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Ep. 130 · Sep 2026
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Avi Loeb: This Is a Blind Date of Interstellar Proportions
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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb - former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, head of the Galileo Project, author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar - joins Jim Baer for a…

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Ep. 129 · Sep 2026
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Michael Moritz: Steve Jobs, Sequoia, and the Weight of History
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My guest today is Michael Moritz. He started as a journalist at Time Magazine, then spent 35 years at Sequoia Capital backing Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and YouTube. Before any of…

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Lori Garver spent years inside NASA making an argument most of the agency didn't want to hear: that commercial partnership wasn't a compromise, it was the strategy. On this…

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