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Technology's daily show (formerly the Technology Brothers Podcast). Streaming live on X and YouTube from 11 - 2 PM PST Monday - Friday. Available on X, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
You're watching TVPN. Today is Friday, 10/24/2025. We are live from the TVPN UltraDome, the temple
Speaker 2:of technology, the fortress of finance. The
Speaker 1:capital of capital.
Speaker 2:Media people like to talk about media. Yeah. So today, we're gonna talk about media.
Speaker 1:You think traditional media, legacy media, regular media, new media, neo media is the newest.
Speaker 2:Neo trad, which Post we got to in a
Speaker 1:neo media. You can think of it as the most accelerated, the most aggressive, the final, the most cutting edge media properties that are out there. We have Martin Scrawley. He just turns on a livestream. It doesn't
Speaker 2:He goes for hours and hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 1:It's not a media company. It's not a it's not a TV show.
Speaker 2:It's And he's moving he's moving markets. Right?
Speaker 1:Exactly. Exactly. You have I Show Speed and MrBeast, other examples of post neomedia creators. You, course, have had the expert media sphere. Andrew Huberman.
Speaker 1:Course,
Speaker 2:Lex Fridman, AI expert. Joe Rogan, UFO expert. Yes. And then Andrew Huberman, of course.
Speaker 1:And then we have the neo factual media, more of the analysts focused on the actual truth, one of the the the really, the only truth seeking organizations on the map in general. And the neo trads are doing this in a new way. And so
Speaker 2:This is new media that cosplays as traditional media. Exactly. So that's TBPN. Right? It it it has some of the aesthetics of an ESPN.
Speaker 1:Yes. But it
Speaker 2:looks and feels Good job, guys. Michael Dell just posted this and said congratulations, JP Morgan, on opening your new headquarters.
Speaker 1:Sold them all the monitors because the monitors are Dell monitors. So this is what peak performance looks like for sure. This is beautiful. This is what the trenches look like.
Speaker 2:Mobsters ran rigged poker games at Kylie Jenner's Lux NYC pad while she still owned it. The NBA is very concerned about the multiple arrests made as a result of the s FBI sports gambling raid. Use codes code multiple arrests for a 30% profit boost on a three leg parlay with DraftKings, the official gambling partner of the NBA. Snap is in talks to raise at least 1,000,000,000 for AR glasses, multiple investors involved, including Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.
Speaker 1:Samsung just launched a Vision Pro competitor. The Samsung Galaxy XR is powered powered by Android XR, and it's supposed to be at the Apple Vision Pro level in terms of fidelity, I think. Android's been kind of a better steward to the developer community than Apple. And I think a lot of a lot of the obvious developer partners that would go and build apps for the Apple Vision Pro are taking a wait and see approach. Why don't you go get the audience first, Apple?
Speaker 1:Make sure that there's actually a 100,000,000 DAUs of this thing like the iPhone before I build an app for this.
Speaker 2:Speaking of smart devices, Kohler, the toilet manufacturer, is making a new toilet camera that provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks, which is insane because
Speaker 1:That's an insane.
Speaker 2:Throne, you know, the startup throne Oh, yeah. Is doing this. I thought it was like an insane idea. Yeah. But at least no one else would go and compete.
Speaker 2:And then Kohler, you know, obviously a a a major manufacturer decided I'm I'm sure they were somewhat inspired by Throne Yeah. To go get into the game of toilet cameras health tracking. So we'll see how this plays out. Female spies are waging sex warfare to steal Silicon Valley secrets.
Speaker 1:This has been the meme of, like, the the CCP spy girlfriend. Is this just something where Europe takes two months to get to the current thing on Axe? This is an article that literally just says what Axe was talking about four months ago.
Speaker 2:They're saying, some of these spies are even marrying and having children with their targets, which is really
Speaker 1:You know what a good, have you seen the Americans?
Speaker 2:Atlas says, jeez, I would sure hate for a beautiful Chinese spy to wage sex warfare against me for my production secrets. My production secrets are super important. I would hate for this to happen. Cheddar, it's the TikTok of sports wagering.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Unlike other platforms, they allow players 21 and in forty six days.
Speaker 1:A 16 Zback double speed lets you control thousands of social media accounts with AI, ensuring they look as human as possible. Quote, never pay a human again.
Speaker 2:I think they're trying to position it as this is an alternative to influencer marketing, but it does look and feel more like an influence operation.
Speaker 1:This feels like bot farming. Nir's not really dunking here. Like, Nir's just saying a 16 z back double speed lets you control thousands of social media accounts with AI. People are calling this, like, morally lame and impoverished, and Bessard Copa says, how so? There are already a million bot farms around the worlds.
Speaker 1:They wreaked havoc on our elections not so long ago. Shouldn't the best ones be built in America and pioneer the latest tech and rules to govern it?
Speaker 2:Wait. So he's saying they have wreaked havoc Yes. On the world, but so we should build it in America. Edgar is bringing real money engagement into free to play sweepstakes, America's number one social casino for slot lovers. These are insane.
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Speaker 2:It's
Speaker 1:so funny that just a just a quote tweet that's from from hero thousand faces that just says societal breakdown gets more likes with 30,000 views.
Speaker 2:This is incredible. Double your bills or nothing. The interesting thing is a lot of these kinds of ideas, kinds of apps end up being massive businesses Right. That you don't typically see.
Speaker 1:Stick to the infrastructure, baby. Go to Turbo Puffer. Search every byte. Serverless vector and full text search. Bird from built built from first principles on object storage, fast, 10 x cheaper, extremely scalable.
Speaker 2:The gummy bear company casually dropping revolutionary battery technology for $25 on on Amazon, the lightest ever of this capacity, and pretending nothing happened is one of the funniest things of all time. So this
Speaker 1:is a Rebo. Its weight is 286 grams, just a little bit over what they claim. The capacity is 83 watt hours. The printed printed on the battery,
Speaker 2:it says capacity, 20,000 milliamp hours. Oracle just secured a $38,000,000,000 debt deal to finance two new data centers. They said they couldn't lend anymore. They shouldn't, but they are not listening. 23,000,000,000 will go toward a Texas site and nearly 15,000,000,000 towards one in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:Just offloaded some data center construction debt to a school teacher's four zero one k. My father is a retired school teacher. So hopefully
Speaker 1:He didn't get burned here.
Speaker 2:I have to be he's gonna be a little frustrated with me if that if that ends up being the case. Nexperia, they notified its Japanese automotive customers that it may no longer be able to guarantee supply, triggering renewed concern about upheaval at the chip makers. Never change, Masa. This guy rocks. SoftBank hunts for humanoid robot startups.
Speaker 2:SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans. But some of SoftBank's bets in robotics over the past ten years, such as robot company Pepper, have not panned out. Now the company is renewing its robot ambitions, particularly in robots that resemble humans.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine?
Speaker 2:I think it's probably true that Masa and SoftBank were too early in some of their robotics bets. Right? They bet Yeah. Really heavily, you know, a decade ago.
Speaker 1:This feels like a great time to be building in humanoid robots or robots generally. There's a ton of there's a ton of interesting startups, one x, and there's smaller companies, and there's supply chain stuff. And it's like it's one of those things where it's like, are you more worried about being too early or being too late?
Speaker 2:The Interxion Company of California has managed to really break through the noise and deliver a truly novel consumer AI product experience. Dot.dot. Nothing important. Don't worry about it. Poke.com itself is a fantastic domain and a name for their business and audience.
Speaker 2:So I just skipped over, of course, the the Oh, there's, a little bit criticism in there I or was criticizing the general sort of, like, gaming convention, but this was a absolutely perfect response. Chef's kiss. Yeah. Perfect response. Ohio has a new bill that goes far beyond her marriage.
Speaker 2:Far beyond banning human AI marriage. The measure would define AI systems as non sentient entities, strip them of any claim to legal personhood, forbid them from owning property, holding financial accounts, controlling IP, or acting as company directors.
Speaker 1:So it's basically game on if we get a humanoid. It has no rights in Ohio. So if we take it to Ohio, it it like, the unitary is gonna be sitting there being like, hey, guys. Why are we going to Ohio? You know, I I I'd love to stay in in I a different state, because I would hate for you to, like, destroy me and then face no legal consequences because I have no rights in Ohio.
Speaker 2:Ohio clearly hasn't read, less wrong. Finally, some good news, which is that hedge fund assets hit 5,000,000,000,000 with most inflows since before the financial crisis. Great hit, John. Assets in the global hedge fund industry have surged to record 5,000,000,000,000 as investors poured money into alternatives and funds posted solid gains.
Speaker 1:Our Gong is gifted today. You hear this, right,
Speaker 2:to the Bucco Capital. The legend says, I'm always so confused when Tesla goes down on earnings as the business performance is completely irrelevant to the price of stock. They put up, over 1,400,000,000.0, I think, of, free cash flow as a trillion dollar company.
Speaker 1:It's pretty bad that Xi Jinping models TikTok as spiritual opium and feels okay selling it to the West in a revenge opium war setup. For Trump, facing the sale of the high profile app was a populist victory framed around national security. For Xi Jinping, however, the app was a low cost bargaining chip. He had privately dismissed it as spiritual opium. That makes a ton of sense.
Speaker 1:In It is
Speaker 2:more important geopolitical news, Justin Bieber is on Twitch. Almost nineteen years after we got started, we finally got Bieber. So never give up. I think my favorite post of the week, it's now been deleted. It was a post that said, I honestly don't care if I get fired.
Speaker 2:I was part of the illegal gambling ring with Chauncey Billups and Terry Rose here. My name is Andy Jassy and I work at Amazon. Sora was dethroned in the App Store by Dave's Hot Chicken.
Speaker 1:Play the wah wah.
Speaker 2:And More sore. And a eagle sound effect for Dave. Their team, I think, is just really cracked because I don't think this is the first time they've, like, charted number one.
Speaker 1:I think most people think that the Dave's Hot Chicken team is, like, one notch above the OpenAI team.
Speaker 2:In terms of just, you know, product design, growth
Speaker 1:Yeah. Just and and strategy. Research. Research. Yeah.
Speaker 1:These types of things. I think most people think it's sort of, like, you know, a hotbed of the best talent in the world.
Speaker 2:We had a really fun week. Next week is gonna be wild as well. I I think it's gonna be a magnificent week.
Speaker 1:I think so too. Think it's
Speaker 2:gonna be absolutely magnificent.
Speaker 1:And you will be magnificent.
Speaker 2:And, I can't wait to be back. So have a wonderful Friday. Have a wonderful Saturday. Have a wonderful Sunday. We will be counting down the hours until we are going live again on Monday.
Speaker 2:And thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1:Goodbye. Cheers.