Episodes
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TBPN
AI’s next bottleneck is political control and power
The episode connects open-source restrictions, massive energy demands, and uncertainty over model consciousness into one question: who controls AI’s expansion and meaning.
Sep 30, 2026 · 30 min
Marketplace
AI spending lifts GDP as workers and startups stay cautious
The episode tests whether AI investment can produce durable economic gains while a seemingly strong labor market and private funding conceal underlying uncertainty.
Sep 30, 2026 · 25 min
The Rest Is Science
A kendama turns catching into a lesson in physics
The episode shows how a simple skill toy exposes the mechanics of balance, prediction, materials, and learning before extending those ideas to swimming and planetary science.
Sep 30, 2026 · 41 min
The Rules of Investing
Soul Patts shifts from equities toward cash and credit
Todd Barlow explains how higher rates have changed Soul Patts’ portfolio and why permanent capital supports a valuation-driven approach through market cycles.
Sep 30, 2026 · 32 min
Breaking News from Pod Save America
Supreme Court tests the limits of its independence
The episode connects attacks on federal prosecutors, deportation policy, judicial ethics, and gun rights to a broader struggle over institutional power.
Sep 30, 2026 · 23 min
DarkHorse Podcast: The Evolutionary Lens
Migration reshapes the Darién Gap as AI tests the limits of experience
The episode connects migration policy’s local consequences with a broader question about whether intelligence without embodiment can understand reality.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 44m
TBPN
AI’s boom tests infrastructure, regulation, and human judgment
The episode connects AI’s rapid expansion to the practical constraints of power, security, talent, markets, and public oversight.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2h 60m
Morning Wire
Israel confirms hijacking terror link as Iran faces new scrutiny
The episode connects an attempted airline hijacking, a British base security incident, and a series of domestic political and legal controversies.
Sep 30, 2026 · 13 min
WSJ What’s News
Flight emergency exposes risks behind markets’ calm
The episode connects a dramatic aviation crisis with unresolved questions about central-bank oversight, market concentration, inflation and drug-development tradeoffs.
Sep 30, 2026 · 10 min
Consider This from NPR
AI agents test the internet’s boundaries of trust
Autonomous software could simplify digital chores while gaining access to the private accounts, data, and systems that make those chores possible.
Sep 30, 2026 · 13 min
The President's Daily Brief
Russia Raises Nuclear Stakes Around Kaliningrad
The episode connects a new Russian warning over Kaliningrad with escalating Baltic tensions, then reports an alarming attempted cockpit takeover.
Sep 30, 2026 · 13 min
This Week in Startups
Twitch and Airbnb turned rejection into a startup advantage
The episode tests whether founders can still afford the long experimentation and persistence that helped Web 2.0 companies find their markets.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 18m
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
A mother turns family crisis into a case for honest support
Sonia Hebden’s account shows how families navigating autism, trauma, mental illness, and suicidality need sustained listening, practical help, and care for caregivers.
Sep 30, 2026 · 48 min
DOUBLE COVERAGE PODCAST
Sean Sharaf turns a 12-second upset into a career blueprint
Sharaf’s knockout has opened a fight, media, and veterans’ advocacy opportunity whose next move may shape his public career.
Sep 30, 2026 · 44 min
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Nick Friedman confronts the hidden cost of explosive growth
Friedman’s story shows how branding and disciplined scaling can build a national business while intensifying the personal costs of success.
Sep 30, 2026 · 56 min
10% Happier with Dan Harris
Buddhist practice turns relationship conflict into a skill
The episode argues that lasting intimacy depends less on eliminating friction than on meeting it with awareness, honesty, compassion, and boundaries.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 13m
Short Wave
Scientists race to map Earth’s hidden biodiversity
The species science has not yet documented could reshape conservation, medicine, and agriculture, but cataloging them raises daunting practical and ethical questions.
Sep 30, 2026 · 14 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
College sports can boost applications—but not always value
As colleges compete for fewer prospective students, athletic success may attract attention without delivering a reliable return on expensive sports investments.
Sep 30, 2026 · 9 min
Jocko Podcast
Leadership improves when organizations train ownership
The episode argues that leadership failures often reflect untrained responsibility, making deliberate practice central to performance, trust, and problem-solving.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2h 29m
Office Hours with Prop G
AI agents promise savings but expose a business-model fault line
The episode tests whether task-completing AI can deliver practical consumer value while companies decide whether agents help or threaten their economics.
Sep 30, 2026 · 37 min
Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE)
Opals reveal Earth’s weathering, microbes and deep time
This episode turns a familiar gemstone into evidence of planetary chemistry, fossil preservation, mining history and unresolved geological questions.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 12m
Prof G Markets
Anthropic’s losses test frontier AI valuations
Anthropic’s filing raises a central market question: can frontier AI companies sustain enormous training costs while presenting a credible path to profitability?
Sep 30, 2026 · 32 min
Stock Movers
Asian markets split between drug optimism and chip anxiety
The episode shows how licensing and clinical progress are lifting Chinese pharmaceuticals even as supply constraints and healthcare costs weigh elsewhere.
Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min
Morning Wire
Senate presses Jack Smith as H-1B scrutiny reaches hospitals
The episode connects accountability questions around the Trump prosecutions with a consequential debate over foreign medical graduates and access to residency training.
Sep 30, 2026 · 19 min