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Depends on the Context

Avi Lichtschein

Depends on the Context is a podcast about whatever seems interesting enough to explore. Hosted by Avi Lichtschein, there’s no niche, no grand unifying theme, and no promise that one episode will have anything to do with the next.

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41 episodes

  1. Who Still Watches The Simpsons? & The Art of Making Crossword Puzzles — with Yoni Glatt 38:59
  2. Can AI Pass a Semicha Exam? | HalachaBench 34:55
  3. Lost Tribes, Amar’e Stoudemire & the Knesset — with R' Harry Rozenberg 41:06
  4. The $18,000 Gamble: How Winning Jet.com's Contest in 2015 Led to a Fortune 13:50
  5. Inside YUTorah: AI, Lost Recordings, and the Future of Torah Learning — with Robert Shur 31:02
  6. From SocialRank to SocialCrank: A Startup’s Second Life — with Alex Taub 19:24
  7. Card Heist, Old Dreams, Evolution & Shenanigans — with Aryeh Buchsbayew 31:40
  8. Davidi Jonas: From Practicing Rabbi to a $3.1 Billion Exit 1:29:57
  9. Remembering Babi Yaya z"l 22:00
  10. I Spent $1,377.90 on 340ish Peppa Pig Toys (That My Kids Never Asked For) 13:20
  11. Ami Kozak on Comedy, Conviction and Becoming a Public Voice 33:38
  12. Hillel Fuld Became a Major Force in Israeli Tech - Then October 7 Gave It All a New Purpose 23:54
  13. The Company She Needed Didn’t Exist: So She Built Winnie — Sara Mauskopf 45:08
  14. Turning 40 — A Voice Note to My Kinderlach 15:53
  15. 🎙️ The Valuable Real Estate Hiding in Plain Sight — with Rafi Katz 28:32
  16. 25 years since Uncle Ari was killed on 9/11 — a conversation with my brother 34:08
  17. Ms. Rachel Put Her Daughter Next to Mine on the Swings — So I Brought Up Israel. 14:24
  18. 🎙️ Wheelchairs, Medicare, & the Moat AI Can't Solve — Natan Wise, Conduit Health 40:36
  19. "Hey what Phish song am I 'playing' now?" (no instruments, just voices) 28:56
  20. 🎙️ The Golden Age of Coding — Blake Johnson 34:45
  21. Remembering Paula Falkenstein z״l (with Noah Falkenstein) 44:54
  22. 🎙️ Healthcare's Incentive Problem (with Chris Look) 26:41
  23. Phish in Five: Recapping Night 5's Instant Classic (7.29.26) 21:48
  24. 🎙️ Most Ecommerce Brands Don't Know Their Customers | Dov Quint (OuterSignal) 33:53
  25. 🎙️ The End of the Billable Hour? What AI Means for Big Law 31:30
  26. 22 Years of "The Annual NBA Draft Call" with The Siz 34:16
  27. The 2026 NBA Champion New York Knicks — feat. Daniel Shabtai 54:24
  28. 🎙️ The Forward Deployed Engineer - Explained Through Star Wars 12:03
  29. Using AI to Bring Parsha to Life for My Kids 7:09
  30. The Time I (Kind Of) Jammed with Mike Gordon 8:56
  31. Thank You Hashem for TYH! 14:25
  32. Spock’s Brain: Catching a Lifelong Bustout 33:22
  33. I love Phish- but don't need to see shows like I used to 9:50
  34. BSD: it's almost time for #3! 7:31
  35. Zoran Mamdani & the Coming Chill for Jews in America 10:45
  36. Unlocking Audio Torah 9:18
  37. 3 quick takeaways from my trip to israel 6:23
  38. Building an October 7 Chrome Extension 8:15
  39. The Annual Call 8:09
  40. JQWhy: When Anti-Zionism Hijacks Inclusion 6:03
  41. Social Hysteria, Instant Target 5:19