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January 11, 2025 / 01:47:19

This episode covers topics including wildfires in California, leadership accountability, and the impact of climate change. Guests Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, and Sayan Banister discuss the recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, particularly the Palisades fire, which has destroyed thousands of homes and claimed lives. They analyze the role of government incompetence and the need for better disaster preparedness.

Chamath emphasizes the historical context of these wildfires, pointing out that similar events occurred in the past and that the government failed to take necessary preventive measures. David discusses the scientific aspects of climate change and extreme weather, suggesting that both natural phenomena and poor planning contributed to the disaster.

Sayan adds to the conversation by highlighting the importance of building materials and infrastructure in fire-prone areas. The group reflects on the political implications of the disaster, questioning whether current leadership is adequately addressing the needs of the community.

The episode also touches on broader themes of accountability in government, the need for effective leadership, and the importance of civic engagement in addressing systemic issues. The guests encourage listeners to consider their role in advocating for change and holding leaders accountable.

Overall, the discussion is a mix of personal anecdotes, expert opinions, and a call to action for listeners to engage more actively in political and social issues.

TL;DR

The episode discusses California wildfires, leadership accountability, and climate change impacts with guests Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, and Sayan Banister.

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crazy all right everybody welcome back
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to the all in podcast I'm your host jpow
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from Japan here JP cutting turns in the
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Seco and at Ean I and we have an
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incredible lineup today as always the
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chairman dictator chamath is here to
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reign supreme how are you doing brother
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good how are you what are you wearing
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exactly I'm just wearing my kimono as I
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want to do uh here on the all-in podcast
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why are you speaking in Elizabethan
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English I just decided in 2025 I'm going
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to live my best life and I'm going to do
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everything anybody ask me to do
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something I'm saying yes oh I'm I'm GNA
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ask you a bunch of stuff next weekend
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then I got so many ideas I got a list
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I'm gonna ask you to do all sorts of
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it's epic I'm doing it yeah okay so uh
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it's a and uh yeah I'm I'm over the moon
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right now and then I'll be going to the
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inauguration to see all my
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friends and celebrate the big Trump
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Victory and tape an episode there with
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us of course David freeberg your
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resident sulan of Science and not a
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moment too soon we have so much to talk
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about what's the background here
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those are some dead trees
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with ma Fuji in the background yeah
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that's a c basically Jason cissa
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landscape while you've been um
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gallivanting and being a diletant your
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original adopted home state is burning
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to the ground ah yes I know about this I
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got off the ski lift and I saw this
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after I had posted like oh my life is
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amazing and I was like oh my God you
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know you can totally and everybody
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replied like are you the and I'm like oh
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my Lord this is unbelievable we'll
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obviously talk about that so then you
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promoted the Tweet yes I put $500 behind
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it to boost to try to get my ratings up
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no I actually literally deleted it
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because I I posted a and I never do that
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but I posted a video where I was like oh
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my God it's incredible and I was like
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you know what this is the wrong time for
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it so a little Grace there folks and I
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am so happy to have here on Allin Idol
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the one the only my good friend cyan
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banister no our good friend she's my
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good friend before you guys met her so
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sure she's ours but I've been friends
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with her longer so my good friend Sayan
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B and our good friend and our bestie
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let's just leave it at that it doesn't
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have to be a competition for who Sayan
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likes best we'll ask her to rate at the
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end of the episode say welcome to the
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program yeah thanks for having me I
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appreciate it it's nice to see everyone
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Jason you want to tell people about
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sence background yeah do an epic rant on
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cence Epic I mean c and I fought in the
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Clone worse together it was a long time
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ago but uh she's a technologist
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self-made individual who then decided
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she would start writing small Angel
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checks about 14 years ago literally the
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same year I did and uh myself cyan
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profoundly better than you let's just be
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she's not incredible yes of course well
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we'll get into it and uh cyan and I
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would uh 14 years ago I guess we would
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meet startup companies together and host
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little events where we get together and
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and take pitches and we invested in a
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couple companies together and it worked
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out very nicely for everyone involved so
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yeah we're in a couple of companies
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together yeah density density we were on
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the board together for a little bit so
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that was fun a little bit Yeah Yeah
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Thumbtack Thumbtack actually Thumbtack
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density and Uber I all discovered
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through you what's which one was Uber I
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got to check my oh I don't think I don't
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think let me check my Google sheet here
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I didn't know I invested in Uber let me
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check I have to confirm that oh yeah I
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did I but I uh at one of these events I
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introduce Sayan to Uber that's true
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right so found all three of those deals
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at your event so that was really great
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oh yeah well thanks that's a that's a
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very nice let me try cyan is a prolific
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angel investor correct I just said that
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she was a part of Founders fund oh right
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yeah she runs a seed fund called long
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journey Ventures okay some of her hits
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include SpaceX andil density Postmates
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Niantic which is the makers of Pokemon
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go
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and Jason's favorite startup
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Uber yeah it's been a good run it's been
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a good run and also I'll just add a
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wonderful human being and if you ever
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had the chance to hang out and talk for
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a couple of hours cyan would be one of
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those people that you put right at the
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top of the list I will Pro I will
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promote sayan's interview with Tim
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Ferris a couple weeks ago I randomly
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turned it on I was in the car driving
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home and then I stopped in my driveway
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and kept listening I was just telling
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cyan like it was a fantastic what was it
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about two hours two and a half hour
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interview three well it was four hours
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he cut it to three and a half yeah and
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then I had to drive again I listened to
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the it's it and I was like excited to
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get back to it which never happens for
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me listening to long form interviews
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like that like it was phenomenal so I
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recommend it to everyone why did it hit
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you so deeply couple things one C is an
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incredible Storyteller like the the way
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she describes her experiences her
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history her life
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beautiful she talks in kind of I think a
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deep persuasive way about some of the
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things that have shaped her her uh
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business investing as well as kind of
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spirituality which she mentioned earlier
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which is not something that you'll
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typically and you're like wait where did
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this conversation just pivot to and then
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you go down this whole other path with
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her and you go on the journey with her I
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just thought it was great so all over
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the place it was great beautiful
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recommend it to everyone to get to know
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cyan oh thanks can I have you all is my
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professional cheerleading squad from now
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on this pretty awesome I don't like
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talking about myself and this is great I
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love it yeah well it's uh it's true
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Sayan was voted most humble in our Angel
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Investing group and I was a close second
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so I almost won most humble in group
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more work to do being humble I'm gonna
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get you a t-shirt called the humblest no
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no you have to borrow it from Cham he's
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got he's had it for the last 10 years
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seven or eight years ago Jason
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approached C and I and said hey guys
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Harvey WI has asked me to make a show
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yes true story it's true story here's
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how he asked me to do it in his room it
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was really it's a true
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story take it down and cyan myself and
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Jason
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went to some place in the city and we
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taped a taped episode I have it what is
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it called the first we taped the NBC
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pilot for the accelerator or the
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incubator so I had been
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approached and did a pilot for NBC
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called the acceler Ator and they spent
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like a half million dollars on this and
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you guys came on and it came out great
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and it was just going to you know follow
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me around ding it was very awkward
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because afterwards they approached cyan
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and I to do the show without when we
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without Jason and so we had to we had to
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decide who needs enemies we decided our
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friendship was more important exactly I
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don't know if I ever told you guys the
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story but like literally they were like
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figuring out where to put this and what
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time slot they were like we're going to
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do it in the summer sum because we're
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trying to get some summer programming
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going that's what we're going to test St
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and then Harvey Weinstein turns out to
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be an horrible monster and the whole
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thing gets canceled and anything that
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was anywhere within a hundred miles of
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Harvey wiing got canceled including my
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failed or forgotten reality TV show all
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right let's get to more important things
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there is an unbelievable tragedy
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occurring in Los Angeles H as we're
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speaking devastating wildfires basically
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a formed to ring around La the most
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destructive of which has been the
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Palisades fire and which has stretched
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into Malibu
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obviously and 15,000 Acres or so have
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been burned in that area thousands of
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homes maybe 2,000 homes here are some
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images they're just devastating and we
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have a lot of friends in this area and
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the area you're seeing on fire if you
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don't know the Topography of Los Angeles
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is north of Santa Monica you have
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Palisades and then Malibu and obviously
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east of the 405 you have things that
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you've heard of like Bair and Brentwood
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this area is part of a
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mountain area called the Santa Monica
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Mountains and they get very dry and
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there's a phenomenon which we'll get
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into called the Santa and winds that
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blow really really strongly and a
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perfect storm has happened where
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thousands of homes and tragically five
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lives and I'm sure there'll be more
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unfortunately have burn down this video
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of driving down
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PCH if you've ever driven PCH the
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Pacific Coast Highway these are 10 20
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$50 million homes that are literally on
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the Pacific Ocean the most coveted homes
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in Los Angeles are not belir and
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brenwood you might think that because
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you hear them on TV but really if you
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were an incredibly successful person you
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would aspire to live in the Pacific
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Palisades just west of bretwood and just
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south of Malibu or Malibu many
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celebrities live there many Executives
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Etc and these homes are gone thousands
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and thousands of homes it's this is
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turned into the ultimate rosock test on
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social media where people are projecting
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into this tragedy which tragically
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occurs every year to varying degrees and
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maybe every 20 30 years it's an acute
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situation we'll get into that in a
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moment but looking at this
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absolute just devast stating loss of
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property and lives the lives could have
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been a lot worse freeberg from a
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scientific perspective maybe we'll start
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there when you look at these wildfires
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extreme weather global warming and you
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look at this situation is that where
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your mind goes or in this raw shck test
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of how you feel about these kind of
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tragedies and how you interpret it do
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you go somewhere else the incompetence
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of California's government
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Dei Ukraine I mean everybody body is
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superimposing on this natural disaster
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whatever
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their pet issues are where do you come
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to when you look at this I don't think
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that those are exclusive okay I think
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that you can have had both incompetent
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planning and execution by
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leadership as well as have kind of
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uncontrollable circumstances that
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management and planning weren't
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necessarily going to solve and I I'll
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kind of talk about a couple of these
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points real quick first of all like we
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talked about when the hurricane hit a
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couple of months ago remember and as you
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guys know I have an office or facility
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out in Nashville so we were exposed to
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the flooding circumstances and we talked
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about the the frequency of of that sort
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of an event having been such a rare
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occurrence becoming more common
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similarly we're seeing more frequent
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high high wind events in California
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flooding events in California and hot
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events in California if you look at this
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link I sent out Nick in terms of the
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total precipitation over this current
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what's called rain
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season the Southern California region is
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basically at a you know call it 0% of
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normal so this is Southern California
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you can see that third column that's the
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percent of normal rainfall that has been
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experienced there's been zero rain in
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these regions so everything is primed to
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be very dry and then you get the Santa
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Ana winds 100 mph winds no matter matter
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how much underbrush you clear out no
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matter how many trees you remove if
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there's some Embers in the air there's a
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100 mph wind that is going to create a
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fire hurricane and a lot of homes are
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going to get caught on fire so it's very
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hard to kind of just pin the blame
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solely on not doing underbrush clearing
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not doing removal of trees those should
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have happened they didn't happen that
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was wrong that was bad policy but it
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doesn't excuse the fact that there's a
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natural event that happened here that
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seems to be occurring with greater
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frequency the I'll kind of pivot to if
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we want to get there now maybe we'll
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talk about that in a minute is kind of
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the economic and the policy issues with
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respect to the Department of Insurance
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because okay let's get to that after we
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go through maybe a little bit of the
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quick reactions here I think that's
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where that's where there's going to be
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real pain and Devastation and that's the
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biggest economic consequence is the role
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that insurance has played in all this
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stuff which we'll get to in a minute
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yeah okay so chamath I think table
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Stakes we all agree global warming
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extreme weather depending on what degree
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you believe in it there plays some
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Factor here and this is something that
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has reoccurred over and over again in
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this specific re region but on social
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media we're seeing a lot of other
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interpretations of this event maybe your
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thoughts on some of the other
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interpretations and then where when you
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look at it what do you start to think
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about preventing this in the future or
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maybe who's responsible what's your
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general take on what we've seen the last
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week I mean I'm not very sympathetic to
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the there were 100 m hour winds not
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because it's not true but there's been
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enough modeling that we know that these
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kinds of outlier weather events are
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happening in greater and greater
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frequency Nick maybe you can find this
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and just put it up here but remember
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that crazy apocalyptic video of that
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exact same part of Southern California
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in
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2018 burning to the ground can we just
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look at that all of us collectively
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because that was six years ago this is
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not like it was a distant memory from a
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hundred years ago we knew in 2018 that
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these Thea pass so this this idea that
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we were just Lolly gagging around and
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got caught off guard by 100 mph winds to
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me is completely not an acceptable
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answer we knew in 2018 that these things
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could happen we knew across the rest of
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the United States that these outlier
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weather events were happening in greater
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and greater frequenc
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if you weren't sure you saw most of the
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insurance companies try to dump Southern
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California homes fire coverage three
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months before this event happened so all
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this data was in the realm of the
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knowable and then when you doubleclick
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and you get into a little bit more of
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the details there's a level of
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incompetence bordering on criminal
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negligence here that we need to get to
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the bottom of so I'll just give you a
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couple of facts in the 19 50s the
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average amount of Timber so wood that
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was harvested in California was around 6
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billion board feet per
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year in the intervening 70 years that
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shrank to about 1.5 billion board feet
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and so you'd say okay well that's a 75%
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reduction we must be making a very
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explicit stance on conservation it turns
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out that that's not entirely true
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because what it left behind was near
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nearly 163 million dead trees dead like
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gone and so you would say well those
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things should have been removed and the
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problem is that then there's this
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California Environmental Quality act
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squa hopefully I'm pronouncing this
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right and a whole bunch of these other
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regulatory policies that limited the
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ability of local governments and fire
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management to clear these dead trees and
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vegetation and I think that that's a
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really big deal and when you double
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click on that here's where you find the
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real head
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scratcher
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okay multiple bills AB 2330 ab1
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1951 AB
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2639 all rejected by the Democrat
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controlled legislator or worse vetoed by
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Governor Nome that would have Exempted
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these Wildfire prevention projects from
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squa and other pering issues then there
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were other bills to try to minimize the
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risk of fires by burying power lines
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underground SP 103 as an example went
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nowhere didn't even get to the
00:18:07
governor's desk so I'm just a little bit
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at a loss to explain these two bodies of
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data one is everybody can see that these
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events are happening Southern California
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lived through this exact type of moment
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just six years
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ago all the bills that are meant to
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prevent this
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are blocked or
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veto this is the ultimate expression of
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negligence and
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incompetence okay cyan you've uh heard
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uh jamath and freeberg take here some
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amount of incompetence some amount of
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hey this keeps occurring and there might
00:18:47
be some global warming that is
00:18:48
contributing to it what do you take away
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sure from the situation I agreee with
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freedberg in moth you know it's it's a
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it's a lot of everything but I also
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think think that to add to the
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prevention part you know other than
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clearing out underbrush and and trees
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and things like that you know we we
00:19:06
don't build things in the state of
00:19:09
California in a way that houses should
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be built when you know that there are
00:19:13
fires like this so for example we have
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more wooden roofs than we really should
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have we should really evaluate our
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materials that we're building things out
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of but we also have you know down in
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elag gundo you know this is a company
00:19:26
that I invested in Rain Maker we have
00:19:28
the ability now to Cloud seed and do
00:19:30
preventative measures to actually make a
00:19:33
region have more water and I don't
00:19:36
understand why we're not looking into
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things like this that could have
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prevented you know we knew that this
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storm was coming we knew that these
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winds were coming you know Southern
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California shut power down I have a farm
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down there we still don't have power
00:19:51
because they knew that most of these
00:19:53
fires are started by pg& or down power
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lines and so they proactively shut
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everybody down and we're still running
00:19:59
on generators and if you notice there's
00:20:01
no fires down there but they also have
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100 m hour
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winds yeah and you're not seeing it and
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there's plenty of mountain ranges and
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dryness there you know avocado Farms are
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basically just sitting
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fuel so I do think it's a combination of
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all of those things and competence is
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definitely one of
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them yeah and I I actually lived right
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next door to this area for a long time
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in Brentwood and to your point about
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roofs it seemed silly and a lot of
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these can seem silly when you first
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mention them which Trump looked let's
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face it the way he says things sometimes
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is very colorful and when he said listen
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you're not raking like people in
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wherever he said it Scandinavia Finland
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are raking the forest and he was
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absolutely 100% correct on that maybe it
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sounded bombastic or silly when the way
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he said it but the truth is in uh Tahoe
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where we just were over the holidays
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people are clearing underbrush when I
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lived in Los Angeles people lived in the
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Hollywood Hills would get a fine if they
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didn't clear it but there are mountain
00:21:02
ranges that nobody owns and when you
00:21:04
showed that Suppa to pass that's the 405
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going past the Getty Center that area
00:21:08
has got to be cleaned by the the city
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and the government and maybe they
00:21:12
weren't doing it as much look at this
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this is apocalyptic yeah so I I know
00:21:17
this passed very well because I would
00:21:18
drive through it J what what did
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California learn from this what did gav
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Nome Implement based on what happened
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here what did the city of Los Angeles
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based on what happened here I want to
00:21:30
just specifically know the answer to
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those two questions yeah and I think
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that's going to be a big part of this
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breakdown after this happens because in
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a lot of these cases you might lose a
00:21:40
home or two but you haven't had this
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kind of wholesale destruction in a while
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and uh when I lived in brenwood I had a
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shake roof that's a fancy way of saying
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uh shingles wood shingles and they would
00:21:51
bake in the Sun and I love this roof but
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my neighbors who in brenwood were all 70
00:21:55
80 years old and I was right on Sunset
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Boulevard and I could look up from my
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house and see the place you just showed
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which is the Getty Center and the and
00:22:02
the Sova pass on the 405 and the um and
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Sunset
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Boulevard I was only allowed cyan to
00:22:08
replace 30% of my roof at a time you
00:22:10
couldn't replace it and put shake roofs
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on you could only like maintain it
00:22:14
because in 1961 there was the B A and
00:22:17
Brentwood fires and these fires you want
00:22:20
to talk about like in in in memory chath
00:22:23
this one jaaja Gabor and tons of
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celebrities lost their homes as well
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this one was started because of this
00:22:28
Santa Anna winds and somebody was just
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burning a rubbish pile I think it was
00:22:32
some construction workers were burning
00:22:34
that they said to me the neighbors do
00:22:37
you know about the B air fire you know
00:22:38
about the Brentwood fire you got to get
00:22:39
rid of that shake roof you got to get
00:22:40
rid of that shake roof when my daughter
00:22:41
was born the the uh roofer said to me
00:22:45
let's put composits on I put composits
00:22:47
on and he said what do you want to do
00:22:47
with the sprinkler system and I said
00:22:49
there's a sprinkler system in my little
00:22:50
one story wrench house he said yeah I
00:22:52
said I've never seen it and he showed it
00:22:54
to me it was on the roof people were so
00:22:56
scared after that 62 fire they were
00:22:57
putting
00:22:59
these on the roof and now you cannot
00:23:00
have would roofs have been banned you
00:23:02
were grandfathered in I was part of that
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but there was a lot of PTSD from that
00:23:07
and now I do think there's going to have
00:23:09
to be some lessons learned and let's get
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to where some folks online are pointing
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to maybe not having great priorities and
00:23:19
maybe focusing on things that are not as
00:23:21
important as the taxpaying citizens a
00:23:24
lot of tweets I don't know how people
00:23:26
feel about them about Dei about who's
00:23:29
running the fire department Etc did you
00:23:31
have any thoughts on that freedberg I'll
00:23:34
I mean look we we one of the things I
00:23:36
wanted to talk about was the doi's role
00:23:38
the Department of Insurance role in what
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I think will ultimately
00:23:43
be creating a pretty significant
00:23:45
economic consequence here from this sort
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of an
00:23:48
event I don't but I'll I'll answer your
00:23:51
question okay I don't think that the
00:23:55
mission of any public service organiz
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ation should be to meet Dei metrics I
00:24:03
think the mission of that public service
00:24:05
organization should be to serve the
00:24:07
public and I think that those Dei
00:24:10
metrics should not be a priority when
00:24:14
serving the public is the objective the
00:24:17
best ability to serve the public should
00:24:19
be the objective and that's it and I'll
00:24:22
state that really clearly okay so
00:24:24
obviously the the fire chief and La is
00:24:27
getting a lot of attention whether or
00:24:29
not that prioritization of Dei metrics
00:24:34
took away from the interest and the
00:24:36
focus in preparing for major disasters I
00:24:38
don't know there have been some
00:24:39
interviews over the last day or two just
00:24:40
to be fair where she has claimed that
00:24:43
they asked for more money to to they
00:24:45
would not be able to be prepared for
00:24:47
major disasters if the budget cut took
00:24:49
place that was proposed by bass that
00:24:51
budget cut did take place and so the the
00:24:54
fire chief has said that she asked for
00:24:55
Budget to make this the preparation for
00:24:57
this ORD of event and she lost it and so
00:25:00
I don't want to just say hey she's to
00:25:01
blame she's to blame because she was
00:25:03
focused on Dei but I will separately say
00:25:05
that I think that creating Dei as a
00:25:07
mission for an organization that's
00:25:08
supposed to serve the public interest
00:25:09
makes no sense this is an important one
00:25:11
James Woods obviously the uh the famous
00:25:14
actor who lost his home in Pacific
00:25:16
Palisades has been going on a bit of a
00:25:18
rant about Christine Crowley she is LA's
00:25:22
fire chief she also happens to be a
00:25:24
lesbian and has made a priority and and
00:25:28
done a number of talks on trying to
00:25:30
increase diversity inside of the fire
00:25:33
department she also just with a bit of
00:25:35
research is one of the top performing
00:25:39
firefighters a paramedic an engineer a
00:25:41
fire inspector a captain a battalion
00:25:44
chief an assistant chief Fire Marshal
00:25:45
Deputy Chief and when she took the
00:25:47
firefighter exam in the late 90s she
00:25:49
scored in the top 50 out of 16,000 she
00:25:51
seems eminently qualified there has been
00:25:53
a massive pile on Attack on her and you
00:25:57
know how it is on x and other social
00:25:59
networks where people are really tweaked
00:26:02
about Dei that they're kind of putting
00:26:03
the blame on her what are your thoughts
00:26:06
of this Dei angle chouth I don't think
00:26:08
this is to blame okay if all of a sudden
00:26:11
because of
00:26:12
Dei 70% were physically incapable of
00:26:17
carrying out the task and that's why
00:26:19
these fires grew maybe you could make
00:26:21
the claim that it is a Dei problem I do
00:26:25
agree with freeberg that the thing that
00:26:28
these public institutions need to do a
00:26:32
better job of is being very clear about
00:26:35
what their Nord star is I think the
00:26:37
nordstar for the fire department is to
00:26:39
save people's lives and put out fires I
00:26:42
think the nordstar for the police
00:26:44
service should be to save people's lives
00:26:46
and to hold criminals responsible and
00:26:48
get them off the
00:26:50
streets and you should hire the people
00:26:52
that allow you to do that job the best
00:26:55
the thing to keep in mind is that there
00:26:57
were probably 20 or 30 people
00:26:59
interviewed to be fire chief it's not
00:27:02
her fault that she was
00:27:04
selected the real question is what was
00:27:07
she mandated to focus on once she got
00:27:09
the job and I think what you see in all
00:27:12
of these interviews is I don't think
00:27:13
that she all of a sudden after growing
00:27:15
up through the fire service had this Dei
00:27:17
bent I think typically what happens is
00:27:20
it becomes an Institutional
00:27:22
directive it guides your compensation it
00:27:25
guides your recognition and so you do it
00:27:27
it's sort of what Charli Monger says
00:27:29
show me the incentive and I'll show you
00:27:31
the outcome the entire public service is
00:27:34
riddled with this the entire private
00:27:36
service is riddled with this which is
00:27:38
that we've lost the script about what is
00:27:41
important so it's yet another example
00:27:44
she's probably quite a capable person
00:27:46
who if was just allowed to focus on
00:27:48
fighting fires and saving people's lives
00:27:51
would probably do a good job but if you
00:27:53
had to add all these other things that
00:27:55
are not Germaine to that task
00:27:58
then people will get frustrated and
00:27:59
projected onto her it seems like a lot
00:28:01
of projecting going on here jamath I
00:28:03
agree all of that said though I think
00:28:05
you got to go back to how did these
00:28:07
fires start yeah how did they grow out
00:28:09
of control and again I think that these
00:28:13
winds didn't come out of nowhere in the
00:28:15
sense that they caught everybody off
00:28:16
guard this has happened before that area
00:28:20
has gone through this exact moment yes
00:28:23
there were laws that were proposed they
00:28:25
were vetoed okay so that even if you
00:28:28
could have controlled it then you see
00:28:31
certain developers like Rick Caruso who
00:28:34
were able to protect the buildings that
00:28:36
he was responsible for because he took
00:28:39
proactive and protective measures could
00:28:42
those proactive and protective measures
00:28:44
not been taken more broadly through LA
00:28:46
county of course they could have why
00:28:48
were they not and here what we're seeing
00:28:51
on the screen is recuso Village let me
00:28:54
ask a very specific question how much
00:28:56
money and we know the answer to this how
00:28:58
much money did the government of
00:29:00
California
00:29:02
spend poorly as it turns out on
00:29:05
homelessness it was about $21 billion
00:29:08
and illegal immigrants I don't know what
00:29:10
the final number is there but I suspect
00:29:11
in the tens of billions if you I think
00:29:13
if you reappropriated those dollars to
00:29:15
these kinds of protective mechanisms in
00:29:17
these areas what would the outcome have
00:29:19
been maybe there still would have been a
00:29:21
fire maybe there would have been damaged
00:29:23
but it's hard for me to believe it would
00:29:24
have been as bad as it is right now yeah
00:29:27
I think what you're getting to here is
00:29:29
we can confirm lesbians didn't cause the
00:29:32
Santa and and a wins to cause these
00:29:35
fires obviously but there is an issue
00:29:37
that I think many people in the public
00:29:39
especially in California who voted for
00:29:41
this very leftist liberal ideology are
00:29:44
now starting to realize is hey wait a
00:29:46
second what are the priorities here cyan
00:29:49
what are we focused on and what should
00:29:51
we be focused on and it's very easy to
00:29:54
be focused on Dei and maybe things that
00:29:57
aren't important homelessness and move
00:30:00
budget there but at the same time they
00:30:02
wouldn't give her $17 million they cut
00:30:04
the the fire budget she tried to fight
00:30:06
it well that that's not clear now
00:30:08
there's now the counter narrative is
00:30:10
that she actually got an extra 50 Jason
00:30:12
okay so we're we're in a breaking news
00:30:14
environment so we'll see what the truth
00:30:17
winds up being here but Sayan I think
00:30:19
the point Remains the Same here which is
00:30:22
is prioritization and what we focus on
00:30:25
out of whack in California oh without a
00:30:27
doubt I think diversity is good unless
00:30:31
that's all you have and I'll just
00:30:32
simplify it like that but and I think
00:30:35
it's very sad that somebody could be
00:30:37
very qualified and be in a position and
00:30:38
we now have to question whether or not
00:30:40
they were hired because of
00:30:42
Dei and then it comes down to
00:30:44
prioritization like when you're dealing
00:30:46
with a organization like a fire
00:30:48
department whose main job is to protect
00:30:51
the public and put out fires and save
00:30:52
people any amount of time as we know is
00:30:55
a valuable precious resource that's
00:30:57
being spent
00:30:58
trying to roll out these programs or you
00:31:01
know it goes beyond just who you hire
00:31:04
it's even they the thought police of how
00:31:06
you think you know it's so pervasive
00:31:09
within an organization that you you are
00:31:12
you die from the bureaucracy of it and
00:31:14
if if anything went wrong with the EI it
00:31:17
was that they didn't have their their
00:31:19
eye on the prize of of fighting fires
00:31:22
and instead you know they're focusing on
00:31:23
something that truly doesn't matter so
00:31:25
you can be as diverse as you want to be
00:31:27
and not be able to put out of fire and
00:31:28
then it just really doesn't matter right
00:31:30
because you're not training people
00:31:31
you're not spending money on things that
00:31:33
matter you're not having the discussions
00:31:35
that matter and that's where I think
00:31:39
that does fall apart and it it has a
00:31:41
place there but you know I go back to
00:31:43
what chamama said though you know it
00:31:44
really comes down to prevention and
00:31:46
learning from our past we seem to have a
00:31:48
very short-term memory and we forget
00:31:50
