Everytime Barack Obama was mentioned in Lex Fridman Podcast
Everytime Barack Obama was mentioned in Lex Fridman Podcast
#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture
Lex Fridman PodcastGlenn Loury is a professor of economics and social sciences at Brown University, and a prominent podcaster and social critic who speaks and writes about race, inequality, and social policy. Please supp
May 14, 2022·3h 38m·0(-)#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
Lex Fridman PodcastSaagar Enjeti is a DC-based political correspondent and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - Grammarly: h
Mar 14, 2021·3h 16m·0(-)#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
Lex Fridman PodcastFiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LE
Nov 4, 2022·3h 24m·0(-)#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
Lex Fridman PodcastBjørn Lomborg is author of "False Alarm". Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times). Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.
Nov 18, 2022·4h 16m·0(-)#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
Lex Fridman PodcastDavid Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex
May 6, 2023·3h 36m·0(-)#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
Lex Fridman PodcastJeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Munk Pack: https://munkpack.com and use co
Apr 30, 2021·2h 14m·0(-)#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
Lex Fridman PodcastMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/strategy to get free product tour - Athletic Gree
Dec 31, 2020·3h 9m·0(-)#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Lex Fridman PodcastJared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/l
Oct 11, 2023·3h 54m·0(-)#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
Lex Fridman PodcastRobert 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: - MUD\WTR: https://mudwtr.co
Nov 28, 2021·2h 49m·0(-)#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Lex Fridman PodcastFrancis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Ten Thousand: https://www.tenthousand.cc/ and use cod
Nov 5, 2021·1h 33m·0(-)#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
Lex Fridman PodcastTim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: htt
Feb 20, 2023·3h 10m·0(-)#156 – Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom
Lex Fridman PodcastTim Dillon is a comedian and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.
Jan 29, 2021·2h 29m·0(-)#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
Lex Fridman PodcastEric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Indeed: https://indeed.com/fridman to get $75 credit - Theragun: https://theragun.c
Feb 23, 2021·2h 44m·0(-)Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
Lex Fridman PodcastJim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He served on former President Obama's Council
Dec 25, 2019·1h 35m·0(-)#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
Lex Fridman PodcastChristopher Capozzola is a professor of history at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Wealthfront: https://wealthfront.com/lex to get $50 sign-up bonus - InsideTracker: ht
Sep 14, 2022·0h 0m·0(-)#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar
Lex Fridman PodcastNicole Perlroth is a cybersecurity journalist and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Linode: https://linode.com/lex to get $100 free credit - InsideTracker: https://ins
Feb 20, 2022·2h 7m·0(-)#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
Lex Fridman PodcastBen Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Please support this podcast by c
Nov 7, 2022·2h 36m·0(-)#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman PodcastBen Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of the Machine Int
Jun 22, 2020·4h 9m·0(-)#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
Lex Fridman PodcastStephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lambda: https://lambdalabs.com/lex - Scale: https://scale.com/lex -
May 25, 2022·2h 49m·0(-)#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman PodcastNiall 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
Nov 8, 2021·2h 48m·0(-)#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
Lex Fridman PodcastBhaskar Sunkara is a democratic socialist, political writer, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto. Please support this podcast by checking out our
Dec 22, 2022·3h 52m·0(-)#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Lex Fridman PodcastJack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America". Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - InsideTracke
Jul 9, 2022·3h 43m·0(-)#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Lex Fridman PodcastGeorge Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to
Oct 22, 2020·3h 13m·0(-)#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Lex Fridman PodcastJeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.
Jan 25, 2023·0h 0m·0(-)#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Lex Fridman PodcastBen Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Authoritarian Moment and other books. Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is
Jan 23, 2024·2h 25m·5.0(1)#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea
Lex Fridman PodcastYeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Live. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Belcampo: https://belcampo.com/lex an
Jul 1, 2021·2h 6m·0(-)#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
Lex Fridman PodcastMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - FightCamp: https://joinfightcamp.com/lex to get free shipping - Lino
Dec 31, 2021·3h 32m·0(-)#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
Lex Fridman PodcastJohn Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He's the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can f
Feb 11, 2022·2h 24m·0(-)#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
Lex Fridman PodcastChris Voss is a former FBI hostage and crisis negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
Mar 10, 2023·2h 15m·0(-)#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
Lex Fridman PodcastYannis Pappas is a comedian and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Wine Access: https://wineaccess.com/lex to get 20% off first order - Blinkist: https://blinkist.co
Apr 12, 2021·1h 57m·0(-)#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Lex Fridman PodcastJordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author of Shape and How Not to Be Wrong. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Secret Sauce: https://wondery.com/shows/secret-sauce/ - Expr
Jun 13, 2021·2h 47m·0(-)#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
Lex Fridman PodcastImam Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University. Please support this podcast by checking
Jan 17, 2023·3h 7m·0(-)#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
Lex Fridman PodcastIshan Misra is a research scientist at FAIR working on self-supervised visual learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10%
Jul 31, 2021·0h 0m·0(-)#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman PodcastOriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get 14-day free trial - Weight
Jul 26, 2022·2h 15m·0(-)#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Lex Fridman PodcastAlex 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: - Stripe: https://stripe.com - Paperspa
Oct 16, 2021·2h 40m·0(-)#169 – Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles
Lex Fridman PodcastRyan Hall is a martial artist, BJJ black belt, and MMA fighter undefeated in the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Indeed: https://indeed.com/fridman to get $75 credit -
Mar 20, 2021·3h 0m·0(-)#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
Lex Fridman PodcastBalaji Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, philosopher, and author of The Network State: How to Start a New Country. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Hor
Oct 20, 2022·7h 53m·0(-)#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
Lex Fridman PodcastSam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - National Instruments (NI): https://www.ni.com/perspectives - Belcampo: https://belcampo.
May 20, 2021·3h 23m·0(-)#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Lex Fridman PodcastGreg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and a new boo
Sep 25, 2023·0h 0m·0(-)#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
Lex Fridman PodcastStephen Schwarzman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms with over 530 billion dollars of assets under management. He is one of the most successful busine
May 15, 2020·1h 10m·0(-)#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman PodcastAbbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Henson Shaving: https://hensonshaving.com/lex and use code LE
Nov 2, 2022·3h 11m·0(-)#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy
Lex Fridman PodcastMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Gala Games: https://gala.games/lex - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75
Jul 15, 2021·2h 44m·0(-)#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
Lex Fridman PodcastJamie Metzl is an author specializing in topics of genetic engineering, biotechnology, and geopolitics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.co
Dec 8, 2021·5h 1m·0(-)#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Lex Fridman PodcastMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code
Dec 15, 2022·3h 47m·0(-)#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
Lex Fridman PodcastJohn Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. Please support
Nov 18, 2023·3h 35m·0(-)#332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview
Lex Fridman PodcastYe is a legendary artist, producer, and designer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get free trial - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.c
Oct 24, 2022·2h 33m·0(-)#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Lex Fridman PodcastYann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out o
Jan 22, 2022·2h 51m·0(-)#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Lex Fridman PodcastRobert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - House of Macadamias: https://hous
Jul 6, 2023·0h 0m·0(-)#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
Lex Fridman PodcastOliver Stone is a filmmaker with 3 Oscar wins and 11 Oscar nominations. His films include Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, Scarface, JFK, Nixon, Alexander, W, Snowden, and documentarie
May 17, 2022·1h 59m·0(-)#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
Lex Fridman PodcastSusan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. Please support this podcast by checking out our spo
Jun 28, 2022·2h 5m·0(-)#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Lex Fridman PodcastRandall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Eight Sleep: htt
May 24, 2023·3h 14m·0(-)#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
Lex Fridman PodcastVitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical ideas tha
Mar 16, 2020·1h 35m·0(-)#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
Lex Fridman PodcastErik Brynjolfsson is an economist at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Vincero: https://vincerowatches.com/lex to get up to 25% off + free shipping - Four Sigmatic:
Nov 25, 2020·1h 45m·0(-)#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Lex Fridman PodcastJimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Hexclad Cookware: https://hexclad.com/lex and use code LEX to get 10% off - Eight Sleep: https://
Jun 18, 2023·3h 19m·0(-)#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
Lex Fridman PodcastMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - SEMrush: https://www.semrush.com/partner/lex/ to get a free month of Guru - Doo
Oct 2, 2020·3h 24m·0(-)#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
Lex Fridman PodcastAlexandra and Andrea Botez are chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Calm: https://calm.com/lex to get 40% off
Sep 9, 2022·2h 42m·0(-)Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars
Lex Fridman PodcastDava Newman is the Apollo Program professor of AeroAstro at MIT and the former Deputy Administrator of NASA and has been a principal investigator on four spaceflight missions. Her research interests ar
Nov 22, 2019·0h 39m·0(-)#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
Lex Fridman PodcastRyan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - PowerDot, use code LEX: https://p
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