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Lex Fridman· Mar 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDana White Built the UFC From What He Loved — and Hated — About BoxingGuest Dana White · Host Lex FridmanThe UFC president tells Lex Fridman how a $2 million bargain, a jiu-jitsu mat, and a lifetime of fight-fan grudges became a global sport.
1:47:08ENLex Fridman· Mar 10, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKimbal Musk Cooks So People Will Sit DownGuest Kimbal Musk · Host Lex FridmanThe chef, Tesla board member, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook talks with Lex Fridman about apartheid South Africa, a broken neck, Zip2, and why a table beats a nightclub.
3:04:22ENLex Fridman· Feb 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Page Memo Told Tucker Carlson Not to Interview PutinGuest Tucker Carlson · Host Lex FridmanAfter eight days in Moscow, Carlson tells Lex Fridman why he let Vladimir Putin talk, what Navalny’s death does and does not prove, and why he thinks Washington is blocking a settlement in Ukraine.
3:32:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhen a Company Fails, Blame the Board: Bill Ackman on Value, Harvard, and a Journalist With a PenGuest Bill Ackman · Host Lex FridmanThe Pershing Square founder walks Lex Fridman from Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market through activist battles, campus ideology, and a looming fight with Business Insider.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
2:09:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA Fight Is Not a Fight Until There Is Something to OvercomeGuest Teddy Atlas · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman came to talk boxing with Teddy Atlas and stayed for a story about loyalty, fear, and the night Cus D'Amato chose Mike Tyson.
2:11:32ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are a Thousand Ways to Be Smart: Jeff Bezos on Amazon and the Road to SpaceGuest Jeff Bezos · Host Lex FridmanIn a two-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Amazon founder talks through ranch self-reliance, New Glenn, Day One culture, and why he treats large language models as discoveries.
3:48:39ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersTwo million hostages, and a peace process that paid both sides to failGuest Jared Kushner · Host Lex FridmanTwo days after a long talk on Middle East peace, Lex Fridman sat down with Jared Kushner again to face Hamas’s October 7 attack.
2:07:49ENLex Fridman· Sep 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNobody avoids getting scarred. The question is how you deal with itGuest Walter Isaacson · Host Lex FridmanWalter Isaacson talks with Lex Fridman about the childhoods, demons, and working methods of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Benjamin Franklin.
1:11:11ENLex Fridman· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne of the Most Hated Men in the World Disagrees With the PremiseGuest Benjamin Netanyahu · Host Lex FridmanIn a compressed hour with Lex Fridman, Benjamin Netanyahu recasts hate, judicial reform, AI, and Israeli–Palestinian peace as problems of timing, balance, and sequence.
2:28:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
2:19:00ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersLess Impressed, More Involved: Matthew McConaughey on Messy Love and a Live LifeGuest Matthew McConaughey · Host Lex FridmanThe Oscar-winning actor talks with Lex Fridman about his parents' violent romance, the death of his father, green lights, and why some wounds should be kicked off the curb.
1:51:12ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
2:10:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy without agreement: Chris Voss on talking to kidnappers and anyone elseGuest Chris Voss · Host Lex FridmanThe former FBI hostage negotiator tells Lex Fridman why feelings, not reason, close deals — and why “that’s right” is the sentence he hunts for.
2:50:03ENLex Fridman· Mar 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAll I see is silverGuest B-Team Jiu Jitsu · Host Lex FridmanCraig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan on winning, the Death Squad split, and why a brown belt still will not take a black belt.
1:52:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhen Ginni Rometty Took IBM, Only Two in Ten Had the Skills the Future RequiredGuest Ginni Rometty · Host Lex FridmanThe former IBM CEO talks with Lex Fridman about changing a century-old company, hiring for curiosity, and using power without turning cold.
2:13:07ENLex Fridman· Feb 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Worked Scientology Full-Time and Never Learned What It Believed at the TopGuest Aaron Smith-Levin · Host Lex FridmanFormer Sea Org member Aaron Smith-Levin walks Lex Fridman from thetans and Dianetics to billion-year contracts, OT levels, and the family-destruction policy he uses to call it a cult.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Civil War, Jeremi Suri argues, never actually endedGuest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanA UT Austin historian tells Lex Fridman why American institutions still carry the exclusions of the 17th through 19th centuries — and why stories, not arguments, are what move people.
4:05:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe men who trained Mexico's new police later became the ZetasGuest Ed Calderon · Host Lex FridmanEd Calderon tells Lex Fridman what counter-narcotics work in Tijuana taught him about corruption, cartels, and why honesty can be a liability.
2:57:24ENLex Fridman· Nov 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skill a Child Learns Under a Tree Is How to Calibrate ViolenceGuest Chamath Palihapitiya · Host Lex FridmanChamath Palihapitiya talks with Lex Fridman about a violent childhood, money, poker, energy, startups, and why happiness is not behind the velvet rope.
3:19:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin Is Rational in His Own Context. Fiona Hill Spent a Lifetime Learning ItGuest Fiona Hill · Host Lex FridmanThe Durham miner's daughter who advised three U.S. presidents tells Lex Fridman how a collapsing coalfield, a Donbas scholarship, and the 2019 impeachment circus taught her to read Vladimir Putin — and why the West keeps missing him.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
4:48:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Danaher: A Broken Team, a Year of Grind, and Why Confidence Isn't MentalGuest John Danaher · Host Lex FridmanAfter ADCC 2022, the New Zealand coach walks through a rebuild that began with no gym and ended with the event's strongest team showing—then ranges into Gordon Ryan, animal combat, and the metaphor of the knife.
2:15:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe War That Invented the Modern American CitizenGuest Christopher Capozzola · Host Lex FridmanMIT historian Christopher Capozzola tells Lex Fridman how World War I rewired American citizenship, surveillance, and the war machine — and why those patterns still shape elections, platforms, and foreign policy.Load moreShowing 24 of 102