#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football

The following is a conversation with Khabib Nurmagomedov, one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29 and o record. It was a huge honor for me to meet him, to train together, and to have this deep conversation. We had this conversation entirely in Russian. This was my first time doing so on this podcast. And even these words I'm saying right now are spoken in Russian. So if you're hearing me in English, you're actually listening to the English dub. On YouTube, you can switch between language audio tracks by clicking the settings gear icon, then clicking audio track, and then selecting the language you prefer. For the original Russian version, select Russian. And for the English dub, select English. Subtitles are also available in both languages. The translation and dubbing are a collaborative effort of translators, real human beings, including myself and AI. Thanks to the incredible team at eleven Labs for their help. And now please allow me to take this moment to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your love and support all these years. I love you all. And now a quick few second mention of a sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfredeman.com/sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. And by the way, as a brief aside, you're probably listening to this on Spotify or RSS. And so this is an interesting experiment because the original conversation is done entirely in the Russian language. So, ladies and gentlemen, What you will be listening to is actually an English dub. But on YouTube, you can listen also to the Russian original, with subtitles in both Russian and English. I think all of that is explained in the intro. I just wanted to say it one more time. We're always trying new things, experimenting. So thank you for your patience, your support along the way. Alright. Back to the sponsors. We got Whisperflow for voice to text writing, Element for electrolytes, Shopify for selling stuff online, BetterHelp for mental health, and, of course, our friend, Perplexity, for curiosity driven knowledge exploration. Two swisses, my friends. And now onto the full ad reads, I try to make them interesting, but if you skip, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. To get in touch with me for whatever reason, go to lexfreeman.com/contact. Alright. Let's go. This episode is brought to you by WhisperFlow, the AI voice dictation app that lets you write by speaking, the app I've been using every single day to do a lot of communication with the robot living inside my computer. Increasingly, most of the programming I do, most of the interaction with the agentic systems I do, are done by voice. And it works flawlessly on, Android iPhone. It works on my desktop. It just works and has a bunch of useful features …