Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288

Sarma Melngailis is a chef and restauranteur who was the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan: Fame, Fraud, Fugitives. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Childhood
6:33 - Films
17:03 - Gifts
26:07 - Favorite food creations
32:18 - Leon: The Pitbull
44:26 - Bad Vegan
56:27 - Abusive relationship
1:01:10 - Remorse for employees
1:07:05 - Sociopathy
1:17:30 - How Sarma met Anthony Strangis
1:39:29 - Retrospection
1:52:11 - Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
2:00:04 - Is Anthony Strangis a sociopath?
2:04:11 - What Bad Vegan got wrong
2:21:26 - Darkest personal discovery
2:32:08 - Road trip from hell
2:39:23 - Wild stories
2:48:20 - Prison
2:58:00 - Ghislaine Maxwell
3:13:31 - Running restaurants
3:27:13 - Last meal
3:31:36 - Relationships
3:40:48 - Advice for young people
3:46:03 - Regrets
3:49:48 - Mortality
4:05:51 - Love

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