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Memes and Markets
by Memes and Markets
A LIVE podcast exploring the broken systems that shape our existence. Helping you navigate the world no one prepared you for, breaking down the intersection of culture, tech, and financial markets. Hosted by Keith D & Ben Leavitt. Stay Curious. Nothing said in the show is financial advice, tax advice or legal advice. Always contact a licensed professional in your area before making any decision. All content is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Episodes
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The Rules for Keeping Your Crypto Safe Just Changed
Keith & Ben talk to Damian Chen of the Starknet Foundation about crypto safety, Bitcoin privacy and the quantum threat, three problems that all come down to the same question of who can get to your money.Follow DamianX - https://x.com/thedamoooDamian's talk on stagePrivacy talk -...
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Laid Off After 25 years in Tech: The Anxiety, Fear, and Reality of Losing Your Job to AI (Highlights)
Asian Dad Energy is a 25 year big tech veteran who caught wind of the layoffs coming and instead of saving himself, deliberately put his own name at the top of the list so his junior colleagues could survive another round. In this conversation he breaks down what months of shock, depression and...
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AI Video Just Officially Killed the Internet
Keith & Ben break down how AI video went from a rare stunt to the default content in your feed, who is making money from fake people and fake events, and what happens when nobody can tell what's real anymore.Sources and Credits -...
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How I Overcame My Ego & Discovered Purpose (Highlights)
Ari Gutman is a Wall Street contributor and host of Masters of the Market who hit every milestone young and realized none of it made him want to be alive. In this conversation he gets into what it actually took to rebuild his life from the inside out, why the social circle you are in right now…
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Your Dividend Strategy Is Quietly Costing You Hundreds of Thousands (Highlights)
Ari Gutman is a Wall Street contributor and host of Masters of the Market, a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of everyday people who have built real wealth from nothing. In this conversation he breaks down why chasing passive income through dividends while you are young is quietly costing...
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Elon, AGI, & the 6-Year Storm Nobody Is Ready For | Peter Diamandis (Highlights)
Peter Diamandis is the founder of XPRIZE, has started 28 companies, and has known the people building AI personally for decades. In this conversation he gets into why the fear around AI is coming from completely the wrong place and what you should actually be paying attention to, why college...
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How to Escape the Surveillance State Before It's Too Late | Derrick Broze
Derrick Broze made a 17-part documentary series examining who runs the world, tested every claim from central bankers to reptilians, and landed on belief in authority as the real problem. He joins Keith & Ben to discuss what that means, what surveillance looks like today, and how ordinary people...
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Prices Aren't Going Up, They Are Resetting Money | Clive Thompson (Highlights)
Clive Thompson spent 47 years managing wealth in Switzerland and has become one of the most trusted voices on gold, silver and the global financial system. In this conversation he gets into why he believes the currencies we have today will not exist in 10 years, how governments have historically...
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How to Prepare for the Global Currency Reset | Clive Thompson (highlights)
Clive Thompson spent 47 years managing wealth in Switzerland and has become one of the most trusted voices on gold, silver and the global financial system. In this conversation he breaks down why the gold and silver markets are completely dislocated right now meaning the price on your screen is…
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The Hidden System That Really Runs the World | James Corbett
Keith & Ben talk to James Corbett about the ideology at the top, the institutions nobody talks about, how a cover-up works while it's happening, and why he says the window to fight back through the internet is starting to close.Follow James CorbettWebsite - https://corbettreport.com/Youtube -...
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Anthropic Lost $42 Billion. Is the AI Bubble About to Pop?
Keith & Ben dig into Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus — the $42 billion headline loss that's mostly an accounting charge, the circular money flowing between Anthropic and its investors Amazon and Google, and what public buyers are actually getting for $2 trillion.Sources & Credits -...
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Bitcoin's Last Rally, the Crypto Rotation, and the Recession Nobody Sees | Henrik Zeberg
Keith & Ben sit down with Henrik Zeberg to discuss the late-cycle rotation — why crypto is last in line, where the dollar goes, what the labor market is actually saying, and what happens to every risk asset when the recession he's been calling finally arrives.Follow Henrik:Substack -...
