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Matthew McConaughey

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

And I think it's helped me at a more micro level, be a better father, a better man, taking considerations that I did not maybe take in as seriously before considering it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

I don't know if that's in my future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

I got, you know, useful is a big word.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

It's gotta be, I would have to be useful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

I have to be useful in the right way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

And is that my lane to be most useful?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

It's got the old Mr. Mayor on the corner, how big is that cloud metaphor in it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Because that was the character I played, Cooper's, that was the existential question for him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Head down, practical, stay here, be a father to my children.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

So when he's taking that,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

truck out and the countdown's going down, that's the hinge of the existential question that we all face in some form.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

The sense of time, which I think everyone loves, that sense of where time can run at different speeds.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

And there's an incredible scene where

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Cooper as a father is getting video feed from his children who've aged and he's realizing he's missed all that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

I mean, overall, that concept makes me consider and imagine

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

We talk about mystical successes instead of engineered ones, like the engineered ones.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

There's ethos from that film and what Nolan put into that film and theories that make me go, yeah, what does any of this matter?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

What do we...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#384 โ€“ Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love

Maybe we are, maybe we're AI.