Da Crazy Hawaiian Goes to Riyadh ft. Jacob Silverman
Added 2025-01-31 19:21:22 +0000 UTCJacob Silverman joins us to discuss the decades long Saudi operation to buy influence in the West in all its gaudy spectacle. Also - Sam Altman protests that he all that creative work fair and square, Rachel Reeves belts out a three word chant, and Power Slap is a sport of geopolitical significance.
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Thank you!
River Gilles Cooke
2025-03-15 09:03:32 +0000 UTCI guess the best reading material would be a book called Oil Money. It seems to show up the most when you search for history on the petrodollar. From a personal perspective, my dad was the accountant for one king until his demise. He has confirmed the incidents surrounding a banking scandal based in the Middle East and the US. He signed cheques for all kinds of lawyers and consulting firms for handling the legal battles surrounding the scandal. He picked Thomas Friedman from the airport for the PR work of the bank’s co-owner since his seniors in the bank couldn’t speak English and Friedman obviously didn’t know Arabic. This was mostly in the 90s. I still live in the kingdom so I won’t name names or describe the scandal but you can look them up and I’m sure there is a lot to read.
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2025-03-15 03:01:33 +0000 UTCA few years ago, Power Slap was on either TBS or TNT directly following AEW, which had me saying insane things like "why is this fake sport on my TV after my very real clownshow sport"
Marjorie Zeager
2025-02-04 14:36:57 +0000 UTCAt the 39:00 mark, Riley lays out a model of how American dollars are invested into Saudi Arabia who, after the Six Days War, raise oil prices and begin to do banking in London, which creates a push from them and America to deregulate and delegate control over the financial institutions, as well as injecting international institutions with the dollars required to begin giving out Structural Adjustment Funds. Would anyone be able to point to any good sourcing, writing, or documentation discussing or corroborating these points? (Not saying it’s wrong but I’d like to have something useful to cite in writing beyond “a cool guy on a podcast I subscribe to said it.”)
River Gilles Cooke
2025-02-04 08:09:48 +0000 UTCHow we know you guys aren't using AI to write the tags- "Sam Altman protests that he all that creative work fair and square," I think you a word.
Raqquel
2025-02-04 03:18:05 +0000 UTCLosing my shit imagining PRC expansion teams like the Chongqing Rockies
Xavier Zahnle
2025-02-03 16:03:44 +0000 UTCJust message it here!
Trashfuture
2025-02-03 09:43:20 +0000 UTCIf I've come into (mis)fortuitous possession of a very funny (very stupid) cold-email from a desperate AI booster startup, who would I forward it to that may be interested in such a thing for comedic reporting purposes?
Count_Compare_and_Skip
2025-02-03 08:26:21 +0000 UTCthis is such a weird economics culture hole for November of all people to have lol
etienne
2025-02-02 15:36:37 +0000 UTCI was so shocked and troubled by Milo doing Karl Marx in the Twunkhöle Capital voice lol Karl, he/them, founder & tho[ugh]t leader @ Das Twunkhöle Kapital GmbH
etienne
2025-02-02 15:34:36 +0000 UTCThey won the World Series in 2016
Stephen Schiavone
2025-02-02 03:12:53 +0000 UTCThe refs really gave Mao the victory over Chiang Kai-shek
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-02-01 17:28:24 +0000 UTCThe Cubs haven't won ever since they ejected Smedley Butler for bringing his goat to the Boxer Rebellion championship game
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-02-01 13:12:52 +0000 UTC💀💀💀
Shivvy
2025-02-01 07:38:04 +0000 UTC“We won’t stop you from doing anything” what is this?! The United States Democratic party for the last 11 days??
Shivvy
2025-02-01 02:11:31 +0000 UTCMarching against the fash tomorrow (February 1st). Join us at 11:30, St James's Street, Piccadilly. 161 - TF Popes
Jack Georgeou
2025-01-31 23:25:34 +0000 UTCCrypto rebound. Oof. That's gotta hurt.
James Rule
2025-01-31 22:16:02 +0000 UTCStill, doing sacrifices to try to appease the spirit of the bear maps better to neoliberialism
Inconspicuous old man and mime
2025-01-31 22:11:05 +0000 UTCShut up, Open AI, you nerd!
Alistair SM J
2025-01-31 22:00:45 +0000 UTCPossibly that preference is due to a lack of appreciation of how absolutely batshit insane animal spirits are in Descartes. They flow through the tissues of our brain regulated by the flexing of its central 'worm-like appendage'. (That's the pineal gland, which scholastic philosophers had identified as the place where the soul connects to the body)
Jacob Barlow
2025-01-31 22:00:28 +0000 UTCthat may be true but what if I PREFER to believe that Keir Starmer and Reeves have embraced the naturalistic ways of the ancient Britons and that the recent Trashfuture episode entitled 'Druidfuture' was actually a remarkable prophecy of things to come
marilyn
2025-01-31 21:17:40 +0000 UTCChina should get the Chiefs, they already have a red and yellow color scheme and America is quickly turning on them.
David James
2025-01-31 21:14:40 +0000 UTCPITTSBURGH MENTIONED
Broth Mirepoix
2025-01-31 20:28:36 +0000 UTC"Hey Fujian, whaddya say? The Cubs are gonna win today!"
Man2quilla
2025-01-31 20:24:43 +0000 UTCmoderately hot coffee pot
Tristan Ryan
2025-01-31 20:23:10 +0000 UTCAs a Hawaiian who can occasionally be described as crazy, glad to finally see some representation, just wish it wasn’t this kind of representation
Kalan Birnie
2025-01-31 20:21:58 +0000 UTCI work in retail and I asked someone if they wanted their receipt emailed or grinted 💀
Man2quilla
2025-01-31 20:16:08 +0000 UTCChinese versions of American sports teams is a bit just for me specifically
Carter Kriss
2025-01-31 20:08:21 +0000 UTCOoh! Ooh! I know this one. 'Animal spirits' is from a parallel, rather that a successor etymology to 'animals', meaning non-human beings. You can find it in medical theory like Decartes' account of the conscious brain. Think of it in terms of things like 'animating force' and 'animism'. It's not 'like the spirits of animals'; it's 'the spririts that animate us'.
Jacob Barlow
2025-01-31 20:01:02 +0000 UTC
