Lex Fridman is a glowie bundle of sticks

From @EsoShaggy on twitter:

How was Lex Fridman able to go from total irrelevance, to talking with top heads of the US government, the top viewed podcaster in the world and NW spooks like Ray Kurzweil in such a short time? All despite publishing 1 paper of slight relevance & a bunch of junk about Al cars.

How many times did Lex Fridman meet with Jeffery Epstein? Lex didn't attend MIT, yet all the professors he didn't have knew Epstein? That doesn't make sense. How would Lex know about Epstein's personality better than somebody who met him?