Lex Fridman Podcast
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#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to Presiden...
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Oct 11 2023 3h 54m
Chapter 1 7 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 2 mins
Hamas attack on IsraelChapter 3 6 mins
Response to attackChapter 4 2 mins
History of HamasChapter 5 1 min
IranChapter 6 6 mins
Al-Aqsa MosqueChapter 7 8 mins
Abraham AccordsChapter 8 8 mins
Trump vs Biden on Middle EastChapter 9 4 mins
Israeli-Saudi NormalizationChapter 10 4 mins
How the Israel-Gaza war endsChapter 11 3 mins
Benjamin NetanyahuChapter 12 2 mins
Palestinian supportChapter 13 3 mins
Trump 2024Chapter 14 6 mins
Human natureChapter 15 8 mins
Geopolitics and negotiationChapter 16 8 mins
North KoreaChapter 17 6 mins
Personalities of leadersChapter 18 5 mins
Government bureaucracyChapter 19 9 mins
Accusations of collusion with RussiaChapter 20 5 mins
IvankaChapter 21 8 mins
FatherChapter 22 8 mins
Money and powerChapter 23 9 mins
Trust and betrayalChapter 24 22 mins
Mohammed bin SalmanChapter 25 14 mins
Israeli–Palestinian peace processChapter 26 10 mins
Abraham Accords and Arab-Israeli normalizationChapter 27 5 mins
Donald TrumpChapter 28 5 mins
War in UkraineChapter 29 7 mins
Vladimir PutinChapter 30 18 mins
ChinaChapter 31 6 mins
Learning processChapter 32 2 mins
Hope for the future
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this ...
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Sep 28 2023 1h 12m
Chapter 1 8 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 14 mins
MetaverseChapter 3 14 mins
Quest 3Chapter 4 4 mins
Nature of realityChapter 5 16 mins
AI in the MetaverseChapter 6 5 mins
Large language modelsChapter 7 6 mins
Future of humanity
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amen...
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Sep 25 2023 2h 40m
Chapter 1 10 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 14 mins
Cancel culture & freedom of speechChapter 3 8 mins
Left-wing vs right-wing cancel cultureChapter 4 2 mins
ReligionChapter 5 6 mins
College rankings by freedom of speechChapter 6 14 mins
DeplatformingChapter 7 5 mins
WhataboutismChapter 8 7 mins
SteelmanningChapter 9 10 mins
How the left arguesChapter 10 11 mins
Diversity, equity, and inclusionChapter 11 7 mins
Why colleges lean leftChapter 12 4 mins
How the right arguesChapter 13 8 mins
Hate speechChapter 14 9 mins
PlatformingChapter 15 21 mins
Social mediaChapter 16 11 mins
DepressionChapter 17 4 mins
Hope
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author. Pleas...
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Sep 18 2023 3h 51m
Chapter 1 9 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 21 mins
Why marriages failChapter 3 9 mins
Sex and fetishesChapter 4 25 mins
BreakupsChapter 5 20 mins
Johnny Depp and Amber HeardChapter 6 6 mins
Complicated divorce casesChapter 7 2 mins
Cheating with the nannyChapter 8 8 mins
Relationship adviceChapter 9 21 mins
Cost of divorceChapter 10 14 mins
PrenupsChapter 11 7 mins
CheatingChapter 12 12 mins
Open marriages and threesomesChapter 13 24 mins
Sex and fightingChapter 14 9 mins
Kevin Costner& divorceChapter 15 7 mins
LyingChapter 16 7 mins
ProductivityChapter 17 8 mins
Jiu JitsuChapter 18 12 mins
Sex, love, and marriage
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon ...