very quickly because we rebuild and it
00:31:52
looks pretty again and everybody
00:31:54
forgets and we just don't have the
00:31:56
ability as a society really to think
00:31:58
long anymore and uh that's a real
00:32:01
problem and I think we should learn from
00:32:04
this fire I really hope that what comes
00:32:05
out of this is a shift in political
00:32:09
leanings in this in this state you know
00:32:11
I think more moderates are going to come
00:32:13
to their senses and um as we've seen
00:32:16
with the election and the outcome and I
00:32:18
think the state might shift some and we
00:32:20
might actually get some policies that
00:32:22
you're so right you're so right I mean
00:32:23
when are we going to get tired of all
00:32:26
this late stage progressivism it's like
00:32:29
these Litany of excuses the people that
00:32:31
are in charge have failed us yet again
00:32:34
exactly we have wasted so much money on
00:32:37
so many things that don't move the
00:32:39
needle and then the things that they
00:32:42
needed to do they didn't do and then
00:32:45
they point the finger at climate change
00:32:47
it's a joke at a certain point you have
00:32:49
to wonder are we using politics and and
00:32:53
the purpose of it to make people's lives
00:32:56
better and to have a high function
00:32:58
Society or is it a way to fge your
00:32:59
signal or to you know share your
00:33:01
opinions on things yeah and and I think
00:33:04
what people are starting to realize is
00:33:05
you know in an acute situation whether
00:33:07
it's our budget deficit whether it's
00:33:09
schools whether it's safety from climate
00:33:12
you know or non-climate induced
00:33:14
disasters you you do need to have
00:33:16
competence and this is the Rick Caruso
00:33:18
is such a competent executive that when
00:33:20
he ran for office there the fact that he
00:33:22
didn't get that job is just absolutely
00:33:24
crazy and the you saw the mayor come in
00:33:27
and she wouldn't even address she
00:33:30
wouldn't answer any questions from the
00:33:32
Press not even thoughts and prayers or
00:33:34
you know we're thinking of this or we're
00:33:35
going to get it done it it just seems
00:33:37
like we're hiring non-executives to work
00:33:39
in functions that should be high
00:33:42
performing Executives this is an
00:33:44
operational role let me maybe bring
00:33:46
something that ties these three things
00:33:48
together but it builds on critically
00:33:50
what cyan
00:33:52
said there are so many people here that
00:33:54
are good hardworking people that lost
00:33:56
their homes
00:33:58
for many of these folks it could
00:34:00
be the most single and only financially
00:34:05
securing asset that they
00:34:07
have for other
00:34:09
people those that are family age they
00:34:13
have kids now beyond the financial
00:34:15
damage that are totally displaced where
00:34:17
will these folks go there was a comment
00:34:20
by Adam Cora commentary where he said
00:34:24
the real test to science point will be
00:34:28
how they internalize and metabolize this
00:34:31
because it now affects them personally
00:34:33
and they have to go and wait 3 years to
00:34:35
BU building permits to rebuild now
00:34:37
that's assuming that they can even get a
00:34:39
reasonable amount of insurance coverage
00:34:42
which touches freeberg
00:34:43
point this is the real tragedy that is
00:34:46
the actual tragedy multiplied by 120,000
00:34:49
or 200,000
00:34:51
families and the real question is how
00:34:54
much of that was completely avoidable
00:34:56
and I think there is a reason amount of
00:34:58
it that could have been that's what
00:35:00
really sucks and that's where you cannot
00:35:03
take your finger off the scale and
00:35:05
forget and yeah when it lands on your
00:35:07
doorstep quite literally here they are
00:35:09
not going to be able having been in this
00:35:12
exact area I can tell you when you try
00:35:14
to pull a permit to do anything as I was
00:35:16
explaining with my roof the regulations
00:35:19
are deep and expensive and timec
00:35:23
consuming I don't believe the C we
00:35:25
talked about the California Coastal
00:35:27
Commission recent episode freeberg what
00:35:28
are the chances that the California
00:35:30
Coastal commission even allows these
00:35:32
people to build those homes in those
00:35:35
locations on PCH fredberg I was talking
00:35:38
to chamat about this earlier today
00:35:39
because the California Coastal
00:35:41
commission was created by the voters
00:35:43
directly in
00:35:45
1976 and that commission has Authority
00:35:49
that exceeds legislative action so um
00:35:53
you would have to basically go back my
00:35:55
understanding is you'd have to go back
00:35:56
to a state vote to resend the powers of
00:35:58
the California Coastal commission so
00:35:59
they have effective complete authority
00:36:03
over deciding what does or doesn't get
00:36:04
built on the coast because their
00:36:06
objective is to preserve the coast for
00:36:08
the use of the community and restore it
00:36:09
to its natural habitat so anytime
00:36:11
there's a request or a permit request it
00:36:13
can take two decades three decades
00:36:15
sometimes to get anything approved if
00:36:17
they ever approve it at all and so the
00:36:19
California Coastal commission any
00:36:21
property that touches the the the beach
00:36:23
front in California they have this kind
00:36:26
of you know God level authority over and
00:36:29
they're basically all political
00:36:30
appointees that sit on the commission to
00:36:32
my question freeberg what are the
00:36:33
chances they allow the millionaires on
00:36:37
Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu to
00:36:39
rebuild those homes or do you think they
00:36:41
slow roll it and those people are all
00:36:43
5060 70 years old they'll never be able
00:36:45
to rebuild their homes Cali just slow
00:36:47
roll this and say you know what nature
00:36:50
returned it to its natural state I think
00:36:51
we should talk about insurance this is a
00:36:53
great segue yeah yeah this perfect segue
00:36:55
yeah this is the key point I wanted to
00:36:56
say about insurance so going forward
00:36:58
yeah all of this property that sits in
00:37:01
climate sensitive zones or weather
00:37:04
sensitive zones whatever you want to
00:37:05
call it like we've talked about on the
00:37:07
coast of California of Florida and
00:37:09
hurricane centers and tornado centers
00:37:11
where the frequency of loss is going up
00:37:15
they're priced as if the frequency of
00:37:17
loss is what it used to be which is like
00:37:20
let's say you buy a home for a million
00:37:22
dollars and the probability of your home
00:37:24
getting wiped out by a natural disaster
00:37:26
is a one in a, your kind of situation so
00:37:29
you have a one in a thousand chance of
00:37:31
your home getting wiped out each year so
00:37:32
your price for insurance on that million
00:37:34
doll home should be about 10,000 bucks a
00:37:36
year one tenth of 1% so 10,000 bucks a
00:37:39
year for a million doll home sounds
00:37:40
expensive but it is what you have to pay
00:37:42
for homeowners insurance but now let's
00:37:44
say that the probability shifts to one
00:37:46
in 20 years so now you've got a one in
00:37:48
20 year probability of your home getting
00:37:50
wiped out are you going to pay 5% of
00:37:53
your home value no and uh if if you have
00:37:57
a $10 million home are you going to pay
00:37:59
$500,000 a year for property insurance
00:38:02
no now what's happened is the insurance
00:38:05
companies have these models they're
00:38:06
called cat models or catastrophe models
00:38:09
it used to be two companies one was
00:38:10
called RMS the other one was called
00:38:11
equat and I used to work in this
00:38:13
business so I know it pretty well and
00:38:14
then all the the companies started
00:38:16
building in-house models and now there's
00:38:17
startups that make models and these
00:38:19
models have shown that there are
00:38:20
increased probability of complete loss
00:38:22
in a region because of the increased
00:38:23
probability of these crazy weather
00:38:25
events happening and so the price of
00:38:27
insurance should go up here's the
00:38:28
problem there are 5050 State Insurance
00:38:30
Commissioners in the US in order to sell
00:38:32
insurance in a state you have to have
00:38:34
the insurance carrier and the policy
00:38:37
approved in that state and the states
00:38:39
determine what rate or what price you
00:38:41
can charge for insurance so the State
00:38:44
Insurance commissions have a couple of
00:38:45
goals number one is to keep all the
00:38:47
insurance companies solvent so they want
00:38:49
to you know check the financials of all
00:38:50
the insurance companies make sure
00:38:51
they're not writing too many policies
00:38:53
that they won't be able to pay out the
00:38:54
second thing is they want to make sure
00:38:56
that the insurance company aren't
00:38:57
ripping consumers off so they have
00:39:00
control over the rates and they don't
00:39:02
want the rates to go up too much in any
00:39:04
given year so they're controlling rates
00:39:06
and keeping them down and then the third
00:39:08
is they're supposed to make sure that
00:39:09
consumers have access to insurance and
00:39:11
the third is a very hard thing to do if
00:39:14
you're trying to keep companies solvent
00:39:15
you can't write too many policies and
00:39:17
you're saying hey you can't raise prices
00:39:19
and meanwhile the probability of losses
00:39:21
gone up so the insurance carriers are
00:39:22
like what choice do I have so earlier
00:39:25
this year a State Farm pulled out of
00:39:26
Palisades they stopped writing fire
00:39:28
insurance and Palisades they canel 1600
00:39:30
policies in the exact neighborhood that
00:39:33
just burned down what about the timing
00:39:34
of that freeberg that was three months
00:39:36
before six months before Happ six months
00:39:39
before but yeah but it's not it it seems
00:39:41
crazy but as you know in Tahoe a lot of
00:39:43
the policies have been cancelled in um
00:39:46
it's just crazy timing it's it's a crazy
00:39:48
coincidence and remember in Wine Country
00:39:50
we had a lot of wipeouts all of Santa
00:39:52
Rosa was burnt out a few years ago you
00:39:54
guys remember that and so they started
00:39:55
pulling out of there so aot lot of the
00:39:57
carriers are generally pulling out of
00:39:59
California because when they go up to
00:40:00
the DOI and they're like hey we need to
00:40:01
raise rates by we need to double the
00:40:03
price of insurance we need to Triple the
00:40:05
price of insurance this is now a one in
00:40:06
20 year event the Department of
00:40:08
Insurance says no no no we're not going
00:40:09
to let you charge that much to Consumers
00:40:11
and then the carrier is like okay we got
00:40:13
no choice and they exit the market here
00:40:15
you can see right here 1, 1600 policies
00:40:17
canceled this has been a big driver is
00:40:19
the Department of Insurance has made it
00:40:21
very difficult to find this free market
00:40:22
outcome but at the end of the day one of
00:40:26
three parties are going to end up eating
00:40:28
the cost of the change in probability of
00:40:31
loss that has occurred it's either the
00:40:32
homeowner because they're going to end
00:40:34
up losing the value of their home in a
00:40:35
loss or they're going to end up needing
00:40:36
to write down the value of their home
00:40:37
when they sell it to someone who will
00:40:39
take on that risk which means the price
00:40:41
has to come down or number two is the
00:40:43
insurers and there's not enough
00:40:44
Insurance Capital out there to cover all
00:40:46
these losses so all these insurers would
00:40:48
go bankrupt or the third is the taxpayer
00:40:50
one of those three is going to end up
00:40:51
eating the loss that's about you know
00:40:53
the answer you know the answer taxpayer
00:40:55
taxpayer yeah somebody is going to Lobby
00:40:57
somebody but hey we're sitting here chth
00:40:59
in the age of Doge and saying hey let's
00:41:02
make the government smaller in fact Dave
00:41:05
you and I were talking about at some
00:41:06
point Gangs of New York and the fire
00:41:08
departments being oh yeah totally great
00:41:11
crazy timing that we were talking about
00:41:12
that two or three weeks before this
00:41:13
happened but right you know when we look
00:41:16
at making government smaller well that
00:41:18
means that these kind of situations
00:41:19
would put citizens more on their own so
00:41:22
let's counterbalance what you think
00:41:24
chamath about who should be responsible
00:41:26
we all espouse I think free market
00:41:29
ideology on this program and as
00:41:30
Executives and in what we do every day
00:41:33
should the people who own these homes
00:41:35
going forward who decide to rebuild them
00:41:37
here have to pay you know 5 10% of their
00:41:41
value of home every year should their
00:41:42
home prices collapse because it's too
00:41:44
hard to build there and should the free
00:41:46
market take over this risk or should it
00:41:48
constantly be put on the other 329
00:41:50
million Americans who are going to have
00:41:52
to be the brunt of what happens to the
00:41:53
million people affected in this area
00:41:55
well I mean sh's a very strong word
00:41:58
the cap on the insurance reimbursement
00:42:01
is about 3 million is my understanding
00:42:03
David you can tell me if I'm wrong but I
00:42:04
think I think that's right the houses in
00:42:07
the Palisades are anywhere from call it
00:42:09
1 million on the low end to maybe 40 or
00:42:11
50 million on the high end average is
00:42:13
four and a half in that yeah I was about
00:42:15
to say there's nothing for a million
00:42:16
these days yeah it's got to be three or
00:42:18
four minimum right but the median is
00:42:19
probably more instructive which is
00:42:20
probably seven or eight million so yes
00:42:22
yeah my point is that folks will get
00:42:25
less than half their home value back
00:42:27
they're going to have to come up with
00:42:28
some amount of money to then rebuild but
00:42:31
the cost of rebuilding a 7,000 foot
00:42:34
house in the Pacific Palisades is
00:42:35
probably at least a thousand a square
00:42:36
foot so that's 7 million of cash exactly
00:42:39
so now so now all of a sudden these
00:42:40
people have to come up with a lot of
00:42:44
money exactly and that's post tax money
00:42:47
so you might as well double it because
00:42:48
California is just so egregiously
00:42:50
burdensome in terms of taxes so the
00:42:53
individual homeowner is not going to be
00:42:55
in a position to rebuild
00:43:00
I think that the liabilities of the
00:43:03
insurance claims are going to be so
00:43:04
massive that the state's going to look
00:43:06
to the federal government to build them
00:43:08
out my parents just got evacuated I
00:43:10
gotta call them and just there there's a
00:43:13
new
00:43:14
fire literally right uh there's a new
00:43:16
fire called Kenneth fire it just took
00:43:18
off and it's it's at their house so just
00:43:21
give me I'll be back okay no do your
00:43:23
thing oh wow gosh almighty we were
00:43:25
talking about hey maybe less government
00:43:28
hey maybe spending less now the same
00:43:30
group of people maybe who were saying
00:43:32
hey we need to spend less and reduce the
00:43:34
size of government or saying hey well
00:43:35
why isn't California more prepared well
00:43:37
being prepared obviously means more
00:43:39
money and and and more taxes so you have
00:43:42
now these two competing ideologies here
00:43:46
but to the question of who's responsible
00:43:48
it is economically going to make no
00:43:49
sense to rebuild unless you can get that
00:43:52
insurance it is a coveted place to live
00:43:54
but because of the construction costs
00:43:56
have gone abs abolutely
00:43:57
parabolic in California because of
00:44:00
regulations you're talking about $4
00:44:02
million in income to build a $7 million
00:44:04
house and maybe you're just better off
00:44:07
selling the lot for a million dollars
00:44:08
and letting it be somebody else's
00:44:10
problem going for and just taking the
00:44:11
two or three or four million dollar loss
00:44:13
who should pay for on a go forward
00:44:17
basis underwriting these homes yeah I
00:44:20
mean a lot of these people paid for I
00:44:22
was reading stories of 30 some odd years
00:44:24
into Insurance thinking that you know
00:44:27
house wouldn't burn down and then of
00:44:28
course it gets canceled two weeks before
00:44:30
their house burns down and then the one
00:44:31
time they need it they don't have it and
00:44:34
part of this is I mean a huge part of it
00:44:36
is uh what freedberg was talking about
00:44:38
are the regulators and so the free
00:44:40
market solution is the only solution if
00:44:42
you look at I have an investment in a
00:44:43
company called kin insurance and they
00:44:46
specialize in direct to
00:44:47
Consumer Insurance for areas that are
00:44:51
plagued with natural disaster so their
00:44:52
number one state out of the 11 that they
00:44:55
serve as Florida followed by
00:44:57
Texas which you know has tornadoes and
00:44:59
things like that and how they're able to
00:45:01
get into these places and do insurance
00:45:03
is the pricing is according to you know
00:45:06
the construction of your home and all of
00:45:07
these various things and also weather
00:45:09
models and using data science things
00:45:11
that are not allowed in California if
00:45:13
you can believe it or not so you're not
00:45:15
allowed to use a weather model to price
00:45:17
in you know your decision- making for
00:45:19
insurance in this state and that just
00:45:21
doesn't make a lot of sense you know you
00:45:23
should be rewarded if you put the
00:45:25
resources and time into your home home
00:45:27
to to make it weatherproof uh fireproof
00:45:31
fireproof I mean you know even
00:45:32
earthquake resistant right this is more
00:45:35
regulations that were layer on here to
00:45:38
try to create equality you know and and
00:45:42
the fact is it's now working against the
00:45:45
system in Tahoe to your point they gave
00:45:48
us explicit instructions around homes
00:45:50
put Stone and Pebbles around your home
00:45:53
cut the trees and bushes down around
00:45:54
your homes do this over here you know
00:45:57
your when you do that and if you do that
00:46:00
which might cost $10,000 a home you it
00:46:04
would keep these from jumping from one
00:46:06
to the other in most fire situations
00:46:08
freeberg your back is everything
00:46:10
okay uh it's not okay listening to your
00:46:13
you know 70 something year old parents
00:46:16
evacuate their home and try and pack
00:46:17
their cars with all their stuff in a
00:46:20
matter of minutes while a fire creeps on
00:46:22
their home is a pretty devastating thing
00:46:24
to listen to yeah but are they sayfe
00:46:26
they're trying to get out of the house
00:46:27
they're throwing everything in the car
00:46:29
there's evacu if I'm looking at the
00:46:31
video right now the fire is like right
00:46:33
by their house it's insane it's
00:46:35
literally like blocks away from their
00:46:37
house God this is nuts this is the house
00:46:39
I grew up in in La I'm so sorry oh man
00:46:42
gosh blocked away and I'm like you know
00:46:45
what do you say to them like throw all
00:46:47
the photo albums in the car is what I
00:46:48
said throw the photo like just grab the
00:46:50
frame photos my mom's trying to grab all
00:46:51
