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What Lex Fridman says about addiction & recovery

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about addiction & recovery across 13 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Bobby reveals that about four months earlier he was naked in an Arizona hotel room, hadn't eaten in a week, coughing up blood, and convinced he was dying.
00:38:15Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He explains the deaths of Bob Saget and Louie Anderson convinced him he was 'next' since everything happens in threes.
00:43:01Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He admits he slept naked by the hotel room door so the maid could more easily discover his body.
00:44:04Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He recounts the relapse beginning with an edible before a flight to Hawaii to shoot Magnum PI, telling Khalyla 'I'm gonna relapse' before boarding.
00:40:55Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
After he apologized to his mother for the abuse she endured, she responded only by wanting to go to Buca di Beppo for Italian food.
00:35:42Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby shares that his mother, at age 12, discovered her little sister's body split in half after a military truck ran her over.
00:36:44Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby claims he was a high-school wrestler, an assertion Joe Rogan once flatly called a lie.
00:12:25Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He confesses real hurt over not being invited to Andrew Schultz's wedding, including revenge fantasies.
00:01:31Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby sleeps on a mattress on the floor and only recently bought his first-ever couch because podcast guests had nowhere to sit.
00:03:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He has played Oblivion and Skyrim all the way through with about eight characters, grinding 12-hour days picking blisterwort mushrooms.
00:07:44Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby admits he only learned how to read an analog clock about six months earlier.
00:15:30Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He says most people who buy sex robots want them for emotional intimacy and cuddling, not sex.
00:19:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
His immigrant father appeared in Mad TV sketches and a Comedy Central pilot, earning residual checks.
00:32:36Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
After his father died in August 2019, unresolved grief and trauma hit Bobby 'like a freight train.'
00:29:28Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
When Bobby met Khalyla his career was in the gutter; she saw his potential, dragged him to auditions, and started TigerBelly.
00:23:47Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby finds happiness in late-night sugar-free slushies from 7-Eleven.
00:52:34Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He has not smoked, drank, or done drugs in nearly four months and says he feels better than ever.
00:34:39Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bobby calls the choice between losing old memories or never making new ones 'a nightmare' either way.
01:34:16Bobby Lee · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Craig admits his early game was 'basically a rip-off version' of the DDS leglock system after watching Eddie Cummings.
00:18:35Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Ryan describes John Danaher as a father figure and how the split separated him from his brother Gordon for almost two years.
00:30:30Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Ryan reveals he and Gordon hated each other after the split but Gordon recently reached out and the animosity is cooling.
00:31:00Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Craig calls steroid use 'cheating for sure whether they test for it or not,' while joking he uses 'all of the steroids.'
00:51:48Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Rod explains he publicly called Gordon a steroid user only as a rebuttal after Gordon accused him of greasing in their EBI match.
00:58:03Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Craig argues Charles Oliveira would beat Islam Makhachev in a pure submission-grappling match.
01:18:38Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Rod competed at ADCC on a fully torn ACL, only getting the MRI after the event because 'ignorance is bliss.'
01:40:21Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Lex says he's 'internalized the cowboy' from playing Red Dead Redemption while discussing Texas mutual combat.
02:37:55Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Rod is still a no-stripe brown belt despite beating black belts, because B-Team grades on knowledge, not competition results.
00:05:42Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Nicky Rod rehearses his exact warm-up for weeks so competition day feels like 'another Tuesday.'
00:11:52Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Craig deliberately does NO visualization or warm-up: 'there's no warm-ups on the street.'
00:12:24Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
The 'buggy choke' (popularized by the Ruotolos) works by threatening embarrassment, making the top player abandon a dominant position.
00:42:29Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
At ADCC there is no drug testing; Craig jokes they 'test to make sure we're on steroids' so the show looks good.
00:51:17Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Craig champions constraint-based learning: give beginners a problem first, then the technique, so they have an 'aha moment.'
01:08:22Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
What makes Volkanovski special, per Craig, is an unbreakable gas tank and willpower rather than raw skill.
01:19:09Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Craig claims a strong correlation: the people who spend the most time warming up are the most often injured.
01:46:35Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Mount and turtle positional sparring is described as the most psychologically grueling training because of constant emotional ups and downs.
