Best Peter Langley Podcasts (2024)

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Peter Thiel // The Diversity Myth, 30 Years Later 1:08:53

12M ago1:08:53

1:08:53

Nearly 30 years after publishing “The Diversity Myth,” Peter Thiel sits down with Mike Solana to unpack what the book got right and wrong. Thiel argues that social distractions have stunted scientific progress, slowed economic growth and weakened our geopolitical standing. How did anti-Western rhetoric popularized on college campuses in the 90s mor…

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What if you could finish your father's bucket list with Laura Carney 1:28:10

2+ y ago1:28:10

1:28:10

Laura Carney This is an extraordinary episode of the Making Waves Podcast with Tom Prather. It’s not about the usual growing brands or businesses, stories of making platinum records, or what it takes to win championships. It’s a conversation about how one woman is making waves in her life and honoring her father at the same time. You see, when Laur…

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The history of Van Halen with Greg Renoff 2:18:18

3y ago2:18:18

2:18:18

Season 4 of Making Waves kicks off with the quintessential discussion on the mighty Van Halen with Van Halen Rising author, Greg Renoff. In this episode, Greg talks with host Tom Prather about Eddie Van Halen and his impact on the world of music and the guitar. The line in the sand is drawn as they discuss the legendary battle of lead singers in Va…

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Building an art business w/ Roni Langley 1:14:28

3y ago1:14:28

1:14:28

This week's guest on the Making Waves Podcast with Tom Prather is epoxy resin artist, Roni Langley. Roni took her love and skills for epoxy resin art and turned it into a hugely successful business and brand. I consider Roni to be the pioneer in realistic ocean wave art. In this conversation we discussed her journey as an artist, how she grew her b…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:10 Peter Lamden 1:19:44

3y ago1:19:44

1:19:44

This week's guest on the Making Waves Podcast with Tom Prather is Peter Lamden. Peter is the quintessential Southern California renaissance man. He is a celebrity hairstylist, triathlete, surfer, and rabid collector/mechanic of classic motorcycles and Porches. In this conversation, we discussed how Peter transitioned from working in the music indus…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:9 Amy Tucker 1:07:38

3+ y ago1:07:38

1:07:38

This week's guest on the Making Waves Podcast with Tom Prather is Amy Tucker. Amy is the creator, founder, and owner of Salty Britches. Salty Britches is a soothing, long-lasting barrier against skin irritation for any occasion. Created to withstand saltwater chafing and now trusted by families, athletes, and military personnel for year-round, all-…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:8 Adam Reiver 1:07:18

3+ y ago1:07:18

1:07:18

This week's guest on the Making Waves Podcast with Tom Prather is Adam Reiver. Adam is the founder and owner of FU-Tone, the ultimate in tonal and performance upgrades for your guitar. He has been working on improving tone with the greatest guitar players in the world for the last 25 years such as Slash, Nuno Bettencourt, Phill Collen, Mick Mars, a…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:7 Jeremy White 1:07:16

3+ y ago1:07:16

1:07:16

This week's guest is Jeremy White. You can find Jeremy playing the perfect mix of music in Montreal during the Jeremy White Show on Best 92.5 FM. He has also been making waves interviewing the likes of Gene Simmons (Kiss), Michael Anthony Van Halen), and Gavin Rossdale (Bush) on his popular Jeremy White Podcast! When Jeremy isn’t behind a mic you c…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:6 Chef Scott Crawford 1:38:08

3+ y ago1:38:08

1:38:08

The New Episode of Making Waves is live right now on Apple and Spotify! Scott Crawford is a chef and entrepreneur based in Raleigh, North Carolina who owns Crawford and Son and Jolie. Definitely road trip worthy no matter where you are from. We discussed where his love for cooking originated, the challenges of opening your own restaurants, how he o…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:5 Frankie Orange 2:35:38

3+ y ago2:35:38

2:35:38

Frankie Orange is a world-famous tattoo artist, entrepreneur, and owner of Orange Tattoo Company in Annapolis, Maryland. In this episode, Frankie discusses touring the world with bands like NSYNC, Metallica, and The Rolling Stones as a tattoo artist and seasoned member of the tour crew. Frankie shared about life on the road while living a clean and…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:4 Clint Pulver 58:50

3+ y ago58:50

58:50

Clint Pulver is an Emmy-Winning Keynote Speaker, creator of the “Undercover Millennial” Video Series, Workplace Expert, and professional drummer. In this episode we discuss Clint’s new book, “I love this place”, How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave, creating a revolutionary video series, what makes a great boss an…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:3 Britches Great Outdoors 1:06:08

