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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

By contrast, all other industries combined lost an average of 43,000 jobs a month during that 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

Shares are down about 13% over that span, leaving them down about 20% this year.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

It was another pigeon, this one with two healthy feet and a noticeably shorter attention span.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris