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Lex Fridman Podcast
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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Episodes
  • 2024 / 10 / 30
    #451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

    Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors:...

  • 2024 / 10 / 23
    #450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

    Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep450-sc See below for timestamps,...

  • 2024 / 10 / 16
    #449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

    Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global...

  • 2024 / 10 / 11
    #448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

    Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep448-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to...

  • 2024 / 10 / 6
    #447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

    Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors:...

  • 2024 / 9 / 30
    #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

    Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center, host of the ArchaeoEd Podcast, and lecturer on the...

  • 2024 / 9 / 25
    #445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

    Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, including his latest titled Truths: The Future of America First. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our...

  • 2024 / 9 / 20
    #444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

    Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our...

  • 2024 / 9 / 12
    #443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

    Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep443-sc See below for timestamps,...

  • 2024 / 9 / 3
    #442 – Donald Trump Interview

    Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US Presidential Election. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors:...

  • 2024 / 8 / 30
    #441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

    Cenk Uygur is a progressive political commentator and host of The Young Turks. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep441-sc See below for timestamps, transcript,...

  • 2024 / 8 / 20
    #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

    Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out...

  • 2024 / 8 / 14
    #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

    Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 million in prize money. Thank you for listening ❀ Check out our...

  • 2024 / 8 / 2
    #438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

    Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at...

  • 2024 / 7 / 21
    #437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

    Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely...

  • 2024 / 7 / 2
    #436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

    Ivanka Trump is a businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President of the United States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked:...

  • 2024 / 6 / 28
    #435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

    Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex to get $350 off -...

  • 2024 / 6 / 19
    #434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

    Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked:...

  • 2024 / 6 / 13
    #433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

    Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence". Please support this podcast by checking out...

  • 2024 / 6 / 5
    #432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

    Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating haunting performances of characters who often embody the dark side of...

  • 2024 / 6 / 2
    #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

    Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Yahoo Finance:...

  • 2024 / 5 / 25
    #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

    Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2024 / 5 / 15
    #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

    Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Support his efforts at https://junglekeepers.org Please support this...

  • 2024 / 4 / 22
    #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

    Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - HiddenLayer: https://hiddenlayer.com/lex - Cloaked:...

  • 2024 / 4 / 20
    #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

    Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: -...

  • 2024 / 4 / 17
    #426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

    Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.com - Listening:...

  • 2024 / 4 / 13
    #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

    Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the so-called vagrants, vagabonds, runaways, outlaws, from QAnon...

  • 2024 / 4 / 5
    #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

    Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - AG1: https://drinkag1.com/lex to get 1...

  • 2024 / 4 / 2
    #423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

    Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Riverside: https://creators.riverside.fm/LEX and use code LEX to get 30%...

  • 2024 / 3 / 29
    #422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

    Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus Drugs. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: -...

  • 2024 / 3 / 25
    #421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

    Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Notion: https://notion.com/lex - AG1:...

  • 2024 / 3 / 22
    #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

    Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Please support this podcast by checking...

  • 2024 / 3 / 18
    #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

    Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked:...

  • 2024 / 3 / 14
    #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

    Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2024 / 3 / 10
    #417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

    Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex to get...

  • 2024 / 3 / 7
    #416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

    Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2024 / 3 / 4
    #415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

    Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The...

  • 2024 / 2 / 27
    #414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

    Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2024 / 2 / 20
    #413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

    Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Please support this podcast by checking...

  • 2024 / 2 / 16
    #412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

    Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2024 / 2 / 2
    #411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam

    Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Shopify:...

  • 2024 / 1 / 23
    #410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

    Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a...

  • 2024 / 1 / 17
    #409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

    Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author of many books, including his memoir Shark in the Housing Pool, and...

  • 2024 / 1 / 9
    #408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

    Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Incubus, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Hans...

  • 2023 / 12 / 29
    #407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

    Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our...

  • 2023 / 12 / 24
    #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

    Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion:...

  • 2023 / 12 / 14
    #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

    Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. Thank you for listening ❀ Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com - Policygenius:...

  • 2023 / 12 / 9
    #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

    Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - BetterHelp:...

  • 2023 / 12 / 3
    #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

    Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Babbel: https://babbel.com/lexpod and use code Lexpod to get 55% off - Notion:...

  • 2023 / 11 / 25
    #402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

    Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Policygenius: https://www.policygenius.com/ - MasterClass:...