The Joe Reis Show
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Surviving the AI Grind: Hustle Culture, Fear, and Finding Value w/ Eric Weber (Freestyle Friday Episode)
22 mins; April 03, 2026
Why 90% of Your Data is Wasted (and How AI Reclaims It) w/ Amit Prakash
47 mins; April 02, 2026
Breaking Into Data Engineering in 2026: AI Tools, Standout Resumes, and more w/ Chris Gambill
50 mins; March 31, 2026
AI in Healthcare - The Real-World Realities w/ Gowtham Chilakapati
50 mins; March 27, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - AI Changed Everything, Except the Hard Parts
29 mins; March 27, 2026
Inside the AI "Frankenact" Disaster & The Fight for Developers w/ Jake Ward
49 mins; March 24, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - Thoughts on the Data Job Market, Going Solo, and More
26 mins; March 20, 2026
Is SaaS Cooked? Why "Local First" AI Agents Are Taking Over w/ Demetrios Brinkmann
70 hours 44 mins; March 17, 2026
The Buzzword Industrial Complex, AI Agents & The Future of Data w/ Matt Housley
47 mins; March 13, 2026
The Tech Job Market is Brutal. Is Freelancing Your Plan B? w/ Jody Hesch
53 mins; March 12, 2026
The OGs of AI Analytics: Building Data Agents Before It Was Cool w/ Paul Blankley and Ryan Janssen
52 mins; March 10, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The AI Skills and Competence Gap
18 mins; March 06, 2026
Are Software Engineers the New Data Engineers? w/ Tim Delisle & Chris Crane (514)
53 mins; March 05, 2026
The AI Orchestrator & Building Human-Machine Teams w/ Sadie St. Lawrence
44 mins; March 03, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The Great Data Reckoning
22 mins; February 27, 2026
Marketing to Developers During the AI Gold Rush w/ Prashant Sridharan
53 mins; February 26, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The Data Industry is the Definition of Insanity
15 mins; February 20, 2026
From ODBC to ADBC: Modernizing the Data Stack for AI and Analytics w/ Ian Cook
50 mins; February 17, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The State of Data Engineering in 2026, Book Writing, and More
21 mins; February 13, 2026
Vibe Coding, Agents, and The Future of Streaming Data w/ Paul Dudley and Ricky Thomas (Streamkap)
53 mins; February 11, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The SaaS Slump and the Rise of Disposable Software
26 mins; February 06, 2026
Dashboards vs. Agents: Navigating the New Era of BI and Analytics with Mike Driscoll
53 mins; February 04, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - Why AI (Might) Mean More Work, Not Less
15 mins; January 30, 2026
"I Needed to Be Back in the Game": Leaving PE & Big Tech to Build Vertical AI w/ Lak Lakshmanan
60 hours 46 mins; January 28, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The 99% of Businesses and AI, and More.
15 mins; January 23, 2026
Cory Doctorow on Enshitification, The AI Bubble, Reverse Centaurs, and The Post-American Internet
51 mins; January 21, 2026
Why Smart Ideas in Tech Keep Failing (And Why We Suck at Selling)
15 mins; January 16, 2026
Is the BI Dashboard Dead? Barry McCardel on Hex, AI Agents, and the Future of BI
46 mins; January 15, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - Status Games
11 mins; January 09, 2026
A History of Technology & Computing w/ Bill Inmon and Roger Whatley
57 mins; January 07, 2026
Live with Joe Reis - January 2026 AMA. Ontologies, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, and More
46 mins; January 03, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - The Law of Leaky Vibes, Making Your First Dollar, and More
22 mins; January 02, 2026
Freestyle Fridays - 2026 "Predictions", Kimball vs Inmon Thoughts, and More
27 mins; December 26, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Have Good Taste and Keep Building
20 mins; December 19, 2025
Bootstrapping a Data Consultancy Amidst The Great AI Grift w/ Nikhil Suresh (CEO @ Hermit Tech, Blogger)
67 hours 22 mins; December 17, 2025
The "Oh Word" - Why Ontologies Are Suddenly Popular
3 mins; December 14, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - The Kids are Alright
19 mins; December 12, 2025
The Truth About AI Agents, Hardware Wars, and Mixed Model Arts. Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley
57 mins; December 05, 2025
Data Contracts Are For Software Engineers, Not Just Data Teams w/ Mark Freeman and Chad Sanderson
49 mins; December 03, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - To Succeed in 2026, Use December Wisely!
16 mins; November 28, 2025
Why AI Agents Need a New Lakehouse. Ciro Greco (Bauplan) on “Git for Data”
53 mins; November 26, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - So You Want to Grow on Substack
27 mins; November 21, 2025
From Data Engineering to Context Engineering w/ Nick Schrock
44 mins; November 20, 2025
The 2026 Data Career Roadmap: What’s Changed? w/ Maggie Wolff
43 mins; November 18, 2025
AI Bubbles & "Vibe Coding" Dangers. Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley
56 mins; November 14, 2025
Why Most Chief Data Officers Fail w/ Malcolm Hawker
58 mins; November 13, 2025
We're Losing Our Ability to Be Human w/ AI Ethicist Cecilia Dones
56 mins; November 11, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Eroding the Edges. What Does AI Mean For Products?
