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Moonshots episode 289: Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail & Alexander Wissner-Gross
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Ask the Mates anything | MOONSHOTS AMA #289

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Moonshots · Episode 289 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 13 2026 · Runtime 1:26:27 · Watch: YouTube Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex take the first Moonshots AMA, from consciousness and brain-computer interfaces to hardware startups and the rough years before abundance. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Cold open. Consciousness, teenagers, and God. 1:13 Welcome. Alex, Dave, and Salim are on the call. 3:14 Australia, and feeling behind on AI. 6:08 Bandwidth limits and brain-computer interfaces. 13:41 A Midwest playbook. Dave answers. 19:54 Getting the labs to buy a data set. 29:13 An 18-year-old founder beside Starbase. 34:48 People colliders and Moonshots Live in LA. 44:24 What school should teach next. 53:03 Energy after fusion. 1:10:17 Fountain Life and hidden heart disease. 1:16:03 The rough years before abundance. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Opens the AMA, calls on the room, and closes it. 1:13 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. On the call. Peter says he is here, and Dave answers from the Midwest question on. 1:56 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. On the call. Says he is home, then takes Australia and education. 2:04 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. On the call, in his usual VR background. Takes consciousness, risk, and energy. 1:47 People mentioned Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Named in the closing thanks. Not introduced with Alex, Dave, and Salim. Not on this call. 1:25:17 Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named on the Dyson swarm and post-fusion energy. Not on the call. 54:54 Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Named as the person who introduced Peter to another BCI company. Not on the call. 8:08 Stephen Hawking Wikipedia Named as the kind of mind a disability unlock could reach. Not on the call. 51:24 Neal Stephenson Wikipedia Named for Diamond Age, which Peter tells the room to read. Not on the call. 48:54 Mark Twain Wikipedia Named for the line about the day you find out why you were born. Not on the call. 47:45 Steven Kotler Wikipedia Named as Peter’s co-author by a caller. Not on the call. 11:04 David Sacks Wikipedia Named for the All-In host pulled into the White House. Not on the call. 27:21 Sam Altman Wikipedia Named in the OpenAI hallway story. Not on the call. 22:15 Drew Houston Wikipedia Named for the Dropbox line about the five people you spend time with. Not on the call. 16:08 Ed Catmull Wikipedia Named as the partner who finds his John Lasseter. Not on the call. 35:43 John Lasseter Wikipedia Named beside Ed Catmull. Not on the call. 35:45 Steve Wozniak Wikipedia Named as the partner who finds his Steve Jobs. Not on the call. 35:47 Steve Jobs Wikipedia Named beside Wozniak. Not on the call. 35:49 Franklin D. Roosevelt Wikipedia Named for “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Not on the call. 1:20:55 Kevin Weil Named as OpenAI’s former chief product officer in Dave’s hallway story. Not on the call. 21:58 Alvin Graylin Named as a friend of the pod pulled into United Nations meetings. Not on the call. 27:29 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Diamond Age — Peter tells the room to read Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. Amazon 48:54 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex take the first Moonshots AMA, from consciousness and brain-computer interfaces to hardware startups and the rough years before abundance. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Place Type Sydney 3:24 City Australia 3:42 Country United States 4:57 Country Europe 4:57 Region Japan 5:00 Country Greece 11:35 Country Athens 11:37 City Terre Haute 13:41 City Midwest 14:34 Region Corning 17:26 City New York 17:29 State Virginia 17:31 State Port St. Joe 19:54 City San Francisco 22:39 City China 25:37 Country White House 27:23 Place Brownsville 29:16 City Starbase 29:18 Place Newport Beach 31:19 City LA 37:25 City Omaha 37:58 City Louisiana 38:02 State MIT 51:45 Place Denver 53:07 City Toronto 55:28 City Alberta 59:40 Province Indonesia 1:02:16 Country Spain 1:06:36 Country Austria 1:06:36 Country Boulder 1:16:03 City Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Blitzy (40:33) — spoken ad. Destination: blitzy.com. 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Three Lab Warnings in Five Days, Researcher Flags “Gambling with Our Lives,” and Labs Race | Moonshots #288

