Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

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#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux 2026-08-26 · 322m
#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football 2026-08-12
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee 2026-07-28 · 233m
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires 2026-06-30
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln 2026-05-29 · 182m
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet 2026-05-06 · 264m
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age 2026-04-09 · 130m
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution 2026-03-23
#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming 2026-03-11
#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music 2026-03-01
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger 2026-02-12
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI 2026-02-01
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle 2026-01-13 · 194m
#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins 2025-12-31
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths 2025-12-12
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life 2025-11-30
#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy 2025-11-17
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming 2025-10-31 · 174m
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex 2025-10-14 · 169m
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature 2025-10-01 · 283m
#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA 2025-09-19 · 271m
#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park 2025-09-04 · 222m
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories 2025-08-29
#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex 2025-08-24 · 635m
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism 2025-08-13 · 117m
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire 2025-08-01 · 280m
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games 2025-07-23 · 155m
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting 2025-07-12
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East 2025-06-26 · 251m
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI 2025-06-15 · 204m
#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet 2025-06-05 · 138m
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles 2025-05-24 · 211m
#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain 2025-05-20 · 147m
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions 2025-05-05 · 187m
#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming 2025-04-30
#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao 2025-04-24 · 194m
#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking 2025-04-17 · 215m
#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism 2025-04-09 · 207m
#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza 2025-03-30 · 196m
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE 2025-03-26
#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God 2025-03-22 · 330m
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace 2025-03-16 · 206m
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters 2025-02-03 · 316m
#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America 2025-01-26 · 237m
#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom 2025-01-19
#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom 2025-01-06 · 193m
#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life 2024-12-22 · 219m
#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics 2024-12-08 · 220m
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption 2024-11-20 · 129m
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity 2024-11-11 · 322m
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies 2024-10-30 · 217m
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview 2024-10-23 · 70m
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History 2024-10-16 · 162m
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning 2024-10-11 · 150m
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI 2024-10-06 · 158m
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America 2024-09-30 · 216m
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War 2024-09-25 · 171m
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler 2024-09-20 · 218m
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome 2024-09-12
#442 – Donald Trump Interview 2024-09-03 · 73m
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism 2024-08-30
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life 2024-08-20
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling 2024-08-14 · 141m
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity 2024-08-02
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 2024-07-21 · 177m
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life 2024-07-02
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships 2024-06-28 · 117m
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet 2024-06-19 · 191m
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens 2024-06-13 · 182m
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life 2024-06-05
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI 2024-06-02
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories 2024-05-25
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God 2024-05-15 · 252m
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens 2024-04-22 · 165m
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset 2024-04-20 · 155m
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs 2024-04-17 · 181m
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones 2024-04-13 · 180m
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame 2024-04-05 · 169m
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex 2024-04-02 · 117m
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs 2024-03-29 · 144m
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck 2024-03-25 · 96m
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy 2024-03-22 · 193m
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI 2024-03-18 · 122m
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris 2024-03-14 · 305m
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family 2024-03-10 · 113m
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI 2024-03-07 · 174m
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War 2024-03-04 · 208m
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom 2024-02-27 · 193m
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech 2024-02-20 · 221m
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics 2024-02-16 · 112m
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam 2024-02-02 · 151m
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism 2024-01-23 · 146m
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud 2024-01-17 · 368m
#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen 2024-01-09 · 116m
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI 2023-12-29
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness 2023-12-24 · 136m
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin 2023-12-14 · 140m
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe 2023-12-09 · 208m
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events 2023-12-03
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special 2023-11-25 · 108m
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 2023-11-18 · 215m
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity 2023-11-09 · 147m
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East 2023-10-11 · 234m
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse 2023-09-28 · 72m
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech 2023-09-25
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love 2023-09-18 · 231m
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin 2023-09-10
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature 2023-09-01 · 146m
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love 2023-08-17 · 141m
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans 2023-08-01 · 179m
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine 2023-07-24 · 143m
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies 2023-07-17 · 172m
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace 2023-07-12 · 77m
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning 2023-07-06
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God 2023-06-30 · 195m
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI 2023-06-22 · 196m
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia 2023-06-18 · 200m
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love 2023-06-13 · 144m
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp 2023-06-08 · 167m
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un 2023-06-05 · 132m
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI 2023-06-02 · 218m
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication 2023-05-28 · 131m
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power 2023-05-24 · 194m
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars 2023-05-18 · 143m
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech 2023-05-16 · 115m
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation 2023-05-09 · 260m
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism 2023-05-06 · 216m
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics 2023-04-28 · 152m
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI 2023-04-21 · 156m
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design 2023-04-16 · 124m
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development 2023-04-13 · 174m
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love 2023-04-10 · 232m
#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca 2023-04-04 · 219m
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization 2023-03-30 · 203m
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI 2023-03-25 · 148m
#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love 2023-03-21 · 111m
#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs 2023-03-14 · 274m
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator 2023-03-10 · 136m
#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan 2023-03-06 · 174m
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity 2023-03-02 · 116m
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology 2023-02-25 · 138m
#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics 2023-02-20 · 191m
#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics 2023-02-15 · 145m
#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality 2023-02-10 · 242m
#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil 2023-02-07 · 202m
#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel 2023-02-02 · 321m
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds 2023-01-28 · 231m
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War 2023-01-25
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy 2023-01-21 · 194m
#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam 2023-01-17 · 187m
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram 2023-01-11 · 145m
#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens 2022-12-29 · 168m
#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism 2022-12-22 · 232m
#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life 2022-12-19 · 132m
#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special 2022-12-15 · 228m
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels 2022-12-12 · 252m
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power 2022-12-09 · 232m
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation 2022-12-06 · 154m
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time 2022-12-03
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield 2022-11-29 · 170m
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming 2022-11-26 · 203m
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road 2022-11-22 · 183m
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin 2022-11-18 · 256m
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness 2022-11-15 · 184m
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships 2022-11-11
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War 2022-11-07 · 157m
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump 2022-11-04 · 205m
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons 2022-11-02 · 191m
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI 2022-10-29 · 214m
#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview 2022-10-24 · 154m
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA 2022-10-20 · 473m
#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness 2022-10-17 · 174m
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT 2022-10-15 · 190m
#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives 2022-10-10 · 296m
#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots 2022-10-07 · 219m
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality 2022-10-05 · 166m
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots 2022-10-01 · 185m
#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker 2022-09-27
#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling 2022-09-24 · 148m
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars 2022-09-21 · 162m
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality 2022-09-17 · 102m
#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics 2022-09-14
#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame 2022-09-09 · 163m
#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness 2022-09-07 · 228m
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom 2022-09-04 · 197m
#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War 2022-08-31 · 53m
#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time 2022-08-27 · 160m
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk 2022-08-24 · 221m
#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning 2022-08-19 · 190m
#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man 2022-08-16 · 206m
#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity 2022-08-13 · 218m
#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy 2022-08-08 · 240m
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets 2022-08-04 · 323m
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens 2022-08-01 · 157m
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation 2022-07-29 · 156m
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence 2022-07-26 · 135m
#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang 2022-07-23 · 139m
#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church 2022-07-20 · 121m
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics 2022-07-17 · 217m
#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences 2022-07-14 · 171m
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