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CES refers to itself as the most powerful tech event in the world. Really bringing the superlatives.
Speaker 2:It might be. It might be. Mean, think it still is. It probably still is. Okay.
Speaker 2:Why don't we go into your office?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I call it the death of the tech conference because I noticed something which we'll get into. But what's interesting is like CES launched so long ago, 1967.
Speaker 2:What were the consumer electronics at the first event?
Speaker 1:The number of things that launched at CES is are is actually crazy. So the VCR launched at CES. Like, the thing that you put the tape into I know you don't watch movies and you never had a VCR. I had a VCR.
Speaker 2:I actually did.
Speaker 1:You have a VCR?
Speaker 3:I actually did.
Speaker 1:You had a VCR?
Speaker 2:Like a personal little
Speaker 1:Yeah. You put the tape in. You have to rewind it when you're done watching the movie. That launched at CES. CES started in 1967.
Speaker 1:It was a sleepy affair until 1970 when Philips unveiled its n 1,500 video cassette recorder. Until that point, VCRs cost upwards of $50,000. Imagine dropping 50 g's,
Speaker 2:hun. Okay. At the first one in 1967, they had transistor radios Yeah. Early color televisions, phonographs
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And tape recorders.
Speaker 1:The lineup of stuff that launched at CES, the Atari Pong console 1975, the CD player launched in 1981 Woah. At CES, the Commodore '64 1982, the DVD at nine 1996, the Xbox in 2001. And we really got to play this video of how the Xbox launched. 2001, Bill Gates gets on stage at CES. You know, today, we think we're so cool.
Speaker 1:Oh, tech companies, they have Vibreals, they have cinematic videos, and they go on podcast. And they do podcast circuits when they launch things. Get on stage with Dwayne The Rock Johnson. That's the bar because that's exactly what Bill Gates did in 2001 when he launched the Xbox. We gotta play this video With Dwayne.
Speaker 3:Unveiling the Xbox.
Speaker 1:Look at this.
Speaker 3:This is the product that will be out later this year, and there's an amazing amount going on working with partners who help build the hardware, working with the software developers, working with the retailers. The program around this thing is really quite phenomenal. But the box itself is another thing that we put a lot
Speaker 1:of energy in.
Speaker 3:So you may have been wondering what this great
Speaker 1:Look at this.
Speaker 3:Device was here.
Speaker 1:This is showmanship.
Speaker 3:This is the Xbox.
Speaker 1:This is the Xbox.
Speaker 3:So for the first time, let me now unveil
Speaker 1:Xbox. Woah. Do you ever have one of these?
Speaker 2:With the controller Yeah. In the in the plexiglass. Very cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Dangling down there. This was iconic. Play Call of Duty, the original Modern Warfare was on there.
Speaker 3:The sign here was driven by spending time with gamers and actually putting the control in their hands.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Try it out. The controller was huge. The first controller was so big. They had to make a smaller one because they just went, like, way too big for some reason.
Speaker 1:I guess they were testing on the wrong type of people or something.
Speaker 2:That's were you were they testing on you?
Speaker 1:No. There's this whole meme that it was, like, really good for Shaq, but that was it. And Shaq loved it or something. That I seem to remember this. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Loaded as you move
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 3:From level to level. And what you're seeing on the front, the eject, the on off button, and four game ports. That was one of the big pieces of feedback was people didn't wanna be limited to two.
Speaker 1:They Yeah. The the PlayStation, I think, just had two at time, the and maybe the n 64 had four. Here we go. Look at this. Getting a celebrity like that.
Speaker 1:Like, OpenAI had so many announcements this year.
Speaker 2:Fit too. There was
Speaker 1:the whole Scarlet Joe Hanson thing. They didn't bring out The Rock. Yeah. I might wanna use that sometime, Bill.
Speaker 3:Well, thanks, Rock. And it
Speaker 2:really is Rock. Thanks, Rock.
Speaker 1:The celebrity cameo My box. Launch is completely forgotten art. We don't know how to do this anymore.
Speaker 3:Five time WWF champion.
Speaker 2:I think people would be shocked at how inexpensive it could be to Oh, work with a effect I don't know about A list, but maybe like an aging out, like somebody that was iconic Yes. Yes. Actor Yes. Totally. An athlete, etcetera.
Speaker 2:And just instead of spending $30,000 on some insane launch video, just get a camera and hire some celebrity and have them explain your product. There was that drink company that did this. Do you remember? They had some celebrity read every I
Speaker 1:do remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Orca. Orca.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Orca. Yeah. Yeah. We remember it today.
