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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.
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.
3:35:06ENLex 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.
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.
3:32:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhen a Company Fails, Blame the Board: Bill Ackman on Value, Harvard, and a Journalist With a PenGuest Bill Ackman · Host Lex FridmanThe Pershing Square founder walks Lex Fridman from Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market through activist battles, campus ideology, and a looming fight with Business Insider.
2:09:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA Fight Is Not a Fight Until There Is Something to OvercomeGuest Teddy Atlas · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman came to talk boxing with Teddy Atlas and stayed for a story about loyalty, fear, and the night Cus D'Amato chose Mike Tyson.
2:11:32ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are a Thousand Ways to Be Smart: Jeff Bezos on Amazon and the Road to SpaceGuest Jeff Bezos · Host Lex FridmanIn a two-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Amazon founder talks through ranch self-reliance, New Glenn, Day One culture, and why he treats large language models as discoveries.
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.
2:28:37ENLex 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.
2:19:00ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersLess Impressed, More Involved: Matthew McConaughey on Messy Love and a Live LifeGuest Matthew McConaughey · Host Lex FridmanThe Oscar-winning actor talks with Lex Fridman about his parents' violent romance, the death of his father, green lights, and why some wounds should be kicked off the curb.
4:27:46ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHalf a Million Girls in Wells, and We Still Change the ChannelGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris tells Lex Fridman why emotional contagion is a bad moral compass, why Trump broke norms more than laws, and why Twitter, COVID, and AGI all look like failures of seriousness.
2:10:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy without agreement: Chris Voss on talking to kidnappers and anyone elseGuest Chris Voss · Host Lex FridmanThe former FBI hostage negotiator tells Lex Fridman why feelings, not reason, close deals — and why “that’s right” is the sentence he hunts for.
2:50:03ENLex Fridman· Mar 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAll I see is silverGuest B-Team Jiu Jitsu · Host Lex FridmanCraig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan on winning, the Death Squad split, and why a brown belt still will not take a black belt.
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.
2:59:33ENLex Fridman· Dec 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersRoger Gracie Cleared His Mind, Conserved Every Move, and Refused to Be Number TwoGuest Roger Gracie · Host Lex FridmanThe ten-time world champion walks Lex Fridman through the Buchecha rematch, why tapping is intelligence, and how a late-starting chubby kid decided to become the best in the world.
2:57:24ENLex Fridman· Nov 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skill a Child Learns Under a Tree Is How to Calibrate ViolenceGuest Chamath Palihapitiya · Host Lex FridmanChamath Palihapitiya talks with Lex Fridman about a violent childhood, money, poker, energy, startups, and why happiness is not behind the velvet rope.
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.
2:48:42ENLex Fridman· Oct 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Forty Games Hikaru Nakamura Still Calls a MistakeGuest Hikaru Nakamura · Host Lex FridmanThe world's top blitz player on a 1 a.m. hotel match with Magnus Carlsen, Kasparov's Berlin files, and why "I literally don't care" is a livelihood, not a meme.
2:39:40ENLex Fridman· Oct 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Self That Swoops In to Decide Is Not ThereGuest Annaka Harris · Host Lex FridmanAnnaka Harris tells Lex Fridman why conscious will is an illusion, why a pea tendril is a better picture of choice than an inner agent, and why she now treats consciousness as a possible fundamental of physics.
2:21:28ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Seventh-Best Player in the World Is Still the SuckerGuest Daniel Negreanu · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Negreanu talks with Lex Fridman about tells, solvers, variance, and why finding the right table beats being ranked seventh.
2:31:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMagnus Carlsen would rather trust the numbers than the fairy taleGuest Magnus Carlsen · Host Lex FridmanThe highest-rated chess player in history tells Lex Fridman how he defines greatness, why he stopped defending the world title, and what a two-dimensional board in his head actually looks like.
3:35:40ENLex Fridman· Aug 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLiv Boeree on Moloch, Useful Fictions, and Why Luck Keeps Poker AliveGuest Liv Boeree · Host Lex FridmanThe poker champion and science educator talks with Lex Fridman about game theory, attention, simulation, aliens, and the existential races that look like games nobody can quit.Load moreShowing 24 of 77