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Institutional Money is Coming to Crypto, But Not to Buy Your Bags | Santiago Santos (Highlights)
Santiago is the founder of Inversion and a former private equity investor who is now betting everything on stable coins changing the way businesses move money. In this conversation he gets into why over 80% of crypto's current value does not actually exist yet, why stable coins are already moving...
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The Clarity Act is the Worst Thing to Happen to Crypto | Charles Hoskinson (Highlights)
Charles Hoskinson predicted Bitcoin would hit 250K last year and it did not happen. In this conversation he explains exactly why, who is to blame, and why he still believes million dollar Bitcoin is inevitable. He also gets into why Bitcoin and altcoins are not enemies, why the Clarity Act is one...
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How to Fix Money | Charles Hoskinson (Highlights)
Charles Hoskinson has spent 15 years building the infrastructure for a world that does not exist yet. In this conversation he breaks down why every system around you is broken by design, why good people keep doing bad things inside broken systems, why corporations have quietly taken over every...
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Crypto is Inevitable
Keith & Ben sit down with Kyle Sonlin, co-founder of Global Settlement Network and author of Blockchain Explained, to discuss tokenization, what it actually unlocks, and what the next era of blockchain looks like for everyday people and institutions alike.Follow KyleX -...
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The American Economy Is Shaking, Trust in Government Is Gone — What’s Next for Gold? | Bob Moriarty
Keith & Ben sit down with Bob Moriarty — Marine F-4B pilot, Vietnam veteran, founder of 321gold.com, and one of the longest-running voices in the resource world — to discuss the end of the American empire, the breaking petrodollar, and where money actually goes when the system cracks.Bob's…
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The Entire System Was Designed to Keep You Poor | Jeff Booth (Highlights)
Jeff Booth spent 15,000 hours trying to destroy the Bitcoin argument before he believed it himself. In this conversation he gets into why Bitcoin is the only money system in 5,000 years that governments cannot corrupt, why the banks are racing to get your Bitcoin into their custody and what…
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Welcome to the Collapse of the System | Jeff Booth (Highlights)
Jeff Booth wrote a book in 2020 called The Price of Tomorrow that predicted everything you are living through right now. In this conversation Jeff breaks down why money today is actually debt, why prices are designed to rise and who benefits from that, why we have never actually lived in a free...
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Hunter Biden Launched a Meme Coin. How Did We Get Here?
Keith & Ben discuss the state of memecoins — how we got here, who's actually winning, why celebrity meme coins are almost always a trap, and whether any of this is really that different from the financial system it's supposed to be an alternative to.Sources & Credits:...
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How the Elites Use Propaganda to Divide & Conquer
Keith & Ben sit down with Aaron Spitz to discuss the tools elites use to stay in power — manufacturing racial resentment, making voting inconvenient, funding local races from a distance, and why angry people are the easiest people to manage.Follow Aaron Spitz:Instagram -...
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How to Survive the Inevitable Pop of the Everything Bubble | Jeff Booth
Keith & Ben sit down with Jeff Booth to discuss the biggest picture question in finance right now — how geopolitical breakdown forces monetary collapse, what that does to every asset class, and whether there is a way out that doesn't involve losing most of what you have.Follow Jeff Booth:X -...
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An Ex-Banker Is Exposing Who Really Runs the World
Keith & Ben break down Simon Dixon's framework for how the world actually works — the Financial Industrial Complex, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Technical Industrial Complex, and why the people at the top rotate while the structure never changes.Follow Simon Dixon:X -...
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The Advantage XRP Has Over the Rest of the Market
Keith & Ben sit down with SMQKE, one of the most research-driven voices in the XRP community, to discuss why he believes XRP is entering a unique utility era — and why the integrations happening right now with SWIFT, the Fed, and the DTCC are unlike anything the crypto space has seen…
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Can We Ever Escape Internet Surveillance?
Keith & Ben sit down with Aaron Nev to discuss the surveillance machine being built around us — how governments, tech companies, data brokers, and AI are combining to create increasingly detailed profiles of everyone online, and whether privacy can actually survive.Follow Aaron NevYoutube -...
