Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In today's Frankly, Nate reads and responds to questions from viewers of the channel, offering reflections on a wide range of topics from current events, balancing fear and action surrounding often existential topics, green technology, and more. By directly addressing these questions, Nate aims to further unpack some of the nuances in the complex and expansive concept of The Great Simplification.
The goal of TGS is to build out a comprehensive outlook that connects the dots of energy, human-made systems, and Earth's functioning ecosystems. By making clear the biophysical reality of our current predicament, this platform aims to explore not only what brought us to this point, but also what we can do as individuals, communities, and as a society to move towards a sustainable future that centers around the wellbeing of the planet and all of its inhabitants.
How do wealth inequality and disparate standards of living fit into the larger view of the superorganism? What is the relationship between AI and peak oil? How do you grapple with the sheer scope of this content, and the system-wide lens? What are some things you're most concerned about in the world today, and what are peoples' responses to those concerns?
(Recorded June 23, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. This is frankly 100. Holy crap. Time flies. And I've had kind of a rough up and down week, which is probably the exact time to do and ask me anything, ask Nate anything, where I can just deeply reflect. |
| 0:26.1 | I don't really know what I'm going to say. I've got a list of questions here. I'm going to |
| 0:29.9 | respond to. Wow. We're almost up to 200 episodes and a hundred franklies. I'll just start with this. |
| 0:41.5 | I feel a responsibility and a bond and a community with the followers of this program. I don't know many of you. |
| 0:55.9 | I can read the comments and the emails |
| 0:58.5 | and social media posts. |
| 1:00.7 | But I feel a togetherness of observing, |
| 1:04.4 | witnessing, understanding, hoping, |
| 1:08.2 | navigating the times that we're alive in. |
| 1:14.7 | And there's something meaningful about it. |
| 1:17.8 | It's a little hubristic to name something. |
| 1:19.0 | Ask me anything. |
| 1:22.2 | Like my opinion really is that important. |
| 1:35.5 | But I think those of you that have followed this program for a while know that I'm going to show up and I'm going to be honest and authentic and try to make sense of what's happening. |
| 1:43.8 | So thank you all to submitted questions in our substack and emails and LinkedIn. |
| 1:48.0 | And I'm just going to choose a few of these and answer them. Can you give a hot take on Iran-Israel USA situation with respect to the energy and geopolitical |
| 2:05.5 | implications? |
| 2:07.0 | Today is Monday, June 23rd. |
| 2:09.1 | It's in the evening, and this will come out on Friday and four days, and lots could happen. |
| 2:15.3 | Here are some hot takes. Number one, I learned my lesson early on in the |
| 2:22.6 | Ukraine-Russia situation, not to believe everything in the media. And I think there are smoke |
| 2:29.8 | and mirrors and smoke on this. I am told that the uranium was moved ahead of time and that the nuclear capacity, first |
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