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Lex Fridman· Sep 16, 2026PodcastPsychiatry Has Never Found Its PenicillinHost Lex FridmanHistorian Andrew Scull tells Lex Fridman why the field can ease symptoms, has never cured a major mental illness, and keeps paying for overconfidence with patients' lives.
5:15:51ENLex Fridman· Aug 26, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDHH Did Not Write a Line of Omarchy QuattroGuest DHH · Host Lex FridmanThirteen months after a skeptical conversation with Lex Fridman, the Rails creator describes how Opus 4.5, a swarm of coding agents, and a one-minute Linux installer ended his era of hand-chiseled Ruby.
3:12:58ENLex Fridman· Aug 12, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersOne Cold Shower, Twenty Champions: How Khabib Nurmagomedov Was ForgedGuest Khabib Nurmagomedov · Host Lex FridmanIn a Makhachkala school gym, seventy men shared one shower, and the water was only cold.
3:46:18ENLex 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.
2:53:42ENLex Fridman· May 29, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Moon Is Falling. It Just Keeps Missing.Guest Biggest Mysteries in Physics · Host Lex FridmanFermilab physicist Don Lincoln tells Lex Fridman that the history of physics is a history of unification, and that antimatter, dark energy, and a theory of everything still sit far beyond the experiments we can run.
4:18:22ENLex Fridman· May 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Cycle Matters: The Volunteers Who Decode Almost All Internet VideoGuest FFmpeg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya about FFmpeg, VLC, handwritten assembly, and the unpaid crew behind YouTube, Netflix, and a rover on Mars.
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.
2:25:58ENLex Fridman· Mar 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAGI Is Already Here. Building NVIDIA Is Not.Guest Jensen Huang · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with Jensen Huang for two and a half hours on extreme co-design, CUDA, four scaling laws, and why a $1 billion AI company is easier than a durable one.
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.
2:33:48ENLex Fridman· Feb 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe First Guitar Solo Rick Beato Learned Was "Hey Joe"Guest Rick Beato · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with music educator Rick Beato about the guitarists who shaped him, how ears are trained, and whether AI can make a song worth hearing.
3:15:52ENLex Fridman· Feb 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Voice Note His Bot Couldn't Handle — and the Agent That Built Itself AnywayGuest OpenClaw · Host Lex FridmanPeter Steinberger tells Lex Fridman how a one-hour WhatsApp toy became GitHub's fastest-growing project, and what it cost him to keep it open.
4:25:13ENLex Fridman· Jan 31, 2026PodcastThe Architecture Barely Changed. Data, Cost, and Open Weights Did.Host Lex FridmanNathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka walk Lex Fridman through a year in which training methods and datasets moved more than model design, and 2026 looks like a fight over inference cost, agents, and who owns truly open models.
3:06:19ENLex Fridman· Jan 13, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThey Call Themselves Brothers: First Contact in the AmazonGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanPaul Rosolie tells Lex Fridman about a historic encounter with an uncontacted Amazon clan, a narco war on his river, and the race to buy the last wild corridor.
3:52:17ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2025PodcastSome Infinities Are Larger Than OthersHost Lex FridmanJoel David Hamkins walks Lex Fridman from Hilbert's Hotel through Gödel, the continuum hypothesis, and a set-theoretic multiverse where truth is not the same as proof.
2:05:13ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Ark Was Round: Irving Finkel on Cuneiform, Floods, and a Seal From 9000 BCGuest Irving Finkel · Host Lex FridmanA British Museum curator argues that writing is older than the textbooks say, that Noah inherited a Mesopotamian story, and that the oldest ark was a giant coracle.
3:18:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Thing Is Alive When Its Goals Outrun Its PartsGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is a spectrum of persuadability, that even a bubble sort hosts unexpected goals, and that the brain is a thin client to a space physics does not own.
2:36:55ENLex Fridman· Nov 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Second of Fuel: David Kirtley on Fusion Power by 2028Guest David Kirtley · Host Lex FridmanThe Helion Energy CEO walks Lex Fridman from 1958 theta pinches to a Microsoft contract that wants first electrons on the grid in 2028.
2:45:26ENLex Fridman· Oct 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDan Houser on Fake Worlds You Want to Live InGuest Dan Houser · Host Lex FridmanThe Rockstar co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about GTA, Red Dead Redemption, character craft, leaving the company, and why language models will not write the last five percent.
2:42:06ENLex Fridman· Oct 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe word 'evil' ends the conversationGuest Julia Shaw · Host Lex FridmanCriminal psychologist Julia Shaw talks with Lex Fridman about the dark tetrad, serial killers, jealousy, bisexuality, and why generative AI is the ultimate false-memory machine.
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.
4:25:44ENLex Fridman· Sep 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Wehrmacht's Secret Ingredient Was MethamphetamineGuest Norman Ohler · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Norman Ohler tells Lex Fridman how Pervitin, Hitler's doctor, and LSD change the story of World War II without turning drugs into a single cause.
3:36:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 4, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersT. rex Was an Orca on Land. Almost Nothing Else Matches the Movies.Guest Dave Hone · Host Lex FridmanPaleontologist Dave Hone walks Lex Fridman through T. rex size, bone-crushing anatomy, hunting, extinction, and what Jurassic Park still gets wrong.
1:50:28ENLex Fridman· Aug 29, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe 87-Kilobyte Program Two Billion People Open Every MonthGuest Dave Plummer · Host Lex FridmanDave Plummer talks Lex Fridman through Task Manager, old-school Microsoft, and how an autistic mind actually works.Load moreShowing 24 of 639