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Every guest on The Jim Rutt Show

285 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Katherine Gehl

   EP 219 Katherine Gehl on Breaking Partisan Gridlock · Jan 2024

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   Paul Watson

   EP 207 Paul Watson on Adventures in Eco-Activism · Oct 2023

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   Steven Levy

   EP52 Steven Levy on Facebook: The Inside Story · May 2020

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   Christof Koch

   EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness · Jan 2021

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   Cory Doctorow

   EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It · 3 episodes

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   David Krakauer

   EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer · 3 episodes

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   Gary Marcus

   EP25 Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI · Nov 2019

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   James Fadiman

   EP 321 James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber on Microdosing Psychedelics · Sep 2025

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   Jonathan Rauch

   EP 287 Jonathan Rauch on the Epistemic Crisis · Feb 2025

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    Nate Soares

    EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All · Oct 2025

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    Renee DiResta

    EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare · Oct 2020

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    Yaroslav Trofimov

    EP 243 Yaroslav Trofimov on Ukraine’s War of Independence · Jun 2024

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    Yascha Mounk

    EP 199 Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap · Sep 2023

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    Dan Shipper

    Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3 · Feb 2023

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    Kenneth Stanley

    EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem · 3 episodes

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    Michael Mauboussin

    EP29 Michael Mauboussin on The Success Equation · Dec 2019

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    Philip Rosedale

    EP 337 Worldviews: Philip Rosedale on Emergent Worlds, Localism, and What Building Second Life Taught Him About Humanity · Mar 2026

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    Sam Arbesman

    EP 304 Samuel Arbesman on The Magic of Code · Jun 2025

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    Samo Burja

    EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril’s Plan to Modernize the US Military · 8 episodes

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    Barbara Oakley

    Currents 020: Barbara Oakley on Teaching Fluency · Dec 2020

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    Curtis Yarvin

    EP 160 Curtis Yarvin on Monarchy in the U.S.A. · 2 episodes

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    David Fuller

    Currents 007: David Fuller on the IDW · Jun 2020

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    Heather Heying

    EP141 Heather Heying on Confronting Hyper-Novelty · Sep 2021

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    Jill Tarter

    EP14 Astrophysicist Jill Tarter on SETI and Technosignatures · Sep 2019

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    Jim Hackett

    EP124 Jim Hackett on Ford, Electric Cars & More · May 2021

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    John Markoff

    EP 164 John Markoff on the Many Lives of Stewart Brand · Sep 2022

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    Michael Shermer

    EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer · Jan 2026

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    Pablos Holman

    EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech · Sep 2025

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    Peter Turchin

    EP 190 Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics and End Times · Jul 2023

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    Sam Bowles

    EP100 Sam Bowles on Our Cooperative Nature · Dec 2020

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    Zak Stein

    EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything · 8 episodes

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    Brad DeLong

    EP 182 Brad DeLong on An Economic History of the 20th Century · Mar 2023

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    J. Doyne Farmer

    EP 305 J. Doyne Farmer on Complexity Economics · Jun 2025

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    Jeff Sebo

    EP 291 Jeff Sebo on Who Matters, What Matters, and Why · Mar 2025

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    Melanie Mitchell

    Currents 088: Melanie Mitchell on AI Measurement and Understanding · 3 episodes

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    Ran Abramitzky

    EP78 Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz · Sep 2020

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    Antonio Damasio

    EP148 Antonio Damasio on Feeling and Knowing · Nov 2021

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    Frank Lantz

    EP 210 Frank Lantz on the Beauty of Games · 2 episodes

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    Simon DeDeo

    EP 237 Simon DeDeo on the Odds of Major Civil Violence · 5 episodes

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    W. Brian Arthur

    EP138 W. Brian Arthur on the Nature of Technology · Jul 2021

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