her like that's the number one thing
00:46:54
that everybody misses and is mentioned
00:46:56
and interview that I've seen is uh
00:46:59
photographs like grab all the photos
00:47:01
grab all the ALB she's like you know
00:47:03
she's grabbing her jewelry and stuff and
00:47:04
I'm like grab the photos like we're the
00:47:06
last generation that will be thinking
00:47:08
about this issue of grabbing the photos
00:47:10
yeah it's fascinating I just want to say
00:47:12
like you know as we wrap up this segment
00:47:14
you know obviously we're thinking about
00:47:15
everybody there this is
00:47:17
complex this is not the fault of a
00:47:19
lesbian firefighter or the Ukraine or
00:47:21
any of these other issues this is
00:47:23
leadership and nature and preparedness
00:47:26
so there are big issues around climate
00:47:28
change you want to believe him you don't
00:47:29
want to believe him fine put that aside
00:47:31
but I can tell you that when I saw Karen
00:47:33
bass get off that
00:47:36
flight play the clip Nick of Karen bass
00:47:38
here because it's a short enough clip
00:47:39
that we can play it here for the
00:47:40
audience I'm I'm assuming you all three
00:47:42
of you saw this clip of her being
00:47:46
absolutely unwilling to answer a single
00:47:49
goddamn question about what's going on
00:47:51
this is the opposite of leadership just
00:47:55
10 seconds of this AB an apology for
00:47:58
being abent while their homes were
00:48:00
burning do you regret cutting the fire
00:48:02
department budget by millions of dollars
00:48:04
Madam
00:48:06
mayor have you nothing to say today back
00:48:09
upate it have you absolutely nothing to
00:48:12
say to the citizens
00:48:14
today disgraceful she in shock I mean I
00:48:18
I have zero sympathy you took the
00:48:19
leadership job I don't give a if
00:48:21
you're in shock you're a leader you just
00:48:24
you you sold yourself as the leader that
00:48:26
you were to service these people and you
00:48:28
don't have the dignity the the the honor
00:48:31
to just answer the questions it is the
00:48:34
that is absolutely the worst leadership
00:48:37
I've ever seen Under Fire let me ask you
00:48:40
guys a question disgraceful what do we
00:48:42
do you fire them all and you vote for
00:48:45
Rick cruso you vote for executives who
00:48:48
know what the they're doing and know
00:48:49
what to do in a crisis because they've
00:48:51
been under Fire before because they've
00:48:53
run a business before because they've
00:48:54
seen hit the fan this person I don't
00:48:57
know her I don't know her history but
00:48:59
I'll be totally honest like I wouldn't
00:49:01
trust her literally to pick up my lunch
00:49:04
if she can't answer one or two goddamn
00:49:06
questions and give a plating answer to a
00:49:09
reporter hey it's an intense situation
00:49:11
we're working as hard as we can she
00:49:13
can't even say two goddamn words to the
00:49:16
people who voted her in and for anybody
00:49:17
who voted for this level of accomp
00:49:19
reminds me of exactly what we went
00:49:21
through in San Francisco and I was
00:49:22
living there in the Bay Area when you
00:49:24
put someone like chesa bu in or London
00:49:26
bre or this entire clown car Aaron Peter
00:49:30
all these disgraceful disg Marist
00:49:33
Marxist lunatics who would rather virtue
00:49:36
signal Dopey Dean Preston the whole lot
00:49:39
of them you vote them out and you vote
00:49:41
in Executives and it doesn't mean a
00:49:42
republican executive it doesn't mean a
00:49:44
Democrat executive it means an executive
00:49:46
who's run something in their life before
00:49:48
whether it's Bloomberg whether it's
00:49:50
Trump whether it's ruso it doesn't
00:49:52
matter their ideology it matters their
00:49:53
effectiveness and if you vote for
00:49:55
ineffective people you're going to get
00:49:57
situations like this over and over and
00:49:59
over again so use your brains and vote
00:50:01
for executives who've done something in
00:50:03
the world this is why I've changed my
00:50:05
position on rooting for Trump now I was
00:50:07
a never Trumper everybody knows that but
00:50:09
he put Executives around him this time
00:50:11
around and I am rooting for those
00:50:13
Executives to do what's right for the
00:50:14
American people and solve big problems
00:50:17
not make them worse it's infuriating Jam
00:50:21
what do you think I think we need to
00:50:23
have a wholesale replacement of the
00:50:26
people govern the state of California
00:50:28
it's just not working full stop and I
00:50:31
think that the citizens that live in
00:50:34
California need to do some real soul
00:50:36
searching it is beyond Party
00:50:40
politics so I think what has happened in
00:50:43
California is people vote for whatever
00:50:46
vessel has the name Democrat beside
00:50:49
their name or republican beside their
00:50:51
name and I think that you have to go
00:50:53
back to First principles and do a better
00:50:56
job of picking the people to represent
00:50:58
us because the people that are in
00:51:00
positions of power just don't
00:51:02
fundamentally know what they're doing
00:51:04
they're not
00:51:06
capable and the fact that then what we
00:51:09
have to deal with are sort of lies and
00:51:12
distractions to excuse incompetence I
00:51:16
think is
00:51:17
unacceptable I think we pay way too high
00:51:20
of a
00:51:21
price and like I said you are now
00:51:23
dealing with hundreds of thousands of
00:51:25
families whose entire lives have been
00:51:27
totally disrupted and ripped away and I
00:51:31
hope that we learned something from this
00:51:34
because we didn't learn from it eight
00:51:35
years
00:51:36
ago and we clearly didn't learn from it
00:51:39
when a different natural disaster in
00:51:41
North Carolina will we find out that
00:51:43
folks said hey guys is there an outlier
00:51:46
natural disaster event obviously it's
00:51:47
not going to be the same thing in North
00:51:49
Carolina but could a different form of
00:51:51
something happen here what could it be
00:51:53
are we prepared I'm sure we'll find out
00:51:55
that they didn't do that maybe they had
00:51:58
different meetings and they were about
00:52:00
other total distractions or things that
00:52:04
just didn't matter so this is what we
00:52:06
need to do we as a populace in this
00:52:09
state need a reset otherwise we deserve
00:52:12
what we get Bingo Sayan you agree yeah I
00:52:16
think I think Democrats need to reclaim
00:52:18
their party I think uh there's a lot
00:52:20
more strength in the middle and you know
00:52:23
they've let this woke ideology ology I
00:52:27
call it U woke
00:52:29
imperialism like a religion take over in
00:52:33
place of actually doing things that
00:52:36
matter to the people that elected them
00:52:38
that pay taxes that pay their you know
00:52:41
their paychecks and everything in
00:52:42
between and it's time that people really
00:52:44
look in the mirror I've got so many
00:52:45
moderates coming to me saying you know
00:52:48
people call me a Republican and I'm far
00:52:50
right and I'm a Nazi and I'm like yeah
00:52:52
welcome to the club you know it's at
00:52:54
some point you've got to stop letting
00:52:55
them run the board and and stand up and
00:52:58
say you know enough's enough you know
00:53:00
we're not building some Railway that's
00:53:02
never being built we're not solving
00:53:04
homelessness with billions and billions
00:53:06
of dollars we're not doing this stuff
00:53:08
anymore you know we do need real
00:53:10
Executives to your point
00:53:12
Jason you know to run things that
00:53:15
understand how things are how it works
00:53:17
and and you know the best use of funds
00:53:20
because right now it's it's it's
00:53:22
misappropriated it's a crisis of
00:53:24
competence I mean I think we all see it
00:53:26
these are in competent people by the way
00:53:27
it's not just it's not just the
00:53:29
leadership it's also legislative action
00:53:32
that's going to be needed to fix a lot
00:53:34
of the the policies the regulations the
00:53:37
way infrastructure operates in the state
00:53:39
and that requires three things to change
00:53:43
number one is the California State
00:53:44
Assembly number two is the California
00:53:46
state Senate and number three is to put
00:53:50
things in front of the voters that they
00:53:51
can vote on to make the wholesale change
00:53:53
needed to resend some of the bad
00:53:55
decisions that were made over over the
00:53:56
last three decades in the state that has
00:53:58
led us to this point and I think that
00:54:00
it's going to require just like what
00:54:02
happened recently in the National
00:54:04
politics a state politics organizational
00:54:07
effort to say let's take a look at the
00:54:09
composition of the State Assembly the
00:54:11
state senate and what are some of the
00:54:14
votes that need to be done by the
00:54:15
citizens to make the necessary changes
00:54:17
in the state to try and get the world's
00:54:19
fifth largest economy to start act
00:54:22
acting and looking like it because right
00:54:24
now it's sort of like a weirdly disabled
00:54:26
third world country typee operation with
00:54:29
the wealthiest resources on planet Earth
00:54:31
and it seems pretty up it's almost like
00:54:34
once people have it all that's when they
00:54:36
want to give it all up that seems to be
00:54:38
the moment that this state has just
00:54:39
passed now maybe it's time to go reclaim
00:54:41
it and build it back well said I mean
00:54:44
and as we said in the segment there are
00:54:47
so many common sense tactical strategic
00:54:50
things that these people could be doing
00:54:53
that they should be doing that they're
00:54:55
not and needs to be a full-blown
00:54:57
investigation you kind of alluded to
00:54:59
this earlier chamath but if there is if
00:55:02
this is dereliction of Duty then then we
00:55:04
need to look into this in a very deep
00:55:06
fashion and to the people of California
00:55:08
you have more power than you know my
00:55:10
friend who used to be on this podcast
00:55:11
once in a while he and I collaborated on
00:55:14
Chessa Boudin being taken out as this uh
00:55:17
da in in the Bay Area I know some other
00:55:19
people here were involved in it as well
00:55:22
and you can recall somebody so recall
00:55:25
these incompetent lunatics recall them
00:55:28
and replace it's scary but you can you
00:55:30
know they they they send all their
00:55:32
people after you they threaten you get
00:55:34
personal they I was signature number one
00:55:37
and I I had to deal with the Deluge of
00:55:39
that stuff but to be honest with you
00:55:40
I've never been happier to do something
00:55:43
and get civically engaged I think it's
00:55:45
so important that everybody starts
00:55:46
getting involved in their local
00:55:48
government and their state government
00:55:50
and the national government because you
00:55:51
can't just expect people to do the work
00:55:53
for you and expect it to turn out well
00:55:56
and I think that's kind of the mistake
00:55:58
that we all made if we want to take some
00:56:00
responsibility the tech industry as a
00:56:02
whole did not get as involved as we
00:56:05
ought to have in the past and I think we
00:56:07
should get more involved why was that
00:56:08
saying why why did for 20 years while we
00:56:11
were all in the Bay Area or other people
00:56:13
you know just were too busy building
00:56:15
companies bus building companies and I
00:56:17
remember if I remember correctly the
00:56:19
only person I I I remember getting
00:56:22
involved in local stuff was Ron Conway
00:56:24
yes and he would try to get everybody
00:56:27
involved and we were all just like you
00:56:28
know there's people who are smart that
00:56:30
do that sort of thing and they're going
00:56:32
to do their thing and they're running
00:56:33
stuff and we're just not going to get
00:56:35
involved and a lot of people would say
00:56:36
I'm not political I don't I don't do
00:56:38
politics I don't you know they didn't
00:56:41
get involved until it affected them kind
00:56:43
of like the houses burning down it
00:56:44
affects them and you know like they're
00:56:48
that saying that first they came for so
00:56:50
and so and I didn't speak up you know
00:56:52
that's what's happening here and uh you
00:56:54
know I just really think that
00:56:56
people need to realize it's now
00:56:58
affecting them and it's now time to make
00:56:59
a change and elect better leaders here's
00:57:02
a framing if you're paying 50% tax in
00:57:06
California you're a shareholder of an
00:57:08
organization known as California Inc
00:57:10
you're on the board of that company
00:57:11
you're paying the salaries of the people
00:57:13
there you have a say recall these people
00:57:16
start a recall of Nome start a recall of
00:57:18
Karen bass just do it I I'm not doing it
00:57:20
I don't have time for this I'm in Austin
00:57:22
but y'all in C who are still in
00:57:23
California start a page recall Nome
00:57:26
recoil bass and you have the power to do
00:57:28
it and you will succeed I guarantee it
00:57:31
now is the moment to strike there's
00:57:32
other news we should get to you know I
00:57:34
hate to say thoughts and prayers but
00:57:36
literally I've been thinking about this
00:57:39
you know all day long and I have a lot
00:57:41
of friends my friend Mark suster lost
00:57:43
his home I used to play cards with Jimmy
00:57:46
Woods and you know I just feel terrible
00:57:48
for everybody who's lost their homes and
00:57:50
then their kids and their schools are
00:57:51
burned down as well all those great
00:57:53
schools in Pacific Palisades are gone I
00:57:55
can see developers coming in being like
00:57:56
dude if I could buy all these lots for
00:57:58
80% off I will that's what's going to
00:58:00
happen they're going to sit on them yeah
00:58:02
they're going to just sit on them and
00:58:03
wait for people to forget like they did
00:58:04
in 1962 Caruso of the world will do that
00:58:07
yeah anyway yeah he should be running
00:58:10
the place probably I'll give you another
00:58:12
another California Department of
00:58:13
Insurance stat so after the California
00:58:15
Department of Insurance wouldn't allow
00:58:17
the rates to rise like they should from
00:58:19
a free market perspective they had to
00:58:21
set up their own insurance program
00:58:23
called the fair plan for homeowners it
00:58:25
has about 200 $ 120 million of capital
00:58:27
in it and then they bought about $5
00:58:29
billion of reinsurance they have about 6
00:58:32
billion of exposure in Pacific palates
00:58:34
alone this is a bankrupt just like I
00:58:36
told you guys about in Florida the state
00:58:38
insurance commission tries to step in
00:58:40
and fill the market Gap that they create
00:58:41
by regulating rates and then they don't
00:58:43
have enough Capital to actually fill the
00:58:45
Gap because the reason the rates want to
00:58:46
go up is because the thing costs more
00:58:49
than the state is willing to so they're
00:58:51
distorting it they're putting their
00:58:52
thumbs on the scale and they're
00:58:53
distorting it even more a bigger crat
00:58:56
they're driving real estate value up
00:58:58
because they're not allowing the cost of
00:59:00
insurance of that real estate to
00:59:02
naturally float and so by driving real
00:59:04
estate values up the economy looks good
00:59:06
they make property taxes income comes in
00:59:08
but at the end of the day the bill is
00:59:10
going to come due and in the case of
00:59:12
Florida and in the case of California
00:59:14
either the state government or the
00:59:16
federal government's going to step in
00:59:17
and pay the difference and at some point
00:59:19
taxpayers are going to look at the fact
00:59:21
that they're paying some percentage of
00:59:23
their income to support someone else's
00:59:25
home
00:59:26
and they're going to say enough is
00:59:27
enough and enough of these sorts of
00:59:29
events start to happen and then the
00:59:31
legislative change I think will happen
00:59:33
that says this it doesn't make sense we
00:59:36
have to make a change and I think we're
00:59:37
getting pretty close after the series of
00:59:39
events all right this has been an
00:59:41
absolutely fantastic discussion let's
00:59:44
move on to our next topic here Zuck just
00:59:46
fired meta's third party fact Checkers
00:59:48
and he is going to embrace the community
00:59:50
notes model from Twitter SLX which
00:59:55
predates Elon ownership of the platform
00:59:57
and is an open source project for those
00:59:59
folks who don't know on Tuesday made he
01:00:02
made the announcement on an Instagram
01:00:04
video he published a Blog with a bunch
01:00:06
of
01:00:07
details and he made the signal that he
01:00:12
was going to move the trust and safety
01:00:14
team out of California which he feels
01:00:16
maybe was too uh far to the left as we
01:00:19
were just discussing in the previous
01:00:21
story uh and move it to the great state
01:00:24
of Texas and
01:00:27
here's a quote from his comments in
01:00:30
recent years we've developed
01:00:31
increasingly complex systems to manage
01:00:33
content across our platforms partly in
01:00:36
response to societal and political
01:00:38
pressures to moderate content this
01:00:39
approach has gone too far if you
01:00:42
remember back in August Zuck sent a
01:00:43
letter to the house Judiciary Committee
01:00:45
explaining how the FBI and Biden
01:00:47
Administration have pressured Facebook
01:00:48
into censoring posts about Co and Hunter
01:00:51
Biden you'll also remember that
01:00:53
Zuckerberg has over 3 billion
01:00:56
members to his platform and had no
01:00:59
problem Banning Trump from the platform
01:01:01
after January 6th a lot to talk about in
01:01:05
this topic Sayan what's your general
01:01:07
take of Zuck going Maga how do you
01:01:12
interpret his I actually think change of
01:01:15
heart I actually think deep down inside
01:01:17
he always has been you know I I go back
01:01:19
to the beginning days of Facebook and
01:01:22
when there was social networks that were
01:01:24
competing which back at the time was my
01:01:26
space the only political party you could
01:01:27
be was Republican or Democrat and then
01:01:30
Along Came Facebook and he added this
01:01:32
third option called libertarian and I I
01:01:35
would like to go to the way back machine
01:01:36
at some point and find his profile
01:01:38
because his profile said he was a
01:01:40
Libertarian so when he started Facebook
01:01:42
you know that that's where he leaned so
01:01:45
I think he's always been a free speech
01:01:46
person I think he's always this has been
01:01:49
deep in his heart I think what happened
01:01:50
was he had enormous success they grew
01:01:52
very large and he had to become neutral
01:01:55
or he thought he did and so I think what
01:01:57
we're seeing with Zuck right now with
01:01:59
his change in his um you know even how
01:02:02
he appears with a gold chain and how
01:02:04
he's dressing and everything that he's
01:02:06
doing is him going back to his roots to
01:02:09
be more authentic because I think he
01:02:10
hasn't been authentic for a long time
01:02:11
and and that was a big critique that
01:02:13
people had of him you know they were
01:02:14
just like when he talks he's like a
01:02:16
robot and I think what we're seeing is
01:02:19
him coming out of his shell and I don't
01:02:20
know if fighting helped it or what
01:02:21
helped it but you know I I do think it's
01:02:24
the best thing to do all the platforms
01:02:26
need to do it and should embrace it and
01:02:29
um it can be gamed though Community
01:02:31
notes can be gamed we saw it with um I
01:02:34
saw a report that you know kamla's
01:02:36
campaign or or I don't know if they
01:02:38
directly work for her or what happened
01:02:40
but they did take over Community notes
01:02:42
on X and start manipulating them so you
01:02:45
have to be really careful you know how
01:02:47
you run a community but in in general
01:02:49
I'm all for it I think it's the right
01:02:51
move it's but one signal it's one system
01:02:53
for trying to get you the truth it's not
01:02:54
the only one fact in is another one and
01:02:57
having no system is another one chth
01:02:59
you're obviously an alumni you worked
01:03:01
side by side with Zuckerberg in the
01:03:02
pivotal years of building the Facebook
01:03:05
platform what's your take on what cyan
01:03:07
said and what do you attribute
01:03:10
Zuckerberg's massive 180 here I would
01:03:13
start by saying I think he's a
01:03:15
phenomenal businessman I mean I think
01:03:17
the the results speak for
01:03:19
itself but I also think that that is
01:03:22
exactly what explains the shift in many
01:03:25
ways he to make that shift I think it's
01:03:28
fair to say that in the Obama and Biden
01:03:31
administrations when the winds were
01:03:35
blowing towards censorship they were
01:03:37
part of that machinery and that was the
01:03:40
value maximizing function for Facebook
01:03:43
shareholders in that time because if you
01:03:45
pushed back against that it's not clear
01:03:47
what would have happened to Facebook in
01:03:49
other ways and so I think the
01:03:52
decision whether he morally agreed with
01:03:55
or not almost didn't matter it's the
01:03:58
leadership of the country in which I
01:03:59
operate is telling me it's going to go
01:04:01
this way I go that way once the Biden
01:04:04
and Obama administration sort of went to
01:04:06
the Wayside there's a very interesting
01:04:08
picture that Donald Trump put in his
01:04:10
book and I just I sent it to Nick and I
01:04:14
think it sort of explains the last
01:04:15
week's events relatively well so I'll
01:04:17
just read
01:04:19
it this is a picture of him sitting in
01:04:21
the oval and it says Mark Zuckerberg
01:04:23
would come to the Oval Office to see me
01:04:25
he would bring his very nice wife to
01:04:26
dinners be as nice as anyone could be
01:04:30
while always plotting to install
01:04:31
shameful lock boxes in a true plot
01:04:34
against the president in jcal all caps
01:04:37
okay shout out to the president he told
01:04:39
me that there was nobody like Trump on
01:04:41
Facebook but at the same time and for
01:04:43
whatever reason steered it against me we
01:04:46
are watching him closely and if he does
01:04:48
anything illegal this time he will spend
01:04:50
the rest of his life in prison as will
01:04:53
others who cheat in the 2024
01:04:54
presidential election now that's what he
01:04:56
put in the book and then he was asked
01:04:58
about this
01:04:59
quote at a recent press conference Nick
01:05:02
do you have the the link to that he's
01:05:04
colorful freeberg did you notice Donald
01:05:06
Trump a little bit
01:05:07
colorful essentially Trump was asked
01:05:11
about Zuckerberg's move to free speech
01:05:15
and he he was ENT he was asked you know
01:05:17
do you think it was because of
01:05:19
your threat and he goes yeah probably
01:05:23
well I watched their news conference and
01:05:25
uh I thought was a very good news
01:05:26
conference I think they've honestly I
01:05:28
think they've come a long way meta do
01:05:30
you think he's directly responding to
01:05:31
the threats that you have made to him in
01:05:33
the past probably
01:05:35
probably wow there it is but again the
01:05:38
the the the lens that I would put on
01:05:41
this is now the winds are blowing in a
01:05:43
different direction and I do think it's
01:05:44
the value maximizing function I think
01:05:47
Elon didn't make a value maximizing
01:05:49
function he made a moral decision he did
01:05:52
it when it was unpopular and where the
01:05:53
winds were clearly blowing in the
01:05:55
opposite direction
01:05:56
now that those winds have changed and
01:05:57
it's clear Trump one in early November
01:06:00
the decisions you make in January are
01:06:02
more reflective of the new conditions on
01:06:04
the field coming into the inauguration
01:06:06
but I do think it's the smart value
01:06:08
maximizing decision yet again for
01:06:10
Facebook shareholders and I think it
01:06:13
begets a broader
01:06:15
point I think the thing is when you see
01:06:17
Elon
01:06:18
operate he's a complete outlier in many
01:06:21
dimensions but I think the one dimension
01:06:23
where it matters the most is that he
01:06:25
acts
01:06:26
morally and in the best interests of
01:06:29
what he believes Humanity benefits from
01:06:32
he's always done it he was willing to
01:06:33
torch $44 billion when he bought Twitter
01:06:35
in order to do it and so he does these
01:06:38
things from his own perspective I don't
01:06:40
think there's any other CEO that leads
01:06:42
this way and I don't think they should
01:06:45
necessarily I do think that you know
01:06:47
Mark's a good person but his intimate
01:06:50
feelings should be known by his wife his
01:06:53
children his friends his family I think
01:06:55
we as shareholders have any right to
01:06:57
know necessarily Elon is different and I
01:07:00
think it creates an expectation that
01:07:01
maybe we'll get that from everybody else
01:07:04
but I wouldn't conflate everybody else
01:07:06
with him so I think that this is a smart
01:07:09
business decision it makes a ton of
01:07:11
sense and as you can see he was
01:07:13
basically told to do it so he complied
01:07:17
uh free your thoughts on
01:07:20
Zuckerberg making this decision if kamla
01:07:24
Harris had won
01:07:26
would he have released a statement or
01:07:28
added Dana White to the board of
01:07:30
Facebook probably not okay there you
01:07:33
have it folks pretty straightforward
01:07:35
here KLA wins he would not have done
01:07:37
this he is jumping in front of a
01:07:41
marching band and he is the band leader
01:07:43
now he's got his baton and uh he is a
01:07:46
front runner and if you open the
01:07:47
dictionary and you look it up but I mean
01:07:49
it's a smart business move I think if
01:07:51
you're a meta shareholder I think you're
01:07:52
happy to see it absolutely is there
01:07:55
anything wrong with it J or you're just
01:07:56
saying there's a tremendous amount wrong
01:07:58
with it it's called moral Integrity
01:08:00
having an ethical Compass having hoah
01:08:03
having an own sense of what's right and
01:08:06
wrong in the world which he does not
01:08:08
have in my estimation based on hisor
01:08:10
that's not fair that's not fair you
01:08:11
don't know because again what I'm saying
01:08:13
is I said based on my estimation no but
01:08:16
Jason no what I'm trying to say is Elon
01:08:19
shares who he is in a 360 Dee way with
01:08:22
the world so we know where he stands and
01:08:25
all I'm saying is what Mark does or
01:08:27
doesn't believe really isn't known to us
01:08:29
it's probably known to his wife and his
01:08:31
family and his board I doubt his board
01:08:33
even knows actually some of his close
01:08:35
confidence some of his confidence let me
01:08:37
be clear I'll even it's it's I'm I'm
01:08:39
happy you're challenging me on it I base
01:08:41
people on their actions his action was
01:08:44
to be the greatest censor in the history
01:08:46
of humanity there's no human being who
01:08:48
censored More Humans than him that was
01:08:50
his decision when it was a popular
01:08:51
decision whether it was
01:08:54
or po not popular Jason necessary for
01:08:57
maximizing his business in that moment
01:08:59
he do I disagree his business would have
01:09:02
been just as vibrant if he had a spine
01:09:05
and he just said this is what I believe
01:09:08
and I think he's over optimizing based
01:09:11
on what he thinks everybody else around
01:09:12
him wants and I don't know I didn't I've
01:09:14
never worked with him I don't know him
01:09:16
personally you're right on that front
01:09:18
but he banned Trump for two years the
01:09:20
president of the United States I said at
01:09:22
the time I don't know that you can give
01:09:23
a permanent brand ban to the president
01:09:25
United States when he had the
01:09:26
opportunity to reevaluate that decision
01:09:28
you know what he did he punted he
01:09:30
created a third- party organization to
01:09:32
make the decision for him and deflected
01:09:34
Zuck created the oversight board he's so
01:09:36
spineless he decided I'll create and
01:09:38
give $150 million to this board to make
01:09:41
these hard decisions for me instead of
01:09:43
me making the decision he has God voting
01:09:46
shares of that company chamath he
01:09:48
controls it with an Iron Fist and not
01:09:50
only does he control with an iron fist
01:09:51
he has put protetive prisions in that so
01:09:54
that his children could take that $3.3
01:09:56
billion platform and own it forever and
01:09:59
he punted to them and said I don't want
01:10:01
to make these decisions what I saw when
01:10:03
he did that was I don't want to be
01:10:04
blamed for these decisions and that is a
01:10:07
lack of courage and Morality In my
01:10:09
estimation Jason and then the second he
01:10:12
is threatened by Trump he makes the
01:10:14
opposite decision and if he's making his
01:10:16
decisions strictly on maximizing money I
01:10:19
don't respect that I think he should
01:10:21
make the decisions based on what he
01:10:22
think is is the moral what is the point
01:10:24
of being a billionaire or worth a 100
01:10:26
billion or 200 billion if you don't get
01:10:28
to say I have you money you I'm going to
01:10:31
do what I want and that's what I think
01:10:33
is the his moral failure and anybody
01:10:35
giving him his flowers or champing him
01:10:37
for this I think it's just political
01:10:40
expediency and I think it's disgraceful
01:10:42
that's my per that's my feeling sorry I
01:10:44
have my own opinion what about the fact
01:10:46
that he was dragged in front of Congress
01:10:49
many times over and people that could
01:10:51
put him behind bars told him to his face
01:10:54
many times and this all been kind of
01:10:56
been coming out over the last couple of
01:10:57
months that government officials were
01:10:59
directing him in a way that feels like
01:11:02
do this or you will be prosecuted to do
01:11:04
the following things to act the
01:11:06
following way and to moderate your
01:11:07
platform in a way that we are telling
01:11:09
you to moderate it or you will find
01:11:11
yourself behind bars do you not think
01:11:13
that there's some degree of inherit
01:11:14
complicit kind of role that certain
01:11:16
government officials and folks in power
01:11:18
had in driving some of those actions
01:11:20
that maybe he had to do it to survive
01:11:22
and to keep the company alive not to
01:11:24
mention a violation of our constitution
01:11:26
no not at all he could have just hired
01:11:28
lawyers and fought it he didn't put up
01:11:30
any fight the second they told him to
01:11:32
roll over and ban Trump he did it zero
01:11:35
fight from him he has no do you know
01:11:38
that for sure because I I just want to
01:11:40
make sure I ask I'm just basing on his
01:11:41
actions I'm like I told you at the
01:11:42
beginning B basing on his actions right
01:11:46
not going to jail for Banning Trump if
01:11:48
he didn't ban Trump or he gave him a
01:11:49
six-month suspension he would have been
01:11:52
just fine I'm just trying to get you to
01:11:53
take a fair point of view which means
01:11:55
like let's make sure you're thoughtful
01:11:56
about the fact that this is not a dumb
01:11:58
person or a person let's give give him
01:12:00
the benefit for a minute he he's not a
01:12:01
DB benefit of being a great business
01:12:03
executive I'm just saying let's assume
01:12:05
he's not dumb and let's say that as cyan
01:12:07
points out and as he's kind of
01:12:08
highlighted points in his history he
01:12:10
actually does have certain beliefs and
01:12:11
certain systems that he would love to
01:12:13
kind of embrace I've said this many
01:12:15
times before all of the founders of the
01:12:17
big tech companies were all big Free
01:12:19
Speech Advocates that was a big part of
01:12:20
the open internet and the movement of
01:12:22
the open internet when a lot of people
01:12:23
got involved and that was a big part for
01:12:24
him
01:12:25
and I don't know like you know if you
01:12:27
really think at some point he flipped
01:12:29
his switch and said I don't care about
01:12:30
the open internet I now want to have a
01:12:31
closed controlled internet or if he
01:12:33
recognized or was coerced into
01:12:35
controlling moderation on the platform
01:12:36
because of the reach that he had and he
01:12:38
said the only way I can have any degree
01:12:40
of openness is to do the following and I
01:12:41
will say that my experience is similar
01:12:43
in Google when Google had to exit China
01:12:46
they initially went to China with a
01:12:48
closed internet with a closed censored
01:12:49
model of search because that was the way
01:12:52
they had to survive to offer a business
01:12:54
in China they didn't morally agree with
01:12:56
it they didn't think it was ethically
01:12:57
correct did they launch that or did
01:12:58
Sergey kill the deal when Eric Schmidt
01:13:00
proposed it well that deal went live
01:13:02
there was a let me let me just make sure
01:13:04
I get this all correct no they didn't go
01:13:06
live Sergey Bren because of his
01:13:09
upbringing in Russia he went to the mat
01:13:12
and said on a moral basis we're not
01:13:13
going into China and I've talked to
01:13:15
Sergey about it he did not want to go in
01:13:17
there and compromise his own ethics
01:13:19
that's period full stop so I don't think
01:13:23
that the only outlier here you're not
01:13:25
right and I just want to make when did
01:13:28
it when did because the dragon it was
01:13:29
called project Dragon there was a
01:13:32
there's a long history to this okay
01:13:33
let's let cyan come in here I want to
01:13:34
make sure I get this right but go ahead
01:13:36
say obviously he's a brilliant
01:13:38
businessman but I do think Underneath It
01:13:39
All he is a human being and I think his
01:13:41
fighting in the arena and this fighting
01:13:43
stuff that he does actually did change
01:13:45
him and this happened long before the
01:13:48
first amendment stuff started to appear
01:13:50
you know I think or free speech I
01:13:52
shouldn't call it first amendment but I
01:13:54
do think that the government did
01:13:55
interfere and after January 20th we're
01:13:58
going to find out some interesting stuff
01:13:59
and we'll get to the bottom of you know
01:14:02
how did the
01:14:04
government pressure him to censor things
01:14:07
and I think he's getting in front of
01:14:08
that because it is going to come out and
01:14:11
I think that is a huge part of why he is
01:14:13
getting more involved is because it's
01:14:15
going to be revealed just how much the
01:14:17
government coerced him and and how much
01:14:21
he acquiesced is that sort of what
01:14:22
you're this is why I think the fighting
01:14:24
actually helped think he learned to stop
01:14:25
acquiescing W I actually think he put up
01:14:28
a fight that is where I started seeing
01:14:30
the change in him and started noticing
01:14:32
it and so did the you know he's
01:14:33
developed so many more fans and people
01:14:35
who are looking to him as a leader in a
01:14:37
different way now because he's actually
01:14:39
starting to express who he is and like
01:14:42
what kind of music he likes nobody ever
01:14:43
knew that they thought he was just a
01:14:45
robot he doesn't like music he he hired
01:14:47
a whole PR team to craft this is my
01:14:48
understanding but anyway again I don't I
01:14:51
don't know that much detail I don't I
01:14:52
don't I'm not involved in his personal
01:14:54
life like that but I just I always love
01:14:56
to give people the benefit of that I
01:14:57
guess that's just me uh and I and I do
01:14:59
think that uh people people can change
01:15:02
and I'm hoping that he is actually going
01:15:04
to stay on this side we we want more
01:15:07
leaders like him to believe in free
01:15:08
speech of course of course I mean listen
01:15:10
Reddit had by the way they all do and
01:15:13
I've never met a you know an internet
01:15:16
business executive who didn't come from
01:15:19
kind of the open internet philosophical
01:15:21
Doctrine by background that that was a
01:15:23
big motivator for all of us Because the
01:15:25
Internet took away the controls took
01:15:27
away the power took away the censorship
01:15:29
took away all these things that other
01:15:31
kind of communication systems had vested
01:15:33
in them and the internet through an open
01:15:35
protocol allowed anyone to share
01:15:37
anything with anyone else and obviously
01:15:39
laws and all this other stuff that's
01:15:41
happened since then has made that far
01:15:43
more difficult and I will re revisit our
01:15:45
conversation Jason Google's China with
01:15:47
censored search results was live for
01:15:49
four years before they canel it so they
01:15:51
launched in 2006 they censored results
01:15:54
they complied with the Chinese
01:15:55
government request and eventually in
01:15:57
2010 they killed it and you could argue
01:15:58
it was because of philosophical reasons
01:16:00
but fundamentally it never actually got
01:16:02
a lot of users in China there were more
01:16:04
users on BYU and Google had separately
01:16:06
made an investment in was the moment I
01:16:09
think it became if I remember correctly
01:16:12
this 20 years ago but I think I think it
01:16:13
was YouTube oh was it YouTube because
01:16:15
one of the other services they started
01:16:17
saying hey we need to know these
01:16:19
people's names who posted this who sent
01:16:21
this email we want full access into it
01:16:23
and that's where they drew the line
01:16:24
because it wasn't just the passive
01:16:25
search engine right it was actually like
01:16:27
Roundup dissidence like Yahoo famously
01:16:31
did Yahoo They yeah Google claimed there
01:16:33
was a hack that happened because on
01:16:35
their servers in China and so they were
01:16:37
just no longer comfortable operating
01:16:39
about this guys yeah however we got here
01:16:42
we're here yeah and we should all be
01:16:45
happy that we're here yeah exactly yeah
01:16:48
I'll take the win and we just kind of
01:16:50
move forward how about that I mean
01:16:51
taking the win is a good way world is a
01:16:53
better place because of his decision
01:16:55
yeah exactly I think we all agree on
01:16:57
that I mean what's the point of having
01:16:59
an open platform and you can say things
01:17:01
but why do you call them spineless like
01:17:02
why like why go after the guy why
01:17:04
because you can judge a person when
01:17:05
they're put under pressure to make the
01:17:07
right decision I think what Jason is
01:17:09
expressing is sort of what I was trying
01:17:11
to say and I probably said it poorly I
01:17:12
think there are some of us
01:17:15
who look at the way that Elon runs
01:17:19
himself in his companies okay as a sort
01:17:21
of world beating technology CEO
01:17:26
and then that sort of sets the
01:17:28
bar but I think that that bar is
01:17:30
impossible to
01:17:32
