Episodes
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Katherine Boyle on the Case for American Seriousness
"We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity." We riff on Katherine Boyle's incredible piece calling on America to do what it does best- build. Would love to hear from you. Rate, comment, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and for the...
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Local Crypto Neckbeard Reacts to Peter Thiel's Bitcoin Keynote
We watch legendary investor Peter Thiel's keynote to open up the Bitcoin 2022 Conference. Argue with my man's politics sure, but the guy is an unequivocal cobra. tl;dr he's long Bitcoin and short boomers. Would love to hear from you. Rate, comment, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and for the video...
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Oil is the new Oil
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exposed the necessity of fossil fuel security. We riff on a 2003 Economist piece entitled "The end of the Oil Age" and smash it against the reality of today. The end of the Oil Age, 2003 Why energy insecurity is here to stay, 2022 Would love to hear from you.…
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Thug Putin Invades Ukraine
Under bullshit pretenses, thug Putin has invaded the democratic, free, sovereign, absolute right-to-exist Ukraine. This is just as much about China, as it is about Russia. This is just as much about Taiwan, as it is about Ukraine. Russia and China are evil. They seek to destroy the international...
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Moxie Big Times Web3
Riff on Moxie Marlinspike's Web3 critique and Vitalik Buterin's response. Would love to hear from you. Rate, comment, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and for the video edition- YouTube. Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok where I always post when a new show drops.
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Morgan Housel: How This All Happened
Riff on Morgan Housel's excellent piece on how the US economy has developed post WWII. Shifting from a tide that raised all boats to one that increasingly raising only some. Also add analysis from The Economist showing social mobility in America is declining. Be careful of charlatans offering…
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Howard Marks Memo: The Winds of Change
In his latest memo Howard Marks covers how businesses and investing are changing, inflation and deflation, democracy in America, the role of the Fed, China, and my personal favorite- how the boomers fucked us. Howard is phenomenal at framing large macro trends without assuming he has all the...
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Constitution DAO is Bidding on an Official Copy of the Constitution
For the first time in thirty-three years, one of eleven surviving copies of the Official Edition from the Constitutional Convention will be publicly auctioned by Sotheby's. It is the only copy that is still owned by private collectors. The proceeds from the auction will be given to a charity that...
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Google Bids for DoD Contract
Google has entered the ring alongside Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle to bid for Department of Defense's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. You may remember back in 2018 when Google employees protested Project Maven, a Google DoD AI project that among other things sought to increase the...
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Facebook Rebrands to Meta
Facebook announced they are renaming their company to "Meta" as they shift their focus to the metaverse (think VR). This is a seismic bet Zuckerberg is making. Something that only a founder would have the leeway to do. I'm skeptical but history is riddled with people who lost betting against…
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Messaging App Signal Proves Again it is the Most Secure
End to end encrypted messaging app Signal reveals Santa Clara County and California District Court subpoenaed them for user data. Once again they show that the only data they have on their users is their phone number, when they created their account, and when they last connected to Signal's...
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Biden's Infrastructure Bill Passes
The House late Friday night passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act also known simply as the "Infrastructure Bill." This is the largest investment in America's infrastructure in over a decade and comes at a crucial time for democrats where Biden's popularity has been dropping and...
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Shiba Inu isn't that Sick
Riff on Dogecoin and latest meme coin Shiba Inu. Really, this just isn't that interesting. They are fun, bring people into crypto sure, but there isn't any hard tech or hard governance problems they are solving. Treat them as collectors items and move on. But shit you never know, my take could…
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Republican Youngkin Defeats Democrat McAuliffe in Virginia Governor Election
In what is a pulse check for how the dems are faring since Biden won- Glenn Youngkin wins governorship in Virginia where a Republican has not won in 12 years. Would love to hear from you. Rate, comment, subscribe on Apple Podcasts and for the video edition- YouTube. Follow me on Twitter…
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"Let's Go Brandon" Southwest Pilot
Riff on cancel culture and attempts to get people fired for making mistakes. Latest example is Southwest pilot says Trump rallying cry "Let's Go Brandon" over the loudspeaker. Twitter hardo tries to rally a bunch of people to get the pilot fired. This isn't the way to operate. Would love to hear...
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Trump Launches Truth Social - A Social Network for Kids that Can't Democracy Good
Former president Trump launched a new "Non-Cancellable" social network called Truth Social. However the ToS stipulates if you talk bad about Truth Social, you will be cancelled. Riff on the deplatforming of Trump and how this shows a well functioning free system. The first amendment protects us...
