#288 – Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan Lex Fridman Podcast

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:

Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(00:00) - Introduction

(07:44) - Childhood

(12:46) - Films

(23:17) - Gifts

(32:20) - Favorite food creations

(38:31) - Leon: The Pitbull

(50:39) - Bad Vegan

(1:02:41) - Abusive relationship

(1:07:24) - Remorse for employees

(1:13:19) - Sociopathy

(1:23:44) - How Sarma met Anthony Strangis

(1:45:43) - Retrospection

(1:58:24) - Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

(2:06:17) - Is Anthony Strangis a sociopath?

(2:10:24) - What Bad Vegan got wrong

(2:27:40) - Darkest personal discovery

(2:38:22) - Road trip from hell

(2:45:36) - Wild stories

(2:54:33) - Prison

(3:04:13) - Ghislaine Maxwell

(3:19:44) - Running restaurants

(3:33:26) - Last meal

(3:37:50) - Relationships

(3:47:02) - Advice for young people

(3:52:16) - Regrets

(3:56:01) - Mortality

(4:12:04) - Love