All Episodes

#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football

#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee

#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires

#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age

#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins

#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths

#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories

#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao

#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America

#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom

#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity

#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War

#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism

#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships

#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God

#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

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

#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI

#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

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

#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud

#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

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

#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse

#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love

#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin

#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love

#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God

#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI

#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un

#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication

#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power

#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars

#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation

#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics

#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design

#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love

#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator

#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan

#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics

#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics

#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality

#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy

#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam

#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram

#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens

#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time

#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road

#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness

#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview

#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots

#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots

#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker

#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling

#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality

#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics

#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame

#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness

#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning

#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom

#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism

#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth

#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship

#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer

#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal

#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism

#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology

#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling

#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time

#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones

#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony

#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!

#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires

#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO

#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory

#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling

#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East

#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society

#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning

#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love

#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution

#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death

#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness

#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines

#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI

#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built

#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep

#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength

#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics

#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds

#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline

#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano

#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System

#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing

#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks

#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power

#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting

#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles

#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity

#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin

#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil

#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles

#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind

#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

#161 – Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

#159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading

#158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds

#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom

Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions

#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos

#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education

#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance

#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History

#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art

#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle

#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive

#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI

#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security

#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning

#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence

#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus

#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI

#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence

Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm

Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

Michael Stevens: Vsauce

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare

Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Colin Angle: iRobot

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots

Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify

Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley

Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health

Gavin Miller: Adobe Research

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI

Eric Schmidt: Google

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Guido van Rossum: Python

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Christof Koch: Consciousness

Max Tegmark: Life 3.0