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 10, 2026 · 1h 28mYC bets on hard tech as AI reshapes startups and productsThe episode connects AI’s safety, commercial, and geopolitical consequences with a new generation of companies building hardware, infrastructure, and specialized tools.
- Sep 10, 2026 · 27 minAI risk meets startup valuations and the foldable iPhone testThe episode connects abstract AI catastrophe fears with concrete questions about regulation, inflated technology valuations, and whether new hardware solves a real problem.
- Sep 9, 2026 · 2h 59mAI’s next test is adoption, not spectacleThe episode connects frontier-AI risk and valuations with the harder question of whether these systems can produce durable gains in creative work, business, and everyday life.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 25 minOpenAI bets computer-using agents will replace the chatbot boxThe conversation traces how stronger reasoning, computer use, memory, and health tools could shift AI from answering questions to pursuing supervised goals.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 3h 12mAI agents move from dazzling demos to everyday infrastructureThe episode tests whether advances in reasoning and computer use can become durable businesses across software, healthcare, finance, and robotics.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 32 minAI’s real breakthrough may be making machines usefulThe episode tests whether AI’s significance will be measured by abstract intellectual feats or by systems that visibly change work and daily life.
- Sep 5, 2026 · 33 minAI’s Blender prowess tests the meaning of general intelligenceThe episode connects a practical test of AI generality with labor-market uncertainty and Tesla’s ambitious robotaxi timeline.
- Sep 5, 2026 · 2h 20mAI’s capability surge meets jobs, markets, and real-world deploymentThe episode tests whether rapidly improving AI is changing labor, software, investment, mobility, and infrastructure faster than institutions can adapt.
- Sep 3, 2026 · 2h 26mAI’s next edge may be specialized data, not bigger modelsThe episode tests whether AI progress will be decided by benchmark scores or by trusted data, infrastructure, oversight, and distribution.
- Sep 3, 2026 · 24 minNBA penalties put Ballmer’s Clippers future under scrutinyThe alleged compensation scheme tests the NBA’s salary-cap enforcement and could reshape the Clippers’ competitiveness, ownership, and reputation.
- Sep 3, 2026 · 30 minGPT-6 Astra reignites the fight over AI benchmarksThe episode captures an industry where model launches, enterprise safeguards, open-source platforms, and shifting evaluations are reshaping who gets trusted and why.
- Sep 2, 2026 · 2h 17mAI security meets the future of music and hardwareThe episode connects hidden AI reasoning, cyber risk, infrastructure economics, and creative technology to a broader question about who controls increasingly powerful tools.