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What Lex Fridman says about depression & mood

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about depression & mood across 17 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Depression & Mood

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Levy recounts the Indonesia incident: he reported a cheater on chess.com, the cheater's son posted on Facebook, and tens of thousands of Indonesians harassed him every minute for a month.
00:54:37Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy says day by day the evidence increasingly suggests Hans Niemann cheated, while admitting Magnus played one of his worst games ever in that match.
02:07:09Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Magnus Carlsen's full official statement is read aloud, stating he believes Niemann has cheated more recently than admitted and is an existential threat to chess.
02:08:14Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy reads his own retirement tweet from competitive chess, citing anxiety 'beyond repair.'
01:06:41Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy reveals he met Hans Niemann as an 11-12 year old trash-talking kid at the Marshall Chess Club.
01:31:44Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy admits he was kicked out of a chess camp at age nine because Grandmaster Arthur Yusupov said 'it's either me or this kid.'
01:32:16Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy opens up about the darkest periods of his life, including a mental health crisis where he tore up a happy life over noise from neighbors.
03:23:35Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Levy reveals he was offered a chessboxing main event against friend Eric Rosen but declined over head trauma concerns.
02:44:11Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Lichess started from the Anarchy Chess subreddit and runs entirely on donations with no ads, unlike for-profit chess.com.
00:06:42Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
A FIDE rating-change quirk let an under-18 US teenager hit ~2640 (top 50 in the world) in a single month before bleeding 90 points back.
00:35:18Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
The suspicious Indonesia account won 27 games in a row at 95% accuracy — a feat even Magnus can't replicate.
00:58:50Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Stockfish making moves in 0.1 milliseconds still plays better than a human.
02:55:09Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
The anal beads cheating theory originated from a joke in Eric Hansen's (ChessBrah) Twitch chat, then went global after Elon Musk amplified it.
02:33:18Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Two identical Stockfish engines will always draw from the starting position, so they must be given fixed openings to produce interesting games.
03:07:35Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
AlphaZero learned to beat the best engines purely through self-play with no human game data, then DeepMind stopped developing it.
02:56:44Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
The term 'parasocial' was coined by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl in 1956.
02:22:48Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
In the Caro-Kann's main line, Black already has a plus score by move three, which is unusual in chess openings.
03:10:44Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
The Shure SM7B mic Lex uses was famously used by Michael Jackson on the Thriller album.
01:17:09Levy Rosman (GothamChess) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Johnson self-funded the first $53 million of Kernel and pitched 228 investors before one said yes.
00:19:18Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson reveals he and Elon Musk explored working together early on, and Musk considered joining Kernel before founding Neuralink.
01:24:14Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson made a 'bet the company' move, shifting Kernel from invasive to non-invasive brain technology.
01:26:20Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson admits he suffered chronic depression for 10 years and 'desperately wanted lights to be off.'
00:50:00Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He describes his 13-year marriage ending and leaving his religion as the darkest period of his life.
01:43:42Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Bryan tracks over 200 biomarkers every 90 days and lets the data, not his conscious mind, build his shopping list.
02:14:42Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
On Kilimanjaro, deathly ill with blood oxygen around 50%, he summited at 5am and credits Eminem for getting him through.
02:18:18Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel internally flags 'human intuition alert' to stop relying on guesses and trust data-driven discovery instead.
00:23:25Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel Flow has 52 modules, each with one laser and six sensors, yielding over a thousand channels of brain activity.
00:05:48Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson eats once a day around 8:30am, including a 'super veggie' pudding of broccoli, cauliflower, and a 'nutty pudding.'
01:51:52Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He reports a resting heart rate as low as 42 during sleep when his eating is timed correctly.
01:50:51Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
His testing regimen includes blood panels, microbiome tests, DNA methylation, and neurotransmitter analysis.
00:39:36Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel has nearly 100 employees, including roughly 36-37 PhDs in specialized fields.
01:31:03Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson became the #1 credit-card salesperson out of 400 nationwide while working part-time on another startup.
01:37:55Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
PayPal's margins were about 3% per transaction versus a typical payments company's few cents.
01:38:58Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson calls 'Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea' his favorite book ever, inspiring his 'zeroth principle' thinking.
01:06:34Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He considers sleep a contender for the most powerful health intervention in existence, tied directly to willpower.
01:56:32Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He notes biology may soon let us replace or regenerate every organ except the brain.
02:00:09Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Lex admits a brutal self-confidence swing: the night before he felt like 'the dumbest human who's ever lived,' the morning of he felt like 'the baddest motherfucker who's ever walked this earth.'
00:22:17Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein claims focus on critical theory, social justice, and fairness 'is making many of us into worse people.'
00:46:17Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Lex bets Eric a bottle of Stoli that Joe Rogan could go politically active without being destroyed.
01:21:07Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Eric explains he paused The Portal partly because he does not love being famous and fears being destroyed right before the election.
01:39:56Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Eric calls Jeffrey Epstein likely 'a government construct' and says the silence around him should tell you everything.
02:14:21Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Eric's chosen battle worth fighting: 'it's time to leave this place'—getting humanity off the planet.
02:32:43Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Eric insists anyone can be removed from the chessboard in three or four moves through ruin, no matter how virtuous.
01:50:20Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Eric frames the intellectual dark web as a loose confederation built to be 'hard to kill' against reputational attacks.
02:48:24Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Even temperament exists because 2 to the 19/12 is almost exactly equal to 3, a tension Weinstein calls one of music's most beautiful stories.
00:14:31Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein reads Cohen's 'Hallelujah' as addressing an unreliable audience too cool to be with the performer.
00:11:24Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein notes Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed, calling it 'the weirdest craziest college in the world.'
00:33:18Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
You can't build a legend without a worthy rival—Ali needed Frazier and Liston.
00:51:31Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
The average age of people in desirable institutional positions rises about nine months for every twelve, an unsustainable trend.
01:29:53Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein cites the 2010 Dubai assassination where 26 people on multiple teams converged to kill one man.
02:21:42Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein argues Madame Wu, Emmy Noether, and others were wrongly omitted from Nobel recognition.
02:11:10Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein says his Geometric Unity video neared half a million views and revealed most physicists don't speak its geometric language.
02:39:30Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Weinstein and his wife Pia developed 'geometric marginalism' together, which he calls one of the most romantic periods of his life.
02:44:47Eric Weinstein · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2020
Haidt says teen mental health 'fell off a cliff' around 2012-2013 with depression, self-harm and suicide rising 50-150% suddenly across multiple countries.
00:06:43Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He debunks the famous 'social media is no worse than eating potatoes' claim, showing that study lumped in all screen use and the real correlation for girls is much higher.
00:09:18Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
His core thesis: social media isn't a dose-response problem like sugar, it's a complete rewiring of childhood that began with the loss of free play in the 1990s.
00:28:29Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Bold policy stance that kids should be barred from these platforms until 16, with enforcement, because there's no way to make them safe for pre-teens.
00:28:59Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He reframes the whole crisis through the Tower of Babel metaphor: God confusing language and scattering people maps onto modern fragmentation.
00:41:50Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Sharp criticism of Elon Musk declaring himself Republican, calling it 'throwing fuel on a fire' and a violation of a CEO's fiduciary duty.
00:52:11Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Haidt argues content moderation barely matters; 'all the action is in the dynamics, the architecture, the virality' and user authentication.
01:05:38Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Lex admits he worries social media could help trigger world war, while Haidt says he fears 'civil war two' as the more likely prospect.
01:35:38Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Suicide for pre-teen girls roughly doubled between 2010 and 2015, and the crisis hit pre-teen girls hardest.
00:07:15Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Around 2010-2012 girls flocked to visual platforms like Instagram and Tumblr while boys went to YouTube and video games, which seem far less harmful.
00:14:31Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Public-health correlations are almost never above 0.2; childhood lead exposure and adult IQ is only 0.09, yet girls' social-media harm runs around 0.15-0.22.
00:23:15Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Haidt organizes his entire research literature in collaborative Google Docs so critics with opposite biases can add and challenge studies.
00:17:07Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He recounts his first paintball game at 29 feeling like 'we'd opened a room in our hearts,' illustrating humans' evolved appetite for tribal conflict.
00:39:46Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
A small number of users adept at social media can act as catalysts who start a viral wave of mob destruction, usually over a single word, not ideas.
00:45:27Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Haidt floats rating users 1-5 for hostility, defaulting accounts to never see the worst offenders, disincentivizing hostility without censorship.
01:11:18Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel that spread replacement theory, was on Timothy McVeigh when he was captured after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
01:18:01Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Haidt's NYU course 'Work, Wisdom and Happiness' boils success down to becoming stronger, smarter and more sociable.
01:39:46Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He invokes Chief Justice John Roberts' middle-school graduation speech wishing students unfairness, betrayal and loneliness to build character.
01:39:46Jonathan Haidt · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Reynolds says the closest he has felt to experiencing god was through ayahuasca, which convinced him there is more to be known.
00:32:17Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
During a terrifying plane emergency where his brother texted his wife goodbye, Reynolds felt nothing and thought dying 'might actually be nice.'
00:46:16Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He reveals a diagnosis of major depressive disorder and says delaying therapy almost cost him his life.
01:05:23Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
His earliest therapy was with a Mormon therapist, then a Scientology therapist, before he found secular 'therapy therapy.'
01:08:58Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Rick Rubin's main critique was simply 'I don't really believe you on that song,' which was enough to kill a track.
01:25:59Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
A gay Mormon teen shot himself outside the Las Vegas temple, a tragedy that shaped Reynolds's LGBTQ advocacy.
01:59:35Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Reynolds describes telling his own child 'I don't know' about whether they'll see each other after death.
02:05:14Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He writes over 100 songs a year but releases only 20 every three years, leaving most unheard.
01:20:19Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Reynolds fears 'everyone being in on a joke except yourself' and feeling secretly inadequate, traced to having six older brothers.
00:07:18Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He believes audiences have a powerful 'bullshit indicator' and can sense whether an artist truly means it.
00:13:35Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
His uncle, a heart surgeon, warns that musicians die because cortisol spikes on stage and crash off it.
00:50:23Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Charlie Sheen once told him 'boys, mark my words, your life is about to get really weird.'
01:00:44Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Reynolds is a baritone singing as a tenor, which gives his voice its natural gruffness.
01:33:14Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
The dramatic pause before the word 'pain' in 'Believer' was deliberately engineered to feel striking.
01:36:18Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
A statistic that ~75% of musicians report struggling with severe depression staggered him.
01:54:58Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
His father's single 'that was really good' after hearing his first song kept him from quitting music.
01:42:31Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
He admires that his intelligent, practicing-Mormon brothers still believe, so he refuses to call them wrong.
02:06:14Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Reynolds reads heartbreak in Nilsson's 'Without You' through the lens of Nilsson's later alcoholism.
00:18:47Dan Reynolds · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Recounts his '$10,000 death poll' tweet where ~45% said they'd take the money even if a random person died, and admits it disturbed him.
00:02:33MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Reveals he filmed videos as a teen scheduled years ahead, some set 20 years in the future, including ones meant to release only if he dies.
00:06:41MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Says he'd genuinely like to be made Twitter CEO and just had a conversation with Elon Musk before the podcast.
00:15:26MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Admits negative clickbait is much easier to get clicks with than positive, but says most of his videos stay positive because positive is harder.
00:45:47MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Claims that beyond roughly $100K, the prize amount in a video barely changes click-through rate.
00:46:17MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Argues virality is engineered, not luck, citing roughly a thousand videos over 10 million views with 'no duds.'
00:57:10MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Confesses growing fame made him lonelier, finding almost no one with his all-in 'kamikaze' obsession.
02:02:15MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Says the best thing for his mental health was giving in to his urge to work, not restricting it with weekends off.
02:05:51MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Believes one great evergreen video keeps getting served by YouTube for years, making it easier than making many mediocre ones.
00:01:01MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Some creators in Q4 make $30-40 per thousand views after YouTube's cut due to high holiday ad rates.
00:19:35MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Says the best-performing thumbnails are clear and uncluttered, and titles ideally run under 50 characters to avoid being cut off.
00:33:25MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
His right-hand man James lived with him and they talked about seven hours a day for two years to 'clone' MrBeast's thinking.
00:39:06MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
A TikTok where he paid a stranger to fly to Paris for a baguette got about 450 million views across platforms.
00:54:05MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Estimates a typical viewer is a teenage boy who plays video games, but roughly 35-40% of his audience is women.
01:10:05MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Says he could take 150-200 photos with fans in a single Walmart, which drives Feastables retail sales.
