SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I think this is like the most fun Christmas party we've had. Ever. Ever. And probably the most fun event we've ever had is because of Tony here. Please welcome the one, the only, Tony Hinchcliffe.

SPEAKER_04: What the fuck's up, you goddamn nerds?

SPEAKER_06: Tony, any chance we could play Kill Tony tonight? You guys want to play Kill Tony here?

SPEAKER_07: So you guys prepared for this? You know how it works? We know how it works. I don't know if we're prepared. I wasn't expecting to have to do this tonight, but I think I just found a new golden ticket winner.

SPEAKER_08: Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for your besties.

SPEAKER_16: Well, welcome everybody to the second annual All-In Holiday Party.

David Friedberg: This is going to be an incredible lineup. We've got so many great moments for you tonight. Unfortunately, unfortunately, Chamath couldn't make it tonight. I know, I know. It's hard. It's hard. But we have a pretty great replacement that you're going to love.

SPEAKER_22: And, yeah, Freeberg, tell him what's coming. Hold on. Let me get my script.

David Friedberg: Wow.

SPEAKER_24: So professional. Do the sponsor shout-out.

David Friedberg: Oh, yeah. Let me do the sponsor shout-out so you don't do it and we lose them. I would like to thank Google Cloud for their incredible servers. Oh. Yes. Thank you, Google Cloud. Circle for stable coins. OKX. Thanks for all the love. Grok. Sonic Flights. Iren has got an incredible lounge. Thanks again for all of our sponsors. Give them a big round of applause.

SPEAKER_16: We're going to have a great night. Man, the casino, everything is here.

SPEAKER_27: Tonight, we are going to have the legendary Bestie Awards. Ooh. Bestie Awards. We have some roasting. And we are all going to play Kill Tony. What? We're going to play Kill Tony?

SPEAKER_32: We are going to play Kill Tony. Oh, thanks for letting me know. How many here are big fans of Kill Tony?

SPEAKER_16: Oh, that's incredible. Well, then, let's just bring out the one. Chamath's replacement.

David Friedberg: Chamath's permanent replacement on the program. The three of us voted him off the island. Please welcome the one, the only, Tony Hinchcliffe.

SPEAKER_38: What's up, you goddamn nerds?

SPEAKER_42: How about a hand for the All In podcast Christmas party?

SPEAKER_43: We're here in San Francisco. Make some noise. Do you guys live here in San Francisco? What a shithole. It's actually worse than a shithole. You could actually use a shithole here to put the shit into that's on the streets. A shithole would be an actual upgrade.

SPEAKER_47: It used to be so beautiful here. You guys remember? Remember the intro to Full House? That house is still full because 23 Somalians live in it now.

SPEAKER_43: Put your phones away, you assholes. You can watch this on video form later, you fucking dorks. Everybody wants their own exclusive. I'm going to make it tonight. I'm going to have a... My YouTube channel is going to get extra hits. California, more homeless people than any other state. People are struggling and you assholes paid 500 bucks to watch billionaires talk to each other.

SPEAKER_42: God bless America.

SPEAKER_56: Look, billionaires don't have it easy.

SPEAKER_47: Do you have any idea how hard it is for a billionaire to pretend like they like their kids?

SPEAKER_57: I had to research these guys and it was the most exhausting thing I've ever done. Absolute dorks. But then I watched Mountainhead on the plane and then Big Bang Theory and Succession and then Brokeback Mountain. And I think I figured it out. As many of you know, these gentlemen started the All In podcast at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. It saw massive success very quickly, which makes sense. People were isolated and looking for relatable content. And what's more relatable than four venture capitalists playing high-stakes poker?

SPEAKER_43: Their combined net worth of the four hosts is over $3 billion.

SPEAKER_62: You guys realize you don't have to do a podcast, right? J. Cal does.

SPEAKER_47: Whenever anyone is asked what they would do if they had a billion dollars, I've never heard the answer, attend weekly Zoom calls.

SPEAKER_43: I do love the current landscape of podcasts, though. Like, how is my show even considered on the same playing field as what you guys do?

SPEAKER_57: It's crazy, right? You can listen to four experts educated on economics and technology.

SPEAKER_47: And within seconds, you can switch over to my show and listen to an Elon Musk impersonator roasting an aspiring comedian with cerebral palsy.

SPEAKER_43: These guys are all actual friends with Elon Musk. They told me that backstage. And then they told me their names.

SPEAKER_57: Our friend Elon, of course, got some criticism from the left at the beginning of this year when he was accused of doing a Nazi salute.

SPEAKER_43: He said he didn't do a Nazi salute, but that it was a Roman salute. He could have just said it was an awkward wave, and people would have accepted that. I don't know if Roman salute is the best alternative. He went with, behind the Nazis, the group who has killed the most Jews, including Jesus himself. That's like being accused of visiting Epstein's Island and having an alibi that you were touring Thailand with Bill Gates. Yeah. Can you guys tell Elon to use his rockets for something positive like immigration?

SPEAKER_47: Do you have any idea how fast you can get illegal immigrants back to where they came from on a fucking rocket? I looked into this. It's 26 seconds from here to Tijuana, Mexico. It's simple. You take the rocket. You fill it with illegal immigrants. You blast that bitch up in the air, right? You let Elon do his fancy little parallel parking thing that he likes to do. You empty the illegal immigrants. You fill it with avocados.

SPEAKER_43: Yes. No tariffs on these avocados. These are the ideas. There are some critics on the left that say the hosts of All In are all too conservative, calling it an echo chamber.

SPEAKER_47: An echo chamber is also how Marjorie Taylor Greene's ex-husband refers to her pussy. We may have to edit that one out.

SPEAKER_79: Immigrant jokes are okay, but big pussy jokes aren't.

SPEAKER_43: What kind of party are you running here? But seriously, it is an honor to be here at the Christmas party. Remember, everyone, Santa is watching to see who's naughty or nice.

SPEAKER_47: And you don't want to end up on his naughty list. Then again, that would be the second worst list J. Cal ended up on. J. Cal. His net worth is $60 million. So on this podcast, he's known as the broke-ass bitch. He was an early investor in Uber. And out of everyone up here, he's the closest one to having to be one of the drivers. He refers to himself as the greatest podcast moderator in the world.

SPEAKER_57: The people cheering are the people that have not seen my show.

SPEAKER_47: If you get to call yourself the greatest podcast moderator in the world, then I get to say that I'm a virtue-signaling angel investor liberal cuck. Because that's what you are.

SPEAKER_93: Oh, my God, my God, my God.

SPEAKER_43: Fun fact, Candace Owens thinks that the leader of France's wife has a bigger dick than J. Cal. His angel list flex is the startup equivalent of that guy who won't stop talking about his high school football championship.

SPEAKER_48: Oh, okay, lost you on the angel investor joke. All right, that's surprising.

SPEAKER_97: Puerto Rico, very good, sir, thank you. We're trying to forget about that.

SPEAKER_47: J. Cal and I don't have much in common. I'm a centrist, slightly right-leaning person, and he's a full-on liberal. The only thing we have in common is that liberals don't like us.

SPEAKER_57: Chamath couldn't make it, which is completely disappointing, and I'm still, if it's all right with you guys, I'm going to do my Chamath jokes. I might do a couple extra ones that I thought were too mean, now that he's not here. I had to show up for this thing.

SPEAKER_43: He works hard.

SPEAKER_47: $1.5 billion. He works hard 24-7-11.

SPEAKER_109: Wow.

SPEAKER_43: He bought into the Golden State Warriors because he heard they had curry over there.

SPEAKER_47: These nerds like sports jokes more than angel investor jokes. This doesn't even make any sense. He's got vindalute. Indian food jokes, anyone? He's got a lot of bread.

SPEAKER_43: It's a non-issue. Okay. There you go. He's the best poker player out of the bunch. He has the most patience because he looks like a doctor.

SPEAKER_47: Somebody told me that Chamath has a very hot wife. I wonder what she sees in him.

SPEAKER_113: Perhaps the hairy feet. All right. Okey-dokey.

SPEAKER_47: Chamath at one point was a senior executive at Facebook where he spearheaded several projects like Facebook Phone, Facebook Home, and Facebook Beacon. If none of those ring a bell, it's because they were all completely scrapped by Facebook.

SPEAKER_43: Hell of a resume. Chamath, did you also pitch the logo ideas to Cracker Barrel?

SPEAKER_56: How about a hand for David Sachs, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_43: Let me just say, I am a huge fan of yours. I just think you're truly so cool.

SPEAKER_47: For a genius like you to take a break from wildly successful businesses to be a patriot

SPEAKER_43: and share your brilliant mind for the better of our great nation is unbelievable. Agreed. Agreed.

SPEAKER_57: David Friedberg is here. You didn't get the laugh I expected. That was supposed to be funny that I just was nice to David Sachs and then you're gone. Oh, and to Sachs, the crypto czar, Michael Saylor asked me to say hello. And if you can do anything, anything at all, that would be great. I don't really know what he's talking about, but... A truly admirable feat. I'm excited to watch J. Cal follow in your footsteps in 2028 as AOC's special advisor

SPEAKER_43: for plugging your own shit on air.

SPEAKER_57: David Friedberg. He has a segment on the show called Science Corner. Or as Sachs calls it...

SPEAKER_43: Or as Sachs calls it, time to go. I didn't think it was possible to be the third wheel on a podcast with four guys. Oh my God. Cracking yourself up. David and David, I would like to personally thank you for both elevating the representation of African Americans among the billionaire class.

SPEAKER_57: You know, they say we have wealth inequality in this country.

SPEAKER_43: Well, it turns out we fixed it. We just outsourced it to better Africans. Yeah, that's America. That's America, baby. You see a kid from Johannesburg with a laptop and he's a billionaire in 10 years.

SPEAKER_47: You see a brother from the South Side with a laptop and he stole your laptop.

SPEAKER_43: It's true. The only black male on the podcast is whatever the Israeli government has on these guys. Black male. Yes! All right. But seriously, to the All In Squad, thanks for all you do to promote healthy discourse and share perspectives across culture, tech, and politics. What you all have built is special and transcends partisanship.

SPEAKER_47: I'm honored to be here tonight and I'm very proud to now call each of you my friends. Also, can I borrow some money? Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_135: Oh, great.

SPEAKER_136: Oh, my God. Man, that was easier than I thought. Wow.

SPEAKER_108: Yo. Well, that was fun.

SPEAKER_141: Tell me a little bit about the just unbelievable 12-year overnight success that has killed Tony.

SPEAKER_142: Yeah.

SPEAKER_143: It's, I just built the show that I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_75: You know, I always was, I was very lucky early on at the comedy store to get to host the open mics there, which are three-minute long sets on Sundays and Mondays with 40 comedians in a row doing three minutes, three minutes, three minutes, three minutes. And I would go up after each comedian did three minutes and make fun of them. And every once in a while afterwards, go up to them personally and say, hey, you know, if you took a breath sometimes or, you know, used pauses or sped up or used, got the mic close to your mouth, little advice here and there. And me and my friends would always have so much fun sitting in the back of the room watching these open mics and the things that we would whisper into each other's ears, I thought were so funny. We'd be in the back of the room. Sometimes we'd be the only people laughing at the open mic because of what we're saying to each other. And I thought to myself, during this time in which everyone was saying, Tony, you have to do a podcast, you got to do a podcast, everyone has a podcast. You know, it was completely unheard of at the time. But I thought, why not show how crazy an open mic can be and the ideas that me and whatever comedian buddies were sitting next to me, if we shared what we were laughing about with the people, I think it could be a hit. And even the co-host Red Band at the time goes, wait, what? Who the fuck is going to want to watch an open mic?

SPEAKER_146: And I kind of thought everybody would. So now, yeah, it turns out, it worked out pretty well.

SPEAKER_148: Yeah.

SPEAKER_149: It's pretty amazing. When I moved to Austin two years ago, and the first thing people say when they land in Austin is, have you been to Kill Tony? Can you get me tickets to Kill Tony? And you were so nice. You gave me your phone number. You said, anytime you want, you know, come in. And then I texted you, and you ghosted me.

SPEAKER_22: Really? Did that really happen? No, I just wanted to see if the joke would land. It would have happened if you did text me. That's why. I deleted your number, but yeah. No, I didn't. But it is a phenomenon. The show is selling out.

SPEAKER_28: I don't know how many weeks you put out at a time. But my office is over there by Dirty Sixth Street. And sometimes I'll walk and get a coffee, and there's two, three hundred people lined up on the street. They just go to Joe Rogan's mothership just to see where it happens. What's it like in terms of the number of tickets? And then this incredible scale. You've now sold out MSG how many times?

SPEAKER_75: Yeah, three Kill Tonys and once just for my stand-up.

SPEAKER_156: The stand-up show and the most recent Kill Tony was all after my famous MSG performance, Herd Around the World.

SPEAKER_157: Oh yeah, you spoke at the Nuremberg Valley, yeah.

SPEAKER_75: So that was even more special, because it was already my favorite arena. In fact, the only reason I really did that event was because I was just excited to feel the magic of Madison Square Garden again.

SPEAKER_146: Had it been at, you know, what's the one in Jersey or whatever? Brendan Byrne? No, the different arena. It doesn't matter. It's in Jersey, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_75: Yeah, my point is, had it even been anywhere else, I don't even know if I would have done it. But the magic of MSG mixed with the opportunity to perhaps, you know, get a few people, maybe younger people or whoever,

SPEAKER_146: that were on the fence to vote what I thought was the right way.

