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Opening once locked doors and sharing a map to the maze.
We're Malcolm and Thomas, two engineers who got into the room at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Pretty quickly we figured out that nobody hands you the manual once you're inside. Black Box Theory is us working it out loud.
Every week we get into what's actually going on, and we talk about it the way we would anyway: honestly, with receipts, and without pretending we have it all figured out. Some weeks that's a trillion-dollar IPO and what it really means for your money. Some weeks it's a Supreme Court ruling, a story taking over the timeline, or where the NBA is headed. Usually it's a mix of all of it, plus whatever we couldn't stop going back and forth about that week.
The point is always the same. We want to understand how this stuff really works: who's winning, who's paying for it, and what you can do with that once you can see it.
We're not financial advisors and we're not career coaches. We're two people a few years into figuring it out, sharing what we've learned and what we're still learning. If you're early in your career and tired of watching other people win without understanding why, you'll feel at home here.
New episodes every week. Come learn with us.
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BBT #18 Snippet | Karmelo Anthony Case
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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BBT #18 Snippet | Quest for Peace
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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BBT #18 | Who Really Controls AI Now? Follow the Money and the Power
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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BBT #17 Snippet | Immigration Policy and What It's Quietly Doing to the American Dream
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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BTT #17 Snippet | From January 6 Pardons to Federal Payouts to a 100% Clawback Tax
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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BBT #17 Snippet | When the President Trades and Nobody Stops Him
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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BBT #17 Snippet | How Star-Player Officiating Quietly Bends Every NBA Game You Watch
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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BBT #17 Snippet | The SpaceX IPO Skeptic's Case
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May 31, 2026 |
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BBT #17 | A $1.75 Trillion IPO, Political Corruption, an Ebola Emergency
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May 31, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | People Will Stand in Line 3 Hours for Sneakers and 3 Minutes for a Voting Booth
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May 26, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | The White House Is Posting Memes Now
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May 25, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | Investing With Almost Nothing
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May 24, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | Why Voting Is More Urgent Than Ever
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May 23, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | NBA Draft Strategy
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May 22, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | Musk vs. OpenAI
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May 21, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | Cerebras IPO Explained
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May 20, 2026 |
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BBT #16 Snippet | Race in Media
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May 19, 2026 |
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BBT #16 | Cerebras IPO, Musk vs OpenAI in Court, Voting Rights Gutted
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May 19, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | Leaving Home for a T*** Job Changed Everything
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May 08, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | Raising Black Children to Navigate a World That Wasn't Built for Them
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May 07, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | Ghost Jobs Are Stealing Your Time
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May 06, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | The Magic Collapsed, Supermax Contracts, and the Harden vs. Iverson
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May 05, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | SC State Rescinded a Commencement Speaker, Got Threatened With Defunding
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May 04, 2026 |
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BBT #15 Snippet | LinkedIn Is Full of Hidden Promotions, Fake Inspiration, and Predatory Behavior
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May 03, 2026 |
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BBT #15 | The Voting Rights Act, Spirit Airlines, and History Erasure
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May 03, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | Why Behavior, Money, and Image Matter More Than Talent
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May 02, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | The NC A&T Scholarship Scandal
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May 01, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | The Alumni Giving Crisis
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | NBA Playoffs Heat Up
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | The Professionalism vs. Performance Conversation Sports Won't Have
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | The NFL Draft's Top Pick & The Conversation Nobody's Having
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | The Celebrity Relationship Obsession Is Stealing Your Attention
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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BBT #14 Snippet | Shots Fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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BBT #14 | University Scandals, Celebrity Obsessions, and America's Love of Violence
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | The AI Arms Race Is Costing Billions to Train
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | Allbirds Sold Its Shoes for $39 Million and Called Itself an AI Company
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | 'The Boys' Predicted All of This — And Nobody Wanted to Believe It
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | The S&P Just Crossed 7,100 — But Is This a Real Rally or a Trap?
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | Spouse, Parents, or Kids — Who Actually Comes First?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | They're Calling You Back to the Office
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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BBT #13 Snippet | AI Isn't Just Taking Jobs — It's Eliminating the Reason to Create New Ones
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | NBA Playoff Predictions: Who's Actually Winning This Year?
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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BBT #13 | Stock Market Signals, Allbirds AI, and the Family Priorities Debate
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | If You Miss Half the Season, Should You Win MVP?
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | Gen Z Isn't Bad at Money
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | Black Men Are Leaving — and the System Built It That Way
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | The Chicago Narrative Is a Weapon — And Someone Is Aiming It
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | Investing and Gambling Aren't the Same Thing
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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BBT #12 Snippet | Why Is Everyone Talking About Chicago?
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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BBT #12 | Draft Auto-Enrollment, the System Is Failing American Men, and Chicago Propaganda
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | $375 Million Won't Fix This — But It's a Start
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | The US Voted Against Calling Slavery a Crime
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | Las Vegas Is Getting an NBA Team
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | The Media Doesn't Show You Black Communities — It Shows You What Sells
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | Gucci Mane Developed — That's Not a Coincidence
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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BBT #11 Snippet | 123 Nations Said Slavery Was the Gravest Crime in History. The US Voted No.
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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BBT #11 | Meta's Liable, the US Voted No on Reparations, and SpaceX
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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BBT #10 Snippet | The Media Isn't Confused About the Middle East — It's Designed to Confuse You
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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BBT #10 Snippet| 43% of Millennials Can't Rationalize Saving Right Now
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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BBT #10 Snippet | They're Testing New Missiles on Civilians
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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BBT #10 Snippet | He's Doing the Social Commentary Everyone Else Is Too Scared to Touch
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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BBT #10 | Owning the Strait, $4 Gas, and Nobody Warned You About the Job Market
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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BBT #09 Snippet | AI Isn't Coming for Your Job — It's Coming for Your Salary
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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BBT #09 Snippet | Your Vote Is Worth More Than You Think — Especially Right Now
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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BBT #09 Snippet | The S&P Is Down 15%, the Russell Is in Correction & Nobody Is Coming to Save You
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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BBT #09 Snippet | Meta Is Cutting 20% of Its Workers to Pay for AI — And the Stock Went UP
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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BBT #09 | Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia, AI Is Replacing Your Job, and Your Portfolio Is on Fire
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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BBT #08 Snippet | The "Eye Test" is Dead (And Here’s Why)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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BBT #08 Snippet | Finding Your Purpose Outside of Your 9-to-5 Career
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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BBT #08 | Success, Loneliness & The Performance: What Nobody's Saying
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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BBT #07 | The $94K Debt Trap: Corporate Theater & The Friendship Recession
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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BBT #06 | Why Schools Don't Teach Finance: The $100K Question
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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BBT #05 | They're Getting Rich Off Your Clicks — And You're Getting Nothing
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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BBT #04 | Visibility Isn't Value: The Leverage Shift Nobody Talks About
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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BBT #03 | The Post-College Financial Blueprint
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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BBT #02 | OpenAI Ads, Google, and Geopolitical Market Trends
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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BBT #01 Snippet | OpenAI Just Put Ads on AI — And Markets Don't Care
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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BBT #01 | We Got In The Room. Now What?
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Jan 10, 2026 |