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490 - Meet Me in NEOM feat. Séamus Malekafzali (1/18/21)

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Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We discuss new developments around Saudi Arabia’s increasingly bizarre utopian megacity NEOM with writer Séamus Malekafzali. We then preview this week’s Biden inaugural ceremony, talk dem messaging around checks and wages, and examine one of the Trump administrations final acts of general bizarreness in its Statue Garden of American Heroes. Check out Séamus’ substack here: https://malekafzali.substack.com/ And subscribe to the damn youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/chapotraphouse

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0:00.0

What if we replace outdated urban services with new services driven by artificial intelligence?

0:12.0

What if we built the line?

0:16.0

A 170-kilometer revolution in urban living.

0:22.0

Protecting the Earth's most stunning nature while creating unmatched livability.

0:28.0

A home to all of us. Welcome to the line.

0:34.0

Neon.

0:52.0

Hello friends. Shapa, we're back again.

0:56.0

Over the course of this show, I think a main topic that has come up again and again is that of the future.

1:04.0

I like to think of myself as something of an expert on science fiction.

1:08.0

And the future that we're all going to be living in, because that's the fact about the future,

1:12.0

is that it's where we're all going to spend the rest of our lives.

1:16.0

I've been talking about what is the future holds for America.

1:20.0

But I think it's now time that with the help of our guests for the first part of this show,

1:24.0

we look into the future of another country and the future of cities in general.

1:30.0

Joining us today and collecting his two-time Chop-O appearance challenge coin is our friend,

1:36.0

Brother Shamus. Brother Shamus Malikov-Seli. Shamus, how's it going?

1:40.0

It's going great guys. Glad to be back on the program.

1:44.0

Well, Shamus, we had to have you on because like a couple of years ago,

1:48.0

we covered this topic and like, you know, it's been back in the news, so I think it deserves a re-ducks.

1:52.0

I am, of course, talking about Saudi Arabia's city of the future, Niam.

2:00.0

Niam. It's basically like if Muhammad bin Salman wanted to do Sim City 2000 in the desert,

2:08.0

that's pretty much what Niam is. But I was a couple of years ago that we did an episode on it.

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