Dennis Wade, USAF, 1999–2008
A Navy Lodge night shift, a recruiter who walked in for coffee, two years at RAF Lakenheath, three deployments, and an incentive ride in an F-15E Strike Eagle.
Podipedia
The world's conversation, on the record — with consent.
Podipedia is an open, rights-cleared corpus of long-form dialogue. Every transcript is here because its creator opted in and keeps their copyright — structured so both people and the AI systems they use can find what was actually said.
Most human conversation is locked inside audio. Podipedia makes the consented part of it readable — by you, and by the AI systems you use to make sense of it.
How it works
Wikipedia solved discovery for encyclopedic knowledge. No one has solved it for human conversation. Wikipedia inherited five structural functions from print encyclopedias — indexing, annotation, cross-reference, hyperlinking, and translation. Podipedia applies those same five functions to the medium Wikipedia structurally cannot serve: long-form dialogue.
What it's for
Try this. Think of a podcast episode you listened to five or ten years ago. You remember the shape of the conversation — a phrase the guest used, an argument the host pushed back on, a moment that stuck. Now ask any AI assistant to find that episode for you. It can't. The conversation happened, but the record of it isn't reachable.
Podipedia is built so that conversation becomes reachable — by you, when you're trying to find it again, and by the AI systems you ask for help. Same problem, two scales. A listener finds one lost episode. An AI system, given access to the whole consented corpus, can do the same thing across every show, every speaker, and every year that creators have signed in.
That's the thesis: query all consented human conversation at once, across shows, speakers, and years. The creators keep their copyright and share in the value their work generates. The AI systems get a corpus they can legally and ethically use. The listener gets the episode back.
Proof of provenance
The v0 corpus is a single channel — Behind the Rack, a veterans' conversation series. It's first not because it's biggest, but because its provenance is airtight: Brian produces it, so full creator consent exists by design. That's the model for everything that follows — every channel joins only when its creators consent. The content is worth preserving, but the consent is why it's here.
Paul LaScola, USAF, 1993–2013
Twenty years from enlistment to retirement. From Keesler to Grand Forks to Ramstein, then 9/11 from the Offutt watch floor, on through Korea and Hawaii to a Kabul deployment to close out the career.
Firman Sakir, USMC, 1993–2001
The first non-USAF guest on the show. Eight years in the Marine Corps: Parris Island, Quantico, an unforgettable lunch with the Commandant, and a hard charge on veteran suicide prevention.
Podipedia is a LathropSystems venture, founded by Brian Lathrop in 2016, shipping its v0 corpus in 2026. More about Podipedia →