How We Got Here with NLW
- Episodes
- 5
- Released
- weekly
- Latest episode
- Nov 12, 2026
About the podcast
For people who want to understand everything. Every week, NLW takes something about right now that doesn’t seem to make sense and explains, in about an hour, how we got here. Why tech went from America’s most trusted industry to one of its least. Why every phone has a sportsbook on it. Why so many people you know are on GLP-1s. Why we’ve been scared of AI for as long as we’ve had computers. The answers run through economics, politics, culture and technology, and they’re almost always more interesting than the version you’ve been told.
Episodes 5
Counterpoint: How Tech Lost America
Is the tech backlash really about AI, the media, or Trump? The first Counterpoint answers listeners’ best arguments against How Tech Lost America, plus the charge that a history show has to take a side.Listen …
Show notes
Is the tech backlash really about AI, the media, or Trump? The first Counterpoint answers listeners’ best arguments against How Tech Lost America, plus the charge that a history show has to take a side.
Listen to the original "How Tech Lost America":
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b6YjM8bzfGWR4fq06r7f0?si=2CdCGDloS0yMU2LS7IBhiA
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-tech-lost-america/id6822359990?i=1000798183915
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How We Got Here with NLW is the deep-dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomena came to be. New episodes every Monday.
Think I missed something? Tell me: https://howwegothere.com/counterpoint - The best responses become a Counterpoint follow-up episode.
Follow, rate, and review the show:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV
Connect with How We Got Here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HWGHpodcast
X: https://x.com/hwghshow
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/howwegothere/
Also from NLW: The AI Daily Brief, the daily AI news podcast: https://aidailybrief.ai
How Gambling on Everything From Our Phones Became Normal
In 2024, traders bet about $3.7 billion on a single prediction market about who would win the presidency, reviving a kind of wagering that had all but vanished from American life for most of a century. This is …
Show notes
In 2024, traders bet about $3.7 billion on a single prediction market about who would win the presidency, reviving a kind of wagering that had all but vanished from American life for most of a century. This is the story of how gambling went from a sin and a crime to something people do on their phones on everything from elections to the weather, without the public ever deciding it should.
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How We Got Here with NLW is the deep-dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomena came to be. New episodes every Monday.
Think I missed something? Tell me: https://howwegothere.com/counterpoint - The best responses become a Counterpoint follow-up episode.
Follow, rate, and review the show:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV
Connect with How We Got Here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HWGHpodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/howwegothere/
Also from NLW: The AI Daily Brief, the daily AI news podcast: https://aidailybrief.ai
How We Made the Wrong Things Cheap
Since 2000, TVs have gotten 98% cheaper while hospital stays, college tuition and child care have more than doubled. Here's how that happened, and why so many Americans now think the economy is rigged against …
Show notes
Since 2000, TVs have gotten 98% cheaper while hospital stays, college tuition and child care have more than doubled. Here's how that happened, and why so many Americans now think the economy is rigged against them.
Read the Companion Essay - https://howwegothere.com/episodes/the-wrong-abundance/
Listen to Ep. 1: How Tech Lost America - https://howwegothere.com/episodes/how-tech-lost-america/
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How We Got Here with NLW is the deep-dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomena came to be. New episodes every Monday.
Think I missed something? Tell me: https://howwegothere.com/counterpoint - The best responses become a Counterpoint follow-up episode.
Follow, rate, and review the show:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV
Connect with How We Got Here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HWGHpodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/howwegothere/
Also from NLW: The AI Daily Brief, the daily AI news podcast: https://aidailybrief.ai
How Tech Lost America
In just over a year, opposition to local data centers went from an even split to 75 percent, and much of that anger was inherited. This is the story of how tech went from America's most trusted industry to a …
Show notes
In just over a year, opposition to local data centers went from an even split to 75 percent, and much of that anger was inherited. This is the story of how tech went from America's most trusted industry to a symbol of people's anxieties about wealth and power, and where we go from here.
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How We Got Here with NLW is the deep-dive story of how today's most important trends, events, and phenomena came to be. New episodes every Monday.
Read the companion essay: https://howwegothere.com
Think I missed something? Tell me: https://howwegothere.com/counterpoint - The best responses become a Counterpoint follow-up episode.
Follow, rate, and review the show:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV
Connect with How We Got Here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HWGHpodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/howwegothere/
Also from NLW: The AI Daily Brief, the daily AI news podcast: https://aidailybrief.ai
Introducing How We Got Here
Introducing How We Got Here, a new show from AI Daily Brief host Nathaniel Whittemore (NLW). It's a show for people who want to understand everything. How We Got Here explains the present by telling the full …
Show notes
Introducing How We Got Here, a new show from AI Daily Brief host Nathaniel Whittemore (NLW). It's a show for people who want to understand everything.
How We Got Here explains the present by telling the full story of how it got this way. Each episode takes one important current trend or phenomenon and in about an hour, traces it back through the economics, politics, technology and culture that produced it.
It starts October 26 with How Tech Lost America, a deep dive on how tech went from the most trusted industry in the USA to something that everyone is mad at for some reason or another.
New episodes every Monday.
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