SPEAKER_00: Can I ask, how did that whole MSG thing come about for the Trump campaign? Because I remember when they asked me to help, and I just threw a dinner, and when you did it, you, you know, delivered a killer set that almost, like, burned the campaign down.

SPEAKER_75: But fake news, 20% Puerto Rican increase in the state of Pennsylvania, an uptick, because they have an unbelievable sense of humor. Puerto Ricans do. So, you know, when you do this every night and all the time, you get a really good feel for what you can and can't get away with. What exactly, where is the actual line? And I think, and I'm, I think in retrospect, a lot of people think that the mainstream media trying to make it appear like a comedian, I don't think any of these journalists did their research. With a simple Google, you see that I have the most diverse comedy show in the world, and that I am, and I push the limits on the, whether it be the Tom Brady roast or the Snoop Dogg roast, and all the roasts that I've written on, like, like, the last 13 comedy central roasts.

SPEAKER_168: It's equal opportunity, basically.

SPEAKER_75: With a simple Google of my name, you can find out that I was just doing what I did. And I think they weren't gambling on the fact, because I'm not mainstream, right? I'm not Jimmy Fallon or any of these darlings of theirs. I think that they thought that it was going to make everything look bad. But meanwhile, I think anybody with a sense of humor at all saw it and goes, I think this is the party with a sense of humor. Meanwhile, they have, the other side had Glorilla shaking her ass, and, like, everyone's pretending, like, that's cool. But that, that's not cool.

SPEAKER_27: And Tony, can we, can we go back to your, your,

SPEAKER_171: because I thought what was so interesting was your story getting here, because there's a lot of entrepreneurs, people that have built businesses in this room. One of the defining characteristics of building a business is you have to have grit, because nothing goes as planned if you're doing something for the first time. And you get your ass kicked. And if you can deal with that, you can deal with it again, and you can deal with it again, you can eventually get somewhere. You started out in L.A. Can you just talk about not just the idea, but then what the process was like going from the idea to having yourself on stage with the future president at Madison Square Garden, giving this, like, what was that experience like, and how hard was that iteration, that build, and the struggle to get to where you got to?

SPEAKER_75: Oh, it was insane. I, I, I actually just mentioned this. I was on Rogan this week with John Cena, and it came up. But I had this moment a few weeks ago where I Venmo'd a buddy because I thought that I owed him rent from 18 and a half years ago. I was sleeping, I had, I was renting the couch in a living room with four comedians total. I was one of them. One had a bedroom with a bathroom. Another one had a bedroom with a bathroom. And me, and there was a little love seat. The guy was renting the love seat. And I had to pay $400 a month rent. And I literally, even though I was working all the hours from literally 11 a.m. on the phones to 7 p.m. at night, and then I would put on the Comedy Store t-shirt and work the door from 8 p.m. until 2.30 in the morning and then do it again the next day. And because the Comedy Store didn't have, Comedy hadn't had its second huge boom yet, which was a few years away, they would cut your hours at the Comedy Store. They just wouldn't, not only would you not get overtime, you wouldn't even get the hours that you actually did work or really anything at all. I couldn't make the $400 a month rent. So anyway, a few weeks ago, I said to one of the other buddies that had a room, I go, hey, I think I owe, I still think I owe the main guy a few hundred bucks rent. He goes, you do. He mentioned it last time I saw him. Wow. And so I went to Venmo, and I just Venmoed him $1,000 straight up. With interest. And in the caption, yeah, exactly. In the caption, I go, rent money, 2007. Love it.

SPEAKER_181: But Tony, was there a period during that time when you were going to quit, where you said, it's not working?

SPEAKER_156: No, no, these were my favorite times. In fact, after that, after the $400 rent, which, by the way,

SPEAKER_75: because I couldn't make the $400 rent, I got downgraded. Not only was there someone else on the love seat, someone else moved in that could afford the $400 rent. So I paid $300 rent for a beanbag on the ground. And let me remind you, the bathrooms were in the other guy's bedroom. So you had to tiptoe, if you had to pee in the middle of the night, through somebody else's bedroom. So it was after that, actually, after basically the first year was that, I decided to just start sleeping in the back seat of my car behind the comedy store,

SPEAKER_156: where you weren't even allowed to park there. It's a tiny parking lot. So I would be up on one of the hills in the Hollywood Hills,

SPEAKER_75: and at 2.30 or 3 a.m. when you're done, I would walk up a hill and get my car and drive it back into the empty comedy store parking lot, pull into the back. Juan Carlos, the maintenance man there that would show up at like 4 or 5 a.m. was nice enough to wait a few hours to try to let me get a few extra hours of sleep before he would start nailing shit and fixing everything. And it's literally the times now that I have a touch of success. It's the times that I think about all the time now. Every single time I find myself looking at the skyline of Austin from my beautiful fucking home with a crazy outdoor terrace and everything the way that I want it, I think about those times.

SPEAKER_184: The struggle. All the time.

SPEAKER_171: Was there a moment where you said, I made it?

SPEAKER_75: Yeah, I mean, it happens quite a bit. The I made it thing happens a lot. Every MSG, and even, I mean, again, you know, to go back to it, the Trump thing at MSG being global news was so insane that not only did I make it, I feel every time like I'm kind of making it again, you know, because it just seemed, at the time, there was a couple weeks there where it's literally, you know, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people saying or thinking that that could be it, that it's all over.

SPEAKER_184: What's the best city for comedy right now? Is it Austin? Is it still LA? What do you... There's no question about it. It's Austin, Texas. It's Austin, really? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: Honestly, you guys are making it sound really fun. You got, you're there, J-Cow's there, Rogan's there, who else is there? Elon,

SPEAKER_190: Tim Ferriss. Sex, let's go shopping. Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis.

SPEAKER_156: All of his entire crew is there. Matt McCusker, Tom Segura, Christina P.

SPEAKER_192: We came and saw you a few months ago when we did that event in Austin. What was that, March or something? Yeah.

SPEAKER_195: March, right? It was incredible. I mean, the crowd.

SPEAKER_171: Yeah, so we got hooked up with your guy, got us some tickets, and I was with some buddies, and they said, let's go see Kill Tony. We got in touch with your guy, got into the show. And I think I had forgotten what stand-up comedy was supposed to be like from like the late 90s, early 2000s, even into the 2010s, because over the last couple of years, we've talked a lot about guys getting their heads chopped off

SPEAKER_197: when they said something wrong, Chappelle, and everyone got so guarded in comedy. And I went to your show, and I was like, what the fuck? Oh, my God. This was tame tonight, but what went on on your stage? And then you did a bit where you really tried to push the limits. It was a really interesting show to watch because this was like, we were sitting next to each other, and we were like, oh, my God, he's really trying to see how far he could go. And there were moments where it was like, everyone was just like, but it was so different. And you've really given everyone permission to find the limits, to find real humor, to find what's sort of been taken away.

