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#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
March 11, 2026

#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Futur…

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 Kintsugiyama – available to wishlist on Steam today, with...

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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
Feb. 28, 2026

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

Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and help...

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#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Feb. 11, 2026

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

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 our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep491-sc ...

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#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Jan. 31, 2026

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

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 the author of The RLHF Book. Sebastian Raschka is the a...

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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Jan. 13, 2026

#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 you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfri...

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#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
Dec. 31, 2025

#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompletene…

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-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of severa...

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#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
Dec. 12, 2025

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

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 specializes in reading and interpreting cuneiform insc...

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#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Nov. 30, 2025

#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biologic…

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 ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponso...

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#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
Nov. 17, 2025

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

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 listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman....

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#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Oct. 31, 2025

#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Futur…

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 listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com...

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#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Oct. 14, 2025

#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Mem…

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and ...

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#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Sept. 30, 2025

#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Hum…

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, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact ...

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#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Sept. 19, 2025

#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUl…

Norman Ohler is a historian and author of "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," a book that investigates the role of psychoactive drugs, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, in the military history of World War II.

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#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
Sept. 4, 2025

#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurass…

Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and books on the behavior and ecology of dinosaurs. He lectures at Queen Mary University of...

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#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Aug. 29, 2025

#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft St…

Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the Dave’s Garage YouTube channel, where he shares stories from his ca...

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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Aug. 23, 2025

#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial…

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and for the past three decades a staunch critic of U.S. military interventionis...

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#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
Aug. 13, 2025

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

Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China's economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. She is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.

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#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
July 31, 2025

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

Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep476-sc See below for timestamps, and ...

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#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
July 23, 2025

#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and …

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep475...

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#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
July 12, 2025

#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & …

David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals that created Basecamp, HEY, & ONCE, and is a NYT-best-selling author (with Jason Fried) of 4 books: REWORK, REMOTE, Getting Real,

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#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
June 26, 2025

#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Mi…

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, and for the past three decades...

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#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
June 14, 2025

#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Fu…

Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with N...

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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
June 5, 2025

#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet

Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep471-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex...

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#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
May 24, 2025

#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Bigge…

James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep470-sc See bel...

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