Speaker 1:A lot of founders have figured out how to marshal the right resources for really cinematic footage, good editing, a bunch of things to to introduce their product, but some of them just aren't charismatic on camera, unfortunately, and they just don't have the reps. So if you bring in a celebrity, it can just also, it's just way way more thumb stopping. Like, you're just gonna be scrolling and be like, oh, what what is The Rock doing there promoting your product? Anyway, CES, when it launched, I thought this was impressive. 1967, no precedent.
Speaker 1:There's not really a tech community. It's sort of new. 17,000 people show up. 200 companies put on exhibitions. That seems like a lot.
Speaker 1:It's grown not even 10x. I mean, this was this year or in 2024, they had 130,000 attendees. Like it's grown a lot, but it's not it started out pretty big. I think this year should be more interesting because the Bluetooth, Wi Fi, IoT, all that stuff was like sort of annoying. Maybe the AI stuff gets annoying, but I still feel like there's more opportunity for actually cool integrations with AI in all sorts of different hardware things.
Speaker 1:At the same time, I was at Best Buy over the break, and I saw a TV that said it was powered by AI. And I was just shuddering, thinking about how bad of an experience that probably was. Because what is it going to be trying to do? It's probably not integrating like a frontier model. It's probably some really, really sloppy thing.
Speaker 2:Samsung had a big announcement last year.
Speaker 1:Perplexity integration.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Don't know if that makes
Speaker 1:tons And
Speaker 2:again, I just think anytime you're in a situation where you could ask your TV Yeah. For information, probably easier to ask your phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I don't know. I think you need to be a little bit more first principles when you think about these integrations thing. We'll get into some of the stuff that actually launched that sounded interesting. I wanted to go into the history of like how the tech conference like, the the the tech conference that's not linked to a single company sort of died, and a lot of it, goes back to, the iPhone, actually.
Speaker 1:The iPhone, probably the biggest consumer electronics product in history. It should have been launched at the Consumer Electronics Show. Like it is the consumer electronics juggernaut. Should have been launched.
Speaker 2:Most important consumer product of Ever. The twenty first
Speaker 1:Totally. And they got scooped by Macworld because Jobs wanted more control over how the presentation would go. So he chose to debut the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco on 01/09/2007. Macworld was technically independent from Apple. So the conference was created by IDG, this international data group.
Speaker 1:Eventually, Macworld was technically independent from Apple, but Apple was like obviously the cornerstone draw to the event. So they give them the keynote, great floor space, and then all the other independent third party Mac developers. So if you were developing a piece of software or even just like you know, a phone case, didn't make sense at that time. But, like, you could imagine all sorts of different peripherals, a printer, you'd go there and and figure out partnerships and and do deals. Launching the iPhone at Macworld, which happened at the exact same time as CES, It allowed Jobs to control everything about the big reveal, the lighting, the pacing.
Speaker 1:He was famously like fanatical about this. He rehearsed for weeks and weeks and weeks. He wanted things exactly. He wanted certain demos to happen after, and he just got way more control at Macworld than he would have gotten at CES. And the big thing is that at CES, journalists go around from booth to booth and they compare spec sheets.
Speaker 1:So they create these like charts and they keep everything in a category. And he wanted to be category defining and he wanted to break the category. And he also did not want to be compared to the Nokia No, the Nokia N95 was actually the best weird name.
Speaker 2:It was more performant. You didn't want to go spec to spec.
Speaker 1:He didn't. So the Nokia had three gs already. It had GPS. It allowed for copy pasting of text. It had a front facing camera.
Speaker 1:It had a five megapixel It's like, rear until we
Speaker 2:can copy and paste. Don't have that Seriously. We don't
Speaker 4:have that
Speaker 1:power No. The number of features of the Nokia N95 was crazy. It could record videos. The iPhone couldn't record videos. It had a five megapixel camera instead of a two megapixel camera.
Speaker 1:It even had an FM radio. The Nokia beat it on like, you know, 10 different, specs. The only thing that the iPhone really had going for it was that it had a touchscreen, but people didn't think they wanted a touchscreen at that point because most touchscreens were terrible. And then also, it had some other unique Apple innovations like a full featured Safari web browser, but it didn't even have third party apps. The Nokia did.
Speaker 1:Steve Jobs was able to sort of reframe the whole iPhone discussion as like, it's just this own thing. Don't comp us to Nokia. Why are we talking about Nokia? We're not going to talk about Nokia. They're not at Macworld.
