Episodes
Five years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
19 episodes in 2022
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32m How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews 8VC partner Sebastian Caliri about reforming broken healthcare incentives through value-based care, overcoming institutiona…
21 statements 7 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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39m Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews legendary tech innovator Tony Fadell about his career building groundbreaking products like the iPod, iPhone, and Nest. Fad…
16 statements 6 featured 4 assessments 2 contradicted
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31m Zach Latta: Founding Hack Club & Inspiring the Next Generation of Builders · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Hack Club founder Zach Latta about empowering teenagers through self-directed coding and project building. They explore how…
25 statements 8 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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31m He Built Tesla's FIRST Roadster Battery. Find Out What He's Building Next! · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Gene Berdichevsky, CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies and former early Tesla engineer, about pioneering silicon anode battery tec…
17 statements 7 featured 10 assessments
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46m The Year That Changed Medicine Forever | Francisco Gimenez Explains the Biotech Revolution. · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Dr. Francisco Gimenez about the convergence of artificial intelligence, CRISPR, and cell therapy that sparked the modern bi…
19 statements 5 featured 3 assessments
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41m Oklo's Amazing Small Reactor That Can Reuse Nuclear Waste · Joe Lonsdale
Host Joe Lonsdale interviews Oklo co-founder and CEO Jacob DeWitte about revolutionizing clean energy through compact Aurora micro-reactors that recycle nuclear waste. They discuss technical…
19 statements 6 featured 12 assessments 1 contradicted
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33m Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale
Former Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper joins host Joe Lonsdale to discuss critical national security challenges, analyzing Russian military failures in Ukraine, global terrorism, Iranian…
31 statements 10 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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45m Free Housing Won't Solve the Homeless Crisis. Here's What Will. · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale and policy expert Judge Glock analyze the structural failures driving America's urban housing and homelessness crises. They advocate r…
28 statements 13 featured 19 assessments
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44m How the Renaissance Sparked an Entrepreneurial Explosion with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews venture capitalist Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg about how Renaissance history, interdisciplinary thinking, and humanistic p…
21 statements 7 featured 1 assessments
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35m How to Fix Homelessness, Expand Telehealth, and Defeat Special Interests with Jared Meyer · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Jared Meyer, director of Cicero Action, on how to defeat entrenched special interests and pass high-impact state legislatio…
16 statements 4 featured 9 assessments 2 contradicted
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39m Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews writer and cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams to explore classical liberalism, the flaws of racial essentialism, an…
26 statements 6 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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34m How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of 'Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist', host Joe Lonsdale interviews Hayes Barnard, Founder and CEO of Goodleap and GivePower, about his journey from overcoming learning differ…
13 statements 5 featured 12 assessments 4 contradicted
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37m Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, economist Tyler Cowen joins host Joe Lonsdale to examine strategies for reviving civilizational progress, including talent identification, rapid scienti…
24 statements 8 featured 4 assessments
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36m Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Dr. Pano Kanelos, co-founder and president of the University of Austin (UATX), about the urgent need to rebuild higher educ…
26 statements 7 featured 2 assessments
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45m Peng Shuai, Beijing Olympics & Holding China Accountable with Former UN Ambassador Kelly Craft · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft about confronting aggressive tactics from China and Russia, securing domestic …
20 statements 7 featured 8 assessments
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42m Charles Koch: How a Love of Philosophy Unlocked Exponential Growth · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews industrialist Charles Koch about how applying principles of human progress, Market-Based Management, and technological inno…
19 statements 6 featured 1 assessments
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32m Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Florida Speaker of the House Chris Sprowls on how free-market reforms, parental rights in education, firm public safety pol…
18 statements 8 featured 12 assessments 2 contradicted
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35m Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale
In this interview episode of Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale engages Representative Ro Khanna in a wide-ranging discussion on progressive capitalism, free speech, tech reg…
24 statements 5 featured 5 assessments
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31m Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
In this episode of American Optimist, host Joe Lonsdale interviews Texas State Technical College leaders Chancellor Mike Reeser and CIO Michael Bettersworth to explore how TSTC revolutionize…
19 statements 7 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted