Saudi Arabia’s goin sicko mode on its sci-fi city-state
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Published 2024-07-26
Featuring a special segment by YouTuber, hedge fund manager, and university professor Patrick Boyle and an interview with historian, writer, and professor Quinn Slobodian.
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All Comments (21)
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Thanks for having me on the channel, it was great meeting you at the robot cage fights last week.
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How can we waste as much money, time and resources as possible… in the desert.
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The Patrick Boyle crossover we've all been waiting for
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If anyone's wondering what's written in the other notepad in 1:24, it's: - Translate this later - Note to self : translation. - Translate, Dan. - Get a translator.
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Dan's sweating like a journalist who's been personally invited to 'visit' Saudi Arabia.
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Man I love Patrick Boyle. My favorite rap news channel
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They must have played Cyberpunk and thought, "WOW, I want to live there!"
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I'm an architect, and I would love it if one of the Line designers would tell us what it's built out of. Because if they build what they rendered for the promo videos, the answer is carbon nanotubes and anti-gravity fields.
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That New Jersey ad at the end compelled me to move to the shore
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Take a shot of espresso for every time Dan pronounces "Neom" differently. Also we have now officially investigated Neom. What should we cover next?
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This is what happens when you give medieval despots infinite money.
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What's the sound a plane makes when flying by you? Neom!
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The Saudis are really known for completing projects XD
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They abuse Filipino people like myself in that country!.!. That’s one of the reasons why I don’t want to visit that country!.!. The concept of Human Rights doesn’t exist in that country!.!.
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this is by far the best channel I've found on youtube this year, thank you so much and pls never change dan and team <3 it's just really such good work <3
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This is straight out of a movie where the experiment goes terribly wrong
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9:42 SO TRUE. Netflix will end up making a profit out of all of this
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The hard hitting journalism we deserve
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In romanian, Neom literally means non-human.
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7:47 Sam Bankman Fried casually walking in the background
