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#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

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#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

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#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

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#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

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#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

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#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

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#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

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#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

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#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

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#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

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#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

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#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

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#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

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#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

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#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

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#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

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#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

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#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East

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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

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#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

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#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

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#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions

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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

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#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death

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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

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#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

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#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

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#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI

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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

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#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

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#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

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#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

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#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

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#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System