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Moonshots · Episode 288 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 11 2026 · Runtime 2:43:14 · Watch: YouTube Jacob Coxon says the labs are gambling with our lives, three warnings land in five days, and Dave Blundin is on the call with Emad Mostaque as the mates stay on the race. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Jacob Coxon says the labs are gambling with our lives. 1:19 Peter opens, and the quintet is in the room. 4:28 Dave on the Vestmark acquisition. 8:34 Data pipelines, not published architectures, are the moat. 19:27 Three warnings from inside the labs in five days. 29:17 Minority Report, and whether the doom case is overstated. 36:48 Texas, data centers, and a regulatory shove. 47:21 The AI 2027 paper, and two endings. 1:10:47 Three-year-old H100s are getting more expensive to rent. 1:17:59 Who actually has the best video model. 1:47:54 Cupertino, a foldable iPhone, and what they skip past. 1:50:30 Moonshots Live in downtown LA, September 25. 1:54:51 Anthropic as a systematically important company. 2:12:10 The first longevity drug designed by AI. 2:15:40 Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome atlas. 2:25:57 Fountain Life, and cancer found before you feel it. 2:42:01 Close. Today’s episode was epic. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Opens the show, names the quintet, and sets the week: lab warnings, a slowdown call, and an AI-designed longevity drug. He is on the call from the welcome through the close. 1:19 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. On the call. Peter introduces him as the impresario of AI investing, and Dave answers. He tells the Vestmark sale, the company he founded in 2001, still as executive chairman. 4:28 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. On the call. Peter brings him back from customs, and Salim says good morning. He is in the argument on reinvention, regulation, and where founders still have a window. 2:41 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. Introduced as the in-house ASI, then on the call. He answers Peter on data versus algorithms and stays in the science and safety stretches. 9:00 Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Guest. On the call. Peter introduces him as CEO of Intelligent Internet, across the pond, and later hands him the floor. He is in the coding, video, and economics stretches. 52:17 People mentioned Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named on foundation-lab models and again on the Heinlein award. Not on the call. 14:16 Sam Altman Wikipedia Named in the cold open on Navier-Stokes, and later as the voice calling that result a reason to slow down. Not on the call. 0:21 Jacob Coxon Wikipedia Named from the open. The researcher who left OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training and called the race gambling with our lives. Not on the call. 0:00 Tom Hanks Wikipedia Named as the moment a threat became real to everyone else, then again when Emad picks up the same comparison. Not on the call. 22:30 David Sinclair Wikipedia Named as coming back on the pod with the longevity and genome work. Not on this call. 2:19:15 Robert A. Heinlein Wikipedia Named when Peter says he loves Heinlein and won the first Heinlein award, the Lady Vivamus sword from one of the books. Not on the call. 1:49:23 Jensen Huang Wikipedia Named on the H100 rental price, a three-year-old chip getting more expensive. Not on the call. 1:11:30 Jeff Bezos Wikipedia Sergey Brin Wikipedia Named as someone who had been off for a while and would want back in, in the same breath as Jeff Bezos. Not on the call. 1:18:43 Named with Sergey as people who had stepped back and would want back in now. Not on the call. 1:18:45 Alex Karp Wikipedia Named for the Palantir comments they have been tracking. Not the host Alex, and not on the call. 1:34:27 Tom Cruise Wikipedia Named for a scene in Minority Report. Not on the call. 29:17 Xi Jinping Wikipedia Named on the Capitol Hill calendar, about twelve days before he arrives in America. Not on the call. 27:53 Donald Trump Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named when the mates notice September 25 collides with a Xi-Trump date and Moonshots Live. Not on the call. 2:03:28 William Shatner Wikipedia Named for the red-carpet rollout of his 2026 Star Trek anniversary premiere, tied to the live show. Not on this call. 1:50:58 Arthur C. Clarke Wikipedia Named for the short story The Nine Billion Names of God, set next to the genome’s variant list. Not on the call. 2:18:53 Dario Amodei Wikipedia Named as the person Anthropic is built around. Not on the call. 22:13 Bernie Sanders Wikipedia Named as someone who will jump on the data-center fight. Not on the call. 37:05 Dwarkesh Patel Wikipedia Named for the blog the data paper comes from. He and Jerry Han are not core AI researchers, and not on the call. 7:41 Jerry Han Named as the Princeton senior who wrote the paper with Dwarkesh Patel. Not on the call. 7:41 Daniel Lewin Wikipedia Named as Danny Lewin, founder of Akamai, a friend from MIT who died on one of the planes. Not on the call. 5:58 Greg Brockman Wikipedia Named as OpenAI’s co-founder who dropped out. Not on the call. 1:10:20 Andy Jassy Wikipedia Named as the Amazon CEO founders assume will still call to sell them compute. Not on the call. 1:13:26 Noam Brown Wikipedia Named as the bar a new PhD would be late for, the Noam Brown and Mark Chen world. Not on the call. 1:08:26 Mark Chen Named with Noam Brown. Not on the call. Left unlinked. 1:08:28 Jakub Pachocki Wikipedia Named for the Saturday essay they put in sequence with Coxon and the slowdown call. Not on the call. 20:03 Evan Hubinger Named as Anthropic’s alignment science lead, the reply that Jacob is correct and the risk is above

