Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…Bob Dylan didn’t show up to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. That’s punk. Yeah, he probably grew in notoriety for that. Maybe he just doesn’t like going in Sweden, but seemed like it would be a fun trip. I think they do it in a nice time of year, but hey, that’s his right. He earned that right. I think the best artists aren’t doing it for the prize. They aren’t doing it for the fame or the money. They’re doing it because they love the art. That’s the Rick Rubin thing. You got to verb it through, download your inner thing. I don’t think we’ve talked about this, this obsession that I have about how Rick has this way of being very, very still in his body, but keeping his mind very active as a practice. Went and spent some time with him in Italy last June, and we would tread water in his pool in the morning and listen to A History of Rock and Roll in a Hundred Songs. Amazing podcast, by the way.…

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