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Sep 10 2023 2h 15m
Chapter 1 10 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 17 mins
Difficult childhoodChapter 3 2 mins
Jennifer DoudnaChapter 4 5 mins
EinsteinChapter 5 17 mins
TeslaChapter 6 4 mins
Elon Musk& humorChapter 7 3 mins
Steve Jobs& crueltyChapter 8 12 mins
TwitterChapter 9 2 mins
FiringChapter 10 9 mins
HiringChapter 11 7 mins
Time managementChapter 12 3 mins
Groups vs individualsChapter 13 3 mins
MortalityChapter 14 20 mins
How to writeChapter 15 4 mins
Love & relationshipsChapter 16 10 mins
Advice for young people
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and a...
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Sep 1 2023 2h 25m
Chapter 1 9 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 14 mins
Biomass vs anthropomassChapter 3 20 mins
Computational templatesChapter 4 10 mins
Biological hero organismsChapter 5 8 mins
Engineering with bacteriaChapter 6 13 mins
Plant communicationChapter 7 3 mins
Albert Einstein letterChapter 8 4 mins
BeautyChapter 9 9 mins
FaithChapter 10 19 mins
FlawsChapter 11 11 mins
ExtinctionChapter 12 3 mins
Alien lifeChapter 13 1 min
MusicChapter 14 4 mins
MoviesChapter 15 10 mins
Advice for young people
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and ...
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Aug 17 2023 2h 20m
Chapter 1 9 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 6 mins
Exercise routineChapter 3 7 mins
Advice to younger selfChapter 4 4 mins
Jungian shadowChapter 5 20 mins
Betrayal and loyaltyChapter 6 17 mins
DramaChapter 7 4 mins
Chimp EmpireChapter 8 6 mins
Overt vs covert contractsChapter 9 6 mins
Age and healthChapter 10 10 mins
Sexual selectionChapter 11 12 mins
RelationshipsChapter 12 10 mins
FertilityChapter 13 16 mins
ProductivityChapter 14 7 mins
Family
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher,...
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Aug 1 2023 2h 59m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 12 mins
Stages of lifeChapter 3 6 mins
IdentityChapter 4 6 mins
EnlightenmentChapter 5 6 mins
Adaptive Resonance TheoryChapter 6 9 mins
PanpsychismChapter 7 7 mins
How to thinkChapter 8 17 mins
Plants communicationChapter 9 25 mins
FameChapter 10 7 mins
HappinessChapter 11 12 mins
Artificial consciousnessChapter 12 4 mins
SufferingChapter 13 7 mins
Eliezer YudkowskyChapter 14 5 mins
e/acc (Effective Accelerationism)Chapter 15 10 mins
Mind uploadingChapter 16 4 mins
Vision ProChapter 17 12 mins
Open source AIChapter 18 7 mins
TwitterChapter 19 2 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 20 3 mins
Meaning of life
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. P...
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Jul 24 2023 2h 23m
Chapter 1 10 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 24 mins
PalestineChapter 3 13 mins
HateChapter 4 7 mins
AntisemitismChapter 5 6 mins
Peace in the Middle EastChapter 6 10 mins
West BankChapter 7 9 mins
HamasChapter 8 15 mins
Two-state solutionChapter 9 6 mins
JerusalemChapter 10 1 min
Role of the USChapter 11 10 mins
Ghassan KanafaniChapter 12 1 min
2024 ElectionsChapter 13 9 mins
PoetryChapter 14 8 mins
LanguageChapter 15 5 mins
Hope
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and a...
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Jul 17 2023 2h 52m
Chapter 1 8 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 18 mins
IntelligenceChapter 3 10 mins
Origin of humansChapter 4 20 mins
SufferingChapter 5 18 mins
HitlerChapter 6 18 mins
Benjamin NetanyahuChapter 7 16 mins
Peace in UkraineChapter 8 14 mins
Conspiracy theoriesChapter 9 14 mins
AI safetyChapter 10 9 mins
How to thinkChapter 11 2 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 12 10 mins
LoveChapter 13 4 mins
MortalityChapter 14 3 mins
Meaning of life
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. ...
