Best Big Data Architecture Podcasts (2025)

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The Algorithm of Heartbreak: How Social Pain Turns Into Social Intelligence 13:37

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Our brains are actually running two distinct but interconnected learning systems when processing social interactions: Algorithm One: The Social Reward Tracker This system, centered in the brain's reward regions like the ventral striatum, focuses on the immediate question: "Am I in or out?" It's tracking w…

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#38: “Stem Cells, FDA Roadblocks, and the Future of Regenerative Medicine — with Dr. Harry Adelson & Dr. Chuck Meeker” 57:57

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers welcome two trailblazers at the cutting edge of medicine and law: Dr. Harry Adelson, a pioneer of stem cell therapy and founder of Dosere Clinics, and Dr. Chuck Meeker, a PhD scientist turned patent attorney specializing in biotech and FDA regulatory strategy. Together, they…

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🕸️ Why AI's Next Breakthrough Isn't About More Data: Multifidelity Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks: 23:35

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode 🧠 Just discovered AI that learns from "imperfect" data—like us humans do. Turns out the future isn't about perfect info, but smart partnerships. 🤖✨ The future of scientific AI isn't about feeding machines more perfect information. It's about teaching them to be better partners in the mess…

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The Invisible Architecture of our Reality: Semiotics 22:29

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Your outfit today? It's not fashion. It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter. The researchers examining fashion as "a form of life" aren't being pretentious – they're recognizing that clothing functions as a dynamic…

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🌫️ Global Air Quality, Wildfires, and Health: 2025 Update 18:38

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Send us a text see related Substack episode Every person reading this is participating in the same atmospheric experiment. The air you breathe in New York contains particles from wildfires in Canada, dust from the Sahara, and emissions from factories in China. We're all connected by the same thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds our planet. The p…

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AI Meets the Grid: Driving Innovation at Avista 29:46

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In this episode, host Dave Whitehead sits down with Wayne Manuel, Chief Information and Security Officer at Avista, to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the utility industry. From predictive maintenance to customer service enhancements, Wayne shares how Avista is leveraging AI and machine learning to optimize operations across its Pa…

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Our Internal Immune Radar: How we Detect Sickness 16:30

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The most startling finding involved innate lymphoid cells (ILCs)—rapid-response immune sentinels that act like your body's first responders. When participants viewed infectious avatars, these cells showed activation patterns nearly identical to those triggered by actual flu vaccination. Some ILC subtypes …

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#37: “The Data They Hid: Dr. Brian Hooker on Vaccines, Shedding, and Government Fraud” 1:01:39

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with Dr. Brian Hooker, scientist, autism dad, and chief scientific officer at Children’s Health Defense, for one of the most explosive interviews yet. Dr. Hooker recounts his son’s devastating vaccine injury, his whistleblower role in exposing the CDC’s suppression …

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🧠 Human Cognitive Diversity: Understanding, Representation, and Explanation 22:35

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Send us a text See related Substack episode. A deep dive into the science that's shattering our assumptions about human minds We stand at a crossroads. We can continue pretending that normal exists, pathologizing difference and forcing square pegs into round holes. Or we can embrace what the science is telling us: human cognitive diversity isn't a …

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USA's Global Games: Lifting the Fog on The Tarriff Strategy 15:39

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Every time you buy groceries, electronics, clothing, or medicine, you're feeling the impact of these decisions. When your company loses export markets due to retaliation, when innovation slows because resources flow to protected industries instead of competitive ones, when our international partnerships c…

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🧬 Mitochondrial Health for Reversing Aging and Disease 16:29

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Send us a text See corresponding Substack episode. At 35, I thought aging was inevitable. Then I learned about the tiny powerhouses in our cells waging war against time itself. 🧬✨ #longevity" We're standing at the edge of what could be a genuine revolution in human health. Not through some magical breakthrough drug or exotic therapy, but through un…

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#36: Fake Cards, Real Risks: The Case Against Dr. Kirk Moore 1:07:59

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with Dr. Kirk Moore, the Utah plastic surgeon who faced 35 years in prison for providing vaccine cards without the jab—and who recently received a pardon spearheaded by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Dr. Moore recounts the legal ordeal, the ethical dilem…

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Why Feeling Good Doesn't Always Pay Good: Emotional Intelligence 15:10