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How Trauma Quietly Shapes Every Decision You Make | Tim Fletcher
Keith & Ben sit down with Tim Fletcher, founder of RE/ACT and one of the most respected voices in complex trauma recovery, to discuss how unresolved childhood trauma drives addiction, financial self-destruction, and why social media is making an entire generation more dysregulated.Follow Tim:...
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They Are Flat Out Lying to You About the Housing Market | Melody Wright
Melody Wright drove over 10,000 miles counting actual housing stock because she didn't trust the official data. She joins Keith & Ben to discuss what she found, what the industry is hiding, and why she thinks the housing shortage narrative is a myth.Follow Melody Wright:Substack:...
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Why Is Everyone Suddenly Taking Crypto Seriously?
Keith & Ben ask the question nobody in crypto wants to answer honestly — why are the biggest podcasts, the most respected investors, and the mainstream media all suddenly pushing crypto at the same time?If you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + 'All' to be notified when we go liveJoin the…
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How XRP Becomes the World's #1 Asset | Mickle XRP
Mickle joins Keith & Ben to break down the XRP story — the battle that shaped it, the banking infrastructure being built on top of it, and why the momentum around XRP in 2026 looks different from anything before it.Follow Mickle:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MICKLEMARKETSX -...
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Why Flock Cameras Are Actually a Good Thing
Keith & Ben talk to Robert Gutierrez about the idea that AI is moving from copying humans to experiencing the world — and why the cameras, sensors, and surveillance infrastructure most people hate are actually the foundation of what comes next.Follow Robert:IG:...
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The Entire Economy is a Lie | Uneducated Economist
If you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + 'All' to be notified when we go liveJoin the Memes & Markets Private Community: https://whop.com/memes-and-markets/memes-and-markets-hq-membership/Subscribe to M&M highlights: https://www.youtube.com/@MandMHighlightsTry No Dice & Start No Dice 45:IOS -...
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Professional Philosopher: Is AI Doom Actually Logical? | Casey Hart
Casey Hart is a philosophy PhD who became one of the rarest job titles in tech — professional ontologist. He joins Keith & Ben to break down the AI doom debate, the hallucination problem nobody talks about honestly, and what AI can actually do inside real companies versus what the pitch decks...
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The Collapse of Modern Dating & How to Find Love in Today's Environment | Clift Roach
Keith & Ben sit down with Clift Roach, Detroit-based media personality, speaker, and personal finance consultant, to discuss modern dating — the unwritten rules, how dating culture differs across racial lines, and what Black and white dating culture actually look like up close.Follow Clift…
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Exposing the Gambling Crisis | MKAndy
Keith & Ben sit down with MKAndy, the YouTube investigator exposing the gambling industry, to discuss the gambling epidemic — who's behind it, how it targets everyday people, and why the influencers promoting it are more dangerous than most people realize.Follow MKAndyYoutube - @ProjectMKAndy…
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What Happens After the AI Bubble Pops | Paul Kedrosky
Keith & Ben sit down with Paul Kedrosky — MIT research fellow, venture capitalist, and the man who did the math on the AI bubble — to break down why he says it's obviously a bubble, why that's the boring part, and how the duration mismatch he's identified breaks the whole thing...
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Nothing is Broken, This Is Capitalism Working Exactly as Designed | Radhika Desai
Keith & Ben talk to Radhika Desai about why she believes capitalism has reached its "sell-by date," what that means for ordinary people, and where the world goes from here.Follow Radhika:Youtube: @RadDesai X: https://x.com/RadDesaiIf you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + 'All' to be…
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Is The AI Bubble Finally Popping?
Keith & Ben cover the AI bubble — how it got built, why the numbers don't add up yet, and what actually happens to your retirement account if the story holding up a third of the S&P 500 stops being believable. If you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + 'All' to be notified when we go live...
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The Reality of Modern Dating No One Wants to Accept | The Jaunt
The Jaunt joins Keith & Ben to discuss one of the most overlooked questions of modern life — who are you when you strip away everything society, social media, and your environment told you to be?Follow The Jaunt:IG: / thejaunt_ Substack: https://thejauntwriting.substack.com/Youtube: / @thejaunt_…
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Ex-Teacher on The Collapse of Education: Teacher Burnout, Cellphones & AI | @myteacherface
Jessica Hawk aka @myteacherface on social media joins the show to discuss the state of education. As a recently retired teacher, she shares a glimpse behind the curtain to see the state of affairs within education, from teacher burnout, cell phones in classrooms with social media, and how AI will...
