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Yannis Pappas

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first: 2021-04-12
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“That is on record, what he would do. He would go to very rich people and he'd be very well dressed, right? And he'd go, he'd say, I bet you don't have the confidence to give me your watch. And he would plan the egos, these very powerful and rich people, and they would give them the watch for some reason, some sort of reverse psychology bullshit. And he would take the watch and he would just steal it.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, Bertie Madoff is the goat, the greatest thief of all time, dude. Hedge fund guy ran a hedge fund and pulled, stole the most money in the history of America. I mean, a con artist. And people obviously, he's become, he's a household name because of the magnitude of his crime, but you got to appreciate, again, you got to appreciate what went into this and how long he was able to pull it off by tricking the smartest and richest people in the world. And a brilliant scam. The con man is short for confidence man. And it came from, yeah, a con man basically they exude confidence and they trick people by playing on their ego and blind spots. And the word comes from a guy, I can't remember where, but what he used to do, I can't remember the guy's name, whatever. You can Google it. Con man. But it's very interesting. The first con man.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Even Winston Churchill said from here on, we will no longer say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. I mean, it was monumental battle. And, you know, not talked about enough. Our podcast would inspire people to go actually learn more, to go listen to Dan Carlin or to go pick up a book or to do research on their own. And so I think podcasts, Dan Carlin's obviously much more accurate than us. It's good that people are going to podcasts like yours and to learn shit. Joe is really like the progenitor of that. I mean, having intellectuals on and getting the public interested with this new medium in people who are intelligent. It's nice because with the mainstream press pushes out is horseshit. Gorgeous horseshit. It's got a beautiful veneer, but no substance. And so this is a nice pushback”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think often it inspires you to go learn more. So it's like, I know we did that. I mean, you know, people would go, hey, I went and learned about this because they knew with us there was no pretense, which was great, that we had no standard. So it's like nobody came to us for historical accuracy. But I was kind of turned on by the fact that it inspired people to go learn about this stuff or to at least know, like Battle of Crete, like you said, a very underappreciated battle.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rhetoric only becomes dangerous when education fails. What's going on in America is education has failed. So if you call someone online dangerous, it's not him that's dangerous. It's the fucking stupid people that's dangerous. And it's the fault of this country. We didn't listen to Aristotle, the future of a civilization depends on public education. And we failed. Education has failed. Kids are not interested in shit.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And so it was just very organic, again, like the chemistry me and Chris became very good friends. We started the podcast. First, we did a web series called Bay Ridge Boys, which has its sort of little cult following. We did like five episodes and ended it. And then we did the podcast and hyenas were my favorite animal. And I talk about them passionately and I told Chris about them. And then he started appreciating them. And we both love history. I majored in history. It's one of the things I love. I go to museums all the time. I go to history. I do history tours. So does he. And so it was just sort of a natural, let's do a history podcast. And it gave us something to talk about each episode to sort of lean our, you know, hang our hats on and riff off of. So it had nothing to do with Dance. What I think about Dan's, I think it's great. I think even if he's an accurate in the opinions of the historical community, it starts conversations, which is good. It's like this thing where people go, oh, it's dangerous rhetoric. It's like, no.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More wild and a little history, and some were a little more dense, like the Battle of Crete and less hygiena. So you were always going to get both. You're either going to get a majority of one or the”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I would actually, you know, once in a while, he'd get into it too. But for very interesting episodes, some subject matter would just pull me in, like Bernie Madoff, just the thicker one that was recent. It was one of our last ones. And I think one of our better episodes, and I'm glad that... It kind of ended after that because it was rare to, I think we started to slip a little bit. I got fascinated. I did a lot of research for Bernie Madoff. But usually, yeah, we'd pull up Wikipedia and we'd have fun. We were sort of the antithesis of Dan Carlin. I mean, you went to Dan Carlin for accuracy and thoughtfulness, and you went to us for, it was a hang with history. That's why history hyenas was such an appropriate name because it was a little bit of history. Some episodes were more hyena.