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December 31 2025 Minnesota Fraud Apparently its been a long time issue Jeff Baillon investigated this issue about a decade ago Other fraud investigations and issues later on in similar cases 100s of millions of dollars in fraud reported across multiple cases Nick Shirley joins the show Started out as YouTuber in high school Claims YouTube would demonetize if he had political content Claims no big backing - he is independent Started on this Minnesota fraud story recently Hasn’t thought through about his legal safety on these issues so far Learned to do door-to-door salesmanship throughout his life Mormon upbringing Youngest brother Even the judges let the fraudsters go They set aside jury convictions Minnesota CCAP - state administered program but largely funded by Federal funds Nick’s work is almost like a decentralized DOGE - exposing the government fraud The country is being eaten alive by all this fraud, waste and abuse Autis...

December 19 2025 Bernie vs AI Decel pitch Proposing moratorium on new data centers so “democracy” can catch up This would be the biggest own goal ever He wants us to become like Europe (that has half the share of global GDP that they had 30 years ago) He just wants to stop all progress Capitalism might lead to unequal distribution of wealth but Socialism ALWAYS leads to equal distribution of poverty and misery Jury’s still out on AI - only Nvidia is making money - everyone has put a lot of capital at risk AI is just the new lightning rod for fear so politicians can drive fear in the conversation People are justified in asking questions about AI effects - job loss, electricity prices, etc while the AI companies are circle jerking capital around We should invest like Andrew Carnegie built 2500 libraries - so people can feel part of the progress Wider Anti-AI sentiment issue Vanguard study debunks AI job loss doomer narrative As you make workers more productive, the...

December 12 2025 Tucker Carlson returns to the show White House Holiday Party recap - Sacks, Chamath got shoutouts, Pod got shoutout Paramount vs Netflix bidding war for Warner Bros Netflix offer accepted Paramount back with bigger counter offer Business deal vs Cultural deal Question over whether Trump should involve himself in anyway Question about media consolidation Concerns about censorship Rise of Nick Fuentes Might have got on the radar as backlash to Ben Shapiro’s efforts to censure him He is another iteration of identity politics Seems like a talented broadcaster America First vs MAGA vs America Only Should a democratically elected government lookout first for its citizens or an alternative? Is there a coordinated campaign to amplify polarizing content? Seems the bots/accounts that are amplifying this are originating from many foreign countries One could conclude that there is a deep inorganic effort to put him on the front page of the news ...

December 5 2025 OpenAI Code Red More competitors doing well Anthropic beating them in enterprise revenue Google coming for them OpenAI leading consumer, but Anthropic leading enterprise and API Sign of vibrant and dynamic competitive market Google did this a couple of years ago and now Gemini is good Google did this with Project Canada way back when Microsoft launched Bing This worked for the US with the Manhattan Project Tried and tested tactic - responding to an impending threat Sam deserves credit for doing this - need to treat situations seriously Clearly the ecosystem is very competitive 5 different companies ChatGPT - leading in consumer Anthropic - best coding assistant xAI - best at current events Meta has deep pockets Google doing really well with Gemini Goldilocks scenario - lots of competition and lots of growth Competition is what brings out the best in the American system ChatGPT decline in market share is increasing ...