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Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Arthur Mendoza teaches acting class every Wednesday at 7PM at The Santa Monica Playhouse as well as online classes every Tuesday at 5PM PST. He was the principal acting instructor for the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting West. He has taught in Los Angeles for more than 20 years and has worked with such talents as Khandi Alexander, Sasha Barrese, Peta Wilson, Finola Hughes, Branford Marsalis, Deidre Hall, John Jopson, and Salma Hayek, and he worked extensively with Benicio del Toro after h ...
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Dave Smith expounds upon current events, our government, foreign policy, and all things Libertarian. He is part of the new generation of pundits. He’ll educate you and open your eyes to the possibility of a truly free nation.
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Ben Yeoh chats to a variety of thinkers and doers about their curiosities, ideas and passions. If you are curious about the world this show is for you. I have extended conversations across humanities and science with artists, philosophers, writers, theatre makers, activists, economists and all walks of life. Disclaimer: Personal podcast, no organisational affiliation or endorsement.
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A podcast where we talk about our book of the week. Read along with us!
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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
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An entertaining and old-timey radio drama about the young men of Company 696 of the Civil Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Stationed in Makanda, Illinois, this company along with others helped to build the breath-taking, historical landmark, Giant City State Park. Camp Giant City shows the endearing and indomitable spirit of rural folk hit hard by the Great Depression and tells the adventures of young men discovering the peaks and valleys of building and becoming part of a community. Produce ...
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Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though science and critical thinking can benefit everyone—and lead to better decisions. We want to find out what’s true, what’s left to discover, and why it all matters.
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Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution
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1:05:58Jake Sullivan was the US National Security Advisor from 2021-2025. He joined our friends on The Cognitive Revolution podcast in August to discuss AI as a critical national security issue. We thought it was such a good interview and we wanted more people to see it, so we’re cross-posting it here on The 80,000 Hours Podcast. Jake and host Nathan Labe…
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I Make Envy On Your Disco with Eric Schnall
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39:26A special episode: Anna chats with author and Tony-award winning Broadway producer Eric Schnall about his debut novel I MAKE ENVY ON YOUR DISCO. Sam Singer flies to Berlin for an art gallery opening, needing a break from his partner in New York. He meets enigmatic hotel receptionist Magda and ex-pat Jeremy, goes clubbing, and discovers the 2000s no…
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Exclusive #54 - Jillian Michaels Walking Off Her Show
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Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
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45:58Steven Pinker returns to Conversations with Tyler with an argument that common knowledge—those infinite loops of "I know that you know that I know"—is the hidden infrastructure that enables human coordination, from accepting paper money to toppling dictators. But Tyler wonders: if most real-world coordination works fine without recursively looping …
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Anna and Annie discuss the settlement offer by Anthropic to pay $1.5bn to settle a book piracy lawsuit and the 2025 National Book Awards fiction longlist. Our book of the week is ENDLING by Maria Reva. Yeva is a snail conservationist in Ukraine who becomes caught up in Nastia and Sol's scheme to disrupt the romance tour industry. A heist ensues but…
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s08e05 | Lies, Damn Lies, and Gender Journalism, with Benjamin Ryan
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Show #1306 - Kimmel, Free Speech & The State
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s08e04 | Wisdom In Times of Crisis, with Ronald Dodson
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1:14:07Ron Dodson is a writer for American Reformer and the American Mind, with a focus on economics and political theology. In this calmvo, we discuss the proper response to existential threats against “the marketplace of ideas” https://x.com/RonDodson Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.app/$benjaminaboyce https://www.…
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David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
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51:07David Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's unlikely rise. Tyler and David discuss why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi state-building, the treatment of Shiites in the Eastern Province and whether discrimination has truly ended, why the Saudi …
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ss08e03 | Understanding Our Political Divide, with Auron MacIntyre
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1:06:00Fren of the channel @AuronMacIntyre drops by to talk about the current political landscape, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. https://x.com/AuronMacintyre https://auronmacintyre.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.app/$benjaminaboyce https://www.buymeacoffee.com/benjaminaboyce Support this channel: …
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#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
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1:46:49At 26, Neel Nanda leads an AI safety team at Google DeepMind, has published dozens of influential papers, and mentored 50 junior researchers — seven of whom now work at major AI companies. His secret? “It’s mostly luck,” he says, but “another part is what I think of as maximising my luck surface area.” Video, full transcript, and links to learn mor…
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Show #1304 - The Continuing Situation with Charlie Kirk
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A Woman Talks to Her Tongue with Alison Gorman
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22:18A special episode: Anna chats with award-winning poet Alison Gorman about her debut poetry collection A WOMAN TALKS TO HER TONGUE. These poems examine family secrets, silences and women’s voices. Beautiful and assured, we loved this book. Alison joins us fresh from her sold-out launch in Sydney to discuss the moving themes from the collection and o…
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Robert Beckley: Lessons from 40 Years in Policing, Hillsborough & Civic Service
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1:05:30Retired police officer Robert Beckley reflects on 40 years of service — from Brixton to Hillsborough and beyond. We discuss crisis response, institutional change, community policing, and why public service and volunteering still matter today. We explore: The misunderstood role of policing: “Policing is about being there in a crisis — when someone n…
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s08e02 | If It Aint Fixed, Why Break It? with Actor & Contractor Erick Hayden
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1:20:30Erick Hayden is a radical normie. Radical as awesome or cool, not as in political. He’s the star along with a few other bad ass fellas in Million Dollar Extreme: World Peace. He’s also the cohost of @the.palace.podcast with Charls Carrol! https://www.instagram.com/erickbhayden/ Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.…
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Discourse is Dead, Long live Discourse.
