Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast

By: Lex Fridman

Language: en-US

Categories: Technology, Science, Society, Culture, Philosophy

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
Dec 12, 2025

Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He specializes in reading and interpreting cuneiform inscriptions, including tablets from Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian contexts. He became widely known for studying a tablet with a Mesopotamian flood story that predates the biblical Noah narrative, which he presented in his book “The Ark Before Noah” and in a documentary that involved building a circular ark based on the tablet’s technical instructions.
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Duration: 00:00:00
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Nov 30, 2025

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.
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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
Nov 17, 2025

David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028.
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Oct 31, 2025

Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games.
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Oct 14, 2025

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality.
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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Oct 01, 2025

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram.
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Duration: 04:42:37
#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Sep 19, 2025

Norman Ohler is a historian and author of “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II. It is a book that two legendary historians Ian Kershaw and Antony Beevor give very high praise for its depth of research. Norman also wrote “Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age”, and he is working on a new book “Stoned Sapiens” looking at the history of human civilization through the lens of drugs.
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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
Sep 04, 2025

Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and books on the behavior and ecology of dinosaurs. He lectures at Queen Mary University of London on topics of Ecology, Zoology, Biology, and Evolution.
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#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Aug 29, 2025

Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the Dave’s Garage YouTube channel, where he shares stories from his career, insights on software development, and deep dives into technology.
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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Aug 24, 2025

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and for the past three decades a staunch critic of U.S. military interventionism.
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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 13, 2025

Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China’s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.
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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Aug 01, 2025

Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
Jul 23, 2025

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.
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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
Jul 12, 2025

David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals that created Basecamp, HEY, & ONCE, and is a NYT-best-selling author (with Jason Fried) of 4 books: REWORK, REMOTE, Getting Real, and It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work. He is also a race car driver, including a class-winning performance at the 24 hour Le Mans race.
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#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Jun 26, 2025

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, and for the past three decades, a staunch critic of U.S. foreign policy and military interventionism. Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the Iran Breakdown podcast, and a leading expert on Iran and its nuclear program for over 20 years. This debate was recorded on Tuesday, June 24, after the Iran-Israel ceasefire was declared.
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#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
Jun 15, 2025

Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics.
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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
Jun 05, 2025

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet.
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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
May 24, 2025

James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain
May 20, 2025

Oliver Anthony is singer-songwriter who first gained worldwide fame with his viral hit Rich Men North of Richmond. He became a voice for many who are voiceless, with many of his songs speaking to the struggle of the working class in modern American life.
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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
May 05, 2025

Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves.
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#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming
Apr 30, 2025

Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and influential video games.
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#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao
Apr 24, 2025

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China.
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#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking
Apr 17, 2025

Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel, The Faculty, and his newest venture Brass Knuckle Films.
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#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism
Apr 09, 2025

Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast.
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#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza
Mar 30, 2025

Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds.
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#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
Mar 26, 2025

Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show. Derek Thompson is a writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English podcast. Together they have written a new book titled Abundance that lays out a set of ideas for the future of the Democratic party.
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#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
Mar 22, 2025

ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it.
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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
Mar 16, 2025

Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided (for the main episode video on YouTube) in English, Hindi, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed-language version, please select the Hindi (Latin) audio track. The default is English overdub.
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#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Feb 03, 2025

Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects.
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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Jan 26, 2025

Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
Jan 19, 2025

Jennifer Burns is a historian of ideas, focusing on the evolution of economic, political, and social ideas in the United States in the 20th century. She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman, and the other on Ayn Rand.
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#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
Jan 06, 2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided in English, Ukrainian, Russian, and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language. To listen to the original mixed language version, please select the English (UK) audio track audio track. The default is English overdub.
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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Dec 22, 2024

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
Dec 08, 2024

Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books
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#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
Nov 20, 2024

Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish.
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#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Nov 11, 2024

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude’s character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.
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#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
Oct 30, 2024

Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
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#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Oct 23, 2024

Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate.
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#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Oct 16, 2024

Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series “Ancient Apocalypse”, the 2nd season of which has just been released.
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#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Oct 11, 2024

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host.
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#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Oct 06, 2024

Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.
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#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Sep 30, 2024

Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the ancient history of North, Central, and South America. Ed is in part known for his groundbreaking work on ancient astronomy, mathematics, and calendar systems.
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#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
Sep 25, 2024

Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, including his latest titled Truths: The Future of America First.
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#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
Sep 20, 2024

Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
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#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Sep 12, 2024

Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.
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#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Sep 03, 2024

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US Presidential Election.
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#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 30, 2024

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#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Aug 20, 2024

Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
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#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
Aug 14, 2024

Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 million in prize money.
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#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Aug 02, 2024

Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.

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#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
Jul 21, 2024

Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on that show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
Jul 02, 2024

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#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
Jun 28, 2024

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#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
Jun 19, 2024

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#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Jun 13, 2024

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
Jun 05, 2024

Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of human nature. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Jun 02, 2024

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#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
May 25, 2024

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#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
May 15, 2024

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Support his efforts at https://junglekeepers.org

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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
Apr 22, 2024

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#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Apr 20, 2024

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#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
Apr 17, 2024

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#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Apr 13, 2024

Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon adherents to Phish heads to O Block residents and much more. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
Apr 05, 2024

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#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
Apr 02, 2024

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#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
Mar 29, 2024

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#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
Mar 25, 2024

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#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
Mar 22, 2024

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#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
Mar 18, 2024

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#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
Mar 14, 2024

Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Mar 10, 2024

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#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Mar 07, 2024

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Mar 04, 2024

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
Feb 27, 2024

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#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Feb 20, 2024

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#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Feb 16, 2024

Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
Feb 02, 2024

Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Jan 23, 2024

Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a liberal political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
Jan 17, 2024

Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author of many books, including his memoir Shark in the Housing Pool, and runs the YouTube channel Inside True Crime. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
Jan 09, 2024

Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Incubus, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, and many more. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Dec 29, 2023

Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
Dec 24, 2023

Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Dec 14, 2023

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.

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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
Dec 09, 2023

Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
Dec 03, 2023

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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
Nov 25, 2023

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
Nov 18, 2023

John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Nov 09, 2023

Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Oct 11, 2023

Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
Sep 28, 2023

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#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Sep 25, 2023

Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE – Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and a new book The Canceling of the American Mind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
Sep 18, 2023

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#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Sep 10, 2023

Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Sep 01, 2023

Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
Aug 17, 2023

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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Aug 01, 2023

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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
Jul 24, 2023

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#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Jul 17, 2023

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Jul 12, 2023

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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Jul 06, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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