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GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal Sep 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24:41 Jason Calacanis We have to control our hemisphere and we have to be energy independent given the state of the war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics Aug 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:42 Eric Weinstein But if it turns out that it's easy to do, and by the way, if the US fails with Iran, you're going to see a proliferation of countries acquiring nukes because we trusted the US. 2 times in the scene

Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up Aug 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats Aug 12, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 9:52 Rahm Emanuel You can see that in the drone areas example, neither Iran or Ukraine have a Navy, and they both control waterways near their fronts.
  • ▶ 17:34 Rahm Emanuel But we have to use the time of an economic block to stand up what we have allowed to atrophy, and then to organize that block to confront China, and then China, and North Korea, and Iran, and Russia.
  • ▶ 18:22 Rahm Emanuel Is a way that would isolate Iran. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:57 Jason Calacanis This is, I think, the escalation that maybe isn't getting enough attention, and then we'll go back to the Iran. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:42 Jason Calacanis So let's go to Iran right after we sort of sum up what's happening with those two allies in, in your estimation, how we should be courting them.
  • ▶ 30:22 Rahm Emanuel And this is also somewhat as we get, as we transition closer to home before we keep pushing Iran off and we'll do that.
  • ▶ 37:42 Jason Calacanis Okay, um, so let's do Iran and then go to the United States.

China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan Aug 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores Jul 30, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:20 David Friedberg And lest we not forget the Iran war, which is creating persistent pressure on energy prices. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:32 Chamath Palihapitiya As important as the Iran conflict is, the reason why energy prices really haven't moved that much is because most people have already begun to shift the incremental generation to these renewables, and specifically to solar.

The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:00 Jason Calacanis The field has been changed with drones in a way, and at a velocity, no pun intended, that I don't think anybody anticipated because of what's happened in Ukraine, and now we see in the Middle East with the war with Iran.

The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence? Jul 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17:02 Jason Calacanis We will talk about Iran and other stuff like that when there's more news for venture capitalists to comment on right now.

OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:33:46 Jason Calacanis This is like, of all the, you know, challenges this presidency has had, and the Iran war and other issues, we made great software.

AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie Jul 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:16:03 Jason Calacanis It also in a super hyper competitive world is a loss for China, for Iran, for wherever we can recruit the best and brightest who want to assimilate. 2 times in the scene

Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?! Jun 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 31:08 Nate Silver People are upset about Iran.
  • ▶ 52:40 Nate Silver You know, I think if you look at forecasts, there is supposed to be some abatement, but very contingent on how long the conflict war in Iran persists in this quagmire. 2 times in the scene

World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal Jun 19, 2026 · 14 mentions

Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections Jun 13, 2026 · 7 mentions

Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Bipartisanship, Money in DC, Datacenters, Graham Platner Jun 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel Jun 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:03 Brad Gerstner When people are puking into their garbage cans at the start of the Iran war and the market is down, Gavin and I are looking at each other and saying, good God, these anthropic revenues are off the charts.

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis? May 22, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:09 Gavin Baker You know, I think a lot of people wanted to be hedged for Iran and, you know, now I think it's a little more clear.
  • ▶ 1:22:34 Jason Calacanis Maybe this time, uh, 16th time, it's a charm, and the Iran war is gonna wrap up.
  • ▶ 1:35:38 Jason Calacanis And so that guess, if I was going to unpack it, hey, we get, uh, we have Venezuela, we have Iran and Taiwan. 4 times in the scene

Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño May 15, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17 Jason Calacanis That is the number one story right now after a two month delay because of the war in Iran. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:05 Jason Calacanis Inflation over three percent, and they look at the Iran war as a betrayal by President Trump, and they look at China as not material to their well-being.
  • ▶ 23:53 Jason Calacanis Take our arm sales off of the table, Friedberg, and should we ask China to not sell arms to Iran? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:10 David Friedberg Are currently facing a shortage of nitrogen-based fertilizer because of the crisis with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, which we've talked about as a double whammy.

Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom May 8, 2026 · 1 mention

How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California Mar 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:28 Matt Mahan Um, I, I don't understand and don't support this war in Iran that I think is a huge, uh, huge blunder, and it's gonna drive up energy costs, and it's, it's not clear to me why we're losing American lives over there.

