The Colin and Samir Show

Most of the internet runs on negativity.

But Yes Theory built a massive audience doing the opposite.

They’re a group of filmmakers known for traveling the world, meeting strangers, and living by one idea: “seek discomfort” the belief that the best moments in life exist outside your comfort zone

We’ve known Thomas Brag for years, watching his journey up close, and this is his third time on the show.

In this episode, we talk about the real challenge of YouTube:how do you make people care?

Virality vs. meaning, real human moments, and why authenticity might be the only edge left online.
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OpenAI just dropped $100M+ to buy a tech podcast that's only been around for 16 months. On the surface, it makes no sense. But when you look closer, this deal tells you everything about where media, marketing, and the creator economy are headed. We break down why Sam Altman called TPBN's founders "genius marketers," why storytelling is becoming the most valuable skill in tech, why live content is having a massive moment, and what this means if you're a creator building something right now.
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The first three months of 2026 revealed where the creator economy is actually headed. We broke down the three trends that defined the quarter: the livestreaming explosion and the clipping economy turning fame into an assembly line, AI video hitting mainstream audiences and getting banned at the same time, and the gamification of literally everything — from war to the Oscars. Plus, why the backlash to all of it might be the most important trend of all.
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For years, platforms have operated under one assumption:

They aren’t responsible for what happens on their apps.

This case challenges that.

A jury found YouTube and Meta negligent not for the content on their platforms, but for how those platforms are designed.

In this episode, we explore the case, the legal shift it represents, and why it may mark the beginning of a new era for the internet...one where attention comes with responsibility.
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This episode isn’t about AI tools.

It’s about what happens when content makes itself.

Adam (levy.eth) built a fully automated, AI-generated podcast about the Epstein Files. No hosts. No studio. No production team. It became the #1 podcast in the UK, beating ABC News, the BBC, and Audible — and he was doing about 5% of the work.

In this episode, Samir sits down with Adam to break down exactly how he built it, what it cost, and what the numbers look like on the other side. But the conversation quickly becomes something bigger — a real-time reckoning with what AI means for the creator economy, for the people who've spent years building audiences by hand, and for what it means to make something worth making at all.

They get into:


How Distill became the foundation for a fully autonomous podcast network


Why daily content is the stickiest product in media — and how AI is the only thing that can truly do it


The economics that are breaking open: $1 per episode, profitable at 20 listeners


What the five-minute mark tells us about where audiences are headed


Why AI won't kill creative careers — but will force creators to be radically more honest

This is one of the most important conversations we've had on the show. And it's only getting more relevant by the day.
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