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America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild Jul 24, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:53 Shyam Sankar So without any penchant for communism or even an ill will towards America, he thought this was his moral duty, was to walk into the Soviet trade mission in New York in 1944 and give them secrets to the bomb. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:02 Emil Michael It's just like we had nuclear missiles, and the Russians did, or Soviets did.

Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:21 Alex Kolicich And obviously in the US, investment's always been less than in the Soviet Union and China, of course, but, um, it shows you things can get a lot crazier, right, if you really pushed it.

Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale May 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:36 Jacob Helberg And so the interesting thing is that they are actually entering a phase where they're becoming a little bit more akin to, you know, where the Soviet Union was back in the late seventies, which is low growth, but still very, very…

Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:57 Shyam Sankar So without any penchant for communism or even an ill will towards America, he thought this was his moral duty, was to walk into the Soviet trade mission in New York in 1944 and give them secrets to the bomb. 2 times in the scene

Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale Mar 3, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:22 Jared Isaacman It was, uh, you know, it was a national priority to, uh, to beat the Soviets to the moon, bring them back safely. 3 times in the scene

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:31 Alex Kolicich And obviously in the US, investment's always been less than in the Soviet Union and China, of course, but, um, it shows you things can get a lot crazier, right, if you really pushed it.

Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale Jan 9, 2026 · 1 mention

This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 1 mention

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:39 Boris Sofman Yeah, so we, um, uh, I was actually born in the Soviet Union and immigrated, uh, when I was pretty young. 2 times in the scene

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:42 Marc Andreessen Like, all, like, Soviet iconography a hundred years ago was all, like, rockets and skyscrapers and cars and motion and energy, and it was all amazing, and they built all these huge things, and then, you know, liberals, you know, up…

Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale Apr 3, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 21:38 Tom Cotton And speaking of Red Dawn, um, about 10 or maybe 12 years ago, there was an effort to remake Red Dawn in a story, a great story again from the Cold War about Communist Russia invading America and teenage kids fighting back like gorillas…
  • ▶ 26:28 Tom Cotton Well, um, I think one good rule of thumb that any American can apply to communist Russia is this. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:26 Tom Cotton You saw that, that happening, um, in the late 19 eighties and early 19 nineties with the Warsaw Pact and then finally Soviet, uh, Russia itself.

$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale Jan 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:54 Zach Bookman So in the, in the, in this, before the Soviets invaded, uh, in the late seventies to bring communism to this country, this was a place where

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:02 Brendan McCord You have the Soviets taking industrial technology, twisting it into a system of economic domination.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:19 Steve Blank And the rate of innovation, because the rate of competition in the, in the consumer space was much faster than the, the, the need of, uh, innovation in the military side, um, because the Soviet Union and the United States in the Cold War…
  • ▶ 45:27 Steve Blank Um, but I should remind your listeners that both the US and the Soviet Union had dead hands on their ICBM systems. 2 times in the scene

He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale Aug 22, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Joe Lonsdale Dmitry's family came over after the fall of the Soviet Union.
  • ▶ 2:14 Joe Lonsdale Your family immigrated from Moscow to the U.S. after the fall of the Soviet Union, and your father was a nuclear physicist, an expert in applied mathematics.
  • ▶ 11:37 Dmitri Alperovitch So first of all, you have unquestionably a global competition for supremacy, just like what we had with the Soviet Union that plays out in every geographic area, right? 6 times in the scene

Ep 90: A Conversation with Wall Street Pioneer Ethan Penner · Joe Lonsdale May 23, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:07 Ethan Penner I mean, or if you were born in the Soviet Union in the 19 fifties, it was pretty tough.

Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale Apr 18, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:39 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Uh, rhetoric of the regime was anti-American, anti-Western, and they started tilting more and more and more, although they were claiming we want independence, but in reality, they played more and more into the Soviet orbit at the time, and…
  • ▶ 21:40 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Then it came an era where the Soviet Union had to come into it, and you had a strong leadership in the form of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
  • ▶ 25:21 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi They even said that at the time of the Soviet Union.

Ep 74: Niall Ferguson & Pano Kanelos on Building the University of Austin · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:28 Niall Ferguson In our Forbidden Courses program, uh, back when we, we really were just a startup, uh, was a course on the difference between free and unfree societies, and I simply got the students to read primary source accounts of life in Stalin's… 2 times in the scene

Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale Nov 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:01 Congressman Mike Gallagher Like, that's what 25 years of our policy has brought us, and I think that's what makes the current Cold War more complex and difficult than the old Cold War, the Soviet Union, because our economy's never interacted in the old Cold War.

Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale Nov 8, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale Jul 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:03 Marc Andreessen So there's an old joke in the Soviet union, which is, uh, you may not be interested in communism, but communism is interested in you.
  • ▶ 47:22 Marc Andreessen So the Soviet Union famously, like, they outlawed mimeograph machines, right, basically pre-photocopiers,

Ep 59: Adi Berlia Explains India's Remarkable Rise Out of Socialism · Joe Lonsdale May 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:08 Adi Berlia There were, like, two television channels, and it is very much like Soviet Russia-type stuff, and we had a massive crisis, uh, and in, uh, uh, 1991, the government said, look, in order to sort of get over our financial crisis to really…
  • ▶ 8:10 Adi Berlia There were like two television channels, and it is very much like Soviet Russia-type stuff, right?

Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale May 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:26 Balaji Srinivasan Became communists and the Soviets found that that certain kind of personality of being like a hater or whatever, it like easily flipped over.

Ep 56: A Philosopher Reinventing Construction? Maria Davidson & the Story of Kojo · Joe Lonsdale May 4, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Joe Lonsdale My friend Maria grew up in the Soviet Union, Israel, moved to London.
  • ▶ 1:23 Joe Lonsdale You were born in the Soviet Union, you were raised in Israel, and you moved to London at 13, is that right?
  • ▶ 2:25 Maria Davidson I mean, I don't know as much about modern day Russia, but I think for my parents, they grew up in the Soviet Union, so they were extremely strict. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:25 Joe Lonsdale You're my chief of staff for a couple of years, and you have this kind of cultural anthropologist analysis now of the Soviet Union and Israel and UK.

Oklo's Amazing Small Reactor That Can Reuse Nuclear Waste · Joe Lonsdale Apr 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:29 Jake DeWitt Communism and the Soviet union were awful.
  • ▶ 39:40 Jake DeWitt I mean, there's some, there's some interesting historical, you know, documentation that shows the, you know, the Soviet Union and Russia funding an anti-nuclear environmental, like, you know, disinformation campaigns starting back in the…

Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale Mar 31, 2022 · 1 mention

Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale Feb 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:46 Joe Lonsdale Frameworks, which are very, very top down, which is from a time when we admired the Soviet Union and thought Soviet Union was a better way to run things with our elites and 2 times in the scene

Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:19 Joe Lonsdale So you're, so you're talking to people who are in the Soviet Union or Venezuela or something like that.

How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:43 Maleka Momand My parents are like, you know, they, they escaped like, ah, the, the Soviet regime in Afghanistan and, ah, are always really skeptical of authority.

Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale Dec 15, 2021 · 1 mention

Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale Aug 18, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Niall Ferguson My sense, this is one of the reasons I'm an American optimist, is that just as with the Soviet Union, most conventional wisdom exaggerates the strength of the Chinese system, is taken in by the propaganda, and doesn't see the rot within.
  • ▶ 24:49 Niall Ferguson My sense, this is one of the reasons I'm an American optimist, is that just as with the Soviet Union, most conventional wisdom exaggerates the strength of the Chinese system, is taken in by the propaganda, and doesn't see the rot within.

Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale Aug 11, 2021 · 1 mention

Stephen Harper: Rejecting Wokeness, Addressing China, and Defending Western Values · Joe Lonsdale Jul 27, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:09 Stephen Harper I think we all believe that, you know, unlike the Soviet Union of the Cold War, there are, China is not, not everything about China is bad, and there are opportunities in China.
  • ▶ 21:20 Stephen Harper And, and, you know, anyone who says that, you know, Marxism was, um, was, was distorted into totalitarianism by the Soviets or the Chinese, whoever, is missing, you know, is missing the whole, you read 2 times in the scene

Arthur Brooks: Finding Happiness -- What Most People Get Wrong and Few Get Right · Joe Lonsdale Jul 13, 2021 · 1 mention

Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale Jun 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:19 Bari Weiss And if, you know, millions of people are saying that Israel is a apartheid regime to parrot the Soviet propaganda line that Zionism is racism and therefore Zionists are racists or an American Jews are supporters of evil colonialist…
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