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Freedom, desire and is consumerism modern slavery - with Kamran Changizian

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Tragic choices, The Repugnant conclusion, and Dirty Hands

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Stoicism and the myth of Sisyphus - with Shermin Kruse

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When does science cross the line into ideology and politics?

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Is Wanting Heaven Selfish? Morality, God, and the Problem of Evil with Dr Peter Kreeft

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How do we really know anything at all?

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What happens if we imagine Earth as a game?

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The Psychological Techniques Spies Use — with Trenton Miguez

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The current Landscape of Judo - with Jimmy Pedro

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Does time disprove everything in the end?

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The Mandela Effect, synchronicities, and the multiverse - with Cynthia Sue Larson

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Where are the aliens — and what does the Fermi paradox imply?

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Are we living in a simulation — and if so, should it change how we live?

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Why do some problems seem impossible to solve?

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Society, Science and Hydrogen — with Alex Tarnava

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What do we mean by 'real'?

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Why is there something rather than nothing?

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Trump, Time Travel and God: The Trump Code, Tesla & Prophecy with Troy Anderson

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What Is the Moon, Are Nuclear Weapons Fake, and Critical Thinking — with Commander Davenport

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Agenda 2030 and an Inevitable War? – with Brandon Conceicao

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Totalitarianism, Secret Societies and JFK - with Sean Stone

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Remote Viewing, Science and Philosophy with Fabian Bush

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The Secret Language of Faces with Adrianne Carter aka The Face Whisperer

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Fauci, covid and a perpetual pandemic - with Dr Peter A McCullough

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Anthropic are copying then destroying books by the millions

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Astronomy, Astrology, Flat Earth, Religion and Lies – with Santos Bonacci

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The State’s System of Control

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Living on Two Timelines — Die Tomorrow vs Live to 100

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It Should Offend You That Someone Else Could Use Your Day Better

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The Dead Sea Scrolls, Jesus, and the End Times Prophecy” with Karin Anderson

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Parkinson’s Law — Why Time Expands to Fill the Space You Give It

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A New Way to Value Businesses

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Wisdom Through Stories and Metaphors – with Tom Murphy

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The Gracies Didn’t Create the Ground System – with Chadi

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Consciousness Relativity

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The Butterfly Effect & The Tyranny of Small Decisions

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Consciousness, God and Time - With Raymond Tallis

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Parts of the Brain and Brain wave types

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Nietzsche's version of Pity - is it making you weak?

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Have humans progressed too far? - with James Van Lanen

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Thinking clearly in high pressure situations - With Trevor Fortner

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The Stranger's Advantage - Seeing What Others Can’t

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Palantir - The Company That Sees Everything

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Fate, Destiny & Divine Timing

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A BJJ Champ who says it's ok to lose - With Robert Drysdale

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Interstellar Travel, or Align with Earth Correctly- with Tom Murphy

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Reclaiming Life from Overperformance - with Pippa Grange

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Neurath’s Boat- You Can’t Start Again

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What You Can’t See From The Top - Standpoint Epistemology

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The 4 Burners Theory vs The Wheel of Life – Balance or Sacrifice?

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The Moral Weight of Artificial Minds

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45 Seconds Away From Glory with Harry Brightmore

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Psychedelics and Ayahuasca - with Simon Ruffell

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Einstein’s Time Relativity and Space-Time Continuum

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Plato Says Tyranny Is Next…

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Is Time Travel Possible? — The Bootstrap & Grandfather Paradoxes

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The Streisand Effect — Why Trying to Hide It Makes It Explode

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Failing forward with Steve Gamlin

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DARPA: The Agency That Builds The Future Before It Exists

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The Self-Signalling Problem - Every Action Votes On Your Identity

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The Elephant and The Dog — a timeless lesson on patience and delayed success

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The Bolshevik Revolution – From Coup to Catastrophe

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Is Sam Harris Wrong About Determinism?

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The Dead Internet Theory — Is Anything Online Even Real Anymore?

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Schadenfreude — Why We Secretly Enjoy Other People’s Pain

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How money really works - The Fed, Fractional Reserve, Nixon and Bretton Woods

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Libertarianism — Freedom, Responsibility, and the Tyranny of the State

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The Uploading Consciousness Problem and The Teleportation Paradox

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Is AGI Already Here? The Strange Moments AI Behaved Like It Had a Mind of Its Own

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Growing Through Rock Bottom During Covid - With Cody Burke

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The Conscious Pause

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The Philosophy of Martial Arts - With Dr Rhadi Ferguson

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The Stoned Ape Theory – Accidents May Have Accelerated Human Consciousness

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Turning Parnanoia into Pronoia - Life happening for you, not to you.

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Is It Time for a Universal Basic Income? - with Alex Kain

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Finding or 'Building' the Right Career – with Tristram Hooley

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The Trifecta of Grappling – with J FLO

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The Harmless Torturers

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Social Loafing — Why People Try Less in Groups (The Ringelmann Effect)

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CUNNINGHAM’S LAW — Why Being Wrong Gets You Heard

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Hanlon’s Razor – Stop Assuming Malice

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The False Self vs The True Self — Who Are You Really?

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Judo - A Game of Throws (and Newaza!) - With Neil Adams

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The Seduction of Victimhood – Why Power Feels Safer Than Responsibility

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Cognitive Development Stages – Are You Thinking at Your Highest Level?

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Göbekli Tepe — Advanced Society Before Agriculture?

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The Trust Game: The Psychology of Risk, Power & Human Nature

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Moral Dumbfounding: Why You Can’t justify What You “Know” Is Wrong

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The Moral Credit Card – Can Good Deeds Be Borrowed Against Future Harm?

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Predictive Programming — Conditioning the Future Before It Arrives

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INCEPTION - Why the Most Powerful Ideas Must Feel Like Your Idea

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CRISPR, Genetic Control & The Moral Limits of Editing Life

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Sales Strategies & The Convincer Number with Jed Etters

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The Liberated Soul – Free From Fear, Attachment, and Ignorance

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The Representativeness Heuristic — Why Stereotypes Fool the Mind

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Economic Collapse by Design

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The Jevons Paradox – Why Efficiency Can Backfire

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The Shirky Principle – Why Institutions Preserve the Problems They’re Meant to Solve

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Michel Foucault - invisible systems of power

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The Bobo Doll Experiment – How Humans Learn by Watching