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Lex Fridman Podcast

Long conversations about consciousness, code, and love

157 episodes from 11 Jan 2023 – 26 Aug 2026 · 468 hours.

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What it is

Lex Fridman sits down with researchers, engineers, historians and occasionally heads of state, and lets it run — some episodes pass ten hours. The register is earnest and the questions are broad: consciousness, war, love, what a life is for, alongside the technical detail of whatever the guest actually builds.

Who's on it

Hosted by Lex Fridman. Guests skew toward AI and the sciences, with a strong recent run of long-form history.

What it's good for asking

Questions are answered only from these episodes' transcripts, and every answer cites the episodes and timestamps it used — so you can go and check it. Things a search box can't do: "what did they say they were worried about?", "has their position changed?", "which episode was that mentioned in?"

Episodes indexed (157)

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  1. DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 26 Aug 2026 · 5h 16m
  2. Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500 12 Aug 2026 · 3h 13m
  3. Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499 28 Jul 2026 · 3h 46m
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498 30 Jun 2026 · 3h 52m
  5. Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497 29 May 2026 · 2h 54m
  6. FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496 6 May 2026 · 4h 18m
  7. Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495 9 Apr 2026 · 2h 3m
  8. Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494 23 Mar 2026 · 2h 26m
  9. Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 11 Mar 2026 · 5h 10m
  10. Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492 1 Mar 2026 · 2h 34m
  11. Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE 25 Feb 2026 · 22m
  12. OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 12 Feb 2026 · 3h 16m
  13. State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490 31 Jan 2026 · 4h 25m
  14. Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489 13 Jan 2026 · 3h 6m
  15. Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488 31 Dec 2025 · 3h 52m
  16. Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah's Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487 12 Dec 2025 · 2h 5m
  17. Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486 30 Nov 2025 · 3h 18m
  18. David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #485 17 Nov 2025 · 2h 37m
  19. Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 31 Oct 2025 · 2h 45m
  20. Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex | Lex Fridman Podcast #483 14 Oct 2025 · 2h 42m
  21. Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 30 Sep 2025 · 4h 34m
  22. Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481 19 Sep 2025 · 4h 26m
  23. Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480 4 Sep 2025 · 3h 36m
  24. Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479 29 Aug 2025 · 1h 50m
  25. Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478 24 Aug 2025 · 10h 27m
  26. Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477 13 Aug 2025 · 1h 49m
  27. Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476 31 Jul 2025 · 4h 30m
  28. Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475 23 Jul 2025 · 2h 28m
  29. DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474 12 Jul 2025 · 6h 9m
  30. Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #473 26 Jun 2025 · 4h 5m
  31. Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 14 Jun 2025 · 3h 15m
  32. Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 5 Jun 2025 · 2h 12m
  33. James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470 24 May 2025 · 3h 25m
  34. Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain | Lex Fridman Podcast #469 19 May 2025 · 2h 19m
  35. Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468 5 May 2025 · 3h 1m
  36. Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 30 Apr 2025 · 4h 25m
  37. Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466 24 Apr 2025 · 3h 4m
  38. Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking | Lex Fridman Podcast #465 16 Apr 2025 · 3h 29m
  39. Dave Smith: Israel, Hamas, Ukraine, Russia, Conspiracies & Antisemitism | Lex Fridman Podcast #464 8 Apr 2025 · 3h 19m
  40. Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza | Lex Fridman Podcast #463 30 Mar 2025 · 3h 9m
  41. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE | Lex Fridman Podcast #462 25 Mar 2025 · 3h 15m
  42. ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 22 Mar 2025 · 5h 20m
  43. Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460 16 Mar 2025 · 3h 18m
  44. DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 3 Feb 2025 · 5h 6m
  45. Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458 26 Jan 2025 · 3h 46m
  46. Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457 19 Jan 2025 · 3h 54m
  47. Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456 5 Jan 2025 · 3h 7m
  48. Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 22 Dec 2024 · 3h 27m
  49. Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454 8 Dec 2024 · 3h 35m
  50. Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453 19 Nov 2024 · 1h 57m