Code and Council is a weekly podcast where two synthetic hosts — Jerry and Rachel — unravel the world’s most consequential ideas with rigor, and historical depth. Each episode weaves together landmark interviews, archival research, and expert commentary to examine how power, technology, and human behavior collide across time. From Cold War grand strategy to the rise of neural networks, from investor psychology to the birth of artificial intelligence, Code and Council traces the patterns beneath the headlines. Why did expert systems collapse while connectionism thrived? How did a 1950 policy memo quietly launch the military-industrial era? What does Charles Munger’s worldview reveal about cognition, risk, and systems thinking? This isn’t a podcast about hot takes — it’s about long arcs. Using synthetic narration, Code and Council builds from first principles, linking past and present, theory and application, philosophy and infrastructure. If you're curious about the ideas that build institutions, shape technologies, and define futures, this is your show. Intelligent but accessible, grounded yet uncanny — Code and Council is where strategic history meets machine learning, and where thought itself becomes terrain. codeandcouncil.substack.com