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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:14) – University of Austin (UATX)
(42:09) – Sam Harris
(1:00:36) – Elon Musk
(1:08:55) – Money
(1:18:50) – Hyperinflation
(1:24:15) – Bitcoin
(1:40:57) – Ethereum and smart contracts
(1:49:43) – Worst disasters in human history
(2:11:41) – How history will remember the current pandemic
(2:25:16) – Hope for the future
(2:33:46) – Love
(2:40:24) – Meaning of life
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
#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
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