Satellite Haiku

About Satellite Haiku

Two long-time best friends wander through culture, politics, tech, and fatherhood and try to arrive at—stumble upon, alchemize and synthesize—something wise. satellitehaiku.substack.com (https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Milo & Shawn

Category

kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2024

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

72 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   073: Empty Vessels

   We talk about working in large organizations, meeting to agree to decide, Zeno’s paradox, internal thoughts, the experience of listening to podcasts these days, f*cking with the algorithm, the Jean Claude Vandamme Volvo commercial, humans vs AI, Soylent, infinite personalized music, Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, Time Magazine’s Trump interview, cults, and the death of Liquid Death. Mentioned in this episode Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen” (film (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367814/) and Netflix series (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13210838/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_in_0_q_the%20gen)) B******t Jobs (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/B******t-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335) (book) by David Graeber The Volvo ad from “Crazy People” (1990 Dudley Moore film) The Jean Claude Van Damme Volvo commercial: Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com (https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   072: Money, Corruption, and Cults

   Do money and power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to chase money and power? Both surely. We start with this question and return to it at various points. In-between we talk about the human propensity to latch onto gurus and saviors, the power of rizz, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, Tony Robbins, Tim Tebow / Life Surge, two questions to always ask a self-proclaimed guru or spiritual leader, scammers and their victims, FOMO and greater-fool theory, the “please run for president” reflex, the pain of uncertainty, rejecting false binaries, false equivalences, double-standard traps, the God of the Old Testament, a theory of wealth corruption, chasing the next billion, CEOs and psychopathy, Paul Piff’s money+corruption experiments, NYC mayors’ approaches to panhandling and poverty. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com (https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   071: Apocalypse How? (AI Edition)

   We talk about how an AI might “evolve,” Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, recursive self-improvement, scaling up to super-intelligence from LLMs, the nuclear disarmament analogy, lifespan disparities, Waymo rollouts, anthropomorphizing chatbots, chatbots emulating human niceties, Siri getting spicy in Spanish, Google Maps of late, AI in Gmail, the new COVID strain (“cicada”), evolution of the human immune system, the leap past neanderthals, the Hugging Face hack, AI regulation schemes, the AI financial bubble, AI as a useful technology (today) vs magical super-intelligence (future), nationalizing AGI, neurosymbolic AI vs deep learning, what happened to IBM Watson, Uber, enshitification and willingness to buy, jobs that are/aren’t vulnerable to AI, unit economics, when bubbles collapse, the fall of Borders books and the rise of Amazon, our personal places on the anxiety vs hope scale, what human “extinction” means. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com (https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

5,376

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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