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Stephen West is a father, husband, and host of the Philosophize This! podcast. He attempts to explain, translate, and humanize philosophy in a way that doesn’t ever aim to tell people what to think but to invite them to better understand their own thoughts by exploring alternatives.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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Stephen West is a father, husband, and host of the Philosophize This! podcast. He attempts to explain, translate, and humanize philosophy in a way that doesn’t ever aim to tell people what to think but to invite them to better understand their own thoughts by exploring alternatives.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise — Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship
Chatri Sityodtong is the founder and CEO of ONE Championship, one of the top-10 biggest sports-media properties in the world in terms of viewership and engagement (alongside the NBA, Formula One, Champions League, and Premier League), with a global broadcast reach to 195 countries.
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[00:00] Start.
[00:23] Chatri Trisiripisal vs. Yodchatri Sityodtong
[02:18] My own experience with Muay Thai.
[03:49] Chatri’s introduction to Muay Thai.
[04:43] Chatri processes the strained relationship with his father.
[11:43] Fight Porn and my introduction to ONE.
[13:13] A pep talk in Japanese.
[17:25] Chatri’s secret life in a Harvard dorm with his mother on $4 a day.
[23:24] How Chatri made the money to fuel his martial arts ambitions.
[28:23] Why wealth has never provided Chatri with a sense of security.
[32:08] The moment Chatri began to fulfill one his mother’s prophecies.
[34:44] “To unleash your greatness, you must be surrounded by greatness.”
[38:39] Witnessing Yamato-damashii: the Japanese warrior spirit.
[42:16] Moving to Singapore and starting Evolve.
[45:45] Overcoming ONE’s initial financial challenges.
[53:31] Building ONE with Bushido-grade excellence.
[59:42] How ONE maintains quality and quantity fights and fighters.
[01:11:27] Leveraging social media to bring compelling human stories to ONE’s forefront.
[01:22:00] Chatri’s $100 million breakfast with Sequoia Capital.
[01:37:41] Making deals with CAA’s Fabian Stechel.
[01:41:18] A serendipitous meeting that resulted in investment from Qatar.
[01:44:03] Changing lives and building relationships across generations with martial arts.
[01:47:58] Recommended reading and admirable storytellers.
[01:57:58] A gracious invitation.
[01:59:34] Where in the world is ONE enjoyed most?
[02:04:14] Dealing with AI development and deep fakes.
[02:05:48] Global broadcasting business from behind the scenes.
[02:13:41] Funds raised and the competitive benefits of being early in the game.
[02:16:45] Fond regards for Renzo Gracie.
[02:21:06] Legendary fighters we would love to witness in their prime.
[02:23:52] High marks for Marcelo Garcia.
[02:26:56] How I learned what Chatri calls “flawless” Japanese.
[02:29:12] Chatri’s billboard and parting thoughts. From Dirt Poor to Top-10 Sports-Media Franchise — Chatri Sityodtong, CEO of ONE Championship](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xrHOlE7fLrM/mqdefault.jpg)

![Champion of Alone on The Art of Survival — Jordan Jonas
Jordan Jonas grew up on a farm in Idaho, rode freight trains across the US, spent time in remote Russian villages, fur trapped and travelled for several years with nomads in Siberia, and won Alone Season 6, after being the first contestant to truly thrive in the wilderness and harvest big game. You can learn more about Jordans axes at https://JordanJonas.com/Axe
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[00:00] Preview
[00:30] Who is Jordan Jonas?
[01:40] The Siberian axe gospel: Single bevel, wide eye, and why your Lowes hatchet is basically a butter knife.
[05:30] A Montana downpour baptism.
[06:23] Feather sticks and ferro rods.
[10:50] A gnarly axe-ident, a quest for an abandoned boot, and frontier convalescence in a tipi.
[15:45] First Russian word learned, courtesy of a Moscow airport officer with zero chill.
[17:08] Jordans youthful faith crisis and a Trans-Siberian prayer.
[25:24] From building an orphanage to living with the Evenki.
[27:38] Experiencing tug-of-war hospitality between ex-con Siberian families.
[35:32] Reindeer vs caribou.
[38:42] The Gulag Archipelago at 17.
[42:43] The homeschooling advantage: Finishing academics by noon, then deep-diving history for fun
[47:08] Campfire psychology for gentlemen.
[49:25] Why llamas are more practical than reindeer on Jordans expeditions in the northern United States.
[55:05] How Jordans grandparents found purpose and built a joyful family after surviving Assyrian genocide.
[01:04:49] Dads 12-year health collapse and facing death with radical joy.
[01:12:28] Freight train philosophy and evolutionary dopamine alignment.
[01:23:22] Grandma moose rodeo.
[01:26:22] Alone Season 6: The Super Bowl of survival just south of the Arctic Circle.
[01:33:36] How Jordan survived 77 days in the woods barely breaking a sweat.
[01:41:04] Harvesting a moose at day 20 via Russian fence-funneling tactics.
[01:48:43] Wolverine vs. man with axe, a tin can alarm, and a wife who likes rustic jewelry.
[01:54:57] The crappy fate of less-than-lucky rabbit feet.
[01:56:55] Fat as a survival bottleneck, and how to experience the wild with Jordan.
[02:01:07] Jordan hopes his upcoming book will help readers build reservoirs of resilience before theyre needed.
[02:04:03] The most overlooked part of the Serenity Prayer: Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace.
[02:06:18] The wilderness as political neutral ground and other parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![Dr. Fei-Fei Li, The Godmother of AI — Asking Audacious Questions & Finding Your North Star
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, a founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and the co-founder and CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence. She is the author of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, her memoir and one of Barack Obama’s recommended books on AI and a Financial Times best book of 2023.
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[00:00] Preview
[00:36] Why its so remarkable this is our first time meeting.
[02:39] From a childhood in Chengdu to New Jersey
[04:15] Being raised by the opposite of tiger parenting.
[07:13] Why Dr. Lis brave parents left everything behind.
[10:44] Bob Sabella: The math teacher who sacrificed lunch hours for an immigrant kid.
[16:48] Seven years running a dry cleaning shop through Princeton.
[18:01] How ImageNet birthed modern AI.
[20:32] From fighter jets to physics to the audacious question: What is intelligence?
[24:38] The epiphany everyone missed: Big data as the hidden hypothesis.
[26:04] Against the single-genius myth: Science as non-linear lineage.
[29:29] Amazon Mechanical Turk: When desperation breeds innovation.
[36:10] Quality control puzzles: How do you stop people from seeing pandas everywhere?
[38:41] The Godmother of AI on what everyones missing: People.
[42:19] Civilizational technology: AIs fingerprints on GDP, culture, and Japanese taxi screens.
[45:57] Pragmatic optimist: Why neither utopians nor doomsayers have it right.
[47:46] Why World Labs: Spatial intelligence as the next frontier beyond language.
[49:47] Medieval French towns on a budget: How World Labs serves high school theater
[53:38] Flight simulators for robots and strawberry field therapy for OCD.
[56:15] The scientists who dont make headlines: Spelke, Gopnik, Brooks, and the cognitive giants.
[57:50] Whats underappreciated: Spatial intelligence, AI in education, and the messy middle of labor.
[01:00:58] Hiring at World Labs: Why tool embrace matters more than degrees.
[01:03:25] Rethinking evaluation: Show students AIs B-minus, then challenge them to beat it.
[01:06:14] Dr. Lis Billboard.
[01:07:54] The fortuitous naming of Fei-Fei.
[01:09:21] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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