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Tesla Surpasses $1T in Market Cap
On the news of the Hertz and Tesla partnership, Tesla passes $1 trillion in market cap. Making it more valuable than every other car company combined. To the haters of Elon Musk, I'm talking to you. You can come at my man for his tweets about taking the company private, or the Solar City deal…
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Facebook Launches Novi
Facebook launched Novi, a crypto payments app with a limited release in the US and Guatemala. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, it allows for zero fee cross border payments. These two countries were chose because 14% of Guatemala's GDP comes from remittances (non commercial transfers from abroad)...
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Worldcoin
Worldcoin is the most ambitious cryptocurrency project yet with the goal of brining all of humanity into the world of cryptocurrency. Using cutting edge hardware, software, and a guerrilla campaign they intend to verifiably and in a privacy preserving way distribute Worldcoin to each human on the...
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Google Releases Pixel 6
Google today released their new flagship phones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. Five years ago when Rick Osterloh joined Google as head of hardware, the second day on the job he sat down with Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and said we need to build our own SoC. The Pixel 6 is that plan brought to life....
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Coinbase Proposes How to Regulate Crypto
Coinbase, leading cryptocurrency exchange, announced their Digital Asset Policy Proposal. A set of recommendations to the US government on how the industry should be regulated in order to maintain America's financial leadership. It's a nascent space and it should be regulated with care so as not…
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SEC Approves Bitcoin ETF
History has been made. The SEC has approved a Bitcoin ETF. Standard retail brokerage accounts in the foremost capital market in the world can now gain exposure to Bitcoin. It will be available as early as next week. You may ask yourself why a Bitcoin ETF matters if you can just buy Bitcoin on an...
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Facebook Enables Encrypted Backups on WhatsApp
Facebook via WhatsApp already provides private, secure, and end to end encrypted messaging to over two billion people- more than any other company on the planet. They've take that a step further by enabling end to end encrypted chat backups. So no one, not Facebook or Apple and Google where the...
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Tether, The Elephant in the Stablecoin Room
Tether is the most popular USD stablecoin with $69bn minted. For users to be able to trust it, they need to know that Tether has $1 worth in reserves for every $1 in Tether they have minted. The problem is, Tether has a horrid track record of stable reserves. Many have called them a scam for…
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Axie Infinity, The Most Popular Game Built on Blockchain
Axie Infinity is more than a game, it's an economy, it's a governance system- something only possible when building on the blockchain. a16z recently announced their investment in Axie Infinity, and any time they do I always look into the project. Will a game that rewards player for playing, gives...
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Numerai, The World's First Crowdsourced Hedge Fund
Numerai allows anyone in the world with an internet connection to be rewarded for supplying accurate insights to their trading model. Built on Ethereum and made possible by the NMR token- rip bong- welcome to the future. And for the first time Numerai has released their fund performance, and the...
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Mirror, A Web3 Publishing Tool
Mirror today launched public access to their next generation Web3 publishing tool. I dive into the epic things Mirror offers and riff generally about where Web3 fits into the cryptocurrency and blockchain narrative. Watch on YouTube, follow on Twitter & Instagram.
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Facebook Outage
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp suffered a major outage lasting about 6 hours. We dive into what we know and what we don't know. Thank you Krebs on Security, Cloudflare, and Robert Graham for your coverage. Watch on YouTube, follow on Twitter & Instagram.
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Pandora Papers
We talk the Pandora Papers in front of $23 million mansion owned by King of Jordan Abdullah- just one of the many details released. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which lead the effort describes it thusly: "Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism...
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Visa's Cryptocurrency Universal Payment Channel
Riffing Visa's newly announced Universal Payment Channel project and my thoughts on crypto in general. I always like following what the established companies are doing in the crypto space. Their project purports to allow compatibility between multiple cryptocurrency blockchains and Central Bank...
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Alan Flowers Venice
Holy schnitzel listen to the life of my man Alan Flowers. Talks growing up gay in Chicago in the 50s, his clothing biz in the 60s, selling everything and moving to Gympie, Australia (where he's not legally allowed to return), his flower biz in the 70s, his experience with aids, and some epic sex...
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Leaning on History
Riffing on uncertainty and leaning on history, crypto price increases (yawn), one reason the super wealthy invest differently than us, Tik Tok and Trump's anti capitalist tendencies, and the world's playbook for China. Happy birthday to our producer Chuck Finch, pumped to have you aboard brother,...
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The Internet is Cool Again
Riffing on Jeff Bezos' letter to congress, your Covid-19 update ™ (the flattening of the curve begins...AGAIN), tech regulation is coming but so is crypto (Augur v2, Visa, Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Financial Action Task Force on stablecoins, and NYSE Arca issuing bonds on Ethereum)....
