#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

**Lex Fridman** (0:00)
The following is a conversation with Tulsi Gabbard, who was a long time Democrat, including being the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. She endorsed Bernie in 2016 and Biden in 2020 She has been both loved and heavily criticized for her independent thinking and bold political stances, especially on topics of war and the military industrial complex. She served in the US military for many years, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. And now she is the author of a new book called For Love of Country. 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 Riverside for recording a remote podcast, ExpressVPN for security and privacy on the interwebs, NetSuite for business management software, and Notion for note taking and team collaboration. Choose who has it, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just get in touch with me, go to lexfriedman.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 the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by an oldie but a goodie, Riverside, Riverside FM, the platform that makes it easy for podcasts and media companies to record remotely in studio quality. I use them to record remote podcasts. I usually don't record remote podcasts, but I have done a few, and the experience there is just effortless, flawless, super high quality in terms of audio, in terms of video, super easy on the guest side. Everything is just wonderful. Aside from sort of the basic thing that this is a great way to record remote podcasts, they have so many features. They got AI transcription, they got text-based editor, they got multi-track sync to make sure everything is aligned and synced. Man, that's a hell hole that you want technology to help you avoid. And they do wonderfully the syncing of everything together. It kind of makes me want to do more remote podcasts because for certain kinds of guests, being there in person is not as essential as for certain others. Whenever there's chemistry and the dynamic kind of wit and banter and back and forth and the sort of, the dance, the music of conversation and so on, that being in person is really nice. Or when it's really intense and heated, not necessarily in the argument there in the room, but on the weight and the heaviness of the topic, then sometimes being in the room is nice. Plus there's something that's difficult to describe that's not present with certain guests when it's remote. But I think with others, you can have a hell of a good conversation, especially when you're doing like a debate or multiple people, just getting them in the room together as I had to do for the Israel-Palestine debate is really tough. So I should probably do more remote conversations. And I record my remote interviews with Riverside. Give it a try at riverside.fm and use code Lex for 30% off. That's riverside.fm and use code Lex.
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