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Lex 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.
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.
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.
2:45:26ENLex 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.
4:25:44ENLex 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.
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.
3:09:05ENLex 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.
3:17:34ENLex 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.
3:54:13ENLex 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.
57:45ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastThe last thing a totalitarian state can take is love — a reread of Orwell’s 1984Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks back through Oceania’s machinery of Newspeak, Doublethink, and Room 101, and argues that hate-fueled rebellion is not a way out.
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.
2:40:25ENLex 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.
2:46:20ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJordan Jonas Won Alone Season 6 Without Losing a PoundGuest Jordan Jonas · Host Lex FridmanThe survivalist tells Lex Fridman how a moose, a wolverine, freight trains, and a year with Evenki herders taught him to hunt, to wait, and to stay a candle when the woods go quiet.
1:47:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Cannabis Clip Sat Quiet for a Year. Then It Hit X.Guest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanAndrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about online pile-ons, still minds, sharks, ayahuasca, and the slow work of picking who you eat with.
2:51:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
2:19:08ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Asked to Vanish from the Poster. The Second Time, Hollywood Did It for HimGuest Kevin Spacey · Host Lex FridmanKevin Spacey talks with Lex Fridman about Se7en, American Beauty, House of Cards, the 2017 allegations, and a father whose study held a Nazi flag.
4:01:52ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersPaul Rosolie: The Amazon Is a Machine of Death, and Every Heartbeat in It Is Worth SavingGuest Paul Rosolie · Host Lex FridmanDeep in the Peruvian rainforest, the naturalist talks snakes, anacondas, uncontacted tribes, ayahuasca, and why he would rather protect this forest than look for aliens.
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.
2:43:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThirty-Three Minutes He Cannot RememberGuest Bassem Youssef · Host Lex FridmanComedian Bassem Youssef tells Lex Fridman why he walked into a Piers Morgan interview he expected to lose, and what Gaza, satire, and power look like from there.
2:20:04ENLex Fridman· Jan 23, 2024PodcastShapiro vs Destiny: Two Questions That Never MeetHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits Ben Shapiro and Destiny down for a long-delayed debate on liberalism, Trump, Gaza, Ukraine, January 6, and whether history is allowed to go backward.
1:50:08ENLex Fridman· Jan 9, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersJeff Beck gave his signature solo to a 21-year-old bassistGuest Tal Wilkenfeld · Host Lex FridmanTal Wilkenfeld talks with Lex Fridman about Crossroads, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and why she would rather stand on the edge of a cliff than play it safe.
2:53:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.Load moreShowing 24 of 209