The army of autonomous robots restoring nature | Tom Chi
Impact investor Tom Chi challenges the popular belief that economic growth must come at the expense of nature, arguing instead that the economy is physically a subset of the ecology because everything is ultimately mined or grown. He quantifies the scale of current extraction and describes how outdated industrial processes damage ecosystems, then presents three key shifts: closing material loops through advanced recycling, transforming agriculture with regenerative practices and AI-guided breeding, and using robotics for large-scale restoration on land and underwater. Through concrete examples-from battery recycling and adaptive crops to mangrove-planting drones and a low-cost coral and seagrass-planting robot-he illustrates how modern technology can actively repair ecosystems while supporting a resilient future economy.
I asked Cathie Wood the question no one else will
The host interviews investor Cathie Wood about her career trajectory from early service jobs through studying under Art Laffer and breaking into Capital Group, emphasizing how she used technology and hustle to add value. Wood explains ARK's research structure, open-research philosophy, and how her team uses volatility and rebalancing to manage high-conviction positions like Tesla. She addresses performance criticisms, lessons from the COVID boom and subsequent drawdown, discusses incentive structures in finance and venture capital, and lays out her views on AI, Tesla, robo‑taxis, humanoid robots, and the future economics of transportation.
Crypto Pardon, Amazon Automation, and Reagan Tariff Ad
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss Kara's trip to Korea, plastic surgery culture among tech workers, and Donald Trump's tariff threats against Canada triggered by an Ontario ad using Ronald Reagan's anti-tariff speech. They analyze U.S.-China trade and the pending TikTok deal, Trump's pardon of Binance founder CZ and what it signals about corruption and crypto, Amazon's push to automate its warehouses with robots, and Trump's bailout of Argentina, framing these stories within a broader critique of speculative gambling economics and erosion of rule-of-law, before closing with reflections on sports betting and the war in Ukraine.
Cosmic Queries - ALIENS! with Jake Roper
Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck interview YouTube science communicator Jake Roper in a Cosmic Queries episode focused on aliens in movies and TV. They discuss the plausibility of alien diseases, energy weapons, and iconic movie aliens, as well as how humanity might react to first contact, whether governments would hide evidence of intelligent life, and why self-replicating machines are a likely form of extraterrestrial visitors. Throughout, they compare cinematic depictions with basic physics, biology, and astrobiology concepts to assess what could and could not work in reality.
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.
TECH003: Elon Musk's Tesla Robotaxi, Optimus, and more w/ Cern Basher (Tech Podcast)
Host Preston Pysh interviews investor and technologist Cern Basher about Elon Musk's ecosystem of companies, focusing on Tesla's pivot away from the Dojo training supercomputer toward custom inference chips, and how this underpins autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. They explore the economics and deflationary impact of Tesla RoboTaxis and autonomous trucking, the massive potential of the Optimus robot to transform labor and corporate balance sheets, the role of Tesla Energy in enabling abundant power, and how these automation trends connect to Bitcoin as a long-term treasury asset in an AI-driven world.
The New Space Race with Jeff Thornburg
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice interview aerospace engineer and Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg about the emerging space industry, agile spacecraft propulsion, and the interplay between government and commercial space. Thornburg discusses his work on advanced rocket engines at the Air Force Research Lab and SpaceX, why rapid maneuverability in orbit is now strategically critical, and how his company is pursuing solar-thermal propulsion and modular spacecraft. They also examine the value of failure in engineering, the consequences of cutting U.S. R&D and NASA science budgets, the geopolitical competition in space-especially with China-and speculative future technologies like quantum-enabled warp-like drives.
TECH002: Jensen Huang & NVIDIA w/ Seb Bunney - Review of The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt
The episode is a book-club style discussion of Stephen Witt's "The Thinking Machine," focusing on how NVIDIA evolved from a niche gaming graphics company into a central player in the AI revolution. Preston and Seb trace the technical and strategic milestones behind NVIDIA's rise-parallel processing, GPUs, CUDA, and neural networks-while examining Jensen Huang's leadership style, culture-building, and obsession with speed and iteration. They also touch on the implications and risks of AI, Huang's reluctance to address them directly, and preview their next book on OpenAI and Sam Altman.