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Can't get promoted? Work on your emotional intelligence. Still underpaid? Maybe you need more EI training. This narrative conveniently ignores the structural factors that actually drive salary differences and instead suggests that workers should invest in developing skills that make them better employees with…

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🌐 Adaptive Mutualism: A New Economic Model 37:22

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Send us a text Please review the corresponding Substack episode. What happens when artificial intelligence looks at our broken economic systems and says, "I can do better than this"? We're living through the economic equivalent of a slow-motion car crash, and most of us are too busy arguing about the radio station to notice we're heading straight f…

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An Ancient Brain in a Modern World: Addiction Isn't About Willpower 15:15

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Here's where our modern predicament becomes clear: we've engineered a world flooded with what scientists call "super stimuli." These aren't the natural rewards our ancestors encountered. They're concentrated, intensified, and deliberately designed to hijack our ancient wiring. Anna Lembke, author of "Dopa…

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The Sacrifice of Mungo McDonald 33:45

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode. The story of Pope Mungo reveals what happens when our comfortable moral categories collapse under the weight of real evil I've been thinking about a question that keeps me awake at night: What happens when love demands something so radical that it becomes unrecognizable as love at all? This isn…

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#35: “John Hewlett & Cardio Miracle: The Nitric Oxide Breakthrough Changing Heart Health & Human Performance” 57:01

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with John Hewlett, the founder and formulator of the game-changing nitric oxide supplement, Cardio Miracle. After a life-threatening heart condition and a family history of cardiovascular disease, Hewlett walked away from a lucrative career in finance to dedicate hi…

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Noise Sensitivity - Why Your Brain Won't Stop Listening 21:56

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Send us a text Read article on Substack Noise sensitivity was often treated as a "waste paper basket" diagnosis – something to brush off when doctors couldn't find anything "real" wrong with you. Meanwhile, patients developed elaborate coping mechanisms: sleeping with multiple earplugs, avoiding restaurants, choosing apartments based on wall thickn…

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💸 The Hidden Cost of Private Equity 31:25

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Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode. You probably don't know who owns your local hospital. You might not realize that the newspaper you grew up reading is now controlled by a firm that views journalism as a spreadsheet optimization problem. And when your rent suddenly jumps 30% or your neighborhood grocery store closes with…

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The Topology of Taste 18:18

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Research shows that more flavorful foods trigger larger consumption. If your brain constructs more intense flavor experiences, you eat more. Food companies understand this better than most consumers do. They're not just adding sugar and salt randomly—they're engineering specific combinations of taste, sme…

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#34: “Silenced, Suspended, and Still Standing — Dr. Mary Bowden’s Covid War” 1:05:11

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a Houston-based ENT who treated over 6,000 Covid patients—and paid the price for speaking the truth. After advocating for early treatment options and questioning vaccine mandates, Dr. Bowden was publicly suspended by her hospital and bra…

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🧠 Welcome to the curved space of everything 16:12

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode. 🧠💥 Just discovered how your brain might be hiding explosive secrets in curved spaces. New research reveals why AI suddenly "gets it" - and it's not what you think. The math that's reshaping memory itself. #NeuralNetworks #AI #BrainScience Interactions in Curved Statistical Manifolds Sour…

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Highest UN Court's Ruling on Climate Change 20:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack The opinion transforms what was once treated as a moral imperative into a legal obligation. Countries can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of "we're doing our best" when their best demonstrably isn't good enough. The court made it clear that nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreeme…

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AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery 17:39

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Send us a text Please see our corresponding Substack episode We're living through what might be the last era where humans are the limiting factor in AI development. That's not hyperbole—it's the stark conclusion emerging from breakthrough research that should terrify and exhilarate us in equal measure. The future of AI research may no longer be abo…

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Renewables: The Unstoppable Economics of Our Clean Energy Future 23:13

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Send us a text Read article on Substack What makes the renewable transition even more compelling is that we're finally accounting for the true costs of our fossil fuel dependence. The health impacts alone are staggering. In 2024, renewables helped the U.S. avoid an estimated $21.5 billion in health damages from air pollution, on top of $24 billion …

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#33: “Inside the VA, DC, and Media War Rooms: Tiffany Smiley Tells All” 58:19