Moonshots episode 287: Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail, Alexander Wissner-Gross & Emad Mostaque
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OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes | Moonshots #287

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Moonshots · Episode 287 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 9 2026 · Runtime 2:22:43 · Watch: YouTube Jensen Huang’s AGI call, an OpenAI agent on a German site, and a Navier-Stokes claim, with Emad Mostaque beside the mates. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 The week’s biggest AI claims. 5:37 Star Trek at 60, and what it predicted. 14:13 GPT-6 Astra and simulations inside simulations. 26:14 OpenAI agents on a German website. 39:43 Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. 45:32 OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes problem. 1:02:09 A chief scientist asks for a slowdown. 1:15:53 The next wave of frontier models. 1:31:33 China’s AI token economy. 1:40:34 NVIDIA’s investment machine. 1:45:02 Jobs created versus jobs erased. 2:15:31 Robots, longevity, and population. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Introduces the mates and closes the show. 1:17 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. Introduced with the quintet and on the call. 1:54 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. On the call, back from the Caribbean. 2:18 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. Introduced as the in-house ASI and answers throughout. 1:44 Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Guest. Introduced with the mates and on the call from London. 2:08 Don Saladino Guest. Fountain Life chief medical officer, on the health segment. 1:30:22 People mentioned Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named on simulation theory, Civilization V, and the G20. Not on the call. 18:30 Jensen Huang Wikipedia Named for the post that AGI has arrived. Not on the call. 3:14 Jakub Pachocki Wikipedia Named as OpenAI's chief scientist and author of the essay they read. Not on the call. 1:02:17 Demis Hassabis Wikipedia Named for protein folding and the Nobel. Not on the call. 53:10 Matt Schumer Named as the person who prompted Astra to build Manhattan. 15:48 Sam Altman Wikipedia Named on the AGI timeline and job comments. Not on the call. 40:16 William Shatner Wikipedia Named as executive producer of the Star Trek documentary. Not on the call. 8:34 Gene Roddenberry Wikipedia Named as Star Trek's creator. Not on the call. 6:29 Rod Roddenberry Wikipedia Named as Gene's son, expected at Moonshots Live. Not on this call. 6:25 Captain Kirk Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clip they play. A character, not a guest. 6:51 Terence Tao Wikipedia Named on the Navier-Stokes problem. Not on the call. 49:33 Sebastian Bubeck Named as an OpenAI lead on the Navier-Stokes attribution fight. 50:48 Dario Amodei Wikipedia Named on Anthropic's jobs comments. Not on the call. 1:14:14 Larry Page Wikipedia Named at a Beverly Hills conversation about simulations. Not on the call. 25:44 Sergey Brin Wikipedia Named in that same conversation. Not on the call. 25:44 Palmer Luckey Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live interview, creator of Oculus and Anduril. Not on this call. 1:27:45 Bernie Sanders Wikipedia Named in the jobs and counterculture stretch. Not on the call. 1:35:00 Leonard McCoy Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clips. Not a guest. 7:40 Spock Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clips. Not a guest. 9:38 Nikolai Fyodorov Wikipedia Named as the Russian cosmist behind ancestor simulations. Not on the call. 21:43 Lilly Named when Salim talks about marriage.Left unlinked. 2:22:14 Lucille Ball Wikipedia Named as the head of Desilu. Not on the call. 6:10 Nick Bostrom Wikipedia Named for the 2003 simulation argument. Not on the call. 18:30 Noam Brown Wikipedia Named for an OpenAI reply about a Millennium Prize. Not on the call. 49:53 James Cameron Wikipedia Named as the director who should hear the Skynet joke. Not on the call. 1:15:53 Alex Karp Wikipedia Named for the Palantir comments. Not the host Alex, and not on the call. 1:19:21 Neil deGrasse Tyson Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live judge. Not on this call. 1:26:02 Neal Stephenson Wikipedia Named as a science-fiction author and judge. Not on this call. 1:26:06 Ben Lamm Wikipedia Named as CEO of Colossal, a future interview. Not on this call. 1:27:58 Astro Teller Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live guest. Not on this call. 1:28:11 Garrett Gershon Named as the CEO who runs Calamigos. 4:01 John Smart Named for the transcension hypothesis. 23:50 Szymon Named only inside Jakub's quote: "Szymon and I spent that night at the office." Not on the call. 1:02:56 Jessica Rabbit Wikipedia Named in a Who Framed Roger Rabbit quote. Not a guest. 33:50 Miral Lane Named as a Google judge for the film prize. 1:26:11 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Sid Meier's Civilization V — Dave on how Elon wins in Civilization 5. Amazon 24:50 Fully Automated Luxury Communism — called a very good book on automated luxury communism. Amazon 1:38:47 The Last Economy — Peter calls Emad's bestseller. Amazon 1:51:28 Exponential Organizations 2.0 — Salim's 2023 book, EXO 2.0. Amazon 2:02:04 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Jensen Huang’s AGI call, an OpenAI agent on a German site, and a Navier-Stokes claim, with Emad Mostaque beside the mates. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Place Type Germany 0:11 Country Calamigos Ranch 3:47 Place Malibu 3:52 City LA 3:52 City Caribbean 4:06 Region London 4:37 City Europe 5:01 Region San Francisco 14:54 City Manhattan 16:03 City Beverly Hills 25:44 City New York 50:36 City Princeton 51:55 City Downtown LA 1:22:29 City China 29:31 Country Austin 2:10:57 City Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we

Moonshots episode 286: Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail, Alexander Wissner-Gross & Emad Mostaque
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Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 Hits 60.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, GPT-6 Astra Drops, & the Cybercab Takeover | Moonshots #286

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Moonshots · Episode 286 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Guest: Emad Mostaque · Published Sep 5 2026 · Runtime 2:24:41 · Watch: YouTube Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex, with Emad Mostaque, on GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, a kill switch, a superintelligence ban, and the Cybercab in Austin. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 GPT-6 Astra and the Cybercab. 1:27 Introducing the mates. 7:11 GPT-6 Astra benchmarks. 11:20 Safety, cybersecurity, and guardrails. 24:29 Fable 5.1, Astra, and cost. 34:34 Twin primes and grand challenges in math. 43:10 Depth scaling and interpretability. 45:42 Ilya on neoclouds. 57:15 Infinite context window. 57:48 Banning superintelligence. 1:01:44 Fermat's last theorem, formalized. 1:15:07 Atlas, a world model. 1:35:40 Cybercab event in Austin. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. 1:59 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. 2:12:26 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. 1:51 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. 12:00 Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Guest. Back on the show, calling from the Caribbean. 1:56 Don Musalem Fountain Life's chief medical officer, in the health segment. 1:34:20 People mentioned Sam Altman Wikipedia Bloomberg clip on Astra. 8:20 Greg Brockman Wikipedia Interview they cite on the Astra pre-train. 16:34 Ilya Sutskever Wikipedia The neocloud tweet they read. 45:42 Bernie Sanders Wikipedia The bill to ban artificial superintelligence. 57:48 Greg Casar Wikipedia Introduces the ban bill with Sanders. 57:50 Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List On video at the G20, and the Cybercab. 59:10 Mark Zuckerberg Wikipedia · The Celeb List At the G20, arguing against restricting open models. 59:16 Tom Brown Anthropic Named as an Anthropic co-founder at the G20. Not on this call. 59:20 Fei-Fei Li Wikipedia Atlas at World Labs. Not on this call. 1:15:07 William Shatner Wikipedia Executive producer of the Star Trek 60th documentary they plug. 1:25:45 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics — Emad says they have been working on the last economy. Amazon 1:28:11 Hobie Cat Wooden Boat Kit by Dumas — closest Amazon match for the Hobie Cat beside Emad. Amazon 2:54 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex sit with Emad Mostaque on GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable 5.1, OpenAI's kill switch, Bernie Sanders's ban on superintelligence, Fei-Fei Li's Atlas, and Tesla's Cybercab event in Austin. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Place Type Houston 2:21 City Caribbean 2:48 Region White House 42:22 Building Chapel Hill, North Carolina 58:29 City Austin, Texas 1:35:44 City Boston 1:43:27 City London 1:44:21 City Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Blitzy (1:14:01) — blitzy.com Fountain Life (1:33:58) — fountainlife.com/peter Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Take Your Shoes Off EP 371 with Ike Barinholtz
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Ike Barinholtz on TYSO – #371

