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#247 Who Will Win the Global AI Race? with Anton Shenk

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#246 Could AI Trigger the Next Global Crisis? with Dr. Stephen Casper

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#245 When AI Agents Go Rogue with Dr. Ian Reynolds

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#244 Finding Meaning Beyond Fame and Success with Simon Ward

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#243 The Sound of the 60s with Steve Barri

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#242 The Future of Education and AI with Dr. Daniel Greco

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#241 College Football Then and Now with Todd Reesing

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#240 The History and Transformation of College Sports in America

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#239 The Future of AI with Dr. Sean O hEigeartaigh

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#238 Will Humanity Ever Be the Same After AI?

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#237 Limiting the Influence of Money in Politics with Jeff Clements

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#236 Does Money Rule the World?

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#235 The Wow! Signal at 50: Revisiting a Cosmic Mystery with Dr. Abel Mendez

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#234 Beyond Earth: Exoplanets and Habitability with Dr. Eliza Kempton

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#233 Are We Alone in the Universe?

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#232 The Importance of Constitutional Courage with Jamie Neikrie

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#231 Using History to Seek Truth

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#230 Exploring the Belief in Ghosts with Ben Radford

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#229 Should You Believe in the Supernatural?

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#228 The Future of Freedom in America with Sabrina Schaeffer

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#227 What Does It Mean to Be Free?

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#226 Music for the Animals with Plumes

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#225 How Will History Remember Our Treatment of Animals?

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#224 Working Across the Aisle with Rep. Don Bacon

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#223 Is Bipartisanship Still Possible in America?

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#222 The Early Universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel

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#221 Does Anyone Know Why the Universe Exists?

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#220 How Learning History Can Change Your Life

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#219 Becoming the Voice of Pokémon with Jason Paige

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#218 The History of Television Theme Songs

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#217 Chasing Dreams and Making Music History with Paul Durham

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#216 2000s Nostalgia

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#215 Sporting KC History with Matt Besler

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#214 The History of Soccer in America

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#212 The History of Dead and Endangered Languages

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#213 The Quest to Save Scottish Gaelic with Prof. Will Lamb

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#211 An Inspiring Hockey Story with Rob O'Gara

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#210 The History of Ice Hockey

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#209 A Historical Perspective on the Future of America

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#208 What America Can Learn from the Roman Republic with Dr. Jason Schlude

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#207 Lessons from the History of Democracy

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#206 Perspectives on American Democracy with Reed Galen

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#205 Democracy in America: Lessons from History

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#204 A Look at the Republican Party’s History with Susan Molinari

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#203 How Political Alignments Have Changed in America

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#202 Legal and Historical Views on Treason in Early America with Carlton Larson

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#201 How Treason Has Been Defined in U.S. History

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#200 A Historian's Experiences in the Cold War Era with Dr. Robert Baumann

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#199 The History of Uncertain Times

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#198 Dog Intelligence with Vanessa Woods

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#197 The History of Dogs

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#196 Presidential Controversies in American History with Dr. Kathryn Brownell

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#195 Political Statements and Controversy in U.S. History

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#194 Political Psychology with Dr. Christopher Federico

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#193 Voting Participation in American History

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#192 Finding Your Place in Music History with Tony Scalzo

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#191 Remembering 90s Music with JR Richards

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#190 Pop Culture in the 1990s

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#189 A Historical Look at Reproductive Policy in the U.S. with Jessica Waters

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#188 Understanding Major Supreme Court Decisions in American History

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#187 The American Political System with Governor Christine Todd Whitman

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#186 Presidential Power and Its Challenges in American History

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#185 Astrophysics and Free Will with Dr. Charles Liu

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#184 The Historical Philosophies That Made Us

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#183 The Rural Voter with Dr. Nicholas Jacobs

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#182 The History of Taking American Voters for Granted

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#181 1980s Music with Robert Holmes

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#180 1980s Nostalgia

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#179 The Animal That Doesn't Age with Dr. Daniel Martinez

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#178 The Historical Quest for Immortality

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#177 Rising Anxiety in America with Dr. Camilo Ortiz

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#176 The History of Mental Disorders

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#175 The Bipartisan Problem of Misinformation with Dr. Dominik Stecula

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#174 The History of Americans Supporting Authoritarians

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#173 Why Organizations Have Crises with Edward Segal

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#172 The History of the Rich and Influential

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#171 Drug Cartels in Mexico with Dr. Valentin Pereda

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#170 The History of the Illegal Drug Trade

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#169 Why Crimes Go Unsolved with Jeff Asher

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#168 The History of Crime

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#167 The History of the Conflict in Ukraine with Ambassador William Taylor

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#166 The History of False Flag Operations

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#165 A Historical Look at U.S.-Russia Relations with Ambassador Steven Pifer

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#164 Historical Perspectives on Appeasement

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#163 Paranormal Beliefs and Sleep Paralysis with Dr. Chris French

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#162 The History of Sleep

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#161 The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity with Dr. Os Schmitz

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#160 The History of Mass Extinctions

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#159 The Causes of Poverty in Africa with Enoch Aikins

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#158 The History of Poverty

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#157 Horseshoe Crabs with Dr. Russell Bicknell

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#156 The History of Living Fossils

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#155 The World of Parasites with Dr. Laura Knoll

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#154 The History of Parasites

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#153 Homo sapiens and Drugs with Dr. Keith Humphreys

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#152 The History of Drug Addiction

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#151 The Politics of WikiLeaks with Paul Hare

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#150 The History of Whistleblowers

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#149 Pseudoscience in the Modern World with Dr. Raywat Deonandan

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#148 The History of Rejecting Science