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#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux August 26, 2026
#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football August 12, 2026
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee July 28, 2026
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires June 30, 2026
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln May 29, 2026
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet May 6, 2026
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age April 9, 2026
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution March 23, 2026
#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming March 11, 2026
#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music March 1, 2026
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger February 12, 2026
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI February 1, 2026
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle January 13, 2026
#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins December 31, 2025
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths December 12, 2025
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life November 30, 2025
#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy November 17, 2025
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming October 31, 2025
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex October 14, 2025
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature October 1, 2025
#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA September 19, 2025
#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park September 4, 2025
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories August 29, 2025
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism August 13, 2025
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire August 1, 2025
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games July 23, 2025
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting July 12, 2025
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East June 26, 2025
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI June 15, 2025
#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet June 5, 2025
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles May 24, 2025
#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain May 20, 2025
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions May 5, 2025
#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming April 30, 2025
#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao April 24, 2025
#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking April 17, 2025
#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism April 9, 2025
#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza March 30, 2025
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE March 26, 2025
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace March 16, 2025
#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America January 26, 2025
#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom January 19, 2025
#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom January 6, 2025
#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life December 22, 2024
#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics December 8, 2024
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption November 20, 2024
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity November 11, 2024
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies October 30, 2024
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview October 23, 2024
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History October 16, 2024
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning October 11, 2024
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI October 6, 2024
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America September 30, 2024
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War September 25, 2024
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler September 20, 2024
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome September 12, 2024
#442 – Donald Trump Interview September 3, 2024
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism August 30, 2024
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life August 20, 2024
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling August 14, 2024
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 July 21, 2024
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life July 2, 2024
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships June 28, 2024
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet June 19, 2024
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens June 13, 2024
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life June 5, 2024
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI June 2, 2024
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories May 25, 2024
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God May 15, 2024
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens April 22, 2024
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset April 20, 2024
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs April 17, 2024
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones April 13, 2024
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame April 5, 2024
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex April 2, 2024
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs March 29, 2024
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck March 25, 2024
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy March 22, 2024
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI March 18, 2024
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris March 14, 2024
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family March 10, 2024
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI March 7, 2024
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War March 4, 2024
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom February 27, 2024
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics February 16, 2024
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI March 25, 2023
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality September 17, 2022
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets August 4, 2022
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation July 29, 2022
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence August 8, 2021
#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano June 16, 2021
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks May 1, 2021
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning May 8, 2020
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning May 5, 2020
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI September 14, 2019
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence July 1, 2019
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror November 29, 2018
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