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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:44) – Lab-leak theory
(10:51) – Gain-of-function research of viruses
(23:00) – Bioterrorism
(27:30) – Tony Fauci
(37:41) – COVID Vaccines
(43:46) – Joe Rogan
(50:49) – Variants
(55:31) – Rapid at home testing
(59:44) – Animal testing
(1:05:09) – Stepping down as director of the NIH
(1:09:03) – Barack Obama
(1:11:06) – Accelerating Medicines Partnership
(1:21:44) – Faith
(1:27:12) – Fear of death
(1:30:15) – Meaning of life
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
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