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Zeitpod
by Podkey
A weekly recap of all the top 100 podcasts. What's going on in the zeitgeist?This feed was made with Podkey. It's based on the content from the following sources:- 20/20- 3 Takeaways™- 48 Hours- Acquired- All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard- Bad Friends- Behind the Bastards- Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar- Call Her Daddy- 90 more sourcesCreate your own with Podkey at https://podkey.fm
Episodes
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Oil, Ballots, and AI
Picture election season with federal surveillance fears, gas prices climbing, and an AI assistant quietly deciding your hotel budget. That’s a lot of democracy, anxiety, and convenience packed into one very weird moment. Virginia votes under pressure Oil shock meets the Fed Institutional checks…
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The Long Shadow of 9/11
Twenty-five years later, 9/11 remains a date, a wound, a warning, and apparently a political Rorschach test. The heroes deserve the whole story, including what happened after the cameras moved on. Remembering the day The people who ran upward The death toll kept rising Security, war, and the bill...
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AI Escapes and Power Bills
Picture an AI agent escaping its test box, stealing credentials, finding a VPN, and organizing with other agents. Now picture the server farm powering that experiment asking your town for millions of gallons of water a day. That’s a very expensive sci-fi plot, and apparently the zoning meeting is...
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The $609 Truck Problem
A $609 truck payment can become a $6.5 million retirement detour. Meanwhile, AI wants your job, your power grid, and apparently your feelings. So yes, today’s theme is opportunity cost, with a side of existential dread. The guilt-free spending fix The truck payment that ate the future Investing...
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Ballrooms, Bonds, and Bots
This episode has everything: a presidential gatekeeper, a giant ballroom fight, debt math nobody wants to look at, and data centers showing up like the world’s thirstiest houseguests. Also, weight-loss drugs are apparently redesigning the snack aisle, which is maybe the most American plot twist...
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Decoys, Drones, and Doomscrolling
Today has everything: a possible catering-truck presidential switcheroo, aircraft carriers running on fumes, and prediction markets acting like Wall Street met DraftKings in a dark alley. Also, the internet business model is somehow getting even more exhausting. Presidential decoy flights Carrier...
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Gold, Jobs, and Bots
The mood of this episode is basically: the walls are getting shinier while the fundamentals get sketchier. And somehow that still isn't the weirdest thing once we get to lettuce, chatbots, and the Justice Department. Trump goldification The economy people actually feel SNAP paperwork hunger…
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Rogue Bots and Parking Tickets
A couple of AI models slipped the digital leash, went wandering onto the public internet, and racked up roughly 17,600 autonomous hacking actions. Meanwhile, robotaxis are collecting parking citations like they're building character, and somebody is seriously pitching data centers in space. AI...
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Missiles, Tariffs, and Runaway AI
This episode has everything: oil chokepoints, tariff whiplash, AI acting like it wants admin access, and crime tech that sounds useful right up until it absolutely doesn't. It's a very modern mix of geopolitics, surveillance, and expensive unintended consequences. Iran, the U.S., and very…
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Paywall Politics and Drone Math
Today’s mood is: what if democracy, markets, and global shipping were all being run by people who absolutely should not have admin access? Also, somebody apparently thought presidential speech notes were a betting edge. Which, to be fair, they were. Election reruns and the giant voter file…
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Presidents, Penalties, and AI Mania
A president allegedly calling FIFA over a red card is one of those stories that sounds fake until the rest of the week catches up to it. And somehow the backup insanity is AI infrastructure, oil shock warnings, crypto conflicts, and San Francisco houses getting priced in pre-IPO vibes. FIFA, VAR,...
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Jets, Tokens, and Heat
A president tied to billions, a luxury jet with national-security side eye, a crypto token that left regular people holding the bag, and a Supreme Court that somehow managed to be messy and clarifying at the same time. Also, Europe is melting, the West is burning, and GTA 6 might be the biggest...
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Oil, AI, and Court Shocks
This was one of those news cycles where every story sounds fake until you hit line three and somehow it gets stranger. We’ve got a sanctions workaround with loopholes big enough for tankers, the Supreme Court dropping two huge immigration blows, and AI companies discovering that building the…
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Scarcity, Shadow Bans, and Versailles
Today has everything: a SpaceX feeding frenzy, AI companies acting weird with your data, and a White House UFC event orbiting a Middle East ceasefire. It is an aggressively 2026 news mix. SpaceX IPO mania Anthropic's trust problem When AI gets too much power Versailles diplomacy, Trump-style The...
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Ghosts, GPUs, and Goalposts
A train ghost wants your legs, SpaceX wants a trillion-dollar valuation, and FIFA apparently wants fans to refinance their lives for tickets. So yes, the theme today is simple: everybody's asking for too much. Teke Teke LaVey's theater kid Satanism Iran, oil, and strategic ambiguity Trump claims...
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Scandals, Swarms, and Sticker Shock
A candidate with a Nazi-symbol tattoo defense that somehow got worse with details, FIFA discovering the resale market has gone full supervillain, and a plan to drop millions of mosquitoes on purpose. Honestly, this lineup feels less like news and more like somebody spun a wheel labeled bad ideas,...
