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U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN Jul 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN May 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker Uh, the younger the age group, the sharper the drop in person socializing among young adults is dropping in Singapore, uh, in, uh, South Korea by 50% in 20 years, uh, effect is largest in culturally traditional societies, Middle East,

Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN May 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 27:14 unnamed speaker You would think that the, uh, the caffeine doesn't come from the Middle East, the, the delicious caramel flavor, whatever else they put in this, uh, 4 times in the scene

Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN May 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:40 John Coogan Trump is eager to move on from the Middle East war that is sapping his domestic power and straining the global economy. 2 times in the scene

Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN Apr 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:05 John Coogan In Malaysia was another one that was, and, and, and even in the Middle East, there were always questions about, okay, well, if the Middle East gets chips, are they going to be able to, you know, have Chinese companies as clients, uh,…

The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN Apr 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:39 John Coogan The drone having its moment in the Middle East conflict was designed by the U.S. military itself using reverse engineered Iranian technology. 2 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:33 unnamed speaker I don't think that all the helium exists in the Middle East.

How I Built and Sold SALT & STONE Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN Mar 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:01 Jordi Hays The Amazon founders traveled to the Middle East Singapore in fundraising after linked to Project Prometheus. 2 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Karp on AI, Job Loss, and the Future of Work Mar 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:04 Alex Karp Because, like, these other countries, and maybe India will, will get involved, maybe the Arab, non-Arab, Middle East, but currently on the trajectory we're on now, there are two places where these things are being developed and deployed,…

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat Mar 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:48 Alex Epstein Then you can talk about Saudi mid-East spare capacity, our emergency capacity, and IEA emergency capacity, and then below that you have Canada Jones Act and US production.

Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN Mar 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:08 unnamed speaker A lot of that was in reaction to the the wars in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:45 John Coogan The Middle East has been a source of strong LP demand for venture capital stakes. 4 times in the scene

Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:14 John Coogan Uh, the Middle East is on the cusp of a prolonged conflict that could push oil prices to heights not seen in four years.

The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:56 unnamed speaker Uh, the Middle East is on the cusp of a prolonged conflict that could push oil prices to heights not seen in four years.

FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:13 John Coogan That would run on Google hardware, and so they weren't actually writing any AI software, but they wanted to effectively, like, classify images from drones in the Middle East, see, that's a car, that's a house, and previously they had, ah,…

The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN Feb 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN Jan 29, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:10 unnamed speaker What's going on in the Middle East? 2 times in the scene

Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN Dec 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:28 Jordi Hays You're hiding inordinate amounts of Middle Eastern funding sources in your takeover bid. 2 times in the scene

Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:26 Doug DeMuro They must feel that the, the U.S. market alone doesn't, or U.S. plus Middle East or whatever, doesn't justify the creation of such a vehicle, and so it goes away for the entire world.

Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew Aug 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:37 Jordi Hays The president had already grown intrigued by the idea of government stakes in key industrial companies during his May trip to the Middle East, a senior White House official said.

Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update Jun 28, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 46:50 Mike Gallagher When I went to college, I studied Arabic in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:56 Mike Gallagher He talked about creating a new equilibrium in the Middle East, whereby we would sort of distance ourselves from Israel and balance sort of a, recognize Iran's enhanced power and role in the region and use Iran to balance against the Sunni… 3 times in the scene

Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows May 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:19 Balaji Srinivasan And once they're anchored in territory, they tend to only move if there's like a, uh, you know, a job for both husband and wife, for example, uh, or if they're like refugees, like things get blown up, like in Ukraine or, or in the Middle…

Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN Apr 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:46 unnamed speaker Oh, I just had a question of like, where does, where does the Middle East really sit in all of this? 2 times in the scene

David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes Apr 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22 David Senra And he made his money prior, the first way he made his first fortune was hauling oil, and then he had huge cargo ships, and he was getting smoked for contracts for like the big Middle East, uh, oil providers.

Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories Apr 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:14 Chris Power So we have so much work to do here in the US that we'd love, we'd love to support our allied partners in Europe and the, you know, the Middle East and countries like Japan re-industrialize as well.

Jake Adler on Raising $3M to "Make Soldiers Heal Faster and Think Smarter". Mar 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:08 unnamed speaker You know, the, the funny thing is, uh, from what I know, when F-thirty five pilots are deploying to the Middle East, they just sort of like take off in the US and they just fly there. 2 times in the scene

Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021? Mar 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:47 Logan Bartlett And so I think you're seeing sovereign wealth and Middle East people come in to those funds and give them, you know, what, what, uh, two, three, four or five hundred million dollars.

Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker. Mar 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

He's Making REAL LIFE Super Heroes! (Palmer Lucky) Feb 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:17 unnamed speaker In the same way that the people that fly, uh, UAVs in the middle, in the Middle East for the United States, like are sitting in Nevada, right?

What is PALANTIR? (And Why it's RIPPING!) Feb 8, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:28 unnamed speaker Karp was pictured, um, in the Middle East, uh, Maktoum bin Mohammed said, technology and innovation are key drivers of future economic growth. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker It's a fifty million dollar deal with a major insurer, and they've made strategic moves in the Middle East and Asia Pacific, like that image that we saw earlier.

The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!) Feb 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:04 unnamed speaker Its footprint now expands over North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and parts of Latin America and the Middle East.

From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise) Feb 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 39:15 unnamed speaker He conceptualizes it in 2016 during a flight to the Middle East. 3 times in the scene

DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly Jan 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:48 Jordi Hays So in the Middle East, uh, I was, I was in, uh, I was in the Gulf at one point with a portfolio company that was getting corded to set up manufacturing.

The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief Jan 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52:52 John Coogan Topics covered include the discussion of Truffle, a device for local inference tied to humanoid robotics and personal intelligence, insights from a unique upbringing in the Middle East, future of AI agents, criticism of Sam Altman, um,
  • ▶ 2:06:14 Jordi Hays We don't know how all these Hilux's ended up in the desert in the Middle East.

The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth) Jan 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:37:57 John Coogan He's highlighting the Middle East, the entire Middle East from Iran to Saudi Arabia,

The END of Ski Season? (E26) Jan 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:42:25 John Coogan Anytime I've looked into who owns them, they're backed by Russian, Middle Eastern, or Chinese money that's closely tied to foreign governments.

You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown) Dec 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:17 Jordi Hays So another example here that's interesting, so there's, there's some terraforming projects happening in the Middle East, and, and, and potentially happening in parts of Africa, where they're basically trying to divert large swaths of, of,…

How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20) Dec 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:56 John Coogan Campaign that Mike Solano launched has apparently reached the Middle East, and they're trying to get there.

Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18) Dec 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:19:16 Jordi Hays So yeah, let's have him send it, uh, past, um, you know, uh, go test it out in the Middle East.

Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15) Nov 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:33:21 unnamed speaker So if you're fundraising, if you're raising a large, uh, large venture fund, you're out in the Middle East.

Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8) Nov 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:56:48 John Coogan Cause once the drones were flying around the Middle East, you needed to tag all that data and understand what was going on in it.
  • ▶ 2:08:17 unnamed speaker The vacation, purely a vacation destination for wealthy people in the Middle East or China, where there's been this sort of renaissance of innovation.

Trump's Secret Career (ep7) Nov 6, 2024 · 1 mention

Elon's Big Week (ep4) Oct 21, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:28 unnamed speaker We never would have gone to war in the Middle East because War in the Middle East was never about energy. 3 times in the scene

Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2) Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:18 John Coogan Yeah, it is crazy, because they'll do ones where it's like, oh, you're fighting terrorists in the Middle East, but it's not just, like, straight up killing something.
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