Hogwash is a weekly podcast breaking down the biggest stories in big tech, artificial intelligence, news, politics, media, and the economy. Hosts Martin Totland and Mike The Lummox deliver sharp analysis on companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI plus the policy, politics, and economic trends shaping your world. Whether it’s antitrust, AI regulation, corporate greed, elections, or market moves, we take the topics seriously but not ourselves. New episodes every week. Subscribe for podcast clips, hot takes, and deep dives on tech news, business news, and political commentary. Smart takes. No ego. Occasionally wrong. Email us for support, love, praise, commendations, compliments, admiration, or plaudits at hogwashpod@gmail.com . You can also sed us topics to guess or request to be a guest!
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Signup to Generate a PitchHogwash is a weekly podcast breaking down the biggest stories in big tech, artificial intelligence, news, politics, media, and the economy. Hosts Martin Totland and Mike The Lummox deliver sharp analysis on companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI plus the policy, politics, and economic trends shaping your world.
Recent episodes include "World Liberty Financial: How the Trump Family Ran a $75 Million Crypto Rug Pull" (21 April 2026, 116 minutes), "AI vs. The Software Industry, Kalshi's Win in NJ, and Zaslav's $887M Warner Bros. Exit" (16 April 2026, 58 minutes), and "This AI Broke Out of Containment. The Researcher Found Out Over Lunch. We Need to Talk." (13 April 2026, 70 minutes).
Hogwash publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 71 minutes across 8 episodes.
Booking probability for Hogwash is 42%, and the host is rated Open on guests. Hogwash requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hogwash's contact route on record: verified email.
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Hogwash is a news show with 8 episodes published.
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Episode #8
Martin and Mike are back! (even though they never left) The Trump family launched a DeFi platform called World Liberty Financial, and what happened next was a textbook rug pull. Real money was borrowed against fake...
Episode #7
Episode 7 is a heavy one. Mike opens up about the anniversary of his dad's death and what it means to actually feel your grief instead of stifling it. Martin admits he cries looking at his dog. Somewhere in there...
Episode #6
Martin and Mike are doing two episodes of a week! Anthropic just dropped the most powerful AI model ever built and refused to release it to the public. Claude Mythos Preview can find software vulnerabilities that humans...
Episode #5
Norway handed every five-year-old a free iPad in 2016 and tanked a generation's literacy kids are walking around with 17,000-word vocabularies when book readers their age have 70,000. Then Mike and Martin turn to...
Episode #3
A jury just found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial. And the real story isn't the $6M in damages, it's the legal strategy that got around Section 230 by targeting platform design...
Episode #2
Mike opens with a mea culpa for being mean to Jack Dorsey, then makes the data-backed case that AI won't kill as many jobs as the doomers claim — and explains why the unit economics of actually replacing humans with AI...
Episode #1
Hogwash is back — and so are we. Martin Totland and Mike the Lummox reunite after four years apart to do what they do best: cut through the noise and call it like they see it. This week: AI likely isn't coming for your...
Hogwash
Hogwash is a weekly podcast breaking down the biggest stories in big tech, artificial intelligence, AI news, politics, media, and the economy. Hosts Martin Totland and Mike The Lummox deliver sharp analysis on companies...
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