Speaker 1:They're not allowed to be here.
Speaker 2:Best marketer of all time.
Speaker 1:Clearly. And everyone copied him. Apple actually pulled out of Macworld two years later, started doing WWDC and their own self hosted events, self distributed events. Obviously, technology itself makes a lot of that easier. Cameras are cheaper.
Speaker 1:You can livestream. So you have Google IO, Microsoft Build, Meta Connect, Samsung Unpack. When Zuck introduced the latest Meta Ray Ban displays, he didn't do it at CES. He didn't wait for CES. He was just like, I'm going have my own event.
Speaker 1:Everyone's followed Jobs playbook. The older trade show format still works for lots of companies, and big tech companies do still have presences. So just today at CES or yesterday, Jensen was there and NVIDIA unveiled Verruban. Which looks incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But also, it's not a consumer electronics product. It's kind of an odd place to do it, but it's like a fun event. But even NVIDIA has their own conferences now. So my main takeaway is like just like in terms of key moments in tech history, don't I expect them to happen at independent trade shows anymore, although The Rock alongside Bill Gates is an iconic moment. The first thing that I wanted to go through was The Wall Street Journal's write up of CES coverage.
Speaker 1:It's interesting because it's almost no consumer electronics. So of course, they highlighted NVIDIA, the faster artificial intelligence chips, Vera Rubin, the CPU GPU combination. Mercedes Benz, NVIDIA has a partnership to make the first autonomous car.
Speaker 2:The tire of my Mercedes Benz exploded autonomously this morning on the way to work. The journal says AMD also unveiled its latest AI chips known as the Instinct, which will launch later this year. They're expected to be AMD's strongest competition to Nvidia yet. Shares fell more than 2%. Uber Yeah.
Speaker 2:Uber's good. Ride hailing company plus EV maker, Lucid and Neuro have begun on road testing for their planned robotaxi service. Uber expects to offer the service in San Francisco later this year. Stock jumped 5.5%.
Speaker 1:LEGO launched a smart brick and There we go. High-tech Star Wars toys. This
Speaker 2:was the launch of the year contender and it's Already. It's the first week in Yeah. So let's it up.
Speaker 4:And you'll see from the sound and the color when it detects it. But it's not just looking for the minifigure. It knows who that minifigure is, and actually, it knows where that minifigure is. So as I move the minifigure around, you'll see different lights and colors depending on where the minifigure is compared to the brick. What does this allow us to do?
Speaker 4:Well, you saw
Speaker 2:it actually. Children. That's good.
Speaker 1:I think this is good. I I remember
Speaker 2:We turned every LEGO brick into a mini iPad.
Speaker 1:There was some sort of LEGO programmable computer, but it was much larger. It was about this big when I was a kid. And Yeah. LEGO Mindstorm. Mindstorms.
Speaker 1:That was it. That was amazing. But yeah. So Lego's launching the most ambitious brick it's ever made. A tiny computer that fits entirely inside a classic two by four Lego brick.
Speaker 1:It will make entire Lego sets come to life.
Speaker 4:Love it.
Speaker 1:Coverage. Very cool.
Speaker 2:Boston Dynamics. Yeah. Demo champions of the world. Boston Dynamics Yeah. Is starting the year strong.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. They seem to be upset that Figure is valued at roughly one Ford Motor Company. And they're not happy about it. They had a new video of various Boston Dynamics Hyundai? Robots in a Yeah.
Speaker 1:Here. They've been doing this for so long. But I don't know. It looks good. How tall is it?
Speaker 1:2.3 meters. Oh, that's how long it can reach. That's pretty big. I feel like a lot of the humanoids have been really, really small. Just kind of like smaller.
Speaker 1:Is this is this not CGI? I I can't even tell at this point.
Speaker 4:It's This hard to
Speaker 2:looks like Wow.
Speaker 1:Oh, was a cool move.
Speaker 2:The way that it can move
Speaker 1:is That was a cool move.
Speaker 2:The way that it stands up is wild too. There's standing up. It looks like a spider and then it's kind of
Speaker 1:Yeah. Very disconcerting.
Speaker 2:Swaps Maybe on they're one of their first use cases could be gloving at
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. That's really trendy. I've been seeing that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Gluffing. I saw some video of somebody gloving on an airplane or something. You see that one? But, yeah, you saw that.
Speaker 2:Tyler, you need to start gloving. Yeah. A founder anytime a founder raises more than $100,000,000 you got to say, can I glove for you?
Speaker 1:Can I glove for you? What is that? From like EDM culture or something? I don't know. Funny.
Speaker 2:Sorry. Yeah, so apparently Hyundai is preparing to deploy tens of thousands of their robots into their manufacturing facilities.
Speaker 1:66 pounds sustained weight capacity. Most people can lift more than that. Come on. We've got to get those numbers up.
Speaker 2:In The New York Times today, Jamie Dimon's 770,000,000 haul shows how bankers are on top again. Mhmm. Let's give it up for the bankers. Mean, this Gong worthy? This is Gong worthy.
Speaker 1:It's good. Who's Gong worthy?
Speaker 2:The Trump admin is lifting regulations and deal making is heating up for Jamie Dimon. Being JPMorgan Chase's chief executive was more lucrative in 2025 than ever. For nearly fifteen years, Jamie Dimon, the bank chieftain, has carried around what might as well be a talisman when he sees regulators, elected officials, journalists. At just the right time in meetings, he breaks out a single page printout that he calls a spaghetti chart. On it, mister Diamond's under underlings have crammed in tiny type a complicated flow chart meant to represent the various laws and regulations to which his company, JPMorgan Chase, is subject.
Speaker 2:The theatrics have finally worked. The Trump admin is not just taking apart regulations, but attacking the whole regulatory agencies that date back to the two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine financial crisis, and were meant to keep banks from giving in to their worst impulses. Regulators have also made it easier for banks to pedal in risky assets, again, like cryptocurrency and President Trump pause enforcement of foreign anti bribery rules. Interesting. The deregulatory bonanza alone makes it the best time in a generation to be a banker.
Speaker 2:But there's more. Falling interest rates in a permissive set of antitrust overseers are helping reverse a lull in the lucrative business of arranging m and a as the 100,000,000,000 bidding war between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Brothers Discovery shows. Once imperiled real estate loans look steadier, thanks to the rebound in in office work. Stocks are near record levels. The bond market had its best year since 2020.
Speaker 2:And gold and silver have soared, all of which feeds the trading businesses that keep Wall Street's profit machine humming. A combination of salary, bonuses, dividends, stock grants, and appreciation in his allotment of the bank shares yielded roughly $770,000,000 for Jamie Dimon, for the chief executives of Citi, whose shares rose more than 65% in 2025 after the bank slashed tens of thousands of jobs in a year's long restructuring, And Goldman Sachs shared some Tyler laughing for a No,
Speaker 1:they we're up 60 Oh, Okay. Okay. Oh, Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the way that you reacted there looked a little Your soul is out of balance because you have fallen out of touch with your consumer demographic. Pay more attention to your personalized ads. Let them flow through you. Pay attention. They do really tell you something about I've been I
Speaker 1:mean, speaking of the CES consumer products, I've been getting personalized ads for the board, the smart game board. But we had the founder on the show and I bought one.
Speaker 2:I bought one too. Did you want to talk about capital in the twenty second century?
Speaker 1:Yes. Let's read Philip Trammell's post. He says a week ago, Dwar Cash and him, Bill posted a fun essay using Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty first Century as a lens through which to explore the possible impacts of AI on inequality, as the Financial Times kindly put it. That was all it was meant to be. The discussion has definitely become more intense I'd expected.
Speaker 1:This is my first time on X in any serious way. Welcome to the arena, brother. Get in. Buckle up. I don't think they wrote it knowing that there was going to be this whole like Ro Khanna, Peter Thiel, Teddy Schleffer, like the whole like wealth tax thing that was going on in California.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And they just happened to drop something that read like a critique or a commentary. It was in the zeitgeist at the same time, but I don't think that was intentional. I think they were working on this piece for probably months. It's like a very it's like a paper.
Speaker 1:He's responding to The Economist that put him in the truth zone or at least tried to.
Speaker 2:Maybe maybe it'd be helpful to kind of summarize it, people haven't read it Yeah. The kind of key fact. So the thesis is basically like inequality is gonna get worse because of That's core thesis. And maybe you need to figure out a way to different methods of taxation to redistribute the wealth that is ultimately Yep. Created if if people cannot effectively increase their own capital via their labor.
Speaker 2:So Yep. Key factors. They talk about privatization of returns. So like very very hard to get exposure to x AI Yeah. Right now if you're just a normal person.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Two, most people have their wealth in their home. Right? And the issue is, like, home equity is not a good way to benefit from increasing returns to capital that come from automation. Right?
Speaker 2:Yep. If you have a home in Ohio and you have like $300,000 locked up in that, you're not going to get some massive incremental return from that. Maybe somebody that is pursuing AI automation or building factories or something, they could buy your home at a premium. But they could also just buy acres and acres and acres of just land somewhere else in The US at far, far less. They talk about the end of international catch up, which is basically that poor countries historically had a lot of cheap labor.
Speaker 2:Yeah. They bring in capital. They would turn that and they would create Put cheap labor to work. Yeah. They create value and retain some of that value Yep.
Speaker 2:Even though a lot of the investment was foreign. They talk about wealth transfer as a lot of more developed economies are aging out,
Speaker 1:effectively.
Speaker 2:I guess pushback here generally, even the scenario that you lay out, things could get so crazy that the institutions just break Yeah. The way that the world currently works breaks. If you own a bunch of OpenAI shares
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In in this sort of fast takeoff scenario, is this, you know, to to maybe there's a world where you could pay for things with OpenAI shares. Right? But is a super intelligence gonna say, oh, oh, yes. I would like to buy some OpenAI shares. Right?
Speaker 1:Or would
Speaker 4:they just
Speaker 1:them all. Corners the market.
Speaker 2:Buys them all or just rebuild, you know, effectively just rebuild. Know, so I love, you know, reading. I I love reading this essay. I I'd like to see more of them. But it's so difficult to any scenario you can imagine, there are 50 there's an infinite number of parallel realities where none of the same ground rules apply.
Speaker 1:It would be funny if we discovered aliens that were just extremely rich. Like, would that make us all worse off? Like, would Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos go to bed Saturn a million light years away?
Speaker 2:Like, your size is not size.
Speaker 1:Yeah. We're just like, yeah. We actually we're actually sitting on an eye an entire planet of diamond, and we're we're worth quadrillions of dollars. Everyone here is worth quadrillions of dollars. You guys are nowhere near us in terms of wealth.
Speaker 1:Like, how much is it how much is wealth inequality a direct focus on, like, the keeping up with the Joneses, like, neighbor effect, the direct memetics of, like, the person that you see as your as your equal? Ben Thompson kind of returns to this this idea that you have to assume that something about the human condition holds where humans are upset by wealth inequality, but they don't value other humans or the work of other humans or the creativity of other humans, And they don't see any value in that. He quotes Louis CK in in an October 2008 appearance of Late Night with Conan. Let let's watch this Louis CK clip.
Speaker 4:We may be going back to
Speaker 2:that, by the way. But
Speaker 4:in a way, good. Because when I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the side. You think that would just bring us back to reality? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Because everything is amazing right now and nobody's happy. Like, in my lifetime, the changes in the world have been incredible. When I was a kid, we had a rotary phone. We had a phone that you had to stand next to and you had to dial it.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:Do do you realize how primitive you're making sparks in a phone, and you actually would hate people with zeros in their numbers because it was more Oh, this guy's got two zeros. Screw that guy. Why do I wanna And then if if they called and you weren't home, the phone would just ring lonely by itself. And then if you wanted money, you had to go in the bank for when it was open for like three hours.
Speaker 1:You'd just
Speaker 4:stay in the line, write yourself a check like an idiot. And then when you ran out of money, you'd just go, well, I can't do any more things now.
Speaker 1:Right. Right.
Speaker 3:I can't
Speaker 4:do any more things.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That was it. And even if you had a credit card, the guy would go, ugh. And he'd bring out this whole chunk chunk and he'd write
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:All credit. You have to call the president to see
Speaker 1:if you have any money. It's all true, kids.
Speaker 4:You had to call the president. Yeah. It was ridiculous. Yes. Do you feel that we now, in the twenty first century, we take technology for granted?
Speaker 4:Well, yeah. Because now, we live in an in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care because this is what people are like now. They got their phone, they're like, ugh. It won't. Give it a second.
Speaker 4:Give it's going to space. Can you give it a second to get back from space? Is the speed of light true? No. I sure do.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. I was on an airplane and there was internet, high speed internet on the airplane. That's the newest thing that I know exists. And I'm sitting on the plane and they go, Open up your laptop.
Speaker 4:You can go on the internet. And it's fast and I'm watching YouTube clips. It's a I'm in an airplane.
Speaker 1:2008 And then watching YouTube break on a TV. They apologize
Speaker 4:the Internet's not working. The guy next to me goes, this is bull Like, how quickly the world owes him something
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:He knew existed only ten seconds ago. Right. Right. And on planes
Speaker 2:Couple days ago Yeah. My my one and a half year old Mhmm. Has not has not been sleeping super well. You know? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Toddlers, they go through periods where they sleep well, and then they stop sleeping well. And with my three year old, we hired a when he was going through a similar phase, we hired a sleep consultant. Yeah. These are people that just help your baby. It's like a sleep coach for your baby and Yep.