SPEAKER_156: Without a doubt.

SPEAKER_75: And that's what we always did. Some comedians, when they're trying to promote their specials or whatever now

SPEAKER_156: from LA and New York will say things like, oh, Austin, so that they can get hits on their clip. You have to talk shit about Austin. It's been a thing the last couple years. And they go, oh, they're just edgelords and this and that, and they're just pushing limits. And it's like, we were the comedy store guys in the middle of the lineup. When I go to New York, I can perform at any club there. When I go to LA, I can perform at any club there. So we just live there.

SPEAKER_75: It's an amazing place to live. It's an amazing place to go out and drink and eat and listen to music and hang out with cool people. And now your guys

SPEAKER_192: are going mainstream. You're one guy's on SNL now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_75: Cam Patterson, right? And so much is happening. But my point is, is we're doing the exact, we're not like, let's go to Austin and get even crazier. We're the exact same people that were in the middle of the lineup at the comedy store. And it wouldn't have changed. We would still be in LA if California didn't completely mishandle the pandemic and let police take such a terrible hit during the George Floyd riots. It was, it was, That's why you moved? Yeah. It's when we all decided to move. It was an absolute disaster.

SPEAKER_209: The pandemic hit, you guys saw how California

SPEAKER_75: The pandemic, things got so bad at one point that when we were doing our show, which you weren't allowed to have a live audience, we were still doing Kill Tonys. You want to talk about plowing through when times are rough. Everybody else's podcast during the pandemic skyrocketed like that. Us, the only show with a live audience was done. But we didn't stop. We had people, we had to, I had to improvise. So we had people send in from home a video of themselves doing a one minute set, which was horrendous. I'm absolutely terrible. Worse than doing roast jokes and killing and have one guy going, ooh, after each and every joke into a microphone attached to his cheek. But it was dead silence. Nothing was funny to us, by the way. We lacked fucking vitamin D. We were used to having the instant gratification of a crowd every single week. So we're watching these horrific one minute sets. And then we would Zoom with the people. And by the way, don't even give me started on all the technical issues, playing a video, ending the video, starting the Zoom call with somebody that probably doesn't have the best Wi-Fi. No great comedian knows how to work a computer or this or that or anything anyway. So we were doing this. And then at one point

SPEAKER_156: we were so excited because they allowed the fact that you could have tables outside of the comedy store, six feet apart,

SPEAKER_75: in the parking lot. The parking lot was empty of cars. Social distancing. Oh my God, the dumbest fucking era of humanity that's ever existed.

SPEAKER_214: I know this is San Fran, so you're like, oh, he's the devil. What's he talking about? I think we all agree now.

SPEAKER_216: We needed that for our safety. You got tricked, bitch.

SPEAKER_197: Let me ask about Europe. Have you followed any

SPEAKER_182: what's going on in Europe with speech suppression and... Oh, it's insane. It's insane.

SPEAKER_146: Oh, we talk about it in our green room all the time. Yeah, it's crazy. I get weekly updates.

SPEAKER_181: And do we worry about that? You know, we have this bill in California called SB771

SPEAKER_171: and I got to give a shout out to Gavin Newsom for vetoing it, all the things you want to say about Gavin. But he vetoed it, thank God. And this was this hate speech bill that you can't say speech that's deemed hate by the administrators in the government. But those bills are fine and it made it all the way through in California except Gavin vetoed it. But those sorts of bills are showing up that were in the EU and throughout Europe. I mean, do we worry about that here in this country? Because I've always viewed comedy to be the most important test of free speech. And it really does define what we're being

SPEAKER_182: given permission to do. It's so interesting

SPEAKER_75: because I work directly and I'm insanely in touch with these things on a weekly basis with YouTube, which is, I do believe, the biggest streaming platform right now. And what's insane is that Netflix and Ted Sarandos literally is like, do whatever you want, go as hard as you want, push it to the limit, let's go. And meanwhile, YouTube, every week, something's different. A black guy right now is only allowed to say the N-word. A black comedian can only say the N-word two or three times per minute, but they're not very clear. I mean, you don't even notice when these guys do it, by the way. It's obviously different than a white guy

SPEAKER_156: saying the N-word. That's about

SPEAKER_222: Freeberg's average. Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_223: It's not even funny, Tony. Don't laugh at a joke. Thank you, Tony.

SPEAKER_226: We're really together. But yes,

SPEAKER_156: the interesting thing is that you can say certain words on YouTube, but you can't say, they have them ranked, and the rules change all the time. And you don't find out that the rules at YouTube have changed until your producer goes, they just demonetized the episode. We got a couple strikes. And it's been out for an hour and a half, which is when everybody's going to see the episode, or the age restriction is a killer, because almost... Yeah, we got hit

SPEAKER_235: with that restricted content.

SPEAKER_156: Almost everyone

SPEAKER_146: that watches the show is over 18. However, who the hell wants to log in to their stuff? I mean, you dorks do, but real people don't want to.

SPEAKER_156: You know, they just like going to YouTube, typing in the show, and there it is. It aired an hour ago, here we go. And then if it says age restriction, just to check to see if you're 18, which,

SPEAKER_238: what a fucking joke, because every kid can also access anything anyway. And, um... We got age restricted. Yeah, we got restricted content. COVID warnings.

SPEAKER_181: But I guess your point, Tony, is that there are gatekeepers that control the distribution channel, in this case YouTube.

SPEAKER_156: Without a doubt. And I'll say this, again, you know, without... I don't want to keep getting political, but there was a time there towards the end of that last Biden administration in which we were seeing things go the wrong way on wrong way on almost a weekly basis. Like, why'd this one get demonetized? How did this one get demonetized? Because we would have to... And you have to do a lot of digging,

SPEAKER_75: because they are just robots over there until you finally get big enough to get a human contact at YouTube, which is, like, a big deal for... It was definitely

David Sacks: going the wrong way, and it felt like every week there's some new category of thought and expression that you couldn't say, and they were banning new things. And then, frankly, Elon bought Twitter,

SPEAKER_00: and that was the first event that shifted the momentum. Well, there's no doubt.

SPEAKER_23: And now the EU is coming after him. They fined him 120 million euro yesterday. It's like Europe

SPEAKER_194: never got the memo. Yeah. It's over. Will you guys tour in Europe,

SPEAKER_224: or is it, like, not worth it? We did. We just did in June, and we,

SPEAKER_156: unless they

SPEAKER_75: basically give us Buckingham Palace, we'll probably never go there again.

SPEAKER_156: It was the worst Kill Tony in the history of our existence. The comedians were just terrible, and we've done quite a few in England and Ireland and stuff. Just the comedians were terrible. The vibes there are rough. There's just this

SPEAKER_75: never-ending gloom in London. Yes. The food is beyond all.

