Lex Fridman Podcast

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

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

Jensen Huang: NVIDIA

The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Jeff Kaplan:

World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

Rick Beato:

Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet

Peter Steinberger

State of AI in 2026:

LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

Paul Rosolie:

Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse

Joel David Hamkins

Irving Finkel:

Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths

Michael Levin:

Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life

David Kirtley:

Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy

Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar

Absurd & Future of Gaming

Julia Shaw:

Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

Pavel Durov:

Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature

Norman Ohler:

Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA

Dave Hone:

T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park

Dave Plummer:

Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories

Scott Horton:

The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

Keyu Jin:

China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism

Jack Weatherford:

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Demis Hassabis:

Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails,

Productivity & Parenting

Iran War Debate:

Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Terence Tao:

Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Sundar Pichai:

CEO of Google and Alphabet

James Holland:

World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles