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United States

also referred to as: the us · us

31 statements across 25 episodes · 6 bullish · 12 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2024 by Codie Sanchez · said 604 times in 102 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Codie Sanchez (252), Tulsi Gabbard (39), Joe Lonsdale (31), Karl Rove (28), Arthur Brooks (23), Scott Galloway (18), Ryan Streeter (17), Kelly Loeffler (13)

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2026 107 mentions in 30 episodes 4 per episode
2025 191 mentions in 40 episodes 5 per episode
2024 306 mentions in 32 episodes 10 per episode

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Everything said about United States, oldest first

Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sanchez: Average US divorce costs $12K-$100K and takes 10 months
“The average wedding in the U S is 30 K, which is wild. The average cost of a divorce is like 12,000 to a 100,000, obviously varying on total costs. And it takes even without children about 10 months.”
Codie Sanchez Apr 16, 2024 ▶ 5:50 What They Don’t Tell You About Money and Marriage (feat. Bill Perkins)
May 21, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Brooks: American happiness has declined for 30 years due to institutional retreat
“American happiness has been falling for 30 years. Usually little by little by little because of the retreat from institutions like faith and family and friendship and, you know, the relationship with work.”
Arthur Brooks May 21, 2024 ▶ 8:13 Harvard Professor: THIS is the Secret to Human Wealth & Happiness | Arthur Brooks
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kennedy: US Is Living in the Most Prosperous Era of American History
“We are living in the most Prosperous era of American history.”
Tim Kennedy Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 4:55 Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
Jul 9, 2024 positive
Opinion
Rove: Current U.S. political division is not the worst in modern history
“No. It's not. It's bad. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's cheery and wonderful. But even in the lifetimes of people who are around today, like me, It's been worse.”
Karl Rove Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 2:38 Political Mastermind: How to Influence Others and Get What You Want - Karl Rove
Jul 9, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Rove: The US PEPFAR relief program has saved 25 million lives
“Twenty-five million people alive today because of the generosity of the United States.”
Karl Rove Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 17:58 Political Mastermind: How to Influence Others and Get What You Want - Karl Rove
Oct 8, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rad: Parents fled religious persecution in Iran and arrived with $20
“My parents came here from Iran, Iranian Jewish. They built a, they had a successful business, lost it all. They had to basically flee the country when it, you know, Jews were being persecuted. And my dad came here met my mom here, but he came here with like 20…”
Sean Rad Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 7:05 Tinder’s Founder on Becoming a Billionaire, Tinder’s #1 Mistake, and Free Speech
Oct 30, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Galloway: Older Americans receive $1.3T annually from Social Security
“And the wealthiest generation in the history of the planet gets 1.3 trillion dollars a year in the form of Social Security.”
Scott Galloway Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 1:52 How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Galloway: 30-year-olds are poorer than their parents were at 30
“And for the first time in our nation's history, a thirty-year-old man or woman isn't as wealthy as his or her parents were at 30, which in my opinion is a fundamental breakdown in the compact we have between us and America.”
Scott Galloway Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 3:01 How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Opinion
Galloway: Elite universities constrain supply to create billionaires, not millionaires
“The artificially constrained supply among the elite institutions, and the kind of gestalt in America is that we want to identify a super class of freakishly remarkable kids, and then turn them into billionaires. As opposed to trying to let in as many kids as p…”
Scott Galloway Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 6:04 How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Opinion
Galloway: US policy drove an intentional wealth transfer from young to old
“There has been a purposeful transfer of wealth from young to old over the last 40 years.”
Scott Galloway Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 1:17 How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
Nov 6, 2024
Assertion Supported
Sanchez: 79% of US millionaires are self-made
“Do you know the percentage of millionaires that are self-made in the U.S.? 79%.”
Codie Sanchez Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 50:19 Discipline Alone Can’t Make You Successful, Use THIS Instead… | Bryan Callen
Nov 13, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Israetel: Mexico's income per capita matches US levels in the 1960s
“Mexico's income per capita is now similar to what the US income per capita was in the 19 sixties. It is no longer accurate to call Mexico a third world country or a poor country. Almost no one there is poor. Food insecurity is an incredibly unlikely thing in M…”
Dr. Mike Israetel Nov 13, 2024 ▶ 9:51 THIS One Thing All Fit People Know — | Mike Israetel
Dec 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Saladino: US permits up to 10,000 food chemicals compared to 500 in Europe
“In Europe, there are maybe four to 500 of these chemicals. In the United States, there are five to 10,000.”
Paul Saladino Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 50:57 Everything I Learned In Med School Was WRONG | Paul Saladino
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Brooks: US and Western happiness ticks down half a point yearly
“That's why we sort of tick down a half a percentage point a year in, in, in, in happiness in the United States and most of the West.”
Arthur Brooks Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 1:00:27 Harvard Professor: There Is a FORMULA to Happiness | Arthur Brooks
Mar 26, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Dr. Moore: South Korea passed the demographic point of no return
“I think in most countries in the world, the, what I have seen is that there's not even a population being born to replace the population. So we are at a certain point, there's a critical point where there's no return, and I think South Korea's definitely hit i…”