02:02:10Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
In an aside they debate that grizzly bears 'gas out' and get bored within 20 seconds, like a weak cardio gas tank.
02:32:45Craig Jones, Nicky Rod (Nick Rodriguez) and Nicky Ryan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2023
Classic psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin are 'freakishly safe' physiologically, with no known lethal overdose dose for most people.
00:07:48Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
A defining feature of classic psychedelics is that they are not addictive, which is unheard of among recreational drugs.
00:11:57Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Johnson names nicotine/tobacco as the most deadly drug by far, killing four times more Americans than alcohol; all illegal drugs combined are a barely-visible blip by comparison.
01:25:40Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
His psilocybin smoking-cessation pilot produced 80% biologically-confirmed abstinence at six months, far exceeding standard treatments.
01:51:25Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
The follow-up randomized trial shows 59% smoke-free at one year on psilocybin versus 27% on the nicotine patch.
02:16:16Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Johnson would bet on panpsychism over emergence to explain consciousness, on Occam's-razor grounds.
03:03:32Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
He concedes, as a 'radical empiricist,' that it is not impossible DMT entities could be extraterrestrial or interdimensional life forms.
03:08:10Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
He openly admits he is afraid of dying and ponders mortality on a daily basis, partly shaped by his cancer-patient research.
03:18:01Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
A smoked DMT 'breakthrough' typically takes about three big inhalations and comes on 'like a freight train.'
00:38:34Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
DMT users report autonomous entities, often described as elves or Terence McKenna's 'self-dribbling basketballs.'
00:40:38Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis credited psychedelic experiences with helping him invent PCR.
00:27:32Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Behavioral economics applies microeconomic tools like demand curves and elasticity to drug consumption and addiction.
00:54:37Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Humans and animals discount future rewards hyperbolically, not exponentially, producing preference reversals that drive addiction.
01:01:57Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Heavily taxing cigarettes can backfire for fully addicted poor smokers, effectively taxing their existence and worsening their lives.
01:08:09Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Narcan (naloxone) revives opioid overdoses almost 100% of the time when a medical professional is present.
01:19:56Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Alcohol increases risky sex via disinhibition, while stimulants like cocaine do it by boosting the rewarding value of sex itself.
01:38:28Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
The high research dose of psilocybin is 30-40mg, roughly equivalent to five dried grams of mushrooms, a 'heroic dose.'
01:53:59Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
A study comparing Tibetan singing bowls and gongs to classical music found a slight (non-significant) edge for the novel playlist.
02:02:11Matthew Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Hart openly admits to using heroin, cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and other hard drugs he studies in his private life.
00:01:32Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He claims the predominant effects of cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and psilocybin are overwhelmingly positive.
00:07:18Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He argues the main health concern with regular heroin use is constipation, not the dramatic harms usually portrayed.
00:21:16Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Hart asserts addiction has almost nothing to do with drugs themselves since the vast majority of users never become addicted.
00:21:49Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He says all drugs people seek, including cocaine and heroin, should be legally regulated and available to adults.
00:24:56Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He states his job as department chair from 2016-2019 was more detrimental to his health than his drug use ever was.
00:33:15Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He frames the war on drugs as a paid system of scapegoating that subjugates poor and neglected communities.
00:53:04Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Drug effects depend heavily on environment and context, not biology alone - the same drug can produce paranoia or bliss.
00:03:07Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Removing anxiety about dose, purity and setting is critical to getting positive drug experiences.
00:09:23Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Most overdoses happen from contaminated drugs or unknowingly combining sedatives, not the drug itself.
00:10:26Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can be fatal, whereas heroin withdrawal is unpleasant but not deadly.
00:20:13Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
At Columbia, researchers administer thousands of doses of these drugs every year using public taxpayer funding.
00:18:09Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Hart says Alcoholics Anonymous is valuable for social support but doesn't actually know much about drugs.
00:41:35Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He critiques shows like The Sopranos for making murderers sympathetic while denigrating drug users.
00:48:52Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Hart says everything he knows about the brain - dopamine, neurotransmission - he learned through his interest in drugs.
01:01:58Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
He keeps a place in Europe to decompress because the U.S. fight against his ideas is exhausting.
01:08:06Carl Hart · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Chris changed his strong opinion on hormonal birth control after his episode with Dr. Sarah Hill, now seeing it as having scary, unsophisticated psychological effects.