Speaker 2:And and the parents or whatever. And with my three year old, we hired somebody and they effectively you know, it's effect the effective rate is like hundreds of dollars an hour. Right? Yeah. Because there's some retainer and Yep.
Speaker 2:Blah blah. And it works really well. Like, it it's a lifesaver. But with the one and a half year old, a few days ago, my wife just goes to an LLM Yep. And just, like, breaks down exactly
Speaker 1:What's happening.
Speaker 2:Like, what's happening.
Speaker 1:That's the answer.
Speaker 2:And it is effectively running calculations based on the child's age their sleep patterns now and how to get them back on a better sleep pattern. And within twenty four hours, like, the problem was totally solved. Like Yeah. Back to sleeping on the right schedule, napping on the right schedule, like, basically one shot at it. OpenAI has gotten so much specifically Sam has gotten so much pushback because he'll go out and say, like, we're gonna solve this.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You're gonna have person you're gonna have, like, a personal tutor in your pocket pocket and all the stuff. And then people like hammer him because it's like, well then, we're doing Sora and we're doing
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, adult entertainment and things like that. Like AI is actually already delivering on Well, you this sort
Speaker 1:of Do you remember the Fallon clip that where they went viral? Where where Fallon asks him, like, are do you use ChadGPT to parent your kid? Yeah. He was like, honestly, like, it feels weird to say it. But, yes.
Speaker 1:What Louis CK identified in this clip was the extent to which human happiness is a relative versus an absolute phenomenon. What we care about is how much we have is not how much we have, but how we compare. That, by extension, is what drives the technological paradox I noted above. More capabilities, more broadly distributed, has tremendously enriched the world on an absolute basis, But the end result, however, has been the dramatic expansion of our comparison set, making us feel more immiserated than ever. If we discover the trillionaire, quadrillionaire aliens, we're all done
Speaker 2:We're for going be miserable. Should we take it over to Jocko? Yeah. Jocko of greatest one of the greatest podcast capitalists maybe. Right?
Speaker 2:Apparently, I didn't even know he had this brand Origin, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu made year. Apparently, somebody is a somebody in the government is a is a Jocko supporter because they threw Maduro in some Origin looking sharp, got him out of the Nike tech.
Speaker 1:It's called Origin Built by Freedom Hoodie on Maduro. We gotta get Maduro on some TPP merch. I think we absolutely do not
Speaker 2:have to do that. Yeah. That's ridiculous. Silence.
Speaker 1:And in
Speaker 2:turn, Marco Rubio was talking about how they don't have to pay out the reward now because they've We, just got them of course,
Speaker 1:I feel like we deserve a small slice for promoting the reward.
Speaker 2:We did do a promoted post for the capture Maduro back in Q1 of last year. Delta gets all the credit, maybe the DEA.
Speaker 1:Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges during his arraignment in US Federal Court in New York City on Monday, defiantly telling a judge that he was still the head of his nation despite being whisked away by US forces over the weekend. I am innocent, he said. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still the president of my country, he said through a Spanish interpreter, adding that he was a prisoner of war and had been captured from his home in Caracas.
Speaker 1:Maduro's top lieutenant, Delsi Rodriguez, was sworn in as Venezuela's acting president Monday, and Delsi Rodriguez is picked by Maduro, so should be a Maduro ally. But there's been back and forth on how much he'll be cooperating with The United States. Security officers were out in force in Caracas, running checkpoints and patrolling neighborhoods to prevent protests. In Manhattan, Monday Monday's hearing kicked off a nearly unprecedented legal battle over a foreign leader in a US court. The arrest of a head of state presents challenges for both prosecutors and the defense.
Speaker 1:The two sides could spend years sparring over the legality of Maduro's arrest and charges before he goes to trial.
Speaker 2:Chat says, Maduro uses perplexity because of Ronaldo. I wonder the chat is going off saying good, you know, the Jocko line. Do you think Maduro is looking in the mirror from the clink?
Speaker 1:He got got captured by US Delta Force. Good.
Speaker 2:Good. Wearing his origin.
Speaker 1:Arrested. Arrested on drug trafficking charges. Good. More inspiration to grind harder. It's an opportunity to learn about The US legal system.
Speaker 1:Thank you, everyone, for listening to CBPN today.
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