This Week in Podcasts
The conversations worth your time from the shows we cover, updated as the week unfolds. When a guest works the press circuit and turns up on more than one show, we line the appearances up here so you can see who is everywhere and what they actually said.
Heather Lynn says Noah didn't build an ark, he led a breakaway civilization of scientists
The fun part is that Lynn is not doing ancient aliens here, she is making Noah sound like the logistics director of a post-collapse research commune.
Benny Blanco says Ed Sheeran took a 7 and a half day boat to London because Blanco refused to fly
The producer’s best self-doubt story is not about conquering fear, it’s about dragging a pop superstar onto an ocean liner and watching Titanic on board.
Jennifer Michele Helm says she found out she was federally indicted by email after smoking a joint in Laguna Beach
The former luxury interior designer describes federal fraud charges arriving not as a dramatic knock at the door, but as an email interrupting a very California morning.
Kurt Metzger says Robert Sapolsky is wrong about free will because consciousness doesn't come from the brain
Metzger turns Sapolsky's determinism into a spiritual bar fight, and the funniest part is that his weakest evidence points at a real philosophical sore spot.
Skilla Baby says getting shot made him evil, and the most gangster thing he could do was heal
The Detroit rapper gives the rare anti-revenge answer that doesn't sound like a Hallmark card.
DHH says Omarchy's growth went vertical when it made Linux agent-first
The Rails creator argues that the Linux crowd’s hostility to AI is exactly why Omarchy can break out.
Ben Goodwin says Olipop is well over a half billion dollars in gross revenue and aiming for $1 billion
The Olipop co-founder used his Advice Line return to put a real number on the prebiotic soda race, and to argue that selling after Poppi’s PepsiCo deal is not the only acceptable ending.
Rupert Lowe says UK grooming gang victims are probably far above 250,000
The British politician put an enormous number on a real scandal, then supplied more fury than proof.
Mark Dowdle says he reached Last Soul Ultra 15 minutes before the start, then ran 395 miles
Theo Von found the perfect endurance guest for a confessional bro hour, a man who treats an international travel disaster like pre-race seasoning.
Emma Brooks says Sally Rooney made her call her therapist crying on a New York sidewalk
The Booked, Blonde & Busy guest turned a bookish chat into a very funny warning label for reading Sally Rooney while emotionally available.
Kenny Chesney says a tour-bus epiphany in his 40s ended his out-of-control hillbilly rockstar years
On Club Random, Chesney gives the least bro-ish possible version of a country-star hangover story: not redemption, exactly, but math.
Jon Ronson says Alex Jones lied about Bohemian Grove by turning a harmless pageant into a human sacrifice
Ronson, who infiltrated Bohemian Grove with Jones, says the real scandal was strange enough without the extra layer of paranoid fiction.
Candace Bushnell says she got married after three months because her ballet dancer husband only had July Fourth weekend off
The Sex and the City writer turned a Gen Z slang quiz into a tiny manifesto for pre-Instagram romantic recklessness.
Tara Swart says she is 100% sure she can communicate with her dead husband
The neuroscientist and former psychiatrist ties a 34-senses argument to after-death communication, but her best evidence is still personal grief, not proof.
Professor Jiang says Texas red heifers are already in Israel for a Third Temple sacrifice
The Danny Jones guest turns a strange but real prophecy story into a much bigger claim about Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, and end-times politics.
Olivia Ponton says she uses ChatGPT book summaries in club bathrooms to fake having read books
The funniest confession on Booked, Blonde & Busy is also a tidy diagnosis of reading culture in the BookTok age.
Nicole Bernard Dawes says Late July would have failed if its organic tortilla chips flopped after a $3.5 million loan default
The Late July founder tells Guy Raz that crackers and cookies left the brand exposed, then tortilla chips turned a near-default into a $100 million snack business.
Matt Ehret says Jacques Cousteau wanted to eliminate 350,000 people a day
The Danny Jones Podcast swerves from Epstein island symbolism into Cousteau, Atlantis, and a very ugly population-control quote.
DHH says one person can now build the 5 percent of Premiere or Photoshop they need on Linux
The Basecamp co-founder’s real claim isn’t that every solo coder is Adobe now, it’s that cloning the part you actually use has become weirdly plausible.
Carly Fortune says George didn't set out to wreck Frankie's wedding in Our Perfect Storm
The romance novelist gives George an alibi for the book's messiest twist, though the man is still not exactly getting a civic medal.
Don Lincoln says galaxies with no dark matter are strong evidence dark matter is real
The physicist’s best pro dark matter argument is wonderfully backward: the missing stuff looks more real when you can find places where it’s missing.
Carley Fortune says an unreleased critic and author romance may redefine enemies to lovers
The beach-read queen’s hottest recommendation wasn’t her own lane’s obvious pick, it was an unreleased critic-versus-author romance she says sets the bar almost unfairly high.
Patrick Bet-David says your micromanaging boss may be right not to trust you
The PBD Podcast host argues that bad bosses are real, but the employee who runs from every hard manager may be the actual workplace problem.