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Mar 2021
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#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History,...

LEX FRIDMAN
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:19) – Hitler
(14:39) – Evil
(15:58) – Donald Trump
(26:29) – Teddy Roosevelt
(31:51) – Nazi Germany
(36:47) – The balance of power in US government
(40:43) – Bureaucracy
(49:17) – Money
(51:32) – UFOs
(55:36) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:08:57) – Left and Right
(1:19:40) – How to fix politics
(1:45:07) – Political predictions
(1:58:21) – Journalism
(2:09:16) – Joe Rogan
(2:16:43) – Lyndon Johnson
(2:18:02) – World War I
(2:22:53) – Dan Carlin
(2:29:47) – How Stalin came to power
(2:35:15) – Putin
(2:41:25) – Lenin and Stalin
(2:44:55) – Book recommendations
(2:52:23) – Antarctica and Mars
(2:59:37) – Born to Run
(3:02:05) – Texas

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