"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
Hosted by Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz · Erik Torenberg
4.1from 192 ratings
- 147
- Episodes
- 114
- Transcribed
- 192
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About "Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
You’ll hear consequential ideas here first, and in the mainstream months later. Upstream is a curated nexus feed from the Turpentine podcast network, bringing you expert-level conversations hosted by some of the most compelling thinkers in the world including Noah Smith, Samo Burja, Byrne Hobart, Erik Torenberg, and Nathan Labenz. Guests include Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Dario Amodei, Brian Armstrong, David Sacks, Sam Harris, Katherine Boyle, Curtis Yarvin, and many more unmissable conversations.
- Publisher
- Erik Torenberg
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 15 May 2025
Latest episodes
114 of 147 episodes have a transcript.
15 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
E141: The Bronze Age Collapse and History's Selective Memory
10 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
E140: Why Industrial Revolutions Stall
8 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
E139: America’s Tech Strategy w/ Qasar Younis, Sen. Jack Reed, and Josh Wolfe
Inside a recent episode
E141: The Bronze Age Collapse and History's Selective Memory
Published 15 May 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It was that sudden. And the second reason is there is archaeological confirmation. There's a layer of destruction, not just in the site where, you know, we now believe Troy stood, which has several layers of settlement and resettlement as many cities do because city locations are kind of rare, valuable, historically deeply stable. There's a layer of destruction going from the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece, all across Asia Minor, into the Levant, right, into the Phoenician in Canaanite and other cities, and down in Egypt. And the Egyptians record numerous invasions by mysterious sea peoples. […]
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- Samo Burja
- Qasar Younis
- Jack Reed
- Josh Wolfe
- Alex Karp
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,373,636
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 60 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 132 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Erik Torenberg and Nathan Labenz host the show. Published by Erik Torenberg.
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