Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Gala Games: gala.games/lex - Indeed: indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - MasterClass: masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off 0:32 - Animal Farm 3:34 - Emma Goldman 6:39 - Albert Camus 8:09 - How to be a hero in Nazi Germany 15:15 - Camus on Existentialism vs Nihilism 21:17 - Cynicism is a lie 26:24 - Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union 46:43 - Lex and Michael argue: can most people think on their own? 58:21 - How Lex and Michael use Twitter 1:07:43 - Life is beautiful 1:10:46 - Returning to Ukraine 1:12:39 - Michael is now an underwear model 1:16:45 - The Anarchist Handbook 1:18:32 - Tolstoy was an anarchist 1:31:14 - Anarchy debate between Lex and Michael 2:00:22 - Why Michael doesn't vote 2:17:37 - Austin and New York 2:26:13 - Alex Jones
That’s what I was gunna say, I want to see him try to go full lex tho. That would be awesome to have malice host the show even tho he pretty much does without realizing it
Holy crap I hope you could get some water and relieve yourself! Please next time you don't need to comment it on youtube, it's dangerous take care not to burn alive :O
I've watched lots of interviews with Michael, and no one quite tempers the troll side of him like Lex does. As a result, his brilliance really shines in these conversations without his obnoxious side overwhelming the conversation. These conversations are the best of Michael and in some ways also the best of Lex, great stuff!
Lex also isn't afraid to play along. Just check out the costumes. He is indeed a great foil for Malice, bringing out the best in him. I wouldn't call it tempering, and I absolutely love Michael's trolling, but there is definitely something fantastic about the way these guys interact.
Lex brought out a side of Michael I have never seen - his discussion about his grandfather and what his Russian family endured during WW2 - soul crushing.
25 min in and I've only been listening to this. When I sat down and looked at the screen and seen their outfits I cracked up with a giddy happiness. Such deep conversation paired with the silliness of these two men is fantastic. And I'm not trying to cast disparaging comments on their heritage in that statement. Being deep, silly, and honoring their heritage was done quite brilliantly. Love it, love these two.
@@eliyahfeld Millenials is a pretty large grouping and constitute people from ages 25 to 40. I would probably be willing to bet they are the largest audience to this podcast. I'm pretty much in the center of the Millenial generation (born '89) and I've been following Lex's podcast keenly since its beginning.
These two gentlemen had one of the best conversations I have ever seen or heard. I like to try and hold any comments until the very end during either of these guys talks so I can really focus and think about what they are actually saying and let it sink in. I am now watching this for the third time in it’s entirety and just blown away with these two.
When Michael dressed in the white suit, black shirt getup a while back, that was peak humor Now there's Lex playing into the joke as well.... I can't even....😆😂🤣
Absolutely Riveting. Conversation on human capacity for good, evil, banality, and cruelty. ""That mediocre person with a little bit of power ... " The courage to be weird, heroism with and without martyrdom.. I will hit you up payday Lex. Thank you Thank you ❤️🙏
@@samanthaqiu3416 starting to think that he also didn’t mean that Michael is a simpleton 🧐 upon closer inspection THAT WAS Michael. Now I’m confused 😝 ✌️❤️
Came here literally just to read comments about the intro. But then it gets better!! As soon as it cuts to Lex and Malice, Lex is talking about his love for Animal Farm, and I swear he says it's an "Al Gore-y..." (rather than 'allegory') - Damnit, 30 seconds in and I can't stop laughing
Wow, really uplifting stuff from Micheal, usually I love him for his humour and amazing sense of humour but this conversation I found him to be absolutely inspiring and so helpful...Incredible!
I grew up with this guy, his dad immigrated from Yugoslavia and ended up owning a few shrimping boats. Their whole family wore nothing but track suits. Even their cousins came over from Yugoslavia in the early 90’s wore nothing but track suits. It was the funniest shit.
Agreed. Cynicism is the soul-rot that caused my depression. Malice (ironic name 🙃) is, to me, a beacon. Through him, I see a way back from the enveloping blackness of despair. Antidepressants have also helped 😁. I can do nothing but stand in gobsmacked astonishment, and respect what a paragon he remains after *years* of abusive criticism. 👏👊 These two, where it counts, are beautiful people.
@@RenameUranus2Caelus well done man. I hope you're still making progress. These two stoics are wonderful polarities, and Malice has something properly understood.
@@RenameUranus2Caelus Logic is the light in the darkness and will lead you away from despair, but only if you faithfully reckon (reason properly and honestly) with this one true God.
This intro from Michael has saved my soul so many times. Every time I feel hopeless, I watch it again and I can't really explain this, but it makes life tolerable, even joyful sometimes. Thank you!
“A unrelenting Anarchist and a cold Robot walk into a bar...” Turns out the punchline is something about them being wonderful friends and inspiring personalities; Truly, two good men worth looking up to.
The bit about Russia and Ukraine was heart breaking. I’m Ukrainian and Polish. My great grandfather died in Ukraine when a bomb went off on some railroad tracks. So my grandpa and his little sister came to America. He died from a heart attack before I turned 5, and it’s one of my biggest regrets that I could never speak to him about his life.
