TBPN
Hosted by John Coogan & Jordi Hays · 69 decoded episodes · newest Oct 7, 2026
TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted to Spotify immediately after airing. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” TBPN has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. Diet TBPN delivers the best moments from each episode in under 30 minutes.
Episodes 69
- Oct 7, 2026 · 31 minAI advances expose the limits of automationThe episode connects breakthroughs in mathematical reasoning and coding to harder questions about creative work, computing platforms, finance, and infrastructure.
- Oct 7, 2026 · 2h 26mAI reshapes math, markets, machines, and the interfaces between themThe episode connects rapid AI progress to a broader question: whether abundance, automation, and dynamic software will strengthen institutions or expose their limits.
- Oct 6, 2026 · 31 minAI’s economic future hinges on augmentation versus replacementThe episode frames AI’s economic impact as a design and adoption choice, not an inevitable outcome of the technology itself.
- Oct 6, 2026 · 2h 31mAI augments judgment across finance, healthcare and designThe episode tests whether AI creates durable value by strengthening expert decisions and creative control rather than simply eliminating jobs.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 31 minAI mods test gaming’s claim to AI entertainmentThe episode connects rough game mashups, shifting AI attitudes, and cheaper Chinese cars to a broader question about where technology becomes genuinely useful.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 2h 55mAI agents challenge ownership, liability, and human ambitionThe episode tests how AI could reshape commerce, infrastructure, privacy, and work while asking what responsibility remains with people and institutions.
- Oct 3, 2026 · 32 minOpenAI pitches a unified front door for AI softwareThe episode examines whether identity, billing, and compute bundled through ChatGPT could become the next distribution layer for software and AI services.
- Oct 2, 2026 · 2h 46mAI reshapes government, startups, robotics and marketsThe episode connects AI’s consumer economics and technical limits to concrete changes in public services, venture investing, robotics and media power.
- Oct 1, 2026 · 32 minAI companies collide over cloud power, talent and commerceThe episode connects Nvidia’s ecosystem strategy, startup governance disputes and AI shopping experiments to a broader question about who controls the next layer of software.
- Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 35mAI factories face scrutiny from investors, communities, and usersThe episode connects infrastructure scale, venture conflict, water policy, and human-facing AI into one question: what responsible expansion looks like.
- Sep 30, 2026 · 30 minAI’s next bottleneck is political control and powerThe 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 · 2h 60mAI’s boom tests infrastructure, regulation, and human judgmentThe episode connects AI’s rapid expansion to the practical constraints of power, security, talent, markets, and public oversight.