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Lex Fridman· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNinety-eight percent of American politics is the moneyGuest Cenk Uygur · Host Lex FridmanCenk Uygur tells Lex Fridman that corporatism, not left versus right, is the system that actually runs Washington — and that the only way out is to starve it of private cash.
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.
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.
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.
3:07:27ENLex Fridman· Mar 22, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Billion Dead, and One Person Has Six MinutesGuest Annie Jacobsen · Host Lex FridmanAnnie Jacobsen walks Lex Fridman from a second-by-second nuclear exchange to CIA secrecy, Area 51, and why she still wants the word “could” kept in the sentence.
3:20:00ENLex Fridman· Mar 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe last empire is still falling: Serhii Plokhy on Ukraine, Russia, and 1991Guest Serhii Plokhy · Host Lex FridmanHarvard historian Serhii Plokhy tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is the unfinished collapse of the Russian Empire — not a sudden break with history.
3:04:22ENLex Fridman· Feb 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Page Memo Told Tucker Carlson Not to Interview PutinGuest Tucker Carlson · Host Lex FridmanAfter eight days in Moscow, Carlson tells Lex Fridman why he let Vladimir Putin talk, what Navalny’s death does and does not prove, and why he thinks Washington is blocking a settlement in Ukraine.
2:22:18ENLex Fridman· Feb 1, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersOur Palestinian Casualties Are Always Your FootnotesGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman tells Lex Fridman that October 7 was a predictable explosion of occupation, and that justice means ending apartheid rather than managing it with kindness.
3:26:41ENLex Fridman· Nov 18, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThere Is No 911 in International PoliticsGuest John Mearsheimer · Host Lex FridmanJohn Mearsheimer applies offensive realism to Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, and the American century still ahead.
2:16:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
3:48:39ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersTwo million hostages, and a peace process that paid both sides to failGuest Jared Kushner · Host Lex FridmanTwo days after a long talk on Middle East peace, Lex Fridman sat down with Jared Kushner again to face Hamas’s October 7 attack.
2:14:42ENLex Fridman· Jul 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSettlers Took Half His Jerusalem House. Mohammed El-Kurd Calls It Politics, Not Real EstateGuest Mohammed El-Kurd · Host Lex FridmanThe Palestinian poet tells Lex Fridman how Sheikh Jarrah, the Nakba, and a childhood of eviction orders shape his case against treating Zionism as a religion rather than a political project.
2:44:47ENLex Fridman· Jul 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Machines Will Steal Intimacy, Not Just AttentionGuest Yuval Noah Harari · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Yuval Noah Harari tells Lex Fridman how stories built civilization, why fascism looks beautiful in the mirror, and why AI is the first tool that takes power away from humans.
1:11:11ENLex Fridman· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne of the Most Hated Men in the World Disagrees With the PremiseGuest Benjamin Netanyahu · Host Lex FridmanIn a compressed hour with Lex Fridman, Benjamin Netanyahu recasts hate, judicial reform, AI, and Israeli–Palestinian peace as problems of timing, balance, and sequence.
2:28:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Marshals Came for an Underground City. RFK Jr. Still Wants a President Who Can Say NoGuest Robert F. Kennedy Jr · Host Lex FridmanOn Independence Day 2023, Lex Fridman sat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for two and a half hours on Cuba, Ukraine, the CIA, pharma, and why the shopping cart still has to go back.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersCheap Volume Beats Gold-Plated Jets: Anduril’s Brian Schimpf on AI and DefenseHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Anduril CEO on Lattice, a school-bus-sized autonomous submarine, why Ukraine made fighter attrition unworkable, and how you actually sell a capability to the Pentagon.
3:31:03ENLex Fridman· May 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAsk for the Definition First: David Pakman on Labels, Trump, and a Tweet He Should Have Left UpGuest David Pakman · Host Lex FridmanThe progressive host sits with Lex Fridman for a long walk through political words, Trump versus Biden, January 6th, and why most of his own show sits at the top of the information food pyramid.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Civil War, Jeremi Suri argues, never actually endedGuest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanA UT Austin historian tells Lex Fridman why American institutions still carry the exclusions of the 17th through 19th centuries — and why stories, not arguments, are what move people.
4:05:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe men who trained Mexico's new police later became the ZetasGuest Ed Calderon · Host Lex FridmanEd Calderon tells Lex Fridman what counter-narcotics work in Tijuana taught him about corruption, cartels, and why honesty can be a liability.
4:15:34ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHe defended Bush in the school paper. Then they called him the Ben Shapiro of the leftGuest Destiny · Host Lex FridmanSteven Bonnell, the live-stream debater known as Destiny, tells Lex Fridman how he thinks, how he researches, and why a carpet-cleaning job flipped his politics.
2:31:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best Protection Against Evil Is Recognizing It in YourselfGuest Ben Shapiro · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Shapiro about antisemitism, the collapse of democracies, Twitter, Trump and Biden, Ukraine, faith, and why being good is harder than being great.
3:19:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin Is Rational in His Own Context. Fiona Hill Spent a Lifetime Learning ItGuest Fiona Hill · Host Lex FridmanThe Durham miner's daughter who advised three U.S. presidents tells Lex Fridman how a collapsing coalfield, a Donbas scholarship, and the 2019 impeachment circus taught her to read Vladimir Putin — and why the West keeps missing him.
3:05:57ENLex Fridman· Nov 2, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWomen, Life, Freedom: Why Iran's Youngest Generation Has Broken With the Islamic RepublicGuest Abbas Amanat · Host Lex FridmanYale historian Abbas Amanat traces the Mahsa Amini protests through a century of Iranian revolutions, the 1953 CIA coup, and a theocracy that had never existed before.
2:15:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe War That Invented the Modern American CitizenGuest Christopher Capozzola · Host Lex FridmanMIT historian Christopher Capozzola tells Lex Fridman how World War I rewired American citizenship, surveillance, and the war machine — and why those patterns still shape elections, platforms, and foreign policy.Load moreShowing 24 of 82