Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Google DeepMind's Gus Martins and Ian Ballantyne introduce Gemma 4, a family of open models (2B to 31B parameters) that deliver frontier-level intelligence with disproportionate efficiency, enabling sovereign AI ownership through local deployment, Apache 2.0 licensing, and on-device capabilities.
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are preparing for historic IPOs valued at over $3 trillion combined, forcing ordinary investors into massive exposure to AI valuations that even industry leaders admit may be inflated, just as open-source competition threatens to erode the companies' pricing power.
Stanford economist Chad Jones explores AI's economic potential through two divergent scenarios: explosive growth driven by recursive self-improvement and full automation, versus continued 2% annual growth constrained by historical patterns and persistent human bottlenecks in production chains.
Actress Laverne Cox discusses her memoir "Transcendent," detailing how a decade of therapy helped her confront childhood trauma—from her mother's emotional neglect to a shaming third-grade "fan incident"—and why she believes telling the messy truth is essential to healing shame.
Glean's Work AI Index 2026 survey of 6,000 workers reveals a stark disconnect: while 87% use AI and report saving 13 hours weekly, only 13% see their organization performing significantly better. The gap stems from "bot sitting" (6.4 hours of weekly hidden labor to manage AI) and "bot shit" (69% admit shipping unvetted AI outputs they cannot defend), which erode productivity gains and work quality.
Laverne Cox discusses her memoir 'Transcendent' with Anna Martin, revealing how childhood trauma, maternal rejection, and school bullying shaped her journey toward self-acceptance through vulnerability and radical truth-telling.
Liberal democracy faces collapse from both overt constitutional violations and the 'great forgetting' of its foundational principles. Chamlee-Wright argues that reversing this decay requires repairing liberalism's 'soft tissue'—the shared mental models, automatic norms, and cultural tools that make formal institutions function and scale.
Copper prices have hit all-time highs driven by a perfect storm of AI infrastructure demand and severe supply constraints from major mine production cuts, creating a structural deficit that threatens to bottleneck the global energy transition and artificial intelligence expansion.
Sarah Paine argues that geography fundamentally constrains Russia and China to remain continental 'elephants' dependent on land armies and territorial expansion, lacking the geographic moats, sea access, and institutional stability required to become maritime 'whales' regardless of their ambitions.
David Hay warns that markets face a 'vicious unwind' as unprecedented IPO liquidity drains collide with the most severe global energy supply shock in history, with 13-15% of oil supply trapped in the Persian Gulf and inventory tanks approaching empty while futures markets remain in denial.
Terry Bradshaw joins Joe Rogan to discuss launching his award-winning bourbon brand after receiving branding advice from a former Secretary of State, shares stories of catching 110 trout using a 'Baby Jesus' good luck charm, and reflects on his brief stint working in cosmetics to experience a 'normal' job.
Jordan Peterson analyzes Temple Grandin's concrete perceptual thinking to explain how intelligence abstracts complexity into navigable icons, while sharing his personal transformation from alcoholic hedonism to disciplined academic productivity through physical training and radical truth-telling in marriage.