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's exactly true. We were one fan, we attracted such funny people to that podcast and the fans were so funny. And one fan called us nicknamed this Wikipedia sluts. And so it just stuck. Yeah, we just would read Wikipedia. I would do a lot more research than Chris.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Could be, yeah, it could be. But it's definitely a classic podcast that people can go back and appreciate. It's fast-paced and it was unique.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll tell you, man, I'll just emphasize it because I marvel at it too. Because as a guy who tries to always figure out what the causes of things, I got to be honest, man. Looking back on that even with retrospective wisdom, you know, that 2020 hindsight, we've been done a couple months now. It's something that I can't explain. It's something that I don't know how you quantify it. I don't know how you describe it. It's musical. It's really kind of rhythmic.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We may, yeah, so it's like it was like a hot fling. With me and him, and it was intense, and we burned the candle at both ends, and it was, I think that podcast was meant to be three years. And maybe people will go back and appreciate it and listen to it over and over again. And I think the new things we do people will love. I'm doing long days now, that podcast, and people seem to enjoy it.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is great. Yeah, it's a little bit more intelligent than when me and Chris did. But, you know, me and Chris, I think we connected on the funny bone. I found him so funny and we found the same things funny. And from that, these organic expressions came from some part of our brains that was created from this chemistry. And yeah, we developed this language in this cult following and people were really upset when we ended, but it was the right thing to end because like all things that end, it was kind of done a few episodes even before we finish. And I think we pulled the plug before it started rolling downhill. Like all, you know, like all great flings. Long marriages are boring and comfortable. The one you really like fucking always ends abruptly and sadly, but you always look back and you jerk off to it.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was something in the organic chemistry of me and Chris that I think we'll both end up appreciating even probably more than we do now that it's mysterious. I got to be honest with you. It was a thing that it wasn't conscious, wasn't intentional. It was something that happened in the music of our energies. That just went. Like when you hear someone sing or when a jazz band hits a rhythm or even when I'm on stage and I just catch a rhythm, it's like, dude, I didn't make a choice there. I don't know what that is. I don't know how to explain it. But it comes from somewhere else. And I don't know what it is. It's beyond my comprehension. But with Chris, there was this magical chemistry that, you know, I have chemistry with a lot of people and it can be funny and I enjoy.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know Leopolden Loeb? You know the story of those two, they murdered that kid and they had this weird relationship Anyway, it's an interesting thing to Google. Leopold and Loeb, these two guys who ended up murdering a kid because they developed their own language with each other and this own reality and this weird thing and they wanted to know what it's like to murder a kid and they murder a kid. It's a famous story in American lore and history or whatever famous case But this phenomenon, yeah, me and Chris got together It wasn't as dark as Leopold know we didn't murder a kid, but we murdered a podcast”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, Greece, you look at the architecture, it still stands up. I mean, all the government, it's still arguably, I mean, as far as objective beauty, it's hard to argue that Greco-Roman, it's just something about it with the columns. It's just powerful. It's, I don't know, even Ayn Rand would probably appreciate it.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But do you think also that it's that effect that a lot of good things had to happen too, or else we wouldn't be here? So do we just focus, isn't it like a car crash effect? Like we're just, you know, the rubber neck of everyone pulls over to see a car crasher. Are we just only focusing on the negative things of history because they're just more exciting to us? Like it's just not boring to be like, yeah, and then there was a bunch of villagers and they ate every day and danced and”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and they would maraud and rape and all the fun stuff that. When you visited other places back then, there's no Chachki stops and souvenir shops. What you do is you take women, those are the tokens. You burn a few huts. Different. Tourism was different back then.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Give me my scribe. Yeah, it's all lore. I mean, you ever play the game of telephone? It's like, you know, there's no video cameras back then, so shit just turns into myth, you know? And there's no way he was in the front. There's no way he wouldn't have lived. You know, he was probably good on horseback because those dudes were good on horseback. It was like Game of Thrones back then. You had all these different people and it kind of, yeah, the Mongols were wild, dude. They actually said like They started like they were more adaptable to the horse because they were so good on horseback that kids started to be born like kind of bow-legged like to fit the horse. It's wild. And they would stretch their heads and shit like that. They'd wrap them and stretch their heads so they find like Mongol skulls and they look like cone heads and they were brutal and vicious.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think that Alexander the Great was just kind of in the back on his horse and just kind of had his eunuch bloom a few times and he was like, is it bad up there? And then after that, he was like, okay, give me my scribe. Okay, when you write this down, can you put me in the front? Yeah. And I was just make me a big hero. And I was in there. And then, you know, he just blew his, you know, he had sex with his eunuch and rode off into the sunset because there's just no way you survive in the front, especially warfare back then. I mean, it's like brutal.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So then, how did he live? Because they put like kids in the front. You know, it's like nobody limps back from the front with like an injury. That's Army PR. Whenever you read, you know, Did he get carried off the court? He was maimed. I mean, he was like, his leg was blown up. You know, it's like”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll tell you what's missing that I know for a fact. Because my dad told me Combat's hell and he would tell me the reality of what it's really like. Guys pissing themselves, calling for their mother, the fog of war, obviously. Fratricide happens all the time. It's pandemonium. I mean, there's skill involved, but I mean, there's no, like, it's a lot of it is just luck. My dad said, my dad won three. He got, you know, medals, purple hearts, all that shit. And he said the reason was because he can't, he always said, this is another thing. He told me, you can't pin a medal on a dead guy. So it's like those are the guys who deserve it, but you can't pin a medal. You can't do the pomp. And I'll tell you one thing is that it is written by the victors and all these leaders, they say were in the front were not in the front. Whenever the history books say he led his troops into battle, it's like, did he really?”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Likewise, the Americans don't hear about the Soviet contribution to the end of World War II because obviously we became enemies after that because of the two systems. But yeah, without the Russians, World War II wouldn't have been won either.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Germans 10 days to conquer. And because of that, and because of the Greek resistance, Hitler had to postpone his invasion of Russia to winter. And of course, that was, you know, that was his downfall just as it was Napoleon's. And never, dude, never try to invade Russia. They got millions of people to throw at death. Every time you read about Russians in history books like and a million died. I mean, it's like you just guys throw millions of people at the problem and don't fuck with that Russian winner and don't fuck with Russian people, dude. They're tough. People in New York know that. You don't go to fucking sheepset bay and start talking shit. You end up in a fucking car trunk and they'll brutally murder you. I do not fuck with Russians.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To conquer, it's an island To put that in perspective, the country of France fell in three or four days. I can't even remember because they fucking just rolled over. So what is it? What is a couple hours matter when you're that much of a fucking pussy? What is a couple hours? 12 hour fucking three or four days. The island of Crete.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the Ottomans were there 400 years. You go to Greece now, there's no evidence, there's virtually no evidence of them ever being there. That's the Greek spirit. Kick them out and we kicked out Hummus too. So it's like your culture's gone. You're gone because Greeks are, it's philotimo. It's called Philoptimo. And it's a real thing. Philoptimo is very little translation. You can't translate it, but it's kind of like honor, loyalty, friendship, altruism. You can't define it, but Greeks know it, and we're taught it from our families. It's a vibe, man. It's a Greek cultural thing. And we're an old culture. And Philoptimos is what it's called. Philotimo. And it's love. It's passion. And it comes out and it comes out. And so Hitler had to postpone his invasion of Russia, went down. The island decreed took 10 days.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we beat the shit out of him a much bigger country, much more well-equipped country. Greece beat the shit out of him, kicked them back into Albania, actually not only repelled them, actually conquered some ground in Albania, pushed them back. And then Hitler was like, fuck, you know. I was planning my march to Russia, but I have to go down. He basically said to Mussolini, like, you know, he basically bitch slapped him like, Freddy, like, I got to do this myself because you're such a fucking bitch. So then the Nazis invaded Greece. Obviously, they took the mainland with fight and shout out. The Greeks never give credit to the British in New Zealand and Australian troops that were there. They were a large part of this, the majority of it. But the Greeks fight, dude, civilians. I mean, they fought.