Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman - lexfridman.com
Latest episode: Mon May 05 2025
Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
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- May5#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions187mins
- Apr30#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming
- Apr24#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao194mins
- Apr17#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking215mins
- Apr9#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism206mins
- Mar30#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza196mins
- Mar26#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
- Mar22#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God330mins
- Mar16#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace205mins
- Feb3#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters316mins
- Jan26#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America237mins
- Jan19#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
- Jan6#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom193mins
- Dec22#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life219mins
- Dec8#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics219mins
- Nov20#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption128mins
- Nov11#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity322mins
- Oct30#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies216mins
- Oct23#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview69mins
- Oct16#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History161mins
- Oct11#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning150mins
- Oct6#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI157mins
- Sep30#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America216mins
- Sep25#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War171mins
- Sep20#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler217mins
- Sep12#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
- Sep3#442 – Donald Trump Interview72mins
- Aug30#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
- Aug20#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
- Aug14#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling141mins
- Aug2#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
- Jul21#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6176mins
- Jul2#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
- Jun28#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships117mins
- Jun19#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet191mins
- Jun13#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens181mins
- Jun5#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
- Jun2#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
- May25#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
- May15#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God252mins
- Apr22#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens164mins
- Apr20#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset155mins
- Apr17#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs180mins
- Apr13#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones179mins
- Apr5#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame168mins
- Apr2#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex116mins
- Mar29#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs143mins
- Mar25#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck96mins
- Mar22#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy192mins
- Mar18#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI122mins
- Mar14#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris304mins
- Mar10#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family113mins
- Mar7#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI174mins
- Mar4#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War207mins
- Feb27#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom192mins
- Feb20#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech221mins
- Feb16#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics112mins
- Feb2#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam151mins
- Jan23#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism145mins
- Jan17#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud367mins
- Jan9#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen115mins
- Dec29#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
- Dec24#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness135mins
- Dec14#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin140mins
- Dec9#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe207mins
- Dec3#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
- Nov25#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special107mins
- Nov18#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3215mins
- Nov9#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity147mins
- Oct11#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East234mins
- Sep28#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse72mins
- Sep25#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
- Sep18#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love231mins
- Sep10#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
- Sep1#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature145mins
- Aug17#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love140mins
- Aug1#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans179mins
- Jul24#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine143mins
- Jul17#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies172mins
- Jul12#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace77mins
- Jul6#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
- Jun30#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God195mins
- Jun22#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI195mins
- Jun18#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia199mins
- Jun13#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love144mins
- Jun8#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp167mins
- Jun5#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un131mins
- Jun2#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI218mins
- May28#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication131mins
- May24#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power194mins
- May18#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars143mins
- May16#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech115mins
- May9#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation259mins
- May6#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism216mins
- Apr28#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics152mins
- Apr21#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI155mins
- Apr16#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design124mins
- Apr13#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development173mins
- Apr10#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love231mins
- Apr4#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca218mins
- Mar30#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization202mins
- Mar25#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI148mins
- Mar21#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love110mins
- Mar14#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs273mins
- Mar10#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator135mins
- Mar6#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan174mins
- Mar2#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity116mins
- Feb25#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology137mins
- Feb20#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics190mins
- Feb15#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics145mins
- Feb10#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality242mins
- Feb7#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil202mins
- Feb2#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel321mins
- Jan28#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds230mins
- Jan25#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
- Jan21#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy193mins
- Jan17#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam187mins
- Jan11#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram144mins
- Dec29#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens167mins
- Dec22#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism232mins
- Dec19#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life132mins
- Dec15#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special227mins
- Dec12#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels251mins
- Dec9#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power231mins
- Dec6#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation153mins
- Dec3#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
- Nov29#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield169mins
- Nov26#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming202mins
- Nov22#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road182mins
- Nov18#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin256mins
- Nov15#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness184mins
- Nov11#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
- Nov7#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War156mins
- Nov4#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump204mins
- Nov2#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons191mins
- Oct29#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI213mins
- Oct24#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview153mins
- Oct20#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA473mins
- Oct17#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness174mins
- Oct15#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT189mins
- Oct10#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives295mins
- Oct7#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots218mins
- Oct5#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality166mins
- Oct1#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots185mins
- Sep27#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
- Sep24#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling148mins
- Sep21#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars162mins
- Sep17#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality102mins
- Sep14#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
- Sep9#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame162mins
- Sep7#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness227mins
- Sep4#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom197mins
