"Moment of Zen" - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is an awesome, unfiltered conversation - really enjoying the dynamics between the hosts! It’s refreshing to hear unconventional takes and the callouts to bigger philosophical ideas woven into topical issue deep dives. Would love for this to be weekly!

Although tech and crypto may be the premise, every episode has amazing deep dive discussions on everything from politics to history to finance to psychology. While you have to focus on the content, the conversation is extremely easy on the ears in that there’s no annoying voices and the moderation and interactions never miss a beat. Hands down the best new pod to hit!

Keep chumming the waters for Marc…love how he weaves a constellation of facts and events to give clarity to the state of the world and how we got here.

First few episodes sounded like a tech bros locker room conversation - was pretty average

Now less bro-y, less swearing, great guests, and highly intellectual. It’s quickly become one of my favorite podcasts

10 years from now this may very well be a key text to understanding how the American tech sector came to embrace some truly heinous reactionary views and became a loyal ally of the authoritarian “new right.” Come for the half-cooked grand unified theories of science, medicine, and political philosophy, stay for casual denigration of minorities and trans people, fawning tributes to authoritarian regimes, and mocking dismissal of any commentary on the turn towards exclusionist white chauvinism in American politics. That’s leaving out other incredible takes like the need for tech to have its own version of Mussolini’s black shirts, to name one example. It would be funny if the hosts and guests were not as powerful and/or wealthy as they are. They’ll mock me for this but all I can say is the audits of their crypto “enterprises” can’t go far enough and someday I really hope they’re subjected to FDR-era marginal tax rates. Bleak!

I was initially very intrigued by this podcast as it had Marc Andreessen as a guest a couple of times at the beginning. The hosts were all interesting as well, but over time more and more of the feed is just episodes copy-pasted from other podcasts and Econ 102 in particular.