Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Netflix granted Warner Bros. Discovery a rare waiver to negotiate with Paramount's higher competing bid despite an existing merger agreement, while the Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
Julia Staler discovers her seemingly conventional Midwestern father is bisexual during a shocking phone call, only to reveal her own bisexuality in return, forcing them to rebuild their relationship from scratch while confronting how hiding their identities had created distance between them.
Great home coffee starts with a burr grinder and fresh beans, while choosing between drip machines, pour-over, or moka pots depends on whether you prioritize convenience, control, or intensity in your daily brew.
Economist Kenneth Boulding's 1978 book "Stable Peace" offers a dynamic framework for understanding peace not as a static condition but as a resilient system balancing "strain" (destabilizing pressures) against "strength" (institutional resilience), defining peace negatively as the absence of war rather than the presence of abstract goods like justice.
Givaudan CEO Gilles Andrier reveals how the world's largest fragrance and flavor company combines neuroscientific principles with artistic creativity to serve B2B clients, while navigating the tension between consumer testing data and bold innovation in a market being reshaped by Gen Z self-expression trends.
Peter Steinberger explains how a 1-hour WhatsApp-to-CLI prototype evolved into OpenClaw, the fastest-growing GitHub repository in history (175,000+ stars), by creating a self-modifying AI agent that prioritizes fun and accessibility over corporate polish.
Michael Gentile warns that unsustainable government debt and continuous money printing are driving a secular de-dollarization into hard assets, while AI disruption introduces new economic uncertainties. He argues that gold mining stocks remain deeply undervalued despite record bullion prices, offering exceptional free cash flow yields as central banks accumulate physical metal for the long term.
GaryVee predicts collectible-driven marketing (like cereal toys) will dominate retail, advises local businesses to create national shippable products to unlock live shopping platforms while pushing local services, and emphasizes that leadership requires ruthless accountability while personal fulfillment comes from daily joy and empathy toward critics.
Comedian Donnell Rawlings joins Joe Rogan to discuss aging-related health sensitivities, deceptive tobacco marketing tactics targeting Black communities, and the underground economics of prison systems.
As China enters the Year of the Fire Horse—a zodiac alignment last seen in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution—astrological anxiety about political volatility coincides with a demographic crisis, as urban women increasingly prioritize career autonomy over marriage and motherhood despite government incentives to reverse declining birth rates.
AI researcher Ajeya Cotra explains why predictions about artificial general intelligence range from modest economic growth to "10,000 years of technological progress" by 2050, largely due to disagreements over whether AI will automate physical infrastructure as quickly as cognitive work, and whether historical steady growth or long-term acceleration is the better guide to the future.
Housing demand has crashed to historic lows with sales down 42% from peak levels, triggering severe price corrections in Sunbelt markets and threatening broader declines as both domestic and international migration slow to multi-decade lows.