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What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?

By: iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.

iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

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Episodes
  • From Here We Go Again With Kal Penn: Will Technology Replace Us? with Jacob Goldstein

    From Here We Go Again With Kal Penn: Will Technology Replace Us? with Jacob Goldstein
    Mar 26 2026

    Hello What's Your Problem? listeners! We'd like to introduce you to a show we think you might like. Here We Go Again is a brand-new podcast, where actor, author, comedian, and former White House staffer Kal Penn takes today’s trends and headlines and asks: Why does history keep repeating itself?

    In this episode: A.I. is automating thousands of jobs. But humanity's fear of technology replacing us is nothing new. Journalist and podcaster Jacob Goldstein tells Kal the story of the original Luddites during the early 1800s Industrial Revolution. They talk about how technology changes, how those changes reshape our work, and who historically gets protected and who gets left behind.

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    44 mins
  • Growing New Livers to Save Lives

    Growing New Livers to Save Lives
    Mar 19 2026

    Michael Hufford is the co-founder and CEO of LyGenesis, a company working on a new treatment for end stage liver disease. Michael’s problem is this: How do grow a new liver inside the body of a sick patient?

    In this episode, Michael explains:

    • The liver's unique power of regeneration
    • The organ transplant crisis and how regeneration can help
    • The science behind using lymph nodes to grow new organs
    • The status of LyGenesis’ human trials
    • The future of regenerative medicine

    Learn more:

    • Check out LyGenesis’ website

    Connect with us:

    • Follow Jacob Goldstein on LinkedIn, X and Instagram
    • Email us at problem@pushkin.fm
    • Follow Pushkin on Instagram, LinkedIn or X
    • Listen to Jacob’s other show, Business History
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    41 mins
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