Lex Fridman Podcast

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

Mar 14, 2021

03:16:52

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The Future of Journalism

00:49

Is There a Balance of Power in the Senate?

00:47

Paedo Conspiracy Theories

04:39

The Hate of Liberals

05:00

Introduction

4min

Grammarly Premium Review

3min

Magic Spoon Low Carb Celiac Review

2min

Is There a Better Gift Than a Book About Hitler?

3min

Who Could Have Stopped Hitler in Germany?

2min

The Best Educated Lessons I've Learned

3min

Donald Trump

3min

Is Trump Really a Tour Guide?

3min

Is He the Greatest President in American History?

2min

10.

Are You a Student of History?

2min

11.

Trump, Joe Rogan, and Joe's Not Interested in Talking to Trump?

2min

12.

Do You Think Trump Will Never Let Down That Guard?

2min

13.

What Are the Lessons to Be Learned From World War II?

5min

14.

How Does the US Political System Work?

3min

15.

What's Your Favorite Branch?

2min

16.

Is There Too Much Power in the Presidency?

2min

17.

The True Power Is in the Autopilot

4min

18.

Trump and Obama Are Playing Victims to the System, Right?

2min

19.

Is Money a Big Part of the Problem?

2min

20.

Are There Any Shadow Conspiracy Theories That Give You Pause?

2min

21.

Is There Life Out There in the Universe?

2min

22.

MIT and Jeffrey Epstein - I Want to Hear a Lot

2min

23.

How Did GLA Maxwell Control the Power of Women?

4min

24.

The Art of Conversation

5min

25.

Is There a Bigger Problem Than Just the Man?

2min

26.

Is There a Big Gap Between Left and Right?

2min

27.

Are We Bifurcating?

2min

28.

Are Betray Teams?

4min

29.

Trump, Colon, Fuck Your Feelings

2min

30.

The Hate of Liberals

5min

31.

The Reconciliation Bill Will Eventually Become Law With No Republican Votes

2min

32.

What's the Popular Thing?

3min

33.

Is There a Way Out?

2min

34.

We're Facing a Crisis

2min

35.

Andrew Yang - The New Generation of Politics

2min

36.

Is AOC Old Enough?

2min

37.

Is There a Path for the Institutional?

2min

38.

AOC Is Optimistic for the 80% Populist Thing, Right?

5min

39.

The Incentives Are All Aligned Within That

1min

40.

Trump, Jr. Or Senior or Ivanka? Who Will Win in 2024?

2min

41.

Trump Will Win the Primary Few Runs Again?

2min

42.

The Primary System Is Not Populism. It's Primary

2min

43.

Is Trump a Mark Cuban?

4min

44.

Will Elon and SpaceX Be Remembered?

3min

45.

The Future of Journalism

4min

46.

The Future of Media

3min

47.

Podcasting - Is the New York Times Going to Be Destroyed?

3min

48.

The Balkanization of the Internet of Audiences

3min

49.

Joe Rogan - Is There a Hunger Here?

2min

50.

The American Airlines Audio Transmission - A Large Cylindrical Object Just Flew Over Me

2min

51.

Is the COVID Act Really Real?

2min

52.

You Can Fix a Lot, Especially in Crisis

2min

53.

Is There a Genuine Human Connection Between LBJ and Hitler?

2min

54.

Is World War II the Most Important Shift in Human History?

3min

55.

Dan Carlin - The Greatest Popularizer Quote Unquote of History

2min

56.

I'm Not a Conservative, but I Feel Like I've Been Left Behind for a Long Time.

3min

57.

Why Did the Bolshevik Revolution Succeed?

4min

58.

I Will Never Not Be Fascinated by Russia

3min

59.

Putin and Power - Is There a Truth to That?

3min

60.

Putin - Is Putin Incompetent?

2min

61.

What Is the Motivation of the Czar?

2min

62.

Is It a Problem With Conspiracy Theories?

2min

63.

Is There a Book on Hitler on the Desk?

1min

64.

What the Hell Do You Fit Into So Many Pages

6min

65.

Shackleton and the Human Spirit - I Could Go on This Forever

2min

66.

Shackleton Shine

2min

67.

What's the Story of Mars?

3min

68.

Is There a Second Harari?

2min

69.

The Selfish Gene With Doctors by Christopher McDougall

2min

70.

Austin

3min

71.

The Reason I Am in Politics

5min

72.

The Future of Texas

2min

73.

UT Austin - I Love Joe Rogan, but Elon Musk Attracts a Lot of People

5min

Saagar Enjeti is a DC-based political correspondent and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:19) – Hitler
(14:39) – Evil
(15:58) – Donald Trump
(26:29) – Teddy Roosevelt
(31:51) – Nazi Germany
(36:47) – The balance of power in US government
(40:43) – Bureaucracy
(49:17) – Money
(51:32) – UFOs
(55:36) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:08:57) – Left and Right
(1:19:40) – How to fix politics
(1:45:07) – Political predictions
(1:58:21) – Journalism
(2:09:16) – Joe Rogan
(2:16:43) – Lyndon Johnson
(2:18:02) – World War I
(2:22:53) – Dan Carlin
(2:29:47) – How Stalin came to power
(2:35:15) – Putin
(2:41:25) – Lenin and Stalin
(2:44:55) – Book recommendations
(2:52:23) – Antarctica and Mars
(2:59:37) – Born to Run
(3:02:05) – Texas

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

The Future of Journalism

Is There a Balance of Power in the Senate?

Paedo Conspiracy Theories

The Hate of Liberals

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