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E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more

July 03, 2021 / 01:26:10

This episode covers a Twitter feud between Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, podcast moderation issues, and the impact of COVID-19 variants on society. Guests include Dave Friedberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Jason Calacanis.

The episode begins with a discussion about the recent Twitter drama between Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, where Sacks criticized Calacanis's moderation style on the podcast. Calacanis responds by defending his role and expressing frustration over Sacks's comments.

As the conversation unfolds, both guests address their grievances, with Sacks suggesting that Calacanis has become overly focused on airtime statistics, while Calacanis accuses Sacks of being egotistical. Their back-and-forth highlights the tension in their friendship and the dynamics of their podcasting partnership.

The episode also touches on the implications of the Delta variant of COVID-19, discussing vaccination rates and the potential for renewed restrictions. The guests debate the effectiveness of lockdowns and mask mandates, emphasizing the need for a balanced approach to public health.

Finally, the episode concludes with a discussion on the recent suspension of sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson due to a positive marijuana test, prompting a conversation about the fairness of doping regulations in sports.

TLDR

Jason Calacanis and David Sacks argue over podcast moderation and a Twitter feud, while discussing COVID-19 variants and doping regulations in sports.

Episode

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is is jkl here i can't see him maybe i've been blocked i don't know i'm getting static on the left i can't hear
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anything i can't hear you why do the two fat guys have to ruin everything i mean get your [ __ ] together youtube we
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have [Music] [Music] if you'd like to skip the bestie twitter drama and get right into the episode
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jump to 20 minutes and 48 seconds hey everybody hey everybody we've got a great show for you today
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what a treat this is going to be here at the all in podcast we cover everything technology business
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market politics science and of course the besties emotions and their feelings i'm dave friedberg the king of canola
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joining me today are the guys that used to be besties first joining us from berlusconi's
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palace the pied piper of spaxx himself welcome you look great today thank you and
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uh from one of his many houses the uh sas bully himself david sax and of course our former moderator and host the one
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and only the internet famous the bronx bully jason calacanis everybody j-cal welcome you're looking great you
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look like you're ready to do a little uh jabbing a hook so for those of you joining us today that haven't been
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following on twitter i'm sorry did you get kermit the frog to host the show i mean
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jesus christ that opening was the worst most painful thing i've ever heard it it really was not very good okay well
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welcome sax and j cal not really feeling great about this you can't it's a failed experiment
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already i thought the opening was good good job free bird i think you're doing well it's a [ __ ]
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four of 10. stop pre-judging his performance it just began and interrupting already
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stop interrupting stop interrupting calcaneus so the moderator is moderating and j
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cal has to take the money the dreamers and block him i'm gonna mute him thank you
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so gentlemen welcome as we know over the past week there has been a twitter feud between jason
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and um david sacks and i'm going to give you guys a little bit of this background
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for those of you who haven't followed online which i'm assuming is the vast majority of you
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but there's a twitter account called all in stats and they publish an analysis showing
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that j cal has been talking a lot on our podcast and saks uh you know kind of quote
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tweeted and said you know here is statistical proof of jason's piss-poor moderation of
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the all-in-pod j-cal if you were moderating correctly you would be fourth place in airstein
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enter airtime instead of tied for first your job is to facilitate discussion not
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dominate it stop interrupting and let the grown-ups talk j-cal immediately jumps up with a
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response maybe you could start your own pod with peter thiel and keith or boyce and have tucker carlson moderate
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sac says i know it's rough doing 10 years of this week in startups and never getting to number one
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then chamoth friedrich and i do it effectively on the first date on the first take
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but this is why you need to stick to your lane and stop talking over us oh my god so
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brutal sex jay cal then responds with a niche podcast about just startups is never gonna be number one
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it's not for a general audience like all in by design number two sure trash the guy
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who has relentlessly supported you for decades because you're obsessed with your stats and forget about the quality
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of the conversation then j cal blocks david sacks on twitter publicly sax tells everyone jay cal blocked him
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and this whole thing escalates and snowball so the besties have they broken up are they gonna get back together is this
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podcast gonna continue my mom sent me a text this morning has the pod disintegrated jason pulled
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out question mark question mark question mark the drama ensues so gentlemen um i leave it to you saks with your
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opening remarks and then j-cal you may respond i'm here to moderate this opening of
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today's all-in pod so we can kind of get past this and hopefully get the besties
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back together and continue our conversations that i think many people find valuable
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and are super helpful and useful for us and for our listeners saks please well i mean i i can see on
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jason's face that he's he's hurt that by my my tweets um you know i uh maybe he should go
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first and explain what's so hurtful i mean look the reality is about this show that you know breaking balls is part of
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it we've been doing it for you know a year and a half and nobody does it more than jason and
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then all of a sudden you know he's on the receiving end of a couple of mean tweets and he's like the
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schoolyard bully who finally gets popped in the nose and goes running to the teacher
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and he can't stop bawling so you know where is it that somehow the word piss-poor crossed a red line for
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you after all of the you know ball busting you've been doing for the last year that
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somehow that's out of bounds and now you're gonna block me and potentially end the show in our
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friendship so explain that to me big baby all right number one i want to talk about the statistics in
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my role on my perception of you david is that you got a taste of fame and celebrity and it's gone to your
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[ __ ] head and you're out of your ego is out of control you now have stopped doing your job
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every day and you are obsessed with your statistics and how you're perceived on the pod
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as seen by your obsession and your bromance with henry or harvey bell cast or whatever you're sitting
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there obsessing over what percentage each of us talk none of the other besties are reading all in stats
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or getting obsessed with henry belcaster and how they're perceived on the pod you have taken a championship show
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which i pulled together with my decades of experience in team as the point god i am the chris paul
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of moderating the reason this show is number one is because i created a super team
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there are four people on this podcast who bring a lot to the table and you have asked for decades for air
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cow i will not pull out a list but the time that you were going to get cancelled because of b
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and the other time that your company was in the beep because the beep was investigating it
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you called air cow you called an air cow you can't deny it and nobody has benefited more from my skills in
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media than you are are you speaking in an accent i'm not speaking in an accident i'm
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getting uh this is when i get upset what he's getting for he's getting for clubs he's controlling it okay i'm just
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bringing the ball up court and i [ __ ] pass the ball to everybody i am white chocolate on this team i am
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the professor i am chris paul okay and i pass the ball now if you want to be a point guard like me and throw crisp
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passes that make the audience laugh and make them cheer and bring down the whole goddamn stadium
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well sometimes i'm going to do a no-look pass it's going to hitch in the back of
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the head or it's going to bounce off you can't [ __ ] cry about it constantly david and if you're looking
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at the minutes i have to read the story and prep the story so i can put it in your lap
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which i love to do i love my role here and you're taking my min account which is at least two-thirds moderation
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and you're saying that's indicative of me being pissed poor now if it's all a goddamn joke that's fine but you're
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messing with my business my business is podcasting and performing if you got a problem with me as the
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moderator you have my [ __ ] phone number you can call me but don't go out and start some fight
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with me and then go start hanging out with henry belcaster when i'm your boy okay and then
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everything with you is about your call-in clubhouse killer and we've got to move the pond to that
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you're getting out of control david you need to realize we started a podcast that went to number
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one instantly and be grateful about that and stay the course the end i'm done well all right good all
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right so can i respond so first of all j cal i agree you put the the super team together for this
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pod you're an indispensable part of it i'm not questioning that you know i don't think we should
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i don't think well let me come to let the adults talk let me first uh let me i'm actually saying some positive
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things about you before i get into my uh critique okay so look you deserve credit for putting this
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thing together along with with chamoth uh it wouldn't be the same without you you
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do bring an element of entertainment to it uh lord knows if it was just freeburg moderating all the
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time it'd probably be extremely boring so um look i although we're gonna give him a chance today so who knows
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um but rough start and it's not that i was angry or upset or concerned about my air time or any of that stuff
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i was frustrated okay because your moderation i have a couple of um concerns about her
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or i guess complaints okay one is that you do tend to interrupt and i'd say you interrupt not true
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more than the others false okay and specifically not true let's talk about the issue the the issue
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where this came up was eric adams issue last pod okay so you didn't even go to me this this issue
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the eric adams issue is all about the crime issue what the audience doesn't know is that
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you went to chamath like three times then you moved on and we had to come back i said no listen i raised my hand
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to get back into the conversation we edited that part out you skipped over me completely i don't
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know how that was good passing where was the dish okay to me okay let me explain to you can i respond
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to that sure you've got three people on the team who can score i come down the court
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i pass it sometimes there's two open guys you're the guy who was open who didn't
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get the pass and now you're walking down the court complaining no instead of keeping your head in the game
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this would be like not going to freeburg on a science issue all right sorry i understand
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any chance for you to defend the cops beating up criminals i understand that's your wheelhouse no time when it comes to
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that i'll make sure i it would it would be it would be a concern i agree with you i agree with you it's
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an oversight i can't hit every perfect pass you're expecting perception so then it's a missed pass and now you're upset
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about it okay okay so then so then i basically say listen i want to talk to this issue i have three points
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to make i'm not through point number two before you're interrupting me and taking the
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ball away the specific reason why i said i have three points is to telegraph to you
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don't interrupt me [ __ ] i got three points to make okay what do you do you cut me off in the middle of point two
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how is that good moderation i don't think you do that to chamof or even freeburg this really is about
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this really is about chamath versus you and my relationship with each other i love you both
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the reason why i brought up the all-in stats okay is not cause i'm concerned about my air time but but to show you
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i'm a little concerned no because i i they broke down that i was like fourth in their time and so the
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only point about that is why are you giving me the hook when i'm not talking too much
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if i were talking too much if i were monologuing it'd be a whole different story
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but you're yanking the mic away from me in the mid sentence before i even had a chance to finish
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and there's and there's one more thing okay which is as soon as i bring up any concern
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with the moderation where do you go you start calling me tucker you know you start labeling me in
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this way okay it's like just like a year dinner with tucker in the world you're proving my point where do you go
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where are you joke yes but why i'm trying to keep the show entertaining and keep it moving
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part of keeping the show entertaining moving is keeping you guys from monologuing
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i have to cut you off and make jokes a year and a half ago at the beginning of the pod we had to
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have the last time we had a sort of session like this it was because you kept trying to paint me
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as the trump supporter which is not my agenda okay now did you vote for trump now you're trying
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to hang did you tuck her label on me why aren't you saying hey let's hear from george will let's hear from william
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buckley the reason why you're choosing those labels is because you know they are anathema to most people in
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silicon valley and you're trying to stigmatize me with them no that is you're trying to are you
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reading from your notes are you reading from you're trying to hang that album over my neck
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okay and that is you're trying to anatomize me in in the in the view of most people
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silicon valley you're calling that's not what i'm trying to do i'm trying to tell me but you are
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causing the audience to pre-judge my message my points before i've even had the chance to
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see what i'm trying to do by attacking i'm trying to make a joke of the left to me okay the result of
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that is the audience is going to prejudge what i have to say and probably a third of the audience
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will never want to hear what i have to say because you've pre-labeled and pre-judged me that is a serious
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problem and that is [ __ ] with my business that is [ __ ] with my business a lot
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more a lot more than me calling out your shitty moderation on one show oh sorry no it is
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shitty moderation oh okay i thought it was great now we're back to a big shitty moderation let me ask you you know what
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you're doing did you know what you're doing did you have photography you know what you're doing have you had
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dinner with tucker answer the question i'm going to mute both of you now okay i'm in the moderator do you want to
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weigh in on these two idiots and talk a little bit about how we can do this show
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forward and at this point i'm thinking about vetoing the publication of the show so
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we could just have this conversation offline this was this is so [ __ ] pod because
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this is just this was paint this was this was so stupid nick edit all this nonsense and
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make it 30 seconds and move on hey guys this is a really important powerful thing that we accidentally stumbled into
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i'll make two points david does get labeled and i don't think it's fair and jason
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does an excellent job of moderating and sometimes i think that jason does get excited and in
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getting excited you know he's also not just there to moderate he's there to contribute as well
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and so i think that if you look at the the number of minutes as a guide it's not going to be accurate because he does
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have two jobs to do whereas the rest of us only have one and david does bring an enormous amount
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of clarity to what he says in a very fair way and it is unfair to him that he gets
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basically slathered with uh here's the crazy guy on the right so i think what i would just say is just
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let's just tone it the [ __ ] down and calm down okay we're at a million [ __ ] people a
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week we could be at 10 million people a [ __ ] week and we could [ __ ] own the distribution of our ideas to
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millions and millions of people let's just stay the course and calm the [ __ ] down well i i agree with all that
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actually i i agree i'm 100 in agreement i want to address the labeling issue i want to
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address the legal issue i am joking nine out of ten times when i talk about trump
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because it's hilarious and your relationship with tucker i think it's hilarious that you're part of the keith
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reboy and and teal thing and and i don't think it's damaging for your business at all
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and i think people are telling me i'm purple viewed we're moving to the center here
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so i believe that we're doing something noble by bringing all these voices together
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it's all a big joke and you know what i don't care what you say about me on twitter
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i know i'm good at what i do there's nothing you could say that can change that why'd your accident change
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i i think in general you are good at what you do and i and i and the reason why two of the top 10
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tech podcasts go open at your [ __ ] podcast player don't tell me to get my [ __ ] shoe
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shirt number four and number eight no nobody's saying that so i think i think what
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what david's literally what he said that's literally what he said what he's doing right now is showing why i had to
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tweet which is he won't take a note i can't tell the guy hey listen you gotta know for me
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it's not gonna happen on twitter you got my [ __ ] phone number well it doesn't happen in private either
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we know that you could [ __ ] call me oh really you're gonna take a note in private chat with you
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i've tried we've had this conversation before we had this specific conversation about the trump thing a year ago
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we haven't talked about trump in six months you're back to all your bad habits can we just hear an apology from one to
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the other and tell them yeah yeah i'm absolutely willing to hear sax's apology tell him what you appreciate
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about him and what you like about him go ahead yeah go [ __ ] christ is this therapy all
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right i unblocked [ __ ] sacks and i'm following him enough thank you move on we move forward
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apologize to each other all right sorry you tweeted that [ __ ] sex i'm sorry david apologize to him let's just move
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on jason tell sacks you're sorry for labeling him and you know you'll be more conscientious in
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the future please i'm sorry that i brought up your relationship with tucker and that i labeled you
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a trump disciple i don't even need an apology i just want him to recognize me too so i'm trying to
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be the bigger man [ __ ] it i take it back okay i unblocked you and you're followed
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i unblocked you and you're followed that's enough sex his feelings were hurt by you telling
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him that his podcast sucks and piss poor piss-poor okay look you asked you asked me to have ten of your
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founders on the podcast in the last two years i counted your team is in the [ __ ] mix trying to get
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people booked on the show we're not gonna we're not gonna keep it going you've benefited from this relationship
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as well so thank you for this i never said i didn't thank you all i've ever said is thank
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you to you all right we good look my frustration over your moderation boiled off into a
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couple of tweets last week i did not mean to hurt your feelings i was just trying to give you a
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note okay if you would take the notes in private i would give you them to you in
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private i do think that overall you're a great moderator your contribution to the show is
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absolutely necessary and essential never disputed that i think we should keep doing the show
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um i didn't expect you to block me honestly i didn't expect your feelings to be so hurt by what i said and um
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so yeah look i apologize for that all i wanted to do was give you a note and i would appreciate if you could try
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and respect my note not mischaracterize it i think you know what i'm saying right
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i just want the chance to be able to present my views without the audience prejudging them
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because you know that certain labels will not go over well with our audience okay it'd be like introducing chamoth as
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the michael milken of spaxx okay there is that out no i mean i'm not saying he is
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collaborating no i'm saying it would be as if you did that right you understand what you've
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been doing if you labeled him that way i don't think that is a fair label in fairness i thought the labeling and
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the joking about you being the token republican was a meta joke about the fact that
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silicon valley doesn't have too many of you and teals and reboys et cetera there's a
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small i think the whole point of what we were trying to say is silicon valley's heads up their ass
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i agree so maybe so maybe the problem maybe the problem we've we've identified is
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all these left-leaning people are just sniffing their own balls basically running to a cliff sweating so
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yeah a lot of my views like on free speech are the old center left exactly and now you're for
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universal healthcare look at you i haven't moved the whole world's gone crazy i mean
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everyone supported free speech until five minutes ago okay that's what i went on tucker to discuss you were a free
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market about uh education and you were free market about about health care and now you're like i
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mean we should have health care and safety i i am i am a believer in in markets all
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right jason let's start go let's [ __ ] start the shot three two hey everybody hey everybody the all-in
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podcast is back besties unblocked with us again the rain man himself david sachs and david freeburg the queen
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of and from his italian hideaway gallivanting in italy chamoth paulie hepatia the
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dictator big news for besties this week robin hood has filed their s1 and paid a fin
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refined 70 million dollars for outages and misleading customers multiple days of outages back
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in march 2020 we talked about here and poor communications around options trading risks
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robin hood's s1 highlighted some extraordinary uh growth during that period as we
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discussed on the pod 18 million funded accounts and they're on a two billion dollar run rate 522
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million dollars in revenue in the first quarter up 4x and uh monthly active users have more
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than doubled 8.6 million accounts to 17.7 million uh just for in the last year revenue is
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up 300 percent any thoughts on robin hood's s1 obviously i'm an interested party
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it's the largest fine ever i think of this type but on the other end yeah yeah so it
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should be a black eye for the company but the reality is that they're happy to pay the fine and
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just move on so they don't have this issue hanging over their heads anymore and now they're going to be able to
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ipo at like a 50 60 70 billion dollar valuation and so for them it's just sort of cost
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of doing business i think there's something a little bit off about that but um that's kind of how
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it works freeberg anything i mean congrats to you jake how looks like you're gonna
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do really well with this deal huh it will return roughly this one dl will do three or
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four times the value of the first fun the launch fund one which was uh 11 million did you invest in the seed
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round or the a or what round did you invest in i think it was the seed round um and so
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what's your multiple going to be on a 50 billion dollar market cap you know uh it would be 500x
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amazing amazing congrats big boy yeah it's a congrats jake allen i'm happy to see that you're successful
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your success is finally catching up to your ego and so i think here we go your net worth is catching up to your
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weight size congrats oh my god uh well actually between this and the composition
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uh i'm uh you know listen it's a long way to go before we distribute obviously but that first fund i did which came
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after the scouts fun my sequoia scouts portfolio my only advice to you jason is talk talk to a few seasoned gps like
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gurley fred wilson and figure out the right distribution strategy one of the biggest
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things that i see these folks do is early-stage venture investors thinking that they're public market investors
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trying to time the market trying to figure out how to do distributions and it never works
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which means do you hold the shares for another year or two or you distribute them i would
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distribute that immediately book the win move on yeah you know it's interesting a lot of
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the top firms that i'm in are holding their shares and i i had a firm that had uh
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square and they held some number of them until it's 7xed and then distributed so
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i guess technically they get to book that win what are your thoughts on that sax of
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when to distribute and how are you doing in your fund yeah i mean it's a good question um the
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the reality is that you know let's say that you're in your four or five a 10-year fund you
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could hold the shares for another five years and if the shares go up over that five
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year period you'll you'll do better so i think the question is on irr your your numbers will look better well
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i mean you're you're compensated on the absolute amount of return that you generate and so it might
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happen if you distribute the shares and then if you're in carry and you just hold the shares you'll realize the same
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gains you know you're not saying well it depends what happens to the stock price
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i guess i guess what i'm going to do but hold on a second if the stock were to go 10x and you get 20
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of those shares if there were 100 shares you had 20 if it 10x you're still getting 20 percent right shamaf
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so it nets out to the same if you hold the shares yourself personally this is why
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i think that if you're in the business of running uh a multi-fund business i think you're better off
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generally and i think again if you talk to the best firms out there they typically will not try to guess
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what's going to happen in the public markets they distribute and they move on to their next fund
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um and then because you have to remember the irrs you know you go through these rough patches it decays quickly
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and all of a sudden something that looks great can start to look not so great and the example of that might be
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snowflake or something going down after it went public and if you had distributed it you would
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have booked the win at that high multiple yeah and then then you're thinking to yourself wow i hope it goes back up and
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then you're like well when do i distribute it's all these are all not things that venture
00:25:33
capitalists should be engaged in they should be there to help build the next the next david versus goliath
00:25:37
i think the the count argument to that is if you really believe in the company and think you
00:25:41
understand it better than the public markets do or or because you've been on the board
00:25:45
and you have information you know if you hold it for another yes there's gonna be ups and downs but
00:25:50
let's say that you plan to hold it for another four or five years um yeah you'll still get the same 20 25
00:25:56
carry but um the point at which that carry will crystallize would be at like a much
00:26:00
higher level and so essentially you're preventing your lp's from selling is what you're doing and so you may get
00:26:06
an extra turn of your fun by doing that how do we feel as lps david freeburg but
00:26:12
there's sorry there's also isn't there like a um i'm just trying to pull up the goldman sachs report they
00:26:17
did in 2019 where they analyzed 4 500 ipos over a 25-year period and i think that and i could be wrong on
00:26:27
this but if i remember some summary of this i'm trying to find it so i can't find it right now um
00:26:31
but that they basically highlighted that ipos as an index generally outperformed
00:26:37
the market over some period of time whether it's one year or three years and so if you have access to those ipo shares
00:26:43
assume you're a venture investor you can beat the smp by 10 15 points just generally without having any
00:26:50
thought about the business itself or the company itself um and you know participate in 20
00:26:55
carry on the upside from there or 25 carrying the upside from there um and so generally the rule of thumb
00:27:01
becomes well you shouldn't distribute right away you should hold is that not kind of a common dogma amongst gps
00:27:07
nowadays well look at square look at square i mean square at all like most of the appreciation
00:27:13
happened in the public markets i think sequoia held on to their square shares did way way better
00:27:19
because nobody sold effectively for several years and the best firms do this right i mean
00:27:24
like you you hear from gurley and others that you know they hold onto these shares for
00:27:28
years and you know a good business going public has a much better chance of performing
00:27:35
well as a public company than you know just tracking the s p uh after an ipo regardless of the
00:27:40
valuation it exits at well how do we feel as lp's chamath your lp's in a lot of terrible women
00:27:46
15 terrible no offense to any gp out there but i don't think they're as good of a public market investor as i am so
00:27:52
give me the shares i'll manage it myself uh and get out of the way um i i give money to a lot of to your
00:28:00
point a lot of gps because i want private market exposure i don't want them speculating in the
00:28:06
public markets for me i do that for myself and so i would rather just get the shares and make my own decision
00:28:12
um you know a lot of foundations for example are in this situation where they're there to fund programs
00:28:18
so if they have a you know multi-hundred million dollar position in a great company
00:28:22
and they can't fund a program or the you know a hospital system can't do what they need to do because some gp is
00:28:28
speculating in the public markets i think it's insane so give you give give give the lps the
00:28:34
money and move on it's not your job otherwise you should run a generalized fund and both people don't because they
00:28:41
can't generally how do you guys when you are a large owner in a company that goes
00:28:46
public or just say the pool of venture investors or owners in a company that goes public
00:28:52
and the lock-up is expiring you know typically six months after the ipo and you can now distribute your shares to
00:28:57
your lps do those um you know investors take note of or have concern about the impact it might
00:29:05
have on the stock price when they're making those distribution decisions typically
00:29:08
i think they think about that but a lot of these lps particularly the non-profits
00:29:13
they're forced day one sellers the minute that they get the stock they're just putting it in like as soon as the
00:29:17
stock gets distributed everyone's selling and the stock takes a hit right and yeah
00:29:20
you know what there's something happening i mean uh this is speculation um that i don't have so just
00:29:28
you know take it as that but my understanding was some investment banks went to the uh and chamath might know the
00:29:35
background on this went to some of the major lps in the world i'll leave it at that
00:29:40
and said hey you have a position in i don't know this cab company um it's going public it's
00:29:46
fully valued or it's very well valued would you like to collar your shares before that and we will take them off
00:29:53
your hands uh and and and lock you into a certain price for some percentage of it
00:29:57
basically end running the gp's decision making process of course there's there's a lot of that
00:30:03
that happens this is why i'm saying i think the gp is better off if you're in the
00:30:06
venture fund business be in the venture fund business do a great job at that raise funds distribute cash do what
00:30:12
you're supposed to do but please don't try to do some it's kind of like asking you know the firemen to also operate on
00:30:17
you no i don't want that take me to the hospital and let the doctor do the job i think it's a very
00:30:22
valid perspective i think it's probably the baseline that vcs should operate from but i do think there are
00:30:27
exceptions where if the vc's been on a company board for a while it feels like they have
00:30:31
they understand the company better than the public markets especially during the
