#442 – Donald Trump Interview

**Lex Fridman** (0:00)
The following is a conversation with Donald Trump on this, the Lex Fridman Podcast. And now, a quick few second mention to each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Ground News for a non-partisan news aggregator, Enchord for unifying your machine learning stack, Eight Sleep for naps, NetSuite for business, and Shopify for e-commerce. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to get in touch with me for a multitude of reasons, go to lexfreeman.com/contact. 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 one of my favorite websites, Ground News, a non-partisan news aggregator I use to compare media coverage from across the political spectrum. The point is to see every side of the story, especially political stories, and come to your own conclusion. We have been talking about it on this podcast, on many podcasts, just how biased specific media sources are. Like most problems in the world, this can be explained by incentives. The funding is drying out for news organizations, so they more and more rely on clickbait journalism.
Clickbait journalism requires extreme polarization. just like in the Soviet Union, when everyone knew the official sources were propaganda, you have to arrive at the truth by getting a lot of sources and integrating them yourself and understanding where exactly the truth lies because it often lies in the nuance, in the details, in the middle. Anyway, all that said, it's obvious that this is a thing that can be solved with a tech solution, and that's exactly what Ground News is. Every story they provide comes with the breakdown of political bias and reliability of sources. And it offers multiple perspectives. It's just a really, really nice website. Oh, and a cool feature, the Blindspot feed shows discrepancies in media coverage on the left and the right. So go to groundnews.com/lex to get 40% off the Ground News Vantage plan, giving you access to all of their features. That's ground, G-R-O-U-N-D, news.com/lex.
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This episode is also brought to you by 8 Sleep as Pod for Ultra. The night before I had a conversation with Donald Trump, I didn't sleep in my 8 Sleep. I wasn't home. And so I didn't sleep too well. I was going in my head, through all the possible trajectories that conversation could go. But primarily there was a temperature issue, because the bed wasn't cold like it would be with 8 Sleep. I just can't understand how amazing it is to have a cold bed with a warm blanket. It's an escape from the turmoil of the world. This temporary respite from the chaos, from the suffering that is life. And I wonder why it is that the world I saw on Ayahuasca is not the world I've ever seen in my dreams. Where was it that I was able to go with the help of this rocket ship? That I couldn't go while taking a nap? What is the human mind capable of? That's what psychedelics make me think. What are the limits of my mind? The limits of my visualization capability? The limits of my cognition capability? The limits of my consciousness? I wonder. Anyway, go to hatesleep.com/lex and use code Lex to get 350 bucks off the Pod 4 Ultra. This episode is also brought to you by NetSuite, an all-in-one cloud business management system. It's the machine within the machine of capitalism. It helps you manage all the disparate components of a company. Financials, HR, inventory, e-commerce and so on. I speak to it at the end of this episode in the AMA. All the amazing possibilities I have in my life to build, to create. And one of them is indeed running a company. Every time I talk about NetSuite, I'm pulled back into this thought, if for a brief moment. Sometimes I feel like it is not me that decides where my life goes, but some kind of winds of fortune. More and more, I'm starting to realize that I'm less the guy who plans and more the guy who follows his instinct. But anyway, it does seem that if I get a chance to follow down this path, it will be a difficult but fulfilling one. And if you are walking down that path, join over 37,000 companies that have upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle. Take advantage of NetSuite's flexible financing plan at netsuite.com/lex. That's netsuite.com/lex.