00:03:04Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Reveals his special January guest is David Goggins, recorded in Las Vegas, calling it possibly the most beautiful podcast ever recorded.
00:10:56Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Confirms he plans to write two books in 2023: one on the modern mating market and one synthesizing lessons from the podcast.
00:06:14Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Reveals he is flying to Colombia for stem cell treatment, intradiscal injections, and a hyperbaric chamber for his back.
00:09:53Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Confirms he sold and exited his nightlife events business this summer after a difficult valuation process.
00:45:19Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Admits he is still proving to himself that he is worthy of love and battling lingering imposter syndrome despite his success.
01:19:27Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Lists dream guests including Alain de Botton, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and a desired collaboration with Lex Fridman.
00:34:00Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
96% of his Spotify audience joined in 2022, despite the show being nearly six years old.
00:01:01Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
David Goggins only does two podcasts every four years: Joe Rogan and Modern Wisdom.
00:11:27Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Chris stopped alcohol for 1,000 days and caffeine for 500 days to maintain control over his own behavior.
00:23:06Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
He has done roughly 1,000 to 1,500 meditation sessions over six years, averaging 10-15 minutes each.
00:14:50Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Distinguishes genuine activists from performative ones by whether they care about the issue or just chase status and clout.
00:53:37Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
He wants two to three children, ideally two boys and a girl, like his business partner Darren.
01:00:53Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Describes being the most unpopular person in school throughout childhood despite later 'pretty privilege.'
00:31:56Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
The term 'bro science' came from YouTuber Dom Mazzetti's channel.
00:53:37Chris Williamson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Argues Russia's invasion of Ukraine was provoked by NATO expansion since 1997, calling it a US-wanted proxy war.
00:21:52Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Claims the US sent Boris Johnson to sabotage an April 2022 Zelensky-Putin peace deal.
00:29:41Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Says his own son fought in Ukraine and reports Russians outgun NATO forces ten-to-one in artillery.
00:37:30Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Recounts learning that Cuban Missile Crisis nuclear warheads were already in place with launch authority delegated to 60 crew commanders.
00:54:11Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
States the evidence that the CIA was involved in JFK's assassination is 'beyond any reasonable doubt.'
01:10:48Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Reveals his own daughter-in-law was a career CIA clandestine-services officer.
01:15:29Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Calls Anthony Fauci 'a genuinely bad human being.'
01:44:46Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Discloses he was a drug addict for 14 years starting around age 15, a year after his father's death.
02:15:11Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Claims the US was the only democracy on Earth in 1780 and there are roughly 190 today, mostly modeled on the American example.
00:04:11Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Notes JFK said his strongest virtue was curiosity, not courage, despite being the only president to receive the Purple Heart.
00:17:41Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Says the CIA's budget is secret and its venture fund (In-Q-Tel) has made roughly 2,000 Silicon Valley investments.
01:19:09Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Describes Operation Mockingbird as a CIA program with at least 400 members of the US press secretly steering coverage.
01:20:12Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Claims the four largest vaccine makers paid about $35 billion in criminal penalties in the last decade, ~$79 billion since 2000.
01:46:23Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Says oxycodone overdoses killed about 106,000 people in one year, twice US deaths in the entire Vietnam War.
01:48:58Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
States almost 50% of the FDA's budget comes from pharmaceutical companies.
01:51:04Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Shares his routine: intermittent fasting (noon to 6-7pm), daily hikes, and 35-minute intense gym sessions for 50 years.
02:11:28Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Relays Jung's claim that patients who believe in God recover from addiction faster and more durably.
02:22:54Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2023
Pedro was thrown on his head in a Korea tournament final; the disc swelled against his spinal cord, pinning his chin to his chest with shooting nerve pain down his arm.
00:18:08Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
A doctor told the 23-year-old Pedro he would never do sports again and hoped only to make him a normal functioning human.
00:18:39Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro never had surgery; the nerve regenerated and disc receded on its own over time with traction and anti-inflammatories.
00:20:41Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro retired after failing to medal in Sydney 2000, then un-retired for the most enjoyable two years of his life leading to 2004 bronze.
00:25:25Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
He argues losing the 2011 Worlds was the best thing for Kayla Harrison, making her hungry and unranked enough to win Olympic gold in 2012.
