Lex Fridman Podcast Transcripts

#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

#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

#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism

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

#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

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

#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview

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

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

#442 – Donald Trump Interview

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

#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