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Lex Fridman· Jul 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGuest Gary Gallagher · Host Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
3:51:47ENLex Fridman· Jun 30, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGuest Anthony Kaldellis · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
2:03:23ENLex Fridman· Apr 9, 2026PodcastWe Have No King: How Viking Raiders Remade Medieval EuropeHost Lex FridmanHistorian Lars Brownworth walks Lex Fridman from Lindisfarne to Vinland, arguing that three centuries of raids were a lesson in speed, pragmatism, and creative destruction.
5:10:12ENLex Fridman· Mar 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersYou Don't Need a CFO to Make World of WarcraftGuest Jeff Kaplan · Host Lex FridmanJeff Kaplan traces the line from 6,000 hours of EverQuest to Overwatch's six-week origin, Titan's collapse, and a 34-person studio that refuses to hand the golden goose over.
4:34:10ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
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.
2:12:04ENLex 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.
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.
3:09:05ENLex 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.
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.
3:06:39ENLex 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.
3:35:06ENLex 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.
1:02:32ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2024PodcastThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItHost Lex FridmanBernie Sanders tells Lex Fridman why drug lobbyists, campaign cash, and a healthcare system built for profit keep the biggest American problems off the table.
2:40:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
3:42:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRome Always Raised Another ArmyGuest Gregory Aldrete · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
1:04:17ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2024PodcastTrump Tells Lex Fridman the Stick Usually WinsHost Lex FridmanDays before debating Kamala Harris, the former president talked winning, Ukraine, the 2020 election, and the border chart he still carries.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCraig Jones Drove a Bag of Cash to Rogan — Then Put $2 Million on a Jiu-Jitsu MatGuest Craig Jones · Host Lex FridmanThe Australian grappler tells Lex Fridman how a Kazakhstan horse pit led to Ukraine, FPV drones, coral-belt trolling, and a tournament scheduled against ADCC.
3:04:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
2:27:51ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNeil Adams Still Wakes in a Sweat From an Olympic Final He Cannot ReachGuest Neil Adams · Host Lex FridmanThe judo world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist talks with Lex Fridman about Moscow, Los Angeles, the luxury of danger, and why a real champion is the one who does the right thing when they lose.
1:50:42ENLex Fridman· Apr 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe List Never Became Routine: Tulsi Gabbard on War, Power, and the Six-Minute DecisionGuest Tulsi Gabbard · Host Lex FridmanA combat veteran and former congresswoman walks Lex Fridman through Iraq’s casualty lists, the military-industrial revolving door, Ukraine, a bill that is not about TikTok, and what a president must do in six minutes.
2:13:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Sold Garbage Bags at 12. The Pitch Hasn't Changed.Guest Mark Cuban · Host Lex FridmanMark Cuban tells Lex Fridman that selling is helping, a billion requires luck, DEI is not a mind virus, and drug prices stay high because three middlemen hide the math.Load moreShowing 24 of 99