3+ y ago1:06:08

1:06:08

Matt Carson is the Co-Owner of Britches Great Outdoors and the man responsible for resurrecting the iconic Warthog! In this episode we discuss the history of Britches, its impact on culture, restarting a clothing brand, and why failures are vital to building a successful business. SPONSORS: Jesse Itzler’s BYLR 30 Days of Excellence “30 Days of Exce…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:2 Sunset Sound & Drew Dempsey 1:08:43

3+ y ago1:08:43

1:08:43

Drew Dempsey is the media director at the legendary Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California. Sunset Sound is THE studio where some of the most all-time influential albums were recorded. Bands like The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Prince, Michael Jackson, and Rolling Stones. We discuss the history of Sunset Sound, the recent loss of Eddie Van Halen,…

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Patri Friedman // Starting Over 33:22

3+ y ago33:22

33:22

What if we just... left? The challenges facing our cities are enormous. Our problems could take years to correct, or decades. The purpose of this season is to explore new ways to reinvigorate our cities, but it's worth entertaining the alternative. What if we built something new, from the foundation up? I sat down with Patri Friedman, founder of bo…

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Robert Poole // Gridlock 33:01

3+ y ago33:01

33:01

Why is the traffic so bad? And why is so hard to build new transportation infrastructure? Robert Poole is the co-founder and director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation, and the author of Rethinking America’s Highways. We talked about congestion, variable pricing, light rail, tunnel boring machines, and why they don’t seem to work in our…

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Garrett Langley // Standing Guard 37:08

4y ago37:08

37:08

Flock Safety is building a national network of security cameras monitoring neighborhood traffic. In some cities, their work has been instrumental in reducing property crime by as much as 70 percent. In this episode of Anatomy of Next, Mike Solana sits down with Garrett Langley, the CEO and founder of Flock. They talk about the network — where it ca…

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ASYLUM #3 — Trivial Pursuit 41:02

4y ago41:02

41:02

In San Francisco, how does government work? Who is in charge, what can they do — structurally, what are they actually capable of? — and most importantly: what are they focused on? A look at our Board of Supervisors, its apparent war on growth (and possibly tech), and an argument for moving forward (spoiler alert: you just have to vote (sorry))Featu…

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Daniela Perdomo // A New Signal 30:55

4y ago30:55

30:55

There's almost nothing more terrifying than losing communication in the heat of a blazing wildfire. In recent months, California has been brought to its knees by natural disaster. Now more than ever we need the help of our firefighters, and to keep them safe. An entirely centralized communication infrastructure is a single point of failure we just …

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Fnnch // Brand New Paint Job 42:41

4y ago42:41

42:41

Who owns our streets? Our bus and train stops? Our public walls and public parks? If public property truly belongs to the public, can members of the public (which is to say: us) do with our property whatever we want? And on the absolute ground floor, can we not just... make it all look a little bit nicer? Fnnch is an artist based in San Francisco, …

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Matthew Putman // Nano City 37:09

4y ago37:09

37:09

Consider the computer mouse. It takes a massive, sprawling, global system, and thousands of parts and people from all over the world, many months, or even years after conceptualization, and design, to get that product to your desk. But what if you could do it all in a "factory" the size of your one-bedroom apartment… in a building down the street? …

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Alexis Rivas // House Factory 21:20

4y ago21:20

21:20

Separate from our government's anti-housing policies, a big piece of our crisis in affordability comes down to the way we think about new homes. In Japan, for example, where housing is significantly more affordable, newer homes are far more popular than older homes, and this has galvanized both construction and prefabrication. At scale, this reduce…

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ASYLUM #2 — Legalize Housing 52:49

4y ago52:49

52:49

The housing crisis is the root of almost every serious challenge San Francisco faces. From property to construction to regulation, when it’s possible to build at all it’s too expensive to meaningfully increase supply. Because it’s too expensive to build here, most people can’t afford to live here. So let’s get into it: why does the housing crisis e…

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Making Waves Podcast | S:3 E:1 Anthony Bozza 1:10:22

4y ago1:10:22

1:10:22

My guest this week is the New York Times Best Selling Author, Anthony Bozza. Anthony took us down a rock n' roll, hip hop journey discussing working with Eminem, Slash, Artie Lange, Tracy Morgan, Tommy Lee, and more! Anthony also gave us the exclusive news that he is working on his latest book with RaeKwon from the Wu-Tang Clan. Social Links: Antho…

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Andrew Farah // Density 24:43

4y ago24:43

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Almost every infrastructural challenge our cities face begins with the question of density. How many people are actually in the city? Where are they spending their time? Which trains are overcrowded? What about parks? Sidewalk traffic? San Francisco has one of the worst housing crises in history. Which of our buildings are being used at capacity? W…

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Ryan Delk // School is Not a Place 31:52

4+ y ago31:52

31:52

Ryan Delk is the founder and CEO of Primer, a company rethinking the way we educate our children, beginning with tools to help out homeschoolers. If we started over today, with today's technology, with today's educational research, and with everything we’ve learned about learning this past century — if you could start our approach to education over…

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Joshua Browder // An Army of Robotic Lawyers 19:41

4+ y ago19:41

19:41

Overcomplicated bureaucracy has been a plague on human productivity, with a disproportionately adverse affect on the poor and poorly connected, for hundreds of years, and with each year that passes it gets worse. Enter: your personal army of robotic lawyers. I sat down with Joshua Browder to talk about his company DoNotPay, and his mission to empow…

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Delian Asparouhov // Machines That Drive 35:51

4+ y ago35:51

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As we continue our conversation on the city, we turn to traffic and begin with the big related tech story — what happened to self-driving cars? In this episode, my colleague Delian provides a lay of the land for the space, and we talk about a world of perfect self-driving cars. What does that look like? Would it have any impact on traffic? If not, …

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Ryan Petersen // Global Trade and Civilization 38:06

4+ y ago38:06

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How do we get our stuff? Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company. We sat down to talk about the nature of trade, a literally ancient system that has been the lifeblood of global commerce, and by extension human civilization, since the dawn of time. How is technology changing that system? …

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ASYLUM #1 — Boomtown, USA 47:58

4+ y ago47:58

47:58

This season on Anatomy of Next we return to Earth, and we take a look around the neighborhood. How do our cities work, where do they need work, and what do we build next? We open in our hometown. San Francisco should be the greatest city in the world. What went wrong, and how do we fix it?By Founders Fund

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NEW WORLD #11 — Interstellar 59:12

5+ y ago59:12

59:12

SEASON TWO FINALE: and we enter the galaxy. From an atmosphere and an ocean to genetically-modified flora, new AR construction paradigms, and the directed evolution of our second branch of human civilization, we’ve created a new world on Mars. But what comes next for humanity? Let’s take a look at the mechanics of interstellar travel in antimatter …

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Kai-Fu Lee // China 36:39

5+ y ago36:39

36:39

This season we've talked a lot about different ways of doing things. Now let's talk about a country that IS doing things differently — at least... differently than the United States. We sat down with Kai-Fu Lee, author of AI Superpowers, to talk about artificial intelligence, China, and what the Chinese technology strategy means for America and Eur…

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NEW WORLD #10 — Sex in Space, Part One 24:03

5+ y ago24:03

24:03

Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of Next we've looked at every aspect of turning Mars into a habitable world. Now what about the changes in biology that are going to alter the way we populate our world? From artificial gametes derived from skin ce…

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NEW WORLD #10 — Sex in Space, Part Two 37:28

5+ y ago37:28

37:28

In our last episode, we looked at the technologies that are fundamentally changing biological reproduction. Now, we conclude that conversation with a look at the human relationship. What is a healthy relationship on Earth, and what might it look like in space? Or Mars? We explore the problems we're currently facing in love, and we imagine a healthy…

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NEW WORLD # 9 — Multiplanar Humanity 53:30

5+ y ago53:30

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Augmented and virtual realities are introducing a digital layering to the human experience that will dramatically impact every city of the future. In “Multiplanar Humanity” we explore the complications and potential of a multi-layered world, starting with one of the more practical applications of augmented reality technology — construction, and a l…

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Christina Lomasney // Material Advance, Part Two 22:45

5+ y ago22:45

22:45

In our second episode on materials science, we take a look at metal. Christina Lomasney is the CEO of Modumetal, a company nanoscopically-engineering alloys. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about her work at Modumetal, the Martian applications of her work, the decentralized city, and the democratization of engineering.…

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Dan Widmaier // Material Advance, Part One 22:55

5+ y ago22:55

22:55

Dan Widmaier is the founder and CEO of Bolt Threads. They make materials from nature that are high performance, but hard to extract, and develop technology that makes the scaling of production on these materials possible. Today, they're making spider silk affordable to the average consumer. We're designing a new world, and to build our new world we…

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Paul Dabrowski // Biological Factory 9:48

5+ y ago9:48

9:48

What if you could plant a seed, and grow a building? A few episodes ago we talked to Paul Dabrowski, CEO of Synthego, a company building tools that help biologists. Paul's hope for the field of synthetic biology is a path to curing all disease. But in a world of further biological understanding, there are few limits to what we can grow. Let’s talk …

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Adrian Aoun // Martian Sick Day 10:35