John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This' Mar 18, 2026 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 3:55 John Fetterman You know, that must be incredible for the Chinese and the Iranians, though, that we've shut that, ah, government down.
  • ▶ 9:31 John Fetterman Uh, in Congress that I've come across that saying, I think it's a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:43 unnamed speaker Do you think, uh, there's a clear path to getting out of Iran for the United States at this stage? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:12 John Fetterman It's like, well, you know, not stopping Iran would be a hell of a lot more expensive in lives and economic impact.
  • ▶ 30:08 John Fetterman I'm a, I'm a pro-democrat, uh, excuse me, I'm a pro-immigration democrat, but I'm also the only democrat to refuse to shut our government down the way that we're at, and now I'm becoming the only very proud supporter of Israel, and I'm the…
  • ▶ 43:41 John Fetterman You know, we have Iran. 2 times in the scene

Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas Mar 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:17 David Friedberg I've heard theories the last couple days that big capital seekers are kind of f***ed right now because of what's going on in the Middle East with the Iran war. 2 times in the scene

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare Mar 13, 2026 · 33 mentions

  • ▶ 3:49 Jason Calacanis All right, let's talk about the war in Iran. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:15 Jason Calacanis You know, and any other, uh, things you'd like to add about the war in Iran?
  • ▶ 9:11 Chamath Palihapitiya There's going to be a lot of chest bumping from the Iranians, obviously, because they need to save face and
  • ▶ 10:28 David Sacks Look, we've degraded Iranian capabilities massively. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:03 Jason Calacanis You take starting a war like this, specifically with Iran, that's what we were told was the reason to vote for President Trump. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:19 Chamath Palihapitiya As much as people want to talk about Iran, Iran, Iran, I think as I explained last week, I think this is about China, China, China. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:14 Brad Gerstner In fact, it's existential to the wartime effort going on in Iran right now.
  • ▶ 56:30 David Sacks And that's why the popularity is right down there with, I don't know, what was it, Iran? 5 times in the scene

“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War Mar 9, 2026 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15 David Friedberg Let's start with Iran. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:06 Graham Allison You got the supreme leader and 40 of the other leaders of Iran out in public, so that's an opportunity as a target, and the best opportunity that's come along. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:45 Jason Calacanis If things were to go extremely well, and Iran went from a monarchy to a dictatorship, and now in this third act here in the modern day to a democracy, and you actually had a democracy with ninety three million citizens in the Middle East,…
  • ▶ 13:27 Graham Allison And if it's a pretty cruel regime, unfortunately, that's unfortunate for the Iranian people. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:41 David Friedberg You know, if we think back to Iraq, Iran is twice as many people, a hundred million versus fifty million, four times the land area, a much better equipped military, and arguably the military system, the regime, is embedded in every aspect… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:46 Jason Calacanis In Iran. 3 times in the scene

Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom Mar 7, 2026 · 62 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Jason Calacanis It's great to have you, and this is a moment I think you've been waiting 47, close to 50 years for, which is we are at this moment in time looking at potentially the people of Iran being free. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10 Jason Calacanis I think people would love to know what is your vision for Iran post this, uh, military action. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:50 Jason Calacanis And when your father was in charge, it was a monarchy, turned into a dictatorship, and to be clear, the hope now is to evolve into a democracy with free elections for the people, average age of people in Iran now. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:45 Jason Calacanis Go to Iran to go home for the first time in 47 years. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:12 Prince Reza Pahlavi That's for the people of Iran to choose, and I think the world has seen successful models in both a republican system and a monarchic system. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:44 Jason Calacanis But he said he's not sure how you would play within your own country. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:05 Prince Reza Pahlavi This is the kind of potential, and I'm sure Shervin will talk to you more about that, but this is the kind of connections there is, and for Americans that have traveled to Iran or have known Iranians all these years, they know what, what,… 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:25 Jason Calacanis We're, we're all praying for the people of Iran to have a democracy, and what an amazing moment will be when you get to return in whatever capacity and help this transition, and ninety-three million people who have been suffering will be… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:32 Shervin Pishevar And his legacy, uh, to play this tremendous transitional role to evolve the Iranian, uh, nation to a democracy. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:31 Jason Calacanis What would Iran, going straight to a democracy, if that is even possible, what would that do to the region in your mind? 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:33 Shervin Pishevar Uh, who remains to realize that if they don't actually have a complete surrender and, uh, you know, capitulate, and for the ones that haven't actually, uh, executed the orders of genocide against the Iranian people, there'll be an…
  • ▶ 39:06 Shervin Pishevar I think, you know, we, we have to be very, very careful because, uh, a red line for the Iranian people is, uh, we have existed as a country for, for 5000 years, as a people for 5000 years. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:24 Jason Calacanis Uh, you know, episode when he goes there. 3 times in the scene

