Best Damian Kyle Podcasts (2024)

Apple's profit from "Services" is set to surpass profits from iPhones within a couple of years, which is pretty crazy, really. Of the ~$80-90b Apple make a year in "Services", around 25% of that comes from Google handing over north of $20 billion per year to be the default search engine in Safari. For years, Google has been freaked out by the prosp…

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Jeff Meet Jephe Meet Geoff (w/ Ollie Hobson and Lindsey Smith) 53:26

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"Would you want to hang out with someone who is exactly like you?" This week we freak into action with long time good buddies Ollie Hobson and Lindsey Smith. We chat about if we can stand someone just like ourselves and then get nasty on some improvised zoom calls to the doctor. See Tim and Dan at the Yard Theater August 15th Check out Real Angels …

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Grow Up and Speak Up - Proverbs 31:1-9 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Romans 7:1-25 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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Nike: Barefoot is Illegal (PREVIEW) 8:00

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Nike: The brand of brands. When it comes to brands, they're top dog. When it comes to returning money to shareholders, less so. At least this year. As Nike have pursued the quest to become as close as an apparel company can be to a tech business, their share price has tanked – this year by over 30%. A former executive's LinkedIn post went about as …

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You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money 44:17

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It's quarterly earnings season, and some of our favourite tech companies are looking a bit shaky. Not because they're not making money – they are – but because they're spending it on new data centres and AI research. In this episode, we take stock of the current earnings reports, and touch on a few interesting tidbits like Amazon's softness in e-co…

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No More Free Bread Sticks (w/ PNMAC) 55:21

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This week we're joined once again by the fantastically funny Princeton New Money Assclowns. We chat for a bit about what it's like to break up with a friend and then get into some serious trash specific improv. To buy tickets or learn more about CIC classes and shows visit: www.cictheater.com Check out the Robin Hood International Improv Festival! …

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Llama-ma-mazing! 35:30

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Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals. The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent. Why? Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an ar…

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The Black Box (w/ Mark Raterman) 1:03:14

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This week we welcome Mark Raterman from the legendary improv group Cook County Social Club. Mark and his crew have an all new podcast called Get it to Dutch: A Screenwriter's Journey. You can listen to all of the episodes now on Apple Pods, Spotify, and wherever your pods live! See Cook County at UCB LA the first Sunday of every month! Thanks to Ly…

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Four Things, Majestic and Stately - Proverbs 30:29-31 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Romans 6:11-23 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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Into The Goldilocks Zone (PREVIEW) 4:27

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Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech" To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to en…

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CrowdStruck 28:29

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You are no doubt aware that the world suffered a fairly significant IT outage at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines. In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the…

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The Mummy's Warehouse (w/ JPC and Kyle Bethea) 1:03:10

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Thanks to Spider-Woman Jemma Nicole for prompting out discussion of: Have you ever had to change career paths? and Mark Cuckerberg for our scene suggestion at the top of the episode of Cop makes a traffic stop and sees his ex with a new partner JPC and Kyle Bethea drop by the pod again for a brief July 4th run down on fake meats and what they can d…

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The Tech Trump Turn (PREVIEW) 6:40

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A recent political incident involving the former president provide a stress test of X under Elon Musk. It also provides us with an opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison of how it was reported on the various post-twitter clones: Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. Additionally, the several loud noises at the Trump rally led to a cascade of Silicon …

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Little, But Exceedingly Wise - Proverbs 30:24-28 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Romans 6:1-10 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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Investigating Real Estate Agent Drip 31:34

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Real estate tech is an underrated part of the broader tech ecosystem. From listing and buying platforms to property management apps and everything in-between, there's a suite of tech solutions for selling, buying, renting, investing and just having a squiz at property. In this ep, we take a little tour through real estate tech, which mostly ends up…

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097 - Matt Biolos 1:03:40

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Matt Biolos talks about the upcoming Tahiti Paris 2024 Olympic surfing competition, Twinzers, legends and other assorted topics. One of the most influential surfboard builders in the world. His influence goes beyond the highly important surfboard designs – which are of course world class (I’ve owned three ….Lost Surfboards by Matt and all of them s…

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Four Things That Perturb the Earth - Proverbs 30:21-23 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Romans 5:6-21 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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Who Made This? (PREVIEW) 3:21

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. While the northern hemisphere is on summer holiday, we grind. Given there's not much tech news floating around as a result, we continued the discussion of AI from last episode – this time getting wildly philosophical about legal rights and the…

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Calvary Monterey Podcast A Move From Dim Anguish To Radiant Joy Psalm 22

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You're Spending How Much On Graphics Cards? 36:00

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Over the past few weeks, several equity reports – from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Barclays – have sounded the alarm on the amount of capital expenditure currently being spent by the tech industry on building out AI capacity. Analysts and investors are asking: how are you going to pay for all this? And how long do we have to wait for that? In th…

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Romans 5:1-5 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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Four Wonderful Things - Proverbs 30:18-19 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Gimme Money! Media Edition 43:03

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Australia's experiment with forcing big tech to pay media companies like Nine and News Corp for content is running into choppy waters, as Meta refuses to play ball and Google seems less keen on news than it once was. In this episode, we catch up with the media and how it's handling today's dynamics of the internet and – especially – the new era of …

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A Small Modular Nuclear Reactor For Every Australian (PREVIEW) 4:17

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Nuclear is in the air. (Not literally.) In Australia, politicians are debating it, while a huge range of nuclear startups are ruling it out for funding and attention. In this episode, we chat about nuclear power and how the tech industry is talking about it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Hitting The Nvidia Wall 37:30

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Nvidia is the engine room of the AI moment, but they are struggling a little right now. The stock underwent a massive correction this week, and founder Jensen Huang is reportedly worried that the gravy train is about to end. We used that as an excuse to dive into a few interesting trends going on in AI, Apple's moves, whether the hype is matching t…

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096 - Paulo Roberto Sciamarelli: Part Two 1:44:23

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As you may recall when we left part one of the Paulo Roberto Sciamarelli Surfing Village origin story - Paulo had finally found his paradise a perfect wave in front and plenty of really good waves -- rights and lefts-- all within a 5-20 minutes by boat. He had secured land, had a boat built 8 x 3 meters that’s roughly 24’ long and 8 feet wide. Paul…

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Things That Never Say, “Enough” - Proverbs 30:15-16 - Timeless Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs (Current Series)

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Romans 4:1-25 - Romans (3000 Series) (Current Series)

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What's Tencent All About? 27:57

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Tencent is one of the largest and most valuable companies on earth, with operations that touch just about every part of the digital economy in China and beyond. From WeChat to gaming to film production to payments, Tencent continues to expand far beyond its original station as a Chinese app developer. In this ep, we take a tour through Tencent, inc…

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095 - Paulo Roberto Sciamarelli 53:13

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This story is really a dream. OR it speaks to the power of dreams. One man’s dream that became a reality. That man’s name is Paulo: Paulo Roberto Sciamarelli. In some ways his story is about focus. Focus on a dream. It will eventually manifest. “If you believe you deserve it, the universe will serve it.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…

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