Best Wade Roush Podcasts (2024)

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Well, We're in the Valley of Doom. Here Are Some Paths Forward. 1:39:35

1M ago1:39:35

1:39:35

If you listened to my previous episode, you’ll remember that I described four "valleys" or scenarios for how the 2024 presidential election could unfold. The fourth scenario was one where Donald Trump wins both the electoral college and the popular vote, with a margin big enough to claim he has a mandate for change. I called that the Valley of Doom…

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Harris, Trump, and the Four Valleys 28:36

2M ago28:36

28:36

Why does every presidential race lately get described as "the most important election of our lifetimes"? Because it's true. In any election where Donald Trump is on the ballot, Americans are faced with a world-changing choice about whether we want the democratic experiment to continue. Right now, four weeks out from the 2024 vote, it's totally uncl…

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Introducing The Rabbis Go South from the Hub & Spoke Expo 19:36

3M ago19:36

19:36

Don't worry, the next regular season of Soonish is still coming. But meanwhile I wanted to bring you something really special that I think you’ll like. It's first episode of a new podcast from Hub & Spoke called The Rabbis Go South. It’s a documentary that we’re presenting as part of a new project we’ve cooked up called the Hub & Spoke Expo. The Ex…

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Welcome to Technofeudalism 45:44

5M ago45:44

45:44

I’ve been arguing on the show since 2019 that the companies that run the big technology platforms—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the rest—have far too much wealth and power. In the world these companies have built, we exist only to generate behavioral data. We supply that data through our decisions about what social media posts to click on and what …

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The Otherworldly Power of a Total Eclipse 1:08:35

9M ago1:08:35

1:08:35

The most important piece of advice David Baron ever got: “Before you die, you owe it to yourself to see a total solar eclipse.” The recommendation came from the Williams College astronomer Jay Pasachoff, a beloved teacher and textbook author, after Baron interviewed him for a 1994 radio story. Baron listened—and it changed his life. He saw his firs…

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Looking Back at 50 Episodes of Soonish 1:05:25

10M ago1:05:25

1:05:25

After a long hiatus, Soonish is back for a celebration: this is the 50th full episode of the show! (I’m not counting a few bonus episodes in that total.) Tamar Avishai, creator and host of the Hub & Spoke podcast The Lonely Palette, joins this time as co-host to help us take a look back at the first 49 episodes of the show. She quizzes me on the ac…

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For the Love of Audio: It's the Hub & Spoke Radio Hour 51:25

10M ago51:25

51:25

Hey listeners! A new, original episode of Soonish is coming very soon. Meanwhile, I wanted to share a Valentine's Day treat. As the philosopher Haddaway once asked, "What is love?" Well, it can be anything that stirs the heart: passion, grief, affection, kin. The desire to consume; the poignancy of memory. At Hub & Spoke—the collective of independe…

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Bonus Episode: TASTING LIGHT Publication Day 58:59

2y ago58:59

58:59

Why does the world of young adult fiction seem to have more wizards, werewolves, and vampires in it than astronauts and engineers? And why have the writers of the blockbuster YA books of the last 20 years fixated so consistently on white, straight, cisgender protagonists while always somehow forgetting to portray the true diversity of young people’…

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Strange Newt Worlds 1:00:12

2+ y ago1:00:12

1:00:12

This week we're featuring a conversation with Ian Coss, co-creator of Newts, a wild new six-part musical audio drama from PRX and the fiction podcast The Truth. The show is inspired by the writings of the Czech journalist and science fiction pioneer Karel Čapek. He’s best known for coining the word "robot" in his 1920 play Rossum's Universal Robots…

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A Soundtrack for the Pandemic 58:14

2+ y ago58:14

58:14

For most people, nightmares produce insomnia, exhaustion, and unease. For Graham Gordon Ramsay, a spate of severe nightmares in April 2020 developed into something more lasting and meaningful: a five-movement, 18-minute musical work for organ or string ensemble called "Introspections." To me, it's one of the most arresting artistic documents of the…

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Can Albuquerque Make Room for Its Past and Its Future? 51:40

2+ y ago51:40

51:40

Last summer, a pair of murals celebrating New Mexico's landscape, heritage, and diversity appeared in Albuquerque's historic Old Town district. The large outdoor pieces by muralists Jodie Herrera and Reyes Padilla—two artists with deep roots in New Mexico—brought life back to a once abandoned shopping plaza and became instant fan favorites, endless…

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How Novartis Built a Hit Factory for New Drugs 1:00:13

3y ago1:00:13

1:00:13

When you hear people use the phrase "It's a hits-driven business," they're usually talking about venture capital, TV production, videogames, or pop music—all industries where you don't make much money unless you come up with at least one (and preferably a string of) massively popular products. But you know what's another hits-driven business? Drug …

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How LEGO Learned to Click Again 55:38

3y ago55:38

55:38

LEGO is so omnipresent in today’s culture—through its stores, its theme parks, its movies, and of course its construction kits—that it’s hard to imagine a world not strewn with billions of colorful plastic LEGO bricks. Yet less than two decades ago, in 2003, the company came close to extinction, thanks to a frenetic bout of new-product introduction…

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Art and Technology at Disney 54:23

