David Bell

Now, he avoids bringing up, and nobody present feels pressed to ask, about the Saudi women's rights activists who are already imprisoned for campaigning for their right to drive.

On stage at the Davos, like there's already women.

Nobody's like, what about them?

Are they getting out?

And MBS doesn't say shit about that.

The next thing he brings up on stage at the Davos of the Desert event is an exciting history-making new project, NEOM, or N-E-O-M, a city built as a one titanic wall stretching from the Red Sea to the mountains.

I heard of this.

It's a huge wall-sized skyscraper covered in solar panels.

The inside is a whole climate-controlled city.

It's going to be like the perfect living place for human beings.

Wall town.

Wall town, right?

Yeah.

Per the book MBS, quote, businessmen would write the laws and entice the world's top minds to innovate on Saudi soil.

Planning for a post-carbon future and taking advantage of the Saudi sun, the city would be powered by solar energy and staffed by so many robots that they might outnumber the human inhabitants.

Neom, Mohammed bin Salman said, would cost $500 billion and be a place for dreamers.

It was not an economic development project, but a civilizational leap for humanity."

At that point, the lights dimmed and a video like this one played.

And Sophie's going to display that for you now, Dave.

Man, so I love that they're like, too long have cities not been wall-based.