#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family

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Lex Fridman

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4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:50) - Growing up in South Africa
(19:21) - Cooking
(42:06) - Ingredients
(49:11) - Anthony Bourdain
(51:26) - Cooking school
(1:07:46) - Life-threatening accident
(1:21:50) - Road trip across US
(1:33:33) - Zip2
(1:38:16) - Tesla
(1:45:41) - SpaceX
(1:49:24) - Hope for the future

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0:00.0	The You should check it out. It is in fact the first cookbook I've ever owned. I've already made stuff from it and it's delicious.
0:19.0	And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It is the best way to support this podcast.
0:26.0	We got 8 Sleep for Naps, Express VPN for security and privacy on the interwebs, NetSuite for business and better help for mental health.
0:38.6	Choose wisely, my friends.
0:40.3	Also if you want to work with our amazing team or just want to get in touch with me for a bunch of different reasons,
0:47.0	please go to Lex Friedman.com.
0:50.0	Like the movie, except I'm not an alien allegedly and now onto the full ad reads as
0:57.7	always no ads in the middle I try to make this interesting but if you skip them
1:01.4	please still check out the sponsors I enjoy
1:03.7	their stuff maybe you will too this episode is brought to you by power naps the
1:10.4	act of napping the act of sleep but the act of napping, the act of sleep, but the act of napping fundamentally is where all of life's joys come from.
1:18.3	Now, there's a lot of people disagree on this point. Anyway, it's eight sleep and they have a pot three cover that cools the bed down or heats it up if you're an insane person.
1:28.7	I love you too. Insane people are beautiful people. So we may disagree. Emax versus Vim, Messy versus Rinaldo. What else is there? I don't know.
1:40.8	Those are the two big disagreements in my life.
1:44.7	Although at this point, do you honestly disagree that messy is the greatest of all time? Is there even a competition?
1:50.4	I mean, you can appreciate the human the genius of different players throughout the history of soccer
1:58.4	But Leonel messy is just on another level. Anyway, at this very moment I'm drifting downwards in terms of energy and I just know that after this I'll take a nap for maybe even 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes on the said
2:19.5	Aitzley bed it'd be cool with a warm blanket and when I get up the birds will be chirping.
2:26.2	There'll be butterflies in my mind. It'll just be all perfect. I'll sit down.
2:31.9	Maybe a little bit caffeine, and just get back to work.
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