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
- Sep 21, 2026 · 31 minAI video collides with the next shopping platform warThe episode connects synthetic media’s production potential with a broader fight over who controls AI-assisted discovery, commerce, and advertising.
- Sep 17, 2026 · 3h 2mAI abundance meets the limits of economic measurementThe episode tests whether AI is already reshaping investment, infrastructure, politics, productivity, and everyday communication—or remains mostly a story about the future.
- Sep 17, 2026 · 29 minSmart glasses face a usefulness test beyond smartphonesThe episode connects Snap’s ambitious wearable pitch with harder questions about consumer demand, AI evaluation, corporate strategy, and institutional adaptation.
- Sep 16, 2026 · 2h 20mAI agents meet higher rates and harder questions of trustThe episode connects AI governance and personal-agent economics with the financing conditions shaping startups and infrastructure.
- Sep 16, 2026 · 31 minAI evaluators face a trust and accountability testThe episode connects AI safety oversight to legal responsibility, monetary policy, and the incentives shaping frontier-lab transparency.
- Sep 15, 2026 · 2h 57mAI turns business strategy into a race over productivity and visibilityThe episode connects AI’s economic effects to concrete changes in hiring, journalism, entertainment, insurance, regulation, and how companies reach automated agents.
- Sep 15, 2026 · 32 minAI’s deflation promise collides with rates, geopolitics and safety politicsThe episode connects AI’s economic effects to interest rates, China’s strategic position, safety regulation and enterprise adoption.
- Sep 14, 2026 · 2h 50mAI’s race raises questions about safety, supply chains and durable businessesThe episode connects frontier-AI governance to semiconductor bottlenecks, cybersecurity, consumer software, industrial strategy and the economics of consolidation.
- Sep 14, 2026 · 26 minAI safety debate collides with regulation, markets, and political theaterThe episode tests whether slowing AI requires independent oversight, broad supply-chain controls, or simply more skepticism about the technology’s promises and harms.
- Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 46mAI risk meets robot arms, agent investing and chip competitionThe episode connects abstract arguments about AI safety to hands-on robotics, emerging agent businesses and the hardware race challenging NVIDIA.
- Sep 11, 2026 · 30 minAI pause proposals collide with enforcement and competitionThe debate tests whether extreme controls on advanced AI could reduce catastrophic risk without driving development underground or surrendering technological ground.
- Sep 10, 2026 · 32 minApple’s foldable bet meets Meta’s personal AI pushThe discussion links two competing visions of consumer technology: hardware that expands how phones work and AI that reshapes how people access information.