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Episodes of “TBPN” span three hours, with content ranging from interviews with the likes of Mark Cuban and Apple’s Eddy Cue to riffs on the day’s tech and business news.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, and Northrop shares have gained an average of 32% in that span.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Add it all up, and the economy created just 34,000 net jobs during the 10-month span.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

These cans contained fillets from four species collected over a 42-year span in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

That three papers in the short span of three months in 1900 independently converged on Mendel’s work was a demonstration of the sustained myopia of biologists, who had ignored his work for nearly forty years.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee