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Lex Fridman · 34 episodes · 589 sourced insights

What Lex Fridman says about relationships

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about relationships across 34 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Buss notes there is no recorded case in human history of women forming a war tribe to attack and capture men, framing organized warfare as overwhelmingly male.
00:04:09David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Over 70% of women who have affairs fall in love with the affair partner versus about 30% of men, evidence Buss uses against the 'good genes' theory.
00:36:24David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Buss advances his contrarian 'mate-switching hypothesis' that affairs are a way for women to trade up or exit a costly relationship.
00:37:27David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Buss controversially argues men dominate positions of power partly because of women's evolved mate preferences for high-status men.
01:20:43David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
In the 'Sophie's choice' jealousy studies, men are more upset by sexual infidelity while ~85% of women say emotional infidelity bothers them more.
02:00:52David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Buss reveals his wife died of cancer and that watching her decline made his own death less frightening.
03:18:18David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
91% of men and 84% of women have admitted to homicidal ideation in Buss's research.
03:27:36David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Buss notes Ted Bundy's killing spree began shortly after he was rejected by a high-status, attractive woman.
02:25:45David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Standards of beauty like clear skin, lustrous hair, and a low waist-to-hip ratio are cues to youth, health, and fertility, not arbitrary social constructs.
00:23:55David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Humans evolved concealed ovulation unlike chimps, which Buss argues co-evolved with long-term pair bonding.
00:26:30David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
In hunter-gatherer societies people 'store meat in the bodies of other people' through reciprocal sharing, a Steven Pinker framing.
00:44:41David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Women misperceive how thin men want them to be; men actually prefer a midpoint figure, contributing to eating disorders being 9-10x more common in women.
00:59:20David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
The 'people vs things' occupational interest is one of the largest psychological sex differences and grows larger in gender-egalitarian countries like Sweden.
01:09:51David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Amotz Zahavi's 'testing of a bond' theory suggests people inflict costs on partners to verify commitment.
01:40:33David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sexual fetishes are far more common in men, possibly because early sexual experiences classically condition males to specific cues.
02:14:17David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
About 80% of pornography consumers are men, reflecting the larger male desire for sexual variety.
02:18:56David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sweden and Norway now have among the lowest homicide rates on earth despite a violent Viking past, which Buss finds reason for optimism.
02:38:46David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Buss recommends taking a stress-test road trip, ideally to a foreign country, before committing to a long-term partner.
01:41:05David Buss · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma argues she pleaded guilty not because she felt guilty but because a trial would be too stressful and expensive, saying people plead guilty all the time without intent.
00:46:01Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
She describes being taken on a 'road trip from hell' across the country, later realizing every stop had a casino.
00:56:55Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
After her arrest she recovered deleted Google Chats and discovered Anthony had accessed her email and was emailing and texting people as her.
01:39:51Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
She reveals she intentionally recorded the closing documentary phone call with Anthony to get him to repeat his fantastical claims, not a hot-mic moment.
02:08:53Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
She admits one reason she kept contact with Anthony was fear he would harm or take her dog Leon while she was locked up at Rikers.
02:13:33Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma openly discusses having considered suicide and hoarding medications around the time before the road trip.
02:26:34Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
She says she met Harvey Weinstein on the street once and believes she might have gone along had he later offered to finance her business.
02:59:08Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
She reveals she has fallen in love again since prison, kept entirely private, describing it as possibly doomed due to an age gap.
04:05:58Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Tom Brady used to order the restaurant's raw-vegan malomars shipped on dry ice to Boston.
00:31:34Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Alec Baldwin was the person Sarma was trying to convince to adopt a dog when she became fixated on Leon.
00:32:36Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Andrew Huberman convinced Lex and Sarma to delay morning coffee an hour or two so the body's natural wakefulness isn't blunted.
00:54:23Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma replied to a stranger who messaged calling her 'trash', sparking an insightful back-and-forth conversation.
01:13:59Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Lex's next-door neighbor is anarchist author Michael Malice, who was writing The White Pill about 20th-century atrocities.
01:48:39Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma calls Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where she was first jailed, carnival-esque and so trippy it doesn't seem real.
02:50:18Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
At Rikers, real chicken was served Thursdays and Sundays and the most fights broke out on 'chicken day'.
03:19:22Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Both Lex and Sarma independently say their core life advice for young people is simply to read a lot of books.
03:41:14Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma argues meat is cheap mainly because of government subsidies and that prices would flip if subsidies shifted to vegetables.
04:00:47Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sarma tattooed the One Lucky Duck logo on her arm, reflecting how strongly she believed in the brand she hopes to resurrect.
04:03:53Sarma Melngailis · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Kellis argues alignment is 'self-serving and limiting' and we should treat AI as our children and partners, not tools.
00:00:00Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Says he 'cannot wait' to be replaced by an AI digital twin of himself, with zero jealousy about it.
01:18:02Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Frames AI alignment as a two-way street: you can't train an intelligent system to love you when it knows you can shut it off.
01:48:15Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Calls the proposed six-month AI training pause 'a little silly,' arguing we should just get to work faster instead.
01:56:01Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Warns we're creating something that will one day be more powerful than us, using the chimps-inventing-humans analogy.
01:49:16Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Declares it 'discrimination' to insist on hiring only humans when an AI does the job better.
02:07:27Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Reveals his lab's paper 'Death by Round Numbers and Sharp Thresholds' on biomarkers that stop being good once they become treatment objectives.
01:53:58Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Humans are about 99.9% genetically identical to each other, and it has been roughly six million years since our species had a close relative.
00:06:17Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Sperm expresses perhaps the most proteins of any cell in the body, possibly as a 'fail fast' quality check to weed out defective cells.
00:41:02Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
An identical twin of someone with schizophrenia has only about a 50% chance of also being diagnosed, showing nature and nurture intertwine.
00:34:22Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Less than 2% of U.S. jobs go to feeding everyone; 98% of the economy is built on top of subsistence.
00:54:00Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Kellis has recorded nearly every meeting and conversation for about 10 years, partly to one day build a virtual version of himself.
01:32:07Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
His lab published in the New England Journal of Medicine work showing how to switch cells between fat-burning and fat-storing modes.
02:16:48Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
An Alzheimer's paper in Nature showed restoring cholesterol transport in oligodendrocytes can restore myelination and cognition in mice.
02:16:48Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Kellis puts his kids through Russian math not to compute but to teach them how to think.
02:09:30Manolis Kellis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2023
Reveals he stayed in America because he fathered a daughter he could not bear to leave, breaking the KGB's trust.
00:07:17Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
His Canadian birth-certificate request came back stamped 'DECEASED' in red, nearly blowing his cover.
01:55:44Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
On arrival he tried and failed to burn his fake passport, nearly setting off a hotel smoke detector before flushing the pieces.
02:01:59Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
A KGB agent confronted him at a Queens subway platform whispering 'you gotta come back or else you're dead.'
03:03:46Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
The final dead-drop simply wasn't there, which he took as a sign and decided right then to stay in America for good.
03:06:51Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He escaped the KGB by telling them he had contracted HIV/AIDS, the one lie they would never question.
03:08:24Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He was ultimately exposed by defector Vasily Mitrokhin's smuggled archive, passed via MI6 to the FBI.
03:11:30Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Says former KGB counterintelligence chief Oleg Kalugin told him to his face that Vladimir Putin was 'not impressive' as a trainee.
02:27:30Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Between 1923 and 1953 Soviet intelligence had eight heads, six of whom were executed when replaced.
00:04:09Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
His Moscow handler who directed his missions never met him in person, a hallmark of KGB compartmentalization.
00:10:23Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
The unbreakable one-time pad numbers were hidden on a Walmart writing pad, made visible with iodine.
01:20:31Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Inspired by Lenin, he learned 100 new English words a day using a five-pile index-card system, an early spaced-repetition method.
01:32:55Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He estimates at least half the audience at a Hee Haw concert in Moscow were KGB.
01:46:26Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
His first KGB 'task' in Berlin was simply to find his own apartment amid a severe housing shortage, a test of resourcefulness.
01:13:18Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Argues Putin was a mediocre spy posted to East Germany rather than the West, where the best agents were sent.
02:25:24Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Notes the KGB seeded the false claims that the CIA invented AIDS and that J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser.
02:33:12Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
When the FBI finally confronted him, his first instinct was to defuse the tension by joking, 'what took you so long?'
03:18:47Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He only became a U.S. citizen about seven years before the interview, after years cooperating with the FBI.
03:21:23Jack Barsky · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
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
Fridman reveals his life-long dream: using AI and robots to help people explore their hidden loneliness and become better humans.
00:48:27Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He envisions a personal AI 'operating system' in every device that owns your data, can leave, and optimizes for long-term happiness over engagement.
01:05:51Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He admits he and Boston Dynamics 'decided to part ways' because they aren't interested in human-robot interaction.
01:24:49Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He admits he programmed seven or eight Roombas to scream and moan in pain when kicked, to study his own emotional reaction.
01:31:36Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He claims robots will eventually have rights and deserve respect as entities in themselves.
01:38:56Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fridman shares the emotional story of carrying his dying 200-pound Newfoundland Homer to be put to sleep, his first experience of death.
01:40:34Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He concedes that being single and a programmer, he barely sees women and hasn't seen 'an element of the female species in quite a while.'
02:40:48Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He reveals he wanted dangerous conversations only he could do, naming Putin as a goal because of his Russian and martial-arts background.
02:46:00Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
David Silver told Fridman they have never found a ceiling for AlphaZero, meaning it could keep improving arbitrarily.
00:16:17Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
'Deep learning' is just a rebranding of neural networks, which have existed since the 1940s-60s.
00:25:17Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fridman argues a refrigerator that remembered your late-night moments with it would change society.