Don't worry, if he made it to America, he made it much further than he thought he would at the time. Be happy you were able to meet him at all. Polish here, this Michael guy being from Lwów is 110km from where my family is from/still are. Was a little too close to home at the beginning of this episode, had to turn it off
I'm Polish-Ukrainian, too! Funnily enough part of my Polish side is also from Lvov like Michael, but when it was still part of Poland. When Michael started choking up talking about what his family must have been dealing with during WWII really got to me. I remember when my mother first started explaining to me my heritage and why I don't have grandparents like the other kids and all that. Learning about the horrors that your family has been through when you're a kid is hard, but so necessary. But it's frustrating too, because then you see very clearly the complete ignorance of so many people with regards to history and politics. I love America, I love being an American, but holy shit you can literally tell some people here that half your family was arrested and killed for criticizing the communist party and they'll just look at you like, "Yeah, and what about it?" People here are so spoiled here that they don't even know how good they have it.
You should have seen my 10 years old daughter's face the moment she realised that Arnie also has to die. She never cried so badly, not when she was in pain or anything. Best movie ever
Interesting fact. Arnie kills no one in that movie. If your a kid in the 90's and you see all the 'good guys' killing people left and right then you go through a whole movie with one hero deliberately not, because of a kids command, kinda leaves that capital H Hero impression on you.
Watched this podcast after seeing several other Lex/Michael conversations and I will be forever grateful to them both for my newfound education of totalitarianism and communism, and for the empathy and understanding I've gained as a result of their honesty and love. Thankyou.
Very intense, emotional, informative conversation. Another reminder how important and essential it is to preserve our freedoms and liberties. We seem to be living in a very pivotal moment and i hope we can preserve what the previous generations gave life and limb to protect.
I hope so....I moved south and brought my family last summer. I hope we can at least turn the ship a little bit, it's looking rough coming from a blue state. It's great now and you really appreciate the difference in freedom. I never thought it was that different but it's very noticable between the states.
Lex is not a robot. He's a slow-moving monolith that is so good and making his guests look inward before asking the big questions. Awesome show. A poem for Michael. {Let Goodness Rein} I breathe in the good like my life-force depends on it In a world covered in concrete and hate Good is like a defiant flower rising from the cracks of our many prisons The eye is cut by a world full of right angles Nature is not natural And love is built on a series of well thought out conditions Each new acquaintance is critiqued beyond acceptability and promptly publicly berated for our pride’s personal amusement The echo of our anger is a language in song That only the ‘One True Choir’ can understand Every space is concurred by the socially righteous Policed and purified in their own image Where good is a clever insult or Good is our neighbor’s suffering because the empty soul cries out for their pain Good is the destruction of the things we hate Even if we only hate them because we hated ourselves first In a world searching for the meaning of pain Not Life Good is the spaces between the raindrops that are easily forgotten L E Crane
Watch how Lex and his poetic self can be so quiet and accepting, allowing Michael his emotion, no self-consciousness or embarrassment. Two fellow countrymen who understand something profoundly incomprehensible to many of us. Thank you for allowing me into this conversation. 🙏
Lol, agreed. Awesome episode & I most definitely will watch this again.. Malice is a Legend to me, & Lex is incredible as an interviewer/journalist & I am hooked.👍
Most powerful thing I’ve seen in many years. Gilbert Allardyce, my 1st year history prof in 1968, brought me to the same mental and emotional place. I’ve been a student of history ever since. I’m 78 now, and have viewed the world through the same lens ever since. I’ve been accused of being callous, hard nosed, etc. But the fact is, through years of ups and downs, I’ve never come anywhere near the horrors others have endured. Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism “ made it clear to me how fragile our cushy lives actually are. I see clearly how my country (🇨🇦) is careening into authoritarianism but I have no power to change it’s course. Malice offers the solace of small, personal acts of kindness and humanity. Lines like “…til human voices wake us and we drown”, and “slouching toward Bethlehem “ are more and more meaningful. Meanwhile, spring is on its way, and I consider it my duty to savour each moment.
Yeah, I teared up during that part. When Yeonmi said Michael truly cared about the North Korean people during her podcast episode, I certainly believed her, but wondered how one can really tell. Now that I've seen this, I can unmistakably tell that he sincerely empathizes with their suffering and the experience of the gruesome crimes against their humanity to an extent most other Americans don't (currently) seem to.
I've always liked Michael and enjoyed listening to him as a guest on various podcasts, even certain ones that I've went back and listened to again over the years, but listening to this podcast- I truly fell in love. I'm converted. and I will probably be listening to his podcast exclusively for the next week. What an amazing human being. We don't deserve it, but we certainly need more people like him in this world. 🙏
@@ffnovice7 'Communism' is a defined term. You can't just start another blame game and call people NaZiS first and then you'll call them communists as it fits your agenda. I'm no future boomer, I'm 24 and just hate communists and have no problem minecrafting them.
Michael Malice is really one of my favorite ones on here! I am far too unread to truly grasp Anarchism, but as an individual, he seems good to me, regardless of all the politics. He talks about good things and he also walks the talk(to my knowledge, which is not a lot outside of his episodes on this podcast). Just seems like a great role model!
You're not failing to embrace anarchism as the slide there as with "democratic socialism" results in the same ending. Malice inadvertently trips into it admitting that he would rather rule in hell and be a pig in Orwell's "Animal Farm." That's where all these leftists arrive. Look at the government pandemic totalitarians as the purest example. How long did it take these "progressives" to quickly slide there and how long has it taken to even get them to remove their boot off citizens' necks?
@S L No, I'd say the parts that seem incomprehensible to you (in his position as expressed there) are parts where he's hanging onto irrelevant or inaccurate definitions. A little. A lot of words/concepts are...adulterated, modified, or added to; which changes their meaning but not in rational ways. Then when you use the words, like "socialist" or "authoritarian", those unwelcome additions come along. So, you might not really be as far apart as it seems, IOW.
Watching this interview is a reminder of how much we need to keep one-on-one conversations. Everybody is in pain, everybody has the right to be happy. From a very different culture, this episode has opened my eyes to such a different perspective. Respect!
Every time someone is a jerk to me, it motivates me to be nicer to everyone. Not that I don’t have boundaries, but I have no use for these harsh attitudes.
@@mabaker way too sad. Saw his video with valuetainment? Malice was being a smartass with the facial expressions of knowing it all. How do people love being a anarchist? This guy is confused trying to be "different" .
@@eeuphoria9077 yuuupppp I just watch him on other people’s podcasts’. He basically liberal from what I’ve seen. I’m sure he’s talked crazy anarchy shit elsewhere, but I don’t subscribe to it.
I know it's not the same in any regard but fasting I believe would help if you so care to. I am by no means versed in the practice or science or tradition of fasting but I have experimented with it a few times. Longest I have gone was about 3 and a half days with just water. It was insightful to see and feel how your mind and body react to extended periods of no calorie intake.
@@randojones2030 I mean no disrespect but starvation is very very different. While fasting it's your own free will and free choice to abstain from food and the suffering is purely physical. But the amount of desperation and fear you experience when you are _forced_ to not eat makes it unbelievably harder.
@@randojones2030 Starvation makes your brain think more in the NOW. That's why stealing is common. Your brain has rearranged time priority - short term over long term. But ye as Anton mentioned - that sense of desperation. Honestly, that never leaves you. It's a kind of memory imprint on your mind. Also, your thoughts get more dimmed, and unnecessary ones are silenced. Eventually you don't feel hungry per say, you just feel very weak. When you don't recognize your own limbs anymore, that's when there is fear; but, you are so weakened...the thoughts are dull. The brain is in energy saving mode. Then fear of death starts to really rear its head. I don't know what happens after that. Seems to me, some people accept death while others become increasingly afraid and experience shallow breathing & arrhythmia, followed by cardiac arrest.
Michael, the raw emotion that we saw when you discussed your grandfather was palpable. The Sophie's choice - my God - both of you gentlemen have achieved so much, so far - I wish you continuing growth, success and happiness in your life mission.
@@anthonyhardisky1471 you think? Have you listened to him much? If he was faking he's a decent actor. 😀 sometimes the words escaped him - it seemed real to me.
Watching, listening to Michael cry, while imagining my little 7 year old starving to death.. lets just say.. tears were involved. We have a responsibility.. no.. an opportunity to bring this podcast to everyone who is willing to listen.
Michael is great - someone with the personality and brains to make anarchism more widely known and dispel the many misconceptions of it. And at a time when it's needed more than ever. Good stuff, thanks.
If you want to dive deeper I recommend the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It's a firsthand account of Aleksandr's time spent as prisoner in a Soviet Gulag.
@guts94 if you haven’t already, read “ *Execution by Hunger* ” by Miron Dolot. Also, look up *NKVD prisoner massacres* of June 1941. The NKVD (Soviet Gestapo) literally boiled people alive in cauldrons and committed unspeakable acts of torture, which is rarely talked about. But I guess since, circumstantially, Stalin was an “ally”, it’s ok to dismiss that & wear his uniforms as a joke on a podcast.
Malice brings out Lex's goofy side, but keeps Alex Jones focused and on task and makes him sound like the sanest person on the planet. People like MM are the glue that holds society together.
One of my favorite Lex interviews so far. I follow Michael on Twitter but appreciated the opportunity to take a deeper dive into his thinking. The next few decades will be defined by who fought for freedom and sovereignty of the individual or who capitulated to the authoritarian state. Choose to be part of the former group. Peace & freedom to all.✌️
oh my god the vibe of talking simply and being a target for not operating purely in competition is so underated. Letting aggressive people take the lead and then them branding you as incompitent as a result is so on point and detrimental to collective potential.
Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast.
0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions:
- Gala Games: gala.games/lex
- Indeed: indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit
- BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off
- MasterClass: masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off
0:32 - Animal Farm
3:34 - Emma Goldman
6:39 - Albert Camus
8:09 - How to be a hero in Nazi Germany
15:15 - Camus on Existentialism vs Nihilism
21:17 - Cynicism is a lie
26:24 - Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
46:43 - Lex and Michael argue: can most people think on their own?
58:21 - How Lex and Michael use Twitter
1:07:43 - Life is beautiful
1:10:46 - Returning to Ukraine
1:12:39 - Michael is now an underwear model
1:16:45 - The Anarchist Handbook
1:18:32 - Tolstoy was an anarchist
1:31:14 - Anarchy debate between Lex and Michael
2:00:22 - Why Michael doesn't vote
2:17:37 - Austin and New York
2:26:13 - Alex Jones
Omg that thumbnail is AMAZING
@@cuzimaluzer777 ain't it
I was actually hoping the whole show was going to be Michael being Lex, interviewing Lex being Michael XD
First video in which the purpose of life is not mentioned..
I'm Boxer sadly
This is the best podcast intro ever.
I haven't laughed like this in a long time, thank you both crazy humas
He forgot the quick mention of our sponsors though.
Definitely not the first, certainly the best.
Anar-cast broke me.
so great lmao
Michael's impression captures Lex's inflection so well, yet overall it's so distinctly Michael.
That’s what I was gunna say, I want to see him try to go full lex tho. That would be awesome to have malice host the show even tho he pretty much does without realizing it
"Simpleton" lol.
Laughing so hard at the intro 😊
I love his impressions in his audio book of "the new right".
No mention of their groups super chosen role in the Russian revolution or the Holodomor.
I feel like I finally watched enough of Lex's podcasts that I unlocked new skins...
and a hidden miniboss.
Rosie Skin?
This is funny af. ❤️😎❤️ We love you Lex
Haha 😂, same thoughts
HAHA!! 🤣
Lex and malice still make one of the best shows I've ever seen. Stay healthy, we need more like yall.
@@rocketBTW if you didn't enjoy these 2 then it's definitely a you thing, no matter what your mom tells you.
@@rocketBTWwhat's your taste then? Rachel Maddow?
I think they're neighbors too, they probably have interesting conversations all the time
Lex: “It was a joke”
Michael: “It was a failure”
Lex: “There is no triumph without failure”
Love you guys
timestamp?
15:02
@@greendholia5206 @14:50
And the joke Was funny!
That exchange is so typical of people that are really friends, especially men.
My ears are burning 💜 Big love boys x
Thank Mr. Malice next time you speak for another subscriber to your podcast. Cheers.
Chris, when are you going to play dressup with Michael? 😁
Oh shiiit modern wisdom 😀
Holy crap I hope you could get some water and relieve yourself! Please next time you don't need to comment it on youtube, it's dangerous take care not to burn alive :O
My dyslexia read that as "love big boys"
I've watched lots of interviews with Michael, and no one quite tempers the troll side of him like Lex does. As a result, his brilliance really shines in these conversations without his obnoxious side overwhelming the conversation. These conversations are the best of Michael and in some ways also the best of Lex, great stuff!
Lex also isn't afraid to play along. Just check out the costumes. He is indeed a great foil for Malice, bringing out the best in him. I wouldn't call it tempering, and I absolutely love Michael's trolling, but there is definitely something fantastic about the way these guys interact.
It makes Michael too dangerous too soon.
I do like the troll side of Malice, but that is good news, I will make time to listen.
Lex brought out a side of Michael I have never seen - his discussion about his grandfather and what his Russian family endured during WW2 - soul crushing.
100% agreed !
25 min in and I've only been listening to this. When I sat down and looked at the screen and seen their outfits I cracked up with a giddy happiness. Such deep conversation paired with the silliness of these two men is fantastic. And I'm not trying to cast disparaging comments on their heritage in that statement. Being deep, silly, and honoring their heritage was done quite brilliantly. Love it, love these two.
Saw
The beginning is fucking the best thing that ever has happened.
No, it’s not.
@WorldFlex extremely bad sarcasm and hyperbole * It's disgusting, I agree
@WorldFlex that’s just how we were raised 🤷🏻♂️ thank the parents of your generation
@@cozy4920 I think it's because you grow up in social media. We never had the self awareness your generations do, so we were able to be more sincere.
@@eliyahfeld Millenials is a pretty large grouping and constitute people from ages 25 to 40. I would probably be willing to bet they are the largest audience to this podcast. I'm pretty much in the center of the Millenial generation (born '89) and I've been following Lex's podcast keenly since its beginning.
Michael: *crying*
Lex: "You appear to have sprung a leak, here is an absorbent square of paper"
what 0:00?
@@HugoTron 34:05
lol thanks for the laugh
😂🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣
And I thought the outfit, where Michael was inversed Lex with white suite, couldn't be trumped xD
Michael Malice is the guy who will buy DLC expansion packs just for the most ridiculous character skins to view in the cutscenes.
Lex is gonna need Alex Jones on for the 300th episode to beat this one.
@@Good_Horsey Agreed.
We should petition both wear Power Armor in episode #250. I guess It's acceptable if Michael dresses as Liberty Prime.
These two gentlemen had one of the best conversations I have ever seen or heard. I like to try and hold any comments until the very end during either of these guys talks so I can really focus and think about what they are actually saying and let it sink in. I am now watching this for the third time in it’s entirety and just blown away with these two.
Michael doing the intro....
I can already tell I'm going to enjoy this one.
When Michael dressed in the white suit, black shirt getup a while back, that was peak humor
Now there's Lex playing into the joke as well....
I can't even....😆😂🤣
"Michael is a simpleton" 😂😂😂
"I've been walking around the house working on my lex impression. I've been leaking motor oil everywhere" lol!
“The fuckin robot made me cry.” I legitimately laughed out loud and scared my dog 😂😂
I wonder if he cried just to be able to say that.
Absolutely Riveting. Conversation on human capacity for good, evil, banality, and cruelty.
""That mediocre person with a little bit of power ... "
The courage to be weird, heroism with and without martyrdom..
I will hit you up payday Lex.
Thank you Thank you ❤️🙏
Michael: “can I curse?”
Lex: “fuck yes.”
In his least, but yet still robotic tone.
You can hear him downloading the vulgarity library.
@@mentalcasanova the best reply
@@petracs1187 Neo turn to Morpheus..."I learned the urban dictionary"
Can I speak the truth about Israel?
Fuck no. What do you think this is? speaking truth to power?
Thumbnail made me spit out my drink. First few second had me rolling, this is going to be a great one. Thanks for this gem guys.
same here man, same here.
Until u get 33:11 🥺🥺🥺
That intro is too good!!
“Michael is an Author, AnnaCast and simpleton.” -
sorry for the interruption but there is no such thing as annacast OP meant anarchist
thanks and good afternoon
@@samanthaqiu3416 starting to think that he also didn’t mean that Michael is a simpleton 🧐 upon closer inspection THAT WAS Michael.
Now I’m confused 😝
✌️❤️
Came here literally just to read comments about the intro. But then it gets better!! As soon as it cuts to Lex and Malice, Lex is talking about his love for Animal Farm, and I swear he says it's an "Al Gore-y..." (rather than 'allegory') - Damnit, 30 seconds in and I can't stop laughing
@@mitch3357 lmaoo
It's worrying to think that you made up a word of which you didn't know the meaning.
I love Lex’s ability to let things sit and be quiet without inserting courtesies mindlessly. Let the moment play out.
"...wtf the robot is the one that makes me cry"
Couldn't contain myself with that one😂😂😂
O s
“The robot made me cry.” Classic….
I'm watching almost everything from Michael Malice lately.
Same here. I really admire his ability to value personal relationships over political beliefs.
I find myself doing the same.
Same
One more “same here” from myself.
Me too
Wow, really uplifting stuff from Micheal, usually I love him for his humour and amazing sense of humour but this conversation I found him to be absolutely inspiring and so helpful...Incredible!
Michael’s impression of Lex was perfect with the exception of one thing: He did not mention love once in the introduction.
He didn't even say "beautiful" 😔
What is love?
I love Lex. He always looks like a robot trying to learn how to feel emotions.
And those uniforms are crack up!
Nah, you should see his speech during ju-jitsu training, the expression and emotive inflection is great. Totally human 😉
What do you mean “looks like”?
He is most definitely a robot 🤪😂
His genius father built himself a robot son 🤖 😂😆😂
CRACK UP !!!
Any podcast with Lex and Michael is one I 100% want to listen to
There is only one word that I can use to describe this excellent interview. “Grounding” 🤝
I wish Lex to wear a full adidas tracksuit to his podcast.
full slav ancap mode
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I would love that
Full Gopnik
I grew up with this guy, his dad immigrated from Yugoslavia and ended up owning a few shrimping boats. Their whole family wore nothing but track suits. Even their cousins came over from Yugoslavia in the early 90’s wore nothing but track suits. It was the funniest shit.
Full gopnik!!!!!!!! Do it lex
Profound. I was feeling a little depressed but hearing malice talk about how he hates cynicism and there's hope ,made my day a lil brighter
Aye, this episode is indeed good.
Agreed. Cynicism is the soul-rot that caused my depression. Malice (ironic name 🙃) is, to me, a beacon. Through him, I see a way back from the enveloping blackness of despair. Antidepressants have also helped 😁. I can do nothing but stand in gobsmacked astonishment, and respect what a paragon he remains after *years* of abusive criticism. 👏👊
These two, where it counts, are beautiful people.
@@RenameUranus2Caelus well done man. I hope you're still making progress. These two stoics are wonderful polarities, and Malice has something properly understood.
@@stanleysmooth so has optimism
@@RenameUranus2Caelus Logic is the light in the darkness and will lead you away from despair, but only if you faithfully reckon (reason properly and honestly) with this one true God.
Lex really pulls off the uniform, great look on him.
Michael looks like a a supervillain in a bond movie.
Spot on
😂
This intro from Michael has saved my soul so many times. Every time I feel hopeless, I watch it again and I can't really explain this, but it makes life tolerable, even joyful sometimes. Thank you!
You two always have the most human conversations and that’s why I love them.
The deconstruction of biases in this convo is off the hook!
Is there such thing as... non-human.. conversations?
That’s ironic considering Lex is a robot.
“A unrelenting Anarchist and a cold Robot walk into a bar...”
Turns out the punchline is something about them being wonderful friends and inspiring personalities; Truly, two good men worth looking up to.
This was probably the best podcast I've seen in a very long time.
Second that.
Thrice
MEH
Quad
Jordan Peterson one with the North Korean woman got me
The bit about Russia and Ukraine was heart breaking. I’m Ukrainian and Polish. My great grandfather died in Ukraine when a bomb went off on some railroad tracks. So my grandpa and his little sister came to America. He died from a heart attack before I turned 5, and it’s one of my biggest regrets that I could never speak to him about his life.
Don't worry, if he made it to America, he made it much further than he thought he would at the time.
Be happy you were able to meet him at all.
Polish here, this Michael guy being from Lwów is 110km from where my family is from/still are. Was a little too close to home at the beginning of this episode, had to turn it off
I'm Polish-Ukrainian, too! Funnily enough part of my Polish side is also from Lvov like Michael, but when it was still part of Poland. When Michael started choking up talking about what his family must have been dealing with during WWII really got to me. I remember when my mother first started explaining to me my heritage and why I don't have grandparents like the other kids and all that. Learning about the horrors that your family has been through when you're a kid is hard, but so necessary. But it's frustrating too, because then you see very clearly the complete ignorance of so many people with regards to history and politics. I love America, I love being an American, but holy shit you can literally tell some people here that half your family was arrested and killed for criticizing the communist party and they'll just look at you like, "Yeah, and what about it?" People here are so spoiled here that they don't even know how good they have it.
My grandmother was a teenager in Germany in WW2..she told my mom she had alot of family die in bomb raids
It’s not regret, just an opportunity lost. I feel the same about my great grandfather on my mother’s side
Good genes on your side hawt damn
Seeing Malice break down caught me completely off guard. He is always so happy.
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I love both Michael Fridman and Lex Malice.
Thank you Michael and Lex, for "soldiering" through some pretty tough moments in this podcast. It had depth, beauty, meaning, eternity.
This is like dunccan trussell on joe rogan.
Lmao right!!👏👏👏
not at all.... comparing Michael to duncan is kinda strange
No it's not
Double loving it
But wayyyyyyyyy better!
What a beautiful, inspiring conversation. Tears in my eyes and a smile on my face throughout. 💕
Lex: that was a joke michael
Michael: it was a failed joke
lmaoooo
That was arguably the best part
i liked it ;D
Well, I found it worth a chuckle... 🙂
No punchline
without failure there is no triumph
Oh jesus, the first 5 seconds and I'm dying of laughter.
I started at the thumbnail. Probably the only man that can get Lex out of a suit.
Imagine the scene in the dressing room.😅
"the fucking robot is the one that gets me to cry wtf is going on" thats exactly how i felt at the end of terminator 2 when i was 10 years old.
I was going to make a crying joke, but yours was better.
Undefeated comment lol
You should have seen my 10 years old daughter's face the moment she realised that Arnie also has to die. She never cried so badly, not when she was in pain or anything. Best movie ever
Interesting fact. Arnie kills no one in that movie. If your a kid in the 90's and you see all the 'good guys' killing people left and right then you go through a whole movie with one hero deliberately not, because of a kids command, kinda leaves that capital H Hero impression on you.
My 10 yo son cried like a baby when Arnie was saying goodbye. 🤣
Watched this podcast after seeing several other Lex/Michael conversations and I will be forever grateful to them both for my newfound education of totalitarianism and communism, and for the empathy and understanding I've gained as a result of their honesty and love.
Thankyou.
Michael being so emotional on WW2 theme and his family on that time got me too. Thanks for honesty.
Very intense, emotional, informative conversation. Another reminder how important and essential it is to preserve our freedoms and liberties. We seem to be living in a very pivotal moment and i hope we can preserve what the previous generations gave life and limb to protect.
Couldn't of said it any better.
I hope so....I moved south and brought my family last summer. I hope we can at least turn the ship a little bit, it's looking rough coming from a blue state. It's great now and you really appreciate the difference in freedom. I never thought it was that different but it's very noticable between the states.
Will be interesting if history reframes this as an actual conversation between two totalitarian dictators
🤪👍scary thought but, so possibly true
Hahaha
Preferably long after these 2 (and us) are dead.
One of them is an anarchist...
@@mkzharper that's a likelihood 🤔
Lex is not a robot. He's a slow-moving monolith that is so good and making his guests look inward before asking the big questions. Awesome show. A poem for Michael.
{Let Goodness Rein}
I breathe in the good like my life-force depends on it
In a world covered in concrete and hate
Good is like a defiant flower rising from the cracks of our many prisons
The eye is cut by a world full of right angles
Nature is not natural
And love is built on a series of well thought out conditions
Each new acquaintance is critiqued beyond acceptability
and promptly publicly berated for our pride’s personal amusement
The echo of our anger is a language in song
That only the ‘One True Choir’ can understand
Every space is concurred by the socially righteous
Policed and purified in their own image
Where good is a clever insult or
Good is our neighbor’s suffering because the empty soul cries out for their pain
Good is the destruction of the things we hate
Even if we only hate them because we hated ourselves first
In a world searching for the meaning of pain
Not Life
Good is the spaces between the raindrops that are easily forgotten
L E Crane
"He is one of my closest friends; we've never met."
As someone who grew up on the forums this statement hit so hard.
Watch how Lex and his poetic self can be so quiet and accepting, allowing Michael his emotion, no self-consciousness or embarrassment. Two fellow countrymen who understand something profoundly incomprehensible to many of us. Thank you for allowing me into this conversation.
🙏
“Thank God, this isn’t your life.” - Michael. That would be a great name for a book on totalitarianism.
The moment when Michael asks if he can swear and Lex goes, "Fuck Yes", is podcasting gold. Wow.
Lol, agreed. Awesome episode & I most definitely will watch this again.. Malice is a Legend to me, & Lex is incredible as an interviewer/journalist & I am hooked.👍
Kim Jon ill is a son of a bitch
Got the blue balls,crabs,
And the seven year itch
yeah it gave me nerd chills
Have
From a guy who rarely laughs, that intro fuckin’ got me 😂
Dude same i don't laugh when i am alone(listening to podcasts etc) but the ''I was leaking motor oil'' part i was laughing for 2 min strait.
I laughed,... when Michael laughed.
I cried,.. when Michael cried.
And I empathised with Lex,... when he did neither.
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😄 😓 🤖
😂😂😂
…😐
“Can we talk about world war 2 and the Soviet Union?” That sentence is so funny when considering that Lex is dressed as a Soviet officer hahaha
wait til you hear the rest 🙃
I feel like it’ll become a meme template
Nothing gets passed you huh
@@Ryantrock8888 make it so, number one
lmao fr
Most powerful thing I’ve seen in many years. Gilbert Allardyce, my 1st year history prof in 1968, brought me to the same mental and emotional place. I’ve been a student of history ever since. I’m 78 now, and have viewed the world through the same lens ever since. I’ve been accused of being callous, hard nosed, etc. But the fact is, through years of ups and downs, I’ve never come anywhere near the horrors others have endured. Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism “ made it clear to me how fragile our cushy lives actually are. I see clearly how my country (🇨🇦) is careening into authoritarianism but I have no power to change it’s course. Malice offers the solace of small, personal acts of kindness and humanity. Lines like “…til human voices wake us and we drown”, and “slouching toward Bethlehem “ are more and more meaningful. Meanwhile, spring is on its way, and I consider it my duty to savour each moment.
Maybe it's just me but seeing Malice in tears talking about his grandma makes his words freakin' sobering.
Yeah, I teared up during that part. When Yeonmi said Michael truly cared about the North Korean people during her podcast episode, I certainly believed her, but wondered how one can really tell. Now that I've seen this, I can unmistakably tell that he sincerely empathizes with their suffering and the experience of the gruesome crimes against their humanity to an extent most other Americans don't (currently) seem to.
Some leftist that think they have it hard because of WORDS need to watch that!!!!!!
Yeah shame that he forgot to mention that Red Army invaded Lvov that supposedly his grandmother lived in just 2 years prior in 1939
Malice: "Can I curse?"
Fridman: "... Fuck yes"
Haha
Some slight latency on that one - don't worry we have our engineers working on it
This was easily the most intellectually stimulating, as well as entertaining, interviews I’ve listened to in long, long time. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
I've always liked Michael and enjoyed listening to him as a guest on various podcasts, even certain ones that I've went back and listened to again over the years, but listening to this podcast- I truly fell in love. I'm converted. and I will probably be listening to his podcast exclusively for the next week. What an amazing human being. We don't deserve it, but we certainly need more people like him in this world. 🙏
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners” 7:18
Wow.
Seriously great.
But what's wrong with being on the side of the executioners when you're facing communists and cultural-marxists?
@@ffnovice7 'Communism' is a defined term. You can't just start another blame game and call people NaZiS first and then you'll call them communists as it fits your agenda. I'm no future boomer, I'm 24 and just hate communists and have no problem minecrafting them.
@@busfahrer09 you really don't understand why it's wrong to execute communists for being communists?
@@DanielGomez-qg8vdIts not wrong...
I was sobbing by the 38 minute mark...one of the best podcasts I have listened to PERIOD
37 minutes in and this is not the podcast I expected. This is incredible on another level. Thank you guys
True
Woooooooooow. Wonderful honorable podcast. Thank you.
Michael Malice is really one of my favorite ones on here! I am far too unread to truly grasp Anarchism, but as an individual, he seems good to me, regardless of all the politics.
He talks about good things and he also walks the talk(to my knowledge, which is not a lot outside of his episodes on this podcast). Just seems like a great role model!
You're not failing to embrace anarchism as the slide there as with "democratic socialism" results in the same ending. Malice inadvertently trips into it admitting that he would rather rule in hell and be a pig in Orwell's "Animal Farm." That's where all these leftists arrive. Look at the government pandemic totalitarians as the purest example. How long did it take these "progressives" to quickly slide there and how long has it taken to even get them to remove their boot off citizens' necks?
@S L No, I'd say the parts that seem incomprehensible to you (in his position as expressed there) are parts where he's hanging onto irrelevant or inaccurate definitions. A little. A lot of words/concepts are...adulterated, modified, or added to; which changes their meaning but not in rational ways. Then when you use the words, like "socialist" or "authoritarian", those unwelcome additions come along.
So, you might not really be as far apart as it seems, IOW.
Had to pause 15 seconds into this just to regain my composure
Hahaha, I think that’s everyone here.
I never in my life expected to see lex filmed in anything other than his trademark suit. I'm so glad I don't only listen to it on spotify.
Watching this interview is a reminder of how much we need to keep one-on-one conversations. Everybody is in pain, everybody has the right to be happy. From a very different culture, this episode has opened my eyes to such a different perspective. Respect!
So powerful, my act of rebellion is to remain kind. Empathy is a great tool. This is a pleasure to watch two adults exchange thoughts with respect.
Every time someone is a jerk to me, it motivates me to be nicer to everyone. Not that I don’t have boundaries, but I have no use for these harsh attitudes.
Waymond!
OK Lex, that uniform seems to be tailored to perfection. What's the history?? ;-))
why does lex looks so sick what happened to him?
Both uniforms look too tailored..!! 😂👍🏻
He may have been in the Gorbachev Youth, going around demanding romantic poetry & vodka.
@@harshid4661 He doesn’t look good. I’m worried about him.
Hes Slavic that's the way he looks
I've learned so much from Michael Malice. He's keeping white pilled.
@@mabaker Thankfully I appreciate an edgy smartass.
@@mabaker way too sad. Saw his video with valuetainment? Malice was being a smartass with the facial expressions of knowing it all. How do people love being a anarchist? This guy is confused trying to be "different" .
@@eeuphoria9077 yuuupppp I just watch him on other people’s podcasts’. He basically liberal from what I’ve seen. I’m sure he’s talked crazy anarchy shit elsewhere, but I don’t subscribe to it.
I know very little about Michael, but his humanity shone through here.
Well worth the time to watch (as always)..
Michael: Most people can't think on their own.
Eric Weinstein: And I took it personally.
That's why we watch Podcast s ...
A podcast with Michael Malice and Eric Weinstein would be memorable :P
This started out funny, then it got sad.
Talk about emotional whiplash.
I just started it and laughed my ass off….might turn back now, shit..
I’m not going to stop, but I appreciate the heads up.
@@BigDaddyDru It's a good podcast.
Life
I've never seen Michael this emotional. This was raw.
Hes on cocaine from his book money
@@krisersn3092 Yeah hes totally coked up in a 2.5 hour interview, you must not know shit about drugs to think that
@@Demontoastslayer your right, Michael is obviously bumping hard on ketamine.
He is so happy he finally learned how to drive. He a Texas boi now!
He just try to be hard ball troll on twitter and on his channel. But in reality he's just a pusy ..
Thank you for this very special conversation between friends-exchanging ideas and life. 🙏❤️
I’ve never known starvation.
This episode humbles me…
I know it's not the same in any regard but fasting I believe would help if you so care to.
I am by no means versed in the practice or science or tradition of fasting but I have experimented with it a few times.
Longest I have gone was about 3 and a half days with just water.
It was insightful to see and feel how your mind and body react to extended periods of no calorie intake.
@@randojones2030 I mean no disrespect but starvation is very very different. While fasting it's your own free will and free choice to abstain from food and the suffering is purely physical. But the amount of desperation and fear you experience when you are _forced_ to not eat makes it unbelievably harder.
@@randojones2030 Starvation makes your brain think more in the NOW. That's why stealing is common. Your brain has rearranged time priority - short term over long term. But ye as Anton mentioned - that sense of desperation. Honestly, that never leaves you. It's a kind of memory imprint on your mind. Also, your thoughts get more dimmed, and unnecessary ones are silenced.
Eventually you don't feel hungry per say, you just feel very weak. When you don't recognize your own limbs anymore, that's when there is fear; but, you are so weakened...the thoughts are dull. The brain is in energy saving mode. Then fear of death starts to really rear its head. I don't know what happens after that. Seems to me, some people accept death while others become increasingly afraid and experience shallow breathing & arrhythmia, followed by cardiac arrest.
@@anton7354 I agree. That's why I said fasting is in no way like starvation.
@@randojones2030 Yes, I got that. I just wanted to point out that I don't believe fasting is going to prepare you for starvation.
Lex has his father for episode #100 and his brother from another mother for episode #200. Keepin it in the family.
Can't believe the father episode is already 100 episodes old
Michael, the raw emotion that we saw when you discussed your grandfather was palpable. The Sophie's choice - my God - both of you gentlemen have achieved so much, so far - I wish you continuing growth, success and happiness in your life mission.
*COUGH-grandMOTHER-COUGH*
@@lunarvania8073 Grand-Person :D :D
LOL JK
@@anthonyhardisky1471 you think? Have you listened to him much? If he was faking he's a decent actor. 😀 sometimes the words escaped him - it seemed real to me.
You two were made for each other. I love this.
Michael Malice: "Not everyone has souls."
Nick Cannon: 😃👍
Top tier comment
@Ferny Fresh you won't win, good and God will always prevail.
@@EdoKwin hhh
I am a proud sub-human.
"The robot gets me to cry" - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Malice cries on a podcast, Oprah Winfrey’s producers,..”I think we’re extinct”
This was so fantastic. Thank you.
Gotta admit, Michael is definitely one of my favorite of the repeat guests. Intro was spot on 😭
Watching, listening to Michael cry, while imagining my little 7 year old starving to death.. lets just say.. tears were involved. We have a responsibility.. no.. an opportunity to bring this podcast to everyone who is willing to listen.
those were crocodile tears to sell more books
@@sgtsnakeeyes11 y
what makes you think he was being insincere?
Michael is great - someone with the personality and brains to make anarchism more widely known and dispel the many misconceptions of it. And at a time when it's needed more than ever. Good stuff, thanks.
That's just it, he has brains, most people that want anarchy aren't as smart as him
Listening to Malice helped me through the NYC lockdowns in 2020. I have a lot of respect for him.
Your exchange is what's been missing in my life. I've known this depth before, and lost it. Thanks for giving it back to me again.
For years I ignored learning about Soviet history till now. It’s utterly fascinating and tragic.
If you want to dive deeper I recommend the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It's a firsthand account of Aleksandr's time spent as prisoner in a Soviet Gulag.
. . . and your not learning the truth here, completely riddled with propagandic bs!
Stay alert.
💖🙏🌻
@@jrottendevil superb account of a man that regretted not despatching the police when the nightime arrests took place!
💖🙏🌻
@@jrottendevil I had heard of solzhenitsyn but I actually had no idea he wrote that book. Will definitely read it now!
@guts94 if you haven’t already, read “ *Execution by Hunger* ” by Miron Dolot. Also, look up *NKVD prisoner massacres* of June 1941. The NKVD (Soviet Gestapo) literally boiled people alive in cauldrons and committed unspeakable acts of torture, which is rarely talked about. But I guess since, circumstantially, Stalin was an “ally”, it’s ok to dismiss that & wear his uniforms as a joke on a podcast.
Best start to a podcast I’ve ever heard or seen. I’m dying here. Everybody should try listening to it at .75 speed playback. It’s even better
.75 speed! hahaha is that drunk mode?
@@tylermark4725 100% is drunk mode. 75% is opium mode
2 seconds into the intro i'm already cracking up. Serious bromance.
Malice brings out Lex's goofy side, but keeps Alex Jones focused and on task and makes him sound like the sanest person on the planet. People like MM are the glue that holds society together.
Great show. Two champions of conversation that matters.
One of my favorite Lex interviews so far. I follow Michael on Twitter but appreciated the opportunity to take a deeper dive into his thinking. The next few decades will be defined by who fought for freedom and sovereignty of the individual or who capitulated to the authoritarian state. Choose to be part of the former group. Peace & freedom to all.✌️
You should watch his podcast, it's called you're welcome.
Lex is Candide. I love it. Don’t submit to the dark and brooding Voltaires of the word.
Best of all possible worlds
oh my god the vibe of talking simply and being a target for not operating purely in competition is so underated. Letting aggressive people take the lead and then them branding you as incompitent as a result is so on point and detrimental to collective potential.
Buying a house is one thing but buying land with water, is a freedom of a different sort.
"And everybody goes: ahhh!" Truly a fireworks episode. Love yourself everyone.
That's funny, I already reserved to malice as a firecracker in the comments. Apparently it's a common perception
Lex is like a soviet soldier interrogating a chinese spy during the sino-soviet split.
Thank you for the expansion pack.
I will never tire of this episode. Best opening ever.