SPEAKER_156: Horrible. They used to be funny, though, over there, right? We were going, I'm sorry, we were going to the locals, like, please, anything. Where can we get a steak? Where can they overcook us a steak?

SPEAKER_75: Oh, it was fucking crazy, man. And I mean, everything. It became a running joke, because we got there

SPEAKER_156: a few days early to settle in and kind of, you know, ease into it. So that's, you know, three meals a day, even if it's just three days, that's nine terrible meals in a row. Right. And you're coming from Austin,

SPEAKER_262: where we have the best food in the country. In Austin,

SPEAKER_213: it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. We have hundreds of restaurants better than anything we tried of the fanciest crap in London.

SPEAKER_149: And they open seven new ones a week. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: Yeah. I mean, it's pretty crazy. No, it really was. Hey, Tony, any chance we could play Kill Tony tonight? You guys want to play Kill Tony here? All right.

SPEAKER_271: Is it true? Did you guys prepare something? Oh, whoa. Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_273: Well, please. This is Callie, our elegant elf. Callie,

SPEAKER_275: the elegant elf. You guys have

SPEAKER_217: your own Heidi. That's amazing. Yeah, she's here. That's a San Francisco Heidi. So she has a penis?

SPEAKER_276: Asking for a friend?

SPEAKER_82: San Francisco. Heidi, there's got to be a surprise

SPEAKER_165: underneath that scoop. Oh, boy. Here we go. This place is ridiculous, by the way. You guys all better be wildly

SPEAKER_47: successful for living here. I walked outside of my hotel earlier. There was literally two dudes

SPEAKER_75: banging against a tree. I looked the other way and there's a guy taking a shit on the sidewalk and a lady walks up to me and tells me to put up my cigarette. What is going on with San Francisco?

SPEAKER_47: Crazy. Kind of nuts. So you guys prepared for this? Do you know how it works? We know how it works. I don't know if we're prepared. 60 seconds

SPEAKER_75: uninterrupted. You know that your time is up when you hear the sound of a kitten? Wow. You really got it. Then you have to wrap it up then or else you bring out the angry West Hollywood bear. Okay. You guys want to do this?

SPEAKER_165: All right. This is all in Kill Tony, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Going up first. Make some noise for Jason, everybody. Oh, my Lord.

SPEAKER_284: Wow. All right. Well, many of you

David Friedberg: know I moved to Austin and I got a ranch and I also lost 40 pounds. So now it's a fat-free ranch. Thank you. Yeah, I went up fat-shaming. But I'm a little nervous about doing a minute up here. I don't know how I'm going to get through a minute without interrupting sacks. Tony, I'm a huge fan. I'm a big fan of yourself, Joe Rogan, Red Band. People say I name drop a lot, but I just got a text from Elon. He says that's not true. It's not true. It's great to be here with three of my besties and a new one. We're missing Chamath. Now, some people say Chamath is a douche. I don't agree. I don't agree because women get something out of putting a douche inside of them. Oh, I thought that one would land. Sax, my Jewish friend here, is the... I don't know if I should say this one.

SPEAKER_284: Go for it. Okay, I'll do it. Go for it. Go for it. Okay. Sax is the only Jewish guy who built an app to remind his friends to pay him back. All right, that's my time, everybody.

SPEAKER_296: Thank you. Jason, everybody. Wow.

SPEAKER_79: You don't want to do the interview portion? You got to do the interview. You got to stay up there.

SPEAKER_274: Oh, I'm supposed to stay up. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Stay standing. It's not that easy. What do you do

SPEAKER_302: for a living?

SPEAKER_213: Yeah. I've got a podcast or two. So did you... How hard did you prepare for this?

SPEAKER_306: I love it.

SPEAKER_07: I love it.

SPEAKER_75: Now, when you were writing this material, were you planning on doing the joke and then turning and seeing if we were laughing each time?

SPEAKER_310: That could have been a tactical mistake. Sorry. You're supposed

SPEAKER_82: to engage with the audience and stay focused on them.

SPEAKER_259: Yeah. Okay. What do you do for a living? Oh, product manager at Google? Sorry about the layoffs.

SPEAKER_313: I don't even know what kind of tech jokes you guys. I don't even know what kind of inside baseball nerd shit is going on here. I feel like I walked into a Magic the Gathering convention.

SPEAKER_75: Is stand-up something that you've ever wanted to do or is this just spontaneous for you? Just spontaneous.

SPEAKER_315: He's more of a magician.

SPEAKER_316: No, that's not true. Do you have magic tricks? I have no magic tricks. Do you have any other special skills? I can get

David Friedberg: three narcissistic Asperger's venture capitalists to show up every Thursday and tape a podcast. That's my only trick.

SPEAKER_318: That's amazing.

SPEAKER_165: Good answer. They appreciate it. You know what, Jason? I think you did just fucking good enough. Come on back and sit down. Let's keep it moving. You guys having fun out there? All right. Well, this is my fucking guy, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, I love him. You love him. Make some goddamn noise for the one and only David Sachs. All right.

SPEAKER_323: Tony, thank you so much for being here. I loved your roast of Puerto Rico. You went so hard after a Latino island. I'm shocked President Trump didn't appoint you Secretary of War. J. Cal, I've been following your feed this week. I really appreciate your support for all in tequila. I know you love it because you finally get to take a shot that's not ozempic. It was only a matter of time before J. Cal got in the beverage business because I've never met anyone more thirsty than J. Cal. He spent his entire life dreaming of the day he would see his name mentioned alongside the world's most influential people. Congratulations, Jason, you finally did it. You're in Epstein's black book. I knew the Epstein files were a hoax as soon as I saw that J. Cal was in them. Who didn't want to blackmail a loser? All right, let's talk about Chamath. Chamath is a prime example of why unlimited immigration is not in America's interest. Chamath is from Sri Lanka. Tony's description of Puerto Rico didn't offend him and made him homesick. Do I have time? Can I keep going? All right. Chamath has angered so many investors SPAC now stands for seriously pissed at Chamath. And Freberg, our Sultan of Science, what can I say about Freberg that hasn't already been said about watching paint dry? Freberg lives life as a vegan and that's exactly what it feels like to hang out with him. You know there are more satisfying options on the menu, but you made a decision and now you're stuck with it. You've all tried those tasteless beyond burgers? Well, Freberg is our beyond friend. All right, thank you everyone.

SPEAKER_332: David Sachs,

SPEAKER_330: ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_165: Wow. Unbelievable. Oh, okay,

SPEAKER_332: you're good.