17 mins; November 07, 2025
Data as the Fourth Pillar: How CDOs Can Move from "Cost Center" to "Offense" with Sujay Dutta and Siddharth Rajagopal
47 mins; November 05, 2025
The 2025 MAD Landscape w/ Matt Turck
48 mins; November 04, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - The Road Warrior. Why I Travel, Travel Tips, and More
20 mins; October 31, 2025
The Surprising Rise of FastMCP, a 1M+ Download/Day Hit w/ Jeremiah Lowin
49 mins; October 29, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Choosing Tools and Vendors, Having a Plan B, and More
25 mins; October 24, 2025
Why 90% of Data Engineers Will Never Become Leaders w/ Yordan Ivanov
52 mins; October 22, 2025
The Agentic Future: How Streaming is Evolving for AI w/ Tyler Akidau
41 mins; October 15, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Scared Money Don't Make Money
7 mins; October 10, 2025
From Dashboards to Agents: How Salesforce is Redefining Data Interaction w/ Irina Malkova
51 mins; October 08, 2025
Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley - Fivetran + dbt?, Modern Data Stack Consolidation and AI Bubbles
42 mins; October 03, 2025
The Rise of the Context Company: Reshaping Data Engineering with Saket Saurabh
48 mins; October 01, 2025
The Fundamentals of Metadata Management and Uncovering the MetaGrid w/ Ole Olesen-Bagneux
55 mins; September 24, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - My Observations on How AI Is Already Reshaping Work
12 mins; September 19, 2025
Why Your Data Project Will Fail (It's Not The Tech) w/ Remco Broekmans & Marco Wobben
78 hours 55 mins; September 17, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Givers and Takers
19 mins; September 12, 2025
A Veteran Tech Executive's Warning on AI, Greed, the Cost of Mass Layoffs w/ Wendy Turner-Williams
60 hours 21 mins; September 10, 2025
Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley - The Pedantic Layer, Frauds, and more
34 mins; September 05, 2025
The Future of AI, Data Architecture, a Life of Non-Stop Travel and Punk Rock with Stephen Brobst
47 mins; September 03, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - What's Next After AI?
21 mins; August 29, 2025
The Playbook for Building Winning Partnerships in Data & AI with Eleanor Thompson
56 mins; August 27, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - AI Televangelism
21 mins; August 22, 2025
The Insane Dangers of AI Influence Ops and More w/ Disesdi Susanna Cox
55 mins; August 20, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - AI Vibes, Sameness, and Skill Erosion
22 mins; August 15, 2025
Why AI Won't Fix Your Legacy Code & The Dangers of "Vibe Coding" w/ Marianne Bellotti
69 hours 45 mins; August 13, 2025
Freestyle Friday w/ Matt Housley - AI PhDs, Clanker Content, FoDE retrospective, and more
41 mins; August 08, 2025
Shane Gibson - The Power of the Information Product Canvas
72 hours 27 mins; August 06, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - High on Crazy Pills
21 mins; August 01, 2025
Kostas Pardalis - AI Native Data Engines
76 hours 25 mins; July 30, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Big AI, Bigger Layoffs, Same Old Problems?
22 mins; July 25, 2025
Shane Murray - The Impact of AI on Data Teams, Unstructured Data Observability, and More
52 mins; July 23, 2025
Freestyle Friday - Hedonic Treadmills, Goal-Oriented Type A Success, and Letting Go
16 mins; July 18, 2025
Madison Schott - From Analytics Engineer to Content Creator
47 mins; July 16, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - I'm Ambivalent About Vibes, The Power of No, and More
21 mins; July 11, 2025
Peter Hanssens - Building Strong Data Engineering Communities
57 mins; July 09, 2025
Aaron Neiderhiser - Creating the Future of Healthcare Analytics
42 mins; July 02, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - The End is Nigh (Again)
16 mins; June 27, 2025
Definitive Python Polars with Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp
62 hours 52 mins; June 25, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Small is the New Big, AI Native Data Architectures, and More
18 mins; June 20, 2025
Gordon Wong - The Impact of AI on Attention and Expertise, Platform Wars, and More
30 mins; June 18, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Next-Generation Data Architectures. Ramblings and Speculations.
16 mins; June 12, 2025
Zhamak Dehghani - Autonomous Data Products, Decentralized Data and AI, and More
29 mins; June 12, 2025
Matthew Scullion - The Agentic Data Engineering Team
45 mins; June 10, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - Platform or Predator?
21 mins; June 06, 2025
Svetlana Tarnagurskaja - Building a Boutique Data Consultancy
45 mins; June 05, 2025
DuckLake w/ Hannes Mühleisen - Practical Data Lunch and Learn. June 4, 2025
58 mins; June 04, 2025
Ash Smith - Data Products, Interoperability, Data Teams, and More
52 mins; June 03, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - So You Want to Work in Data? w/ Gordon Wong
30 mins; May 30, 2025
Hamilton Ulmer - Instant SQL with DuckDB/MotherDuck - Practical Data Lunch and Learn
51 mins; May 29, 2025
Gaëlle Seret - Change Management in Large Organizations
59 mins; May 28, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - AI Denialism is Holding Back the Data Industry
18 mins; May 23, 2025
Ryan Russon - Practical ML Engineering
67 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2025
Freestyle Fridays - What Does AI Do to The Craft of Dev and Engineering?
26 mins; May 16, 2025