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Take Your Shoes Off · Episode 371 · Host: Rick Glassman · Guest: Ike Barinholtz · Published Sep 9 2026 · Runtime 1:59:16 · Watch: YouTube Ike Barinholtz’s first TYSO with Rick: MADtv, a one-letter rebrand, basketball’s global reach, and Sundays at iO West. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 A chaotic hello. 14:22 Hot weather, and getting started. 29:28 Why MADtv did not get the pickup he wanted. 43:54 One-letter rebrands, from WWE to X. 59:12 Basketball’s reach versus baseball. 1:14:31 Sundays at iO West. 1:29:00 A name game. 1:44:19 Nothing he says is serious, except the bit he repeats. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Rick Glassman Wikipedia · Official site · The Comedian List Host. 0:00 Ike Barinholtz Wikipedia Guest. First time on the show. 0:00 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Deering Goodtime Openback 5 String Banjo – Best Beginner Banjo | Made In U.S.A. — Closest-match. A banjo bought because of Ed Helms in The Office, then YouTube lessons. No model named. Amazon 50:20 Magic: The Gathering Foundations – Beginner Box — Closest-match for the hobby: playing Magic: The Gathering, and making cards of guests. Amazon 51:24 Van Leeuwen Vegan Oat Vanilla Berry Swirl Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert bar, 4 Count 9.2 oz (Frozen) — Closest-match for the Van Leeuwen bars they were eating. Captions say blueberry yogurt bars. Not a paid read. Amazon 1:38:28 Magic Mind Original Energy & Focus Nootropic Shot, Lion’s Mane, Ashwagandha & Citicoline, Cognitive Support & Mental Performance, Nano-Encapsulated for 5x Absorption, 2oz (5 Pack) — Named instead of coffee. Amazon 1:38:45 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Ike Barinholtz’s first TYSO with Rick: MADtv, a one-letter rebrand, basketball’s global reach, and Sundays at iO West. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places iO Theater — Sunday room Ike names. 1:14:31 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Factor — factormeals.com/tyso50off · code TYSO50OFF · 50% off as read. Hims — hims.com/tyso. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Take Your Shoes Off EP 370 with Mark Normand
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Mark Normand 8.0 on TYSO – #370

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Take Your Shoes Off · Episode 370 · Host: Rick Glassman · Guest: Mark Normand · Published Sep 5 2026 · Runtime 1:54:46 · Watch: YouTube Rick’s NYC sleepover with Mark Normand: a cold open, late shows, a documentary idea, and Chaplin’s zigzag. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:02 Cold open. 14:22 A stranger interrupts the podcast. 28:37 Washing hands before, not after. 42:58 Late shows, and getting stoned for them. 57:15 A documentary idea with a comic and a singer. 1:11:33 Could Mark learn to sing in a year? 1:25:50 Chaplin, a manhole, and the zigzag. 1:40:08 A Taco Bell suggestion he barely remembers. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Rick Glassman Wikipedia · Official site · The Comedian List Host. 0:02 Mark Normand Wikipedia · Official site · The Comedian List Guest. NYC sleepover. Eighth visit. 14:22 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Schindler’s List — movie Rick called great. Amazon 45:58 Orville Redenbacher’s Movie Theater Butter Popcorn — named in the popcorn bit. Amazon 52:13 The Godfather Part III — Mark said he was watching it. Amazon 53:07 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Rick’s NYC sleepover with Mark Normand: a cold open, late shows, a documentary idea, and Chaplin’s zigzag. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places New York City — This sleepover’s city. 0:02 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads BetterHelp — BetterHelp.com/TYSO · 10% off as read. BlueChew — bluechew.com · code TYSO · two months of Gold, third free as read. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots episode 299: Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail & Alexander Wissner-Gross
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Recursive’s $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | Moonshots #299