SPEAKER_07: Sachs, you're good. I got to tell you, man, that was un-fucking believable. I wasn't expecting to have to do this tonight, but I think I just found a new golden ticket winner. Have you ever done stuff on

SPEAKER_231: stage before in a non-business sense? Well,

David Sacks: we've done a couple of roasts among our friends at birthday parties before. We did a J-Cal roast, we did a Phil Hellmuth roast, there's a lot of material in both of those cases. Yes. So we've done some friend roasts. We did your 50th roast. Yeah,

SPEAKER_00: my 50th birthday, we actually did a big roast, these guys were all part of it, so we had a little bit of roast experience.

SPEAKER_75: Amazing. It shows, Saks, that was absolutely incredible. How about one more time for David Saks, everybody?

SPEAKER_347: Did he get his $15,000 in money worth of the comedians he hired or no?

SPEAKER_350: Is that how much he spent? I think so. Do you expense the comedians to all in or do you pay for them out of pocket?

SPEAKER_274: That was incredible. That was amazing.

SPEAKER_351: Are we going to have Freberg do his set? Who wants to hear Freberg's?

SPEAKER_165: Let's do it. Tony, hype me up. Let's go. Absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for your final comedian of the night. David Freberg, everybody.

SPEAKER_197: So great to be in San Francisco. The streets are like Chamath. They're totally full of shit.

SPEAKER_354: Thanks for being here, Tony Hinchcliffe. I love the show. I've worked in agriculture for years, so I'm used to working with genetically modified fruits. Tony Hinchcliffe's actually a GMO, a gay man, obviously. Chamath couldn't be here tonight because he's feeding the hungry.

SPEAKER_23: Just kidding. That's below his line. Speaking of hungry, J. Cal, you're looking great, buddy.

SPEAKER_359: Thank you.

SPEAKER_23: Now you only have to buy one seat on Epstein's plane. J. Cal, your weight

SPEAKER_354: goes up and down more than Chamath's back portfolio. In fact, you look so skinny now, I confused you for Chamath's legs. Chamath's legs are so thin, he wears socks, leggings, and thermals. He covers up more than Saks does for the Trump administration. Saks, congrats on all the success, but the stress is clearly getting to you. You look like someone microwaved John Lovitz. All in is what Saks says when he's cheering on an ICE vehicle. Vamanos! We're all so different. I'm just the science guy. I study black holes while Chamath invests in them.

SPEAKER_23: Here we are enjoying the holiday spirit together. I know the things I said tonight might be a little mean, but the world's already burning. Figured I might as

SPEAKER_197: have you ever

SPEAKER_47: done anything again non-business like performative historically? A play? Nothing?

SPEAKER_367: A little play

SPEAKER_197: acting growing up, a little musicals, a little, yeah. Yeah, I know J. Cal's gonna, yeah. A little summer stock.

SPEAKER_23: Oh, you know, here's a factoid no one knows. I actually starred in a play with Rashida Jones. You know Rashida Jones, the actress from Parks and Rec. What was that play? We were in the same high school

SPEAKER_197: and we were in the drama stuff together.

SPEAKER_75: What was the play that you guys did together?

SPEAKER_197: Inherit the Wind.

SPEAKER_75: Oh, wow. Yeah. A little before my time or something.

SPEAKER_182: Sax would be

SPEAKER_156: familiar, right?

SPEAKER_75: I love it. And when you're writing jokes like this, like what was your process? Where did you find yourself coming up with your funniest stuff? Did you sit down at a desk?

SPEAKER_192: I just like to shoot the shit on the computer and then edit it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_197: Yeah. I like putting on music. We were playing some music and then I just I kind of did a, you know, we did this for saxes and I went a little burnt earth, scorched earth for his 50th. You remember that?

SPEAKER_376: Yeah, I definitely remember that.

SPEAKER_197: I think everybody remembers that.

SPEAKER_377: It was a lot of pent up anger. Freeberg gave a set that It was so bad. It wasn't bad, it was just mean. It was mean. Yeah. I forgot to do the punchlines.

SPEAKER_380: I just said the mean shit and I didn't

SPEAKER_377: It was like retard strength. Like applied to roast.

SPEAKER_383: It was so mean he didn't realize it and it stopped being funny.

SPEAKER_156: Let me ask you this, David. All grievances. Do you remember one of your favorite or one of the bigger or one of the crazier jokes from the sax roast?

SPEAKER_386: I don't know. I'll pull it up later.

David Sacks: There's nothing? That was my 50th birthday so it was like 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_387: Oh. Hey, ooh. A little self deprecating. That's amazing. But you didn't film that or anything? I don't know. Do we have a copy of that one? We might have a copy of that one, yeah. No, that would be bad.

SPEAKER_390: That's what Epstein would do.

David Sacks: We did some amazing birthday party roasts. J. Cal had one, I had one. Like we mentioned Phil Hellman. But we never recorded

SPEAKER_00: them which was we were kind of afraid to record.

SPEAKER_393: No, we were very afraid of like being we were afraid of

SPEAKER_00: getting canceled.

SPEAKER_394: That is correct.

SPEAKER_07: Yeah, but now we're uncancellable.

SPEAKER_394: I love that.

SPEAKER_07: Perfect. We don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_156: Friedberg, did that go how it felt like it was going to go for you? Is there more or less? What was different? People that haven't tried comedy or written something.

SPEAKER_197: My cadence is a little off. I got to, you know, go one or two more rounds and I think I can get the cadence down. I liked it. I think, you know, I had some other material I pulled out. I would like to try that at some point.

SPEAKER_189: I thought there was some A-plus material in there. A-plus.

SPEAKER_167: It was great.

SPEAKER_399: David Friedberg, ladies and gentlemen.

David Friedberg: You guys are good. All right. Respectable. That's what we wanted to do. Hey, you know, we have a tradition.

SPEAKER_149: We give some Bestie Awards. These are the best of the year and maybe our elegant elf, Callie, can come out and present us with the fifth annual Bestie Awards. Here it is.

SPEAKER_347: As you can see, it's two very heterosexual men embracing.

SPEAKER_402: That makes sense. San Francisco.

SPEAKER_404: Kelly! Hey, now.

SPEAKER_406: All right. First up,

SPEAKER_351: keep her on. What did you say? Keep her on. Take it easy. She's in between the two of you.

SPEAKER_22: All right. So, first up on the

SPEAKER_28: Bestie Awards is our Biggest Business Winner. Our Biggest Business Winner.

SPEAKER_149: Who did you have for Biggest Business Winner, O Sultan of Science, David Freeber?

SPEAKER_205: Alphabet.

SPEAKER_149: Okay.

SPEAKER_205: Alphabet went from

SPEAKER_197: look into how crazy the year was for Alphabet from 2 trillion market cap to 4 trillion market cap this year. That's 170 billion gain, 10 billion market cap gain every day. They added 10 billion of value every day for the entire year. The pivot in AI, risk-taking, clouds growing 40%, YouTube's the number one media company in the world. It's all under one roof. I think they just crushed it, all cylinders, business of the earth.

