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#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung
17 september 2026
Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry. Lees meer
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(00:00) – Introduction
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(08:10) – Crisis in Psychiatry
(37:48) – Categories of Mental Illness
(45:07) – Asylums, Eugenics, and the Nazis
(57:13) – The Ice Pick Lobotomy
(1:03:26) – Malaria “Cure” for Syphilis
(1:21:42) – Insulin Coma Therapy
(1:29:34) – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
(1:49:03) – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
(2:06:35) – Freud and Psychoanalysis
(2:36:30) – WWII and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
(2:57:04) – Antipsychotics
(3:20:24) – Antidepressants
(3:33:18) – Future of Psychiatry
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#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
26 augustus 2026 · 5 uur 22 min
DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Lees meer
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(08:56) – Programming with AI agents
(24:14) – How software will change
(33:30) – AI impact on open source
(43:21) – Building Omarchy Linux distro
(53:05) – Vibe coding vs agentic engineering
(1:06:06) – The end of manual programming
(1:16:24) – Advice for programmers
(1:28:31) – Surviving Internet Hate
(1:37:46) – Programming setup for AI Agents
(1:50:11) – Obsessing about speed
(2:13:06) – Voice prompting vs typin…
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#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football
12 augustus 2026
Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available on YouTube. Here, only the English audio is available. We worked hard to make it enjoyable to listen to, by carefully dubbing the translation using voice-cloning, as we’ve done for previous foreign-language podcasts. Lees meer
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(01:29) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:24) – Why Dagestan produces so many great fighters
(18:31) – History of Dagestan warrior culture
(27:51) – Hard training in the mountain…
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#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
28 juli 2026 · 3 uur 53 min
Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Lees meer
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Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (book): https://amzn.to/4fdrbD5
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten (book): https://amzn.to/4wFxk1X
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(00:00) – Introduction
(00:07) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:36) – What caused the Civil War?
(18:33) – Slavery
(46:07) – Lincoln
(1:01:03) – Grant vs Lee
(1:09:57) – Could the Civil War have been avoided?
(1:19:23) – The bloodiest war in US history
(1:36:31) – Ho…
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#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires
30 juni 2026
Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Lees meer
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(00:11) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:45) – The Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire
(12:42) – 2,200 Years of Roman History
(33:06) – Power, violence, and civil war
(54:20) – Edict of Caracalla
(1:07:17) – Crisis of the Third Century
(1:21:45) – Constantine and the new Roman Empire
(1:33:46) – Chri…
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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
29 mei 2026 · 3 uur 2 min
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Lees meer
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(08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature
(23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity
(40:31) – Electroweak force
(52:13) – How particle colliders work
(1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery
(1:20:35) – Theory of everything
(1:50:20) – Physics of empty space
(1:57:45) – Antimatter
(2:18:35) – Dark energy
(2:22:23) – Dar…
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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
7 mei 2026 · 4 uur 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X. Lees meer
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Jean-Baptiste’s Website: https://jbkempf.com/
Jean-Baptiste’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbkempf/
Jean-Baptiste’s GitHub: https://github.com/jbkempf
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(10:48) – Weirdest things VLC opens
(15:12) – How video playback works
(24:33) – Video codecs and containers
(35:20) – FFmpeg explained
(56:20) – Linus Torvalds
(1:00:59) – Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free
(1:15:17) – FFmpe…
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#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
9 april 2026 · 2 uur 10 min
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Lees meer
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12 Byzantine Rulers Podcast : https://12byzantinerulers.com/
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(08:57) – The start of the Viking Age
(18:50) – Viking military strategy, tactics & technology
(32:33) – Ragnar Lothbrok
(42:00) – The Great Heathen Army
(46:42) – Rollo and Normandy
(56:54) – Viking religion and Valhalla
(1:07:25) – Viking explorers
(1:12:33) – Vikings in North America
(1:25:55) – Vikings in the East
(1:45:33) – Byzantine Empire
(1:54:17) – History and human nature
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#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
23 maart 2026
Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Lees meer
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(06:34) – Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering
(09:20) – How Jensen runs NVIDIA
(28:41) – AI scaling laws
(43:41) – Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws
(45:25) – Supply chain
(47:20) – Memory
(53:25) – Power
(58:45) – Elon and Colossus
(1:02:13) – Jensen’s approach to engineering and leadership
(1:07:38) – China
(1:15:51) – TSMC and Taiwan
(1:21:06) – NVIDIA’s moat
(1:26:4…
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#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
11 maart 2026
Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Kintsugiyama – available to wishlist on Steam today, with alpha later in March. Lees meer
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(10:47) – Early games: Pac-Man, Zork, Doom, Quake
(25:12) – Writing career – 170 rejection letters
(40:45) – EverQuest obsession
(53:43) – Getting hired at Blizzard
(1:09:11) – Lowest point in Jeff’s life
(1:15:16) – One of Us
(1:19:33) – Early Blizzard culture
(1:39:15) – Building World of Warcraft
(1:56:59) – How WoW changed video games
(2:14:21) – Single-player vs Multi-player
(2:35:15) – How Blizzard made great video games
(3:01:04) – Online toxicity
(3:08:38) – Why Titan failed
(3:25:48) – Overwatch in six weeks
(3:52:46) …
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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
1 maart 2026
Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. Lees meer
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(09:17) – Guitar solos
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(14:48) – Bebop jazz
(19:00) – Perfect pitch vs relative pitch
(23:37) – Learning to play guitar
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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
12 februari 2026
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Lees meer
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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
1 februari 2026
Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of The RLHF Book. Sebastian Raschka is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch). Lees meer
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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
13 januari 2026 · 3 uur 14 min
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Lees meer
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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
31 december 2025
Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. And he has a great blog called Infinitely More. Lees meer
