Chapter 1: What new perspectives on business, tech, and politics are presented?
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This is going to be a slightly different episode. We've got Jacksepticeye this week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jacksepticeye's going to be talking about Iran. He's going to explain the war in Iran. We've got PewDiePie talking about Anthropic. Yes, we got... We literally... And Benjamin Netanyahu's new indie movie.
We literally got a call on Thursday and Brandon was like, cool, you know, like people really like the Markiplier episode. Probably some new viewers check out the next. We should do something kind of like light and fun. And the word you used was tapas. We'll just bring the small bites episode. Little fun bits around the world.
And then Trump seeing the numbers on our episode was like, those fuckers better make a shot. You think you're going to go an entire two weeks without talking about me? No, we have this clip here. We want to play it, Perry, of the Patreon. This is recorded right after the Markiplier interview.
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Chapter 2: How is the AI bubble affecting job security?
You know, Markiplier brings a new audience, and so they aren't going to recognize what the show is until next episode. We're going to hit them with, like, World War III. Yeah, whoops. Then we got World War III. Shouldn't have said that.
Chapter 3: What should colleges do to prepare students for AI's impact?
Lemonade Stand Curse strikes again. So today we're going to be talking about the developments in Iran and some fun tapas there that we're going to be eating. We're also going to talk about the very fun AI interactions with the Department of War.
Brandon, you've already talked about both these things a little bit, but we're going to hit them from some new angles that I think should be interesting, as well as later on, we did a virtual interview with Scott Galloway, who is, how would you describe Scott? He's very prolific, doesn't
He does a lot of things, but his claim to fame was he wrote some pretty great business books and he was teaching at NYU, right? Yes. NYU. Yes. It's funny you look at me. You're the one who took his course. I took it online. Okay. All right.
But yeah, we chat with him and for about like 30 minutes getting his thoughts on particularly the movement to divest from tech like subscriptions, which ended up being very prescient given the stuff going on with open AI and Claude. He did it before any of that. So it's actually pretty relevant. Packed schedule, Aiden. And Aiden's taking notes. What are you writing about? What you're just drawing.
you're drawing fan fiction in there. Fan fiction? Yeah. So in the next 10 minutes, Doug and Atriac are going to kiss. What were you guys talking about? That immediately goes to the teleprompter. So when we see it happen, I will do what the teleprompter says. Okay, so, you know, big, big escalation in Iran this past week. I guess there's a lot of angles we can take on this.
I think just doing an event breakdown is not, you probably know. I think most people watching know the basic gist that we- Markiplier viewers love Iranian news. The United States and Israel struck Iran. The Ayatollah is dead. There is now the big question mark over what happens next. So I think there's a lot of angles we could go from this. I would like to start with a basic one.
I'm going to lean into my political knowledge or lack thereof and become John Everydug representing the average American and their view about Iran, right? So if I'm some sort of beer drinking, football watching, God-fearing, freedom-loving American, right? And I'm pissed off at the Cowboys traded Michael Parsons. We haven't even won the NFC South in like 40 years. We're not even in that division.
Why the fuck? Fuck do I care about Iran, Brandon? Okay, wait, this is actually such an interesting, that's a topic I want to talk about. The Cowboys? No, well, yeah, 45 minutes on the Cowboys. Are you guys familiar with the political, I don't know much about it, the political commentator, Matt Walsh? Yes. Okay, you know what? It's interesting you bring this up.
All right, do you, can you give an intro on him? I don't know him that well. Yeah, Matt Walsh. When you guys are friends, what are you talking about? You and Matt Walsh, when you guys are hanging out and like- So we're agreeing on everything. Behind closed doors when we text each other on signal because we're really tight and we just agree on so much. We just diverge on like a couple things.
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Chapter 4: What recent developments in Iran are discussed?
Right. And I think, you know, there was just this long... We've even shown some clips of this, but there was this long tradition up to the election about this idea of the peace president, of no endless wars in the Middle East, of they've been a big waste. And now that is being challenged. Now, I... We don't know this one's going to play out.
I think the big question mark here is this has only been a few days old and maybe it does end in a few days. That's a question mark that could happen. But I think people are already, like even a few days in, the normal, the patriotism bump you'd usually get doesn't appear to be materializing in polling and in feedback, even from conservative sources.
