Raw Transcript: Call with Ari Crane - May 6, 2025

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Introduction and Initial Background

Gary Sheng: I'm too tired to make a joke right now. Okay. Wait, so what does he do?

This camp is crazy. I love it. It's amazing.

Ari Crane: And he owns, that's his U.S. company. His company in China is Ad Astra, Astranova. Elon Musk's, he has the exclusive rights to license to Asia.

So he works with the gentleman that runs That created the the the program the Montessori school For all the SpaceX employees. Yeah He's building he's built schools in South Korea in China and delivered Next level curriculum is a PhD.

Gary Sheng: That's amazing. When can y'all meet?

Ari Crane: He would like to meet you. He said that he was planning on visiting sometime at the beginning of June, flying here. And then as soon as he's, when he goes back to China, I'm going to head with him for like 10 days, probably go to China and Indonesia or China and Korea.

We're not sure yet.

Gary Sheng: Okay. I want to, I'm still like considering coming. Although, like, I don't want to be like too dis, I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to be too disruptive if it's like weird.

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Discussion of Trump City Concept

Gary Sheng: So, well, yeah, well, this is interesting. I think, uh, you know what I was brainstorming before I passed out yesterday? It was Trump city, Trump city.

Yeah, and I'm not sure in Texas or in Florida, Texas, so okay, I think that I'm not sure exactly where to be but I think it could be between Houston Dallas and Austin And then basically so I've been thinking a lot about this Ever since my parents moved to a master plan neighborhood in Summerlin Or Las Vegas and Just thinking about how Master plan things in general can be very efficient, very efficiently designed. And I'm like, once you see it, you can't not see it, where I'm in a master plan apartment complex.

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Ari Crane: I recently wrote an article, I recently published an article, I should say, it was about the history of explosive growth in the United States. What times were the GDPs the highest under what administrations? And do you know that all three previous times have been Republican supermajorities.

a very rare opportunity right now where things are getting done at a very fast pace faster than ever before especially with the mindset and the optimization and doge and everything else the fat is being trimmed the Processes are being optimized. The money is being saved to be spent elsewhere.

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Discussion of Julian Brown's Plastiline Technology

Ari Crane: Inventor of plastiline. His name is Julian Brown. He's 21.

He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. It's incredible. 21-year-old inventor from Metro Atlanta.

He's gaining national attention for his groundbreaking invention, Plastiline, a machine that converts plastic waste into usable fuels like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. 21-year-old genius.

Gary Sheng: I think I need to make a trip to Georgia then.

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Conclusion and Next Steps

Gary Sheng: I think I know what I need to do regarding women. I'm not going to explicitly try to create the hair. I think that's like stupid of me.

I think I basically need to just spend time with people that I really want to spend time with. And if that leads to three, four girls, cool. But I'm not going to optimize for that.

It's just going to be organic. Yeah, don't play on it. Just let it happen.

Yeah, I mean look if I randomly bump into a Studying Christian Genius girl in Dallas this today. I will laugh with you. Don't worry.

Okay, so We'll talk later today, okay? Get a really good hour and a half. Alright, thanks man.

Ari Crane: Talk soon, bye.