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Lex Fridman· Jul 12, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNobody Serious Believes Cookie Banners Help AnyoneGuest DHH · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with David Heinemeier Hansson for six hours about Ruby, Rails, AI, leaving the cloud, Apple's App Store, and why a small company can still refuse other people's money.
3:14:34ENLex Fridman· Jun 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIf ten things make a problem hard, Terence Tao turns nine of them offGuest Terence Tao · Host Lex FridmanThe Fields Medalist walks Lex Fridman from the Kakeya needle and Navier-Stokes through Lean, Perelman, and why today's AI still cannot smell a dead-end proof.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Five-Year Phone Queue to 480 Trillion Tokens a MonthGuest Sundar Pichai · Host Lex FridmanSundar Pichai talks with Lex Fridman about Chennai, the AI package, Search, Chrome, Waymo, and why he stayed calm when the headlines said Google was finished.
3:24:36ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA tank man came home and could not stayGuest James Holland · Host Lex FridmanHistorian James Holland tells Lex Fridman why World War II was an ideological war of factories, letters, and logistics — and why Germany could not win it.
2:19:08ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOliver Anthony sang the pain of working America, then refused the machineGuest Oliver Anthony · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with the Virginia singer-songwriter whose carport hit became a working-class anthem, and who still treats fame as a test of integrity rather than a prize.
3:00:50ENLex Fridman· May 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Black Hole Is a Place, Not a ThingGuest Janna Levin · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Janna Levin tells Lex Fridman why the event horizon is empty spacetime, why Hawking’s radiation started a war over information, and why gravity itself may not be fundamental.
4:25:19ENLex Fridman· Apr 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA shareware text editor, a 30-hour binge, and a five-year war with AppleGuest Tim Sweeney · Host Lex FridmanTim Sweeney traces Unreal Engine’s thirty-year climb, the four-week birth of Fortnite Battle Royale, a new language for the metaverse, and why he thinks Apple is on the wrong side of computing history.
3:04:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersXi Jinping Revived China's Personality Cult. He Did Not Revive Mao's Chaos.Guest Jeffrey Wasserstrom · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Confucius, Tiananmen, censorship, the 2025 trade war, Hong Kong's warning to Taiwan, and why history has no straight road.
3:29:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobert Rodriguez: Sift the Ashes, Keep the Pipe Open, Don't BlinkGuest Robert Rodriguez · Host Lex FridmanThe director of El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel tells Lex Fridman how limitation, failure, sound, and identity became his method.
3:19:00ENLex Fridman· Apr 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGuest Dave Smith · Host Lex FridmanComedian and libertarian Dave Smith tells Lex Fridman that American wars keep manufacturing enemies, that Gaza and Ukraine follow the same arithmetic, and that long conversations broke the old monopoly on selling war.
3:09:05ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.
5:20:08ENLex Fridman· Mar 22, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThePrimeagen Would Rather Redesign the Room Than Trust WillpowerGuest ThePrimeagen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Michael Paulson about linked lists, Netflix, Neovim, ADHD, addiction, AI, and the night he says God gave him a conscience.
3:17:34ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGuest Narendra Modi · Host Lex FridmanAfter forty-five hours on water, Lex Fridman sits down with India's prime minister for a three-hour conversation on poverty, faith, war, and what holds a civilization together.
3:45:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 26, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDecline Is a Choice: Marc Andreessen on Power, Censorship, and a Second Roaring TwentiesGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanThe United States is adding a trillion dollars of national debt every 100 days — and Andreessen says the boom is still there if the country wants it.
3:54:13ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFriedman Followed the Data. Rand Started From Axioms. Both Defended Capitalism.Guest Jennifer Burns · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jennifer Burns tells Lex Fridman how Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand reached individualism by opposite roads, and why freedom—not desert—became Friedman’s ethic.
3:06:39ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersZelenskyy Refused to Speak Russian. Then He Explained Why a Pause Is Not PeaceGuest Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Host Lex FridmanUkraine's president tells Lex Fridman why language, NATO, and leverage all come back to a ceasefire that already failed.
3:26:39ENLex Fridman· Dec 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Pessimism Line: Why Earth Is Almost Certainly Not the First CivilizationGuest Adam Frank · Host Lex FridmanAstrophysicist Adam Frank talks with Lex Fridman about habitable worlds, the Fermi paradox, technosignatures, and why science cannot ignore experience.
3:35:06ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe 18-year-old who cannot remember America without TrumpGuest Saagar Enjeti · Host Lex FridmanSaagar Enjeti tells Lex Fridman why 2024 realigned the country along a college degree, and why MAGA is a rejection of cultural elitism rather than a policy program.
1:57:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Difference Between a Madman and a Genius Is SuccessGuest Javier Milei · Host Lex FridmanArgentina's president tells Lex Fridman how a libertarian economist tried to stop hyperinflation without becoming, in his words, a liberal fool.
5:15:00ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDario Amodei Has Seen This Scaling Movie Enough TimesGuest Dario Amodei · Host Lex FridmanAnthropic’s CEO puts numbers on frontier training costs and AGI, then hands the mic to the people who shape Claude’s character and look inside its weights.
3:28:19ENLex Fridman· Oct 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Okhrana Infiltrated Every Revolutionary Party. Then the Tsar Fell Anyway.Guest Rick Spence · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Rick Spence walks Lex Fridman through spies, cults, forged plots, and the difference between knowing and believing.
2:33:02ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Brain Like Ours — and 300,000 Years Without a MonumentGuest Graham Hancock · Host Lex FridmanGraham Hancock tells Lex Fridman why Göbekli Tepe, the Younger Dryas, and a worldwide set of myths still look to him like the wreckage of an Ice Age civilization.
2:23:05ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWeak Men Aren't Good. They're Just WeakGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanJordan Peterson returns to Lex Fridman's podcast for a two-hour walk from Nietzsche's aphorisms through power, God, envy, psychopathy, and three years of pain that reset every night.
2:29:04ENLex Fridman· Oct 6, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKeep the Programmer in the Driver's Seat: Cursor's Founders on Tab, Agents, and Zero-Entropy EditingGuest Cursor Team · Host Lex FridmanMichael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark tell Lex Fridman why they forked VS Code, how Tab and Apply actually work, and why most programming still needs a human iterating in real time.Load moreShowing 24 of 526