Author Archives: Lex Fridman

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Stephen’s Website: https://history.princeton.edu/people/stephen-kotkin
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Stalin: 1929-1941 (Vol 2): https://amzn.to/3wIYqsT

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:17) – Putin and Stalin
(21:07) – Putin vs the West
(43:59) – Response to Oliver Stone
(55:05) – Russian invasion of Ukraine
(1:34:33) – Putin’s plan for the war
(1:42:32) – Henry Kissinger
(1:48:26) – Nuclear war
(1:59:00) – Parallels to World War II
(2:21:45) – China
(2:29:54) – World War III
(2:37:23) – Navalny
(2:41:40) – Meaning of life

#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan

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Sarma Melngailis is a chef and restauranteur who was the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan: Fame, Fraud, Fugitives. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Sarma’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarma
Sarma’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarmamelngailis
Sarma’s Website: https://sarmaraw.com
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Party of One (book): https://amzn.to/3NtcH2n
Beautiful Ruins (book): https://amzn.to/38Cfgkc
Darkness Visible (book): https://amzn.to/3tdxoYL
Projections (book): https://amzn.to/38DrRDJ
Confessions of a Sociopath (book): https://amzn.to/3sM39Ys
On Love (book): https://amzn.to/3sS3Orj
Dear Reader (book): https://amzn.to/39JPE4M

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:44) – Childhood
(12:46) – Films
(23:17) – Gifts
(32:20) – Favorite food creations
(38:31) – Leon: The Pitbull
(50:39) – Bad Vegan
(1:02:41) – Abusive relationship
(1:07:24) – Remorse for employees
(1:13:19) – Sociopathy
(1:23:44) – How Sarma met Anthony Strangis
(1:45:43) – Retrospection
(1:58:24) – Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
(2:06:17) – Is Anthony Strangis a sociopath?
(2:10:24) – What Bad Vegan got wrong
(2:27:40) – Darkest personal discovery
(2:38:22) – Road trip from hell
(2:45:36) – Wild stories
(2:54:33) – Prison
(3:04:13) – Ghislaine Maxwell
(3:19:44) – Running restaurants
(3:33:26) – Last meal
(3:37:50) – Relationships
(3:47:02) – Advice for young people
(3:52:16) – Regrets
(3:56:01) – Mortality
(4:12:04) – Love

#287 – Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power

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Bobby Lee is a comedian and co-host of TigerBelly and Bad Friends podcasts. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
– Brave: https://brave.com/lex
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EPISODE LINKS:
Bobby’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobbyleelive
Bobby’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bobbyleelive
TigerBelly Podcast: https://youtube.com/c/TigerBelly
TigerBelly Merch: https://thetigerbelly.com
Bad Friends Podcast: https://youtube.com/c/BadFriends
Bad Friends Merch: http://badfriendsmerch.com

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:20) – Wedding
(13:20) – Video games
(18:58) – Grappling
(24:03) – Sex robots
(27:01) – Khalyla
(33:46) – Parenting
(44:26) – Darkest moment
(52:43) – Fame
(1:02:57) – Carlos Mencia
(1:09:47) – TigerBelly
(1:23:24) – George and Gilbert
(1:30:35) – Power
(1:43:38) – Meaning of life

#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

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Oliver 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 documentaries where he has interviewed Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Vladimir Putin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Oliver’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheOliverStone
Chasing the Light (book): https://amzn.to/3ywb3J2
A Bright Future (book): https://amzn.to/3yvuGAX

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(09:35) – Nuclear power
(22:33) – Russia and US relations
(27:48) – JFK and the Cold War
(33:05) – Interviewing Putin
(56:44) – Invasion of Ukraine
(1:06:01) – Why Putin invaded Ukraine
(1:20:25) – Propaganda
(1:27:43) – Interviewing Putin in 2022
(1:34:59) – Nuclear war
(1:41:09) – Advice on interviewing
(1:44:50) – Interviewing Hitler
(1:48:11) – Putin interview language barrier
(1:49:22) – Love
(1:51:17) – Advice to young people
(1:54:23) – Mortality
(1:55:25) – Regrets
(1:57:22) – Meaning of life

#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

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Glenn 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 support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Glenn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlennLoury
Glenn’s Substack: https://glennloury.substack.com
Glenn’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/GlennLouryShow
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (book): https://amzn.to/3N7jmz0
Race, Incarceration, and American Values (book): https://amzn.to/398ywpk

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:12) – Martin Luther King Jr.
(16:00) – History of slavery
(30:39) – Equality of outcome
(47:02) – Math and economics
(1:03:17) – Racial groups
(1:16:33) – Black patriotism
(1:26:26) – MLK and Malcolm X
(1:40:07) – Joe Rogan controversy
(1:59:23) – Accusation of racism
(2:07:08) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(2:12:41) – Universities
(2:21:19) – Cognitive inequality
(2:33:45) – Politics
(2:53:10) – Ketanji Brown Jackson
(2:59:14) – Thomas Sowell
(3:04:28) – Barack Obama
(3:23:06) – Mortality
(3:35:20) – Meaning of life

#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

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Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Saifedean’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/saifedean
Saifedean’s Website: https://saifedean.com
The Bitcoin Standard podcast: https://saifedean.com/podcast
Books & resources mentioned:
The Fiat Standard (book): https://amzn.to/3FmNfsy
The Bitcoin Standard (book): https://amzn.to/3LRrcwA
The Blocksize War (book): https://amzn.to/3LORQ9o
The Theory of Money and Credit (book): https://amzn.to/3ykreZT
Human Action (book): https://amzn.to/3w9LzP4

OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:53) – Money
(20:58) – Gold standard
(34:09) – Collective hallucination
(39:59) – Austrian vs Keynesian economics
(1:12:20) – Free market
(1:28:49) – Monarchy
(1:34:23) – Fiat money
(2:21:13) – SWIFT system
(2:34:03) – Bitcoin
(2:40:20) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(2:48:04) – Criticisms of Bitcoin
(3:03:16) – Football/soccer
(3:06:58) – Criticisms of Bitcoin continued
(3:17:17) – Bitcoin Maximalism
(3:29:40) – Proof of stake
(3:46:46) – Central bank digital currency
(3:57:59) – Michael Malice
(4:00:12) – Advice for young people
(4:06:21) – Palestine
(4:18:00) – Mortality

#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

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Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mason_lab
Chris’s Website: http://masonlab.net/
Chris’s Company: https://onegevity.com/
The Next 500 Years (book): https://amzn.to/3k9ab4S
Reasons and Persons (book): https://amzn.to/3Lrm6a5

OUTLINE:
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(0:00) – Introduction
(7:43) – Human extinction awareness
(16:29) – Heat death of the universe
(22:05) – Alone in the universe
(25:41) – Aliens
(33:50) – Entropy goggles
(48:04) – Genetics
(56:14) – Scott Kelly
(1:02:12) – Adapting to space
(1:12:13) – Sex in space
(1:14:46) – Colonizing planets
(1:21:25) – Culture on Mars
(1:25:51) – Commercial space flights
(1:33:09) – Podcast in space
(1:40:43) – Axiom Space
(1:42:59) – Designing space experiments
(1:49:49) – Robots in space
(1:52:30) – Space exploration
(1:56:28) – War in space
(2:00:05) – Launch toward the Second Sun
(2:06:14) – Chlorohumans
(2:11:50) – Extreme microbiome project
(2:18:17) – Space travel breakthroughs
(2:30:15) – Clones
(2:36:08) – AI age prediction
(2:41:38) – Advice for young people
(2:47:56) – Dark times
(2:52:19) – Mortality
(2:56:37) – Visiting ISS and deep space
(2:57:46) – Meaning of life

#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

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David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His current research is on sex differences in mate selection, mate attraction, infidelity, and the emotions of jealousy, lust, and love. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
David’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidbuss
David’s Website: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/
When Men Behave Badly (book): https://amzn.to/3y3bRVM
The Evolution of Desire (book): https://amzn.to/3kyBdTt
Evolutionary Psychology (textbook): https://amzn.to/3LExU9e
Derogation of Competitors (research paper): https://bit.ly/38G4LMa

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:04) – Sex vs Violence
(14:48) – Mating strategies
(26:44) – Social construct of beauty
(30:38) – Evolution of mating evaluation
(34:40) – Mating selection desires
(39:52) – Difficulties of monogamy
(46:16) – Importance of male appearance
(48:52) – Importance of wealth
(52:08) – Penis and breasts
(55:59) – Fashion
(58:58) – Body objectification
(1:06:33) – Wear sunscreen
(1:13:29) – Gender
(1:30:39) – What motivates humans
(1:32:29) – Dominance and submissiveness
(1:40:33) – Johnny Depp defamation trial
(1:50:24) – Jealousy
(1:58:45) – Mate poaching
(2:02:58) – Polyamory
(2:14:13) – Female vs Male sexuality
(2:23:11) – Pornography
(2:29:46) – Sex and Violence continued
(2:38:55) – Cancel culture
(2:50:38) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(2:59:02) – Serial killers
(3:04:55) – Advice for young people
(3:16:57) – Love
(3:22:57) – Mortality
(3:27:40) – Meaning of life

#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity

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Grimes is a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, producer, and director. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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– Lambda: https://lambdalabs.com/lex
– Public Goods: https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX to get $15 off
– Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium

EPISODE LINKS:
Grimes’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Grimezsz
Grimes’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grimes

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:24) – Identity
(12:22) – Music production
(25:13) – Spotify
(29:55) – Experimental music
(32:30) – Vision of future
(45:04) – Motherhood
(1:01:11) – Consciousness
(1:16:01) – Love
(1:21:52) – Metaverse
(1:34:34) – Technology and bureaucracy
(1:38:32) – Mortality
(1:46:57) – Understanding evil
(1:50:55) – Last person on Earth
(1:53:33) – Dan Carlin
(1:56:03) – Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(2:02:28) – Coolest human invention
(2:03:49) – Advice for young people
(2:07:01) – Meaning of life

#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

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Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation systems inside premium Android phones and other robots. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Cristiano’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/cristianoamon
Qualcomm’s Website: https://qualcomm.com

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:43) – Football/soccer
(07:38) – Smartphones
(10:09) – 5G
(26:27) – Snapdragon
(32:45) – Apple and Google
(37:19) – Future of Qualcomm
(48:20) – Autonomous vehicles
(50:05) – Robots
(52:31) – Chip shortage
(56:40) – Lawsuits
(1:00:07) – Leadership
(1:04:26) – Advice for young people
(1:08:17) – Meaning of life