Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast for the Insanely Curious

About Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast for the Insanely Curious

Network news veteran Michael Schulder hosts in-depth conversations that take listeners to a place where curiosity meets hope. Featuring some of the most creative thinkers, respected leaders, and preeminent authors in a wide variety of fields, including history, sports, the arts, business, current affairs, journalism, mental health, and more. For updates please subscribe to the Wavemaker Conversations newsletter (link below) and visit https://wavemaker.me https://michaelschulder.substack.com/subscribe

Publisher

Michael Schulder

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jan 2015

Latest episode

3 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 106 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI & Cybersecurity: From the Situation Room to the Living Room feat. Laura Galante & Tal Feldman

   Host [Host Name] interviews former Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center Director Laura Galante and AI/National Security scholar Tal Feldman about AI's impact on national security, business, and daily life.

2. 

   28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   John Urschel’s Unreasonable Goals: From the NFL to MIT

   Host [Host Name] interviews former NFL player and MIT mathematician John Urschel about his journey balancing elite athletics and academic pursuits, revealing the risks and rewards of pursuing ambitious goals.

3. 

   20 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sebastian Junger: Escape from the tyranny of self-interest

   Host interviews author Sebastian Junger about his life's journey and finding purpose beyond self-interest.

Inside a recent episode

AI & Cybersecurity: From the Situation Room to the Living Room feat. Laura Galante & Tal Feldman

Published 3 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Explain the difference because it was a Chinese open model that was used to get to the bottom of this hack. So, which is pretty incredible that the American company did not figure that out. It was a Chinese model. So tell us, whoever wants to take that, tell us the difference between, because we're hearing those terms all the time, open model, closed model, which way should we go? Who wants to go first? I'll take a stab and then you can fill in. So when you go on to ChatGPT or Claude, you have to use it on the website or in the app. You can't just download the model onto your computer and play around with it and do whatever you want in the way you could download a Word file, for instance, or a movie sometimes that you can just download, you know, like the MP4 file and it's just in your finder and your documents. […]

Who has been a guest on Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast for the Insanely Curious

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Laura Galante
• Tal Feldman
• John Urschel
• Sebastian Junger
• Spencer Glendon

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

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