Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrom Worm Candy to Pharma Titan: Pfizer's Acquisition Obsession
Season 1 Episode 178
Pfizer's origin story is wild—a candy company that kills intestinal worms, founded in 1849 Brooklyn by two cousins. Their rise to a $62 billion pharm…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Chasing the Edge: Why We Pay for Danger
Season 1 Episode 177
A half-trillion-dollar industry exists for people who voluntarily seek mortal danger—and it's not who you think it is. We explore the psychology of s…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The East India Company of Sports: How Fanatics Built an Empire
Season 1 Episode 176
Fanatics doesn't just sell jerseys—they *are* the jersey. We break down how a single company conquered official merchandise, trading cards, and sport…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Void Beneath Your Data: Why Your AI Died Before It Was Born
Season 1 Episode 175
Your AI projects aren't failing because of the AI. They're failing because of invisible data corruption sitting in your systems like a time bomb. Mas…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The GPU Pricing Apocalypse of 2026
Season 1 Episode 174
Why 2026 is genuinely a terrible year to buy a computer—and why a four-year-old used graphics card is actually the smart move. This episode dives int…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Coordinates Don't Lie: Why AI Must Stay Private
Season 1 Episode 173
Building an AI computer from scratch forces a question: why not just rent compute from a cloud provider? This episode reveals the answer—a research f…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What It's Actually For: The Purpose You Forgot to Define
Season 1 Episode 172
Five episodes deep into building a machine, the hosts finally discover the answer to a question left blank in the project spec: what is this actually…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why This Machine and Not Another One
Season 1 Episode 171
Episode 5 of the build series confronts the central question: what does this component do that nothing you already own can do? We introduce the workl…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Three Kitchens, One Computer: How Memory Really Works
Season 1 Episode 170
Storage is the pantry, RAM is the prep counter, and VRAM is the graphics card's secret kitchen—and they're all wildly different things. In episode fo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Card Was Always This: Why GPUs Are Natural for AI
Season 1 Episode 169
Episode 3 of our 10-part series on building an AI computer from scratch. Today we tackle the strangest thing in the whole build: graphics cards are t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago