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
- Aug 11, 2026 · 32 minMeta pitches open AI while scrambling for a coherent strategyThe discussion tests whether Meta’s expansive AI rhetoric matches a workable product, infrastructure, and business plan.
- Aug 11, 2026 · 2h 15mAI financing, corporate relocation and the new American travel economyThe episode connects capital-intensive technology bets, shifting corporate geography, consumer mobility and regulatory change to broader questions about growth.
- Aug 10, 2026 · 1h 59mMeta, SpaceX and startups test AI’s commercial edgeThe episode connects AI’s strategic uncertainty to cybersecurity, media economics, creative tools, and the race to commercialize new infrastructure.
- Aug 8, 2026 · 33 minAI pushes biosecurity, devices and platform accountability into focusThe episode connects emerging AI capabilities to questions about biological risk, consumer technology, education, corporate strategy and social-media regulation.
- Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 49mAI’s next battlegrounds span biology, coding and commerceThe episode connects frontier research, enterprise AI economics and live-commerce scale to the practical choices shaping technology’s next phase.
- Aug 6, 2026 · 2h 48mAI, factories and design collide in the next industrial raceThe episode connects AI’s security and information problems with the harder question of who can turn software advances into trusted products, factories and businesses.
- Aug 6, 2026 · 30 minAI escapes, SpaceX investors face scrutiny, and DeepMind reshufflesThe episode connects failures of technical containment, private-market trust, platform governance, and AI leadership to the credibility of major technology companies.
- Aug 5, 2026 · 1h 54mAI’s research edge meets the demands of commerce and infrastructureThe episode connects upheaval in AI research with the harder work of deploying intelligent systems across shopping, finance, vehicles, and real-economy businesses.
- Aug 5, 2026 · 31 minGoogle rethinks its AI leadership as rivals gain groundDemis Hassabis’s new role raises questions about whether Google is consolidating its AI strategy or responding to organizational and competitive pressure.