00:00:00
Honestly, I think this is like the most fun Christmas party we've had >> ever.
00:00:05
>> Ever. And probably the most fun event we've ever had is because of Tony here.
00:00:10
>> Please welcome the one, the only Tony Finch. >> What the [ __ ] up you goddamn nerds?
00:00:21
>> Tony, any chance we could play Kill Tony tonight? >> You guys want to play Kill Tony here?
00:00:28
So, you guys prepared for this? You know how it works? >> We know how it works. I don't know if
00:00:32
we're prepared. >> I wasn't expecting to have to do this tonight, but I think I just found a new
00:00:37
golden ticket winner. >> Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for your besties.
00:00:58
David, Jason, welcome everybody to the second annual all-in holiday party. Yes. Thank you for
00:01:26
coming. This is um going to be an incredible lineup. We've got god so many great
00:01:34
moments for you tonight. Unfortunately unfortunately Chimath couldn't make it
00:01:38
tonight. >> I know. I know. It's hard. It's hard. But we have a pretty great replacement
00:01:43
uh that you're going to love. And uh yeah, Freeberg, tell them what's coming.
00:01:48
>> Hold on. Let me get my script. >> Wow. Professional. do the sponsor shout
00:01:53
out. >> Oh yeah, let me do the sponsor shout out so you don't do it and we lose them.
00:01:58
>> I would like to thank Google Cloud for their incredible servers. Yes, thank you Google Cloud Circle uh
00:02:07
for stable coins. OKX, thanks for all the love. Grock, Sonic Flights, uh Ian has got an incredible lounge. Thanks
00:02:16
again for all of our sponsors. Give them a big round of applause. You're going to
00:02:20
have a great night, man. and the casino. Everything is here. >> Tonight we are going to have the
00:02:26
legendary Bestie Awards. >> We have some roasting and we are all going to play Kill Tony.
00:02:34
>> What? >> We're going to play Kill Tony. >> We are going to play Kill Tony.
00:02:39
>> Oh, thanks for letting know. >> How many here are big fans of Kill Tony?
00:02:44
>> Oh, that's incredible. Well, then let's just bring out the one Chamat's
00:02:51
replacement. >> Chimat's permanent replacement on the program. The three of us voted him off
00:02:55
the island. Please welcome the one, the only Tony Hingcliffe. >> Oh my god, look at this star power. [ __ ]
00:03:10
yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. What the [ __ ] up you goddamn nerds? How about a hand for the All-In podcast
00:03:29
Christmas party? We're here in San Francisco. Make some noise. You guys live here in San
00:03:36
Francisco? What a [ __ ] hole. It's actually worse than a [ __ ] hole. You could actually use a [ __ ] hole here
00:03:50
to put the [ __ ] into that's on the streets. A [ __ ] hole would be an actual
00:03:56
upgrade. It used to be so beautiful here. You guys remember remember the intro to full
00:04:03
house? That house is still full because 23 Somalians live in it now. Yeah, >> put your phones away, you [ __ ] You
00:04:20
can watch this on video form later, you [ __ ] dorks. Everybody wants their own exclusive. I'm going to make it tonight.
00:04:27
I'm going to have a I'm going to My YouTube channel is going to get extra
00:04:30
hits. California, more homeless people than any other state. People are struggling and you [ __ ] paid 500
00:04:39
bucks to watch billionaires talk to each other. God bless America. Yeah. Look, billionaires don't have it easy.
00:04:54
Do you have any idea how hard it is for a billionaire to pretend like they like their kids?
00:05:04
I had to research these guys and it was the most exhausting thing I've ever done. Absolute dorks. But then I watched
00:05:12
Mountain Head on the plane and then Big Bang Theory and Succession and then Brokeback Mountain
00:05:19
and I think I figured it out. As many of you know, these gentlemen started the All-In podcast at the
00:05:26
beginning of the COVID pandemic. It saw massive success very quickly, which makes sense. People were isolated and
00:05:32
looking for relatable content. And what's more relatable than four venture capitalists playing highstakes poker?
00:05:42
>> Their combined net worth of the four hosts is over $3 billion. You guys realize you don't have to do a
00:05:51
podcast, right? >> Jake does. Whenever anyone is asked what they would do if they had a billion dollars, I've
00:06:06
never heard the answer, attend weekly Zoom calls. I do love the current landscape of
00:06:14
podcasts, though. Like, how is my show even considered on the same playing field as what you guys do? It's crazy,
00:06:21
right? You can listen to four experts educated on economics and technology and within seconds you can switch over to my
00:06:27
show and listen to an Elon Musk impersonator roasting an aspiring comedian with cerebral pausy.
00:06:34
These guys are all actual friends with Elon Musk. They told me that backstage and then they told me their names.
00:06:44
Our friend Elon, of course, got some criticism from the left at the beginning of this year when he was accused of
00:06:52
doing a Nazi salute. He said he didn't do a Nazi salute, but that it was a Roman salute. He could have just said it
00:06:58
was an awkward wave and people would have accepted that. I don't know if Roman salute is the best alternative. He
00:07:05
went with behind the Nazis, the group who has killed the most Jews, including Jesus himself.
00:07:14
That's like being accused of visiting Epstein's Island and having an alibi
00:07:18
that you were touring Thailand with Bill Gates. Yeah. Can you guys tell Elon to use his
00:07:29
rockets for something positive like immigration? Do you have any idea how fast you can get illegal immigrants back
00:07:36
to where they came from on a [ __ ] rocket? I looked into this. It's 26 seconds from here to Tijana, Mexico.
00:07:45
It's simple. You take the rocket, you fill it with illegal immigrants, you blast that [ __ ] up in the air, right?
00:07:51
You let Elon do his fancy little parallel parking thing that he likes to do. You empty the illegal immigrants,
00:07:58
you fill it with avocados. >> Yes, no tariffs on these avocados. These are the ideas.
00:08:07
There are some critics on the left that say the hosts of Allin are all too conservative, calling it an echo
00:08:13
chamber. An echo chamber is also how Marjgerie Taylor Green's ex-husband refers to her [ __ ]
00:08:23
>> We may have to edit that one out. Immigrant jokes are okay, but big [ __ ]
00:08:29
jokes aren't. What kind of party are you running here? But seriously, it is an
00:08:34
honor to be here at the Christmas party. Remember everyone, Santa is watching to
00:08:38
see who's naughty or nice, and you don't want to end up on his naughty list. Then
00:08:42
again, that would be the second worst list JCAL ended up on. >> Jcal, his net worth is $60 million. So
00:08:55
on this podcast, he's known as the brokeass [ __ ] He was an early investor in Uber and out
00:09:04
of everyone up here, he's the closest one to having to be one of the drivers.
00:09:16
He refers to himself as the greatest podcast moderator in the world. >> These are the people cheering are the
00:09:26
people that have not seen my show. If you get to call yourself the greatest podcast moderator in the world, then I
00:09:33
get to say that I'm a virtue signaling angel investor liberal cuck. That's what you are.
00:09:43
Oh my god. Fun fact, Candace Owens thinks that the leader of France's wife has a bigger dick than JC.
00:09:53
[ __ ] His angel list flex is the startup equivalent of that guy who won't stop
00:10:00
talking about his high school football championship. Oh, okay. Lost you on the angel investor
00:10:06
joke. All right, that's surprising. Puerto Rico. Very good, sir. Thank you. We're trying to forget about that. Jay
00:10:14
Cal and I don't have much in common. I'm a centrist, slightly right-leaning
00:10:18
person, and he's a full-on liberal. The only thing we have in common is that
00:10:22
liberals don't like us. Chamoth couldn't make it, which is completely disappointing. And I'm still,
00:10:30
if it's all right with you guys, I'm going to do my Chamath jokes. >> Yes. Yes. I might do a couple extra ones
00:10:37
that I thought were too mean. Now that he's not here, I had to show up for this
00:10:41
thing. He works hard. $1.5 billion. He works hard 24711. Wow. He bought into the Golden State Warriors
00:11:04
because he heard they had Curry over there. Yes. >> How these nerds like sports jokes more
00:11:13
than angel investor jokes? This doesn't even make any sense. He's got vindalute
00:11:20
>> Indian food jokes. Anyone? He's got a lot of bread. It's a non-issue.
00:11:25
>> Okay, here we go. He's the best poker player out of the bunch. He has the most
00:11:30
patience because he looks like a doctor. >> Somebody told me that Chamath has a very
00:11:36
hot wife. I wonder what she sees in him. Perhaps the hairy feet. All right. Okie dokie.
00:11:53
Jamaat at one point was a senior executive at Facebook where he spearheaded several projects like
00:11:57
Facebook phone, Facebook home, and Facebook beacon. If none of those ring a bell, it's because they were all
00:12:04
completely scrapped by Facebook. Hell of a resume. Chimoth, did you also pitch the logo ideas to Cracker Barrel?
