Are We Approaching the End of Days?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Terrified by Trump's latest nuclear tweet? Worried that Kim Jung-Un might fall asleep on his little button and blow us all up? This podcast will probably terrify you even more. Kal Raustiala, Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and an expert on foreign affairs and international law, joins me this week to explain how close we are to global annihilation, why artificial intelligence could prove to be more dangerous than a global thermonuclear war, and why California should just call it quits and secede from the union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are live.
0:03.0	It's 2018. Where are we?
0:06.0	We're taping this podcast from Nick Bilton's home office somewhere in undisclosed
0:12.0	location in Los Angeles and I'm going to take Nick's role here and I'm going to paint the room
0:18.2	Sitting in a glorified outhouse somewhere in Los Angeles looking at a peloton bike that's obviously never been used ever.
0:26.4	Use twice.
0:27.4	Okay, it looks like it hasn't even been plugged in, but I'll take your word for it.
0:31.9	There's a beautiful books
0:33.2	with various Nick built in books. I'm looking at a framed copy of your first
0:37.8	Oh that's the first project you and I worked that's right
0:39.8	the dawn of Twitter magazine magazine cover from years ago when we were just
0:46.0	little children long before we reunited at the hive and a beautiful picture that did Krista paint that of that is a painting that for my wife
0:56.0	painted yeah Krista that's right and then various pieces of art and I think not
1:01.7	far away is the room where your mother-in-law sleeps.
1:04.8	That is.
1:05.8	It's a very intimate, maybe too intimate sort of illustration.
1:12.0	My dog Pixel is off in the other room looking at it,
1:14.6	is wondering what we're doing back here.
1:16.2	And we were just looking through the fence
1:17.9	at your neighbor's beautiful pool.
1:19.5	There you go.
1:20.7	So speaking of pools, so I had a fascinating guest on this week that you're about to hear.
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