Tom Lehrer
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This film or show by Tom Lehrer came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“my dad came home with the with the cd this tom lehrer cd and he told me to to listen to it”— guest
The guest here is Zev Weinstein: A precociously thoughtful young man and son of mathematician Eric Weinstein, invited by Lex Fridman for the depth of his first-principles thinking despite his youth. A teenage Zev Weinstein argues that radical philosophy is humanity's only escape from stagnation, while bravely facing the fear of thinking publicly.