Best Aaron Benedict Podcasts (2025)

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MURDERED: Jennifer Farber Dulos 1:02:28

3d ago1:02:28

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When Jennifer Farber Dulos vanished after dropping her five children off at school in New Canaan, Connecticut, on May 24, 2019, all eyes were on her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos. And when investigators found surveillance footage showing Fotis suspiciously stopping at multiple trash cans in a nearby city and throwing things just hours after she di…

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GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor 1:04:46

7d ago1:04:46

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AI coding is in full-blown gold-rush mode, and GitHub sits at the epicenter. In this episode, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke tells Matt Turck how a $7.5 B acquisition in 2018 became a $2 B ARR rocket ship, and reveals how Copilot was born from a secret AI strategy years before anyone else saw the opportunity. We dig into the dizzying pace of AI innovatio…

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The Persistence of the Ideological Lie w/ Daniel Mahoney 1:51:02

9d ago1:51:02

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In his essay, “How the Great Truth Dawned,” Professor Gary Saul Morson muses, “Why is it, Solzhenitsyn asks, that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin did in millions? The answer is that Macbeth and Iago ‘had no ideology.’” Notwithstanding its rabid inhumanity, Professor Daniel Ma…

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MISSING: The Gospel Trio 45:35

10d ago45:35

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In 1980, two women and a two-year-old girl seemingly vanish into thin air on their way back from a gospel concert in Lowcountry, South Carolina, and their mysterious disappearance leaves their families pushing for justice for decades. Anyone with information regarding the disappearance of Sarah Boyd, Kimberly Boyd and Linda McCord can contact the D…

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Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents 1:02:24

14d ago1:02:24

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What really happened inside Google Brain when the “Attention is All You Need” paper was born? In this episode, Aidan Gomez — one of the eight co-authors of the Transformers paper and now CEO of Cohere — reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how a cold email and a lucky administrative mistake landed him at the center of the AI revolution. Aidan sha…

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UPDATE: Kimberly Doss 20:21

17d ago20:21

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After a fourteen-year-old goes missing from her boyfriend’s home in Iowa in 1980, her mother puts all the pressure she can on police to take her daughter’s case seriously and bring her home. If you or anyone you know has any information about the disappearance of Kimberly Doss, please contact Davenport PD at 563-326-7979 or call Quad City CrimeStop…

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AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees” 48:24

21d ago48:24

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What if the smartest people in finance and law never had to do “stupid tasks” again? In this episode, we sit down with George Sivulka, founder of Hebbia, the AI company quietly powering 50% of the world’s largest asset managers and some of the fastest-growing law firms. George reveals how Hebbia’s Matrix platform is automating the equivalent of 50,…

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The Way of Heaven & Earth: Exploring the Catholic Both/And w/ Matt Becklo 1:28:02

23d ago1:28:02

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As Matthew Becklo asserts, “The Catholic faith is full of paradoxes, but its greatest paradox is this: that all of its both/ands unleash this ultimate either/or, and all of its communion compels this unavoidable decision.” Are we with Christ or against him? And how do we balance the dynamic tensions (faith or reason, discipline or passion, spirit o…

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MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 2 54:18

23d ago54:18

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When Peggy Hettrick’s body was found in an open field in Fort Collins, Colorado, police rushed to the nearest suspect. But clues left behind on Peggy’s body later turn the case upside down, leaving justice undone and multiple victims in the wake of a sloppy investigation. In Part 2, we take a closer look at other viable suspects in Peggy's case, so…

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MURDERED: Peggy Hettrick Part 1 1:06:03

24d ago1:06:03

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When Peggy Hettrick’s body was found in an open field in Fort Collins, Colorado, police rushed to the nearest suspect. But clues left behind on Peggy’s body later turn the case upside down, leaving justice undone and multiple victims in the wake of a sloppy investigation. Join us in asking the Colorado Attorney General to reopen Peggy’s case, assig…

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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now 1:15:09

28d ago1:15:09

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What if the “AI revolution” is actually… stuck in the messy middle? In this episode, Benedict Evans returns to tackle the big question we left hanging a year ago: Is AI a true paradigm shift, or just another tech platform shift like mobile or cloud? One year later, the answer is more complicated — and more revealing — than anyone expected. Benedict…

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SERIAL KILLER: The Doodler 49:33

1M ago49:33

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In the 1970s, few places on earth were more queer-friendly than San Francisco. But it wasn’t all drag queens and rainbows in the City by the Bay, and when the bodies of gay men started turning up one after another, fear spread like wildfire, and it got harder and harder to distinguish rumor from fact. If you have any information about murders conne…

