The Nobel War Prize | Ep. 046 Lemonade Stand π
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What is the 'Lemon of Optimism' about?
Fellows, I got good news. There was so much bad news this week that unironically, sincerely, I've crossed a tipping point and I'm kind of depressed about the state of the world, which means I am giving up my role as the optimist of the show. Here's the limit of optimism. I'm passing it to you, Aiden. Awesome. This works well because I read no news this week. Hey, some of your perspective is looking good. Just checked out. I have, you know, you guys can be Banjo. Yeah. I'll be Kazooie.
What letter did Trump send to Norway?
You're Kazooie. You're in the backpack. Except I can't fly. Yeah. You have no skill. And I've got a heartwarming anecdote to bring to the show. I went to a Clippers game last week and there was three groups of high school students sitting in the two rows in front of us and the row behind us. And they were all sports betting on their phones their entire game. Optimism. And that's why this episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Optimism. Yeah, I'm joking. I'm joking. So I thought that was pretty great. It's like getting out there, hanging out with your friends, losing money you don't have, getting addicted to predatory apps. I thought that was nice. He's not doing a good job with the optimism. I thought that was nice.
He thought that was nice. It brought people together. This is how the lemon of optimism works, right? You know, they were in person hanging out. They weren't like... In sports gambling brought them together. Brings people together. So it does have benefits. It does have benefits. This third space for Gen Z is DraftKings. We don't need physical third spaces because they can just gamble on the app. Yeah. If you're in a discord server with your boys gambling, it's as good as the real thing. So big updates today. We got the Clippers game. Anything else happen? So far in January, there hasn't been that much outside of the two basketball games you just mentioned. Oh, it was my birthday. We're going to talk about that for 45 minutes.
45 minutes on that. Jake Drizzle's birthday. And then I guess very slightly, if we can squeeze it in, because that's a lot of big stuff, we might squeeze in the fact that the president is trying to possibly declare war on Greenland and begin an unwinding of the transatlantic order. Hey, war for Greenland.
What?
Language matters, okay? It's for the future of Greenland, yeah. And there's so many angles we can take this from, but I think it'd be fun to talk about the wildest, most cartoonish one. Let me pull up this letter. Actually, a lot of these are wild and cartoonish. Yeah, I guess they're all pretty wild and cartoonish. But this one for me, you know, it's hard to be surprised lately. by something that happens in the world or something that Trump does. And I thought when I saw this that it was fake. I legitimately saw it and I saw someone made this up and it's like, come on guys, there's enough real things to criticize. Can we not make up a fake letter? And then it was verified. So this is a real letter from Donald Trump to the leader of Norway.
Again, reminder that the Nobel Peace Prize is not fake. figured out in Norway and he's attacking Greenland, which is owned by Denmark. So, okay. Uh, all right. Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel peace prize for having stopped eight wars. Plus I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.
Uh,
By the way, full stop, very funny. That's a very funny sentence because it implies that the only reason you are purely thinking of peace is because of the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, if you don't get it, now war's on the table. Cool question. Is there a Nobel War Prize? Yeah. Well, I think... I think he just wants to end the war. It's so funny to be like, because you refused me the prize, I will now shoot for the war prize. It's my only option. He's like, I can't get the peace one. I need an award. I have to get the consolation war prize. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize at gunpoint is so funny. Which he did! We're going to get to that, which is what actually basically happened. Well, I want to clarify. The Nobel Peace Prize is not decided by the country of Norway.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the 'Lemon of Optimism' about?
0:00β0:27
2
What letter did Trump send to Norway?
0:27β5:14
3
How is Greenland related to US foreign policy?
5:14β32:41
4
What are the implications of tariffs on Denmark and allies?
32:41β52:14
5
What is the concept of the Board of Peace and its implications?
52:14β53:01
6
How does Trump plan to maintain control through the Board of Peace?
53:01β53:49
7
What are the reactions to Trump's Board of Peace invitations?
53:49β54:39
8
How do tariffs factor into Trump's international strategies?
54:39β1:45:39
Speakers
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