedoms quietly disappear.</p><p>Russia has fallen off the front page. The global conversation has moved on — to China, to trade wars, to the Middle East, to whatever is consuming the news cycle this week.</p><p>But Russia hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there, still fighting a war it started, still governed by a man who controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal and who, a former Kremlin adviser says, appears to be reacting to pictures in his own head. </p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at <a href="https://jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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