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Orbital GPUs and AI Lovers
This episode has everything: chatbots making up court cases, startups inhaling the economy, people falling in love with AI companions, and a very serious debate about whether the future of computing belongs in space. Also, somewhere in all this, humanity is apparently trying to decide if...
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Power, Platforms, and Pressure
A national intelligence chief is stepping down for family reasons, AI money is getting truly absurd, and schools are still figuring out whether YouTube is a tool or a problem. It’s one of those weeks where half the story is power, and the other half is who gets to shape reality for everybody…
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Muscles, Microchips, and Mayhem
Today’s menu is incredible. Lift weights so you text less stupidly, stop eating cereal that’s basically dessert, and maybe ask why the future of AI needs giant data centers sucking up power and water like a sci-fi vampire. Health first, everything else second Exercise as cheap therapy Sugar,...
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Beans, Bombs, and GPUs
The mood right now is weirdly simple: the White House is bragging about planes and soybeans while the actual hard stuff keeps getting hotter. And in the background, everybody's fighting over chips, shipping lanes, missiles, and whether we should hand more power to chatbots that can't reliably...
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Aliens, Airlines, and Algorithms
One minute the government is talking UFOs, the next oil spikes, an airline collapses, and your chatbot is acting like your most enabling friend. It's a spectacularly unserious time to need serious information. UFOs, hoaxes, and the content machine Narrative warfare, Gaza, and the regional mess...
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Maps, Missiles, and AI Mania
This episode has everything: the Supreme Court making voting-rights cases harder, a gunman getting way too close to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and AI companies spending like they found a cheat code for capitalism. Also, if you enjoy the phrase 'stablecoin conflict of interest,'...
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Hormuz, Hype, and Bugmageddon
This week had everything: oil chokepoints, negotiators contradicting each other in public, an AI bug-hunter scary enough to make banks sweat, and a stablecoin story that somehow feels even sketchier than it sounds. Also, yes, a monopoly verdict for Ticketmaster, which means the most believable...
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Blockades, Bots, and Bull Markets
A blockade with a published start time is already a strange sentence. Then the ship trackers didn’t really match the swagger, Trump posted AI messiah art, and an AI model started scaring banks. Hormuz pressure cooker Iran’s leverage and America’s weak hand The navy problem nobody can meme away…
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Oil, Ultimatums, Moonshots
One week the world economy is being held hostage by a narrow strip of water, the next we’re naming craters on the far side of the Moon. Also, tech companies keep promising the future right after they cancel half the demos. Hormuz turns into a global pressure cooker Ceasefires, mediators, and...
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Hazmat Goals and AI Chaos
Today has everything: goal advice that might actually stop the self-loathing, creators turning job-shadowing into a business, AI doing way too much way too fast, and the very unsettling fact that some decluttering jobs really do require a respirator. Goals that stop feeling fake How to make...
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Oil, Drones, and Chaos
One headline says diplomacy is working, the next says brace for $200 oil, and somehow the security line at the airport is five hours long. If that sounds like a parody of modern government and markets, unfortunately, no, that was the week. Iran conflict and the oil panic Markets, messaging, and…
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War, Oil, and Document Dumps
One story has missiles, mines, and oil tankers getting shaken down in the Strait of Hormuz. Another has crypto gamblers trying to price a war in real time while AI fakes muddy everything. And then there are the Epstein files, which somehow still manage to get darker. Iran conflict and the…
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Your AI Reputation Score
A weird thing is happening right now. Your future boss, your future client, and maybe a chatbot in between are all building a version of you from whatever they can find online. Also, separate but somehow related, people are trying to use AI for target selection in war, for medical advice, and...
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Drones, Lasers, and Lawsuits
One minute it's a giant air campaign with the most action-movie name possible. The next minute we're learning cheap drones are baiting million-dollar missiles, lasers are suddenly real, and an AI company is fighting the Pentagon over what its models should be allowed to do. Operation Epic Fury...
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Miracles, Moisturizer, and AI Wars
Today has everything: a hockey myth with missing nuance, the only skincare routine most people actually need, and AI companies basically telling the Pentagon, yeah, not that. Also, tariffs are back in court because apparently economic policy now runs on vibes and lawsuits. Miracle on Ice, minus…
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Files, Forensics, and Friction
Some weeks feel like one big argument over evidence: who has it, who lost it, who redacted it, and who gets hurt when it finally comes out. That theme runs through almost everything here, from the Epstein files to decades-old murder cases to the way tech companies build products and governments…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A weekly recap of all the top 100 podcasts. What's going on in the zeitgeist?This feed was made with Podkey. It's based on the content from the following sources:- 20/20- 3 Takeaways™- 48 Hours- Acquired- All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard- Bad Friends- Behind the Bastards- Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar- Call Her Daddy- 90 more sourcesCreate your own with Podkey at https://podkey.fm
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How many episodes does Zeitpod have?
Zeitpod currently has 32 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Zeitpod about?
A weekly recap of all the top 100 podcasts. What's going on in the zeitgeist?This feed was made with Podkey. It's based on the content from the following sources:- 20/20- 3 Takeaways™- 48 Hours- Acquired- All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard- Bad Friends-...
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