SPEAKER_409: Amazing. Sachs, who did you have as your

SPEAKER_411: biggest business winner?

David Sacks: I said construction workers related to the data center boom. They're seeing their wages go up 25% to 30%. We're talking about plumbers, electricians,

SPEAKER_187: drywall hangers, concrete pourers. It's not just tech companies. We're seeing a larger boom throughout the country because of AI.

SPEAKER_171: Didn't Jamalp say there's electricians that make 500 grand a year or something? Master electricians? That's crazy. Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_149: Pretty incredible and a great White House talking point for the midterms.

David Friedberg: I too had Alphabet and Google. We were sitting here a year ago. Everybody thought they would absolutely get killed by ChatGPT and now we're having a discussion. Hey, ChatGPT is

SPEAKER_416: probably going to get killed by Google. Go Google

SPEAKER_351: Cloud, right? Is that who that is? Just out

SPEAKER_402: of curiosity because I don't know

SPEAKER_156: how any of this works. What happened to ChatGPT or what did Alphabet do this year to surprise you guys? Other than the results, how did they get them? What did they do? Do you know?

SPEAKER_181: They put AI into search. Now when you go to search, there's an

SPEAKER_171: AI interface that pops up. That's how they drove people to their AI product because they've got the biggest consumer product in the world, Google.com. And then they had a good product. And so they put the two together and suddenly they're crushing ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_416: Sometimes the first company up the hill takes the arrows,

SPEAKER_149: like Netscape the browser eventually wound up losing. But I think they were also underestimated and they probably were very conservative in how they released products. And then they kind of got permission when Sergey came back to work full time at Google, the founder, they kind of took more chances. And yeah, the search franchise grew this year. Everybody thought it would go down, it grew.

SPEAKER_156: My big business winner is the show Kill Tony. I don't know if you guys have heard about it. A four special deal on Netflix which is unprecedented by any show and also we ranked number two at the end of the year on YouTube, only behind my very

SPEAKER_402: best friend Joe Rogan. So that's pretty crazy. Wow,

SPEAKER_205: that is incredible.

SPEAKER_197: Number two podcast on YouTube. I didn't tell you this before. When I came and saw your show in Austin, I hadn't seen a Kill Tony show before. So someone I was with said you should go check this out and that's how we ended up going. And then I came back and I'm like I should watch Kill Tony. I would say I've watched maybe a hundred episodes since I've come back. It's so bitchable. And it's timeless, the content. And so every night when I'm ready for bed, I'll put on YouTube and I'll watch a Kill Tony episode. It is literally my go-to media now.

SPEAKER_156: The live is the gateway. I highly recommend checking one out live because you can feel while it's funny to watch online when it's live, you can feel the opportunity of failure that they have. You're like they're right there. Anything can happen. This could go terribly wrong.

SPEAKER_428: It feels dangerous. It feels like pro wrestling. And then

SPEAKER_27: it's so great. It's almost like waiting for the big game moment to happen. Like you're waiting for that big

SPEAKER_197: champion to show up. Like

SPEAKER_156: a rap about how rich he is already.

SPEAKER_437: He did a whole rap performance about how he's made it.

SPEAKER_149: Do you get a piece of it or does your agent just snipe these people?

SPEAKER_156: No. Well, I mean, actually, that's an interesting question because now the entire industry is watching Kill Tony to see what's actually next. I am the first. That bucket is the first line of defense. Howie Mandel watches every episode and they get booked on America's Got Talent based on if they're unbelievable on

SPEAKER_224: Kill Tony. You should offer them a show on your channel. That would be the ultimate

SPEAKER_412: move.

David Sacks: Remember Johnny Carson used to be the thing where a stand-up would go on Johnny Carson and if Johnny invited them to sit down then they had a career and you've kind of become the new But he kept

SPEAKER_181: what's crazy is that guy Dedrick he's

SPEAKER_440: so black you can't even say his name

SPEAKER_181: he put his name in the bucket for two years to get called

SPEAKER_156: 39 weeks in a row and he was just about to stop trying

SPEAKER_181: he got pulled and so unlike all these agents and producers and they're like here's the guy that's going to be the

SPEAKER_197: winner these guys all have a democratic shot they have an open shot at getting in that bucket and getting pulled which is what I

SPEAKER_447: it it it it it it is not just you he gives me advice he gives the president advice I give the president great advice and he said even Jason has good advice all right

SPEAKER_450: even J.Cow even J.Cow biggest business loser who's your

SPEAKER_00: business 30 so no one believes that college is worth the cost anymore amazing great

SPEAKER_450: great pull what do you think Friedberg Warner Brothers Discovery

SPEAKER_171: I think the fact that the M&A deal is being done at three times the value that this thing has been trading out for the last couple years really

SPEAKER_409: thing I

SPEAKER_22: cleared it I was like these guys are going sideways so

SPEAKER_407: you missed the outcome

SPEAKER_22: I did miss the outcome it was a rare miss for me I went with Apple wait

David Friedberg: hold on a second they didn't

SPEAKER_22: listen to your advice

David Friedberg: I mean

SPEAKER_22: the problem was I had all these other things that had won and I had a bunch of gains and I needed to sell my losers he put all his stock trades on the internet Tony I called it J trading and it went up

David Friedberg: 5x in three

SPEAKER_22: years but he bought

SPEAKER_461: a whole bunch of Warner Brothers he's like this is the next big thing I thought

David Friedberg: Disney and Warner Brothers would

SPEAKER_149: like it yeah it's a pretty great show literally if I'm thinking their

SPEAKER_22: streaming show is the best thing they've got a problem who's the biggest loser in comedy

SPEAKER_251: the biggest loser in comedy

SPEAKER_143: right now and you know I love here's the thing or entertainment right

SPEAKER_372: well you know the biggest loser really are

SPEAKER_156: virtue signaling and afraid to take any chances whatsoever the last movie with any edge at all in a theater I think was The Hangover which I think was 2006 2005 and it

SPEAKER_468: made a

SPEAKER_143: billion dollars that

SPEAKER_468: franchise yeah exactly are they

SPEAKER_28: coming to you asking you to do one I would think that would be a very natural play but there's no studio who would do it so maybe like A24 or one of the smaller ones

SPEAKER_251: we are working on something

SPEAKER_75: oh really yeah and it's going to be it's going to be you heard it here first definitely the answer to that and it's all happening and it's going well they let

SPEAKER_470: you do what you want yes

SPEAKER_156: we

SPEAKER_155: anything that would be analogous or inspirational for you are there films that informed this

SPEAKER_28: one are you a Tropic Thunder fan are you like easy money Rodney Dangerfield from back in the day what comedians in films did you love

