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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
May 29, 2026
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.
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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
May 06, 2026
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…
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
Apr 09, 2026
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire.
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#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
Mar 23, 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.
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#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
Mar 11, 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…
#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
Feb 28, 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…
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Feb 11, 2026
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.
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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Jan 31, 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…
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Jan 13, 2026
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.
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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
Dec 31, 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…
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
Dec 12, 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…
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Nov 30, 2025
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems.
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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
Nov 17, 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.
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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Oct 31, 2025
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.
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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Oct 14, 2025
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…
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Sep 30, 2025
Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram.
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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Sep 19, 2025
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…
#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
Sep 04, 2025
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…
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Aug 29, 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…
#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Aug 23, 2025
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…
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
Aug 13, 2025
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…
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Jul 31, 2025
Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
Jul 23, 2025
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI.
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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
Jul 12, 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…
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Jun 26, 2025
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…
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
Jun 14, 2025
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…
#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
Jun 05, 2025
Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet.
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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
May 24, 2025
James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain
May 20, 2025
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…
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
May 05, 2025
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves.
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