Daily Podcast Pick
🎙️ Jimmy Carr – “We’re At The Beginning Of A Revolution” (Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson)
Jimmy argues we’re in the early stages of a quiet revolution.
https://t.co/2iXVApjjK0
Just launched FluidCast 1.6.3 for iOS.
We’ve made a few UI improvements including adding some more liquid glass elements to the player.
Also squashed a few bugs.
Update coming to Mac soon.
https://t.co/JMeyK9RyuA
FluidCast Android is now at feature parity with iOS. Bringing all the latest features. Here’s what’s new.
- Voice Lift to boost quiet voices, making dialogue easier to hear without cranking the volume.
- Play local audio files directly with FluidCast
- Share links to podcasts
Daily AI podcast pick: Everyday AI with Jordan Wilson (@EverydayAI_)
Brand-new episode (Ep 834): “Gemini Notebook: 7 New Updates and What They Unlock”
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook — and it’s a big upgrade. It’s agentic by default, reasons better, outputs almost any file format, has Collections, auto Google Drive sync, secure cloud compute per notebook, grounded research + web search, and Studio tools for infographics, mind maps, quizzes & more. Jordan walks through all 7 updates with hands-on demos and real enterprise use cases.
Podcast subscriptions have gotten expensive — Pocket Casts is roughly 4x what it cost in 2019.
FluidCast Pro Annual is 35% off instead.
What's everyone actually using for podcasts these days?
https://t.co/V4jZZeGxVu
35% off FluidCast Pro Annual right now. One podcast app across iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux — same library everywhere you listen.
https://t.co/qihd0ZvZCY
Daily AI podcast pick: The AI Daily Brief with @nlw@AIDailyBrief
Latest episode (Aug 3): “What Happens When AI Breakthroughs Outrun Human Understanding” — OpenAI’s unreleased Astra model solved/advanced 10 long-standing math problems for ~$2k. What happens when AI produces breakthroughs almost no one can verify?
Sharp daily analysis, host active on X. Perfect for staying current.
Listen here: https://t.co/mPHo5vWCLW
#AI #Podcast
Daily Podcast Pick 🎙️
Pete Buttigieg on The Diary of a CEO (Steven Bartlett)
“The American Dream Is DEAD. We’re Running Out Of Time To Fix It!”
Former Transportation Secretary and 2020 candidate discusses why the American Dream that once worked for 9 in 10 people now feels like a coin toss. Candid talk on democracy at risk, AI’s impact on jobs and inequality, hard work no longer being enough, Afghanistan lessons, and whether he’s eyeing 2028 without claiming one party has all the answers.
Listen here: https://t.co/T3O071U3RP
The American Dream used to work for 9 in 10 Americans.
Today, it is a coin toss.
The gap between those two numbers says a lot about America right now. People are working hard but struggling to afford homes, healthcare and the basic security they were told hard work would provide.
I wanted to understand how the country got here and what would actually need to change.
Secretary Pete Buttigieg is a former US Secretary of Transportation, a Navy veteran who served in Afghanistan and a two-term mayor. He was also the first openly gay candidate to win a US presidential primary.
What I found valuable about Pete is that he does not pretend one political party has all the answers. He spoke honestly about the failures that have built up under both parties and why simply returning America to the way it was before will not solve the problems that created this moment.
We discussed things like:
- Why he believes American democracy is on the brink.
- Whether he is preparing to run for President in 2028.
- Hard work is no longer enough for millions of people.
- How AI could transform jobs, inequality and global security.
- What serving in Afghanistan taught him about sending people into conflict.
- The false anonymous allegation that led to his children being taken from him for 24 hours.
One of the things that sets Pete apart is his willingness to speak to people who completely disagree with him.
By the end, I told Pete that I applaud him for leading the way in having those conversations, because he is so articulate and smart.
You do not have to agree with every answer Pete gives to get something from this discussion, but his experience means he understands how political decisions affect real lives and his willingness to engage with the other side is something politics needs more of.
Christ’s call and the command to “go forth and multiply” once filled continents and raised cathedrals. Now that same spirit reaches for the stars.
Expanding life beyond Earth isn’t just ambition it’s stewardship of creation and the next chapter of a civilization built on faith, dignity, and destiny.
Multiplanetary, under God.
Christianity & Jesus forged the West’s unique edge:
Individual dignity (imago Dei, free will) powers liberty, innovation & rights - while the moral law of love and the Golden Rule keeps us grounded against pure selfishness.
Result: the free, prosperous, high-trust civilization that still leads the world.
Worth defending.
🎧 New episode out today!
The Christian Science Monitor Daily just dropped its Saturday, August 1, 2026 edition.
It looks at how inexpensive drones are reshaping warfare and military training, the challenges facing Massachusetts’ Haitian community, Uruguay’s long-running cooperative housing success, and recent changes to gender identification in India.
https://t.co/PuhUWP13KP
Short, calm, and actually insightful — a great listen if you want the news without the shouting.