meet and I think part of it is because
01:17:34
of elon's Genius the other part of it is
01:17:36
his success the other part of it is his
01:17:38
influence but there's an element Jason a
01:17:40
fundamental moral risk-taking that he
01:17:43
takes that has been rewarded over and
01:17:46
over again that no other CEO has had to
01:17:49
make and when they have they've largely
01:17:51
failed and so I I understand where
01:17:53
you're coming from but I would give give
01:17:55
a lot of folks the benefit of the doubt
01:17:57
here and say it's not clear what they
01:17:59
believe then versus what they believe
01:18:01
now but the destination is very good and
01:18:04
we're in a better place for society and
01:18:06
hopefully we can maintain these Norms
01:18:09
independent of who's in charge after
01:18:11
Trump I am super happy he's making these
01:18:14
decisions I believe in freedom of speech
01:18:16
you know it's I think he's gonna have to
01:18:17
deal with advertisers next though I mean
01:18:19
that's one thing that X doesn't have to
01:18:20
deal with as much and that's going to be
01:18:22
the second problem he's going to have is
01:18:24
not the government but do advertisers
01:18:27
want to be next to some of the content
01:18:28
that's about to appear and when he loses
01:18:31
tens of billions of dollars in personal
01:18:32
net worth will he make the same
01:18:34
decisions we'll see but I can tell you
01:18:37
if KLA Harris had been voted in he would
01:18:40
double down on censorship instead of
01:18:42
taking this position I think he is
01:18:44
terrified of trump and having his
01:18:45
company broken up and he's doing this
01:18:47
strictly to appease Trump which I think
01:18:50
putting Dana White on the board is
01:18:52
another signal that's one of Trump's
01:18:53
good friends he's just trying get close
01:18:55
to the party he's trying to make up for
01:18:56
lost time for when he supported the
01:18:59
censorship of trump and other folks I I
01:19:02
I think he would make the opposite
01:19:03
decision but to your point we're here
01:19:05
I'm glad he's here J would you would you
01:19:07
meet Zuck in the Octagon that's the most
01:19:09
important question no of the day no
01:19:11
definitely not he's got he's he's 10 15
01:19:14
years younger than me he killed me not a
01:19:16
not a chance would I meet him in the
01:19:18
Octagon but I wish him well I wish him
01:19:20
well would you meet would you meet
01:19:21
Palmer lucky on the Octagon let's not
01:19:23
start that up again
01:19:26
just wondering just wondering I actually
01:19:27
literally challenged him he he wanted to
01:19:29
send the mountain he wanted to pick
01:19:32
somebody to fight for him Trey from
01:19:34
Founders fund and I said no uh unless
01:19:37
Trey was will I would you guys ever
01:19:39
watch the old TV show American
01:19:40
Gladiators I would like I would like you
01:19:43
and Palmer to have an American Gladiator
01:19:45
style tournament like maybe four or five
01:19:47
events and kind of get in put up a
01:19:50
million dollars for charity I'll totally
01:19:52
do
01:19:53
it we'll put up a million dollars each
01:19:55
for charity I'll do
01:19:57
it let's let's get you know let's get
01:20:00
the I think that this be let's something
01:20:03
super this would be more more exciting
01:20:05
than the accelerator I will tell you we
01:20:07
absolutely might get more ratings than
01:20:08
it yeah you could actually call it you
01:20:11
could call it American Gladiators it
01:20:12
would be a great there you go American
01:20:13
Gladiators the the CEO Edition business
01:20:16
to business Edition the're going sass
01:20:19
all right listen Nvidia going consumer
01:20:20
let's talk about it Nvidia made a big
01:20:23
announcement at CES this week they made
01:20:24
a lot of them one of them that was
01:20:26
particularly interesting was this $3,000
01:20:28
personal AI computer for researchers so
01:20:30
awesome it's called project digits and
01:20:34
it's essentially like um maybe Arduino
01:20:38
would be a way to look at this like a a
01:20:39
personal device but it's powerful enough
01:20:41
to run llms on they're also going after
01:20:44
physical AI like Robotics and
01:20:46
self-driving as we said here on the
01:20:49
award show a lot of people on the panel
01:20:50
were predicting this year would be the
01:20:52
year of Robotics and they announced that
01:20:54
they're going to have driver assistant
01:20:56
chips and maybe build worlds for people
01:20:59
to simulate which net net at the end of
01:21:02
the day I think freeberg puts them on
01:21:04
second would put autonomy Partners on
01:21:06
second or third base in terms of
01:21:08
creating technology by incorporating it
01:21:10
into the chips and into their stack so
01:21:13
cyan what do you think of these
01:21:15
announcements and some of the other ones
01:21:16
he made I know you were excited to talk
01:21:19
about this yeah I'm really excited to
01:21:20
talk about it because I think I've been
01:21:21
trying to figure out how they justify
01:21:23
their valuation
01:21:25
over the long run and you know I'm not a
01:21:27
public market person but I am fascinated
01:21:30
with Nvidia and uh you know there Cloud
01:21:33
GPU business is definitely a majority of
01:21:36
uh the revenue so I think a lot a lot of
01:21:39
what we're seeing is them trying to grow
01:21:40
into that and trying to expand in case
01:21:43
you know the Music Stops now I don't
01:21:45
actually think the music's going to
01:21:47
stop you know it's insane to me we
01:21:50
haven't even barely touched what AI is
01:21:53
going to do and change and all of the
01:21:55
various things that are going to come
01:21:56
from it and you know the early adopters
01:21:59
cannot use Claude without getting shut
01:22:01
down because of scaling issues and I
01:22:03
don't think those are artificially
01:22:04
created based on the type of investing
01:22:06
I'm doing and um so I'm very bullish on
01:22:10
Nvidia it is interesting it's an
01:22:12
interesting thing to go consumer and you
01:22:15
know the thing that really hit me was
01:22:18
the fact that uh he kind of declared
01:22:20
Tesla one of the most valuable companies
01:22:22
in the world in the long run
01:22:25
it's interesting that he got behind
01:22:27
oyota but at the same time you know I
01:22:30
don't think of a there's one single car
01:22:33
company out there that has the kind of
01:22:34
data that full self drive has and Tesla
01:22:37
has yeah um so if they enter the robo
01:22:39
taxi Market I actually think they should
01:22:41
buy Uber then it's kind of you should
01:22:43
think Tesla should buy Uber oh yeah I
01:22:45
think they should buy Uber well that
01:22:46
would be about 10% of Tesla's market cap
01:22:48
at this point if they paid a premium it
01:22:49
might be 15% so it would be very similar
01:22:51
hard but it's true like yeah it is true
01:22:54
yeah and then and then you launch that
01:22:56
Robo taxi service and you know maybe
01:22:59
there's some sort of secondary
01:23:01
aftermarket solution kind of like comma
01:23:03
AI or something like that that you can
01:23:04
do for people's
01:23:05
cars where you can actually get
01:23:07
anybody's car into the fleet and start
01:23:10
self-driving but it is true this is
01:23:12
going to be the largest breakout in
01:23:13
robotics we've ever seen if whmo is any
01:23:17
indicator and you know I I read
01:23:19
somewhere I think that Amazon or some
01:23:21
somebody was looking at it I don't know
01:23:23
what was going on with weo but um oh
01:23:26
lift Amazon was going to buy lift yeah
01:23:28
that makes no sense right like lot sense
01:23:30
to me sense would the point
01:23:33
be I do think you're correct I think
01:23:36
maybe delivery or something like that I
01:23:37
can't figure out what their play is
01:23:39
there well it's not and it's also not
01:23:40
Global but you know looking at the
01:23:42
Amazon and weo Tesla and Uber I think
01:23:46
weo plus Uber Amazon Plus Uber or Tesla
01:23:50
plus Uber defines who number one is
01:23:52
right because you'd have a global
01:23:53
footprint and for the 5 10 years maybe
01:23:55
10 years it takes to roll out taxis
01:23:58
globally you could have people D I mean
01:24:00
it's a really interesting thought
01:24:01
process you have your say imagine if
01:24:03
there was an inter St where they sold
01:24:06
less Teslas this year slightly than last
01:24:08
year you could just keep producing lots
01:24:10
of model wise and give them to the Uber
01:24:13
drivers keep reinforcement loaning going
01:24:16
while the taxis and regulations get set
01:24:19
and then you would be able to put
01:24:22
another instead of selling 1.8 million
01:24:24
Teslas you could sell 3 million Teslas 4
01:24:26
million Teslas to Uber drivers get all
01:24:28
that data and have the safety driver in
01:24:30
while each region decides if they want
01:24:33
Robo taxis where how Etc your thoughts
01:24:35
jamaath on nvidia's dipping their toe
01:24:39
into maybe taking the bottom 30% of the
01:24:41
stack of self-driving I don't have much
01:24:44
of an opinion on that to be honest I
01:24:45
think that sort of along the lines of
01:24:47
what I said on the prediction show I
01:24:49
think that way and Tesla are going to
01:24:51
run away with this market and I think
01:24:52
it's going to force a bunch of cons
01:24:54
validation in the traditional Auto
01:24:57
o I think the interesting thing is that
01:25:01
they really double down and created a
01:25:04
pretty decent test bench for robotics I
01:25:06
thought that was pretty interesting so I
01:25:07
think that
01:25:08
reinforces what a lot of smart people
01:25:10
including you know what freeberg and
01:25:12
Gavin also spoke about just in terms of
01:25:14
the long-term future for robots I think
01:25:17
that that was cool I was I was a little
01:25:20
confused by the lowend PC I don't
01:25:23
understand what the point of that
01:25:25
is maybe it like creates some crazy
01:25:28
deepin Market where you can buy GPU and
01:25:32
then contribut it to some distributed
01:25:33
Network and allow some distributed
01:25:35
workload to run on that I guess I don't
01:25:37
know I think it's a toy a hobbyist kind
01:25:41
of device that becomes like a bridge and
01:25:43
we see this often in technology where
01:25:45
somebody creates like even the original
01:25:48
PCS let's face it they were kind of like
01:25:49
toys and hobbyist devices arduinos and
01:25:52
the original drones
01:25:55
yeah I guess the point is a toy to do
01:25:57
what because if you're trying to do
01:25:59
inference like everything is telling us
01:26:02
that we are reaching the limits of
01:26:05
training and that's an LL though right
01:26:09
the point it's not yeah let me get to
01:26:12
yeah yeah so so in this world of AI that
01:26:14
we know it today there's training and
01:26:16
there's inference and right now we think
01:26:17
that there's training that's at a limit
01:26:20
and so now the market shifts to
01:26:21
inference so if you're going to buy this
01:26:25
jacked up personal computer what are you
01:26:27
going to use it for my suspicion is some
01:26:29
sort of test time compute use
01:26:32
case which is an inference use case but
01:26:35
it's not clear to me why that's a better
01:26:38
solution
01:26:40
than all of the AI accelerators plus
01:26:43
tensors that are now just prolifically
01:26:45
being exposed to the market whether it's
01:26:48
Amazon exposing what they've done
01:26:50
whether it's Google exposing what
01:26:51
they've done a whole Litany of startups
01:26:54
exposing what they've done so I was just
01:26:56
confused I don't really
01:26:59
know what the whole point is what do you
01:27:01
think about this the robotics thing was
01:27:04
interesting if the market develops in
01:27:06
the way that they think so we're talking
01:27:08
about maybe two or three different
01:27:09
pieces here freeberg which one do you
01:27:11
think is super interesting than the this
01:27:14
$3,000 sort of GPU for your desktop that
01:27:18
you attach to your computer you get to
01:27:19
play with things locally do you think
01:27:21
that's promising where would that go if
01:27:23
you had to guess so I think the bet he's
01:27:25
making is it's not just llms which is
01:27:29
predicting text but you know we've
01:27:31
talked a lot about Machine Vision
01:27:34
models graph neural Nets that that are
01:27:37
being used for weather forecasting
01:27:39
there's now these kind of genome
01:27:40
language models that are trying to
01:27:41
predict genomic output for Bio uh Tech
01:27:46
applications there's also going to be
01:27:48
kind of Real Time Machine Vision and
01:27:51
robotic response like we're working on
01:27:54
this at ohal and we're trying to figure
01:27:56
out what's the right kind of runtime
01:27:58
environment for these sorts of systems
01:28:00
that are going to be using a machine
01:28:01
vision and a robotic kind of response
01:28:03
type system and there's a lot of these
01:28:04
industrial applications that are
01:28:05
emerging let's say you're running a
01:28:07
robot in a warehouse do you really want
01:28:09
that robot in the warehouse to be
01:28:11
sending data to the cloud and waiting
01:28:13
for a model to run in the cloud and
01:28:15
getting a response the probability is
01:28:17
you want to have that at the edge of the
01:28:18
network you want to have something local
01:28:21
and I don't think he necessarily has a
01:28:23
strong point of view on what the types
01:28:24
of models and Industrial applications
01:28:26
will be but the bet he's making is that
01:28:28
the models are good enough and now the
01:28:30
chips are good enough that they can
01:28:32
actually
01:28:33
realize real-time responses using
01:28:36
Machine Vision using real-time input and
01:28:38
then respond quickly with a local model
01:28:40
running whatever that model is to drive
01:28:42
some output in the industrial setting
01:28:45
and that there'll be a lot of these
01:28:46
sorts of applications whether that's
01:28:47
making predictions for biotech research
01:28:50
or whether that's for running robots in
01:28:52
warehouses or building new research
01:28:54
models or maybe you could strap this PC
01:28:57
on the back of something like a car a
01:28:59
tractor a lawnmower a humanoid robot or
01:29:03
any other set of applications explain to
01:29:05
the audience freeberg why having the
01:29:07
computer at the edge is beneficial for
01:29:09
those folks who might not know if you're
01:29:11
taking in a lot of data and then you
01:29:13
have to run a lot of data in a model
01:29:15
it's a lot faster to to run that model
01:29:17
locally like when Tesla runs
01:29:19
self-driving it's not sending the video
01:29:21
images from your car to a server
01:29:24
a thousand miles away and then letting
01:29:26
the server decide how to drive your car
01:29:28
the car is running its model on what to
01:29:29
do with respect to the video imagery in
01:29:32
the car it's local because the ability
01:29:35
for all that data to get processed in
01:29:36
the car means that you don't have to
01:29:37
wait for the internet to transmit data
01:29:39
back and forth you don't have lag time
01:29:41
you don't have the 60 millisecond or 100
01:29:42
millisecond response time you don't have
01:29:44
it losing your phone connection and then
01:29:46
not knowing what to do exactly or or the
01:29:48
the connection drops or waiting for a
01:29:50
server to come online or server breaks
01:29:52
in the data center everything is local
01:29:54
so if you strap this like you know
01:29:56
Nvidia computer which is basically plug
01:29:58
andplay you don't have to have like
01:30:00
Hardware expertise you could strap it
01:30:01
onto the back of a humanoid robot or run
01:30:04
research applications locally so I think
01:30:06
that there's going to be some really
01:30:07
interesting use cases whether it becomes
01:30:10
a replacement for the Apple you know
01:30:12
Macintosh Pro Studio device whatever
01:30:15
maybe we'll see Mac Mini 4 yeah the Mac
01:30:18
Mini 4 but a lot of people have pointed
01:30:19
out that actually the the compute on
01:30:21
this thing for $3,000 knocks a lot of
01:30:23
Max out of the um out of the field I
01:30:26
just can't run an operating system in
01:30:27
the traditional sense Sam when we look
01:30:29
at startups I remember when you and I
01:30:31
started investing two of the driving
01:30:33
forces was free storage free bandwidth
01:30:35
and cloud computing it drove a lot of
01:30:38
ability to get a product to Market very
01:30:40
quickly effectively Etc what impact will
01:30:43
AI have on all these startups that are
01:30:46
being originating now in 2024
01:30:49
2025 look into your crystal wall and how
01:30:52
do you think they'll uh grow the
01:30:55
footprint of them how is this going to
01:30:57
accelerate the startup scene I actually
01:30:59
think we're going to see a Cambrian
01:31:01
explosion of creativity and and
01:31:03
development of different things and some
01:31:05
of them are going to be stupid ideas and
01:31:07
some of them are going to be great but I
01:31:08
think it's going to make our job
01:31:10
especially at the seed stage of
01:31:11
investing harder and
01:31:13
harder there's going to be so many
01:31:15
there's just going to be a lot of people
01:31:16
that have similar ideas at the same time
01:31:18
that can execute quickly and and do
01:31:20
things that break neck speeds that
01:31:22
they've never been able to do before and
01:31:24
um you know picking the winner is going
01:31:26
to be hard to figure out it's going to
01:31:28
be harder and harder yeah and it might
01:31:30
be that um you know I've been thinking
01:31:31
about this like do you in invest in
01:31:33
competitors which is something I never
01:31:35
used to do you know do you take a bet an
01:31:37
index an entire category that you're
01:31:39
interested in you know what is the
01:31:41
Approach at seed And precede because uh
01:31:44
I think of an idea and I'm like wow
01:31:45
that's really neat and then I go and
01:31:46
look out there and there's 30 people
01:31:48
working on it and that didn't used to be
01:31:50
the case and I think part of it is uh
01:31:53
We've really unlocked
01:31:54
a tool that allows people to do things
01:31:58
that would have been cost prohibitive or
01:32:01
gives them the ability to think gosh I
01:32:02
could be an entrepreneur and I can try
01:32:04
this and I could do
01:32:06
this so I'm seeing people experiment and
01:32:08
do all sorts of things as far as the
01:32:10
startups some of AI stuff is just a
01:32:13
feature you know it's just um table
01:32:16
Stakes at this point it's like you know
01:32:17
a chat or whatever and that doesn't
01:32:19
really matter but then you're seeing
01:32:20
people reimagine games and reimagine
01:32:24
you know even things down to your
01:32:26
kitchen appliance Etc uh so I just I do
01:32:30
think it's going to be very very
01:32:31
difficult and and I tend to set out a
01:32:33
lot of hype Cycles so I invested in
01:32:36
power and compute
01:32:39
lithography kind of all of the things
01:32:41
that are going to be underneath all of
01:32:43
this and so I'm not sure how much of it
01:32:45
I'm going to participate in until it
01:32:47
starts to get to a steady state and you
01:32:49
kind of can understand what's next
01:32:51
because the the rate of acceleration is
01:32:53
just so
01:32:56
great that it's just kind of unclear to
01:32:58
me sometimes you know especially when it
01:33:00
comes to these consumer applications
01:33:02
consumer facing things it's just uh
01:33:04
