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Lex Fridman Podcast — 503 episodes · page 1 of 6

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#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

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

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

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#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

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

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

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

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

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#442 – Donald Trump Interview

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

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

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

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#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

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