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Forged in America, 62 episodes.

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E62: Silicon Valley's Biggest VCs Have Lost Their Way

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E61: Congressman Andy Barr - Can the GOP Survive After Trump?

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E60: a16z's Alex Rampell: Why the Best Founders Are Sociopaths

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E59: I Worked Inside DOGE...Here's What Really Happened.

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E58: Fintech Unicorn Dave: From $4B to $60M—and Back

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E57: Michele Tafoya: 5 Super Bowls to Senate Run

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E56: He Backed SpaceX & Figure AI Early: What He Saw

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E55: The 400K College Scam — Top Ivy League Admissions Expert Explains

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E54: Judge Roy Altman Makes the Case for America

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E53: Why Are So Many Successful People Unhappy?

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E52: The American Dream Isn’t Dead 🇺🇸

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E51: Tom Hayes Says “Berkshire Is Done” & China Might Beat USA

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E50: Tom Gimbel Says Gen Z Needs a Wake-Up Call

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E49: One Of America's Top Immigration Experts Has A Solution

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E48: Brain Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Addiction, Psychedelics & Future of Medicine

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E47: Dan Crenshaw On His Loss, Iran, Tucker & Misinformation

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E46: Pete Kadens Round 2--USA Debate Continues + Markets Debrief

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E45: A Top Surgeon on GLP-1s, Longevity, and Future of Medicine

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E44: Pete Kadens created $4B, 7,000 jobs, and wants to fix America

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E43: Morning Consult's $1B Founder on Why Entrepreneurship Is So Painful.

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E42: The Financial Guru to Billionaires On What's Coming Next

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E41: Victor Ciardelli - Angry Kid to $500B Mortgage Empire

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E40: Mitchell Green's $9B and Why Persistence Beats Intelligence

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E39: AI, Socialism & Ideas You’re Not Allowed To Question

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E38: The Venture Capitalist Advising World Leaders

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E37: Billionaire Husband & Wife Traders Built an Empire at PEAK6

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E36: Ravin & Al On Kind Lies Vs. Unkind Truths

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E35: Gay, Conservative, and 2.5B: How an Outsider Won in Silicon Valley

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E34: Inside El Salvador’s Turnaround — with Bukele’s Intelligence & Economy Ministers

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E33: Kraken Co-CEO says Crypto Is Winning- But Not Where You Think

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E32: Phil Hellmuth on Poker, Politics, Ego, and the Billionaire Boys Club

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E31: Crowdstrike Co-Founder on Iran, China & Another American Century

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E30: Alex Krys: From Holyfield & Rolling Stones to $10B of RE

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E29: Jeff Aronin: Billion-Dollar Breakthroughs—and Why Most Drugs Fail

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E28: Sam Yagan on Tinder, SparkNotes, and $50B of Deals

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E27: Alpha School's $1 Billion Bet on AI Education

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E26: Jackie Reses built a $1.5B Fintech Rocketship

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E25: Brent Beshore's Radical PE Model: No Debt, No Fees, 30 Year Holds

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E24: Black Rifle Coffee, Making $8 Billion, and Finding Jocko

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E23: Top Pod Lessons, Family Biz Fears, Sales Tips, Bias For Action

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E22: How Tony Davis Built a $13.5B Healthcare Empire

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E21: Sam Nazarian: How I built a $1.8 Billion Hospitality Empire

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E20: Iran & Midterms- Ravin, Al & Tom Gimbel Debate

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E19: Ali Hamed: From a College Dorm to $3B AUM + Mr. Beast

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E18: Future of War: Autonomous Ships & Race Against China

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E17: AI Warfare, Israel & the Future of Cyber

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E16: ZeroHash Founder: Why a Crypto Unicorn Rejected $2B

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E15: Ravin and Al on Growth, Grift, Markets, Immigration and Media Bias

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E14: Don Edwards: From Billions in Private Equity to 100,000 Students

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E13: Rahm Emanuel Will Save The Democrats

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E12: Austin Berg: How To Save Chicago and Blue Cities

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E11: Groupon's Rich Heise: He Quietly Built $35B Of Companies

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E10: Vishal Garg: Meritocracy, Masa & Better.com's $110B of Mortgages

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E9: Black Hawk Down: SEAL Team Six Leader Rick Kaiser Tells the Real Mogadishu Story

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E8: Dmitry Balyasny: Building a $30B Hedge Fund From Scratch

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E7: Trump's Populist Pivot, Social Skills Over Grades, and America’s Third Rails (Immigration, Fraud, Voter ID)

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E6: Larry Gies: Scaling Purpose to 25,000 Employees

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E5 - Ted Koenig on Deploying $100B in Private Credit

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E4: Dan Crenshaw Says Both Sides Are Lying

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E3 - Dag Kittlaus: Founding Siri Almost Killed Me

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E2 - Get the big decisions right!

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