Cash, coffee and ancient instruments on WSJ Podcasts
Ludwig Göransson joins Lane Florsheim to discuss morning rituals and the unusual sounds behind his score for Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."
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Why Cash Is King in the Era of Higher Interest Rates | WSJ’s Take On the Week
Forty rented bronze gongs are an unexpected addition to a channel where bank earnings and savings yields usually do the talking. WSJ Podcasts' new Ludwig Göransson interview brings film music into a four-upload week otherwise devoted to what happens to your money.
In "Why Ludwig Göransson Keeps His Oscars on the Bottom Shelf | The Journal," Lane Florsheim explores the composer's Monday routines, from a predawn Griffith Park hike to coffee and Swedish fika. The conversation also follows his search across Europe for players of ancient instruments, including the aulos, for Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." It has drawn about 11,000 views in its opening hours and carries the channel's second-largest current flow of views.
The biggest draw remains "Why Cash Is King in the Era of Higher Interest Rates | WSJ's Take On the Week," which has now passed 100,000 views. Miriam Gottfried makes the subject personal by recalling watching her own savings-account yield rise. She and Telis Demos then bring in MaxMyInterest founder Gary Zimmerman to discuss the comfort of holding cash, deposit insurance and why banks offer different rates. Viewers are talking about inflation's effect on returns, keeping money available for mortgage payments and restrictions on withdrawals.
A separate excerpt asks "Can AI Help Your Savings Earn More Interest?" while the investor-protection upload examines a quarterly-reporting proposal with law professor Marc Steinberg.
The channel added roughly a thousand subscribers over the week. Among nearby business channels, Prof G Markets and BNN Bloomberg drew substantially larger weekly view gains. Here, the fresh interest is concentrated in two very different conversations: managing idle cash and finding sounds old enough for an ancient epic.
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The videos drawing views on WSJ Podcasts right now
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- WSJ Podcasts
- Subscribers
- 166,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 26,506
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- 4
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
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- 100,328
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