Read Max
Hosted by Max Read and John Ganz · Max Read
4.7from 28 ratings
- 29
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 28
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About Read Max
Explaining the weird new future, one podcast at a time. Subscribe for internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come. maxread.substack.com (https://maxread.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Max Read
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jul 2023
- Latest episode
- 23 Apr 2026
Latest episodes
27 of 29 episodes have a transcript.
23 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
What is "Muskism"?
7 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Talking the 'Dark Enlightenment' with John Ganz and Maya Vinokour
19 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Talking Iran and taking questions with John Ganz
Inside a recent episode
What is "Muskism"?
Published 23 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I mean, this is why it's actually effective and we're thinking about it isn't just, you know, locking in dependencies in like a patrimonial way the way people have been talking about it, like, you know, Dylan Riley and, um, and Levitsky and Zeblatt. It's not just about that. It is about that, but it's also about managing to push out the innovation frontier in ways that make, you know, the cost of putting mass into orbit 90 % less now than when he started SpaceX that allow him to create reusable rocketry that create low earth orbit as a viable space for satellite internet and satellite cellular delivery. […]
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- Quinn Slobodian
- Ben Tarnoff
- Maya Vinokour
- Vinson Cunningham
- Jay Caspian Kang
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100
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- Quality
- 53
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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Max Read and John Ganz host the show. Published by Max Read.
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