#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

**Lex Fridman** (0:00)
The following is a conversation with Dana White, the president of the UFC, a mixed martial arts organization that revolutionized the art, the sport, and the business of fighting. And Dana is truly the mastermind behind the UFC. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Element for delicious electrolytes, Notion for team collaboration, AG1 for some more delicious health drink type of stuff, and Insight Tracker for tracking your biological data. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just want to get in touch with me, please go to lexfreedman.com/contact. And now on to the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Element. The thing I'm drinking right now, I think that's delicious. A thing that's really good when you do fasting, whether that's for 24 hours, for 72 hours, for anything. I mean, I guess you could fast without any of that, but that's going to be not a fun time. When you do low carb diets like I do, or ultra low carb, or just carnivore, also getting your electrolytes is really important. Also, if you do any kind of long distance cardio, so long distance running, for example, for me, getting your electrolytes is really, really important. It's kind of crazy how big of a difference it can make when you get the sodium and the potassium and the magnesium right. And element is just a delicious way to get those right. My favorite flavor is watermelon salt. That's what I'm drinking right now. That's what I've always been drinking. On the podcast, usually you see me with some water. There's some element in that water. And it's the thing that makes me happy. It brings me a little bit of a sip of joy, if you will. Get a simple pack for free with any purchase. Try it at drinklmnt.com/lex. This episode is also brought to you by Notion, a note taking and team collaboration tool. I've been using it a lot to think through ideas. It really helps me to through bullet point list, nested bullet point list to really map out what I think about a thing. And I just kind of do an idea dump, a thought dump, a stream of consciousness dump into it, and then I reorganize it. They also have a really nice AI assistant, really nice integration of an LLM into the whole process that just helps with everything. It can summarize, it can expand on what you're writing, it can generate the first draft of a thing you're writing. You can also ask it a bunch of stuff about project, like collaboration. I know people that use it for that. I think that's probably a really amazing thing to use it for. I currently just do a wolf pack of one solo. I need to probably start to use it in collaboration with the team. It's amazing for that. I just haven't taken the leap yet. But as a note taking thing, and actually collaboration on a sort of two person thing, which I haven't used it for, is really, really amazing. I highly recommend it. Play around with it. See what you think, especially their AI thing. It's called Notion AI. You can try it for free when you go to notion.com/lex. That's all lowercase, notion.com/lex to try the power of Notion AI today. This episode is also brought to you by AG1, a thing I drank one hour ago and enjoyed it. I used their container that they ship the sort of AG1 delivery with. I fill it with water, put it in the fridge, such that it's cold, mix one spoon in. The result is just delicious and refreshing. I like it cold. I'll sometimes put it in the freezer to where it like freezes just a tiny bit. So it's like a little bit of a slushy consistency. If I want a kind of slushy experience, which I'm a big fan of the 7-Eleven Slurpee Slushy, all that kind of stuff is just incredible. And whenever I run into one that has sugar free, which does happen, they usually run out of it. It just makes me so happy. Just sitting there with a slushy or a slurpee. I forget which one it is. Which one is the 7-Eleven one? I don't know. I could look it up, but I'm not going to. Slurpee slushy, same thing. I just love it. Makes me happy. So I go to that place of happiness with a delicious thing of AG1. You should consider trying to do the same kind of slushy experience if you like as well. Or just have a cold. Or have it warm. It's always delicious. They'll give you one month supply of fish oil when you sign up at drinkag1.com/lex.