[raptortech]

Totally agreed. It's so frustrating to me that out of the thousands of brilliant interviewers out there, we got this guy somehow bubbling up to the top. Maybe he brings the conversation down to the masses? His "philosophical" questions are often so bad that they don't even parse for his interviewees!!!

[tachyonbeam]

I think it's more that he puts in the work (doing and promoting the podcast) and he manages to get great guests.

[ayewo]

It doesn’t hurt that his father is a highly respected plasma scientist—a small but not insignificant factor in his ability to land great guests.

https://drexel.edu/engineering/news-events/news/archive/2019...

[kaesar14]

This is not why he gets these guests. Lex is very famous in his own right. His episodes on Joe Rogan's podcast are some of the most popular he's put out. He's a well respected researcher in his own right. Chris Lattner did not go on this podcast because Lex's dad is a physicist.

[jcims]

I think his affiliation with MIT probably helped to start with, but you still have to shoot your shot. He interviewed three billionaires before episode 20 (none of which would give a shit about plasma physics btw, lol).

[kaesar14]

Kyle Vogt and Elon Musk are explainable with MIT, being a researcher heavily involved with self driving. Schmidt, yeah dunno how he got him so early on. He seems pretty well connected in technology in general to be honest. Still has nothing to do with his dad.