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Why Literally Everything Feels So Broken
Ben and Keith sit down with Casey Counts to break down why modern life feels so confusing, unstable, and disconnected — and why so many people feel manipulated by the systems around them.Follow Casey Counts:IG counts fit: / counts.fit IG Countspiracy: / countspiracy If you enjoyed the episode,...
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AI Companies Are Stealing From Us & Still Aren't Profitable...
Keith & Ben cover the AI industry's two biggest problems — the legal and ethical questions around how these models were trained, and the mounting evidence that most organizations spending on AI aren't seeing the ROI they were promised. If you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + Bell Button…
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The Global Reset, Fighting the Corrupt System & Bitcoin's New Role | Tom Luongo
Keith & Ben sit down with Tom Luongo — geopolitical analyst and publisher of Gold Goats 'n Guns — to discuss the global reset, the corrupt system most people don't fully understand, and how Bitcoin has evolved far beyond what libertarians originally believed it would become. Follow Tom Luongo: X…
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Cardano Solved the Bitcoin Trilemma & No One is Talking About It
Keith & Ben sit down with Zachary Soesbee to discuss why the tools to opt out of the system already exist, how Cardano is building infrastructure for a new internet, and what digital sovereignty actually looks like in practice.Follow Zachary on X - https://x.com/CashAnvilSubscribe to M&M...
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Licensed Men's Therapist on Solving the Masculinity Crisis | Trey Tucker
Keith & Ben sit down with Trey Tucker — licensed therapist, author of Tough Enough, and founder of Rugged Counseling — to discuss what it actually means to be a man today, why society keeps sending mixed signals, and what young men are supposed to do about it.Follow Trey Tucker:Youtube -...
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Is AI Really Coming for Our Jobs or Is It All a Massive Psyop?
Keith & Ben cover the AI flip flop — why the CEOs who spent years warning about mass unemployment are now saying AI is a productivity multiplier, and why the timing of their reversal tells you everything you need to know.If you enjoyed the episode :bell: Click Subscribe + Bell Button 'All' to be...
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Tokenization Is About to Create a New Class of Millionaires
Keith & Ben sit down with Herwig Konings, Founder and CEO of Security Token Group, to break down the $400 trillion shift happening in finance — what real world asset tokenization actually is, who is building something real, and what tokenized stocks unlock next.Follow Herwig on X:...
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The War on Financial Freedom Has Already Started | John Deaton
Keith & Ben sit down with John Deaton — former Marine and crypto attorney who represented 75,000 XRP holders in one of the biggest legal battles in crypto history — to discuss the war on financial freedom and why the fight against banks and regulators is far from over.Follow John Deaton on X:...
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Bitcoin's Price Collapse, Saylor's Secret Plan & The Future of Money | Joe Consorti
Keith & Ben sit down with Joe Consorti, Bitcoin and macro analyst and Head of Growth at Horizon, to break down why Bitcoin is crashing while the S&P hits record highs, what the Saylor sale actually means, and where the data says Bitcoin goes from here.Follow Joe on X -...
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The Unabomber: The Terrorist Who Predicted the AI Takeover
Keith & Ben break down the Unabomber — a Harvard-educated mathematician with a 167 IQ who spent 17 years mailing bombs, wrote a 35,000-word manifesto predicting AI would strip humans of autonomy, and whose predictions are being confirmed in 2026 by the same people building the technology.If you...
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Is Chainlink the Most Undervalued Bet in All of Crypto?
Keith & Ben cover Chainlink — what it actually does, why blockchains can't function without it, and why every major financial institution in the world is quietly building on infrastructure most crypto investors have never properly understood.If you enjoyed the episode 🔔 Click Subscribe + Bell...
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A LIVE podcast exploring the broken systems that shape our existence. Helping you navigate the world no one prepared you for, breaking down the intersection of culture, tech, and financial markets. Hosted by Keith D & Ben Leavitt. Stay Curious. Nothing said in the show is financial advice, tax advice or legal advice. Always contact a licensed professional in your area before making any decision. All content is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
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