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Jul 12 2023 1h 17m
Chapter 1 8 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 5 mins
HateChapter 3 8 mins
Judicial reform and protestsChapter 4 10 mins
AIChapter 5 6 mins
CompetitionChapter 6 7 mins
Power and corruptionChapter 7 14 mins
PeaceChapter 8 3 mins
War in UkraineChapter 9 4 mins
Abraham AccordsChapter 10 4 mins
HistoryChapter 11 3 mins
Survival
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author...
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Jul 6 2023 2h 34m
Chapter 1 9 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 4 mins
US historyChapter 3 1 min
FreedomChapter 4 3 mins
CamusChapter 5 9 mins
Hitler and WW2Chapter 6 23 mins
War in UkraineChapter 7 25 mins
JFK and the Cuban Missile CrisisChapter 8 9 mins
JFK assassination conspiracyChapter 9 8 mins
CIA influenceChapter 10 11 mins
2024 electionsChapter 11 1 min
Jordan PetersonChapter 12 3 mins
Anthony FauciChapter 13 19 mins
Big PharmaChapter 14 5 mins
Peter HotezChapter 15 2 mins
Exercise and dietChapter 16
God
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder...
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Jun 30 2023 3h 15m
Chapter 1 8 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 9 mins
Time is an illusionChapter 3 2 mins
MemesChapter 4 12 mins
Eliezer YudkowskyChapter 5 6 mins
Virtual realityChapter 6 7 mins
AI friendsChapter 7 13 mins
tiny corpChapter 8 2 mins
NVIDIA vs AMDChapter 9 12 mins
tinyboxChapter 10 14 mins
Self-drivingChapter 11 7 mins
ProgrammingChapter 12 24 mins
AI safetyChapter 13 37 mins
Working at TwitterChapter 14 5 mins
Prompt engineeringChapter 15 16 mins
Video gamesChapter 16 10 mins
Andrej KarpathyChapter 17 2 mins
Meaning of life
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-foun...
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Jun 22 2023 3h 15m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 7 mins
Google SearchChapter 3 12 mins
LLM trainingChapter 4 6 mins
TruthChapter 5 9 mins
JournalismChapter 6 5 mins
AI startupsChapter 7 6 mins
Future of browsersChapter 8 6 mins
History of browsersChapter 9 14 mins
Steve JobsChapter 10 7 mins
Software engineeringChapter 11 4 mins
JavaScriptChapter 12 5 mins
NetscapeChapter 13 7 mins
Why AI will save the worldChapter 14 30 mins
Dangers of AIChapter 15 11 mins
Nuclear energyChapter 16 15 mins
MisinformationChapter 17 6 mins
AI and the economyChapter 18 4 mins
ChinaChapter 19 9 mins
Evolution of technologyChapter 20 8 mins
How to learnChapter 21 2 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 22 6 mins
Balance and happinessChapter 23 2 mins
Meaning of life
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please s...
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Jun 18 2023 3h 19m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 6 mins
Origin story of WikipediaChapter 3 6 mins
Design of WikipediaChapter 4 6 mins
Number of articles on WikipediaChapter 5 20 mins
Wikipedia pages for living personsChapter 6 13 mins
ChatGPTChapter 7 6 mins
Wikipedia& political biasChapter 8 13 mins
Conspiracy theoriesChapter 9 8 mins
FacebookChapter 10 20 mins
TwitterChapter 11 14 mins
Building WikipediaChapter 12 11 mins
Wikipedia fundingChapter 13 4 mins
ChatGPT vs WikipediaChapter 14 5 mins
Larry SangerChapter 15 2 mins
Twitter filesChapter 16 14 mins
Government and censorshipChapter 17 11 mins
Adolf Hitler& Wikipedia pageChapter 18 12 mins
Future of WikipediaChapter 19 7 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 20 8 mins
Meaning of life
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and au...