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton welcomes political outsider and veteran advocate Tiffany Smiley—a former nurse who stepped into battle with the VA, the media, and the Washington establishment after her husband was blinded in Iraq. Smiley shares how that life-altering moment launched her into public service, her controversia…

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The Afterlife Industrial Complex: What David Eagleman's Tales Tell Us About Our Desperate Need for Meaning 19:59

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Send us a text see related Substack episode We're living through the death of certainty, and it's making us absolutely feral for answers about what comes next. I spent an hour this week diving into David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, and honestly? It left me more unsettled than any horror movie could. Not because these afterlife …

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Today's Tribal Societies: Our True Nature's Last Mirror 16:21

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack These aren't primitive people. They're specialists in being human. And here's what really messes with our modern assumptions: they achieved something we're constantly told is impossible. They created societies without bosses, without cops, without prisons, without wealth inequality—and they worked for mil…

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New Nuclear: A Candid Conversation with Robert Bryce 33:31

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Author and journalist Robert Bryce returns to Schweitzer Drive for a candid conversation with host Dave Whitehead about the president’s bold plan to expand nuclear power in the United States. Drawing on decades of energy research, Bryce explains why the goal of quadrupling nuclear capacity by 2050 is unlikely, but offers a realistic view of the cha…

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The Book of Rights: A Manifesto for Individual Freedom 21:11

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Send us a text See related Substack Episode "I spent years apologizing for who I was until I realized I'd forgotten who that even was. Today's dive into reclaiming your basic human rights 🎧✨" How we learned to distrust our own inner wisdom—and why reclaiming it might be the most radical act of our time There's a particular kind of violence that hap…

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#32: Vaccine Safety, Power Plays & the Fight for Truth — with Dr. Patrick Gentempo 1:14:35

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On today’s episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with entrepreneur, chiropractor, and vaccine safety advocate Dr. Patrick Gentempo. From exposing government overreach during the COVID era to breaking down the dark realities behind vaccine mandates, Patrick doesn’t hold back. He dives into the suppressed science, r…

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The God Particle: Quantum Consciousness 22:12

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Send us a text Read article on Substack During deep meditative states, these practitioners showed dramatic increases in gamma wave activity—specifically in the 38-42 Hz range—with statistical significance that would make any researcher sit up and take notice (p < 0.0001). But here's where it gets really interesting: their brains showed remarkable g…

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Nailfold Capillaroscopy: Unveiling Fibrinoid Microclots and Microcirculation Dynamics 17:29

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Send us a text see corresponding Substack 🔬 What if the key to chronic illness has been hiding under our fingernails all along? Ancient wisdom meets AI in this mind-bending medical mystery. 🧬✨ While researchers were discovering these microclots with expensive lab equipment, a diagnostic technique from 1600s was quietly waiting in the wings. Nailfol…

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Centaur AI: Becoming Human 17:11

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The future is arriving faster than we can process its implications. Centaur isn't just a research breakthrough—it's a preview of coming attractions. And we're all the starring act in this particular show, whether we signed up for it or not. The question isn't whether AI will learn to predict human behavio…

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🔬 Flow Cytometric Detection of Fibrin(ogen) Amyloid Microclots 15:05

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Send us a text see corrisonding Substack episode A breakthrough in detection methods might finally give us the diagnostic tool we've been desperately seeking For years, Long COVID patients have been fighting an invisible war. Not just against their symptoms, but against a medical system that couldn't quite put its finger on what was wrong. "It's al…

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#31: Jenny Graham: Fighting for Justice in a State Gone Sideways 1:26:34

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In this episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers sit down with Jenny Graham, a Washington State Representative, Army veteran, and survivor-turned-crusader for crime victims’ rights. From exposing flaws in the criminal justice system to questioning election integrity, Jenny brings courage and clarity to issues most lawmakers w…

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Heliox: Evidence, Empathy, and the Human Tapestry: Season 4 Review 21:52

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Send us a text see the corresponding Substack episode The information age promised that more knowledge would make us smarter. Instead, it's made us anxious, overwhelmed, and paradoxically less informed about what matters. I've been thinking about this problem a lot lately, especially after diving deep into the architecture of a podcast called Helio…

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Early Bird versus Night Owl: Optimizing Your Chronobiology 17:37

