#1824 - Lex Fridman

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Good to see you.

Lex Fridman (0:16)

It's been a while.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It has been a while. You've been nose to the grindstone.

Lex Fridman (0:21)

Yeah, I disappeared for a bit. I've been hiding from the world.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Is this because of Ukraine? Is it personal?

Lex Fridman (0:29)

No, actually, it's because I proposed to Tim Dillon and he said yes. This happened in February.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

You want to get in shape for the wedding?

Lex Fridman (0:37)

Yeah, I want to get in shape for the wedding. I've been focusing on that. Also, I'm having second thoughts.

Because when you sign the paper, you realize this is a real commitment, and you're going to have to live with this man for the rest of your life.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Not only that, they're going to write fake stories about you like they do about him.

The New York Post wrote a fake story about him today. About his real estate holdings. They're inaccurate about the amount, and also even about the locations in which he owns homes.

Lex Fridman (1:08)

In cyberspace, right?

Joe Rogan (1:09)

No, no real homes.

Lex Fridman (1:11)

Actual homes.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Yeah, they're like ratting them out about his real house. Slaps down $4 million for Hampton Spread. Fake news, kids. Sorry. But the thing is, it's like real estate people, there's a lot of dirty business in real estate when a famous person buys a house.

They sell the data. Someone does it, whether it's someone who works in the office or what have you, they'll be weasely with it.

Lex Fridman (1:37)

Yeah. Is that data public?

Like all the houses you get?

Joe Rogan (1:42)

A lot of times, famous folks will put a house in under an LLC so that they hide it. But then when it gets leaked, you know someone from, generally speaking, it's someone from the real estate office leaked it because they can get paid.

Like there's websites that will pay you.

So say if, you know, Elon buys a house and he tries to keep it all hush hush and under the table. Like there was a time where they were trying to say that he's living in someone's house, and he's lying about living in this tiny house. It's not true, right? You and I know it's not true. But they were trying to pretend that he was staying in this opulent house on Lake Austin just because he had been there before.

Lex Fridman (2:20)

He actually lives at my house now. Oh, congratulations.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

With Tim Dillon?

Lex Fridman (2:24)

With Tim Dillon.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Nice. That's a great odd couple show.

Lex Fridman (2:27)

I probably shouldn't mention this because it's-

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Ta-da, ta-da. That would be a wonderful sitcom. You, Tim Dillon, and Elon Musk in the house. Guys, what are we doing?

We're getting eggs and pancakes?

Lex Fridman (2:40)

What did he say? He said he was comparing a Saudi prince with Elon Musk, and there's trade-offs between the positives and the negatives. He was saying something positive about Elon that he's working on rockets, but the negative is that he likes Austin.

And then comparing to the Saudi prince, I think like jet skis or something like that, that's a positive. But then this corrupt, that's the negative.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Tim Dillon is one of my favorite people.

Lex Fridman (3:05)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

I'm so happy he's around. I'm so happy. He's just like, that guy makes me laugh so hard. It's just his take on stuff. He just rants with Ben when they're just sitting there next to each other, and he's just talking shit.

And I love it when he wears the cop glasses, like the aviators.

It's almost like he's on a drug when he has those on. Like he's in a fog. He's like, I don't even see you.

Lex Fridman (3:27)

He's channeling something else, like Hunter S. Thompson type thing.

Joe Rogan (3:29)

Yeah.

Lex Fridman (3:31)

Yeah.

Yeah, but in reality, the Tim Dillon thing was real. It was April 1st. But yeah, I think my world, my family's world, and I think the world in general was somehow fundamentally changed on February 24th this year when Russia invaded Ukraine. I think, I mean, I have a lot of thoughts about it. I've been talking to a lot of people about it. I have family in both countries. I come from both countries.

And first and foremost, it made me realize that a global hot war is within a possibility for this century, that we're not so far from a World War III outbreak. No. And the reason I realized this is because of the behavior of the United States in response to this humanitarian crisis, this invasion, and the response of China. That's currently quietly watching, but for the most part supporting, Putin and Russia.