00:27:30Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro believes his Sydney loss was destiny so he could help Kayla Harrison win in London, comparing the feeling to childbirth.
00:33:16Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro predicts that within 50 years there may be no US Judo Olympians, and warns only two Americans at best will make the 2020 Tokyo team without drastic funding change.
00:57:49Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro says he had more success against Russian players than Japanese, despite Russians' explosive power, because of how matchups favored him.
00:00:30Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro's father deliberately sent him to train under top coaches in England, Japan, and Germany, requiring him to bring back a new technique from every trip.
00:06:41Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro went undefeated in Judo from age six until age 11, when he lost in the finals of the national championships.
00:13:57Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro considers 1995 to 1999 his peak years, when he was most explosive and technical.
00:23:21Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro was part of an elite under-23 program that produced Marti Malloy, Travis Stevens, Kayla Harrison, and Nick Delpopolo.
00:36:23Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Russian Judo training emphasizes drilling and technique with little randori, while Japanese training does up to 15 rounds of randori a day.
00:46:24Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Elite athletes in Pedro's system train three times daily: a morning technical session, an afternoon strength session, and a night randori session.
00:41:05Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
The IJF banned leg grabs partly to differentiate Judo from wrestling so the Olympic Committee wouldn't cut one of the two similar sports.
00:49:30Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Pedro argues Judo has lost its self-defense element entirely and become purely an Olympic sport, unlike Jiu-Jitsu which stayed safe and accessible.
00:53:09Jimmy Pedro · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2014
Sheren describes a tender moment giving candy to an Afghan girl and showing her a photo of herself, a memory that haunted her for years.
01:34:30Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She recounts witnessing an IED explosion that blew her friend apart, the turning point where her 'light switch went off.'
01:44:24Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Her dissociated response to seeing his perfectly-laced boot with leg still inside: 'we could reuse the boot.'
01:54:08Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
After the operation she admits she 'lost all humanity' and no longer saw the Taliban as human, considering boot-stomping a woman to death.
02:07:40Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She was medicated 'out of my mind' and put back on the guns drugged, nearly shooting someone, with her sergeant unaware.
02:38:46Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She reveals suicidal thoughts 'every minute of every day' for roughly six years and a self-hatred at the core of her depression.
02:51:44Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She describes her January 2021 ayahuasca ceremony with Heroic Hearts, including seeing her daughter and being 'turned into a wolf.'
03:16:34Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She calls herself a 'second class citizen' in Canada, watched by the RCMP and barred from her son's school during the pandemic.
02:55:24Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
The GPS-guided Excalibur artillery round costs about half a million dollars and requires permission from Ottawa to fire.
00:38:28Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
As a non-officer artillery gunner she was never issued a sidearm and never carried a handgun.
00:49:18Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
The barrel of an M777 howitzer alone is worth about a million dollars.
01:01:46Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She learned all her weapons systems and gun commands a second time in French after being posted to a Quebec unit.
00:53:28Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Combat Flip-Flops has provided literacy to 800 girls in Afghanistan through proceeds from its products.
02:12:49Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Her trauma is so somatic she still cannot touch or eat meat with skin on it because it feels like holding human remains.
02:01:28Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She used cannabis to wean off ten different pharmaceutical drugs under a doctor's supervision.
03:08:50Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
She cites over 22 veteran suicides a day as the epidemic driving her company's charitable mission.
03:46:42Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
The divorce rate among special-operations families she works with is around 95 percent.
03:54:27Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Heroic Hearts had over 800 veterans on a waiting list for psychedelic treatment.
03:51:21Kelsi Sheren · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2021
Describes his incorruptible mentor Lieutenant Colonel who survived multiple assassination attempts, the last costing him the use of his legs.
00:11:21Ed Calderon · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2022
Says Garcia Luna, the man who ran Mexico's drug-war operations, turned out to be on the take at the highest level.
00:28:42Ed Calderon · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2022
Reveals Mexico industrialized body disposal, citing Tijuana's 'stew maker' who dissolved bodies in caustic acid.
00:30:48Ed Calderon · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2022
Recounts encountering a childhood friend turned cartel member at a gas station minutes before the friend was killed; he stayed with the body all night.
01:36:04Ed Calderon · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2022

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