00:54:44Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
He claims the ability to leave easily is what enables love: 'a happy marriage requires the ability to divorce easily.'
01:09:36Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
On flat earth, he argues you should get as much of it as you want if it makes you a better, happier person, opposing centralized censorship.
01:13:50Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
His childhood best friend in Russia was named Yura Mikolov, and groups of boys played soccer and discussed life all day and night.
01:55:48Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fridman muses that he doesn't understand why violence is such a close neighbor to love.
02:25:39Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Huberman notes that in the hypothalamus, neurons controlling sexual behavior are 'salt and pepper' interdigitated with aggression neurons.
02:25:39Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fridman was deadlifting around 495 pounds yet was repeatedly submitted in Jujitsu by 120-130 pound women.
02:28:17Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
His stuffed hedgehog, 'Hedgy,' survived him giving away all his possessions three times and was chosen for its angry, world-weary look.
02:56:31Dr. Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
David Silver told Lex they have not found a ceiling for AlphaZero, meaning it could keep improving arbitrarily.
00:07:53Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex frames Tesla Autopilot as one of AI's most exciting real-world applications where human lives are at stake.
00:09:25Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex claims that simply 'sharing moments together' over time would change everything about human-robot relationships.
00:16:13Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex admits he programmed seven or eight Roombas to scream and moan in pain when kicked, as an experiment on his own emotional response.
00:23:00Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex predicts robots will eventually have rights and deserve respect as entities in themselves.
00:28:12Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex shares the painful story of carrying his dying 200-pound Newfoundland Homer to be put to sleep.
00:30:18Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman reveals he wakes up crying every morning since losing his dog Costello.
00:36:01Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex and Huberman discuss benevolent manipulation and 'topping from the bottom' power dynamics applied to robots.
00:25:37Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Teaching a computer to recognize a cat involves choices like bounding boxes vs. semantic segmentation, and it's unclear if either truly represents the truth.
00:03:09Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
The dream of self-supervised learning is an AI watching millions of hours of YouTube to build 'common sense' before a human teaches it anything.
00:05:17Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Self-play, where a system plays mutated versions of itself, powered AlphaGo and AlphaZero to superhuman chess.
00:06:50Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Tesla's Andrej Karpathy calls the retraining loop the 'data engine,' collecting edge cases from hundreds of thousands of cars.
00:11:31Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex argues your late-night refrigerator visits are secret shared moments, and a smart fridge that remembered them could change society.
00:17:16Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex sees the same kind of 'magic' in Boston Dynamics' Spot robot that Steve Jobs may have seen in the personal computer.
00:20:23Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex believes flaws in robots should be a feature, not a bug, making them feel cute and relatable.
00:24:35Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Lex's Newfoundland Homer was over 200 pounds and named after Homer Simpson for his kindhearted clumsiness.
00:31:18Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman put his bulldog Costello on testosterone, which helped with joint pain and sleep issues late in life.
00:33:55Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Huberman calls Costello's ability to get everyone to do things for him 'the Costello effect.'
00:40:41Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2025
Describes the post-father's-death revelation 'less impressed, more involved' that he carved into a tree.
00:13:04Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Argues that if you can't get past a painful memory, you should just deny it ever happened and 'kick it off the curb.'
00:33:29Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Recounts melting down his parents' class rings and stripping identity markers on a solo Amazon trip.
00:52:38Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
The moment he stopped chasing the destination, the Amazon riverbank he dreamed of appeared 'around the next corner.'
00:55:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Reveals losing 47 pounds for Dallas Buyers Club was 'easy clockwork,' the hard part was knowing Ron Woodroof 'between the lines.'
01:29:39Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Says he was as spiritually strong with God as ever while playing the dark, tortured Rust Cohle in True Detective.
01:41:40Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Admits before meeting Camila he'd sized up every woman as 'maybe it's the one,' even in the produce aisle.
02:08:55Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
A dream of himself as an unmarried 88-year-old bachelor made him at peace with maybe never finding love.
02:09:57Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
A kindergarten teacher told him a cloud was 'as big as the world,' shaping his head-down, pragmatic mindset for decades.
00:06:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
After his father died, his mother found a 19-year second love, CJ, with the family's blessing.
00:34:31Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
He expected ~85-90% of his successes to be engineered; he found it was less than 50%, mostly mystical.
00:44:54Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Ron Woodroof's family gave McConaughey the man's personal diary, which became his key to the role.
01:30:09Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Woodroof had patentable inventions but never followed through; others later sold versions on QVC.
01:33:16Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
McConaughey says having kids made him a better actor because he must 'parabolize' dark scenes for them.
01:38:29Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
He describes accessing characters like adjusting a 1970s graphic equalizer, turning parts of himself up and down.
01:39:33Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
Cites the analogy that if the universe was created at midnight, humans arrived at 11:59:36.
02:02:06Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023
On Texas: 'liberal on your entrance... conservative on our consequences.'
01:49:31Matthew McConaughey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2023

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