really hard well when we were picking
01:33:08
famously Uber you had to pick between
01:33:09
scar lift and Uber there were three
01:33:11
people doing it and it was pretty clear
01:33:13
who was the most qualified you know
01:33:15
amongst those three you now to your
01:33:16
point if you're want to be involved in
01:33:18
Tax Plus AI or legal plus AI you might
01:33:22
be looking at 50 companies oh 100 and it
01:33:25
was tradition in Silicon Valley to not
01:33:27
bet on competitors there were some
01:33:28
notable exceptions when you run an
01:33:30
accelerator like I do Tech Stars or why
01:33:31
combinator you aren't Bound by that
01:33:33
because 50% of the companies pivot
01:33:35
almost by Design so I think you just
01:33:38
have to I think at preed because people
01:33:42
pivot you just have to tell people like
01:33:43
listen we have a lot of pivoting going
01:33:44
on people are going to run into each
01:33:45
other I can't just bet on one thing
01:33:48
right in in a space but I think that's a
01:33:50
reasonable compromise if if all the
01:33:51
founders are going to keep pivoting to
01:33:53
others businesses how can the investors
01:33:55
even keep track of that it's like being
01:33:56
aircraft traffic control of 10 airports
01:33:59
at once it's just not feasible uh let's
01:34:02
goad you wouldn't think it but there's
01:34:03
still a lot of spreadsheet companies out
01:34:05
there you know you think you'd run out
01:34:07
of them but they're still out there you
01:34:08
know you look at and I think this is
01:34:10
where AI is really going to make a
01:34:12
difference like RFP proposals for
01:34:13
governments you know something that
01:34:15
takes like 30 days and it's manual and
01:34:17
you have to submit these horrible
01:34:19
documents you know you can ingest your
01:34:20
entire Corpus of you know all of your
01:34:23
previous bid bids and submit them at a
01:34:25
break neck speed now and win more
01:34:27
contracts that becomes like a National
01:34:29
Defense company at that point and and so
01:34:32
I think we're going to see a lot of
01:34:33
really interesting things where a lot of
01:34:36
Cru is going to disappear and and
01:34:39
that'll be a really interesting wave
01:34:41
that I'm I'm looking forward to yeah in
01:34:44
fact jamath has made a big bet there
01:34:45
with his time uh with his uh software
01:34:47
startup that he's created all right
01:34:49
let's end on the United States of
01:34:52
America growing from 50 to 60 or 70
01:34:56
States Trump has
01:34:58
been rattling off some ideas around this
01:35:02
chth what's your take on it I know we
01:35:04
got to get wrapped up here so we'll just
01:35:06
do a quick lightning round on it I mean
01:35:07
I thought it was really interesting and
01:35:10
I and I was just caught off guard at how
01:35:13
the media tried to portray it as Trump
01:35:16
being Trump goofy whatever colorful but
01:35:20
I think like what I've realized even
01:35:21
with the California fire thing the guy
01:35:24
has this preent way of he may not say it
01:35:27
in the way that it works for some people
01:35:29
but he's just really on top of this
01:35:31
stuff so I I just sent Nick a thing so I
01:35:34
I started to learn a little bit more
01:35:35
about why he wants to take over
01:35:37
Greenland and it really comes down to
01:35:40
one very basic idea here because of
01:35:43
climate change and other things the
01:35:45
Arctic ice shelf is melting and the more
01:35:48
and more it melts it opens up a shipping
01:35:51
Lane in the northern Passage for a lot
01:35:55
of critical goods and so if you had some
01:35:58
sort of strategic agreement with Canada
01:36:00
and Greenland you effectively have this
01:36:04
Monopoly control over something that
01:36:06
could become as important as the Panama
01:36:08
Canal and so I think if you look across
01:36:12
the
01:36:13
world the control of Maritime shipping
01:36:16
lanes becomes this really critical
01:36:19
strategic military and economic asset
01:36:23
and so the reason why he's trying to
01:36:25
find a way to initiate some sort of a
01:36:28
discussion between Greenland and Canada
01:36:30
is exactly this reason and I think it's
01:36:33
sort of like a bargaining Gambit the way
01:36:34
that he started but it's really smart
01:36:37
that he's trying to get this done for
01:36:38
for the United States of America because
01:36:41
meanwhile what you have is China
01:36:43
militarizing very aggressively Russia
01:36:45
militarizing very aggressively and what
01:36:47
you don't want to have happen is those
01:36:49
two countries take control of that
01:36:51
Northern passage as the ice sheet melts
01:36:54
so I just thought that was important
01:36:55
having a capable bu business executive
01:36:57
thinking about the future of business
01:36:59
and shipping and Logistics pretty pretty
01:37:01
big win and I just love the idea Sayan
01:37:04
you know what's smart I mean let's give
01:37:05
Trump credit what's so smart is like
01:37:07
somebody was doing this work yes got it
01:37:10
got it in front of him yeah and he was
01:37:12
smart enough to say hold on a second
01:37:14
this is really important let me tweet it
01:37:17
and then the way that he initiates it
01:37:18
though gets even more attention because
01:37:21
if he basically tweeted hey guys I have
01:37:24
this really interesting idea to gain
01:37:25
more leverage in a Northern Maritime
01:37:27
shipping Lane nobody would have paid
01:37:29
attention absolutely not nobody would
01:37:30
have and now we're all talking about it
01:37:32
and now there's an opportunity for
01:37:34
millions of people to understand why and
01:37:36
be supportive of it it's pretty smart
01:37:39
any thoughts on expanding the United
01:37:40
States to a couple more territories and
01:37:42
states I love it I I would love to have
01:37:44
60 States in our lifetime I mean let's
01:37:46
pick one in the Caribbean let's pick one
01:37:48
in Europe I think we should have an open
01:37:49
invitation but Jason that's not what
01:37:51
he's doing I think he's I know I'm being
01:37:53
a
01:37:54
this is very strategic this one but I'm
01:37:57
just thinking the next Domino I would
01:37:58
like to get Cuba maybe Portugal I don't
01:38:00
know who 80% of people say what do you
01:38:02
think in the country want to join join
01:38:05
it's very strategic if you look at the
01:38:06
Panama Canal I believe either end is
01:38:09
operated and controlled by China we are
01:38:12
at war with China whether we like to
01:38:13
admit it or not in my opinion and so
01:38:16
this is very
01:38:17
strategic he has a very strange way of
01:38:20
communicating as you pointed out but I
01:38:21
think it's brilliant and I actually
01:38:22
think
01:38:24
we should add to that I've always
01:38:25
thought that we should open up and add
01:38:27
more
01:38:29
States and extend that invitation you
01:38:31
know to Taiwan I would might be
01:38:33
controversial to even say
01:38:35
India but I do think that uh that we
01:38:39
there's a lot of countries out there and
01:38:41
people who really really resonate with
01:38:43
what it means to be an American and the
01:38:46
freedoms that come with our subscription
01:38:48
fees of this country and so um I do
01:38:52
think that it would be great for us to
01:38:53
expand and you know I don't know what
01:38:56
he's thinking or how who he's got behind
01:38:58
the scenes who motivated him to do it
01:38:59
but I'm I I really think it's a great
01:39:01
idea freeberg what do you think about
01:39:04
optin
01:39:05
imperialism uh and this incredible
01:39:08
concept of expanding our territories in
01:39:11
the 21st
01:39:13
century again I don't know how to read
01:39:15
it I have no inside information there's
01:39:17
clearly some posturing as we've heard
01:39:19
many times when Trump makes a
01:39:20
declaration like I'm going to put on
01:39:22
100% tariff on every that's imported or
01:39:24
I'm going to charge you 2,000 bucks
01:39:26
Mexico for every time you ship something
01:39:29
here or I want to do X or Y or Z it's
01:39:32
not the literal statement that matters
01:39:35
as much as kind of the the the vector
01:39:37
and the magnitude of the vector he's
01:39:38
clearly trying to um begin negotiating
01:39:41
for some change I I I don't know what
01:39:43
the ultimate kind of strategic endpoint
01:39:45
is meant to be here but clearly there's
01:39:47
something I think Cham might might have
01:39:49
a good good read on this and seems Seems
01:39:52
to make a lot of sense well we have a
01:39:54
military base there and we also protect
01:39:56
it and we we occupy it already which is
01:39:58
interesting right right we somewhat yeah
01:40:01
we somewhat abandoned all that in
01:40:02
Greenland but there is a lot of that
01:40:04
infrastructure still sitting around can
01:40:05
I ask you guys a question I I started I
01:40:07
listened to Lex freedman's interview the
01:40:08
totally off topic but I listened to Lex
01:40:11
freedman's interview with Graham Hancock
01:40:13
you guys ever heard of this guy yes have
01:40:16
you read any of his stuff or watch any
01:40:18
of his shows I have not no okay so he's
01:40:21
got this belief that there was this like
01:40:23
like ancient civilization on Earth not
01:40:26
like sci-fi futuristic but like an
01:40:28
advanced human civilization and that's
01:40:30
where the Great Pyramid of Giza was like
01:40:32
there was a smaller pyramid that was
01:40:34
built there and a lot of these other
01:40:35
kind of like
01:40:37
historical places were built and then
01:40:39
they were built on top of later but that
01:40:42
a lot of these like this Advanced
01:40:44
civilization was wiped out during um the
01:40:48
last ice age there was a a very rapid
01:40:50
kind of uh freeezing event that happened
01:40:52
over period of about 1200 years and
01:40:54
that's when this great kind of Ice Age
01:40:56
Era civilization was wiped out but what
01:40:59
I didn't realize and so I went down this
01:41:00
really crazy rabbit hole in the last
01:41:01
week on like how much of planet Earth
01:41:05
well how different planet Earth was just
01:41:07
12,000 years ago during the Ice Age have
01:41:09
you guys spent any time on this like I
01:41:11
just went down a similar rabbit hole
01:41:12
with the Grand Canyon it's like the
01:41:15
first of all like how the planet earth
01:41:16
has changed in such a short period of
01:41:18
time blows my mind but like the sea
01:41:21
level was 400t lower than it is today
01:41:25
just 12,000 years ago and there were
01:41:26
humans on Earth at the time and so all
01:41:29
of this this area that we look at as
01:41:32
like like Malta the island of Malta was
01:41:35
the southern tip of like a continental
01:41:37
stretch that went into Italy so it was
01:41:39
all part of one great land mass and
01:41:41
there's all this area that was actually
01:41:43
part of that land mass that now sits
01:41:45
under that ocean there and there's these
01:41:47
like like ruts in the ground for moving
01:41:50
stuff and buildings and all this other
01:41:52
crazy stuff and we have no idea like
01:41:54
what's actually under the ice in
01:41:55
Greenland what's under the ice in
01:41:57
Antarctica there's all these parts of
01:41:59
Earth where humans very likely had some
01:42:02
this is so off topic we could cut this
01:42:03
from the show I think it's incredible
01:42:05
and I it's so crazy that there's there's
01:42:08
all these parts of Earth and and
01:42:09
especially like in the oceans as we
01:42:11
start to kind of explore there's
01:42:12
actually like large humans potentially
01:42:14
Advanced civilizations that lived in
01:42:16
these areas not like flying around the
01:42:18
Atlanta stuff that it was actually like
01:42:20
an advanced civilization and then humans
01:42:22
lost a lot of this ability
01:42:23
when the this like period of freezing
01:42:26
happened over 1200 years and then a lot
01:42:28
of it was preserved in Legends and myths
01:42:30
that showed up in later kind of
01:42:32
archaeology and later how do you explain
01:42:34
the
01:42:35
pyramids I think he has a really I think
01:42:38
because we had Gavin explained it last
01:42:40
time say welcome to conspiracy quarter
01:42:42
so somebody sent me an email oh and he
01:42:44
said what they did was they flooded the
01:42:46
area and
01:42:48
they fled the Rocks up yes brilliant
01:42:51
I've heard this but you know what chath
01:42:52
and I were talking about this too cuz
01:42:53
when you remove all that crust because
01:42:55
we we actually were talking we just
01:42:56
didn't use guy in name it's just like
01:42:58
Uranus when you when you break away all
01:43:00
that crust what did they find in Uranus
01:43:03
freeberg mine mine was better mine was
01:43:06
better you got it you land did the joke
01:43:07
it's great it's great I got it oh we
01:43:09
finally got there folks this has been
01:43:12
another amazing episode of the all-in
01:43:13
podcast it's
01:43:16
different yeah I can't say anything
01:43:18
other than cyan you were great for a
01:43:21
first time out you got to the conspiracy
01:43:23
you rocked it you got to interject more
01:43:25
because it's it's a vibrant panel but
01:43:27
for a first time out very before you go
01:43:30
do you have an alternative expanation
01:43:31
for the pyramids Sayan yeah what UF I've
01:43:35
looked into I mean UFOs is the only only
01:43:37
one that I usually come back to because
01:43:39
you know if you look at putting logs
01:43:42
underneath and trying to roll them or
01:43:43
you look at flooding an area all of this
01:43:46
just doesn't make a whole lot of
01:43:48
sense and so and then you know the fact
01:43:51
that there are other civiliz that also
01:43:53
have pyramids that are stunning and
01:43:57
Feats of engineering as well uh things
01:44:00
like stonehinge Etc I mean there's just
01:44:02
things that defy explanation I don't
01:44:04
know if you ever tried to make a
01:44:05
catapult but it's really hard it's
01:44:07
really it's really
01:44:09
hard and so like I we just did not have
01:44:12
the technology or at least we can't find
01:44:15
any definitive way that it that it
01:44:17
happened and and so I do think there is
01:44:20
a possibility that there was a more
01:44:22
advanced civilization here or we were
01:44:24
visited and I I think about that a lot I
01:44:27
think it's mutants I'm going with the
01:44:28
X-Men Theory I think there were mutant
01:44:30
human beings who had the ability with
01:44:31
superpowers to build them it could be
01:44:32
that it could be that it could be we had
01:44:34
control of matter and Alchemy or
01:44:36
something like that who knows this is
01:44:39
this is what we've come to now we get
01:44:40
conspiracy corner at the end of every
01:44:41
program we try to figure out Unsolved
01:44:43
Mysteries welcome to Unsolved Mysteries
01:44:45
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world are putting volume on that I see
01:45:17
$11,000 already in volume and then uh
01:45:20
freeberg you came up with one which was
01:45:22
Will uh we I guess we did this one
01:45:24
together but I think it should be really
01:45:26
under your name will US national debt
01:45:28
surpass 38 trillion in
01:45:30
2025 and then third uh talking about
01:45:32
immigration we got a lot of passion
01:45:34
around this topic Trump's team uh and
01:45:36
Trump himself said they're going to
01:45:37
deport 15 million Americans uh 15
01:45:40
million immigrants rather from America I
01:45:43
said hey let's uh create a market for
01:45:45
Will trump Deport 750,000 or more people
01:45:48
in
01:45:49
2025 38% chance for those of you who
01:45:51
don't know Obama think did 2 million
01:45:53
people in 8 years so this is not like a
01:45:56
partisan thing this is just a practical
01:45:57
thing so anyway go to poly market look
01:45:59
at the creators you'll see under that
01:46:01
tab that Allin has a bunch of markets
01:46:03
we're doing this in partnership with our
01:46:05
partners who've partnered with us in a
01:46:08
partnership at po Market # FC part bye
01:46:12
bye love you
01:46:14
guys everyone that was super fun rocket
01:46:17
science a thank
01:46:19
you let your winners ride
01:46:23
Rainman
01:46:26
David and instead we open source it to
01:46:29
the fans and they've just gone
01:46:31
crazy queen
01:46:33
[Music]
01:46:39
of Besties
01:46:42
are this my dog taking your
01:46:47
driveways oh man myit will meet me we
01:46:50
should all just get a room and just have
01:46:52
one Q Georgie cuz they're all this
01:46:54
useless it's like this like sexual
01:46:55
tension that they just need to release
01:46:57
[Music]
01:47:03
Som we need to get
01:47:08
[Music]
01:47:12
merch I'm going all in

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Episode Highlights

  • Haircut Dilemma
    A new haircut leaves doubts about its quality and sustainability.
    “It's very hard for you to know what it's going to look like the next day.”
    @ 00m 53s
    January 11, 2025
  • California Wildfires
    Devastating wildfires in Los Angeles lead to loss of homes and lives.
    “This is the ultimate expression of negligence and incompetence.”
    @ 18m 34s
    January 11, 2025
  • California's Fire Preparedness
    Discussion on the lessons learned from recent fires and the importance of clearing underbrush.
    “What did California learn from this?”
    @ 21m 20s
    January 11, 2025
  • Insurance Challenges in Disaster Areas
    Exploration of how insurance pricing is affected by increased natural disaster risks.
    “The price of insurance should go up due to increased probability of complete loss.”
    @ 38m 28s
    January 11, 2025
  • California's Insurance Crisis
    Insurance companies are pulling out of California due to rising risks and regulatory challenges.
    “One of three parties will end up eating the loss: homeowners, insurers, or taxpayers.”
    @ 40m 26s
    January 11, 2025
  • Evacuating Under Fire
    A personal account of a parent's evacuation as a fire threatens their home.
    “It's insane, the fire is like right by their house!”
    @ 46m 33s
    January 11, 2025
  • The Power of Recall
    You have the power to initiate change in California's leadership.
    “You have the power to do it and you will succeed, I guarantee it.”
    @ 57m 26s
    January 11, 2025
  • Authenticity in Leadership
    Discussion on Zuckerberg's authenticity and his shift towards free speech.
    “He hasn't been authentic for a long time.”
    @ 01h 02m 09s
    January 11, 2025
  • A Better World
    Celebrating the positive outcomes of leadership decisions.
    “The world is a better place because of his decision.”
    @ 01h 16m 53s
    January 11, 2025
  • Future of Startups
    Anticipating a surge of innovation driven by AI, making it harder to choose winners.
    “I think we're going to see a Cambrian explosion of creativity.”
    @ 01h 31m 01s
    January 11, 2025
  • The Challenge of Choosing Startups
    Navigating the crowded landscape of consumer applications can be daunting for investors.
    “It's like being aircraft traffic control of 10 airports at once.”
    @ 01h 33m 55s
    January 11, 2025
  • Ancient Civilizations and Ice Ages
    Exploring the possibility of advanced civilizations lost to the Ice Age.
    “I think it's incredible that there's all these parts of Earth.”
    @ 01h 42m 05s
    January 11, 2025

Episode Quotes

Key Moments

  • DEI Debate24:03
  • Insurance Challenges40:11
  • Recall Power57:26
  • Housing Crisis57:48
  • Belief in Change1:14:56
  • Positive Impact1:16:53
  • Startup Choices1:33:08
  • Trump's Expansion Ideas1:34:52

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