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Lex 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.
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.
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.
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.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 10, 2023PodcastSudowrite sold getting unstuck — then eight million people watched a pile-onHost Nathan LabenzJames Yu tells Nathan Labenz how a GPT-3 toy for fiction became a hierarchical “IDE for storytelling,” and what a viral backlash taught him about craft, cost, and customers.
2:32:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 12, 2023PodcastGPT-4 Failed a Hollow Top Hat. Hollywood's AI Deal Closed Only Half the Loopholes.Host Nathan LabenzWriter Trey Kollmer returns with a strike update, a copyright briefing, and a riddle that still fools the best model.
2:07:49ENLex Fridman· Sep 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNobody avoids getting scarred. The question is how you deal with itGuest Walter Isaacson · Host Lex FridmanWalter Isaacson talks with Lex Fridman about the childhoods, demons, and working methods of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Benjamin Franklin.
2:18:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
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.
2:08:04ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe First Time Bert Kreischer Tells a Joke, It's Already PerfectGuest Bert Kreischer · Host Lex FridmanThe comedian talks with Lex Fridman about Hemingway, Churchill, drinking, trust, and why he stopped trying to be a serious guy.
1:59:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
2:44:52ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Try to Pen Them In: Todd Howard on Skyrim, Starfield, and Accidental DoorsGuest Todd Howard · Host Lex FridmanThe Bethesda Game Studios director on saying yes to players, leaving a test cell full of every weapon, and why Starfield's empty planets are the point.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
2:21:55ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWill Sasso Respects Stand-Up Too Much to Do ItGuest Will Sasso · Host Lex FridmanThe MADtv veteran tells Lex Fridman why he never became a stand-up, why impressions work from the outside in, and why he thinks AI is running the same illusion.
1:41:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't take in the opinion of the worldGuest Joe Rogan · Host Lex FridmanJoe Rogan talks with Lex Fridman about surviving a media pile-on, why Kill Tony exists, and why he wants UFOs to be real too badly to trust himself on them.
1:59:43ENLex Fridman· Jun 28, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFavorite happy songs get 175 plays. The sad ones get 800.Guest Susan Cain · Host Lex FridmanSusan Cain talks with Lex Fridman about introvert energy, bittersweet creativity, and why the longing itself is the cure.
2:12:00ENLex Fridman· May 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen the Plane Went Down, Dan Reynolds Felt NothingGuest Dan Reynolds · Host Lex FridmanThe Imagine Dragons frontman talks with Lex Fridman about C#, ayahuasca, the trap of fame, and the pop prison he built thinking it was a mansion.
1:39:09ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBobby Lee Was Not Invited to the WeddingGuest Bobby Lee · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the comedian about a snub that still stings, twelve-hour Skyrim grinds, sex robots, Khalyla, relapse, and the chances he never asks for.
2:04:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
2:29:08ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersStarvation Is a Weapon. Skye Fitzgerald Still Puts the Camera Down.Guest Skye Fitzgerald · Host Lex FridmanNearly 811 million people are hungry today, and 45 million stand at the edge of famine across 43 countries — while the food to feed them already exists.
2:04:16ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPlease Don't Say That: Rick Rubin on Protecting the Room Where Art HappensGuest Rick Rubin · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the producer about listening blank, ruthless editing, Johnny Cash's "Hurt," and why a compliment can break a session.
2:16:40ENLex Fridman· Jan 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEach Blockbuster Is a Startup. The Chocolate River Kills It.Guest Thomas Tull · Host Lex FridmanThomas Tull tells Lex Fridman how a novice raised institutional capital for Hollywood, then applied the same judgment to AI, mammoths, the Steelers, and a Rolling Stones tour.Load moreShowing 24 of 50