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Jun 13 2023 2h 24m
Chapter 1 6 mins
AliensChapter 2 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 3 4 mins
RelationshipsChapter 4 12 mins
DreamsChapter 5 11 mins
Fear of deathChapter 6 23 mins
Overcoming painChapter 7 6 mins
Amazon rainforestChapter 8 13 mins
AIChapter 9 8 mins
TruthChapter 10 7 mins
EgoChapter 11 6 mins
Dallas Buyers ClubChapter 12 8 mins
True DetectiveChapter 13 5 mins
YellowstoneChapter 14 1 min
TexasChapter 15 4 mins
PoliticsChapter 16 2 mins
InterstellarChapter 17 8 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 18 5 mins
Meaning of life
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this ...
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Jun 8 2023 2h 47m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 17 mins
Jiu-jitsu competitionChapter 3 12 mins
AI and open source movementChapter 4 12 mins
Next AI model releaseChapter 5 20 mins
Future of AI at MetaChapter 6 15 mins
BotsChapter 7 14 mins
CensorshipChapter 8 6 mins
Meta& new social networkChapter 9 4 mins
Elon MuskChapter 10 7 mins
Layoffs and firingChapter 11 5 mins
HiringChapter 12 6 mins
Meta Quest 3Chapter 13 6 mins
Apple Vision ProChapter 14 6 mins
AI existential riskChapter 15 3 mins
PowerChapter 16 7 mins
AGI timelineChapter 17 5 mins
Murph challengeChapter 18 3 mins
Embodied AGIChapter 19 5 mins
Faith
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. ...
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Jun 5 2023 2h 11m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 3 mins
HemingwayChapter 3 3 mins
PutinChapter 4 2 mins
ChurchillChapter 5 1 min
Kim Jong UnChapter 6 8 mins
Drinking with Joe Rogan and Tom SeguraChapter 7 3 mins
FatherChapter 8 2 mins
ShirtlessChapter 9 10 mins
Tom SeguraChapter 10 2 mins
Joe RoganChapter 11 8 mins
Dating adviceChapter 12 10 mins
Key to successChapter 13 9 mins
Sleep and working outChapter 14 5 mins
History podcastsChapter 15 6 mins
Road tripsChapter 16 9 mins
BeerChapter 17 5 mins
ExerciseChapter 18 7 mins
Life of the PartyChapter 19 18 mins
DrinkingChapter 20 2 mins
Greatest comedian of all timeChapter 21 3 mins
Advice for young people
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware e...
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Jun 2 2023 3h 38m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 10 mins
Mojo programming languageChapter 3 8 mins
Code indentationChapter 4 9 mins
The power of autotuningChapter 5 16 mins
Typed programming languagesChapter 6 12 mins
ImmutabilityChapter 7 34 mins
Distributed deploymentChapter 8 15 mins
Mojo vs CPythonChapter 9 7 mins
Guido van RossumChapter 10 3 mins
Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlowChapter 11 5 mins
Swift programming languageChapter 12 5 mins
Julia programming languageChapter 13 9 mins
Switching programming languagesChapter 14 4 mins
Mojo playgroundChapter 15 10 mins
Jeremy HowardChapter 16 8 mins
Function overloadingChapter 17 7 mins
Error vs ExceptionChapter 18 13 mins
Mojo roadmapChapter 19 11 mins
Building a companyChapter 20 6 mins
ChatGPTChapter 21 3 mins
Danger of AIChapter 22 3 mins
Future of programmingChapter 23 3 mins
Advice for young people
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center f...
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May 28 2023 2h 11m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 5 mins
What Turing got wrongChapter 3 13 mins
MIT Center for Bits and AtomsChapter 4 6 mins
Digital logicChapter 5 10 mins
Self-assembling robotsChapter 6 10 mins
Digital fabricationChapter 7 7 mins
Self-reproducing machineChapter 8 4 mins
Trash and fabricationChapter 9 4 mins
Lab-made bioweaponsChapter 10 11 mins
GenomeChapter 11 4 mins
Quantum computingChapter 12 5 mins
Microfluidic bubble computationChapter 13 8 mins
Maxwell& demonChapter 14 6 mins
ConsciousnessChapter 15 4 mins
Cellular automataChapter 16 4 mins
Universe is a computerChapter 17 9 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 18 6 mins
Meaning of life
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and au...
