"I believe that we are already at the early stages if not in World War II. It just doesn't look like the wars of the past. And people should understand what is at stake, which is we are one misundersta..."

"take the reader from nuclear launch to nuclear winter, which happens in a period of 72 minutes. And I interview presidential adviserss, secretaries of defense, nuclear subforce commander, etc., etc. P..."

"I don't think since the the beginning of the Cold War, let's say let's go back to 1947 or 48, I don't think we've stopped fighting. I just think we're fighting wars of different kinds. I think this id..."

"So, here's a specific example which might be helpful to what you're saying with the 12-day war recently. I think the White House wanted that to just be a bombing run. You can correct me if I'm wrong. ..."

"Andrew was just saying that he thinks there's going to be more conflict going forward. We have nine nations now that have these nuclear weapons that some might argue creates stability, but some might ..."

"You mentioned uh Andrew talked about Israel and Iran being a proxy war. So that kind of piqued my interest. Um I I almost reflexively want to disagree, but I want to hear more about why you think so, ..."

"that's that's perfect to capture it. It's the context. So, you know, content is what the three of us are discussing here. uh content context is what the cameras are recording what editing is done afte..."

"or even one AI generated viral video that goes, you know, that the wrong person gets the wrong idea from. Imagine the Cuban missile crisis, how close we came. And imagine if you had generative AI cont..."

"right independently unilaterally with what his intelligence estimate is. What you mean? You saw two examples in the last few weeks, right? First you saw um Tulsi Gabbard who's the director of national..."

"she was a known commodity before she became DNI. So this is the feeling. I think what you're saying is we knew yes she was she she always saw the regimes in that part of the world from a certain frame..."

"Do you think Trump was right to bomb Iran? Do I think he was right to bomb Iran? Um, I think diplomacy with Iran has been exhausted with this leadership. Can you explain that to me from because I'm re..."

"with us. And and you mentioned something else I liked. You said that you know you I think when you were saying if in the role of the DNI or the president you get information you were wrong. Okay. You ..."

"which is when you said, "Let's see let's see Israel play out some of the other options because and I'm talking about the covert action that they had planned because boy was did you I mean the leaked t..."

"How does something like October 7th happen when there is so much intelligence in the region and there's these MSAD forces, there's the CIA. How does was it hundreds of people stormed the border of Isr..."

"wrong. I've built companies from scratch and backed many more. And there's a blind spot that I keep seeing in early stage founders. They spend very little time thinking about HR. And it's not because ..."

"What happens next with Iran with this whole tension with with you know they've said that there's this ceasefire but it doesn't look like a great ceasefire. There's a crisis of legitimacy that this cur..."

"what do you think happens next in this region? Are we going to reach peace? Are they going to form an alliance with the US? So, I I'm I'm smart enough not to not to debate um because I am largely igno..."

"Why have we got nuclear bombs then at all if if we can ever use them? That's the saying we can't have tactical nuclear bombs because if we have we would never use them and if we did the world's over b..."

"And there's also sort of a public fatigue, right? Because now the the public in the United States, they're more polarized. There's even on the right, there's some people that think we should be going ..."

"decades? I think the Russia Ukraine the Russia's invasion of Ukraine a few years ago um and the immediate first few months I should say the first year was the peak of the last few decades. I think we'..."

"ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Okay, this is the first time in history that a ballistic missile was used in this kind of a kinetic war, a hot war. And I was on an airplane le..."

"something else concerns the two of you. Um, I read this morning that uh it was recovered in Ukraine, a Shahed autonomous drone. Uh, these are drones that the Iranian government manufactures and and pr..."

"that that is safe in a war? Because you know I think as a way of dealing with the angst of this in our group chat me and my friends we when these things start kicking off all the time I think this is ..."

"With time, probability increases. Probability of something occurring. And it's funny, I've seen there's been a few people in the public eye at the moment that have gone through sort of mental, cogniti..."

"want to choose A, B, or C? And do you want to go with subset D, E, F, or Q? It was once described by a man who carried that football as a comparable to a Denny's menu. Each of those line items, I'm I'..."

"What are you doing about all this information and how you feel about the global conflicts at the moment on a personal level? Is there anything at all you're doing to prepare or anything you're doing t..."

"case for others to follow in your footprints because I'm I'm somewhat curious. You know, sometimes I have dreams of running away and going to like, I don't know, Bali or something and just New Zealand..."

"Benjamin, you talk a lot about deep fakes and AI and stuff. And as Andrew was saying there, it's um especially as someone like me who's a podcaster and I've built an audience. And so when something go..."