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Guys, we were do it. And it's like, yeah, you have to take Greece. And so, yeah, so Italy being much bigger than Greek, Greece is a tiny country, 9, 10 million. So Italy invaded Greece and Aki Day is a big holiday for Greeks. And this speaks to the spirit. Greeks infight until we have a common enemy and then we unite. You see it throughout history, Sparta and Athens. You see it in Greek families. Where the brothers will fight, but then as soon as we have a common enemy, we unite. And maybe it's an overactive brain. We think too much. Our traditions, philosophy, and we overthink things and we fight with each other and take things personally. We're all so passionate. But when Italy said, hey, we're going to move troops through. Greeks said, Aki, which means no. And that was, and then Italy attacked.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is one of the closest things to me because my mother was actually on the island to create during this. The first aerial invasion in history, a lot of people don't know that. So this is a very significant battle. First time there was an invasion from the sky. And my mother was a little girl and she lived through four years of She hated Germans, and she never got over it. So the most progressive, open-minded woman just could not get over this. It's a monumental battle that a lot of historians in retrospect have now looked back on and said, because the Nazis, first off, you got to take it back to when Hitler instructed Mussolini, because let's be honest, Mussolini was Hitler's bitch. You know what I mean? It was like Fantasy Island, Hitler was the fucking Mussolini was bossed the plane”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got to learn how to saw them up, put them in duffel bags, bury, you gotta learn how to dig. You got to learn how to hide. You got to learn to lie. I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. We need to pull a little respect on”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Give it some respect. Put some respect on Ted Bundy's name. Yeah, it's not easy to convince somebody to get in your Volkswagen Beagle.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not driving nice cars and being like, you know, so and animal channels do the same thing. They only show when the cheetah. Gets it because that's the exciting part. But what most people don't know is that those predators strike out almost always. A majority of the time, the prey wins. And so if you saw that and put in context, you might not hate it as much when the predator actually gets the little fawn or whatever because so many fawns got away. It's so hard to capture your prey. And we don't have the no documentary is going to sit around and show you the 99 times the cheetah didn't catch.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Important to acknowledge, I think, because it's real. We do come from that. We evolve from that. It's important. We still do that. We're just hidden from it. You know, when you go to the supermarket and get your slab of meat, you're so disconnected from where that meat came from. It came from that. And often that's uglier to watch than because there's some honesty. The nature channels only show. That's why we have so much sympathy with the prey. And this is where I think the same thing with mafia movies. They don't show what the mafia really does. They glorify the good parts. That's why I like State of Grace, because it's really just shaking down old people and fucking being dicks.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And yeah, hyenas are more interesting. They'll just roll in. Like a hyena will, like you said, the lie. Because when you watch the Serengeti, animals will hang out with each other. They're like by water. So one hyena will just kind of roll in and pretend like it's not hungry and then bang they'll use any means necessary to take an animal down. Like lions will just use brute strength. Hyenas use cunning and you can even go on the internet and find memes of this where hyenas will grab the big animal by the balls and just like will sneak up behind it and bite its balls and you'll watch an animal 10 times the size of the hyena just slowly go down. It's brutal, but it's fucking hilarious.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. They're usually portrayed as like it's really sad that they're portrayed that way in lions. Like lions aren't dicks. Lions are dicks. The alpha lions will kill the cubs of another rival. They do all types of dick shit.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They have the strongest bite force. They pulverize bone. Like when they eat an animal, the animal's gone. There's no bones. They eat everything. They can pulverize. Their bite is so powerful. They pulverize bone and eat it. So if they consume an animal, the animal was there, and then the animal's gone. There's nothing for the vultures to grab”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so it's a matriarchal society, by the way. So that's the unique in and of itself that this we're talking about an apex predator that is matriarchal, much like the preying mantis. It's very rare, though, and they are fucking brutal and vicious. And the women are bigger. And they let their cubs fight. A lot of fratricide, and they do that because they're like, hey, you're weaker. I let your brother kill you. And the women have penises. The women have pseudo penises that they give birth out of. And the birth is violent, but they roll around with just huge pieces. They're glue guns are just fucking swinging. You know, and the women are just run the show and it's just cool that they have these pseudo penises.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is kind of mysterious. I don't think they fully figured out. And this pseudo penis thing is the, I mean, it is the audience.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, because they're trying to get the job done, you know, lions are just like they're too gifted. Everyone hates the fucking, you know, if I went to school with you, I'd be like, of course Lex knows the fucking answer. Lex was born smarter than me, you know, and you'd probably hate me because I was the kid always seeking attention and making people. It's like, that's not interesting. The guy that claws his way to the top, and those are hyenas, they're also fascinating just by merely who they are. I mean, they're not related.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and that's why I like them. Yes, they're dishonest. They employ Chicannery. And that just is a sign of how intelligent they are and how self-reliant they are and how brutal they are. They're brutally honest in how much they lie.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because mine is predictable. Lions are just, you know, they're regal and kind of they boring. It's like the hot chick. It's like, we get it. You were born the best You know, I like a scrappy by any means necessary, intelligent, and cunning.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wanted to show you the best tacos, man. And I'm like, did you really? What do you want? Because in New York, it's like, if anyone's nice to you, they want something. Yeah. That's the pro side to that is it makes you very street smart. The downside to that is it makes you way too cynical.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, especially if you're a New Yorker, we don't trust anything, the nicer you are, the more skeptical we are. I've struggled with that down here. I've been like, what's your angle? And they're like, no, dude, just.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what killers do. That's what the worst people. Look at Bill Cosby. I mean, he was, what better way to hide? It's like what wokeness is now. It's like, I'm such a great person. And you're like, are ya? It's a great, the best way to hide is to pretend to be the opposite of what you are. Just like Ted Bundy. I'm just an innocent, helpful guy. And then, boom, next thing you know, you're getting your tippet off.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And now that we know that we can do these CAT scans and brain scans, we know that they're born that way. Power definitely corrupts people who have the capacity to feel and for empathy. Power, I'm not sure. I don't think power corrupts people who were born psychopathic with that condition or sociopaths who were closer to psychopath and then had some traumatic life. I just think, you know, the best way to get away with whatever nefarious thing you want to do to feel, I guess the only thing psychopaths can feel is that excitement is to pretend to be the opposite of what you are.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or that could have been the initial subterfuge to kind of get everybody. You know, Hitler also is a, you know, champion of the people. Let's build some new roads. It's what psychopaths do. And that's why it's interesting to me. I'm not sure if power corrupts psychopaths.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The sad thing is, I don't know if history tells that story. It's like I said, you look at Greece, you look at Rome, democracy kind of failed. The majority of Rome, the most successful empire that we've had, was a dictatorship for most of its run. But I do believe in a republic, which is sort of a limited democracy. I do believe in what we have here. I believe in common law. I believe, you know, in individual rights. But yeah, I think you said it. Nobody could have said it better. Yeah, it's a short-term solution. You look at Saddam Hussein. He kind of, you know, when we took him out, then there was a lot of infighting that happened that he was kind of keeping at bay because he was a strongman, dictator.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's intelligence. I mean, in some ways, that their nose. You know, it's like, I mean, dude, they can smell you from miles away. You ever see a dog just like sniffing, catching? I mean, it's smelling like, I don't remember the date on it, but it's like they have like millions of receptors or something where we only, you know, thank God we don't have their nose. That would be sex weird. A little too intense”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not as much as dogs. I mean, dogs are, like you said, they look at humans. I actually read an article there. Some people were theorizing they're smarter than chimps because of the way they can work with humans. And there was one border collie that spoke like 300 words, like a quarter, like a almost part of language. And their nose is like a map. I mean, that's like magic, dude. If you can smell in my ass to what I had for breakfast from miles away.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Keep rodents away, the domesticated cat is very important, keeps rodents away. Yeah, that's what they were domesticated for. I mean, they're psychopathic killers who end up killing innocent neighborhood chipmunks. And birds, they really affect the balance of the local ecosystem. But if you keep...”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source