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Lex Fridman· Aug 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe War on Terror's Only Gift Was Better Luke Skywalker HandsGuest Scott Horton · Host Lex FridmanScott Horton walks Lex Fridman through fifty years of U.S. wars, from Vietnam Syndrome to Ukraine, and argues the machinery never stops because it is not supposed to.
1:49:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 13, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGuest Keyu Jin · Host Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
4:30:02ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGuest Jack Weatherford · Host Lex FridmanAnthropologist Jack Weatherford tells Lex Fridman how an abandoned boy on the Mongolian steppe built the largest contiguous empire in history—and why conquest is only part of the story.
2:28:14ENLex Fridman· Jul 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
6:08:48ENLex 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.
4:05:15ENLex Fridman· Jun 26, 2025PodcastThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Host Lex FridmanAfter the Iran-Israel ceasefire, Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz spend four hours on Lex Fridman arguing over enrichment math, a stolen archive, and whether bombing Fordo makes a weapon more likely or less.
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.
3:15:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 26, 2025PodcastDemocrats still think politics runs on money. It runs on attention.Host Lex FridmanEzra Klein and Derek Thompson tell Lex Fridman why the left keeps authorizing billions it cannot build, and why DOGE is a fight over control rather than efficiency.
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.
5:06:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 2, 2025PodcastDeepSeek's $5 million training claim and the five-year bet on computeHost Lex FridmanDylan Patel and Nathan Lambert walk Lex Fridman through DeepSeek-V3 and R1, export controls, TSMC, megaclusters, and who actually makes money in the AI race.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 639