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May 24 2023 3h 14m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 35 mins
The N-wordChapter 3 26 mins
The three N-wordsChapter 4 13 mins
EducationChapter 5 10 mins
Critical race theoryChapter 6 7 mins
Racism and policingChapter 7 29 mins
Racial profilingChapter 8 17 mins
Racism in US historyChapter 9 43 mins
Affirmative actionChapter 10 3 mins
Martin Luther King Jr
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at M...
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May 18 2023 2h 23m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 7 mins
First elementsChapter 3 3 mins
Milky WayChapter 4 3 mins
Alien worldsChapter 5 5 mins
ProtogalaxiesChapter 6 4 mins
Black holesChapter 7 9 mins
Stellar archeologyChapter 8 7 mins
Oldest starsChapter 9 15 mins
Metal-poor starsChapter 10 4 mins
Neutron captureChapter 11 5 mins
Neutron starsChapter 12 4 mins
Dwarf galaxiesChapter 13 28 mins
Star observationChapter 14 5 mins
James Webb Space TelescopeChapter 15 3 mins
Future of space observationChapter 16 13 mins
Age of the universeChapter 17 3 mins
Most beautiful idea in astronomyChapter 18 8 mins
Advice for young peopleChapter 19 3 mins
Meaning of life
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-fou...
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May 16 2023 1h 55m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 21 mins
Freedom of speechChapter 3 16 mins
Bureaucracy in UniversitiesChapter 4 3 mins
Clash of ideasChapter 5 11 mins
Public education is brokenChapter 6 12 mins
Jeffrey EpsteinChapter 7 11 mins
Freedom of thought and liberal artsChapter 8 3 mins
Interviewing controversial peopleChapter 9 3 mins
Alan DershowitzChapter 10 6 mins
Donald TrumpChapter 11 8 mins
FBIChapter 12 2 mins
Criminal justice systemChapter 13 7 mins
Advice
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematici...
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May 9 2023 4h 19m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 19 mins
WolframAlpha and ChatGPTChapter 3 26 mins
Computation and nature of realityChapter 4 59 mins
How ChatGPT worksChapter 5 13 mins
Human and animal cognitionChapter 6 8 mins
Dangers of AIChapter 7 21 mins
Nature of truthChapter 8 36 mins
Future of educationChapter 9 8 mins
ConsciousnessChapter 10 23 mins
Second Law of ThermodynamicsChapter 11 12 mins
EntropyChapter 12 16 mins
Observers in physicsChapter 13 5 mins
Mortality
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political co...
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May 6 2023 3h 36m
Chapter 1 6 mins
IntroductionChapter 2 9 mins
Political ideologiesChapter 3 14 mins
Twitter dramaChapter 4 6 mins
Biden vs TrumpChapter 5 2 mins
AOCChapter 6 8 mins
Bernie SandersChapter 7 25 mins
Donald Trump: Pros and consChapter 8 6 mins
Joe Biden: Pros and consChapter 9 16 mins
Hate for politiciansChapter 10 13 mins
RFK JrChapter 11 6 mins
Republican votersChapter 12 4 mins
Conspiracy theoriesChapter 13 9 mins
January 6thChapter 14 4 mins
Hunter Biden& laptopChapter 15 2 mins
Tucker CarlsonChapter 16 18 mins
Wokeism and censorshipChapter 17 5 mins
ChatGPT and universitiesChapter 18 3 mins
LibertarianismChapter 19 8 mins
Elon MuskChapter 20 4 mins
Dealing with attacksChapter 21 5 mins
TruthChapter 22 3 mins
Israel and PalestineChapter 23 8 mins
Ukraine warChapter 24 10 mins
BooksChapter 25 2 mins
MortalityChapter 26 1 min
Advice for young peopleChapter 27 3 mins
Hope for the future