It's not like a huge amount of positivity around this. It hasn't been sold yet. And one thing I want to say that I thought was very odd about this action in particular was how cavalierly, you know, it was a truth social post at 2.30 a.m. There was no speech to Congress. There was no speech to the American people. There was no, this is not how it has been done in the past.
Didn't Trump make a speech that night that the first strikes happened? I thought it did happen. It was true social speech. It was just like a post, right? Okay. Yeah. And then in the follow-up press conference they just did, he pivoted very quickly to talking about the ballroom. He did like 20 minutes about this ongoing war in Iran and then the ballroom. So I don't know. There's this pushback.
So if you want me to like...
defend this to the american people i will steel man this right now let me try to do the best possible take i can give and use an analogy with the cowboys okay jerry jones is the manager okay so you're you you work for the trump administration you're trying to sell yes uh i've done a very bad job selling this even to their most diehard fans i think that's like uncontrovertible at this point where a few days in people seem to be wildly questioning even among what's going on
So I'm going to do my best. I'm researching into this. I'm trying to do my best to steel man it. I personally do not think we should have struck an Iran. I made a whole video about it. But I'm going to try and steel man what the goals might be. Now, Iran is a country... That's a good set. He's in character right now. He's in character. Right. In character. Okay. So. Wait, hold on. Disclaimer.
Some people are going to be pissed off. I'm sorry to people in other parts of the world who are more educated than us. The American public school system taught us it was Iran. So we're undoing that. I am relearning to say Iran. I get it. I'm with you. I apologize. This was how we were taught. It's not my fault. Kind of.
I've been in like, I'm like when they have an actor who's doing an English accent, but it's bad. So they keep slipping back into the, I've learned, but then I'm, uh, so look, um, we can go a million years of history with Iran and America.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts view the US's military actions in Iran?
For our advanced military.
So it's not just they have like stuff we want it's stuff We need to be able to fight them militarily exactly and again all of the missiles and all of the High-tech equipment used in this conflict have supply chains that trace back to China and especially through rare earth minerals So if there was ever an actual conflict and they cut it off, we don't have the capability to resupply our own weapons okay, so
This is, I think, part of a larger attempt to gain the ability to squeeze China on oil. And if you look at all of these recent insane things that have been done geopolitically, none of which I agree with, I'm just talking about, Trump's actions in Venezuela. Venezuela's largest partner for oil experts was China, okay?
So now they have a partner that's more amenable to American interests in Venezuela, and they could theoretically cut off that access to oil that goes to China. Iran, largest oil partner, China. And in fact, it's one of China's single greatest oil. Yeah, so on Iran's end, 80 plus percent, some say 90% of their oil exports go to China.
So it's a major source of funding for Iran's government and economy. And then on the other end, China receives of the oil that they use overall, an estimated like 10 to 15% of the oil that China imports. is 15%, which is not insignificant, right? Yeah. Like it, you know, not the majority, but enough that it matters. Yeah, absolutely.
And again, you know, so this, this map is terrible, but the Strait of Hormuz, this is like so outdated. It doesn't even have the Strait of Hormuz on it. We're not even looking on the camera, so I shouldn't even be pointing at it. Do you have like a NDI image of the Strait of Hormuz or a pair to pull it up?
Because it's like, it's important to talk about this because this is one of the reasons this part of the world is so chaotic and there's so much, foreign meddling and interest there is because of this Strait of Hormuz where this tiny little gap right there is where 20%, one fifth of the world's oil passes through every day. And Iran has the capability to mine that up.
And what's interesting is all of that oil, almost all that oil goes to Asia, goes to East Asia, mostly China. And so- The ability to squeeze that suddenly changes the dynamic of any like we disagree on. The big example is possibly Taiwan. All of this is still tough to sell to the regular every person. And China is a country.
Because I think every Doug, if you're being honest, should think about how none of this is about the things he's actually concerned about, which is like cost of living. NFC South. NFC South. Cost of living. Health insurance. And actually gas. And getting back Micah Parsons. And gas. And gas prices. And that is why I think, again, this is going to be such a political disaster.
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