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Exclusive #52 - The Charlotte Train Stabbing
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Show #1302 - This is a Conspiracy Theory
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Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)
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3:01:11We don’t know how AIs think or why they do what they do. Or at least, we don’t know much. That fact is only becoming more troubling as AIs grow more capable and appear on track to wield enormous cultural influence, directly advise on major government decisions, and even operate military equipment autonomously. We simply can’t tell what models, if a…
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Exclusive #51 - Tim Dillon in Saudi Arabia
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s08e01 | Hardcore “Trad” Homeschool, with Amanda Faus
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1:59:59Amanda Faus is the CEO of @thechildrenstradition — a homeschool curriculum based in Medieval and Ancient Western pedagogies. In this calmvo, we discuss the first principles that inform her family-lead schooling. Use promo code BENJAMINBOYCE for 10% off “The Children’s Tradition” curriculum at: https://www.thechildrenstradition.com/ Substack: http…
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Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
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54:41Seamus Murphy is an Irish photographer and filmmaker who has spent decades documenting life in some of the world's most challenging places—from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to Nigeria's Boko Haram territories. Having left recession-era Ireland in the 1980s to teach himself photography in American darkrooms, Murphy has become that rare artist who …
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Anna and Geoff discuss Sally Rooney pledging royalties to Palestine Action and the Library of South Australia being second on the list of the world’s most beautiful libraries. Our book of the week is FLESH, the new novel by David Szalay which has been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize. It tells the story of Istvan, a Hungarian British man, in a…
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s07e99 | Saving Women’s Sport, with Mariah Burton Nelson
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#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
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2:28:53What happens when you lock two AI systems in a room together and tell them they can discuss anything they want? According to experiments run by Kyle Fish — Anthropic’s first AI welfare researcher — something consistently strange: the models immediately begin discussing their own consciousness before spiraling into increasingly euphoric philosophica…
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Exclusive #50 - The Minneapolis Shooting
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Show #1299 - Responding to Benjamin Netanyahu
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s07e98 | Medical Ethics & Body Modification, with Mia Hughes
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1:51:45BUY TICKETS for @Genspect ’s Bigger Picture Conference: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/ Returning guest Mia Hughes and I discuss medical ethics, body modification, and second order effects of liberal policies. https://www.youtube.com/@beyondgenderpodcast https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/cm-expert/mia-hughes/ https://x.com/_CryMiaRiv…
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s07e97 | A Diagnosis Isn’t a Personality | with Lisa Duval
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1:34:03BUY TICKETS for @Genspect ’s Bigger Picture Conference: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/ Therapist Lisa Duval and I discuss the reduction of personality into diagnostic traits, and how this cultural trend fuels even more distress. Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.app/$benjaminaboyce https://…
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Do We Still Build Beautiful? Samuel Hughes on Architecture & Cities
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1:11:32Samuel Hughes, editor at Works in Progress, joins me to talk architecture, planning, and how we think about beauty in our cities. “Most buildings in Tokyo are ugly, but the streets are beautiful—urban form matters more than facades.” In this episode we explore: Can we still mass-produce beautiful buildings? Japanese urban design and zoning lessons …
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David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
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1:10:18David Brooks returns to the show with a stark diagnosis of American culture. Having evolved from a Democratic socialist to a neoconservative to what he now calls "the rightward edge of the leftward tendency," Brooks argues that America's core problems aren't economic but sociological—rooted in the destruction of our "secure base" of family, communi…
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Show #1297 - Continuing Updates on Ukraine
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Show #1296 - Is the Ukraine War Ending?
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s07e96 | Middle Class Nationalism, with Joshua Lisec, Ghostwriter
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1:16:53Joshua Lisec is a Ghostwriter and author in his own right. In this calmvo we discuss his gradual political awakening into right-side politics, and why he departed from his progressive assumptions. https://x.com/JoshuaLisec https://lisecghostwriting.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.app/$benjaminaboyce https:…
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Anna and Annie discuss the 2025 Booker Prize Longlist. We have many comfort reading recommendations! Here are some of the books discussed: DEAD GIRL GONE by Gareth and Louise Ward THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB series and WE SOLVE MURDERS by Richard Osman IN SPITE OF YOU by Patrick Lenton CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED by Jessica Stanley THE WEDDING FORECAST b…
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