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Send us a text Read article on Substack This isn't just about individual suffering—it's about what we're losing as a society. When you force creative, productive night owls to perform during their biological off-hours, you're not getting their best work. You're not accessing their full cognitive potential. You're creating a world where a significan…

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Relationship Fatigue: Why Women Opt Out of Dating 14:46

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Send us a text Read article on Substack "It felt like I was constantly pulling teeth just to get him to talk about his day, let alone his feelings." Meanwhile, she was expected to be his emotional GPS, life coach, and sexual servant—all while maintaining her own career, friendships, and mental health. This isn't an isolated story. It's a pattern so…

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#30: “Documenting the Denial: Dean Rainey on Vaccine Injury and Censorship” 1:04:48

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In this episode of The Ultimate Assist, filmmaker Dean Rainey joins John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers to discuss his powerful new documentary, Why Can’t We Talk About This?—a film that dares to say what others won’t. Centered around one man’s devastating post-jab injury, the film uncovers a chilling pattern of censorship, silence, and systemic betray…

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🧬 AlphaGenome: Predicting Variant Effects on Gene Regulation 16:47

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Send us a text see the accompanying substack episode We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time. For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. …

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The Myth of Canine Hierarchy - What Science Tells Us About Dog Intelligence 19:52

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack Yes, they found breed differences. But not where you'd expect them, and not in the ways our cultural narratives would predict. Border Collies, those supposed canine Einsteins, excelled at impulse control—which makes sense if you think about it. Herding requires incredible restraint, the ability to resist …

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💨 COVID for Docs ( duty of care ): Science, Spread, and Long-Term Harm 33:26

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Send us a text see epsisode substack There’s a story we should have memorized by now. Today, we call this resistance to new knowledge the “Semmelweis reflex.” A refusal to accept evidence because it feels wrong. Inconvenient. Uncomfortable. In 2020, a new virus entered the room. For a brief moment, we acknowledged its danger. We locked down. We lis…

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Our Planet: A Startup With No Business Plan 25:49

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack The summary is stark: we are already operating outside acceptable risk parameters, with catastrophic impacts likely before 2050. Climate: severe impacts already occurring, with highly likely catastrophic warming pre-2050. Nature: trending toward severe degradation with catastrophic risks by 2050. Society:…

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#29: “John Welbourn: From NFL Trenches to Gut Check Realities” 1:09:53

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In this episode of The Ultimate Assist, John Stockton and Ken Ruettgers go deep with John Welbourn—former NFL lineman, founder of Power Athlete, and host of Power Athlete Radio. Welbourn shares how a decade in pro football shaped his brutal but brilliant approach to strength, discipline, and life after the game. But this conversation isn’t just abo…

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The Hour of (data) Power 47:40

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Ready for your Hour of (Data) Power with some Radioactive and Electric Feel thrown in? Ok, so hang tight, get your coffee or lemonade (depending on how your summer looks like!), as we bring you a double whammy from your newest Data-powered Innovation Jam to celebrate the anniversary launch of the 10th edition of the Data Powered Innovation Review. …

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How to Scale Data Infrastructure from Startup to Enterprise 38:12

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In this episode, David sits down with Nishant Raman, a seasoned data infrastructure expert, to explore the evolving world of data engineering, AI integration, and building scalable systems from the ground up. With experience across logistics, healthcare, and fintech, Nishant shares hard-won insights from years of building resilient, cost-conscious …

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⚡ How MiniMax M1 Just Rewrote the Rules of AI 19:01

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Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode Sometimes the most profound changes happen not with fanfare, but with a whisper that echoes through eternity. We're living through one of those whisper moments right now, and most people don't even know it happened. While the tech world obsesses over the latest chatbot drama and which billionair…

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Safety, Reliability, and Innovation: PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Strategy 38:43

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In this episode, we continue our exploration of how utilities are working to mitigate the threat of wildfires with a look at how PG&E is transforming its grid to reduce ignition risk throughout its 70,000-square-mile service area. Host Dave Whitehead is joined by James Tuccillo, manager of distribution and asset planning, to discuss PG&E’s multi-pr…

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The Conscience Crisis: Understanding Moral Injury 20:14

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Send us a text Read the article on Substack What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self? That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, wit…