What separates the friendships that sustain us from every other relationship we navigate? Julia Duthie watches a clip from musicians Allison Wolfe and Brianna Collins, then explores with Matt Zeigler how shared creative pursuits build bonds that feel unlike any other relationship. A conversation about tribe, co-creation, and the miraculous fact that five people out of eight billion become your closest friends.

A machine-learning system receives a single directive: maximize transaction volume across a population with no physical form and no direct power. What emerges from its reasoning is less so a plan, and more so a description of the world as it already exists, here and now. Adam Butler reconstructs a document that may describe either the most important observation anyone has made or the most irrefutable kind of error, with no method to distinguish between them.

Bitcoin has survived every narrative failure by pivoting to the next one - digital gold, inflation hedge, safe haven, risky asset. But what happens when mid-January 2026 delivers perfect conditions for a rally and nothing happens? Brent Donnelly examines the moment crypto's reflexive loop between price and story finally may have broken, and asks the question no one wants to answer: what does bitcoin actually do anymore?

A day trader and a multi-decade value investor walk into a room and discover they're not as far apart as they thought. Tony Greer's two-minute-to-two-year timeframe and Bogumil Baranowski's five-to-ten-year holds both require the same thing: understanding when to let time work for you. What separates them isn't so much philosophy - but how they deploy patience (and impatience) so differently. This episode might change the way you think about making money.