5+ y ago10:35

10:35

As we plan the shape of our future Martian capital, we continue our conversation with Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward, a company changing the way we think about the doctor. In our last episode we spoke broadly about the world — the way policy and design affect our lives today, and some of the ways they could or should change in the 21st Century. To…

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NEW WORLD #8 — City in the Stars 53:50

5+ y ago53:50

53:50

What will the first city on Mars look like? From a brief history of urban planning and utopianism on Earth, to selecting the site for our first colony on Mars, and laying down a new philosophy of city planning with an expert at the intersection of technology and civilization, we're laying our foundation. We've built a new world, now how will we be …

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Palmer Luckey // A New Defense 42:58

5+ y ago42:58

42:58

Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry is still mostly approaching these questions with a twentieth century mindset. Before we can make meaningful progress, we have to change our approach to the question. We sat down with Palmer Luckey to talk about his new company, Anduril, and the applicat…

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Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ 41:05

5+ y ago41:05

41:05

Founders Fund recently hosted a panel on defense: a conversation at the intersection of the U.S. government and the technology industry, or D.C. vs. Silicon Valley. Moderated by Dan Primack, and featuring Chris Lynch, Heather Podesta, and Trae Stephens. Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry…

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Lewis Dartnell // The Knowledge 24:07

5+ y ago24:07

24:07

What if we had to rebuild human civilization from scratch — on Earth? Could you build a power plant with your own hands and some raw material? Let's start smaller: what about the printing press? We sat down with Lewis Dartnell, author of the Knowledge, to talk about our world of cascading, interrelated invention, how one might go about rebuilding i…

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NEW WORLD # 7 — Make Man Martian 36:42

5+ y ago36:42

36:42

What if instead of changing the Martian environment to better suit human life... we changed the human being — genetically? In conversation with Josiah Zayner, George Church, and Paul Dabrowski, we take a look at redesigning the human being into a species capable of thriving on an alien world. Then, what are the ethical concerns of biological self-d…

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Gabriel Licina // Biohackers 14:33

5+ y ago14:33

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In this supplemental episode we sit back down with biologist Gabriel Licina, founder of Sci-House, a small nonprofit running community education, outreach, and research in synthetic biology. Gabriel unpacks the term "biohacker," and expands on both his work and some of the applications in synthetic biology we'll be using on Mars.…

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NEW WORLD #6 — Alien Ecology 36:10

5+ y ago36:10

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Anatomy of Next returns, and we design the Martian forests and fields. We've built an atmosphere on Mars, warmed the planet, and jumpstarted it's hydrologic cycle — from a frozen, irradiated desert to thunderstorms on a warm equator. Now, what about life? How do you grow crops on sterile, toxic soil with limited carbon and nitrogen? We talk to expe…

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Jamie Hyneman // Eureka deconstructed 18:27

6y ago18:27

18:27

Invention proceeds from ideation, but where do ideas come from? Jamie Hyneman is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel TV show Mythbusters, which he hosted for 14 and a half years. Prior to that he ran a special effects shop in San Francisco for decades, inventing work on over 800 commercials and dozens of feature films. He’s made a care…

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Maisie Williams // Art, identity, and this is your brain on Twitter 18:57

6y ago18:57

18:57

Separate from the question of how to build a world is the question of what makes a world worth living in. Let’s talk about art. Maisie Williams is an actor most commonly known for her performance in Game of Thrones, and cofounder of a new startup called Daisie. She wants to help artists find each other and build careers. We talked about the changin…

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S:1 E:2 | Gianluigi Dellaccio 1:41:35

6y ago1:41:35

1:41:35

Our guest this week is Chef Gianluigi Dellaccio, founder of Dolci Gelati. An amazing life story of a tragic accident, perseverance, sports greatness and the world's best gelato.Dolci Gelati:Web: https://www.dolcigelati.netIG: https://www.instagram.com/dolcigelati/Tom Prather:IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamtompratherMaking Waves Podcast:Web: https…

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Dan Kaminsky // Security 27:35

6y ago27:35

27:35

In an age of digital identity, how do we protect ourselves in an increasingly insecure world? In 2008, Dan Kaminsky identified a critical flaw in the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) and led the largest synchronized fix to the internet’s infrastructure of all time. Today, he’s Chief Scientist and cofounder of White Ops. Topics include: the great…

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Barbara Moreau // Raising astronauts 18:15

6y ago18:15

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Nothing can be achieved without some convincing that it’s possible – we need to be inspired. Barbara Moreau was my third grade teacher, and one of the most decorated leaders of the Young Astronaut Council, a United States education initiative focused on fostering interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Mrs. Moreau contextuali…

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