00:30:34
first two years as a public company when the markets can be really choppy and the company's
00:30:39
trying to find its level and people don't really understand it i think there is an argument for
00:30:44
the vc having expertise in in that initial public run then they might be doing their lp's a favor
00:30:50
by holding but but look i i think tomas point is well taken also uh companies are going public
00:30:57
earlier so this is going to become a bigger issue because it's an easy decision in year 11 if you
00:31:03
were an uber investor and airbnb investors say okay it's been 11 years we're going to give
00:31:07
you your shares but if you're in year five and the company goes out so early you know you could make an argument hey
00:31:14
maybe we hold it for two or three years just going back on the previous topic jkl the um
00:31:18
the finra news on robinhood right so finra just so everyone understands is not a
00:31:23
government regulator it's a entity yeah it's called a self-regulatory organization
00:31:28
and these sros are basically they have a board and a you know a bunch of people that run them
00:31:33
but they're pooled and managed by all the participants the private participants in the market so goldman
00:31:38
sachs and morgan stanley jp morgan and all the banks they are all part of the finra sro and
00:31:44
so the way that these sros are set up is to avoid government regulation and to avoid government
00:31:49
intervention in markets and allows the markets to effectively self-regulate themselves
00:31:54
in a way that everyone in the market is kind of keeping an eye on each other and
00:31:57
making sure that this is being taken care of and i think one thing to take note of from this fine
00:32:03
is that it telegraphs that finra and the markets in general the market participants in general
00:32:08
may be rather concerned and rather worried about government intervention um in some
00:32:14
of these new markets and emerging fintech practices because they wanted to say look we put
00:32:19
the gauntlet down on robin hood we made them pay the biggest fine ever we made them pay 70 million dollars
00:32:24
stay away we're taking care of it because the concern everyone's had is that aoc and elizabeth warren and a
00:32:29
bunch of people on capitol hill are waving flags saying we need to step in we need to regulate these companies
00:32:34
we need to regulate these practices we need to protect consumers and so this fine really signals that the
00:32:39
market is a bit concerned that the government is going to come in and start trying to tell fintech
00:32:45
companies how to practice and how to operate and generally tell all market company you know market
00:32:50
participants how to operate which is a very scary prospect for them so to me this was really this
00:32:55
this was really big news about what telegraphs the backdoor conversations are you know
00:32:59
that are going on with market participants right now what you're almost saying is that this is a benefit
00:33:05
to robin hood to pay the largest fine because it it says to the you know to the politicians look we've
00:33:10
already been punished in this you know maximal way you don't need to layer it on top
00:33:15
so in a way it's better for robin hood that they paid 70 million instead of 10 million
00:33:20
yeah and it's not it's not by the way it's not even for robin hood i think all the market participants jp morgan
00:33:24
goldman sachs they all have huge you know tech teams and they all have acquired fintech companies
00:33:30
and they are all trying to go digital and everyone is worried about the government intervening
00:33:35
and changing how this business is transforming because as soon as the government gets involved it's going to
00:33:39
slow down the transformation it's going to you know make things much more challenging
00:33:42
and i think that everyone's trying to keep the government at bay while the great digital transformation of markets
00:33:47
is underway um and and i think that's like the biggest signal from this this finra fine
00:33:53
and there's there's some interesting nuances there that they brought up something like the confetti so when you
00:33:59
buy something on robinhood it used to explode confetti gamification they're like oh we're going
00:34:05
to take that out and you know if you go to vegas they've got bells and whistles going off
00:34:09
everywhere when you place a bet and so it is a little bit of window dressing i think it's also interesting
00:34:15
that you bring up the self-regulatory organizations there's two other equivalents for people who are thinking
00:34:20
about this the mpa motion picture association which was formed back in 1922 because people had
00:34:26
the same fear about movies and valentini i think was the the guy who really uh changed uh how movies were perceived
00:34:35
in the pg-13 era allowing a lot more violence terminator those kind of movies and then you had a similar thing happen
00:34:42
in the video game industry in 90s does robinhood still have like the lawsuits with like
00:34:49
uh massachusetts uh there's like 10 other lawsuits class actions etc about um no no but these are more like
00:34:57
with with government entities right like like didn't massachusetts try to stay deter state attorney general
00:35:02
yeah something like that i think right yeah i don't know um but the other one that was very
00:35:08
interesting was the um esrb which is the entertainment software ratings board because video games like mortal kombat
00:35:14
and those and doom were you know had to self-regulate right um so either you regulate yourself
00:35:20
when champ was asking a question about lawsuits that robin hood i know i was trying to deflect
00:35:28
come on man can we move on to the delta variant because i'm supposed to be hysterically afraid of getting covet now
00:35:34
because i've been vaccinated people keep talking about there's this delta variant it's spreading
00:35:40
and then i'm hearing one set of information which is if you're vaccinated it's not an issue
00:35:45
and then uh other folks are going on tv saying this is gonna be like we're gonna have to put masks back
00:35:51
on in california i can't find any data about how many actual cases there are but
00:35:58
according to the usc dc 46 percent of the total u.s population has been vaccinated now
00:36:03
uh and new york new jersey california oh well above 50 some people are in the 60
00:36:07
percent of adults 70 of adults florida is still trailing but i can't and people are saying this is
00:36:13
going to become the dominant variant free break how should we look at the delta variant if you're vaccinated
00:36:18
and then how should we look at it in terms of are we going to go through mandatory masks again which people are
00:36:24
starting to signal already in certain uh coastal cities yeah so trevor bedford's a great guy to follow on this
00:36:32
uh he's a epidemiologist virologist who um on twitter on twitter yeah trv rb is his uh twitter handle and so he's
00:36:42
aggregated a bunch of good data so there was a paper published two days ago out of the uk
00:36:46
where they are trying to estimate the um uh you know the reproduction rate of the
00:36:52
delta variant um and it looks like it's about 1.3 that means for every person that gets infected with the delta
00:36:58
variant of the sars kobe 2 virus one that's the r knot you're talking about that's that's yeah some people call
00:37:04
arnold yeah and so um it turns out that you know that number is higher than what we saw with the
00:37:09
original south kobe 2 which i think is probably closer to 1.1 or so and so um you know what that means is
00:37:15
this variant is much more infectious right it could spread through the air the proteins could last in oxygen much
00:37:21
longer and not degrade all these different reasons why it might be kind of more infectious
00:37:26
and there are some cases of people that have been vaccinated but this is not the
00:37:30
predominance of what we're seeing that have tested positive for having this delta variant
00:37:35
but are having mild to moderate symptoms there aren't at this point a lot of people there's not a lot of data to
00:37:41
indicate that this is actually kind of like a lethal risk or fatal risk to people that have been vaccinated in case
00:37:46
in fact that seems to be not true and one way that that data is kind of demonstrated right now is
00:37:52
there was another analysis that was done where they showed what is the reproduction rate of this
00:37:57
variant based on what percentage of the population has been vaccinated by state and they showed that you know for a
00:38:04
state that's had maybe thirty percent of its population vaccinated the r naught is closer to one point
00:38:09
three five when sixty percent of the state is vaccinated the r naught is just at one
00:38:13
and so there's this you know um unco you know uh negatively correlated kind of relationship between how many people
00:38:19
have been vaccinated and how much this variant is transmitting and that makes intuitive sense right like if
00:38:24
people are vaccinated they're not going to get infected the virus isn't going to
00:38:27
hop from person to person to person now when you do the analysis of what percentage of the u.s population is
00:38:33
unvaccinated and how reproductive this virus is a lot of epidemiologists are saying that the models indicate that we
00:38:41
could see up to 10 percent of the u.s population now get hit with this variant and what we don't know is what
00:38:46
percentage of people actually had you know stars kobe 2 in the first run around last year
00:38:51
um but we are seeing this this variant pop up now the the fatality rate doesn't appear to be much higher
00:38:56
than what we saw with stars cov2 the first time around and um and so there's no indication to say like hey this is
00:39:02
going to be much more lethal so when you combine those factors it seems like at this point you know the
00:39:06
the death rates in the u.s are remaining flat uh and stable while we are going to see and may expect
00:39:12
to see a continuing upsurge surge up in terms of the number of cases are we going to require masks this goes
00:39:17
back to kind of my previous point about i think we've kind of normalized ourselves to masks and shutdowns and
00:39:23
lockdowns and all the stuff that we did last year thinking that it had an effect a recent
00:39:26
paper showed that lockdowns had no effect on the reproduction rate in the united
00:39:30
states because at the end of the day what if a government says lockdown or government says put masks on
00:39:35
people still have a tendency to do whatever the hell they want to do and at least in the united states that is the
00:39:39
case that is not the case likely in asian countries where we did see an effect of lockdowns and masks
00:39:44
but in the united states these uh these restrictions obviously had adverse economic effects
00:39:50
but didn't seem to have a strong epidemiological effect based on a recent paper that i will
00:39:56
share uh in this thing so so what are we going to do i don't know i feel like we've
00:39:59
normalized math we've normalized blocked we've normalized these responses but sars code v2 is going to be here forever
00:40:04
and it is going to cycle through variants and that's the concern right in the world
00:40:08
let me let me make a prediction i think that what at the end of this thing what i think i have come to the
00:40:15
conclusion of is there was a lot of unknowns that got perverted into hysteria and
00:40:25
mania by a handful of organizations to basically sequester power and what we realized is
00:40:34
that these people were incompetent and they didn't know what they were doing because you ended up in the same
00:40:40
place with all of these different distributions of actions and so now i think when you have this
00:40:46
other variant i think there's a growing sensation by a lot of people not just americans
00:40:52
that the cdc the who whoever it is is probably at best guessing and at worst making it up
00:41:00
and the ultimate result is their this it's almost as if they like being drunk with power
00:41:06
and so i think the last part of what you said freeberg is what i really agree with which is that this is not going to
00:41:12
be tolerated anymore and the reason is because they are also politicizing science
00:41:18
and what they're doing is when they don't know they're making poor guesses in the name of science which is
00:41:24
just as bad so you know i don't know what's going to happen with the delta variant
00:41:29
maybe a lot maybe a little but as far as i can tell i think people are tired of uninformed
00:41:37
impacts to their lives and they're not going to put up with it anymore saks chances california goes back to
00:41:44
lockdowns or some sort of mask mandates uh well well they are they're they're imposing mass mandates in doors in
00:41:51
places like la and you have the teachers unions the the national education union is now putting
00:41:59
down all these conditions on going back to school in the fall so i think you could be in a situation
00:42:04
where we do not have they will call it school reopening but we will not have five day a week in
00:42:10
person learning and the schools the public schools that have it are going to have all sorts of
00:42:14
insane restrictions and conditions like making kids who really aren't at risk for covet even even the delta variant
00:42:22
they're going to force them to wear mass they're going to enforce this ridiculous social
00:42:26
distancing they're talking about making the kids who aren't vaccinated sit at a separate table like the
00:42:31
outcasts i mean it's insane what they're talking about doing so why is that insane david not to
00:42:37
interrupt you but i'm just curious if i want you to unpack that because so so look i i'm pro-vaccine you
00:42:43
know i think adults should get vaccinated i don't think my kids need to get vaccinated um
00:42:48
i don't think that is a wise policy to to force kids to get vaccinated they're at very low risk for getting the
00:42:55
virus they're very low risk for transmitting the virus if they get it and even if they get it they're at
00:43:00
almost no risk for it being harmful or you know to cause serious illness or death
00:43:06
and so to impose all these restrictions on kids it's like we're living in a time
00:43:10
warp you know back to last summer we didn't know as much about the virus i mean to jamaa's point they're imposing
00:43:16
all these restrictions which are just unscientific and it really seems like the real point
00:43:21
is to create excuses for the teachers not to have to go back to work and you know you
00:43:27
know a school system is borked when the truancy is on the part of the teachers not the students
00:43:33
the students want to go back the teachers want to be truant it's like they want to be on permanent
00:43:38
vacation forever it is a really broken system by the way let me just highlight um you know to
00:43:45
support uh the concern that i think people like like people that saks is kind of
00:43:51
speaking to might be having a research letter was published in the journal um of the american medical medical
00:43:58
association two days ago a lead researcher with a guy named harold walsh and this paper is going
00:44:04
viral amongst kind of the um you know the the scientific and medical community right now and what
00:44:09
these guys did is they measured the carbon dioxide content of children's lungs um from wearing masks and so they were
00:44:18
trying to identify like is this a risk to children to actually be wearing masks health-wise
00:44:23
and the results are pretty scary it turns out that you know um in in in air in in ambient air
00:44:31
0.07 by volume is carbon dioxide when a normal and then they measured kids you know
00:44:37
randomized control double blind you know here's your enough double blind but randomized control there's kids that
00:44:41
have masks and kids that don't the kids that don't have masks their carbon dioxide when they exhale is about
00:44:48
0.28 percent when you have to wear a surgical mask your carbon dioxide increases to one
00:44:54
point three percent um and uh you know when they looked at this in a more detailed way it turns out
00:45:00
that it could be as high as three point eight percent and so this starts to reach a medical level
00:45:04
that is concerning for doctors that having these kids wear masks for hours a day could actually be having an
00:45:12
adverse health effect because it is increasing the carbon dioxide content of their blood because
00:45:16
you know their lungs aren't strong enough to breathe all this carbon dioxide out it builds up in their body
00:45:21
and so there is a now a counterpoint that is being made by scientists and doctors
00:45:26
that maybe the benefit of the safety we might get from kids wearing masks and spreading the virus
00:45:30
is um outweighed uh by the uh the cost of their health as a result of wearing these masks and to ask
00:45:37
kids to wear masks for eight hours a day or five hours a day for nine months a year we're just now
00:45:43
waking up to the fact that there may actually be consequences to this and i'm not making a struggle
00:45:47
it's like it's like it's like it's like child abuse so we sent our five-year-old
00:45:50
to a summer camp in la okay and the camp is outside and all the the adults are vaccinated okay
00:45:56
but they're making the kids wear masks and it's no fun you know and they can't play sports
00:46:02
the way they need to and we just said the hell with this and we took them out now what i don't
00:46:06
understand is why people aren't laying this at the feet of gavin newsom this is a hundred percent his
00:46:12
order you know all he has to do is say listen we don't need these rules anymore it's kids it's outside and all the
00:46:19
adults are vaccinated what is the point of this and you know and i think we have this
00:46:24
recall election now that's been scheduled for mid-september you know right now it looks like
00:46:29
nuisance going to cruise to to to winning but if we had a candidate in california who could say
00:46:35
listen we need five day a week ins you know in person schooling in the fall no exceptions all the teachers need to
00:46:43
go back to work or they're going to need to be looking for new jobs we're not going to kowtow and
00:46:48
give in to all these unnecessary unscientific restrictions okay because newsome will
00:46:52
not make that guarantee i think they could they could basically steal this thing we don't have anyone
00:46:58
standing up saying that and i think the closer we get to the start of school if we don't have that
00:47:03
kind of five day a week instruction i think parents are going to be up in arms about this
00:47:08
i think they will be and i think what we're going to prove is none of these folks really know what
00:47:12
they're talking about and so they will make it up and someone will have some shred of
00:47:18
evidence about something on either side of any topic and all it'll do is obfuscate and confuse and the end of
00:47:26
it will be somebody imposing something onto you that will have a negative impact on your
00:47:32
life but for their benefit in the teachers for their benefit like i don't want to go back
00:47:38
there's i mean listen i want to say all teachers don't want to go back to school
00:47:40
i know a lot of teachers want to go back to school and teach kids and take the masks off because it's
00:47:45
insufferable no you there is a contingency you can say the union and separated from teachers
00:47:49
exactly yeah i don't think it's all teachers it's some percentage of teachers but i think we're
00:47:54
going to move david freeburg quickly if i'm wrong here we're going to move to a two-class system here if you're
00:47:58
vaccinated you get one set of rules and if you're not vaccinated you get another and this is where david
00:48:03
i think kids who are over the age of 11 or 12 who do get vaccinated they shouldn't have to wear a mask at
00:48:09
school but then well sorry can i just say something this is what the insanity of this thing is it's like okay
00:48:14
we're going to throw around again we're probably going to use the word equity when we make these new rules but then
00:48:20
fine why don't you just create a school that has everybody in it who is vaccinated well sac state
00:48:28
i don't even understand i don't understand this because all of us are vaccinated so our
00:48:32
we don't need to worry about it so in other words we're going to impose restrictions on people and force
00:48:38
kids or whoever to get vaccinated to protect whom if all the adults are vaccinated we're
00:48:42
not protecting anybody all we're doing is protecting i guess unvaccinated adults that makes no sense
00:48:48
to me well they're taking the risk right i mean if you're choosing to not get the vaccine at this
00:48:53
point friedberg you're taking some significant level of risk or some moderate level does the
00:48:58
government have a responsibility to protect that person i don't think it matters what i
00:49:03
think matters is remember like the societal responsibility is not and cannot be to protect every
00:49:10
individual the societal responsibility is to make sure that society functions and
00:49:16
um and if we take a zoom back and i just want everyone to reset your brains go back to march of
00:49:21
last year and we were talking about the surge of deaths in hospitals and hospitals were
00:49:26
going to be overwhelmed and that was the reason we needed to go into lockdowns and the reason we needed
00:49:30
to stop the surge even if this delta variant is highly infectious there are enough people and people
00:49:37
vaccinated in the united states at this point that this delta variant is not going to
00:49:41
crush our hospital system it's not going to cause massive amount of fatalities which is the reason we
00:49:46
went into lockdowns in the first place all of the concerns that we had last year that rationalized a lot of the
00:49:51
extreme behavior that we undertook no longer exists and we are now talking about continuing those
00:49:57
those behaviors under a different set of standards and the set of standards is now i can't
00:50:02
put a teacher at risk i can't put an individual at risk and even if that individual got infected
00:50:07
if the fatality rate is so low i can still say well they could die therefore i can't have them exposed
00:50:13
right and that has become the new standards what i think saxon that that article kind of talked about
00:50:17
is heroism you know you get to a point if you're if you're fighting a war on a battlefield and you're like well i
00:50:23
can't let any of my soldiers die we can't move down the field you're not going to move down the field
00:50:28
you're not going to win the war and i'm not saying that this is a war the point is society has to progress the
00:50:33
economy has to progress people's lives have to progress people have to be educated life is about
00:50:38
progress and if we halt progress because of the concern that any individual might get
00:50:43
harmed because of the progress of the group as a whole we will not go anywhere and
00:50:47
we've created a new set of standards that i think creates that very reality and it is
00:50:51
frightening let me let me let me put a finer point on this which is just this coat this delta variant is just
00:50:58
more covered fear porn okay this is the third variant of concern where they've been you know running
00:51:05
around alarms saying that you know we have to worry the truth is is it more transmissible
00:51:10
yes it is going to i think sweep through areas of the country in the fall that aren't vaccinated but
00:51:16
the question is how does it perform against the vaccines and so far the vaccines are holding up
00:51:22
the the variants none of the variants have really punched through the vaccines in a meaningful way i think
00:51:27
the stats on pfizer were it's it was it maybe reduced the effectiveness from 95 to 88 or something like that but it
00:51:35
wasn't a material difference if you were double vax with pfizer you are protected against the delta
00:51:40
variant and so this is just more fear porn that they keep popping i'm in agreement with you and i think
00:51:46
this reminds me of when we were growing up in the 80s they tried to scare us about sex and hiv and
00:51:54
were you not going to have sex if you were in your 20s in the 90s and into the 80s no you
00:52:01
learned about hiv you learn to use condoms you learn that you you probably couldn't do
00:52:06
uh you know what people did in the 60s and 70s which had many many partners you maybe had to have fewer partners
00:52:11
maybe longer term partners but you could you could take your own risk by putting on a condom you could make
00:52:16
that decision for yourself here i think there's a group of people who don't want
00:52:20
anybody to make any decisions for themselves and in this case the vaccine is wearing
00:52:24
a condom if you're wearing a condom like your chances of getting hiv go down dramatically it's just a known fact and
00:52:31
we're at 263 people on average dying a day how many of those fredberg do you think are
00:52:37
with covid versus from kovit if you had to take a guess i have i have always i i hate doing this because then
00:52:44
people think it's like an inhuman analysis but the way that um actuaries or economists would kind of
00:52:49
take a look at this sort of decision tree and this sort of data is the number of
00:52:54
life years lost okay um so imagine someone is going to die tomorrow if someone's going to die tomorrow and
00:53:01
they catch covet today and they die a day early you have lost a life day and everyone yes that is
00:53:06
absolutely devastating and it is awful emotionally but like when we're making big decisions we have to think with the
00:53:12
data and so um if someone catches covid and they and they lose five years and they
00:53:17
die five years early then they statistically would have died that's five life years lost when a child dies
00:53:22
you are losing 68 life years right that is an incredible loss of life is one is one way to kind of think about this
00:53:28
statistically and so um you know part of i think what's been missing in the equation and
00:53:33
it's easy to tell the narrative by speaking about people that have dead that have died that tested positive for
00:53:39
covet when they died is it now speaks to the fact that this is a binary experience
00:53:44
and there's a binary number of lives lost but the statistical the data-driven exercise which may sound
00:53:49
inhuman and may sound awful but again we have to make these decisions using data if we're going to make large
00:53:55
decisions that are going to impact everyone in a meaningful way is to look at the number of life years
00:53:59
lost and i think if you were to do that you would still find that the vast majority of deaths
00:54:04
associated with covet are very elderly people who are already very close to dying and
00:54:09
that's why we are seeing the fatality rate so low right now in the united states even though covet is still
00:54:14
spreading with the delta variant it is because almost 90 of people over 70 have been vaccinated and as a
00:54:21
result the people that are most at risk of dying are well protected and we are not
00:54:26
seeing a significant loss of life associated with this terrible virus the terrible virus is still spreading
00:54:30
but the life loss is still not there now someone might raise their hand and say well we don't know the long-term
00:54:34
implications of long-term ramifications i would raise my other hand and say show
00:54:39
me what the data is that says that there are those long-term implications ramifications because i can
00:54:44
say the what-ifs about anything and then implement any policy decision i want by
00:54:48
just saying what if and we don't know we have to say we do know here's the data in order to make a tough decision
00:54:54
versus saying we need to be you know protective and use the protective you know principle of um of precaution or the
00:55:02
precautionary principle and be really careful in these circumstances because at this point the impact and the
00:55:07
damage associated with some of our practices to quote unquote guard against covid and
00:55:12
and you know protect people it's turning out their real consequences to those decisions all right freeberg
00:55:17
final question on kovid uh should you wear two condoms in other words should you get moderna
00:55:23
and pfizer or j j and pfizer there are studies coming out now to say one plus one equals three there is some
00:55:30
super effect of getting two i am looking into this i'm thinking i'm gonna get a second vaccine
00:55:36
i might get to get a modern or a pfizer a j j just don't make it don't wait don't waste the vaccine shots
00:55:41
let them go to other countries you know not needed not needed even though the studies are starting to show
00:55:47
it gives you increased i mean do you need your tests do you need your tesla to go from 180 to 185
00:55:52
miles an hour i mean like you know that's a good point i mean look everything we learn about the vaccines
00:55:58
makes them look better and better the protection lasts longer than we thought the
00:56:03
um they're more effective against variants than people were afraid of and now we learn that there is even more
00:56:09
protection by sort of this mix and match idea so the vaccines have worked there are
00:56:13
still i think a couple of groups in america that are very vaccine hesitant um evangelicals and african-americans are
00:56:22
the two groups that was male republicans it's it's more like evangelicals and so in a place like
00:56:27
mississippi where you have large numbers of both the vaccine rates only like 29 30
00:56:32
it's actually pretty low in a place like that you could see the delta variants sweep through in the
00:56:38
fall and you could see a lot of cases i you know let me let me buck your uh labeling
00:56:44
categorization of me jake by saying that i don't think the leaders on the right are doing anyone
00:56:51
any favors any of their voters any favors by not coming out and saying look the vaccines
00:56:57
work you know i think trump could do a lot of good by coming out and just saying listen i got the vaccine i'm
00:57:02
pretty sure he did right he did he did and so you know i think if you are in one of those groups you know and
00:57:10
certainly you're over like 40 you should be getting the vaccine i mean not to harp on this but what did trump
00:57:15
say when you suggested you come out publicly about it nobody's listening to it nobody's no
00:57:21
it's fine nobody's listening to me obviously i mean it it is very weird that trump spent
00:57:31
massive amounts of money on the vaccine and now doesn't want to take credit for project light speed by telling everybody
00:57:36
to get it i think he's got what is your other issues i think he's got a lot of other
00:57:41
issues on the plate to deal with including an indictment that just landed yesterday so
00:57:45
maybe you know maybe he just doesn't know what to focus on because he he sees his uh his budding
00:57:51
empire unraveling before him did you see the report that said that trump was extremely thrilled by the fact that
00:57:57
his cfo was indicted for two reasons one is it kind of indicates that they didn't have enough
00:58:03
to go after him and two is it's going to make joe biden look bad and his administration
00:58:08
look bad uh because it looks like they're being kind of prosecuted and persecuted now but that he views
00:58:13
this as a positive and and he's thinking about it as a way to kind of stage a 2024 run
00:58:19
well i didn't i didn't see that particular story but i do think that maggie tweeted okay well
00:58:26
what the charges show i think is that they got nothing on trump directly um i mean this turned out to be
00:58:32
a big nothing burger after years of investigation just like the whole russia thing
00:58:37
and so 15 15 felony counts trump was not let me finish trump trump was not named they didn't get close to
00:58:48
trump all they got was they're trying to charge the wesley high muzu cfo with basically receiving certain perks
00:58:54
as compensation t and that was tv violations it was crazy yeah this is penny annie's stuff it does look
00:59:00
like persecution rather than prosecution and what they're trying to do is they're going after this guy
00:59:05
wesselheim to squeeze him to try and roll over on trump well good luck with that that's about as
00:59:10
likely to happen as uh putin releasing the p tapes not going to happen sorry jacal
00:59:16
trump is getting away one thing i would say i think that i disagree with respectfully is um
00:59:23
this is a 15-year uh tax avoidance scheme that included more than t e included people getting their tuition
00:59:31
paid for for free and free apartments so they just would be and then hold on they then
00:59:36
knowingly did this and changed the books knowingly so they caught them going into their accounting
00:59:41
and changing to hide it and so the cover-up worse than the crime this is an explicit way
00:59:46
to not pay their taxes this would be if all of us took our personal residences and our kids
00:59:51
private school tuition and didn't pay taxes on it it's significant jason so the the total amount for
00:59:56
example that this guy got in uh tuition reimbursements over this 15-year period was about 375
01:00:04
000 the total amount of some other rent perks that he got was for about 1.6 or 7
01:00:10
million the total amount of value that i think his son got you know was spending a
01:00:15
thousand dollars a month in a trombone department when you add it all up for a guy that
01:00:20
was accused of you know being in cahoots with russia this and that and everything you pinch
01:00:27
the cfo for a few million dollars of effectively again t e let's just say that he did it
01:00:34
you know some of these checks came directly from trump it i think i agree with david it's a bit of
01:00:39
a nothing burger and it really does look like it's politically motivated and the reason is
01:00:44
because these kinds of chargers are typically not brought these are things that typically result
01:00:50
in a civil penalty a restatement and you just kind of move on you know nobody nobody's trying to send
01:00:55
somebody to jail for you know getting for miscategorizing or i have a theory because we don't have
01:01:01
full information and they weren't investigating this stuff before trump became a politician
01:01:05
why weren't wh this if this been going on for 15 years why didn't this investigation happen
01:01:11
five six seven years ago i could tell you why his um the daughter-in-law of weisselbergs uh was uh
01:01:20
received a lot of these perks and then she dropped a dime and gave all the documents to them
01:01:24
my theory on this is because we don't have complete information yet i think that they have other i think
01:01:30
they have this bigger tax uh case around making the assets look um smaller when paying taxes and
01:01:38
inflating the value of the assets when getting loans and i think they want to get that and the way to get that
01:01:44
is to flip weiselberg because trump does not use email and communications i think
01:01:48
that that's what's going on here um but yes you're right they're trying to they're trying to flip him look
01:01:54
the the kgb had a saying show us the man we'll tell you the crime okay they decided we're gonna go after
01:02:01
trump this is entirely political they weren't interested in him five six seven years ago once he got
01:02:06
into politics they became interested in him he became the man and now they are trying to roll up and flip all these
01:02:12
people and try to get them to turn on trump and give them something these democratic
01:02:16
pit bull prosecutors they are going to make trump look like the victim here this will rebound i think in a negative
01:02:21
way it is a really stupid thing that they're doing i mean this this could have happened in
01:02:26
so many different ways the guy was finished and washed up right he was in his little hovel in
01:02:33
florida you know no twitter account you know in the one no twitter account no access to
01:02:37
his base um the one time he actually showed up in new york two or three weeks ago i don't
01:02:41
know if you guys saw the photos he looks so disheveled so old so broken let the guy wither
01:02:48
into obscurity but instead you pin these charges you create an entire press cycle you're
01:02:54
going to rally so many people on the right and actually a lot of people in general
01:02:58
who feel like wait what are we doing as a country why don't we just let it just be done
01:03:02
with this guy i don't ever want to hear about him ever again and instead we're kind of like bringing
01:03:07
it all back front center i just think it's a bad look what do you think about the insurrection
01:03:13
commission do you think that that should um should be disbanded as well because you think that should that should be
01:03:19
pursued yeah because that's not necessarily about trump that it is about a whole totality of things that really
01:03:25
will lead into the fact that we have a lot of far right organizations that need to be understood we have one
01:03:35
far-left organization that needs to be understood all in the same light which is that
01:03:39
these folks are destabilizing force to democracy and so yeah you got to get to the bottom
01:03:45
of what the hell happened sex do you do you think the insurrection commission is going to be equally kind
01:03:50
of politically motivating for uh for trump's face and for folks like that well i just think that
01:03:57
you have to decide as a country whether you're going to keep relitigating you know what happened in
01:04:02
the previous administration i mean if we're going to go back and keep this going
01:04:06
you know we're going to go back and look at why did the fbi used the steele dossier
01:04:13
to go to a fisa court to spy on members of the trump campaign and there are 17 misrepresentations in
01:04:20
their uh in their petition to the fisa court i mean there was clear misconduct there
01:04:24
we're going to go back and relitigate that and go after people and punish them look maybe we should
01:04:29
okay but i think that this is the thing about politics everyone just wants to move forward
01:04:33
we're in a new administration now whatever misconduct occurred i think the punishment was paid at the
01:04:39
ballot box i think it's just time to move on and uh and i look i know there's going to be a
01:04:45
lot of partisans on both sides who just want to go re-litigate and punish their enemies forever
01:04:50
but you know i think the american people just want to move forward yeah what do you mean are you in the far
01:04:56
what are you in the far left want to do well i'm not on the far left i mean i i think that there is a
01:05:01
i do think that there is a bunch of gamesmanship here i think this is a a chess board that on the left they're
01:05:08
saying if we we if we have a chance to take trump out of political life we need to
01:05:16
do that because the cost of him getting re-elected in 2024 is too great and so what we're talking
01:05:22
about here is you know what is the best path to doing that and you know chamats right like
01:05:27
just letting him fade into obscurity he may not want to run again because he's so old
01:05:31
and it's so painful to be president he's 75 i mean he's going to be 78 or no 17 he'll be the same age as biden
01:05:38
going i mean this is ridiculous both of these two guys are one-term presidents i think
01:05:43
that is abundantly clear i think the question is what is biden's transition plan
01:05:49
you know does he actually only stay two years and transitions to takamala i don't know but there's no way that
01:05:55
he's running for a second term either he does not look healthy i think that much
01:05:59
is at least and i'm saying this as you know a centrist democrat he doesn't look completely fit um
01:06:07
and it's only going to get worse and this is the most incredibly stressful job in the world
01:06:11
neither of these two guys are our long-term solution it's time to let it all go right
01:06:18
it's like we had four years of just chaos we now get to have four years to catch our breath
01:06:26
it's time to find the late 40s to mid 50s centrist normal people again and we have
01:06:34
three years to do it who do you think that is on the republican side and tomorrow who do you
01:06:39
think it is on the democrat side who's going to run for the next election cycle because just this morning by the way an
01:06:44
article came out that um highlighted that several insiders in the white house are
01:06:49
completely like up in arms about how uh chaotic uh kamala harris's office is which is
01:06:56
basically a way of starting to shoot her down right so if you think about the the
01:07:00
motivation here someone in the white house is starting to shoot kamala harris down
01:07:03
which means they're starting to weaken her a little bit in terms of whether she could actually be a good replacement for
01:07:08
the next term i don't know if that's truly the motivation but that's typically what these sorts of stories
01:07:12
indicate so if not her if not her who on the democrat side and you know if not trump who on the
01:07:19
republican side in the next election cycle because those folks are going to start to pop their head up right
01:07:23
the well i mean i think the i think the person who has enough credibility to take a shot it's
01:07:30
not clear that she will but if she did she would be really serious and she could actually get people to be
01:07:37
relatively normal as nikki haley on the right but ron desantis is going to be the right
01:07:43
candidate correct and she's kind of normal desantis is definitely the early front runner
01:07:47
um there was a straw poll in which he was the first republican to actually run ahead of trump in a
01:07:54
straw poll for what four or five years and uh so yeah it looks like uh he now he's running for re-election in
01:08:02
florida in 2022 so that's on his plate and but i think it looks like he's going to sweep to victory he made the right
01:08:10
decisions on lockdowns this is the central feather in his cap that before any other governor really he
01:08:18
looked at the data saw that to freeburg's point lockdowns don't make a difference
01:08:23
he went back to normal the state benefited you look at per capita covades in florida
01:08:28
it's middle of the pack which is actually a really good result given how many old people they have so
01:08:33
he did a phenomenal job i think setting covet policy in florida and he did it in the face of a hostile media that was
01:08:42
just tearing him limb from limb and so he stowed that he only can find the right policy
01:08:47
but that he's got the spine to stand up for it and i think as a result of that yeah he has
01:08:53
galvanized early the republican base if he wins re-election in 2022 by uh by a strong margin i think he does
01:09:02
become the putative front-runner for 2024. very similar in a way i think to the way that that george w
01:09:08
bush you know he he basically won re-election in texas two years before he ran for president
01:09:14
and on the heels of that victory he was able to make the case look i just got reelected
01:09:19
very popular in a huge state of the country you know i should be the front-runner
01:09:23
i think desantis is in a similar position what do you think about nikki haley's sex
01:09:28
i think nikki haley is sort of popular with the establishment wing of the republican party but she
01:09:33
does not bring together both the the sort of the establishment wing with the populist wing and what
01:09:39
desantis has been able to do is get the business republicans and the establishment
01:09:44
republicans to get behind him as well as the populist trump base loves him and that's that's
01:09:51
the um that's the combo you got to have i think to to win the republican nomination and so
01:09:57
nikki haley i think you know everybody who sort of reads elite media is going to over index
01:10:03
on her but if you go to the the straw polls and the rallies she's not just not going to perform in
01:10:08
those polls there's a very interesting article on politico though over the past week about how
01:10:13
desantis is being very careful not to do anything to upset trump and i think he understands
01:10:19
is he the vp candidate with trump you think well that that pre-assumes a lot of things happening i mean look
01:10:26
we don't know what's gonna happen i think that you know the the number one way to resurrect
01:10:31
trump is what chamas said is to keep poking that bear to fill him with the the rage to to sort of counter punch and
01:10:40
come back i think it would be better however for a new generation of leaders to look we have we're being
01:10:47
run by a gerontocracy right now so i mean just biden is 78 pelosi is 80. schumer is 77. mcconnell is 80 and trump
01:10:56
is 75. and that's today okay in 2024 all those people are going to be in their 80s or
01:11:02
just about who will even be alive i mean feinstein will be 91 or 92. it's time to have a new generation of
01:11:09
both parties why are we being run by this gerontocracy what a joke do we want to move on to the
01:11:14
drought and impending uh death and or the facebook ftc dismissal oh that was incredible and also at the
01:11:22
uh ftc got two gut punches in a row uh and then you know amazon writes this petition to recuse lena khan
01:11:30
it's like that's why she was hired incredible she was hired because she's an expert on amazon the the amazon the
01:11:36
amazon letter was actually extremely well written and basically said i know that she's in charge of basically
01:11:43
finding fairness and fairness seems to be that we will get legislated but we believe
01:11:47
that it's unfair to us so please take her out of the mix i just think it was fantastic i mean it's
01:11:53
incredible it's like isn't this the point of having her in the job it's like we've hired a new prosecutor
01:11:58
who specializes in organized crime and the gambino crime family has petitioned to have them
01:12:03
exactly refused refused from doing any organized right there their argument is that she
01:12:09
should be recused because she published um articles yeah that amazon should be broken up and they're saying she's
01:12:15
already prejudged the situation there's no way this is gonna fly there's no way she's gonna get recused
01:12:21
but i think what they're trying to do is put an argument on appeal so that if lena khan does break them up
01:12:28
somehow they can then go appeal to the supreme court or wherever and this is basically reserving an argument
01:12:34
they can make later so just to highlight the ftc um brought this case against facebook saying that they're a
01:12:42
monopoly in their monopolistic practices or damaging the market the dc federal court threw out the case
01:12:47
and they basically said that the ftc failed to demonstrate in any way that facebook has a monopoly over anything
01:12:54
because they kept using the 60 market share term and they're like 60 what and the ftc was never able to give
01:13:01
them data or facts to indicate what facebook has a 60 share of there are other social media
01:13:08
services or other advertising platforms there are other content sites that are all
01:13:11
um in aggregate much larger than facebook and so the case was dismissed because there was no demonstration
01:13:18
at all which is why of the traditional definition of a monopoly and then elizabeth warren comes out two
01:13:24
days ago and says we need to rewrite the laws uh the anti-trust laws entirely redefine
01:13:29
what it means to be a monopoly redefine what this this impacts and so i think the big question is how much of a
01:13:34
priority is it going to be for this administration and for this congress before they're out of session
01:13:39
and we end up with a split congress again to step up and rewrite anti-trust laws at
01:13:43
this point is this really a high priority question um or is it going to get that's why khan is
01:13:48
being brought in is to take another approach like we talked about on the last episode which is
01:13:54
you know the harm is competition uh and not uh the monopolistic power but downstream competition as chamath uh
01:14:03
eloquently explained on the last pod the irony of the elizabeth warren uh statements was that she released them
01:14:09
on twitter not her facebook somebody dunked at her like she's talking about the monopolistic powers of facebook on
01:14:14
twitter right right you have an alternative it was the point um i mean how big of how big of a like
01:14:21
legislative priority is this going to be for democrats because this could be real
01:14:26
if they rewrite the laws it could be impactful to amazon apple facebook google you know
01:14:32
huge it's a huge priority there's six bills that just got passed in the house is going to the senate and i do think
01:14:37
moving fast this is one of the areas where you could actually get some bipartisan agreement
01:14:42
in the senate you remember it's a 50-50 senate all it would take would be a few democrats
01:14:46
to defect and they wouldn't be able to pass anything but you got 21 republicans who supported lena khan so you know that
01:14:54
says to me that legislation is likely i think it's going to go through i think we are going to see some some
01:15:01
big changes and in fairness to lena khan this ftc lawsuit that got thrown out was brought before she got there she
01:15:07
didn't have a chance to shape those arguments they have 30 days to refile it'll be
01:15:12
really interesting to see how she handles this hot potato now whether she brings the lawsuit in a
01:15:19
different way in the next 30 days or whether she lets it drop but i do think that of all
01:15:24
the big tech companies the argument for breaking up facebook is the weakest because it's true like it's it's harder
01:15:31
to say definitively they have a monopoly in social networking when you've got twitter
01:15:35
you've got snapchat you've talked to reddit you've got you've got linkedin you've got so many
01:15:41
other companies in social media but but that does not mean that the argument against amazon google and apple isn't
01:15:48
strong those companies are clearly monopolies or duopolies in their spaces nobody can effectively compete with them
01:15:54
their network effects or monopoly scale effects i think that facebook's monopolistic
01:15:59
impact probably tends towards some form of information distribution but it's a very
01:16:04
technical argument that has to be framed accurately on the one side or it's how they've aggregated long-tail
01:16:10
advertisers on the other but to your point david on the idea of social networking i don't think they're
01:16:14
a monopoly in the lease well also they're re-litigating the approved acquisitions of instagram and
01:16:20
whatsapp i kind of feel like if you bought these things and you approved it what is it nine years ago
01:16:25
and seven years ago yeah they said they said if you guys had an issue that you know the state's
01:16:30
attorney general that filed the suit against the instagram acquisition and whatsapp they're like if
01:16:34
you had an issue with it you should have filed the suit years ago you waited too long and clearly there's
01:16:39
you know you know other motivations like just because google was successful buying youtube
01:16:43
doesn't mean you can go back in and unwind youtube because they did a great job building youtube
01:16:47
99.999 percent of youtube success is because of google not because youtube they took a small
01:16:54
team and they rebuilt that whole thing and they scaled the heck out of it let me ask you a
01:16:57
question to sacks if these companies paid more taxes and got out of the censorship business
01:17:03
uh do you think they could you know maybe take a little wind out of the sales yes yeah of course look the only reason
01:17:10
the only reason those 21 republicans have now gotten on board with regulating the power of these big
01:17:16
tech companies is they see those big tech companies using their gatekeeper power to restrict free speech
01:17:21
and it's all one-sided and it's partisan against you know their side of the aisle because
01:17:26
these companies are populated generally speaking by people on the other side of the aisle
01:17:31
and so you know big tech if they had just reigned in their own impulses to want to censor the other side they
01:17:37
would not be in the hot water they're in right now because it seems like facebook is
01:17:42
starting to backtrack on the trump ban well they haven't twitter and i think i think they got a big problem now no
01:17:49
look i think they should have been doing this over the last couple of years what they thought could never happen all
01:17:54
of a sudden became arbitrary and the thing that they did was they started to legislate
01:17:59
a private company started to legislate power and that's just a third rail issue the
01:18:05
minute you do that you have every government in the world saying you're saying to themselves wait a minute
01:18:10
i am only focused on this one thing right i don't take a huge salary i've been grinding at the low levels of politics
01:18:17
for 40 50 years to get to this exact place and now i have a bunch of hipsters in
01:18:22
menlo park telling me what i can and can't say to the people that i worked a lifetime
01:18:27
to basically be able to govern over i mean i you know yeah you can't it can't stand
01:18:33
yeah so i think a big mistake that zuckerberg made goes all the way back to 2016.
01:18:37
facebook basically bought into the disinformation argument they apologized for it
01:18:42
what zuck that was the time for zuckerberg to fight he should have said no listen was the fsb were these bad actors
01:18:49
on facebook yes but when you look at the total number of impressions and page views it was like a
01:18:54
drop of water in the ocean we're not the ones who caused this election to go the way it did obama used facebook
01:19:01
very effectively in 2008 and nobody has examined us then and that was the time to fight
01:19:07
that was the time to fight and to your point david he actually should have been even more
01:19:11
he said the reason trump got elected was not me but it was obama you know he could
01:19:16
have really gone on the attack and he would have done himself well hillary hillary just ran a bad campaign
01:19:21
if hillary had just campaigned in wisconsin it would have gone a different way in 2016. so what zuck should have she
01:19:27
had an idiot team she had an idea she had a terrible team and they were bad at everything including facebook
01:19:32
including social media so zuck should have said listen don't blame us for the fact the
01:19:37
campaign was bad at social media you put victory into the jaws of defeat uh let's uh end on this u.s sprinter case i
01:19:44
think it's super interesting you're a sprinter richardson test positive for marijuana
01:19:49
and is suspended a month putting her tokyo doubt uh she is the gold medal favorite in the women's 100 meter uh and
01:19:58
she could miss the games after testing poverty positive she said she smoked pot when
01:20:02
she found out uh in oregon legally when she found out her mom had died um and it's on the united states
01:20:11
doping agency announced this result on friday her explanation is so [ __ ] heartbreaking
01:20:20
i mean what are we doing here well there was there was this is similar to the golfer who was about to win the
01:20:26
pga and got kicked out on the final day because he tested positive for kova without anything
01:20:32
outdoors he's outside guys i cannot imagine a worse drug for a sprinter than marijuana
01:20:40
yeah i mean for healing great but i mean you're gonna like run the hundred meters
01:20:44
and it's not a performance enhancing drug what this is is this legalism these bureaucratic legalistic
01:20:53
technicalities gone wild in this case or this runner in the case of the golfer i mean it's like
01:20:59
it's like the bureaucrats enforcing the rules have completely lost sight of what the purpose these rules are the
01:21:06
spirit of the rule is super important um and there was a professional snowboarder
01:21:13
and his name was ross galati from canada and he wanted a medal and they took his medal away
01:21:22
because he had thc in his uh system and disqualified him and then they went back and gave him his medal
01:21:29
back i believe and so this is heartbreaking and ridiculous and i i i'm not going to watch the i
01:21:38
love watching the olympics i watch a lot of the olympics i really enjoy it um i think it's awesome and i'm just not
01:21:43
gonna watch this this year [ __ ] it i i just i'm so offended by this like you want these people to take like
01:21:49
opioids for their pain uh and suffering or you want to take some antidepressant i mean
01:21:54
jesus christ jason look i'll also say like in in our friend group we have a handful of
01:22:01
nba players and i don't i don't think you remember this conversation or maybe you do
01:22:05
i think we were all together when they talked about the up until uh marijuana was more widely
01:22:12
used in the nba yeah the pills that these players were given literally borderline opioids crazy
01:22:21
ripped their stomach apart ripped everything apart you know created dependencies
01:22:26
and all of a sudden you had a natural alternative and people are going to judge folks for taking i mean
01:22:32
these guys are brutalizing their bodies for enter for effectively our entertainment
01:22:37
and then we don't give them a reasonable way to manage their pain it's outrageous
01:22:41
and everybody else is smoking a doobie during halftime or taking a gummy on the way home to sleep
01:22:47
i mean it's so hypocritical and it feels like i mean this country just feels like it's
01:22:52
being run by a bunch of bureaucratic technocratic leaders weenies and whether it's
01:22:59
whether it's we should give them a wedgie and throw them in the locker that's what we should do with this
01:23:03
whoever put this person they get a wedgie and get thrown in a locker i knew you i knew you were a schoolyard
01:23:09
bully jkl i'm not a schoolyard bully but i do think the hall monitors you know those people you were a wall
01:23:15
monitor did you volunteer to be a home monitor be honest no no no no you were in the chess club i
01:23:22
liked our chess game sax yeah okay this is how i knew this is how i knew that jake out wasn't
01:23:28
real i knew i knew i had heard him okay i knew he was genuinely hurt but i knew he would get over it when i
01:23:34
got i saw my push notifications or requests from chess.com he started a chess game
01:23:39
with me so i'm like how did i play because i'm a neophyte he couldn't have easily he
01:23:44
couldn't be away from how easy was it to beat me as a 1200 player to my 600 yeah well the
01:23:49
chess.com analysis said that uh i was never i was never in any danger but uh i thought you played pretty well
01:23:56
and uh yeah give me a tip what's my tip well you you didn't castle fast enough you let me you left
01:24:02
you let me get that bishop out yeah you let me trap your king in the center and then
01:24:07
you know it was a but that but you did good you did good all right i knew i was okay with you
01:24:12
when i got to chess.com i think we need a vegas trip maybe we're all just a little cooped up
01:24:16
maybe we need to go to vegas do a quick 48 hour run this weekend should we do a little 48-hour vegas run
01:24:25
all right everybody this has been an amazing episode so i'm officially unblocking saks and um
01:24:31
i even followed him love you chamoth love you sacks love you free birthday jkl i have
01:24:37
something to say to you as well which is i appreciate you i i rain man david sacks
01:25:02
and they've just gone crazy [Music] one big huge orgy because they're all just useless it's like this like sexual
01:25:28
tension that they just need to release [Music] your feet [Music] what are those pants dude these are my
01:25:55
swim trunks whoa swim trunks ah there they are the internet famous legs i mean these legs are actually but much
01:26:04
much bigger look look how big they are oh please tell me you're recording nick look at how big these are

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Episode Highlights

  • Twitter Feud Escalates
    A heated exchange between Jason Calacanis and David Sachs over podcast moderation.
    “This whole thing escalates and snowballs.”
    @ 04m 03s
    July 03, 2021
  • Apologies and Resolutions
    The hosts attempt to mend their friendship after a public fallout.
    “I unblocked you and you're followed.”
    @ 18m 00s
    July 03, 2021
  • Robinhood's Major Fine
    Robinhood has filed their S1 and paid a $70 million fine for outages and misleading customers.
    “It's the largest fine ever, I think, of this type.”
    @ 21m 52s
    July 03, 2021
  • The Delta Variant Discussion
    The conversation shifts to the Delta variant and its implications for vaccinated individuals.
    “How should we look at the Delta variant if you're vaccinated?”
    @ 36m 16s
    July 03, 2021
  • Delta Variant's Infectious Nature
    The delta variant has a reproduction rate of 1.3, making it significantly more infectious than earlier strains.
    “This variant is much more infectious.”
    @ 37m 17s
    July 03, 2021
  • Public Sentiment on Restrictions
    People are growing weary of the ongoing restrictions and uninformed decisions impacting their lives.
    “People are tired of uninformed impacts to their lives.”
    @ 41m 34s
    July 03, 2021
  • Concerns Over Mask Mandates
    A recent study raises alarms about the health effects of prolonged mask-wearing in children.
    “It's like child abuse.”
    @ 45m 47s
    July 03, 2021
  • The Impact of Vaccination
    Vaccination rates among the elderly have significantly reduced COVID-19 fatalities.
    “Almost 90% of people over 70 have been vaccinated.”
    @ 54m 19s
    July 03, 2021
  • Trump's Legal Troubles
    Discussion around Trump's indictment and its implications for his political future.
    “Trump views the indictment as a positive for his 2024 run.”
    @ 58m 19s
    July 03, 2021
  • The Need for New Leadership
    A call for a new generation of leaders to replace the aging political elite.
    “It's time to have a new generation of both parties.”
    @ 01h 11m 09s
    July 03, 2021
  • Elizabeth Warren's Call to Action
    Elizabeth Warren advocates for rewriting anti-trust laws to redefine monopolies.
    “We need to rewrite the laws entirely.”
    @ 01h 13m 24s
    July 03, 2021
  • Olympic Doping Controversy
    Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson faces suspension for marijuana use after her mother's death.
    “Her explanation is so heartbreaking.”
    @ 01h 20m 04s
    July 03, 2021

Episode Quotes

  • Explain that to me, big baby.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
  • I haven't moved; the whole world's gone crazy.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
  • This variant is much more infectious.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
  • This is just more fear porn.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
  • It's time to let it all go right.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
  • It's all bureaucratic legalistic technicalities gone wild.
    E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more

Key Moments

  • Apology Time17:28
  • Labeling Controversy19:40
  • Vaccination impact38:04
  • Vaccine Efficacy55:56
  • Political Gerontocracy1:11:10
  • Amazon Regulation1:11:56
  • FTC vs Facebook1:12:47
  • Doping Scandal1:20:04

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