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Second Breakfast: Acquisition Reform? Are We Really Doing It?
Nov 15, 20251h 4m
Overfit: AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model
Nov 11, 202559 min
Second Breakfast: Colby's Pigpen, Counter-UAS, Training, Eat like a Trumper (or Iranian Spy?)
Nov 7, 20251h 5m
EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
Nov 6, 20251h 21m
CCP Bureaucracies in War
Nov 2, 20251h 21m
Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
Oct 30, 202553 min
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
Oct 30, 20251h 34m
Japan's New Prime Minister: What to Expect
Oct 29, 20251h 14m
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
Oct 29, 20251h 34m
Second Breakfast: Venezuela, Shutdowns, PE + Army, E.B. Sledge
Oct 23, 202552 min
PLA Purges and How Xi Rules with Jon Czin
Oct 22, 20251h 54m
Second Breakfast: Gaza, SOUTHCOM, AI Nuke Analogies Stink, Generals Using AI (with M. Horowitz and L. Kahn!)
Oct 17, 20251h 4m
Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
Oct 15, 20251h 7m
Anduril's Christian Brose on the Dangers of Unseriousness
Oct 13, 20251h 29m
EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
Oct 9, 202557 min
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
Oct 8, 20251h 28m
Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
Oct 6, 20251h 1m
RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
Oct 3, 20251h 7m
Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)
Oct 1, 202551 min
Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
Sep 29, 20251h 23m
Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
Sep 25, 20251h 11m
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
Sep 19, 20251h 7m
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
Sep 18, 20251h 19m
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sep 16, 20251h 1m
Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEALs in North Korea,
Sep 14, 20251h 17m
The Robotics Revolution
Sep 12, 20251h 26m
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
Sep 8, 20251h 2m
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Sep 5, 20251h 7m
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
Aug 31, 20251h 58m
Dan Wang on Modern China
Aug 28, 20251h 16m
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
Aug 25, 202554 min
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
Aug 22, 202556 min
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
Aug 20, 20251h 7m
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
Aug 14, 20251h 3m
EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
Aug 13, 20251h 11m
Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
Aug 10, 20251h 11m
Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
Aug 4, 20252h 10m
Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets
Jul 29, 20251h 13m
Where Japan Goes Next
Jul 23, 20251h 29m
Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
Jul 20, 20251h 40m
Trump and Japan
Jul 18, 20251h 12m
Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First
Jul 10, 20251h 26m
Overfit: AI and Media, America's Deepseek, Plots
Jul 9, 20251h 18m
China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
Jul 7, 20251h 1m
Wagner, Two Years On (Kamil on Coups and Power)
Jul 2, 202540 min
Are We Cooked? Q2 Check In
Jun 29, 202558 min
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Lip-Bu, Labubu, AI Salaries, and Bees
Jun 26, 202552 min
Apple in China
Jun 24, 20251h 10m
The House of Huawei
Jun 17, 20251h 16m
Can Donors Save Science?
Jun 12, 20251h 17m