Lex Fridman Podcast

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

#18 trending · Technology

DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/spon

Aug 26
5 h 21 min

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

Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russ

Aug 12

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

Gary Gallagher is a historian of the American Civil War. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep499-sc See below for timest

Jul 28
3 h 53 min

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

Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Thank

Jun 30

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

Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors:

May 29
3 h 01 min

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

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infa

May 6
4 h 23 min

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

Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check

Apr 9
2 h 09 min

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

Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ Check

Mar 23

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

Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Ki

Mar 11

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

Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube chann

Mar 1

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

Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out

Feb 12

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

Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and

Feb 1

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

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Thank yo

Jan 13
3 h 14 min

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

Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rate

Dec 31 2025

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

Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian history and cuneiform writing. He

Dec 12 2025

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

Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological systems. Thank you for listening

Nov 30 2025

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

David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion power plant by 2028. Thank you for

Nov 17 2025

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

Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of video games. Thank you for li

Oct 31 2025
2 h 54 min

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

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogatio

Oct 14 2025
2 h 48 min

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

Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep482-sc See below for timestamps, tra

Oct 1 2025
4 h 42 min

Chart positions

Where Lex Fridman Podcast ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 9, 2026).

#14 ▼ 2 Technology US

What listeners say

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Lex has a remarkably open and curious mind. He asks thoughtful questions and let’s his guest express their point of view. I have learned a lot from this podcast over the years. We need more discussion like this in our polarized world.

Algo Rhythm · Jun 2026

That was easily one of the most powerful podcasts I’ve ever listened to. It was completely riveting—Matt Cox has a way of telling his story that makes you feel like you’re right there with him, living every moment. As a man, it really hits home. A lot of us go through life wanting to make our fathers proud, and you could feel how much that meant to him in the way he spoke about his dad. It added a whole deeper layer to everything. And hearing about the relationships built while being institutionalized—it makes sense. When you live alongside people every day in that kind of environment, those bonds become something different, something stronger. I’ve been listening to his podcast for a couple years now, but this was the first time I heard his full story from start to finish. I was completely locked in the entire time. Incredible story. Truly unforgettable. Jay!!

KGB0678 · Apr 2026

This is a great podcast for diving deep into some very interesting scientific topics. However the overall tone is too much hypebeast and lacking balance. For instance, on the topic of AI, all the interviews are from experts who have vested financial interests in the industry. There aren’t any/enough balanced opinions being presented. Where are the critics interviews? Lastly, please stop reading generic responses from AI search results while interviewing a guest. It doesn’t add any value and just perpetuates the AI hype even more. Let Joel David Hamkins talk. He doesn’t need “perplexity says”.

Justin YW · Jan 2026

Fascinating discussions on the architecture of intelligent minds. I am still trying to absorb the idea that the physical is an interface to a larger space that could be hosting all the intelligence and how connectivity of simpler agents could lead to intelligent behaviors. Levin also pointed out that the Cellular automata model is open loop, hence not adequate to explain emergence of intelligence. Perhaps an interview with Stephen Wolfram on how the universe being an computing process, how irreducibility could apply and how his view rooted in physics could compare and contrast Levin’s view from a higher level of cognitive sciences and biology ?

JMok007 · Dec 2025

Fridman is not a journalist and it shows. He’s able to get controversial guests because they know he won’t ask hard questions or challenge any of their statements regardless of the absurdity. He claims to be guided by “empathy” but it comes across as appeasement and journalistic incompetence. I listened to 10+ shows and every time was increasingly more annoyed at his lack interviewing skills. Ultimately, his goal appears to be to simply be popular and profitable but not advancing any real dialogue or holding powerful people to account. He’s better at sycophancy than anything else. A pithy summary of this podcast would be “Joe Rogan in a suit”.

Mruhyfgnmkds · Dec 2024

Ive been listening to this podcast since the beginning and initially found it fresh, insightful and thoughtful and shines brightest when it covers tech-related and science topics. For interviews of this caliber to be interesting, the host really has to periodically fact check and push back as required. Otherwise whats the point of having a productive discussion? Over the last couple of years Lex has also decided to take on geo/domestic politics that affect us all; in these cases, save the warm fuzzy feelings for sesame street and try harder to get to some truth. Maybe the host has become reluctant to push back for fear of getting a rep as a tough interviewer? A lot of my favorite podcasts are succumbing to this. nonetheless, the podcast wasn't always this way and having folks like Trump on seems more like selfish self-promotion rather than finding out what the interviewee truly stands for.

Klauski57 · Oct 2024

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