War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 2:31 Jason Calacanis The U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on Saturday.
  • ▶ 6:41 David Friedberg And that being the case, I think you could look at the, in the context of Maduro and the actions in Iran as creating maximal leverage going into those negotiations. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:48 Jason Calacanis And so far, and listen, we got a long way to go with Iran. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:08 Emil Michael No, but, but we do want to take out drug drones at the border, and we want, but long, one-way attack drones are important for, you know, any kind of major conflict like you're seeing in Iran, but also to protect military bases for America…
  • ▶ 29:49 Chamath Palihapitiya And so, in something like this, to be able to incorporate the intelligence of Mossad, what you're seeing today in this Operation Epic Fury, we're four days in, Iran has been 90% depleted of all of their munitions, it looks like. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:14 Emil Michael Sensitive parts of the US government, like all of our combatant commands, CENTCOM, Central Command that's doing the Iran fight now, the Indo-PACOM command, which is sort of responsible for China, several of the intelligence agencies, and…

Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot Feb 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files Feb 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:30 Jason Calacanis It resumed trading last month, betting on when Israel would strike Iran, polling market data shows.

Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs Jan 17, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 4:18 Jason Calacanis All right, I guess we got to talk about what's going on in Iran.
  • ▶ 4:29 Jason Calacanis As everybody listening probably knows, Iran has been ruled by an Islamic dictator since the 10 times in the scene

All-In's 2026 Predictions Jan 10, 2026 · 11 mentions

Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:30:52 Tucker Carlson The only reason I get into it was the prospect of a, of a regime change war in Iran, and I just thought, man, there is no way that helps us in any way, so I piped up and said something, and my life has been a disaster ever since, but my…

The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:45 María Corina Machado So having, you know, a satellite of Russia, of Iran operating in the heart of the Americas, it's, it's something that, you know, this, this,
  • ▶ 26:32 María Corina Machado And, uh, also, uh, one of the, the, I would say that the major stronghold of the Iranian regime abroad.

Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:00 Joe Manchin I thought he was going to talk about China, about North Korea, about Iran, on and on and on.

Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally Oct 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:54 Brad Gerstner There's a high probability that it won't work, but if you think about this for a second, after the horror of the October seventh attacks, the chaos in Syria, the attacks by Yemen, the escalations fueled by Iran, the idea that the… 2 times in the scene

Oval Office Tour with President Trump Sep 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies Sep 15, 2025 · 7 mentions

Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America Sep 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:02 Rand Paul And so even with countries we find distasteful and often are distasteful, Iran, there has to be an offer somehow to get rid of the sanctions.

Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan Jul 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:21 Donald J. Trump The first couple of months we got ourselves all set, done a great job with our military, as you know, you saw that two weeks ago when you saw the way those incredible B-tues flew into Iran and took out an entire nuclear potential

12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner Jun 28, 2025 · 44 mentions

  • ▶ 7:04 Jason Calacanis We'll shift from conspicuous consumption and talk about the twelve-day war between Israel and Iran. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:39 David Sacks We're not in a war with Iran. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:49 Jason Calacanis Folks didn't want to go to war, but we don't want WMDs in the hands of Iran. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:37 Jason Calacanis Well, he did, he definitely did provide that golden bridge for Iran to, to cross over to and maybe move into another phase, but Freeberg, maybe you could still man the other side of this just for the discussion here. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:35 John Mearsheimer To counter the Iranian escalation scenario, the fact is Iran does not want a war with the United States, and the United States does not want a war with Iran. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Iran was not really in a position to do anything but capitulate and give up. 5 times in the scene
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