The Technological Trendpublic 4/20: US/Iran Blockade, Alex Karp, Tariff Refunds, Chinese Robot Marathon, Lee Cronin's The Mummy
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In this edition of The Technological Trendpublic, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss their respective weekends, the US seizing an Iranian ship, Alex Karp's weird manifesto, the whole tariff refund situ, China winning the robot wars… again, a quick box office update and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | There's a weird thing happening with the, like, we thought our son had appendicitis like two weeks ago and like took him to the urgent care. |
| 0:11.9 | You know, the doctor was like if he's complaining of, you know, stomach pain in this way. |
| 0:17.3 | And like as we were waiting and then the urgent care was like, we're closing. |
| 0:20.5 | You get to go to |
| 0:21.0 | the emergency room, which was, uh, wild. Yes. Yes. And, uh, as we were waiting there, |
| 0:28.5 | like three different people came in thinking they had appendicitis, which is like, this isn't |
| 0:33.8 | contagious. What the fuck's going on here? Like, did we all just like eat at the same weird restaurant? And then Joelle M. B. goes down with appendicitis. Have you had your appendix out? No, no. It's, and I won't. But it's, I'll go down. I will go down with the ship. The appendix is staying one way or another. |
| 1:10.2 | I was, uh, it is, like when you go to an emergency room because it's not, I mean, we, we know this, but it's not like in terms of when you got there, you know, like, I was your first. It was like, well, this, yeah, the guy, the gunshot victim has to wait, you know, and I'm very vocal and I give notes about |
| 1:12.3 | who was here first. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm very vocal and I give notes about who was here first. |
| 1:13.8 | I do. I'm keeping track your own ticketing system. Yeah, that's right. Let me see that. |
| 1:19.4 | I will act out and pretend like, which for whoever comes in with a worse ailment than I do, I will |
| 1:24.8 | then take on that ailment in addition to my ear. You start getting jealous of their ailment. I do. I do. I go outside. I say, I will then take on that ailment in addition to my... |
| 1:27.7 | You start getting jealous of their ailment? |
| 1:29.2 | I do. |
| 1:29.8 | I do. |
| 1:30.0 | I go outside. |
| 1:30.8 | I say, I'm just going to go outside real quick and then I come back in with whatever they |
| 1:34.8 | have. |
| 1:35.1 | With a compound fracture. |
| 1:38.7 | I kick this shit out of a fire hydrant until my fibula snaps. |
| 1:43.7 | Me too. And my tummy hurts. Same. |
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