Hotel Bar Sessions
Hosted by Bob and Jen and Leigh · Leigh M. Johnson, Jennifer Kling, Bob Vallier
4.8from 133 ratings
- 267
- Episodes
- 133
- Transcribed
- 133
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 212K
- YouTube views
About Hotel Bar Sessions
A podcast where the real philosophy happens.
- Publisher
- Leigh M. Johnson, Jennifer Kling, Bob Vallier
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
133 of 267 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
MINIBAR: "Show Thinking!" (with Leigh M. Johnson)
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
MINIBAR: Derrida's First Lecture Series (with Bob Vallier)
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water"
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MINIBAR: "Show Thinking!" (with Leigh M. Johnson)
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now, without getting too much into the technical weeds, here's the short version. Most of the AI models that you've been accustomed to using over the last year or so, more or less reason out loud. That is to say, the AI models are designed to literally foreground their thought processes. Before ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini answers your prompt, the model is designed to surface a log of its intermediary cognitive steps in something close to plain English. First I'll check this, then I'll try that. Wait, that doesn't work. Let me go back. Now I'll revise and edit, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. If you've ever asked Claude or ChatGPT a question, and bothered to click that little drop down that says show thinking, what you're seeing there is a log of what I think researchers correctly call the AI's chain of thought. […]
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- Leigh M Johnson
- Keshav Singh
- Landon Frim
- Jon Ivan Gill
- Nathan Widder
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 211,572
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 52 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 81 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Hotel Bar Sessions?
Bob and Jen and Leigh host the show. Published by Leigh M. Johnson, Jennifer Kling, Bob Vallier.
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