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Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive) 55:02

1M ago55:02

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What happens when you try to build the “General Electric of AI” with just 14 people? In this episode, Jeremy Howard reveals the radical inside story of Answer AI — a new kind of AI R&D lab that’s not chasing AGI, but instead aims to ship thousands of real-world products, all while staying tiny, open, and mission-driven. Jeremy shares how open-sourc…

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William F. Buckley, American Impresario w/ Lawrence Perelman 1:50:23

1M ago1:50:23

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What happens when a young man with an entrepreneurial heart and gifted piano-playing hands writes a letter to renowned public intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr. offering to play a concert for him out of gratitude? A lifelong friendship of shared musical appreciation and warm conversation begins. Join me and Lawrence Perelman as we unfold his uniq…

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MURDERED: Kala Williams & Heather Higgins 48:47

1M ago48:47

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Kala Williams was 20 years old when her family stopped hearing from her. Weeks later, her body was discovered dismembered in the woods with the DNA of a possible suspect on her body and items from the crime scene. Yet, the DNA evidence hasn’t been enough to charge him in Kala’s case - or the disappearance of another Spokane woman two years prior. I…

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Why Influx Rebuilt Its Database for the IoT and Robotics Explosion 35:35

1M ago35:35

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InfluxDB just dropped its biggest update ever — InfluxDB 3.0 — and in this episode, we go deep with the team behind the world’s most popular open-source time series database. You’ll hear the inside story of how InfluxDB grew from 3,000 users in 2015 to over 1.3 million today, and why the company decided to rewrite its entire architecture from scrat…

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MISSING: The Mishawaka Girls 7:01

1M ago7:01

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Nic Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven year…

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SURVIVED: Fallon Farinacci 50:50

1M ago50:50

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In honor of May being National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Month, Brit sits down with Red River Métis woman and survivor Fallon Farinacci to hear her story—and how a series of tragic events set her on a path toward tremendous advocacy and change for her community. Fallon’s Celebrate Indigenous Resilience GoFundMe can be viewed…

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Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data 41:32

2M ago41:32

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Sigma Computing recently hit $100M in ARR — planning on doubling revenue again this year— and in this episode, CEO Mike Palmer reveals exactly how they did it by throwing out the old BI playbook. We open with the provocative claim that “the world did not need another BI tool,” and dig into why the last 20 years of business intelligence have been “b…

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How G.K. Chesterton Sees the World w/ Duncan Reyburn 1:41:19

2M ago1:41:19

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How are we to look at the world? Through a brilliant lens of hope, wonder, and gratitude? Or through a shadowy lens of despair, cynicism, and selfishness? The journalist, wit, and Catholic convert G.K. Chesterton is an extraordinary model who mastered the art of a marveling Catholic vision. Join me and Dr. Duncan Reyburn as we explore his excellent…

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INFAMOUS: The Westside Park Murders 47:15

2M ago47:15

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In September of 1985, two teenagers drove into Westside Park but, tragically, never left the park alive. The police have spent decades trying to hunt down their killer. If you know anything about the murders of Ethan Dixon and Kimberly Dowell, please contact the Muncie police department at 765-747-4867. You can also contact them anonymously through…

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Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search 52:11

2M ago52:11

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A week after OpenAI’s o3/o4-mini volleyed with Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash, I sat down with Arvind Jain— ex-Google search luminary, Rubrik co-founder, and now CEO of Glean —just as his company released its agentic reasoning platform and swirled with rumors of a new round at a $7 billion valuation. We open on that whirlwind: why the model race is acce…

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MURDERED: Solomon Robinson 39:01

2M ago39:01

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A young soldier, home on leave, should have been safe in his own neighborhood. Instead, 19-year-old Solomon Robinson was murdered in a park full of people — but no one has ever come forward to say what really happened. Decades later, his family is still searching for justice, and detectives are hoping someone will finally break the silence. The FBI…

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Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work 1:15:46

2M ago1:15:46

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In this episode, we sit down with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box, for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts insightful, technical, and fun. We kick things off with a candid discussion about what it’s like to be a public company CEO during times of volatility, and then rewind to the early days of Box — from dorm room experiments to …

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The Enduring Relevance of Pinocchio w/ Marcie Stokman & Colleen Hutt 1:19:24

