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We've built computers to do our thinking while we live our lives, but do they understand anything? In this interview, Dr. David Klindt (AI Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) explains to me how brains interpret the world – and whether AI can.

Spoiler alert: not your fashion sense!

Evan Barker (author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, now a New York Times Best Seller) has so many problems with the Democratic Party that she is thinking about ending it all – and it's election season! As a reporter tries to understand what went wrong, Evan takes us back through her political career: the campaigns, the candidates, and the increasingly strange world of American politics.

Why hasn't Disney created a princess who uses a wheelchair? Wouldn't that be kind of cool?

Evan Bacon (Head of AI at Expo, creator of Expo Router, and LEGO master, among other things) talks to me about his brain. Nothing really happens this episode, but that's okay! Not everything has to be The English Patient! Some things can just be fun!

Clear Your Mental Cache with Cat Lavery is the only interview I'll ever re-run. (Kind of ironic when you consider the subject matter, right? Enjoy!!)

After a sudden layoff at Frog Design, one employee's life story took a tragic turn. While their death cannot be attributed solely to the dismissal, it’s difficult to ignore the role it may have played. For many, the loss of work means the loss of identity. Now, that was over ten years ago, long before AI began reshaping the labor market on a massive scale. By 2030, roughly 92 million jobs could be displaced globally. So what happens if work just...goes away? How will we find purpose and meaning? What will we do? In this episode, former Frog Design HR director Lindsey Ducroz talks to me about lessons learned, potential paths forward, and our purpose in life.

I play this for myself whenever I feel like sleeping in! Like skipping the gym! Like eating a whole pint of pistachio ice cream! No! Do not do those things! Get out there and do GOOD things!

We hope you will enjoy the show! (This episode resulted in quite a few real-life tears! You can make me feel better by donating to Starfish Project!)

OK, everybody always emails me and asks me the uncut, non-censored versions of my R-rated episodes. So guess what! Congratulations! I’m giving it to you raw! What does this mean? No music, no bleep noises, and no audio editing! Please donate to the Starfish Project! Consider finding God! (Very important note: Buzzfeed clickbait title! I did not attend one! Thanks!)

Orgies are spiritually communist! Think about it! The rules on the white-board clearly say "no private property, only shared resources." And yet, some bald man with a giant mustache always tries to seize the means of production! What's up with that? (Very important note: Buzzfeed clickbait title! I did not attend one! Thanks!)

Dan Held, Bitcoin entrepreneur and co-founder of ZeroBlock, talks to me about money. Howard Roark would approve! (Ellsworth Toohey just filed an op-ed.)

In this interview, Stephanie Winn (host of You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist, LMFT) talks to me about rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) like it's a real-life fright fest.

Leading AI researcher Sonia Joseph is showing robots how to wash dishes, drive cars, and...take over the world? (How? Why? What is she doing? What are they doing? Somebody call Charlton Heston! I'm serious!)

Aaron Francis, co-founder of Try Hard Studios and father of four kids, talks to me about what it means to be a good husband. (I made him cry a few times!)