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This week we're joined by Pritanka Desai, the COO at Tribute Labs & Partner at ADIN.

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Priyanka Desai

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The Physical Renaissance: AI Makes You Look Up

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Timestamps

00:00 Hammy Mad Men

04:38 Doomslop moving markets

12:06 The world's transition period in now

17:00 Information overload affecting perception of reality

23:24 Prediction market's role in society

30:27 True crime and information gaps

38:30 AI powered venture capital

45:05 The physical renaissance

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Today on Tasteland we're speaking to James Webster, the co-owner of Recluse Books, an indie bookstore in Dallas-Fort Worth.

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Timestamps

00:00 Doing Italian things

03:53 Recluse best sellers

07:28 Logistics of picking and stocking 6,000 books

11:40 Bookstore culture of Fort Worth

15:05 Receiving feedback on book recommendations

17:11 Current reads

24:15 Running bookstore events

29:47 Bookstore location and community impact

36:04 Making books approachable

41:57 Reading hard books because they're hard

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Charly Wilder is writer, award-winning journalist and executive editor at Roads & Kingdoms.

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Charly Wilder

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Timestamps

00:00 Respect the Quad God

05:45 Maintaining a unique travel journalism perspective

10:51 Looking at the world through many lenses

17:10 The deepest culinary tours on Earth

23:50 The Roads and Kingdoms audience

28:57 Curating contributors

34:16 Joining the Roads and Kingdoms team

37:36 Maintaining and updating city guides

45:03 Thinking about food as a storyteller

48:14 The qualities of a great travel and food writer

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Sam Levy is the former COO of Hinge and co-founder of Rodeo, a new app designed to wrangle the details of your social life and keep you organized.

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Sam Levy

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Rodeo

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References

Patient Capital Will Eat the World

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Timestamps

00:00 Somebody that I used to know

03:35 Patient capital will eat the world

09:27 Infrastructure for your social life

14:15 Managing the user experience

19:44 The expectation of apps as a memory layer

23:56 Types of Rodeo users

27:47 Using TikTok as a research group

35:32 Choosing the name Rodeo

37:13 The evolution of the idea

42:14 A business plan that maintains integrity

48:06 Get offline

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Julia Black is a tech and business correspondent at Vanity Fair and freelance writer whose work has also been published in the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, The Verge, and others.

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Julia Black

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Timestamps

00:00 Resy anxiety

07:35 The reality of modern genetic testing

12:38 Substack on TV

17:50 Evolving opinions and journalistic integrity

23:48 TikTok takeover conspiracies

28:32 The shifting politics of big tech

39:00 Symbolism in politics and ideology

47:44 Holding on to what's meaningful

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

This week on Tasteland we're joined by Bre Morell, one half of the duo, crushed.

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Timestamps

00:00 Judging a book by its cover

09:29 Brits in an Oasis

14:46 Entering eBay flow state

19:46 Late 90s musical influences

28:11 Nostalgic corners of the internet

33:00 Video game musical influences

38:33 Driving in Texas

41:37 Touring the country as a vegan

44:28 To make timeless music, be genreless

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

This week on Tasteland we're joined by the GM and co-founder of Boys Club, Natasha Hoskins.

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Boys Club

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Natasha Hoksins

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Timestamps

00:00 The asperges defense

05:38 Into the archives

07:55 Boys Club extended universe

12:23 Golden Globes Polymarket collab

17:15 The Boys Club network

20:27 Twitter muted words reveal

29:17 Trump to Tom Brady chlamydia domino effect

35:50 Traitors in the Industry

41:43 Hooked on Reels

44:12 New year, new LinkedIn strategy

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

This week on Tasteland we're joined by Dena Yago, an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE. Dena is currently working at Cosmos, a visual discovery and inspiration platform for creatives.

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Dena Yago

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Timestamps

00:00 Smoking Christmas gift

4:44 No smoke without fire

10:00 GQ editor-in-chief predictions

12:40 Name that trend

16:26 Parallel thinking and Darwinism

19:45 The Cosmos secret sauce

25:25 Why books still matter in fast media

32:19 Irony is dead, long live cringe

42:25 The rise of the Cosmos girl

49:04 AI and curation

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

Daisy and Francis bring 2025 to a close by looking back on their defining media of the year and looking ahead to the world of tech and media in 2026.

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Timestamps

00:00 A New England Christmas

04:09 Invisible labor of the holiday season

08:15 Dirt Books

14:13 Songs and albums 2025

18:23 Is 2026 the year of the techlash

22:37 The creator economy in 2026

29:32 Dirt reader's top books of 2025

31:44 Daisy's viral tweet of 2024-2025

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers

This week on Tasteland we're joined by writer and editor, Daniel Spielberger. Daniel is also the executive editor of Study Hall and the host of the Study Hall Podcast. Read the Farmer's Almanac article we discuss here.

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Daniel Spielberger

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Timestamps

00:00 $45 well spent, $5 poorly spent

07:36 Surprise proposal and tweets going viral

11:09 Influencer culture in media

17:50 We need storytellers

24:39 Daniel Docs

28:09 Study Hall

33:08 Too much media about media

44:32 Olivia Nuzzi did it all for nothing

53:43 Grown men shouldn't have birthday parties

58:29 Worst movie of 2025

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers