#167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
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🗓️ 14 March 2021
⏱️ 197 minutes
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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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sagar Anjety. |
| 0:02.9 | He is a DC-based political correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | host of the Rising with Crystal Ball, |
| 0:08.1 | and host of the Realignment podcast with Marshall Kuzlov. |
| 0:12.6 | He has interviewed Donald Trump four times, |
| 0:16.4 | and has interviewed a lot of major political figures |
| 0:19.7 | and human beings who wield power. |
| 0:23.0 | He loves policy and loves history, |
| 0:25.8 | which makes him a great person to sail |
| 0:28.0 | through the sometimes stormy waters of political discourse. |
| 0:32.5 | He showed up to this conversation with a gift |
| 0:35.3 | of the second volume of Ian Kershaw's biography on Hitler, |
| 0:40.0 | a two-volume set that is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest, |
| 0:43.4 | if not the greatest, most definitive studies of Hitler. |
| 0:48.2 | Nothing wins my heart faster on a first meeting |
| 0:51.2 | or a first date than a great book about the darkest aspects |
| 0:55.0 | of human nature and human history. |
| 0:57.3 | I think I started seeing that as a joke, |
| 0:59.1 | but actually there's probably a lot of truth to it. |
| 1:01.3 | I love it when we skip the small talk and go straight |
| 1:03.7 | to the in-depth conversation about the best |
| 1:06.4 | and worst of human nature. |
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