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David Bell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's again, like the cyber truck, I think looks cool, but it's clear that he started with the look and then the insides are shit and don't make any sense.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

So it's like, you're not starting with that fundamental idea of like, how do people live?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

How should we, how should we build a city more efficiently?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It started with what if wall, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

We're going to build the city of the future where like a modern society, you know, built by businessmen, all of the world's innovators will want to live here.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's like, but like alcohol still illegal and women can't like don't have shit together.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's a, it's a teenager's dream where it's like, I, you draw a character where you're like, and he has a cool sword and he's not like cool armor.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

And then you think of like, what's his personality?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Like you're, you're going backwards, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Where you're like, and it's that where they're just like cool wall city, but our, our, our actual, what they said designed by businessmen, the laws, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah, designed by a businessman.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

I'd be like, are you Peter Thiel?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It is such a libertarian boat city.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

No, I would live on a boat if it was like a pirate radio kind of situation because that movie rips.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

But I'm simply not going to live on a boat with a bunch of Bitcoin guys.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

I'd rather, like, that's the thing.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's like, okay, if we can't get the good futuristic stuff, I still would be, it would be cool if my house looked neat, you know?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Like, if I had some cyberpunk brutalist house.