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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
12 december 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. Lees meer
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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
30 november 2025
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Lees meer
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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
17 november 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. Lees meer
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
31 oktober 2025 · 2 uur 54 min
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. Lees meer
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
14 oktober 2025 · 2 uur 49 min
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. Lees meer
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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
1 oktober 2025 · 4 uur 43 min
Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. Lees meer
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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
19 september 2025 · 4 uur 31 min
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. Lees meer
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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
4 september 2025 · 3 uur 42 min
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. Lees meer
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#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
30 augustus 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. Lees meer
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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
24 augustus 2025 · 10 uur 35 min
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. Lees meer
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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
13 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 57 min
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. Lees meer
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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
1 augustus 2025 · 4 uur 40 min
Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Lees meer
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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
23 juli 2025 · 2 uur 35 min
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. Lees meer
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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
12 juli 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. Lees meer
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#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
27 juni 2025 · 4 uur 11 min
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. Lees meer
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#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
15 juni 2025 · 3 uur 24 min
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. Lees meer
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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
5 juni 2025 · 2 uur 18 min
Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. Lees meer
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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
25 mei 2025 · 3 uur 31 min
James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Lees meer
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#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain
20 mei 2025 · 2 uur 27 min
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. Lees meer
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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
6 mei 2025 · 3 uur 7 min
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves. Lees meer
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#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming
30 april 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. Lees meer
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#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao
25 april 2025 · 3 uur 14 min
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China. Lees meer
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#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking
17 april 2025 · 3 uur 35 min
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. Lees meer
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#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism
9 april 2025 · 3 uur 27 min
Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast. Lees meer
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#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza
30 maart 2025 · 3 uur 16 min
Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds. Lees meer
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#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
26 maart 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. Lees meer
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#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
22 maart 2025 · 5 uur 30 min
ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it. Lees meer
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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
16 maart 2025 · 3 uur 26 min
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. Lees meer
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#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
3 februari 2025 · 5 uur 16 min
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. Lees meer
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#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
26 januari 2025 · 3 uur 57 min
Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Lees meer
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#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
19 januari 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. Lees meer
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(10:05) – Milton Friedman
(24:58) – The Great Depression
(39:15) – Schools of economic thought
(50:22) – Keynesian economics
(58:10) – Laissez-faire
(1:06:00) – Friedrich Hayek
(1:11:18) – Money and monetarism
(1:26:03) – Stagflation
(1:30:56) – Moral case for capitalism
(1:34:53) – Freedom
(1:39:51) – Ethics of competition
(1:43:37) – Win-win solutions
(1:45:26) – Corruption
(1:47:51) – Government intervention
(1:54:10) – Conservatism
(2:00:33) – Donald Trump
(2:03:09) – Inflation
(2:07:38) – DOGE
(2:12:58) – Javier Milei
(2:18:03) – Richard Nixon
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#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
6 januari 2025 · 3 uur 13 min
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. Lees meer
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(30:06) – World War II
(46:54) – Invasion on Feb 24, 2022
(53:30) – Negotiating Peace
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(1:26:39) – Sitting down with Putin and Trump
(1:46:09) – Compromise and leverage
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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
22 december 2024 · 3 uur 39 min
Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations. Lees meer
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(31:04) – Biosphere
(34:02) – Technosphere
(38:17) – Emergence of intelligence
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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
8 december 2024 · 3 uur 40 min
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 Lees meer
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(25:54) – History of Scots-Irish
(32:32) – Biden
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#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
20 november 2024 · 2 uur 9 min
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish. Lees meer
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(14:44) – Economic freedom
(20:09) – Anarcho-capitalism
(30:02) – Presidency and reforms
(49:22) – Poverty
(55:54) – Corruption
(1:04:32) – Freedom
(1:18:43) – Elon Musk
(1:24:11) – DOGE
(1:26:13) – Donald Trump
(1:32:13) – US and Argentina relations
(1:39:22) – Messi vs Maradona
(1:48:16) – God
(1:50:22) – Elvis and Rolling Stones
(1:54:02) – Free market
(2:01:03) – Loyalty
(2:03:40) – Advice for young people
(2:05:06) – Hope for Argentina
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