The podcast edition "Screaming in the Cloud" features a discussion between Corey Quinn and Paul Dix about time series databases, including their importance for metrics and events data, launching products at the right time, building applications on top of time series data, creating new programming languages like Flux, and more. InfluxData's CTO Paul Dix is also mentioned as being involved in various projects such as Kapacitor, Chronograf, and InfluxDB Cloud, which are all part of the company's offerings related to time series databases.