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Lex 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.
2:33:02ENLex 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.
2:39:40ENLex 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.
4:06:06ENLex Fridman· Oct 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItGuest Kelsi Sheren · Host Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
1:52:28ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Die Before You Die: Brian Muraresku's Secret History of PsychedelicsGuest Brian Muraresku · Host Lex FridmanThe author of The Immortality Key tells Lex Fridman why ancient wine was a drug, why Eleusis mattered more than democracy, and why mystics keep running toward death.
2:36:06ENLex Fridman· Jul 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Experience Is Not in the Pill. Rick Doblin Spent Decades Proving the Context Is.Guest Rick Doblin · Host Lex FridmanThe MAPS founder walks Lex Fridman from Huxley's reducing valve to a Phase 3 MDMA trial for PTSD, arguing that legality, safety, and culture matter more than new molecules.
3:17:20ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe illusion of free will is itself an illusionGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris talks with Lex Fridman about consciousness, psychedelics, AI, UFOs, jiu-jitsu, and why meaning appears only when attention stops looking elsewhere.
3:39:01ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMatthew Johnson on loosening the priors that run a human lifeGuest Matthew Johnson · Host Lex FridmanThe Johns Hopkins psychiatrist walks Lex Fridman through receptors, addiction, DMT entities, a 15-person smoking trial, and why psychedelics have taught us almost nothing about the hard problem of consciousness.