Iraq, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 23Sal Khan 2Peter Majeranowski 1Chris Urmson 1Ahmed Rahim 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Iraq comes up
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
- ▶ 2:23 Guy Raz In fact, one of the company's most important creations was a robot that saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq by helping soldiers identify and disarm landmines and roadside bombs.
- ▶ 27:06 Guy Raz Detect bombs, and then dispose of them, and, and these were actually used in Afghanistan and Iraq by the US military. 2 times in the scene
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Advice Line: Reaching New Customers
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
Threading the future of circular fashion with Peter Majeranowski of Circ
- ▶ 1:24 Guy Raz Um, and then of course it would go on into Iraq and after Afghanistan, Iraq. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Peter Majeranowski One of my first jobs in the Navy, I was boarding ships smuggling oil out of Iraq against UN sanctions, and we'd usually have to sit on those ships after we, we intercepted them for 18 hours at a time, so I had a lot of time to think about…
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 8:30 Chris Urmson About the, the challenges our troops were facing out in the world and how complicated supply lines are, you know, and how vulnerable our troops are while they're operating those vehicles and how much, you know, we lost more people on the…
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- ▶ 0:47 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a brother-sister team took a childhood memory from Iraq and turned it into a flourishing beverage business.
- ▶ 3:45 Guy Raz But both Reem and Ahmed grew up with tea as part of their culture, especially a particular type called Numi Basra, a tea made from dried limes that's popular in Iraq and in the Gulf states. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Ahmed Rahim So definitely a lot of non-inclusion and non-equality, um, growing up in Cleveland as an Iraqi kid.
- ▶ 22:00 Guy Raz And just to sort of clarify, your idea was, like, we drank this as kids in Iraq.
- ▶ 29:18 Guy Raz So initially you thought we're gonna, of course, gonna sell, presumably you had to sell Numi tea, you had to actually, and did you, were you able to source those from Iraq, or could you find another place to get them from?