Dr. Tyna Moore Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 42:24 Ozempic Expert: They’re Lying To You About Getting Fat | Dr. Tyna Moore
Jun 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Malik: Only 22 US States Mandate Accurate Sex Education in Schools
“There's only 22 states in the United States that are required to have accurate sexual education in school.”
Dr. Rena Malik Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 32:34 Get Your Sex Life Back! What Everyone Gets Wrong About Sex & Libido: Dr. Rena Malik
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Sanchez: US business ownership plummeted from 80% historically to under 10% today
“We've become this nation that used to be owners. 80% of us own things. Now less than 10% of us own a business.”
Codie Sanchez Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 27:24 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Opinion
McCord: Decentralization gives US adaptive edge over Europe and China
“Societies that are run by top-down mandate, they're highly, highly fragile. And so this is where, you know, US has a distinct advantage versus China versus Europe. Like these are Extremely maladaptive, though they may be more efficient at any given moment to r…”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 11:42 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
Jun 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Poumpouras: Data shows 80% of US crime goes unsolved
“In fact, in the US, the data shows 80% of crime goes unsolved.”
Evy Poumpouras Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 18:25 Secret Agent: How to Read Anyone and Never Get Taken Advantage Of: Evy Poumpouras
Jun 27, 2025
Assertion Supported
Poumpouras: Foreign heads of state receive Secret Service protection in U.S.
“So a lot of folks don't know that when a foreign head of state comes to the United States, they, you would get secret service protection. And the goal is that you don't want foreign heads of state being assassinated on a U S soil.”
Evy Poumpouras Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 1:22 Secret Agent: How to Read Anyone and Never Get Taken Advantage Of: Evy Poumpouras
Jul 16, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Daymond John: AI disruption will trigger civil war in the US
“Because AI is going to turn this country into a civil war. Because when the have-nots don't have anything, they're coming after us.”
Daymond John Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 37:44 My Billion Dollar Shark Tank Investment: Daymond John
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Koerner: The US has more puppies than children
“We have more puppies in the United States than children today. As of two years ago, like the line officially crossed more puppies than kids, right?”
Chris Koerner Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 33:11 Side Hustle King: 3 Easy Businesses Anyone Can Start | Chris Koerner
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Liemandt: Alpha School ranks in top 1% across every grade and subject
“And we are the best performing academic school in the country on any, every single class we have is top one percent. And so in every grade, every subject, no school can say that.”
Joe Liemandt Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 15:36 Billionaire’s Advice to Young People | Joe Liemandt
Dec 10, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Serhant Reached Number One US Broker in 2019, Closing $1B Annually
“By 2019 was the number one real estate broker in the United States, right? We're doing just over a billion dollars a year without a whole lot of tools and resources.”
Ryan Serhant Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 14:02 $20 Billion Worth of Sales Knowledge in 57 Minutes | Ryan Serhant
Mar 4, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gurley: US proprietary AI will likely lose its lead over Chinese open-source AI
“I think the odds that, that, you know, The US with two, you know, proprietary models can stay ahead of China with 10 open source ones is very low.”
Bill Gurley Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 44:55 The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
Mar 6, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Codie Sanchez: US credit card debt reaches record $1.28 trillion
“Right now, credit card debt has hit a record 1.28 trillion dollars.”
Codie Sanchez Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 0:58 Why “Making It” Feels Impossible in the U.S. Right Now
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Galloway: 30-Year-Old Americans Are Less Wealthy Than Parents Were at 30
“The average seven year old is 72% wealthier than they were 40 years ago. The average forty-year-old is 24, a person under the age of 40 is 24% less wealthy, and for the first time in our nation's history, a thirty-year-old man or woman isn't as wealthy as his …”
Scott Galloway Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 3:22 Scott Galloway: The ONLY Savings Strategy You Need
Mar 12, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
2 Chainz: The Pink Trap House was one of the most visited US sites
“Like, once upon a time, it was one of the most visited, you know, sites in the United States”
2 Chainz Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 11:53 The Power of Delusional Self Belief | 2 Chainz
Jun 15, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Pabrai: Venture-backed startups are under 0.1% of US startups
“Venture backed startups are less than one 10th of one percent, maybe even 100th of one percent. Of the total number of startups in this country. 99.99% of the economy is non-venture backed.”
Mohnish Pabrai Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 3:58 Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
Jul 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Hammer: Only education, housing, and healthcare increased as US income shares
“School, housing, healthcare. Some of the, it's like the three, only three categories that has gone up as a percentage of our income as Americans over the past hundred years or so. Everything else has gone down. Even groceries, even going out to eat has gone do…”
Caleb Hammer Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 16:18 The #1 Money Habit That Separates Winners from Losers | Caleb Hammer
Aug 24, 2026
Assertion Contradicted
Adelman: The United States faces a shortage of two million electricians
“We're short two million electricians in the country. Two million.”
David Adelman Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 33:48 Billionaire Investor: How I’d Go from $0 to $1M in a Year | David Adelman
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