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The World Wide Web is Fracturing
Riffing on culture war exhaustion, Bitcoin and gold, William Barr calling Apple a China pawn, Twitter hack and Coinbase stopping transfers, Ethereum settling more value per day than Bitcoin, Augur v2, the fracturing of the internet into US, China, EU, and India lines, the internet failing so far…
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Marxism vs Liberalism
Riffing on Bari Weiss' resignation from the New York Times, TikTok, and China's lashing out against liberalism. watch on youtube live saturdays noon eastern and listen wherever you get your podcasts. support the show and get access to full show notes before the show goes live with a contribution…
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You're Either a Masker or an Anti-Vaxxer
Riffing on people focusing too much on political affiliation (a good person is a good person), cult following of presidents needs to end, humanity being a spec of dust in space worries me, low probability / high impact events that are threats to humanity, extreme political views in the US is...
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Stand with Hong Kong
Riffing on Hong Kong's fight for liberty, NBA and China, protesting and Covid-19, we still don't know how to use fast internet, tech widens the margin of error, cancel culture hurts the public square, Facebook as a nanny, Augur v2 launch, tech to combat speech moderation by big tech platforms is...
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The Hypocrisy of Apple
Riffing on the state of the pandemic, the right to protest lockdowns and social injustice and the right to religious gatherings, if you protest and don't vote you aren't protesting, executive order limiting immigration to protect labor market, stop calling everything fake news, Apple claiming…
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Cryptocurrency is the Future of Internet Community Governance
Riffing on the Chinese Communist Party's threat to freedom everywhere (treatment of Uighur Muslims, Kasakhs, and Hong Kong), Apple and Google monopolies (App Store and Ads), Compound Finance and Reddit's 430 million users chart the way for a new age of community governance built on…
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Racial Inequality, Mattis Dogs Trump, and Censorship from the CCP
Riffing on a speech thought experiment, campaign zero which seeks to overhaul police forces, reaching out to your lawmakers, racial inequality after racism, James Mad Dog Mattis dogs Trump, remember when we laughed at church goers, zoom and podcast censorship in China, and crypto company Compound...
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Policing the Police, Freeing the Speech, and where to go from here
Riffing on Obama's piece on how to make this moment the turning point for real change (revolution is not a one time event), police reform (18,000 law-enforcement agencies, only 65 federal, this will take serious organization), people creating their own reality, the UK extends a hand to Hong Kong…
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George Floyd and Hong Kong Protests, Twitter v Trump, and the First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances watch on youtube live...
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Crypto is the Wild West
Crypto is the wild west. And if you haven't been paying attention you best start. There is A LOT going on and it's my belief crypto is still the most overlooked innovation. In this show I'll riff on the epic true-but-feels-like-science-fiction story of how HIVE forked from the STEEM blockchain...
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Climate change is humanity's next test, but we've been failing all the quizzes
Interview with environmental journalist for The Guardian Fiona Harvey on climate change. Before that I riff on a possible model for an international emissions treaty, the scope of getting to net zero, Warren Buffett on central bank actions, and investor Paul Tudor Jones' bull case for Bitcoin....
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Never Bet Against America
Absolute powerhouse interview by macro strategist George Pearkes on the seeming disconnect between the stock market and the "real" economy, central bank actions, federal stimulus, Modern Monetary Theory, sovereign debt, UBI, a federal jobs guarantee, Trump v Biden- the guy is a race horse. I riff...
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shooting from the hip #11
Interviews with police officer Cameron Smith on increased domestic violence and other fall out from Covid-19, former CIA analyst Martin Gurri on The Great Reset of Covid-19, and Twitter equity analyst @borrowed_ideas on Facebook, Amazon, and his market outlook. I also riff on how climate change...
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shooting from the hip #10
Interviews with Ramneek Kundra on his viral Twitter thread describing Facebook's $5.7bn investment in Jio Platforms, Max Wolff helping build the future of cryptocurrency at Compound Finance, and Muhammadraza Panju better known for his Twitter account as @yourMTLbroker, on his outlook for the...
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shooting from the hip #9
Interview with Dr. Chris Nash of Massachusetts General and MD Candidate Danielle Rider of Wake Forest Baptist Health. Also riffing on the Fed's actions, the one year outlook by Morgan Stanley, the Google and Apple partnership, China's behavior, and US debt. watch on youtube live saturdays noon...
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shooting from the hip #8
Questions on bailouts and Covid-19, interview with Collin Fedor chief of staff for a MA house rep, interview with Italian national Silvia Bettini, economic trade off of prolonged shutdown, and more. watch on youtube live saturdays noon eastern and listen wherever you get your podcasts. support…
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shooting from the hip #7
watch on youtube live saturdays noon eastern and listen wherever you get your podcasts. support the show and get access to full show notes before the show goes live with contribution on patreon. subscribe to the monthly newsletter, follow on instagram and twitter. shooting from the hip on: CDC…
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