"These conversations aren't always easy, but nonetheless, they are important. So, every single year, Professor Ian Bremer, who's one of the world's leading political scientists, produces this risk repo..."

"have in front of me here? >> This is our top risk report. We put it out at the beginning of every year. try to help people around the world understand the risk environment globally. >> So for the last..."

"this direction of travel continues, what happens next in terms of global order, in terms of the Middle East, in terms of all of these things we've talked about, >> Trump will fail. Um, and and I think..."

"back to the beginning. What did Trump think was going to happen? How is this linked to Venezuela? Why would he do this after saying that he was the president that was going to stop all the wars? What ..."

"able to extract it? >> Oh yeah. And and because all their engineers are gone, most of them in the oil patch up in Canada, which has similar uh geology to it because they've destroyed so much of their ..."

">> And so he thought it would be take out the Supreme Leader, then they'll negotiate. We'll get a better deal. We'll have a political system there or political leader there that is obedient to us. >> ..."

"really believe I know there was a meeting recently in Pakistan where they sent JD Vance in to negotiate with Iran. Do you think anyone is running Iran at the moment? Is there leadership in Iran? Is it..."

">> and they couldn't get a deal. So Trump announced that he's going to block the strait of Humuz himself >> just hours ago. I think that that is also overstated. You have 21 hours of talks led by the ..."

"talked a lot about Iran. We haven't talked at all about Lebanon. There's another war going on in Lebanon right now. The Israelis are hitting the Lebanese very hard. There's over a million displaced pe..."

"Israel. >> There's lots of chaos going on in the world right now. >> Yes. Was there a way to have avoided all of this? Was there something that someone could have done further upstream to avoid all th..."

"developments in this region very positive developments first of all Syria Assad was a brutal dictator that was overthrown by his own people and his own military would not support and fight for him and..."

">> Your firm makes a lot of predictions. So I I wanted to ask you to help me try and look forward as to how this conflict might end. Um we're in a position now where it seems that the US aren't going ..."

"And the other scenario is that everything that Trump has been saying is because he doesn't yet have a military plan. Over the last days with all this ceasefire, there's still this new aircraft strike ..."

"further, when we think about this on a global scale, you've got Russia, who are at war with the Ukraine, that seems to have just completely vanished from the news cycle, by the way. >> It has not in i..."

">> What What did Europe do wrong in your view? Like how did I'm a European, I guess. I was born in Botswana in Africa, but I moved to the UK when I was young, so I guess I'm I'm British. Um, >> what d..."

">> A lot of this come down to energy and productivity. >> The cost of energy, >> the cost of energy. So a lot of these countries decided to carry on drilling oil and pursuing nuclear and a lot of the ..."

"probably the single biggest impact on my office. Of all the products that I've tried that have given me productivity gains or cognitive boosts, I would say that exogenous ketones are in the top three ..."

"June. It was published in June 14th, 2023 and it's done tens of millions of views on YouTube. It is titled the next global superpower is not who you think. Yeah. >> And I was looking at the comment se..."

">> And so on the scale of risks that we have in front of us here, critical, severe, >> yep, also severe. Okay, >> again would be critical if we were talking about two years out because we're talking a..."

"don't think anybody has any ideas. This is the video. I'll play it for those of you that are looking at the screen at the moment. Can you tell what's going on in this video from watching it? It looks ..."

"process down. But what I do think is going to happen, I think you'll see it politically. I was talking to uh someone I know um reasonably well uh a senator, US senator who was saying uh can't talk rig..."

">> So, do we need like universal basic income or something? or does there need to be an AI tax or >> I don't think that you go from everybody has a full-time job or aspires to a full-time job to unive..."

"It's a tricky situation, isn't it? Because we've seen what happens when governments get involved in technology sometimes, you know, even in the UK for and the European Union. Bloody hell. I remember s..."

"I think the part that I still have this big question mark in my head about is what you do about that. I was reading this morning that Jeff Bezos is investing or raising money raising a hundred billion..."

">> There is another version of the future, isn't there? Uh sometimes I question whether it's possible because the human condition is so you know contaminated with all of these um these sort of darker ..."

">> Is there any closing remarks that you have for for the listeners based on the journey we've been on? >> I mean, again, I know you're based um you're Brit. >> I live in Los Angeles as well. >> Yeah,..."

"there. >> We have a closing tradition on this podcast when the last guest leaves a question for the next guest, not knowing who they're leaving it for. >> Okay. >> And the question left for you is I c..."