- Aug31#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War52mins
- Aug27#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time159mins
- Aug24#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk221mins
- Aug19#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning190mins
- Aug16#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man205mins
- Aug13#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity218mins
- Aug8#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy239mins
- Aug4#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets322mins
- Aug1#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens157mins
- Jul29#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation156mins
- Jul26#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence135mins
- Jul23#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang139mins
- Jul20#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church120mins
- Jul17#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics216mins
- Jul14#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences171mins
- Jul9#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy223mins
- Jul4#300 – Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom109mins
- Jul1#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind137mins
- Jun28#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness125mins
- Jun25#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart169mins
- Jun21#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West164mins
- Jun17#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism179mins
- Jun15#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest172mins
- Jun12#293 – Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth203mins
- Jun9#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity258mins
- Jun4#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media108mins
- May30#290 – Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons138mins
- May25#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine169mins
- May23#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan261mins
- May20#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power105mins
- May17#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine119mins
- May14#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture218mins
- May11#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics261mins
- May8#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space181mins
- May4#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences218mins
- Apr29#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity131mins
- Apr27#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO74mins
- Apr24#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin251mins
- Apr20#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering154mins
- Apr17#277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship211mins
- Apr14#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money242mins
- Apr10#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer207mins
- Apr7#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry207mins
- Apr3#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence174mins
- Mar27#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal233mins
- Mar23#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures112mins
- Mar16#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism137mins
- Mar11#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness252mins
- Mar5#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology175mins
- Feb26#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse125mins
- Feb20#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar127mins
- Feb16#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
- Feb13#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity163mins
- Feb11#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma144mins
- Feb6#262 – Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens110mins
- Feb3#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind173mins
- Jan30#260 – Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time
- Jan26#259 – Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and the Rolling Stones143mins
- Jan22#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning171mins
- Jan18#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize246mins
- Jan15#256 – Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony184mins
- Jan8#255 – Mark Normand: Comedy!118mins
- Jan4#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns148mins
- Dec31#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special212mins
- Dec28#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI159mins
- Dec25#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires100mins
- Dec23#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality173mins
- Dec18#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO74mins
- Dec13#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power145mins
- Dec8#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory301mins
- Dec3#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong143mins
- Nov30#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling63mins
- Nov28#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East169mins
- Nov23#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram172mins
- Nov20#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA141mins
- Nov16#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics200mins
- Nov11#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity167mins
- Nov8#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth168mins
- Nov5#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)93mins
- Nov3#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream199mins
- Oct31#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions150mins
- Oct29#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing113mins
- Oct27#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality225mins
- Oct23#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society76mins
- Oct20#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning112mins
- Oct16#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights160mins
- Oct14#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
- Oct10#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
- Oct5#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
- Sep30#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
- Sep27#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
- Sep26#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
- Sep23#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
- Sep21#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
- Sep20#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
- Sep15#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
- Sep11#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11169mins
- Sep9#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life147mins
- Sep6#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI118mins
- Sep3#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics150mins
- Sep1#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines215mins
- Aug29#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI178mins
- Aug27#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science118mins
- Aug23#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built150mins
- Aug21#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness198mins
- Aug15#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
- Aug11#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
- Aug9#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers182mins
- Aug8#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence145mins
- Aug3#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength168mins
- Jul31#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
- Jul29#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running186mins
- Jul26#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory138mins
- Jul23#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat110mins
- Jul21#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics162mins
- Jul19#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System165mins
- Jul15#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy164mins
- Jul11#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel135mins
- Jul9#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds125mins
- Jul5#197 – Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline123mins
- Jul1#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea126mins
- Jun28#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets124mins
- Jun25#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic202mins
- Jun21#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks185mins
- Jun16#192 – Charles Hoskinson: Cardano304mins
- Jun14#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction261mins
- Jun13#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries167mins
- Jun7#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years109mins
- Jun3#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0188mins
- May29#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens150mins
- May24#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces157mins
- May20#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning203mins
- May17#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System122mins
- May14#183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing147mins
- May9#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA223mins
- May1#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
- Apr30#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power134mins
- Apr26#179 – Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting
- Apr24#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy
- Apr19#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation122mins
- Apr17#176 – Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles249mins
- Apr12#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy117mins
- Apr10#174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity135mins
- Apr1#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates152mins
- Mar30#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses152mins
- Mar25#171 – Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin188mins
- Mar22#170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil111mins
- Mar20#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles180mins
- Mar15#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum120mins
- Mar14#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power196mins
- Mar5#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media189mins
- Mar1#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts138mins
- Feb28#164 – Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity & the Limits of the Human Mind178mins
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