Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #167

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2:41 - Hitler
7:01 - Evil
8:20 - Donald Trump
18:51 - Teddy Roosevelt
24:12 - Nazi Germany
29:08 - The balance of power in US government
33:04 - Bureaucracy
41:38 - Money
43:54 - UFOs
47:57 - Jeffrey Epstein
1:01:18 - Left and Right
1:12:02 - How to fix politics
1:37:28 - Political predictions
1:50:42 - Journalism
2:01:37 - Joe Rogan
2:09:04 - Lyndon Johnson
2:10:23 - World War I
2:15:15 - Dan Carlin
2:22:09 - How Stalin came to power
2:27:36 - Putin
2:33:47 - Lenin and Stalin
2:37:17 - Book recommendations
2:44:44 - Antarctica and Mars
2:51:59 - Born to Run
2:54:26 - Texas

Sagar enjeti is maratha/brahmin caste. ?
Obviously, he's indian american.

Anybody who is SO ADAMANT about who they are is not who they say there are

MKULTRA personality

W convo serialist conversationalist man

Professor Fridman thank you so much. Viewed first time 3 years after conversation. Still 100% fresh. Encourage Enjeti to consider use of words and phrases such as "Fascinated" or "Interested by" rather than "I love" (insert horrific number of Human deaths) statistic. Hard to believe a Human so well read allows the words coming out of his mouth. Sad it took Right Wing pressure to say the election was stolen to prompt Enjeti into "casting off my shackles", "saying what I really think", being an unedited voice. Halfway through podcast realized... (Quite Seriously) Oh that's the Human Being from the show that takes calls from Human Beings w/ wine and they and the host whine about politics... Now I also think of Enjeti as a voracious reader of biographies. Your job is the best and you do it the best. Asking profound questions even pushing back at times always w/ empathy, w/ joy and extraordinary results. Including me... In spite of what I've said I believe you Professor Fridman are the cure for knee jerk reactions to ideas from either side or any corner... learned from Episode #167 there are issues Human Beings who now believe they are on different sides agree on... almost unanimously. Thank you Professor Fridman for the extraordinary rare powerful and compassionate creature you've brought to life... Lex Fridman Podcast.

Dog liver is high in Vitamin A not E.

Trump did age while in office. Every other president you named was in for 8 years. Trump was in for only 4 and already old as sh*t. He clearly aged if you look at his face, neck etc etc. His hair isn’t gray and he “tans” so it’s a facade that he didn’t age in those 4 years. He did. It’s crazy to me when people can’t see it.

Can you look at this idiot he looks likes he never had any sense of reality.still waiting for a girlfriend his wife is happy she has a mexican to do the work.

I guess Saagar didn’t get the memo about the Thumbnail picture.

Trump def did show his other side during this election - part of why he won so big imo.

That Kamala losing to trump prediction was exactly what I was saying. The only reason she ran in my eyes was to be able to hide Joe Biden’s mental handicap for long enough to push a few more crazy laws and make time to hide specific criminal evidence.

I really enjoyed a lot of the insights from Saagar, but I found the obsession with American Exceptionalism a bit overpowering at times.

Shackleton = only Iives on in America? What? Hillary was a new Zealander and climbed Everest , Jacques Cousteau, french and pioneered underwater exploration and scuba. What is he on about? Also, this idea that only in the US do you have the freedom and mindset to move around. Many countries have working holiday exchanges for people under 35 and the US isn't one of them. Youth from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Spain all go and live and work abroad.

In Australia, people move up and down the massive country for work. In Europe, you have expats from other European countries everywhere.

For such a well read man, I find this a bit absurd.

Wtf is that? Two adolescents asking stupid questions about the power, a guy spending hours to "masterbate" about Hitler to then compare him with trump?? What s s*it show!

This guy is trying to intellectualize an idiot.

Watching this December, 2024! Interesting to hear them discuss Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iHt6oYvBvQ


Saagar is pretty stupid

I love Joe Rogan constantly getting fact checked by his producer on air because he doesn´t know how to tell if something is real or fake.

Get real Lex. I´ve heard he´s nice to people in private. Nahhh, really? Allegorical evidence juxtaposed with something about Bill Clinton. Why not briing up how nice he is to all the people he owes and doesn´t pay? Why not bring how everyone who used to work for him is in jail or thinks he´s an idiot? Why not address all the bad things he´s done and said and how he´s divided this country like no one else. You don´t mention how he makes the dumbest decisions ever like paying $130k for s*x? His favorite book is the Bible but can't name one line from it. You must be a puppet now. Done with you. You´re either dumb or a paid shill.

Great prediction, "Kamala will lose to Trump".

My favorite arctic expedition book is empire of ice and stone. Highly recommended

Wonderful conversation. Thank you Saagar and Lex.

I love going back to listen to this. The think they said about podcasts came true way faster than they thought!

Here in 2024… his predictions are actually genius

Seriously when is the new episode they did coming out? It’s been like 2 weeks and hasn’t been released yet

1:39:52 shoulda put the house on a Trump win after hearing this prediction.