Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 4d ago

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 5.

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Pod Save the World · Don Jr.’s Big Fat Russian Wedding · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, because they're like mercenaries for hire or just people collecting salaries. voice-verified

And like the Houthis, whatever you think of them, have like a deep ideological... I mean, these people survived like a decade of war, you know. voice-verified

And they're not some like... voice-verified

transplanted terrorist group. voice-verified

They're just people that live in southern Yemen. voice-verified

You know, they're not going voice-verified

And look, I think a couple other things stand out. voice-verified

Like, one is what you just mentioned. voice-verified

Like, you know, Larry Wright was on and he was talking about how these new tools of cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, are going to start to manifest in terrorist actions or on the battlefield. voice-verified

And, you know, we had the Houthis using voice-verified

AI for intelligence purposes or disinformation purposes. voice-verified

We also have reports that the Houthis were using Claude to voice-verified

how to build weapons. voice-verified

Targeting with their missiles. voice-verified

And make no mistake, this stuff is a leveler. voice-verified

And in the same way that you can build a really effective drone for not that much money, you can use AI technologies to improve what you do. voice-verified

We tend to have, frankly, sometimes a racist attitude that these people aren't going to figure it out. voice-verified

These people are fucking smart. voice-verified

You don't have to agree with them to know that the fact that they've been able to fight off this coalition demonstrates some entrepreneurial capability. voice-verified

And that leads me to the paradigm of what is the future of the Middle East here? voice-verified

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