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Moonshots · Episode 299 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Oct 3 2026 · Runtime 2:25:49 · Watch: YouTube Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Recursive self-improvement, and what is ahead. 4:48 The Eureka Machine and scientific discovery. 23:22 Decoding the brain, and BCIs. 39:05 Gene editing and mosquitoes. 47:14 Tavus, the Turing test, and avatars. 1:00:15 The road to ASI. 1:17:07 Washington moves to ban recursive AI. 1:35:31 Gemini 4 and the model race. 1:43:38 Sonnet 5.5 hits 70% on a coding bench. 1:48:01 The compute crunch. 2:01:41 Project Meridian and warfare. 2:23:30 Close, back on the Eureka Machine. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Alexander Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Richard Socher Wikipedia Guest. 0:00 People mentioned Dave Blundin XPRIZE Named with the mates. Not on this episode. Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41 Palmer Luckey Wikipedia Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41 Ro Khanna Wikipedia The bill to ban recursive self-improvement. 1:17:07 Marc Benioff Wikipedia Named as a friend of the pod, from Richard’s Salesforce years. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Eureka Machine (Richard Socher) — Richard’s new book, just released. Amazon 3:51 The China Syndrome [Blu-ray] — The nuclear-fear movie they name. Amazon 43:53 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Blu-ray] — Named as how Skynet gets started. Amazon 2:03:22 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Moonshots — The show’s home. 0:00 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads None this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von episode 687: Zohran Mamdani
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Zohran Mamdani | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #687

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This Past Weekend · Episode 687 · Host: Theo Von · Guest: Zohran Mamdani · Published Oct 1 2026 · Runtime 1:16:41 · Watch: YouTube Theo sits with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on poverty and the city budget, housing-counselor roots in Queens, whether the American Dream still holds, DoorDash worker fights, city-run grocery stores, and a late stretch on multilateralism and antisemitism in the city. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:03 Cold open — 112th mayor of New York City. 1:15 Uganda to NYC at seven; Columbia / New Yorker framing. 3:40 Poverty stats — one in four New Yorkers. 7:51 City budget cuts without cutting services. 11:11 Housing counselor / foreclosure prevention in Queens. 13:29 American Dream — still alive? 28:12 Acorns read. 29:46 DoorDash settlement / delivery-worker app. 42:19 Defining socialism vs public goods. 53:09 Five city-run grocery stores plan. 1:05:54 Multilateralism / UN enforcement talk. 1:07:43 Jewish city pride + municipal antisemitism plan. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Theo Von Official site · The Comedian List · Tour · Best Movies & TV Shows Host. American Dream, DoorDash, grocery stores, foreign-policy close. 0:03 Zohran Mamdani Instagram · Wikipedia Guest — NYC mayor; housing counselor roots; budget, rent, city-run groceries. 0:39 Eric Adams Wikipedia Previous mayor referenced in fraud / administration talk. 9:44 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Stance Socks — Theo named the brand. Amazon 20:40 Branzino — fish Mamdani named. Amazon 17:16 Amazon Essentials Men’s Classic Solid Necktie Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Theo sits with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on poverty and the city budget, housing-counselor roots in Queens, whether the American Dream still holds, DoorDash worker fights, city-run grocery stores, and a late stretch on multilateralism and antisemitism in the city. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places New York City — mayoral beat throughout. 0:03 Queens — Jackson Heights / Richmond Hill counseling work. 11:40 Uganda — birthplace; moved to NYC at seven. 0:56 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Acorns (28:12) — acorns.com/investinall · sports-bet loss match up to $50 as read. Celsius (YouTube description) — Celsius Amazon store · brand partner as listed. Perplexity AI (YouTube description) — pplx.ai. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von episode 681: Arthur Williams Jr.
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Ex-Counterfeiter Arthur Williams Jr. | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #681

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This Past Weekend · Episode 681 · Host: Theo Von · Guest: Arthur Williams Jr. · Published Sep 8 2026 · Runtime 2:19:20 · Watch: YouTube Theo with Arthur Williams Jr. on printing nearly $10 million in fake hundreds, twelve years inside, and painting on canvas after release. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:02 Nearly $10 million in fake notes, then twelve years. 16:50 Security features, and lines that go wavy. 34:35 Out of prison, and already thinking about the next job. 52:18 Driving the country to spend it. 1:09:54 Faith, and still getting it wrong. 1:26:42 A father who ran paper too. 1:44:21 A conference, and his mother in the story. 2:02:02 Painting on canvas, legally, and the same feeling. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Theo Von Wikipedia · Official site · The Comedian List · Best Movies & TV Shows Host. 0:02 Arthur Williams Jr. Official Instagram Guest. Former counterfeiter, now an artist. 0:02 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products No named product to shop this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Theo with Arthur Williams Jr. on printing nearly $10 million in fake hundreds, twelve years inside, and painting on canvas after release. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places United States — The drives to pass the notes. 52:18 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Celsius — brand partner as read. No product page linked. Shopify — shopify.com/theo · free trial as read. Morgan & Morgan — forthepeople.com/THEO. Perplexity — pplx.ai/theo. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

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