David Bell
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Shit.
What do I do with my life now?
It's tough.
It's tough when your buddies become the Taliban.
Yeah.
It's tough when your buddies become the Taliban.
Nobody wants that to happen to their buddies, Dave.
No.
I'm happy that you've continued writing for the internet as opposed to becoming the Taliban.
Right.
No, I had that crossroads, but yeah.
It would have been logistically confusing, too.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So when he returns home to Saudi Arabia, he's arguably the most influential journalist in the kingdom.
He's one of them.
And he's developed close working relationships with several highly placed members of the royal family.
And he spends the next couple of decades as both an influential critic and pillar of the power system.
So he is integrated tightly within kind of the upper strata of Saudi Arabia.