Episodes

Aug. 2, 2024

#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink.

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July 21, 2024

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alo…

Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest compet...

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July 2, 2024

#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, a…

Ivanka Trump is a businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President of the United States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked: https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off

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June 27, 2024

#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationshi…

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex to get $350 off - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.

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June 19, 2024

#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the…

Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked: https://cloaked.

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June 13, 2024

#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence". Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.

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June 5, 2024

#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Fi…

Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of human nature. Pleas...

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June 2, 2024

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.com

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May 25, 2024

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and Fals…

Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Riverside: https://creators.riverside.

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May 15, 2024

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Trib…

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Support his efforts at https://junglekeepers.org - Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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April 22, 2024

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Hol…

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - HiddenLayer: https://hiddenlayer.com/lex - Cloaked: https://cloaked.

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April 20, 2024

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion …

Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - ZipRecruiter: https://ziprecruiter.com/lex

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April 17, 2024

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Gram…

Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.com - Listening: https://listening.

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April 13, 2024

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics &…

Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon adherents to Phish heads to O Block residents and mu...

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April 5, 2024

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Sa…

Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - AG1: https://drinkag1.com/lex to get 1 month supply of fish oil

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April 2, 2024

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Comp…

Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Riverside: https://creators.riverside.fm/LEX and use code LEX to get 30% off - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.

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March 29, 2024

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Polit…

Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Listening: https://listening.

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March 25, 2024

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, E…

Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Notion: https://notion.com/lex - AG1: https://drinkag1.

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March 22, 2024

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswel…

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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March 18, 2024

#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, …

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked: https://cloaked.

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March 14, 2024

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Be…

Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.

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March 10, 2024

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Fami…

Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings

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March 7, 2024

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Fu…

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - HiddenLayer: https://hiddenlayer.

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March 4, 2024

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, …

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Retu...

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