Lex Fridman Podcast

#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special

Dec 31, 2021

03:32:37

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Beauty Will Save the World

02:39

How to Write a Good Book

01:36

The Beautiful Things Is When You Realize Some Deeper Truth

03:11

Introduction

2min

Fight Camp Review

3min

ExpressVPN - The Best Meal Delivery Service

4min

Beauty Will Save the World

3min

What's the Point of Fighting for Your Values?

3min

Siyoski's Remark, Beauty Will Save the World

3min

Goodness Is the Easy Habit of Being

2min

If You Save One Life, You Save the World

4min

Do You Really Need Top-Down Help?

2min

10.

What Do You Draw From Geoffrey Epstein?

3min

11.

Is There a Humanity Underneath It All?

5min

12.

Are You a Sociopath?

5min

13.

The Rules Don't Apply to Us

4min

14.

Why Science Is Fun as Fuck

2min

15.

You Don't Have to Rub It In. Is It a Good Standard?

2min

16.

Michael Alex - You Are an Inspiration to Bill Clinton

2min

17.

I Love That Guy. You're a Lech. Yeah.

2min

18.

Can He Get the Mean, This Is the Monica Lewinsky Question to Me

2min

19.

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

2min

20.

The One Holiday

2min

21.

What Is the Adult World Really Like?

3min

22.

Club Ho

2min

23.

The Russians Love to Argue

4min

24.

Life Is Suffering

2min

25.

Suffering Is Not Absurd.

2min

26.

A New Year's Resolution

2min

27.

I Can't Believe That Worked.

5min

28.

The Poor Man's Transformers

2min

29.

Macchia Valleons by James Burnham

2min

30.

Is There One Force Goes Quote?

2min

31.

What's the Best Moment in 2021?

3min

32.

Is There a Melancholy Feeling in New York?

2min

33.

What Else Stands Out to You?

2min

34.

Anarchism and the Audiobook

4min

35.

The Jelene Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein Trial

2min

36.

What's the Point of Lobotomies?

2min

37.

Joe Kennedy - I Can't Diagnosis Joe Kennedy

2min

38.

The Maxwell Trial

4min

39.

The Leap

2min

40.

New York City

2min

41.

What Do You Want Calls First Principles Thinking?

4min

42.

Podcasting

2min

43.

How to Write a Good Book

2min

44.

How to Write a Good Speech?

2min

45.

White Pill - Is There Something in Stoics?

3min

46.

The Plague

2min

47.

Is There a Plot in Kafka?

2min

48.

The White Pill by Ryan Holidays

3min

49.

How to Write a 300 Page First Draft

2min

50.

Do You Have New Years Resolutions?

3min

51.

Podcasts - I Love Them

3min

52.

The Heaviest I've Ever Been

2min

53.

I Don't Want to Meet People. Yeah. I'm Still Angering About It.

2min

54.

I Don't Want to Be Married Because They Make Their Partners Better

2min

55.

Don't Fast and Drink Like Excessively

2min

56.

If Things Are Going Great, This Too Shall Pass

2min

57.

Is Donald Trump Running in 2024?

2min

58.

Is There a Republican Candidate in 2020?

2min

59.

I'm Emboldened by the Results of the Election

2min

60.

Is There Something Positive About Donald Trump?

2min

61.

Joe Biden - Is He a Good President?

2min

62.

Is There a Blue Collar Trump or Biden?

2min

63.

National Divorce - You Live Your Life, We'll Live Ours

2min

64.

The Divorce Is a Step Backwards

2min

65.

Is There a Reasonable Argument for a National Divorce?

2min

66.

The Case for National Divorce and Along Which Line?

2min

67.

Is It All Ignored?

3min

68.

I Love My Country, I Hate the Government Because I Love Them

2min

69.

New York Is a Cultural Hub

2min

70.

Digital Space Makes It Easier for Hubs

2min

71.

Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, and Brett Weinstein - What's the Other Side of the Story?

2min

72.

You and I Have a Different View on Some Things

4min

73.

COVID Vaccine - I Love the Debate

3min

74.

What Do You Like Best About Michael Malice?

2min

75.

The Beautiful Things Is When You Realize Some Deeper Truth

3min

76.

Are You in the Right Mindset to Ask Them for Advice?

3min

77.

Is That a Great Question for You to Ask?

2min

78.

Is He Gonna Get Us to President FDR?

2min

79.

Trump, Putin, Putin - Is He a Student of Power?

2min

80.

Anthony Fauci - Is That a Good Idea?

3min

81.

Is Putin the Same Person in 2020?

2min

82.

What Advice Would You Give Your Friends?

2min

83.

Is Your Brain Your Enemy?

4min

84.

How to Form Boundaries

2min

85.

The Goodness of Being Kind

2min

86.

Do You Want to Have Kids?

4min

87.

Do You Feel the Pressure of Being With the Wrong Partner?

2min

88.

Do You Have a Legacy?

4min

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EPISODE LINKS:
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Books & resources mentioned:
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The New Right (book): https://amzn.to/34gxLo3
Dear Reader (book): https://amzn.to/2HPPlHS
The Idiot (book): https://amzn.to/3zdHdHH
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:07) – Truth, goodness, and beauty
(19:35) – Save one life
(26:26) – Jeffrey Epstein
(45:21) – Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton
(51:33) – Christmas and New Years for Russians
(58:14) – Russian cynicism and suffering
(1:05:52) – Gift exchange
(1:18:48) – Michael’s move to Austin
(1:24:14) – The Anarchist Handbook
(1:30:46) – Ghislaine Maxwell
(1:35:20) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:37:34) – Lex’s move to Austin
(1:46:21) – Elon Musk
(1:49:31) – Writing The White Pill
(1:54:18) – Camus
(1:59:16) – Writing The White Pill continued
(2:04:34) – New Year’s resolutions
(2:18:09) – 2024 elections
(2:30:38) – National divorce
(2:45:15) – Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein vs Sam Harris
(2:54:26) – Conversation with CEO of Pfizer
(3:07:59) – Anthony Fauci
(3:13:28) – Advice for young people
(3:23:30) – Wife and kids
(3:28:57) – Immortality