3y ago54:23

54:23

This week, Soonish presents Part 2 of The Persistent Innovators, a miniseries I've been guest-producing and guest-hosting for Innovation Answered, InnoLead's podcast for people with creative roles inside big companies. You can think of Persistent Innovators as the corporate equivalent of human super-agers—meaning they don’t settle into a complacent…

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The Reinvention of Apple 54:29

3y ago54:29

54:29

This week, I've got something different for Soonish listeners. I'm sharing Part 1 of "The Persistent Innovators," a miniseries I'm currently guest-producing and guest-hosting for InnoLead's podcast Innovation Answered. The big question the series tackles is: "How do big companies become innovative—and stay innovative?" I'm looking at four long-live…

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This Is How You Win the Time War 51:14

3y ago51:14

51:14

Clock time is a human invention. So it shouldn’t be a box that confines us; it should be a tool that helps us accomplish the things we care about. But consider the system of standard time, first imposed by the railroad companies in the 1880s. It constrains people who live 1,000 miles apart—on opposite edges of their time zones—to get up and go to w…

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Goodbye, Google 42:09

3+ y ago42:09

42:09

What if a technology company becomes so rich, so powerful, so exploitative, and so oblivious that that the harm it's doing begins to outweigh the quality and utility of its products? What if that company happens to run the world's dominant search, advertising, email, web, and mobile platforms? This month's episode of Soonish argues that it's time t…

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Fusion! And Other Ways to Put the Adventure Back in Venture Capital 38:55

3+ y ago38:55

38:55

Venture capital is the fuel powering most technology startups. Behind every future Google or Uber or Snapchat is a syndicate of venture firms hoping for outsize financial returns. But the vast majority of venture money goes into Internet, mobile, and software companies where consumer demand and the path to market are plain. So what happens to entre…

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Hope for Ultra-Rare Diseases 45:20

3+ y ago45:20

45:20

In this episode of Soonish you'll meet Stanley Crooke, the former CEO of Ionis Pharmaceuticals and the head of a new nonprofit called N-Lorem, which is working to make mutation-correcting "antisense oligonucleotide" drugs available free for life to people with uncommon genetic diseases. These are conditions so rare they often don't have a name. But…

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Technology and Education After the Pandemic 39:16

4y ago39:16

39:16

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on education on schools around the world, often rendering in-classroom instruction too dangerous for both students and teachers. But one reason the effects of the pandemic haven’t been even worse is that, in education as in many other fields, a few new technologies were ready for broader deploym…

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"We've Needed Something to Bring Us Together" 45:35

4y ago45:35

45:35

In honor of the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden—a day of long-awaited endings and new beginnings—I'm republishing my Season 2 opener, "Shadows of August," which I first released a little more than three years ago, during the the fiery early months of the Trump presidency. On a road trip to southern Illinois to witness the total eclipse that sliced …

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The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling 41:14

4y ago41:14

41:14

In 1973, there was only one man who believed everyone on Earth would want and need a cell phone. That man was a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper. “I had a science fiction prediction,” Cooper recounts in his new memoir, Cutting the Cord: The Inventor of the Cell Phone Speaks Out. “I told anyone who would listen that, someday, every person would…

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The End of the Beginning 55:08

4y ago55:08

55:08

Soonish's six-month detour into electoral politics finishes where it started, with a conversation with our favorite futurist, Jamais Cascio. We talked late on November 6—when it was already clear that Joseph R. Biden would win the presidential race, but before the networks had officially called it—and we explored what Biden's unexpectedly narrow wi…

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American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation 41:08

4y ago41:08

41:08

Welcome to a special two-part series about the looming clash over the future of America. In Part 1, we looked at the tattered state of our democracy and searched for peaceful ways through an election season in which one candidate—Trump—has threatened violence and disruption if he doesn’t win. Here in Part 2, we look at the work waiting for us after…

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American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them 53:31

4y ago53:31

53:31

Welcome to a special two-part series about the looming clash over the future of America. In Part 1, we look at the tattered state of our democracy as the election approaches, and we assess nonviolent ways to respond to the twin threats of political polarization and President Trump's thuggish behavior. Part 2 is coming October 12. These are probably…

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Well, We're in the Valley of Doom. Here Are Some Paths Forward. 1:39:35

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Harris, Trump, and the Four Valleys 28:36

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Introducing The Rabbis Go South from the Hub & Spoke Expo 19:36

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Welcome to Technofeudalism 45:44

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The Otherworldly Power of a Total Eclipse 1:08:35

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Looking Back at 50 Episodes of Soonish 1:05:25

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For the Love of Audio: It's the Hub & Spoke Radio Hour 51:25

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Bonus Episode: TASTING LIGHT Publication Day 58:59

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Strange Newt Worlds 1:00:12

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A Soundtrack for the Pandemic 58:14

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Can Albuquerque Make Room for Its Past and Its Future? 51:40

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How Novartis Built a Hit Factory for New Drugs 1:00:13

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How LEGO Learned to Click Again 55:38

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Art and Technology at Disney 54:23

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The Reinvention of Apple 54:29

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This Is How You Win the Time War 51:14

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Goodbye, Google 42:09

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Fusion! And Other Ways to Put the Adventure Back in Venture Capital 38:55

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Hope for Ultra-Rare Diseases 45:20

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Technology and Education After the Pandemic 39:16

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"We've Needed Something to Bring Us Together" 45:35

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The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling 41:14

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The End of the Beginning 55:08

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American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation 41:08

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American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them 53:31

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