Galaxy Brain

Charlie Warzel

Booking Overview

Galaxy Brain is an intelligence-first podcast about how online life—memes, conspiracies, and AI—reshapes politics, culture, and attention. Each week, Charlie Warzel brings in credible thinkers to break down what’s real, what’s hype, and what it means for public discourse.

Metrics

Episodes: 30

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 936.0k subscribers

Instagram: 2.0M followers

30s Ad: 683 - 847, 60s Ad: 820 - 984

Contact Information

podcastproduct@theatlantic.com

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Host

Charlie Warzel - Charlie Warzel is a journalist and Atlantic contributor known for reporting and analysis on internet culture, technology, and their impact on public life. As host of Galaxy Brain, he frames big-tec...

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Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Established journalists/columnists or credible AI/technology leaders (e.g., founders of AI companies, researchers, or authors) who can translate complex tech and internet dynamics into cultural, psychological, and policy implications.

Required Achievements:

Published reporting or recognized journalism in AI/technology or internet culture, Authorship of books or widely read commentary on AI/society, Built or led an AI-related venture (e.g., detection, safety, governance tools), Frequent media appearance as a subject-matter authority

Recent Guest Discussions

Chris Hayes - Calibrating Emotional Response To Ai; AI Perception And Creative Vs. Routine Use Cases.

Kaitlyn Tiffany - Smartphone Backlash; Dumbphone Experiment; Evidence Vs. Belief About Screen-time Harm; Big-tech Legal Cases (as Context).

Max Spero - How Ai-detection Tools Work; Authenticity And Synthetic Content; Limits Of Detection As Models Improve.

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Internet Culture, Media, Attention, Authenticity, Information, Public Discourse, Technology Policy, Digital Wellbeing, Trust

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Galaxy Brain

How Dropout Cracked Internet Comedy

May 22, 2026

How do you build a streaming service from scratch? On this week’s “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel speaks with Sam Reich, the CEO of Dropout, a comedy streaming platform that’s found success eschewing the growth-at-all-costs model of the mega streamers. The two discuss the pre-YouTube days of online video and how Reich acquired Dropout, formerly known as the internet site CollegeHumor, for $0. They talk about how comedy has evolved online, how to build a cinematic universe of content, and wheth...

Chris Hayes on Calibrating Your AI Anxiety

May 15, 2026

How should you feel about the AI boom? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Chris Hayes about how to emotionally calibrate our response to this dizzying AI moment. Hayes describes why AI gives him “The Bad Feeling,” and how it led him to report on AI like an anthropologist would. The two discuss why AI is described as “the jagged frontier,” and they explore the distinction between using AI for creative thinking versus grunt work. Get more from your favorite Atlantic ...

Flipping Off Phones

May 08, 2026

On this week’s episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel talks with his Atlantic colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany about what our phones are doing to us. Tiffany recently wrote about swapping her iPhone for a flip phone as part of a movement called “Month Offline.” Kaitlyn talks through her personal experience: the joys and inconveniences of a dumbphone and the difficulty of unplugging completely. Warzel and Tiffany talk about the growing smartphone backlash, legal cases against “big tech,” and how, ...

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