00:12:14
How about a hand for David Sachs? Ladies and gentlemen, let me just say I am a huge fan of yours. I I just think you're
00:12:24
truly so cool. For a genius like you to take a break from wildly successful businesses to be a patriot and share
00:12:32
your brilliant mind for the better of our great nation is unbelievable. >> Agreed. Agreed.
00:12:41
David Friedberg is here. It didn't get the laugh I expected. I was supposed to be funny that I just was
00:12:48
nice to David Saxs and then moved on. Oh, and to Sax the Cryptozar, Michael Sailor asked me to say hello. And if you
00:12:55
can do anything, anything at all, that would be great. I don't really know what he's talking
00:13:00
about, but a truly admirable feat. I'm excited to watch Jay Cal follow in your
00:13:06
footsteps in 2028 as AOC's special adviser for plugging your own [ __ ] on air.
00:13:14
David Freriededberg. He has a a segment on the show called Science Corner is or is Sax calls it
00:13:24
or as Sax calls it, Time to Go. I didn't think it was possible to be the third wheel on a podcast with four guys.
00:13:36
You guys >> Oh my god. >> cracking yourself up. David and David, I would like to personally thank you for
00:13:43
both elevating the representation of African-Americans among the billionaire class. You know, they say we have wealth
00:13:51
inequality in this country. Well, turns out we fixed it. We just outsourced it to better Africans.
00:13:59
Yeah, that's America. That's America, baby. You see a kid from Johannesburg with a laptop and he's a
00:14:06
billionaire in 10 years. You see a brother from the southside with a laptop and he stole your laptop.
00:14:15
It's true. The only blackmail on the podcast is whatever the Israeli government has on these guys.
00:14:26
>> Blackmail. >> Yes. >> All right. But seriously, to the All-In
00:14:30
squad, thanks for all you do to promote healthy discourse and share perspectives
00:14:35
across culture, tech, and politics. what you all have built is special and transcends partisanship. I'm honored to
00:14:41
be here tonight and I'm very proud to now call each of you my friends. Also,
00:14:45
can I borrow some money? Thank you very much. >> Awesome. Oh my god, man. That was easier than I
00:14:55
thought. Wow. Yo, that was fun. Tell me a little bit about the just unbelievable
00:15:06
12-year overnight success that is Kill Tony. >> Yeah, it's uh I just built the show that
00:15:13
I wanted to do. You know, I always was um I was very lucky early on at the comedy store to uh get to host the open
00:15:23
mics there, which are three minute long sets on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing 3 minutes. 3
00:15:31
minutes, 3 minutes, 3 minutes. And I would go up after each comedian did three minutes and make fun of them. And
00:15:37
every once in a while afterwards go up to them personally and say, "Hey, you
00:15:41
know, if you took a breath sometimes or, you know, used pauses or sped up or used
00:15:47
got the mic closer to your mouth, little advice here and there." And uh me and my
00:15:52
friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics. And the things that we
00:15:57
would whisper into each other's ears, I thought were so funny. We'd be in the
00:16:02
back of the room. Sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic cuz
00:16:06
of what we're saying to each other. And I thought to myself during this time in
00:16:10
which everyone was saying, Tony, you have to do a podcast. You got to do a podcast. Everyone has a podcast. You
00:16:17
know, it was un completely unheard of at the time. But I thought, why not show how crazy an open mic can be and the
00:16:26
ideas that me and whatever comedian buddies were sitting next to me. If we shared what we were laughing about with
00:16:33
the people, I think it could be a hit. And even the co-host Redband at the time goes, "Wait, what? Who the [ __ ] is going
00:16:40
to want to watch an open mic?" And uh and I kind of thought everybody would.
00:16:46
So no. Yeah, it turns out worked out pretty well. Yeah, it's um it's pretty
00:16:52
amazing. When I moved to Austin 2 years ago and the first thing people say when they land in Austin is, "Have you been
00:17:01
to Kill Tony? Can you get me tickets to Kill Tony?" And you were so nice. You
00:17:06
gave me your phone number. You said, "Anytime you want, you know, come in."
00:17:09
And then I texted you and you ghosted me. And >> really, did that really happen?
00:17:14
>> No, I just wanted to see if the joke would last. >> It would have happened if you did text
00:17:17
me. That's why >> I deleted your number, but um yeah. No, I didn't. Uh but it is a phenomenon. It
00:17:23
the show is selling out. I don't know how many weeks you put out at a time, but my office is over there by Dirty
00:17:30
Sixth Street and sometimes I'll walk and get a coffee and there's two 300 people
00:17:36
lined up on the street. They just go to Joe Rogan's mothership just to see where
00:17:41
it happens. What what's it like in terms of the number of tickets and then this
00:17:46
incredible scale? You've now sold out MSG how many times? >> Yeah, three Kill Tonies and once just
00:17:54
for my standup the standup show and the most recent Kill Tony was all after my famous MSG performance heard.
00:18:03
>> You spoke at the Nuremberg Rally. Yeah. >> So that that was even more special cuz
00:18:07
it was already my favorite arena. In fact, the only reason I really did that event was because I was just excited to
00:18:16
feel the magic of Madison Square Garden again. Had it been at at uh you know what's the one in Jersey or whatever?
00:18:23
>> Brendan Burn. >> No, a different arena. It's uh it doesn't matter. But it's in Jersey. It
00:18:28
doesn't matter. >> Yeah. My point is is if it if had it even been anywhere else, I don't even
00:18:33
know if I would have done it. But the magic of MSG mixed with the opportunity to perhaps, you know, get a few people,
00:18:43
maybe younger people or whoever that was on that were on the fence to vote what I
00:18:47
thought was the right way. >> Can I ask how did that whole MSG um thing come about for the Trump campaign?
00:18:55
Cuz I remember when they asked me to help and I just threw a dinner and when you did it, you you know delivered a
00:19:01
killer set that almost like burned the campaign down. But um uh fake news 20% Puerto Rican increase in the state
00:19:11
of Pennsylvania. An uptick because they have an unbelievable sense of humor. Puerto
00:19:16
Ricans do. You know, when you do this every night and all the time, you get a really good feel for what you can and
00:19:24
can't get away with, what exactly where is the actual line. And I think and I'm
00:19:30
I think in retrospect a lot of people think that the mainstream media trying to make it appear like a comedian. I
00:19:39
don't think any of these journalists did their research. With a simple Google,
00:19:43
you see that I have the most diverse comedy show in the world and that I am in I push the limits on the whether it
00:19:52
be the Tom Brady roast or the Snoop Dog roast and all the roasts that I've written on like the last 13 Comedy
00:20:00
Central roast. >> It's equal opportunity. Basically, >> with a simple Google of my name, you can
00:20:05
find out that I was just doing what I did. And I think they weren't gambling
00:20:09
on the fact because I'm not mainstream, right? I'm not Jimmy Fallon or any of
00:20:13
these darlings of theirs. Uh I think that they thought that it was going to make everything look bad. But meanwhile,
00:20:22
I I think anybody with a sense of humor at all saw it and goes, I think this is the party with a sense of humor.
00:20:29
>> Yes. >> Meanwhile, they have the other side had Glorilla shaking her ass and like
00:20:35
everyone's pretending like that's cool, but that that's not cool. And Tony, can
00:20:40
we can we go back to your your because I thought what was so interesting was your
00:20:44
story getting here because there's a lot of entrepreneurs, >> people that have built businesses in
00:20:48
this room. One of the defining characteristics of building a business is you have to have grit because nothing
00:20:54
goes as planned if you're doing something for the first time. >> Yeah.
00:20:57
>> And you get your ass kicked. And if you can deal with that, you can deal with it
00:21:01
again and you deal with it again, you can eventually get somewhere. >> You started out in LA. Can you just talk
00:21:07
about not just the idea, but then what the process was like going from the idea to having yourself on stage with the
00:21:16
future president at Madison Square Garden giving this like what was that experience like and how hard was that
00:21:22
iteration that build and the struggle to get to where you got to? >> Oh, it was insane. I I I
00:21:30
actually uh just mentioned this. I was on Rogan this week with John Cena and it came up, but I had this uh moment a few
00:21:39
weeks ago where I Venmoed a buddy because I thought that I owed him rent from 18 and a half years ago. I was
00:21:50
sleeping. I had I was renting the couch in a living room with four comedians total. I was one of them. One had a
00:21:59
bedroom with a bathroom. Another one had a bedroom with a bathroom and me and there was a little love seat. The guy
00:22:06
was renting the love seat and I had to pay $400 a month rent. And I literally, even though I was working all the hours
00:22:16
from literally 11:00 a.m. on the phones to 700 p.m. at night and then I would put on the Comedy Store t-shirt and work
00:22:24
the door from 8:00 p.m. till 2:30 in the morning and then do it again the next day. And uh because the comedy store
00:22:32
didn't have comedy hadn't had its second huge boom yet, which was a few years
00:22:37
away, um uh they would cut your hours at the comedy store. They just wouldn't not
00:22:43
only would you not get overtime. You wouldn't even get the hours that you actually did work or really anything at
00:22:49
all. I couldn't make the 400 a month rent. So anyway, a few weeks ago, I said
00:22:54
to one of the other buddies that had a room, I go, "Hey, I think I owe I still
00:23:00
think I owe the main guy a few hundred bucks, rent." He goes, "You do? He
00:23:05
mentioned it last time I saw him." >> Wow. >> And so I went to Venmo and I just
00:23:10
Venmoed him a,000 bucks straight up. And in the caption, Yeah. exactly in the caption I go, "Rent money 2007."
00:23:18
But Tony, was there a period during that time when you were going to quit where you said it's not working?
00:23:24
>> No, these were my favorite times. In fact, after that, after the 400 rent,
00:23:28
which by the way, because I couldn't make the 400 rent, I got downgraded. Not
00:23:33
only was there someone else on the love seat, someone else moved in that could afford the 400 rent. So, I paid 300 rent
00:23:40
for a bean bag on the ground. And let me remind you, the bathrooms were in the other guy's bedroom. So you had to
00:23:46
tiptoe if you had to pee in the middle of the night through somebody else's bedroom. So it was after that actually
00:23:51
after basically the first year was that I decided to just start sleeping in the backseat of my car behind the comedy
00:23:59
store where I wasn't you weren't even allowed to park there. It's a tiny
00:24:02
parking lot. So, I would be up on one of the hills in the Hollywood Hills and after at 2:30 or 3:00 a.m. when you're
00:24:08
done, I would walk up a hill and get my car and drive it back into the empty comedy store parking lot, pull into the
00:24:16
back. Juan Carlos, the maintenance man there that would show up at like 4:00 or 5:00 a.m., was nice enough to wait a few
00:24:23
hours to try to let me get a few extra hours of sleep before he would start nailing [ __ ] and fixing everything. And
00:24:31
it's literally the times now that I have a touch of success. Um, it's the times
00:24:37
that I think about all the time now. Every single time I find myself looking at the skyline of Austin from my
00:24:45
beautiful [ __ ] home with a crazy outdoor terrace and everything the way that I want it. I think about those
00:24:52
times. The struggle all the time. >> Was there a moment where you said, "I
00:24:56
made it." Uh yeah, I mean it happens quite a bit. It the I made it thing happens a lot. every
00:25:08
MSG and even I mean again, you know, to go back to it, the Trump thing at MSG being global news was so insane that not
00:25:17
only did I make it, I I feel every time like I'm kind of making it again, you
00:25:23
know, cuz it just seemed at the time there was a couple weeks there where it's literally,
00:25:30
you know, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people saying or thinking that that could be it, that
00:25:36
it's all over. >> What's the best city for comedy right now? Is it Austin? Is it still LA? What
00:25:41
do you >> There's no question about it. It's Austin, Texas. >> Austin. Really?
00:25:45
>> Absolutely. >> Honestly, you guys are You guys are making it sound really fun. You got
00:25:49
You're there. Jake's there. Rogan's there. Who else is there? >> Elon, Tim Ferris,
00:25:55
>> let's go shopping. >> Shane Gillis. >> All of his entire crew is there. Matt
00:26:01
McCusker, Tom Sigura, >> came and saw you a few months ago when we did that event in Austin. What was
00:26:06
that? March or something? March. Right. >> It was incredible. I mean, the crowd.
00:26:10
>> Yeah. So, we got hooked up with your guy, got us some tickets, and I was with
00:26:14
some buddies and they said, "Let's go see Kill Tony." We got in touch with
00:26:17
your guy, got into the show, and I think I had forgotten what standup comedy was
00:26:23
supposed to be like from like the late 90s, early 2000s, even into the 2010s because over the last couple of years,
00:26:29
we've talked a lot about guys getting their heads chopped off when they said
00:26:32
something wrong. Chappelle, and everyone got so guarded in comedy. And I went to
00:26:36
your show and I was like, "What the fuck?" Like, "Oh my god." Like this was
00:26:40
tame tonight, but like what went on on your stage? And then you did a bit where you really tried to push the limits. It
00:26:45
was a a really interesting show to watch cuz this was like we were sitting next to each other and we were like, "Oh my
00:26:50
god, he's really trying to see how far he could go." And there were moments
00:26:53
where it was like everyone was just like, >> but it was so different. And you've
00:26:58
you've really like given everyone permission to find the limits, to find real humor, to find, you know, what
00:27:04
what's sort of been taken away without a doubt. And that's what we always did.
00:27:09
Some, you know, some comedians when they're trying to promote their specials
00:27:13
or whatever now from LA and New York will say things like, "Oh, Austin." So
00:27:17
that they can get hits on their clip. You have to talk [ __ ] about Austin. It's
00:27:21
been a thing the last couple years. and uh and they go, you know, oh, they're
00:27:26
just edge lords and this and that and they're just pushing limits. They don't
00:27:30
and it's like we are the we were the comedy store guys in the middle of the lineup. When I go to New York, I can
00:27:36
perform at any club there. When I go to LA, I can perform at any club there. >> So, it's we just live there. It's an
00:27:43
amazing place to live. It's an amazing place to go out and drink and eat and
00:27:48
listen to music and hang out with people. >> Now, your guys are going mainstream.
00:27:51
Your one guy's on SNL now. >> Yeah. Cam, right? >> And so much is happening. But my point
00:27:56
is is we're doing the exact We're not like, "Let's go to Austin and get even
00:27:59
crazier. We're the exact same people that were in the middle of the lineup at
00:28:03
the comedy store." And it wouldn't have changed. We would still be in LA if the
00:28:11
if California didn't completely mishandle the pandemic and uh and let police take such a terrible hit during
00:28:19
the George Floyd riots. Uh it was it was >> that's why you moved. >> Yeah. It's when we all decided to move.
00:28:26
It was an absolute disaster. >> The pandemic hit. You guys saw how >> the pandemic things got so bad at one
00:28:32
point that when we were doing our show, which you weren't allowed to have a live
00:28:36
audience, we were still doing Kill Tony's. You want to talk about plowing through when times are rough? Everybody
00:28:44
else's podcasts during the pandemic skyrocketed like that. us. The only show
00:28:51
with a live audience was done. But we didn't stop. We had people we had to I
00:28:58
had to improvise. So we had people send in from home a video of themselves doing
00:29:04
a one minute set which was horrendous. I mean absolutely terrible. worse than doing roast jokes and killing and have
00:29:13
one guy going ooh after each and every joke into a microphone attached to his cheek. But it was dead silence. Nothing
00:29:23
was funny to us, by the way. We lacked [ __ ] vitamin D. We were used to having the instant gratification of a
00:29:30
crowd every single week. So, we're watching these horrific one minute sets and then we we would zoom with the
00:29:36
people. And by the way, don't don't even get me started on all the technical
00:29:39
issues. Playing a video, ending the video, starting the Zoom call with somebody that probably doesn't have the
00:29:45
best Wi-Fi. No great comedian knows how to work a computer or this or that or anything anyway.
00:29:50
>> So, we were doing this and then at one point we were so excited because they
00:29:55
allowed the fact that you could have tables outside of the comedy store 6 ft apart in the parking lot. The parking
00:30:05
lot was empty of cars. Social distancing. >> Oh my god. The dumbest [ __ ] era of
00:30:11
humanity that's ever existed. >> I know this is San France, so you're
00:30:15
like, "Oh, he's the devil. What's he talking about?" I think we all safety.
00:30:20
You got tricked, [ __ ] >> Let me ask about Europe. Uh have you followed any what's going on in Europe
00:30:28
with uh speech suppression and >> Oh. Oh, it's insane. >> It's insane. Oh, we talk about it in our
00:30:34
green room all the time. Yeah, it's crazy. I get weekly updates. >> And do we worry about that? You know, we
00:30:39
had this bill in California called SB771 and I got to give a shout out to Gavin Newsome for vetoing it. All the things
00:30:46
you want to say about Gavin, but he vetoed it, thank God. And this was this um hate speech bill that you can't say
00:30:52
speech that's deemed hate by the administrators in the government. But those bills are finding and it made it
00:30:57
all the way through in California except Gavin vetoed it. those sorts of bills are showing up that were in the EU and
00:31:03
throughout Europe. I mean, do we worry about that here in this country? Because I've always viewed comedy to be the most
00:31:08
important test of free speech and it really does define what we're being given permission to do.
00:31:16
It's so interesting because I uh work directly and and and I'm insanely in
00:31:24
touch with these things on a weekly basis with YouTube, which uh you know is I do believe the biggest
00:31:32
streaming platform right now. And what's insane is that Netflix and Ted Sarandos
00:31:39
literally is like, "Do whatever you want. Go as hard as you want. Push it to
00:31:43
the limit. Let's go. And meanwhile, YouTube, every week, something's different.
00:31:49
>> Uh, a black guy right now is only allowed to say the n-word. A black comedian can only say the n-word two or
00:31:58
three times per minute, but they're not very clear. I mean, you don't even
00:32:02
notice when these guys do it, by the way. It's obviously different than a white guy saying the n word.
00:32:06
>> That's about Freeberg's average, >> right? Exactly. >> It's not even funny. Tony, don't laugh
00:32:12
at a joke. >> Thank you, Tony. We're in this together. >> Oh, but uh but yes, the
00:32:22
um the interesting thing is that you can say certain words on YouTube, but you can't say they have them ranked and the
00:32:31
rules change all the time. And you don't find out that the rules at YouTube have
00:32:36
changed until your producer goes, they just demonetized the episode. and it's been out for an hour and a
00:32:45
half, which is when everybody's going to see the episode or the age restriction
00:32:51
is a killer because >> yeah, we got hit with that restricted content. >> Almost everyone that watches the show is
00:32:56
over 18. However, who the hell wants to log in to their stuff? I mean, you dorks
00:33:03
do, but real people don't want to. You know, they just like going to YouTube,
00:33:08
typing in the show, and there it is. It aired an hour ago. Here we go. And then if it says age restriction just to check
00:33:13
to see if you're 18, which what a [ __ ] joke cuz every kid can also access anything anyway. And um
00:33:22
>> we got age restricted. >> Yeah, we got restricted content. >> But I guess your point Tony is that
00:33:27
there are gatekeepers that control the distribution channel, in this case YouTube.
00:33:32
>> Without a doubt. And I'll say this again, you know, without I don't want to
00:33:37
keep getting political, but there was a time there towards the end of that last Biden administration in which we were
00:33:44
seeing things go the wrong way on wrong way on almost a weekly basis. Like why'
00:33:52
this one get demonetized? How did this one get demonetized? cuz we would have to and you have to do a lot of digging
00:33:57
cuz they are just robots over there until you finally get big enough to get a human contact at YouTube which is like
00:34:06
a big deal for >> um >> it was definitely going the wrong way and it felt like every week there's some
00:34:12
new category of thought and expression that you couldn't say and they were banning new things and then frankly Elon
00:34:18
bought Twitter >> and that was the first event that shifted the momentum. No, there's no
00:34:24
doubt. >> And now now the EU is coming after him. They find him 120 million euro
00:34:28
yesterday. >> It's like Europe never got the memo. You know, >> it's over. Will you guys tour in Europe
00:34:34
or is it like not working? >> We did. We just did in June and we unless they
00:34:43
basically give us Buckingham uh Palace, we'll probably never go there again. It
00:34:50
was the worst Kill Tony in the history of our existence. >> Um, the comedians were just terrible.
00:34:57
And we've done quite a few in England and Ireland and stuff. Just the comedians were terrible. The vibes there
00:35:04
are rough. There's just this neverending gloom in London. >> Yes. >> Uh, there the food is beyond all
00:35:14
horrible. >> They used to be funny though over there, right? Like we were going I'm sorry. We
00:35:18
were going to the locals like, "Please, anything. Where can we get a steak?
00:35:24
>> Where can they overcook us a steak?" >> Oh, it was [ __ ] crazy, man. And I
00:35:28
mean, everything. It became a running joke cuz we got there a few days early to settle in and kind of, you know, ease
00:35:36
into it. So that's, you know, three meals a day. Even if it's just three
00:35:40
days, that's nine terrible meals in a row. You're very we have the best food in the country
00:35:47
>> in Austin. It's unbelievable. We have we have hundreds of restaurants better than
00:35:52
anything we tried of the fanciest crap in London. >> And they open seven new ones a week. I
00:35:58
mean, it does say something about society when comedy is appreciated more in the Middle East than it is in London.
00:36:03
>> Yeah. I mean, it's pretty crazy. It really was. >> Hey, Tony, any chance we could play Kill
00:36:08
Tony tonight? >> You guys want to play Kill Tony here? >> All right.
00:36:16
It's Is it true? Did you guys prepare something? >> Oh, whoa. >> Oh my god.
00:36:22
>> Well, please. Uh, this is Callie, our elegant elf. >> Wow. >> Callie the elegant elf.
00:36:29
>> You guys have your own Heidi. That's amazing. >> Yes, she's here. That's a San Francisco
00:36:33
Heidi. >> So, she has a penis. >> Asking for a friend. >> San Francisco Heidi. There's got to be a
00:36:41
surprise underneath that skirt. >> Oh boy, here we go. >> This place is ridiculous, by the way.
00:36:47
You guys all better be wildly successful for living here. I I walked outside of my hotel earlier. There was literally
00:36:54
two dudes banging against a tree. I looked the other way and there's a guy taking a [ __ ] on the sidewalk and a lady
00:37:02
walks up to me and tells me to put out my cigarette. What is going on with San Francisco?
00:37:09
It's crazy. Kind of nuts. >> So, you guys prepared for this? You know how it works. You get
00:37:15
>> We know how it works. I don't know if we're prepared. >> Seconds uninterrupted. You know that
00:37:18
your time is up when you're the sound of a kitten. >> Wow. You really got it. Then you have to
00:37:24
wrap it up then or else you bring out the angry West Hollywood bear. Okay, you guys want to do this?
00:37:33
>> All right, this is all in Kill Tony, ladies and gentlemen. All right, going up first. Make some
00:37:40
noise for Jason, everybody. Oh my lord. Wow. All right. All right. Uh, well, many of you know I moved to
00:37:52
Austin and I got a ranch and I also lost 40 lbs. So, now it's a fat-free ranch.
00:38:00
Thank you. Yeah, I went fat shaming. Um, but I'm a I'm a little nervous about doing a
00:38:09
minute up here. I don't know how I'm going to get through a minute without
00:38:11
interrupting Sachs. Thank you. Uh, Tony, I'm a huge fan. I'm a big fan of uh yourself, Joe Rogan,
00:38:20
Redban. People say I name drop a lot, but I just got a text from Elon. He says that's not true. It's not true. Um, it's
00:38:30
great to be Thank you. It's great to be here with three of my besties and a new
00:38:34
one. Uh, we're missing Chimamath. Now, some people say Chimath is a douche. I
00:38:39
don't agree. I don't agree because women get something out of putting a douche
00:38:44
inside of them. I thought that one would land. Uh, Sax, my, uh, Jewish friend here, uh,
00:38:54
is the Oh, God. Okay. I don't know if I should say this one. >> Go for it.
00:39:02
>> Okay, I'll do it. I'll go for it. Okay. Sax is the only Jewish guy who built an
00:39:07
app to remind his friends to pay him back. >> All right, that's my time everybody.
00:39:14
Thank you. >> Jason, everybody. >> Wow. >> You don't you don't want to do the
00:39:22
interview. You got to stay up there. Oh, I'm supposed to stay up. I'm sorry.
00:39:25
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Stay standing. It's not that easy. >> What do you do for a living?
00:39:29
>> Yeah. >> I've got a podcast or two. So, did you you how how hard did you prepare for
00:39:34
this? >> Um, I guess uh 2500 podcast episodes later. Yeah. >> I love it. I love it. Now, when you were
00:39:44
writing this material, were you planning on doing the joke and then turning and seeing if we were laughing each time?
00:39:52
>> That could have been a that could have been a tactical mistake. Sorry. >> You're supposed to engage with the
00:39:57
audience and and stay focused on them. >> Yeah. Okay. What do you do for a living?
00:40:02
Oh, product manager at Google. >> Sorry about the layoffs. >> I don't even know what kind of tech
00:40:12
jokes you guys. I don't even know what kind of inside baseball nerd [ __ ] is
00:40:17
going on here. I feel like I walked into a Magic the Gathering convention. >> Is standup something that you've uh ever
00:40:25
wanted to do or is this just spontaneous for you? >> Just spontaneous. more of a magician.
00:40:32
>> No, that's not true. >> Do you have magic tricks? >> I have no magic tricks.
00:40:35
>> Do you have any other special? >> I can get three narcissistic asberers
00:40:40
venture capitalist to show up every Thursday and tape a podcast. That's my only trick.
00:40:44
>> That's amazing. Good answer. >> They appreciate it. >> You know what, Jason? I think you did
00:40:50
just [ __ ] good enough. Come on back and sit down. Let's keep it moving. >> You guys having fun out there?
00:41:00
All right. >> Well, this is my [ __ ] guy, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, I love him. You
00:41:07
love him. Make some goddamn noise for the one and only David Saxs. Everybody. >> All right, Tony. Thank you so much for
00:41:21
being here. I loved your roast of Puerto Rico. You went so hard after a Latino island. And I'm shocked President Trump
00:41:29
didn't appoint you Secretary of War. Jal, I've been following your feed this
00:41:36
week. I really appreciate your support for All in Tequila. I know you love it because you finally get to take a shot
00:41:42
that's not ompic. It It was only a matter of time before JC got in the beverage business because
00:41:54
I've never met anyone more thirsty than JCL. He spent his entire life dreaming of the
00:42:01
day he would see his name mentioned alongside the world's most influential people. Congratulations, Jason. You
00:42:06
finally did it. You're in Epstein's black book. I knew the Epstein files were a hoax as
00:42:14
soon as I saw that JL was in them. Couldn't want to blackmail a loser. All right, let's talk about Jimoth.
00:42:21
Chamath is a prime example of why unlimited immigration is not in America's interest.
00:42:29
Jamas is from Sri Lanka. Tony's description of Puerto Rico didn't offend
00:42:33
him and made him homesick. >> Do I have time? Can I keep going? All right.
00:42:43
>> Yeah. >> Chamath has angered so many investors. Spack now stands for seriously pissed at
00:42:50
Chimoth and Freeberg are sold into science. So, what can I say about Freeberg that
00:42:57
hasn't already been said about watching paint dry? Freeberg lives life as a vegan, and
00:43:05
that's exactly what it feels like to hang out with him. You know, there are more satisfying
00:43:16
options on the menu, but you made a decision and now you're stuck with it. You've all tried those tasteless Beyond
00:43:26
Burgers. Well, free is our beyond friend. All right. Thank you everyone. >> David S, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah.
00:43:38
>> Unbelievable. Oh, okay. >> You're good. Saxs, you're good. I got to
00:43:44
tell you, man, that was unfucking believable. I wasn't expecting to have to do this
00:43:52
tonight, but I think I just found a new golden ticket winner. Have you ever done Have you ever done
00:44:01
stuff on stage before in a non-b businessiness like sense? >> Well, we we've done a couple of roast
00:44:07
among our friends at birthday parties before. We did a JCAL roast. We did a Phil Helmouth roast. There's a lot of
00:44:12
material in both of those cases. >> Yes. So, we've done, you know, we've
00:44:16
done some friendly roast, but >> your 50th roast. >> Yeah, my my 50th birthday, we actually
00:44:20
did a big roast. These guys were all part of it. So, we had a little bit of roast experience.
00:44:25
>> Amazing. It shows, saxs, that was absolutely incredible. How about one more time for David Saxs, everybody?
00:44:32
>> Did he get his $15,000 in money worth the comedians he hired or no? >> Is that how much he spent
00:44:40
all in or do you pay for them out of pocket? That was incredible. >> That was amazing.
00:44:45
>> Are we going to have Freeberg do his set? >> We want to hear Freeberg. Let's do it.
00:44:49
Tony, Tony, hype me up. Let's go. >> Absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen, make
00:44:54
some noise for your final comedian of the night, David Freeberg. Everybody, so great to be in San Francisco. The
00:45:07
streets are like Chimamoth. They're totally full of [ __ ] Thanks for being here, Tony Hinchcliffe.
00:45:14
I love the show. I've worked in agriculture for years, so I'm used to working with genetically modified
00:45:19
fruits. Tony uh Tony Henchcliff's actually a GMO, a gay man. Obviously, Jamal couldn't be here tonight because
00:45:30
he's feeding the hungry. Uh just kidding. That's below his line. Speaking of hungry, Jal,
00:45:38
you're looking great, buddy. Thank you. Now you only have to buy one seat on
00:45:42
Epstein's plane. Jal, your weight goes up and down more than Chimat's back portfolio.
00:45:49
In fact, you look so skinny now I confused you for Chimat's legs. Chimat's legs are so thin he wears
00:45:56
socks, leggings, and thermals. He covers up more than Sax does for the Trump administration.
00:46:09
Sax, congrats on all the success, but the stress is clearly getting to you. You look like someone microwaved John
00:46:14
Love it. >> All in is what Sach says when he's cheering on an ice vehicle.
00:46:23
We're all so different. I'm just the science guy. I study black holes while
00:46:27
Chimoth invests in them. Here we are enjoying the holiday spirit together. I know the things I said
00:46:35
tonight might be a little mean, but the world's already burning. Figured I might
00:46:38
as well burn some bridges. All right, Christmas three. Wow. Amazing. Have you ever done anything again non-b
00:46:49
businessiness like performative >> historically? A play? Nothing? >> A little play, acting growing up, a
00:46:55
little musicals, a little Yeah. Yeah, I know. Jay Cal's going to >> a little summer,
00:47:00
>> you know. Oh, you know, here's a factoid no one knows. I actually starred in a
00:47:04
play with Rashidita Jones. You know Rashidita Jones, the actress from Parks and Wreck.
00:47:08
>> What was that play? >> We were We were in the same high school and we were in the drama stuff together.
00:47:13
>> What was the play that you guys did together? >> Inherit the Wind.
00:47:16
>> Oh, wow. >> A little before my time or something. I don't know.
00:47:21
>> Sax Tax would be familiar, right? >> I love it. Is And when you're writing
00:47:25
jokes like this, like what was your process? Where did you find yourself coming up with your funniest stuff? Did
00:47:30
you sit down at a desk? I just like to shoot the [ __ ] on the computer and then
00:47:36
edit it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. I like putting on music. We were playing some music and then I just
00:47:41
>> I kind of did them, you know, we did this for Saxes and I went a little burnt
00:47:44
earth scorched earth for his 50th. Do you remember that? >> Yeah, I definitely remember.
00:47:48
>> I think everybody remembers that with a lot of pent up anger. Freeberg gave a
00:47:53
set that >> it was so bad. >> It was No, it wasn't bad. It was just
00:47:57
mean. >> It was mean. >> Yeah, it was lines. I just said the mean [ __ ] and I didn't.
00:48:02
>> It was like [ __ ] strength like applied to roast. >> Yeah. >> Like it was so it was so mean you didn't
00:48:08
realize it. It stopped being funny, you know. >> Let me ask you this, David. Do you
00:48:13
remember uh one of your favorite or one of the bigger one of the crazier jokes from the Sachs roast?
00:48:20
>> I don't. No, I'll pull it up later. >> There's nothing.
00:48:24
>> That was my 50th birthday, so it was like 20 years ago. >> Oh, hey. Oh, that little
00:48:29
self-deprecating. I see. >> That's amazing. But you didn't film that
00:48:32
or anything. >> I don't Do we have a copy of that? >> We might have a copy of that one. Yeah.
00:48:38
>> That's what Epstein would do. >> Is that We We did some amazing birthday
00:48:41
party roast. Jay Cal had one. I had one. Like we went to Phil with We never recorded them, which was We were kind of
00:48:48
afraid. >> We were very afraid of like being >> We were afraid of getting cancelled.
00:48:51
>> That is correct. >> Yeah. But now we're uncanced on both. >> I love that. Perfect.
00:48:55
>> We don't give a [ __ ] >> Yeah. Freedberg, did you did that go how
00:48:59
it felt like it was going to go for you? Was there more or less? What was different? People that haven't tried
00:49:05
comedy or written something? >> I my cadence is a little off. I got to, you know, go one or two more rounds and
00:49:11
I think I can get the cadence down. I liked it. I think, you know, I had some other material I pulled out. I would
00:49:16
like to try that at some point, but >> I thought I thought there was some A+
00:49:20
material in there. A+. Yeah, >> it was great. David Freedberg. Ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:26
>> you guys are good. >> All right. Respectable. That's what we wanted to do. Hey, um, you know, we have
00:49:31
a tradition. We give some bestie awards. These are the best of the year. And and
00:49:36
maybe our elegant elf Callie can come out and present us with the fifth annual bestie awards. Here it is. As you can
00:49:46
see, it's two very heterosexual men embracing. >> That makes sense. San Francisco.
00:49:59
Callie. Hey guys. >> All right. First up, >> keep her on. >> What do you say?
00:50:10
>> Keep her on. >> Take it easy. She said between the two of you. Um, all right. So, first up on
00:50:18
the bestie awards is our biggest business winner. Our biggest business winner. Who did you have for biggest
00:50:27
business winner? Oh, Sultan of science alphabet. >> Okay. Alphabet went from listen to how
00:50:35
crazy the year was for Alphabet. From two trillion market cap to 4 trillion market cap this year. That's 170 billion
00:50:41
gain. 10 billion market cap gain every day. They added 10 billion of value every day for the entire year. The pivot
00:50:50
in AI, risktaking, cloud's growing 40%, YouTube's the number one media company
00:50:55
in the world. It's all under one roof. I think they just crushed it. All cylinders. Business of the earth.
00:51:00
>> Amazing. Saxs, who did you have as your biggest business winner? >> I said construction workers related to
00:51:07
the data center boom. They're seeing their wages go up 25 to 30%. We're talking about plumbers, electricians,
00:51:12
drywall hangers, concrete pores. It's not just tech companies. We're seeing a
00:51:17
larger boom throughout the country because of AI. >> Didn't Jim say there's like electricians
00:51:21
that make 500 grand a year or something? Master electricians? That's crazy. >> Unbelievable.
00:51:27
>> Pretty incredible. And a and a great White House talking point for the midterms.
00:51:33
>> I too had Alphabet and Google. We were sitting here a year ago. Everybody
00:51:37
thought they would uh absolutely get killed by ChatGpt and now we're having a
00:51:42
discussion. Hey, ChatGpt is probably going to get killed by Google. Uh so, >> oh, go Google Cloud, right? Is that who
00:51:50
that is? >> Yeah. Uh all right. Biggest just just out of curiosity because I don't know
00:51:56
how any of this works. >> What happened to Chat GPT or what did Alphabet do this year to surprise you
00:52:04
guys other than the results? like how did they how did they get them? What did they do? Do you know
00:52:08
>> they well they put AI in into search. So now when you go to search there's like
00:52:12
an AI interface that pops up >> and so that's how they drove people to
00:52:16
their AI product cuz they've got the biggest consumer product in the world, google.com and then they had a good
00:52:22
product and so they put the two together and suddenly they're crushing chat GPT.
00:52:26
>> Yeah. Sometimes the first company up the hill takes the arrows like Netscape, the
00:52:31
browser, eventually wound up losing. Um, but I think they were also underestimated and they probably were
00:52:37
very conservative in how they released products and then they kind of got permission when Sergey came back to work
00:52:43
full-time at Google, the founder. They kind of took more chances and yeah, the the search franchise grew this year.
00:52:51
Everybody thought it would go down. It grew. My big business winner is uh the show Kill Tony. I don't know if you guys
00:52:57
have heard about it. Uh a four special deal on Netflix, which is unprecedented by any show. And also we ranked number
00:53:06
two at the end of the year on YouTube only behind my very best friend Joe Rogan. So that's pretty crazy.
00:53:13
>> Oh, that is number two podcast on YouTube. YouTube's the number one
00:53:17
podcast platform. Pretty incredible. >> But by the way, Tony, can I tell you
00:53:20
something? I I didn't tell you this before. When I came and saw your show in
00:53:23
Austin, >> I hadn't seen a Kill Tony show before. So, someone I was with said, "You should
00:53:28
go check this out." And that's how we ended up going. And then I came back and
00:53:31
I'm like, "I should watch Kill Tony." I would say I've watched maybe a hundred
00:53:35
episodes since I've come back. It's so big. >> It's so And it's it's timeless the
00:53:39
content. And so every night when I'm like ready for bed, I'll put on YouTube
00:53:43
and I'll watch a Kill Tony episode. >> It is literally like my goto media now.
00:53:48
>> The live is the gateway. I highly recommend checking one out live because
00:53:53
you can feel while it's funny to watch online when when it's live, you can feel
00:53:59
the opportunity of failure that they have. You can you're like they're right
00:54:03
there. Anything can happen. This could go terribly wrong. >> It feels dangerous. It feels
00:54:10
>> and then it's so great. You're wait it's almost like waiting for the big game
00:54:14
moment to happen. Like you're waiting for that big champion to show up like that guy you had a couple of weeks ago
00:54:18
who you made up. >> Dedric Flynn. That guy was insane. And I think >> it's amazing. In just four weeks, he was
00:54:23
made a regular randomly. Pulled him out of the bucket. Saw him. The interview so
00:54:28
likable. I skipped golden ticket and made him the first appointed regular that we we maybe get one of those every
00:54:35
two years. Cut to four weeks later last on this past Monday, he literally did a rap about how rich he is already.
00:54:42
>> Like he did a whole rap performance about quit next week. He's like, "I'm
00:54:46
out of here. I'm going to do you get a piece of it or does your agent just snipe these people?
00:54:51
>> No. Well, I mean actually that's an interesting question because now they
00:54:55
the entire industry is watching Kill Tony to see what's actually next. I am the first uh that bucket is the first
00:55:03
line of defense. Howie Mandel watches every episode and they get booked on America's Got Talent based on if they're
00:55:11
unbelievable on Kel Tony. >> You should offer them a show on your channel. That would be the ultimate
00:55:17
move. >> Remember like Johnny Carson used to be the thing where a stand up would go on
00:55:20
Johnny Carson and if Johnny invited them to sit down then they had a career and you've kind of become the new
00:55:27
>> but he's kept it fair. What's crazy is that guy um Dedric Dedric.
00:55:31
>> Yeah. Dedric. >> Dedric. He >> he's so black you don't you can't even
00:55:34
say his name. >> Absolutely. >> He put his name Dedric. >> Don't use that generic word that you
00:55:40
used. do it. He put his name in the bucket for 2 years to get called. So, he moved to Austin
00:55:47
>> 39 weeks in a row and he was just about to stop trying >> and then he got pulled and then he and
00:55:54
so unlike all these other guys where there's control systems in Hollywood with agents and producers and they're
00:55:58
like, "Here's the guy that's going to be the winner." These guys all have a
00:56:01
democratic shot. They have an open shot at getting in that bucket and getting pulled, which is what I love about it.
00:56:05
You never know what you're going to get and it's like everyone has a shot. So,
00:56:08
it's not like this control thing. You know what you should do is if they agree
00:56:11
to do it, you should say just as a thank you, we want the option for you to come
00:56:16
do one Kill Tony special a year for the next two years. Like not something crazy, but just
00:56:20
>> You should You should take business advice from JKL. >> Absolutely.
00:56:23
>> Hey, I built the number one podcast of the world. >> It's It's not just you. He gives me
00:56:29
advice. He gives the president advice. >> I gave the president great advice and he
00:56:33
said even Jason has good advice. All right. >> Even JCO. Even Jake, biggest business
00:56:39
loser. Who's your biggest business loser? David Saxs, who's the biggest loser?
00:56:46
I said universities. The margin of Americans who now believe that college is worth the cost has gone from plus 13
00:56:54
a decade ago to -30. Minus30. >> Wow. >> So no one believes that college is worth
00:57:00
the cost anymore. >> Amazing. Great. Great poll. What do you think Freedber discovery? I think the
00:57:06
fact that the M&A deal is being done at three times the value that this thing's
00:57:10
been trading at for the last couple years really shows how they undermanaged the business. The content itself is
00:57:15
worth so much more. They were never able to get value out of it, which speaks to
00:57:18
what a terrible, >> you know, kind of management they've they've had there. And yeah,
00:57:22
>> which company did you say? >> Warner Brothers. >> Warner Brothers that just got beat.
00:57:25
Yeah. You owned the stock, didn't you, in your thing? >> I cleared it. I was like, I these guys
00:57:29
are going you missed the outcome. >> I did miss the outcome. Yeah, it was it
00:57:33
was a rare miss for me. Um, I went with Apple. >> Wait, hold on a second. >> They didn't listen to your advice.
00:57:40
>> I mean, the problem was I had all these other things that had won and I had a
00:57:44
bunch of gains and I needed to sell my losers. >> He put all his stock trades on the
00:57:48
internet, Tony. But then >> I called it J trading and it went up 5x and 3x.
00:57:51
>> But he bought a whole bunch of Warner Brothers. He's like, "This is the next
00:57:53
big thing." And >> I thought Disney and Warner Brothers would figure it out. Neither of them
00:57:56
have. Uh, my biggest business loser was Apple. Um, this company has unlimited distribution and uh unlimited capital
00:58:04
and the most impressive thing they've done in the last 10 years is a thin iPhone. Uh, what a missed opportunity
00:58:11
and uh yeah, I mean maybe the best thing they've done recently is Pluribabus. I
00:58:16
don't know if you guys are watching that, but Oh, people like it. Yeah, it's
00:58:19
a pretty great show. Literally, if I'm thinking their, you know, streaming show
00:58:23
is the best thing, they've got a problem. Um, who's the biggest loser in
00:58:27
comedy? uh the biggest loser in comedy right now. And you know, I love here's the thing is
00:58:37
that >> entertainment, >> right? Well, you know, the biggest loser really are
00:58:42
these are these giant movie studios which still are virtue signaling and afraid to take any chances whatsoever.
00:58:52
The last movie with any edge at all in a theater I think was The Hangover which I
00:58:58
think was 2006 2005 >> and it made a billion dollars that franchise. >> Yeah, exactly.
00:59:05
>> Are they coming to you asking you to do one? I would think that would be a very
00:59:09
natural play but there's no studio who would do it. So maybe like A24 or one of
00:59:13
the smaller ones. >> We are working on something and really Yeah. And it's going to be it's going to
00:59:18
be >> You heard it here first. definitely the answer to that and it's all happening
00:59:23
and it's going to >> Well, they let you do what you want. >> Yes, we already we we went and got
00:59:28
independent uh financing for it, my amazing team over at UTA. Uh >> wonderful. What um what uh there
00:59:40
>> anything that would be analogous or inspirational for you? Are there films
00:59:44
that informed this one? Are you a Tropic Thunder film fan? Are you like Easy Money, Rodney Dangerfield from back in
00:59:51
the day? What do you What comedians in films did you love? >> Um, I mean, without a doubt, and it's an
00:59:59
odd pick because it's not the one everybody thinks that I'm going to say,
01:00:02
but Kingpin with Woody Harelson and Bill Murray, >> I think, is the best Fairly Brothers
01:00:09
film. I think it's the funniest thing Bill Murray's ever done. I think it's
01:00:13
the funniest thing Woody Harrelson's ever done. And if you haven't watched it
01:00:16
in the past few years, go back, watch it one more time. It's unbelievable. Seems
01:00:20
like it's a movie about bowling, but it's not at all. It's just hysterical. I
01:00:25
had a bunch of seven and eight-year-olds over for my daughter's uh birthday party
01:00:30
and we did a film. So, I said, "Oh, you guys should watch Bill Murray and What
01:00:33
About Bob?" >> And uh this was like a loved film, PG. I thought this would be fine. They're 8
01:00:38
years old. And in the film, they use all these, you know, dick breath idiot, you
01:00:45
know, they just do this thing. And then I went to school the next day and three parents cornered me here in the Bay
01:00:50
Area. >> Can we talk to you about your film selection? My daughter came home and she
01:00:54
said, "Dick breath." >> And I was like, "Have you seen What
01:00:58
about Bob?" And the parent was like, "No." I was like, "You should watch it.
01:01:00
It's incredible." Like our daughters are never coming over your house again.
01:01:04
>> Right. Meanwhile, that same San Fran parents probably like, "Do you know
01:01:07
there wasn't a single trans character in that movie?" And she said dick breath, but I think uh
01:01:14
they should actually have dick breath because they should have dick breath because there's nothing that's off
01:01:19
limits. >> Jason, we got uh two minutes to get through. Two minutes lightning round. Go.
01:01:26
>> Okay. Biggest political winner is the Democratic Socialist of America. >> Okay.
01:01:30
>> Sadly, biggest political winner. Well, this may be a talking point, but I'm
01:01:33
going to say crypto. A year ago, there was a war on crypto. >> Okay. >> They were worried about going to jail.
01:01:40
Now, we've passed legislation. We're getting a fair shake from the government. It's total change.
01:01:45
>> Yeah. Incredible. You know, I had your pick, uh, Zoron, uh, Mani Socialism. I
01:01:52
also had the America First movement that's, uh, burgeoning. But I gave it some thought and I thought, my lord,
01:01:57
there's one individual who part time went to the government and took crypto and made it legal and created a
01:02:04
framework for it. They made sure that America would be absolutely competitive in the AI race, the most important race
01:02:11
of our lifetime and in fact in humanities. So hands down, my biggest political winner of 2025 is Mr. David
01:02:18
Saxs. Okay. Political winner for you. You don't give a [ __ ] What do you think?
01:02:28
>> Uh, a political winner for me, you know? I mean, I really, again, I'm just a big
01:02:37
fan of this president. People can say that I'm I kiss ass and that and that comedians shouldn't. There's this thing
01:02:44
that I've been hearing where people are like, you know, comedians should be punching up, not punching down. You're
01:02:51
supposed to make fun of the big thing. Well, if nobody if everybody is making fun of that one thing, then I think it's
01:02:58
kind of funny to go the other way >> and to push it up. So, I literally have
01:03:03
in my standup set pro Trump jokes, which nobody's [ __ ] doing. >> Which one lands the most?
01:03:11
>> I make fun of his autograph. If I say he has the most obnoxiously cool autograph
01:03:15
in the world. It looks like Lizo's heart rate. >> And he actually does.
01:03:20
>> My biggest political loser sacks, >> by the way, he does have the best sense
01:03:25
of humor. >> Must be of any president we've ever had. >> Hysterical.
01:03:30
>> Oh, I anyone who spent time with him is just blown away at just how funny he is
01:03:35
all. >> All the best comedians talk about how he might be the funniest human being on
01:03:41
planet Earth. This is a conversation I've had. I'm not going to name their
01:03:44
names, but you can put it together in your head. I'm talking about the actual
01:03:49
best comedians in the world. >> All of them. >> I believe >> all of them. Michael Richards.
01:03:56
>> Um, no, I'm kidding. >> You know, you know, you know who the best are. And yes, they all agree. I
01:04:03
mean, there's just there's funny is funny. It's undeniable. Literally. God
01:04:07
damn it. I'm blanking out. This week he did something so [ __ ] Oh, the Somali
01:04:12
thing. >> Yeah, >> it's a it's a hell hole. They come over here and they [ __ ] and
01:04:18
complain. Like it's it's just common sense and that's the funniest. >> I still love when Zoran visited him and
01:04:24
he says it's okay, you can say. >> I'm [ __ ] It's easier if you just tell
01:04:28
them tell them, "Okay, yes." Okay, let's go. Come on. Let's keep going. Okay.
01:04:31
Biggest political loser, Saxs. >> My biggest political loser is Europe. M >> it's a civilization that's in decline.
01:04:41
They're losing economically, geopolitically, socially, culturally, and they can't seem to reverse that
01:04:46
trend. It's very sad. Political loser Freeberg, the founding fathers. >> Wow. Because I feel like free speech,
01:04:55
property seizure rights, you know, we read this this excerpt from these two Thomas Jefferson letters, and you can
01:05:01
read a lot of these. Just ask Gemini to tell you about some of the things that the founding fathers wrote. And if you
01:05:06
spend time with them and translate them into modern English because they do write in a very poetic frilly way, there
01:05:12
is so much of the principles and the founding fathers that are lost in how we are kind of devolving into this
01:05:19
organizational system where the government is everything in our lives, everything in our country. The
01:05:24
individual liberties are being taken from us. And and I don't mean taken from
01:05:28
us in a sense that they're being seized. We're voting for a government that
01:05:31
dictates our lives, that controls what we eat, how we eat, how we live, how we get paid, our checks. I think the
01:05:37
majority of Americans today live on checks from the government through the government. And I think that the
01:05:41
founding fathers would have been really um saddened at the state. >> I went with uh Well, well said. Well
01:05:47
said. I went with um Steven Miller. I felt his performative cruelty uh was a detraction for the 47th administration.
01:05:56
Um, what? >> And that was a uh that's a shame because I loved his band.
01:06:01
>> Yeah. This is Biggest Political Loser. >> Yeah. >> Mine's Gavin Newsome.
01:06:06
>> Yes. Yes. >> I mean, the hair is great. >> Yeah. Great hair.
01:06:12
>> That's enough for you liberals to be impressed by. Absolutely. >> Oh, he's got hair. [ __ ] amazing.
01:06:17
>> Uh, let's go with breakthrough of the year. Freeberg, what's your breakthrough
01:06:20
of the year? >> Okay, we haven't talked about it on the show. This definitely deserves a science
01:06:24
corner, but asteroid Bennu, NASA sent a probe. They pulled a bunch of samples up. 2020, they landed back on Earth
01:06:30
2023. 2 days ago, they showed that on asteroid Bennu, there is nucleic acids. There are amino acids, there are sugars,
01:06:38
all of the building blocks of life were found on this asteroid floating through space.
01:06:42
>> Wow. >> Can I can I ask you a question? >> Yeah. >> Did the asteroid make it to Uranus?
01:06:49
>> Free, this is great, but you're putting the audience I honestly think just for a
01:06:53
brief moment before we make the jokes, this is going to end up being one of the most like amazing discoveries of our
01:06:58
lifetime because it really does show that life is not necessarily unique to planet Earth. This was a asteroid that's
01:07:05
been floating around for 4 and a half billion years and it's got all the components of life on it. It's pretty
01:07:09
incredible discovery. >> It's amazing. >> And it is made out of sugar.
01:07:13
>> It's got sugar on it. It's got glucose on it. Freeberg, how many times have you
01:07:16
masturbated to this asteroid so far? >> Um, all right. Uh my thank you. My
01:07:23
breakthrough of the year is uh three or four >> humanoid robots. I think uh we're just
01:07:28
underestimating the the progress these will have. Um everybody's going to get
01:07:32
their own C3PO/Freeberg. So we won't be the only ones with a robot in our lives. Saxs, what was your
01:07:39
biggest? >> I just said uh being able to use Starlink on commercial flights. I mean
01:07:43
it's like you can actually use the internet now. >> Hold on a second. I'm calling [ __ ]
01:07:47
You haven't been on a commercial flight since since Clinton was in office. >> Oh, that's that's true. I was I was
01:07:53
doing it for you guys. I mean, >> honestly, when were when were you last on
01:07:56
>> Last time you flew commercial? >> For you, Jake Ellis. For you. >> Thank you.
01:08:00
>> Was Was it Is it more Is it more >> I'm on the people. I was thinking about
01:08:03
you. >> Is it more than 10 years? More than 10 years since you've been on a commercial.
01:08:06
>> I set the over under at 15 years. >> I haven't been on a commercial flight
01:08:10
since um 2012. >> 2012. >> I don't know how to be real. I mean, what do you do like it?
01:08:16
>> Jake, what's the Wi-Fi password on the Lolita Express? >> Apparently, it's one, two, three.
01:08:28
Oh, is that two? Is that a strike? Really? Wait. Sorry. Sorry. >> Come back.
01:08:33
>> Okay. I just We'll cut that. They said people see. >> By the way, why is it that all the
01:08:38
liberal guests that you bring on the pod are like regular visitors to Little St.
01:08:44
James, >> that's you're talking about what? >> All of your liberal buddies that you
01:08:49
bring on the >> guy. Okay. >> But um he he did get some good um dating
01:08:54
advice apparently. Um >> Oh, come on. >> CE CEO of the year, >> not named Elon Musk. We all consensus
01:09:04
have to pick >> Jensen Wine. 33 years in the making. Built a flywheel, had the vision, stuck
01:09:11
through it. ups and downs. For whatever people said every generation of the last
01:09:16
33 years, he kept building and this flywheel finally took off. And here's a crazy statistic. Nvidia 4.5 trillion
01:09:23
market cap. That's up from 300 billion 36 months ago. So this is a company that
01:09:28
in 36 months created $4.2 of market value. That's hundred billion every month for 3 years straight. It's
01:09:37
incredible. >> I think it's insane. Max, who is your CEO of the year, not named Elon Musk?
01:09:43
>> Well, that was a great one, but I'm going to go with Alex Karp because if
01:09:47
you heard him, >> if you heard him speak at all in Summit, I think he brought down the house. He
01:09:53
out Tucker Tucker. I mean, so in addition to Palanteer being a monster of the last year,
01:09:58
>> I went with uh Nvidia, Trump's favorite company, and Jensen Wang as well. Let me
01:10:03
just say again, even this isn't even though this isn't my territory, I want
01:10:06
to give a shout out to a couple badass [ __ ] Nick Khan and Paul Le over at the WWE
01:10:14
have taken on this massive historical company while you know and and and put it on have made so many huge deals with
01:10:23
so many different networks to bring in so many big. >> Are you a WWE or a UFC guy?
01:10:28
>> I'm both. >> You're both. If you had to only go to one. In fact, since this is the only
01:10:31
place that it would be interesting to ever mention, I it was the only TKO is the only ever stock that I ever told my
01:10:40
guy, my golf buddy who actually after years of insisting I should give him money to put in stocks, which I never
01:10:46
believed in cuz I'm an Italian poor kid from Youngstown, Ohio. I believe before
01:10:51
that just have cash in a shoe box is like the way to have money. But then the only
01:10:58
heid was TKO because I >> Dana White knows how to put on a hell of a show and I know that obviously the WWE
01:11:12
is always amazing and always growing. So it's the only one I ever told him to
01:11:15
get. And we've seen, you know, whatever. And in my little world, >> did you buy the Nvidia?
01:11:19
>> Yeah. Wild wild success. >> Yeah. So unlike Jal, you held the stock.
01:11:25
Yeah. Yeah. Great. >> And by the way, we had Paul Le Triple H speak at the All-In Summit. So, nice.
01:11:31
He's a big wrestler. I'm a big fan. >> Oh, I love that. I was just with him. I
01:11:35
hung out with them just last night. Smackdown was in Austin. >> All right. Now,
01:11:41
>> each host >> gets to pick their disclad >> of the year. The most disgraceful
01:11:48
moment, person, company, or trend. Disgraciad of the year. Desraad. >> He was the best guy around. What about
01:12:00
the people he murdered? >> You can act like a man. What did I do? >> He's just killed little [ __ ] man. You
01:12:08
insulted him a little [ __ ] >> I'M SMART AND I WANT TO SPIT. >> WHAT'S WRONG with you?
01:12:12
>> Your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting. I had to suffocate you. You
01:12:16
little It's a disgrace. Disgraciad. All right, discretzia.com. >> Tony, whenever you're ready, you can
01:12:28
give us yours. But Freeberg, who's your discretzia? >> The crackdown on speech in Europe. Um
01:12:34
3,000 plus arrests in the UK for malicious communication, mostly fines, but also incarcerations, including
01:12:40
recently calling a convicted rapist a pig and landed someone in jail. 84,000 politically motivated communications
01:12:47
crimes in Germany. 6,000 defined hate crimes based on speech in France. across Europe. Uh this has become a major
01:12:54
issue. Again, I'll reflect on Gavin Newsome vetoing SB771 in this state, but
01:12:58
we were very close and I think it's very important that we pay attention to it.
01:13:02
>> Saxs, that's a really good one. It's a good one. Well, I I would agree with that one, but
01:13:08
the one I me I would choose is that at Stanford they said that if you're disabled, you get more time on tests and
01:13:18
you can kind of be unproctored and kind of >> accommodations, >> right? So now 50% of students at
01:13:25
Stanford say they're disabled. >> And you had a case to make yourself and
01:13:31
you never pulled the Asberger's card. I never pulled that card. But anyway, but
01:13:34
no, this is all part of a piece with grades. Basically, there's no grades anymore and everyone sort of claims to
01:13:42
be disabled in order to get special advantages. Disgraciad. >> Disgraciad. My disclassiad uh was very
01:13:49
good. Was socialism in New York, my hometown, uh absolutely disgraceful. Um and the actual true New Yorkers didn't
01:13:56
vote for it, but the people who've been there for under 10 years did overwhelmingly discretion for me. Tony,
01:14:02
who's your discretion for 2025? >> Uh, I'd have to say the people that just
01:14:09
cheered that people won't be leaving California next year in this crowd is the Disgracion.
01:14:16
>> You guys realize there's other places, right? I was guilty of it, too. I lived
01:14:21
in LA happily for almost 20 years. I loved it. I never I really never thought I would move to another place. as a
01:14:29
touring comedian, you know, you go visit places and you would go back to LA. That
01:14:34
was just the headquarters. It took so much chaos for me to even try to f to go to another place and fall in love with
01:14:43
it. But um when you do try other places, you find that it's better than this and
01:14:48
it's definitely better than this cuz LA is better than this and this is just the
01:14:54
worst. And the world, and by the way, the world is laughing at you. And some of you are booing, but you're clearly
01:15:01
not the ones making the money off the app that shows you where the [ __ ] on the
01:15:04
sidewalks is in this hot [ __ ] dump that you call home. So anyway, you're the Discratia.
01:15:14
>> I love it. Bringing the heat. See, I'm a real wrestling fan. I'll do a heel turn
01:15:20
way to win the audience. >> You had the You They loved you for 90 minutes. doing so well you couldn't help
01:15:25
yourself. >> Burning attack. >> [ __ ] you [ __ ] >> That was not only a heel turn. It was a
01:15:30
low blow. It was a chair shot over the head. >> Yes. Of the entire audience.
01:15:36
>> And what's perfect is that I half of them now won't bother me at the
01:15:40
afterparty. >> It's a win-win right there. >> Okay. All right. Listen,
01:15:47
this has been absolutely amazing. Let's give it up for the one, the only Tony
01:15:53
Hench. Your friend is unbelievable. I need to thank Tony. Tony, thank you for what you do. People don't have to
01:16:00
agree with your speech. I feel it's really important that comedians um act as the flag bearers. Uh to keep freedom
01:16:07
of speech alive, for all the the the jokes we can make about the things you say and the way you you offend people, I
01:16:13
think that pushing the limits is so important. Um and for that, I appreciate what you do and love your work. Yeah.
01:16:18
And then mostly we say >> honestly I think this is like the most fun uh Christmas party we've had
01:16:26
>> ever >> ever and probably the most fun event we've ever had is because of Tony here.
01:16:31
No question about it. So thank you. >> I'm just kidding audience. You're not
01:16:36
really that much of a discretz but it's walking it back. >> They were with you until that.
01:16:42
>> Yeah. These these nerds are used to they're having flashbacks to getting
01:16:45
bullied back in the day. You just you just stuffed them all in the locker metaphorically.
01:16:51
>> We'll see you >> and we really appreciate all of you coming out tonight.
01:16:55
>> Yeah. Thank you guys so much for coming out. >> Honestly, >> I didn't know what to expect from this.
01:17:01
And honestly, this is the most fun we've ever had during an event. >> Happy holiday.
01:17:05
>> Thank you to all of you. >> Let your winners ride. Heat. Heat. Heat up here.
01:18:11
Heat. Heat.