American Originals Holiday Special w/ Mike Rowe
Theo Von hosts a holiday special focused on American-made products, joined in-studio by Mike Rowe as they highlight small U.S. makers and talk about what it means to support American manufacturing. Throughout the episode they share stories from entrepreneurs and craftspeople behind items like gloves, cherries, hot sauce, cutting boards, pottery, and more, emphasizing resilience, ingenuity, and the "American dream" in action. The conversation closes with reflections on America as something citizens must actively maintain through everyday choices, including where they spend their money.
BTC252: Bitcoin Mastermind Q3 2025 w/ Joe Carlasare, Jeff Ross, and American HODL (Bitcoin Podcast)
Preston Pysh hosts a quarterly Bitcoin mastermind with Jeff Ross, American Hodl, and Joe Carlisari focused on current Bitcoin sentiment, macroeconomic conditions, and how hard assets like gold and Bitcoin fit into the evolving global landscape. They argue the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle is breaking down, discuss golds recent outperformance versus both stocks and Bitcoin, and explore implications of liquidity trends, Fed policy, and a potential long period of hard-asset outperformance. The conversation also covers the US strategic Bitcoin reserve, AI and robotics as economic forces, the state of Bitcoin treasury companies and miners, and rising geopolitical tensions with China and the BRICS bloc.
647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.
Host Stephen Dubner speaks with analyst and author Dan Wong about his framework for understanding the U.S. and China as, respectively, a "lawyerly society" and an "engineering state." Wong explains how China's engineer-dominated leadership prioritizes rapid infrastructure building, technological capacity, and even social engineering, while the U.S. legal culture emphasizes procedure, litigation, and blocking harmful as well as beneficial projects. Drawing on his years living in China, his family's history, and his book "Breakneck," Wong discusses zero-COVID, the one-child policy, manufacturing and process knowledge, China's global ambitions, and what each country could learn from the other.