Podcasts

The David Lin Report

Luke Gromen warns that escalating Middle East tensions and excessive dollar strength will force foreign creditors to sell U.S. Treasuries to secure energy and food, triggering further dysfunction in Treasury markets. He positions gold—currently collateralizing only 13% of foreign-held U.S. debt versus a 40-60% historical average—as the single asset most likely to double or triple as the global monetary order restructures.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Despite Trump campaigning on ending endless wars, his second administration has become hawkish, launching wars with Iran and interventions in multiple countries, betraying the America First movement that helped elect him.

Joe Rogan Experience

Priyanka Chopra Jonas discusses the intense physical training and practical stunt work for her pirate film, while exploring the historical atrocities of the East India Trading Company, the erasure of Indian identity through Caribbean indentured servitude, and evidence of advanced ancient civilizations like the Indus Valley.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson explores how voluntarily confronting fears, stopping wasteful habits, and integrating traumatic experiences through narrative reconstruction can unlock unknown human potential while recognizing that individual responsibility ripples through social networks to affect billions.

TED

TED's global Idea Search lands in Mumbai where ten selected speakers compete for a single spot at the main TED conference in Vancouver, showcasing diverse Indian innovations from typography preserving tribal crafts to rock balancing as meditation, while receiving intensive coaching on storytelling and delivery.

20VC with Harry Stebbings

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sacrificed a $200M Pentagon contract and risked existential supply chain sanctions by demanding AI safety restrictions (banning mass surveillance and autonomous weapons), which the Department of Defense rejected as unconstitutional interference. OpenAI's Sam Altman secured the deal instead, exposing the ultimate supremacy of state power over Silicon Valley ethics and the unprecedented leverage elite AI talent holds over founders.

New York Times Podcasts

New York Times reporting reveals how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successfully pressured President Trump into joining a joint war against Iran—a military action Trump initially rejected and which no previous American president had agreed to—raising fundamental questions about whether the U.S. has outsourced its most consequential foreign policy decisions to Israel.

Impact Theory

The $2 trillion private credit market has evolved into an opaque shadow banking system that mirrors pre-2008 risks, with structural illiquidity, hidden defaults, and recent regulatory changes now exposing American 401(k)s to potential contagion and lockups.

Cognitive Revolution

Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam and Chief Scientist Tom McGrath discuss their $150M Series B and new 'intentional design' research agenda, which aims to shape model training dynamics and loss landscapes rather than merely reverse-engineering trained models, alongside advances in geometric interpretability that map continuous conceptual manifolds rather than discrete features.

Stripe

Garrett Langley explains how Flock Safety grew from a neighborhood project solving car break-ins to a $500M ARR company serving 6,000+ cities by building solar-powered license plate cameras, AI search tools, and drones that help law enforcement clear over one million crimes annually through real-time data coordination.

Huberman Lab

Dr. Charles Zuker explains how the brain transforms chemical detection into taste perception through dedicated neural pathways, revealing that while sweet and bitter are hardwired as attractive and aversive, the system remains highly plastic and modulated by internal states and gut-brain signaling.

Bankless

Crypto analyst CryptoKitten warns against FOMOing into Bitcoin at current levels around $71,800, arguing the asset remains in a bear flag pattern requiring two daily closes above $72,000 to invalidate, while drawing parallels to the 2022 cycle structure and advocating for patient dollar-cost averaging rather than chasing price.