Black Box Theory Podcast

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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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Episode Date
BBT #18 Snippet | Karmelo Anthony Case
Jun 15, 2026
BBT #18 Snippet | Quest for Peace
Jun 14, 2026
BBT #18 | Who Really Controls AI Now? Follow the Money and the Power
Jun 14, 2026
BBT #17 Snippet | Immigration Policy and What It's Quietly Doing to the American Dream
Jun 04, 2026
BTT #17 Snippet | From January 6 Pardons to Federal Payouts to a 100% Clawback Tax
Jun 03, 2026
BBT #17 Snippet | When the President Trades and Nobody Stops Him
Jun 02, 2026
BBT #17 Snippet | How Star-Player Officiating Quietly Bends Every NBA Game You Watch
Jun 01, 2026
BBT #17 Snippet | The SpaceX IPO Skeptic's Case
May 31, 2026
BBT #17 | A $1.75 Trillion IPO, Political Corruption, an Ebola Emergency
May 31, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | People Will Stand in Line 3 Hours for Sneakers and 3 Minutes for a Voting Booth
May 26, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | The White House Is Posting Memes Now
May 25, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | Investing With Almost Nothing
May 24, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | Why Voting Is More Urgent Than Ever
May 23, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | NBA Draft Strategy
May 22, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | Musk vs. OpenAI
May 21, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | Cerebras IPO Explained
May 20, 2026
BBT #16 Snippet | Race in Media
May 19, 2026
BBT #16 | Cerebras IPO, Musk vs OpenAI in Court, Voting Rights Gutted
May 19, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | Leaving Home for a T*** Job Changed Everything
May 08, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | Raising Black Children to Navigate a World That Wasn't Built for Them
May 07, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | Ghost Jobs Are Stealing Your Time
May 06, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | The Magic Collapsed, Supermax Contracts, and the Harden vs. Iverson
May 05, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | SC State Rescinded a Commencement Speaker, Got Threatened With Defunding
May 04, 2026
BBT #15 Snippet | LinkedIn Is Full of Hidden Promotions, Fake Inspiration, and Predatory Behavior
May 03, 2026
BBT #15 | The Voting Rights Act, Spirit Airlines, and History Erasure
May 03, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | Why Behavior, Money, and Image Matter More Than Talent
May 02, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | The NC A&T Scholarship Scandal
May 01, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | The Alumni Giving Crisis
Apr 30, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | NBA Playoffs Heat Up
Apr 29, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | The Professionalism vs. Performance Conversation Sports Won't Have
Apr 28, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | The NFL Draft's Top Pick & The Conversation Nobody's Having
Apr 27, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | The Celebrity Relationship Obsession Is Stealing Your Attention
Apr 26, 2026
BBT #14 Snippet | Shots Fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Apr 26, 2026
BBT #14 | University Scandals, Celebrity Obsessions, and America's Love of Violence
Apr 26, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | The AI Arms Race Is Costing Billions to Train
Apr 25, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | Allbirds Sold Its Shoes for $39 Million and Called Itself an AI Company
Apr 24, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | 'The Boys' Predicted All of This — And Nobody Wanted to Believe It
Apr 23, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | The S&P Just Crossed 7,100 — But Is This a Real Rally or a Trap?
Apr 22, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | Spouse, Parents, or Kids — Who Actually Comes First?
Apr 21, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | They're Calling You Back to the Office
Apr 20, 2026
BBT #13 Snippet | AI Isn't Just Taking Jobs — It's Eliminating the Reason to Create New Ones
Apr 19, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | NBA Playoff Predictions: Who's Actually Winning This Year?
Apr 19, 2026
BBT #13 | Stock Market Signals, Allbirds AI, and the Family Priorities Debate
Apr 18, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | If You Miss Half the Season, Should You Win MVP?
Apr 18, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | Gen Z Isn't Bad at Money
Apr 17, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | Black Men Are Leaving — and the System Built It That Way
Apr 16, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | The Chicago Narrative Is a Weapon — And Someone Is Aiming It
Apr 15, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | Investing and Gambling Aren't the Same Thing
Apr 14, 2026
BBT #12 Snippet | Why Is Everyone Talking About Chicago?
Apr 13, 2026
BBT #12 | Draft Auto-Enrollment, the System Is Failing American Men, and Chicago Propaganda
Apr 13, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | $375 Million Won't Fix This — But It's a Start
Apr 10, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | The US Voted Against Calling Slavery a Crime
Apr 09, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | Las Vegas Is Getting an NBA Team
Apr 08, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | The Media Doesn't Show You Black Communities — It Shows You What Sells
Apr 07, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | Gucci Mane Developed — That's Not a Coincidence
Apr 06, 2026
BBT #11 Snippet | 123 Nations Said Slavery Was the Gravest Crime in History. The US Voted No.
Apr 05, 2026
BBT #11 | Meta's Liable, the US Voted No on Reparations, and SpaceX
Apr 05, 2026
BBT #10 Snippet | The Media Isn't Confused About the Middle East — It's Designed to Confuse You
Apr 02, 2026
BBT #10 Snippet| 43% of Millennials Can't Rationalize Saving Right Now
Apr 01, 2026
BBT #10 Snippet | They're Testing New Missiles on Civilians
Mar 31, 2026
BBT #10 Snippet | He's Doing the Social Commentary Everyone Else Is Too Scared to Touch
Mar 30, 2026
BBT #10 | Owning the Strait, $4 Gas, and Nobody Warned You About the Job Market
Mar 30, 2026
BBT #09 Snippet | AI Isn't Coming for Your Job — It's Coming for Your Salary
Mar 27, 2026
BBT #09 Snippet | Your Vote Is Worth More Than You Think — Especially Right Now
Mar 26, 2026
BBT #09 Snippet | The S&P Is Down 15%, the Russell Is in Correction & Nobody Is Coming to Save You
Mar 25, 2026
BBT #09 Snippet | Meta Is Cutting 20% of Its Workers to Pay for AI — And the Stock Went UP
Mar 24, 2026
BBT #09 | Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia, AI Is Replacing Your Job, and Your Portfolio Is on Fire
Mar 23, 2026
BBT #08 Snippet | The "Eye Test" is Dead (And Here’s Why)
Mar 17, 2026
BBT #08 Snippet | Finding Your Purpose Outside of Your 9-to-5 Career
Mar 15, 2026
BBT #08 | Success, Loneliness & The Performance: What Nobody's Saying
Mar 15, 2026
BBT #07 | The $94K Debt Trap: Corporate Theater & The Friendship Recession
Feb 23, 2026
BBT #06 | Why Schools Don't Teach Finance: The $100K Question
Feb 16, 2026
BBT #05 | They're Getting Rich Off Your Clicks — And You're Getting Nothing
Feb 07, 2026
BBT #04 | Visibility Isn't Value: The Leverage Shift Nobody Talks About
Jan 31, 2026
BBT #03 | The Post-College Financial Blueprint
Jan 24, 2026
BBT #02 | OpenAI Ads, Google, and Geopolitical Market Trends
Jan 17, 2026
BBT #01 Snippet | OpenAI Just Put Ads on AI — And Markets Don't Care
Jan 13, 2026
BBT #01 | We Got In The Room. Now What?
Jan 10, 2026