Official cover art for The Builders with Walter Isaacson: an illustrated globe with rockets and satellites
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Walter Isaacson sits down with Elon Musk for the premiere of The Builders with Walter Isaacson, a new series created by media company Kaleidoscope1 and published with iHeartPodcasts.3 The first episode premieres October 20.2

Tuesday, Oct 20

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Also on Apple Podcasts, iHeart and Omny.

What to listen for

  • AI and robots. Musk tells Isaacson, as reported by Axios: The only way we're going to solve the national debt is with AI and robots.1
  • The engineer. Isaacson tells Axios: Musk is an amazing engineer who is pushing us forward with Starship, Starlink, Neuralink, and autonomous EVs.1
  • Why the series exists. Isaacson told Axios he wanted to press the builders of the AI age on its dangers and hear, in their own voices, what motivates them.1

Later in the series

Conversations with Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Fei-Fei Li, and Dario and Daniela Amodei1, plus Mustafa Suleyman, per the show description.3

Sources
  1. Axios, Mike Allen, Oct 17, 2026
  2. Kaleidoscope: The Builders with Walter Isaacson
  3. The Builders show page (Omny)

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