Cognitive Dissidents
Hosted by Jacob Shapiro · Jacob Shapiro
4.8from 443 ratings
- 367
- Episodes
- 194
- Transcribed
- 443
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 139K
- YouTube views
About Cognitive Dissidents
Hosted by Jacob Shapiro, the Jacob Shapiro Podcast is long-form exploration of geopolitics, markets, crypto, agriculture, macro-finance, commodities, ForEx, and much much more! Tune in biweekly for interviews with experts across the globe, and weekly for roundups of global financial and geopolitical events!
- Publisher
- Jacob Shapiro
- Category
- business · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 2 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
194 of 367 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Sand Mafias
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The $10 Trillion Ocean
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The Sand Mafias
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think your point is very true. And it's a question I often get. What about desert sand? Which there's plenty of. The main thing we use sand for is for the construction industry, which needs sand and gravel of different sizes, and some that's a bit more angular. So we don't want what is in the desert. We don't want these very rounded grains. You can think of it as almost as if we're building with marbles if we used desert grains. So we want something that's angular. We want something that's coming from rivers or has been deposited by glaciers. Marine sand, so sand coming from the oceans, offer this challenge of it containing salt. […]
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- Mette Bendixen
- Michael Every
- Justin Mankin
- Luke Gromen
- Charlie Becker
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 139,161
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 176 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 267 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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