Lex Fridman Podcast
Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, programming, music, film, art, sports, psychology, neuroscience, geopolitics, business, economics, religion, astronomy, and the human condition with people from all walks of life.
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Mark Normand is a stand-up comedian. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
Ray Dalio is an investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater Associates. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
Peter Wang is the co-founder & CEO of Anaconda and one of the most impactful leaders and developers in the Python community. Also, he is a physicist and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
Albert Bourla is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
Jamie Metzl is an author specializing in topics of genetic engineering, biotechnology, and geopolitics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
Tom Brands is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling and the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
Robert Crews is a historian at Stanford, specializing in Afghanistan, Russia, Islam, Central Asia, and South Asia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
Kevin Systrom is the co-founder and former CEO of Instagram. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
Ben Askren is a wrestler and MMA fighter, former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight champion, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion and four-time finalist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO and co-founder of Anki, a home robotics company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books on the history of money, war, power, and catastrophe. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
Jimmy Pedro is a judo competitor and coach, world champion, 3x world medalist, 2x Olympic medalist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
Michael Mina is an immunologist, epidemiologist, and physician at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
Carl Hart is a psychologist at Columbia University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
Kelsi Sheren is a veteran, artillery gunner, and founder of Brass and Unity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
RZA is a rapper, record producer, filmmaker, actor, writer, philosopher, and the mastermind of the legendary hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Sean Kelly is a philosopher at Harvard specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
Jo Boaler is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford and the co-founder of youcubed. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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