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S1E18 - Henry Begler Aftershow
Cairo and Lillian chat about literary relationships and revealing the self in personal essays.
 • 
Cairo Smith
 and 
Lillian Wang Selonick
14:17
S1E17 - Henry Begler
Listen now | Cairo and Lillian give critic and essayist Henry Begler a good hard stare.
 • 
Cairo Smith
, 
Lillian Wang Selonick
, and 
Henry Begler
1:13:44
IG Girls for Years of Lead
On your median friend from school wanting terror attacks.
 • 
Cairo Smith
5
Scenebux
The first chapter of the novel from Cairo Smith.
 • 
Cairo Smith
S1E16 - theahura Aftershow
Cairo and Kenny chat about AI and their interview with theahura.
 • 
Cairo Smith
 and 
Kenny White
26:52
S1E15 - theahura
Machine learning researcher theahura talks with Cairo and Kenny about Tesla vs. Waymo and the moral philosophy of LLM consciousness.
 • 
Cairo Smith
, 
Kenny White
, and 
theahura
1:46:56
I Am the Character
What's in a name, a stage name, and a public-private divide?
 • 
Cairo Smith
2
S1E14 - Lyman Stone Aftershow
Listen now | Cairo and Kenny chat about political pushback and their interview with Lyman Stone.
 • 
Cairo Smith
 and 
Kenny White
21:45
S1E13 - Lyman Stone
Fertility rate expert and demographer Lyman Stone talks with Cairo and Kenny about memetic plagues and not pulling out of the human pyramid scheme too…
 • 
Cairo Smith
, 
Kenny White
, and 
Lyman Stone
2
1:25:20

August 2025

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