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12 December 2025
Lawfare Daily: Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico Toro
Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico ToroPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Quico Toro, global opinion columnist at the Washington Post and Director of Climate Repair at...
30 min
11 December 2025
Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)
Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)Pub date: 2025-11-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHave you ever thought about the science and history of … wind? In this episode, Simon Winchester explains why eastbound flights are...
1 h 20 min
10 December 2025
Path Dependence in Financial/Monetary Systems
Podcast: The Economic History Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Path Dependence in Financial/Monetary SystemsPub date: 2025-12-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Professor Michael Bordo talks about his finding on the countries that "learned" to develop financial stability through history versus those that did not....
1 h 1 min
09 December 2025
The Licensing Racket
Podcast: The New Bazaar (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Licensing RacketPub date: 2025-12-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNearly 30 million workers, or roughly one in five workers throughout the country, are required to have a professional license before they can do their jobs.That’s more than twice the number of workers who belong...
1 h 1 min
08 December 2025
SHERMIN KRUSE: the art of stoic empathy
Podcast: Lives Well Lived (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: SHERMIN KRUSE: the art of stoic empathyPub date: 2025-11-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationShermin Kruse is an Iranian-born lawyer, and author of Stoic Empathy. Shermin's work often draws on her experiences growing up during war, navigating cultural exile, and advocating for...
1 h 12 min
06 December 2025
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-11-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl...
54 min
06 December 2025
Wisdom Takes Work: Ryan Holiday on What AI Can’t Teach You
Podcast: The James Altucher Show (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Wisdom Takes Work: Ryan Holiday on What AI Can’t Teach YouPub date: 2025-11-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA Note from James:Wisdom Takes Work is Ryan Holiday’s fourth book exploring the Stoic virtues, and this time he’s taking on the big one — wisdom. His earlier books...
1 h 2 min
04 December 2025
Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era
Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid EraPub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tyler considers Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage one of the best books of the last decade, and its author...
52 min
02 December 2025
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-11-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 2016, Ludovic Orlando, a genetics researcher, embarked on the Pegasus Project, an ambitious endeavor to use genetics to discover...
53 min
01 December 2025
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
Podcast: The Knowledge Project (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]Pub date: 2025-11-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCharlie Munger spent his life studying one question: why do smart people make bad decisions?In his legendary talk The Psychology of Human Misjudgement, Munger...
1 h 13 min