01:50:23MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
His biggest scaling surprise was supply chain - just keeping Feastables shelves stocked at Walmart.
01:51:28MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Credits being strategic about who he surrounds himself with, estimating he'd have ~80 million fewer subscribers otherwise.
02:08:25MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Many of his closest collaborators (Chris, Chandler, Tyler) are friends he knew before he got famous.
02:01:15MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2023
Zuckerberg made Meta's top management hold standing meetings in VR Workrooms to 'dogfood' the future of remote work.
00:08:19Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
VR feels more present when avatars show only hands and no arms, because wrong elbow angles break the sense of presence.
00:10:55Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
He flags impersonation via photorealistic avatars as a top future threat and floats biometric security to verify avatar identity.
00:32:32Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
He claims research broadly finds social media is not a large driver of polarization and is often correlated with lower polarization.
00:50:42Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
He argues 18-19 of ~20 metrics in the leaked Instagram teen study were neutral or positive, disputing the 'toxic' narrative.
01:05:14Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Confronted with a poll showing 54% unfavorable rating, he says controversial content decisions damage Meta's brand on both sides.
00:54:54Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
On COVID, he says his commitment to free speech is unchanged but a deadly pandemic can pass the 'fire in a crowded theater' test.
01:23:51Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Meta built AI that detects self-harm signals and routes local first responders, claiming it has helped in thousands of cases.
01:12:28Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Zuckerberg says a six-hour podcast is on the shorter end of the congressional testimonies he has done.
00:10:23Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Meta would buy VR devices for every engineer if they delivered even a 5% productivity boost.
00:24:49Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Meta runs what Zuckerberg calls the largest encrypted messaging service in the world via WhatsApp.
00:38:43Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Meta's AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) launched with 6,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs, scaling toward 16,000.
01:31:37Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Meta aimed to expand seamless translation from about 100 languages to roughly 300 in the near term.
01:34:47Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
He argues translation should go speech-to-speech directly, not speech-to-text-to-speech.
01:36:20Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Zuckerberg is into hydrofoiling, surfing, and former competitive fencing, and was open to trying Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
00:21:16Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Every night he goes through 'good night things' with his daughters: health, loving friends/family, and something to look forward to.
01:39:53Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
His philanthropy (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) targets curing, preventing, or managing all diseases by the end of the century.
01:49:51Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
He suggests the meaning of life is human connection and that society systematically undervalues it.
01:55:44Mark Zuckerberg · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2022
Sasso reveals he does talk therapy and is on medication for depression, after Bobby Lee encouraged him to discuss it publicly to help others.
00:22:57Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Describes the first day on his meds feeling like 'doors and windows were opening' in his brain and taking a rare three-hour nap.
00:23:59Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Admits that channeling Curly for The Three Stooges left him with involuntary Curly mannerisms he couldn't stop offscreen.
00:54:39Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Tells the story of repeatedly failing a Curb Your Enthusiasm audition because Larry David kept making him redo the same line.
01:00:17Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
On AI replicas of people: argues uploading consciousness is essentially impossible, but capturing a person's 'essence' digitally is coming soon.
01:13:47Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Lex and Sasso agree love is real and can't be argued away, contradicting Sasso's Dudesy co-host Chad.
01:18:23Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Sasso confesses a relentless self-critical inner voice, saying after his MIT lecture he walked home feeling he'd 'wasted everybody's time.'
01:48:40Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Sasso hates wearing suits and prefers shorts; he wore a black suit only to honor the Lex Fridman podcast.
00:01:34Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
He stopped gaming around 2010 after getting the 'red ring of death' on his Xbox 360.
00:06:13Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Dudesy is pitched as the first podcast run and curated by an AI, which was given access to the hosts' email, search and purchase histories.
00:44:13Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Frank Caliendo once told a young Sasso his Louie Anderson impression was 'wrong' and corrected it; they became fast friends.
01:04:25Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Sasso saw entire Three Stooges scenes in black-and-white in his head before filming, channeling Curly (Jerome Lester Horwitz).
00:57:12Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Hulk Hogan credited his red-and-yellow tights partly to McDonald's brand recognition.
02:00:47Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Sasso names Bret 'Hitman' Hart the greatest in-ring wrestler and Ric Flair the greatest overall.
01:58:39Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
He cites Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf: 'learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.'
02:16:30Will Sasso · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022

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