2M ago1:19:24

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When you consider the story of Pinocchio, you are flooded with visions of a Disney-fied wooden boy with big blue eyes, a lengthening nose, and a mischievous heart. But reading the original Pinocchio (and its theological underpinnings perceived by Franco Nembrini), you are shocked by the misanthropic boy, his violent experiences, and his perpetually…

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MURDERED: The Feeney Family 1:05:24

2M ago1:05:24

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When the family of a beloved high school teacher is brutally killed, investigators race to make sense of a chaotic crime scene that defies simple explanation. They find themselves asking: was the whole thing staged? And if so, who staged it and why? We highly recommend listening to season 2 Anne Roderique-Jones’ podcast, Ozarks True Crime. You can …

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Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race 1:23:41

2M ago1:23:41

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In this episode, we sit down with Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, for an in-depth conversation about the company’s transformation from a cloud analytics platform into a comprehensive AI data cloud. Sridhar shares insights on Snowflake’s shift toward open formats like Apache Iceberg and why monetizing storage was, in his view, a strategic misst…

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MURDERED: Charlotte Grabbe 45:20

2M ago45:20

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After a woman goes missing, it’s up to law enforcement and her children to make sure justice is served. But listen closely, because we think there might be more crimes out there connected to this case that are yet to be solved… If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic abuse of any kind, you are not alone. You can call the National Domestic Vi…

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Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop 1:00:45

3M ago1:00:45

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In this fascinating episode, we dive deep into the race towards true AI intelligence, AGI benchmarks, test-time adaptation, and program synthesis with star AI researcher (and philosopher) Francois Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC AGI benchmark, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and now co-founder with Francois of both the ARC Prize and the …

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Theology of Horror w/ Fr. Ryan Duns 2:08:54

3M ago2:08:54

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A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Blair Witch Project, and The Exorcist have scared the daylights out of a generation of moviegoers. And even though viewers startle and jump, chill and scream, they keep coming back for more. What is it that makes us crave a good scare? And where is God in the fright of such horror movies? Join me and Fr. Ryan Duns as …

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INFAMOUS: The Death of John O'Keefe & The Trial of Karen Read 1:39:30

3M ago1:39:30

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John O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, died of blunt force trauma and hypothermia on January 29, 2022, after being found on a fellow Boston Police Officer’s front lawn during a blizzard. His girlfriend, Karen Read, is charged with allegedly backing into John with her SUV, and leaving him to die in the cold after a night of…

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Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI 59:14

3M ago59:14

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In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a deep dive on her work, starting with her leadership on PyTorch, now one of the most influential machine learning frameworks in the industry, powering research and production at scale across th…

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IDENTIFIED: Midtown Jane Doe 48:00

3M ago48:00

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In 2003, construction workers in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, discovered a concrete tomb hidden in the basement of a run-down building. Inside were the remains of a young woman, hogtied with pantyhose and electrical cords, this gruesome scene was more than shocking—it was deeply calculated. It took more than two decades for investigators to identify h…

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How We Pray w/ Bishop Robert Barron 1:07:09

3M ago1:07:09

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Flannery O’Connor once prayed, “I do not know you God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.” Is there any meaningful relationship in life that can survive without an element of selflessness, dedicated time, and earnest conversation? Why would a meaningful relationship with God be any different? The prophets prayed, the saint…

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INFAMOUS: Indiana Dunes Disappearances 43:57

3M ago43:57

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In the summer of 1966, three young women head to the beaches of Lake Michigan and are never seen again, setting off a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. If you have any information about the disappearances of Patricia Blough, Ann Miller, and Renee Bruhl, please contact the Indiana State Police tip line at 317-232-8248, or the Westchester Po…

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MURDERED: Dana Ireland 29:34

3M ago29:34

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On Christmas Eve in 1991, Dana Ireland is found tucked away in a secluded, hard to get to area of the Hawaiian subdivision Vacationland, barely clinging to life. When she finally arrives at a Hilo hospital, the damage is too severe and they declare Dana dead at 12:25am on Christmas morning. In 2023, the audiochuck team set out to tell you the story…

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INFAMOUS: Lovers' Lane Murders 36:09

3M ago36:09

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When what should have been a carefree date goes horribly wrong, the city of Houston realizes there’s a monster in their midst. Will they be caught in time? If you have any information about the murders of Cheryl Henry & Andy Atkinson in Houston in 1990, please call the Houston Crime Stoppers tip line at 713-222-TIPS (8477). In honor of Andy & Chery…

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Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI 50:44

