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2:33:48ENThe 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.
2:45:26ENDan 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.
3:29:02ENRobert 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.
2:19:08ENHe 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.
1:50:08ENJeff 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.
2:07:49ENNobody 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.
2:18:25ENGrow 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.
2:19:00ENLess 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.
2:08:04ENThe 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.
1:59:13ENSimone 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.
2:44:52ENDon'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.
2:21:55ENWill 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.
1:41:21ENDon'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.
1:59:43ENFavorite 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.
2:12:00ENWhen 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.
1:39:09ENBobby 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.
2:04:58ENWe'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.
2:29:08ENStarvation 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.
2:04:16ENPlease 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.
2:16:40ENEach 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.
1:50:07ENBombing Is Data: Mark Normand on Love, Comedy, and Eating Shit EarlyGuest Mark Normand · Host Lex FridmanStand-up comedian Mark Normand talks with Lex Fridman about keeping love in shape, growing up the odd kid in New Orleans, why open-mic hell is comedy’s first level, and when a joke is finally done.
3:23:42ENBeauty will save the world — Michael Malice's New Year's case for hopeGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn New Year's Eve 2021, Lex Fridman and Michael Malice talk through Dostoevsky, evil, Austin, anarchism, and why a cheap GoBot on a Brooklyn shelf still counts as proof.
2:39:51ENChemical Rockets Are an Accident of HistoryGuest Neal Stephenson · Host Lex FridmanNeal Stephenson talks with Lex Fridman about WWII’s leftover launchers, why the stars need a religion, AR baby goats, and why fun is a better goal than greatness.
1:26:20ENRZA: You Can Be Wisdom. You Cannot Raise the Dead.Guest RZA · Host Lex FridmanThe Wu-Tang Clan architect talks with Lex Fridman about his mother's death, kung fu, chess, Allah, and why confusion is a gift.
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