Episode 203 - Bye-atollah

Ambitious Crossover Attempt · Mar 3, 2026 · 1h 7m

Noam and Jen discuss a little attack on Iran you might have heard about over the weekend, now that Noam is not on Emergency Pod duty for Commentary. Much like our discussion in the wake of the Maduro extraction, we talk about how you can be happy that something happened but have concerns about how it happened and what exactly will happen next. Obviously, this situation is both more extreme and more volatile than Venezuela, so we really hope someone knows what they're doing (we don't have much hope of that however)

We also talk about the fight between the DOD and Anthropic over the DOD…