All-In PodcastE32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- May 13, 2021
- Duration
- 1h 23m
- Channel
- All-In Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Referenced in the show: NY Times - A Misleading C.D.C. Number https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-transmission-cdc-number.html medRxiv - COVID-19 Aerosolized Viral Loads, Environment, Ventilation, Masks, Exposure Time, Severity, And Immune Response: A Pragmatic Guide Of Estimates https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.03.20206110v6.full Business Insider - Silicon Valley VCs are at war with the ‘far left radicals’ running California https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-venture-capitalists-at-front-lines-california-recall-2021-5 NY Post - Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school reopenings, emails show https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/ MMA - Governor Reeves Announces End to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance https://mma-web.org/governor-reeves-announces-end-to-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/ Tweets: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392154915640729605 https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392223301154447361 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391591653824204801 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391257138698375168 https://twitter.com/skepticaliblog/status/1391958173955682309 https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1390390598444609538 https://twitter.com/friedberg/status/1392551233618026496 https://twitter.com/bytecoin8 Show Notes: 0:00 Jason goes behind the scenes of Elon's SNL appearance 23:36 CDC failures, misleading information on COVID spreading outdoors 39:10 Reacting to Stanley Druckenmiller's thoughts on current Fed policy, decoupling of capital markets from policy 48:32 America's real-time UBI experiment, Business Insider's piece covering All-In 1:05:23 Friedberg's science corner: synthetic biology IPO/SPACs, stem cell breakthroughs & more 1:19:15 Should the besties start a third party? Is it possible? #allin #tech #news
SPEAKERS
David Friedberg
hostChamath Palihapitiya
hostJason Calacanis
hostNarrator
other
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of All-In Podcast, featuring David Friedberg and Chamath Palihapitiya, E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more explores elon’s SNL, CDC missteps, inflation fears, and bioengineering the future The hosts open with a behind-the-scenes look at Elon Musk’s week hosting Saturday Night Live, detailing writers’ room negotiations, joke punch‑ups, and how the Asperger’s monologue line landed emotionally with staff and viewers. They then pivot to COVID policy, criticizing CDC guidance on outdoor transmission and masks, and arguing that fear, politics, and union pressure have distorted public‑health decisions and prolonged school closures. From there, they connect those institutional failures to macroeconomics, highlighting Stan Druckenmiller’s warnings about Fed policy, inflation, labor shortages, and what they call an implicit nationwide UBI experiment via stimulus and extended unemployment. The episode closes with optimism about synthetic biology and stem‑cell therapies as world‑changing technologies, alongside a call for more “reasonable,” centrist politics that supports science and productive capitalism instead of ideological extremes.
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