3M ago50:44

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a dominant architecture in modern AI deployments, and in this episode, we sit down with Douwe Kiela, who co-authored the original RAG paper in 2020. Douwe is now the founder and CEO of Contextual AI, a startup focusing on helping enterprises deploy RAG as an agentic system. We start the conversation w…

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The Extinction of Experience w/ Christine Rosen 1:41:18

4M ago1:41:18

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What happens when we live our lives through mediating technologies? We take countless pictures but don’t look at our kids. We film vacations but are never fully present. We search for answers online but rarely puzzle over the questions. And we distract ourselves from difficult emotions, but we never take on the cross-bearing work of the soul. In th…

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MURDERED: Helen Betty Osborne 47:26

4M ago47:26

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The discovery of 19-year-old Helen Betty Osborne’s body should have outraged the residents of The Pas, Manitoba. Yet, the truth of what happened to her, and who killed her, would remain an open secret for years. But, like all secrets, what happened that night eventually came to light – and upended over a decade of sinister silence. There is a memor…

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UPDATE: Asha Degree 38:57

4M ago38:57

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When nine-year-old Asha Degree vanished on Valentine’s Day in 2000, it devastated her family and small town of Shelby, North Carolina. After years of little to no new information, the case has broken wide open and authorities may be closer than ever to solving what they are now saying is a murder. Ashley and Brit originally covered Asha’s case for …

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WANTED: Justice for Rhys Pocan & MMIW Part 2 50:35

4M ago50:35

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In 2021, we set out to cover the case of Rhys Pocan, a 35-year-old Indigenous woman who was murdered in Wisconsin in the ‘80s. But while we were in the field, we uncovered a disturbing pattern of murders with similarities to Rhys’ that were just too blatant to ignore. So, we spent the next three years working with local and federal law enforcement …

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Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions 1:13:14

4M ago1:13:14

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In this episode, we dive into how AI is transforming video editing with Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions. Launched in New York in 2021, Captions already empowers over 10 million creators worldwide, leveraging AI to make video production as simple as clicking a button. Discover the strategic framework that led to the inception of Captions, and lear…

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UPDATE: Beaumont Children 1:09:18

4M ago1:09:18

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Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont disappeared nearly 60 years ago without a trace. On February 22, 2025, a third and final dig at a location of interest might give answers to a family who’s been waiting for over half a century. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please vis…

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I Came to Cast Fire w/ Fr. Elias Carr 1:49:28

4M ago1:49:28

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We want what other people have. We conjure up rivalries. And we scapegoat our enemies in the process. What on earth are we doing? Join me and Fr. Elias Carr as we unpack philosopher René Girard’s mimetic theory and the “scapegoat mechanism” on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Cul…

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WANTED: Justice for Rhys Pocan & MMIW Part 1 50:09

4M ago50:09

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In 2021, we set out to cover the case of Rhys Pocan, a 35-year-old indigenous woman who was murdered in Wisconsin in the ‘80s. But while we were in the field, we uncovered a disturbing pattern of murders with similarities to Rhys’ that were just too blatant to ignore. So, we spent the next three years working with local and federal law enforcement …

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Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada 1:11:27

4M ago1:11:27

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AI customer service agents are quickly replacing the often clunky AI chatbots of years past, and revolutionizing how we all interact with customer service. In this episode, we dive into this rapid transformation with Mike Murchison, CEO of Ada, a fast-growing leader in the space. Mike shares how harnessing the power of several Generative AI models …

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MURDERED: Marcus Rutledge 46:23

4M ago46:23

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A young father moves to Nashville chasing his college dreams, but in June 1998, 23-year-old Marcus Rutledge vanishes after taking his daughter to daycare. His disappearance reveals a life filled with secrets...and even after the discovery of his skull, his family is left wondering if they'll ever know what really happened. If you have any informati…

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The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit 1:29:39

4M ago1:29:39

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Replit is one of the most visible and exciting companies reshaping how we approach software and application development in the Generative AI era. In this episode, we sit down with its CEO, Amjad Masad, for an in-depth discussion on all things AI, agents, and software. Amjad shares the journey of building Replit, from its humble beginnings as a stud…

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The Pleasures of an Intellectual Life w/ Zena Hitz 1:48:03

4M ago1:48:03

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What exactly is the “life of the mind”? Is it merely a matter of being bookish, bespectacled, and (*gasp*) potentially boring? Or is the “life of the mind” awash with limitless wonder, captivating wisdom, and life-changing vocation? Join me and St. John’s College tutor Dr. Zena Hitz as we dive deeply into the joyful adventure of intellectual format…

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