SPEAKER_224: I

SPEAKER_156: mean without a doubt and it's an odd pick because it's not the one everybody thinks that I'm going to say but Kingpin with Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray I think is the best Farrelly Brothers film I think it's the funniest thing Bill Murray has ever done I think it's the funniest thing Woody Harrelson has ever done and if you haven't watched it in the past

SPEAKER_146: few years go back watch it one more time it's unbelievable seems like it's a movie about bowling but it's not at all it's just hysterical

SPEAKER_26: I

David Friedberg: had a bunch of seven and eight year olds over for my daughter's birthday party and we did a film so I said oh you guys should watch Bill Murray and what

SPEAKER_149: my daughter came home and she said dick breath and I was like have you seen

SPEAKER_484: what about Bob and the parent was like no I was like you should watch it it's incredible our daughters are never coming over your house again

SPEAKER_251: meanwhile that same San friend parents probably like do you know there wasn't a single trans character in

SPEAKER_23: biggest political winner lightning round go okay biggest political winner is the democratic socialists of America okay sadly

SPEAKER_451: biggest political winner well this may be a talking point but I'm going to say crypto a year ago there was a war on crypto

SPEAKER_00: they were worried about going to jail now we've passed legislation we're getting a fair shake from the government it's a total change

SPEAKER_25: yeah incredible you know I had your pick Zoran

David Friedberg: Mamdani socialism I also had the America First movement that's burgeoning but I gave it some thought and I thought my lord there's one individual who part-time went to the government and took crypto and made it legal and created a framework for it they made sure that America would be absolutely competitive in the AI race the most important race of our lifetime and in fact in humanity so hands down my biggest political winner of 2025 is Mr. David Sachs okay

SPEAKER_06: political winner for you you don't give a shit what do you think

SPEAKER_497: uh a political winner for me you know I mean

SPEAKER_146: I really again I'm just a big fan of this president people can say that I'm

SPEAKER_75: I kiss ass and that and that comedians shouldn't there's this thing that I've been hearing where people are like you know comedians should be punching up not punching down you're supposed to make fun of the big thing well if nobody if everybody

SPEAKER_156: is making fun of that one thing then I think it's kind of funny to go the other way yeah and to push it up so I literally have in my stand-up set pro Trump jokes which

SPEAKER_500: nobody's fucking doing

SPEAKER_156: which one lands the most I make fun of his autograph I say he has the most obnoxiously cool autograph in the world it looks like Lizzo's heart rate

SPEAKER_501: and he actually does my biggest political loser sacks who's the biggest

SPEAKER_189: by the way he does have the best sense of humor must be of any president we've ever had

SPEAKER_247: he is just hysterical oh I totally anyone who spent time with him is just blown away and just how funny he is all the time

SPEAKER_504: all the best comedians talk about how

SPEAKER_156: he might be

SPEAKER_504: the funniest human being on planet Earth

SPEAKER_156: this is a conversation I've had I'm not gonna name their names but you can put it together in your head I'm talking about the actual best comedians in the world

SPEAKER_43: all of them might believe all of them yes Michael Richards yeah no I'm kidding that was your fault that's like your first favorite you know you know who the best are

SPEAKER_75: and yes they all agree I mean there's just there's funny is funny it's undeniable

SPEAKER_07: literally god damn it I'm blanking out but this week he did something so fucking oh the Somali thing

SPEAKER_75: yeah it's a hellhole they come over here and they bitch

SPEAKER_513: and complain like it's it's just common sense and that's the funniest I still love when Zoran visited him

SPEAKER_407: and he says it's okay you can say it I'm a fucking

SPEAKER_502: it's easier if you just tell them tell them okay yes okay let's go come on let's keep going okay biggest political loser Sax

SPEAKER_517: my biggest political loser is Europe it's a civilization

SPEAKER_00: that's in decline they're losing economically geopolitically socially culturally and they can't seem to reverse that trend it's very sad

SPEAKER_23: political loser

SPEAKER_520: Freeberg the founding fathers wow

SPEAKER_23: because

SPEAKER_197: I feel like free speech property seizure rights we read this excerpt from these two

SPEAKER_171: Thomas Jefferson letters and you can read a lot of these just ask Gemini to tell you about some of the things that the founding fathers wrote and if you spend time with them and translate them into modern English because they do write in a very poetic frilly way there is so much of the principles in the founding fathers that are lost in how we are kind of devolving into this organizational system where the government is everything in our lives everything in our country the individual liberties are being taken from us and I don't mean taken from us in a sense that they're being seized we're voting for a government that dictates our lives that controls what we eat how we eat how we live how we get paid our checks I think the majority of Americans today live on checks from the government through the government and I think that the founding fathers would have been really saddened at the state I went with

SPEAKER_523: well said

David Friedberg: I went with Stephen Miller I felt his performative cruelty was a distraction for the 47th administration and that was a that's a shame because I loved his band

SPEAKER_07: yeah yeah this is biggest political loser yeah mine's Gavin Newsom

SPEAKER_526: yes yes

SPEAKER_07: yeah

SPEAKER_529: I mean the hair is great

SPEAKER_75: yeah great hair that's enough for you liberals to be impressed by absolutely oh he's got hair fucking amazing

SPEAKER_33: let's go with breakthrough of the year Freeberg what's your breakthrough of the year

SPEAKER_197: okay we haven't talked about it on the show this definitely deserves a science corner but asteroid Bennu NASA sent a probe they pulled a bunch of samples up in 2020 they landed back on Earth 2023 two days ago they showed that on asteroid Bennu

SPEAKER_181: there is nucleic acids there are amino acids there are sugars all of the building blocks of life were found on this asteroid floating through space

SPEAKER_536: wow can I ask you a question yeah did the asteroid make it to Uranus

SPEAKER_23: um Freeberg this is great but you're putting the audience I honestly think just for a brief moment before we make the jokes this is going to end up being one of the most like amazing discoveries of our lifetime because it really does show that life

SPEAKER_197: is not necessarily unique to planet Earth this was a asteroid that's been floating around for four and a half billion years and it's got all the components of life on it it's pretty incredible discovery it's amazing

David Friedberg: and it was made out of sugar it's got sugar on it it's got glucose on it Freeberg how many times have you masturbated to this asteroid so far um all right my thank you my breakthrough of the year is robots I think we're just underestimating the progress these will have um everybody's going to get their own C3PO slash Friedberg so we won't be the only ones with a robot in our lives Sachs what was your biggest I just said

SPEAKER_555: be able to use Starlink on commercial flights I mean it's like you can actually use the internet now

David Friedberg: hold on a second I'm calling bullshit you haven't been on a commercial flight since Clinton was in office

SPEAKER_257: that's true

SPEAKER_558: I was doing it for you guys tell us honestly

SPEAKER_557: when were you last on a commercial flight last time you flew

SPEAKER_558: commercial it was for you J.Kal

SPEAKER_559: it was for you

SPEAKER_32: thank you was it is it more is it more

SPEAKER_559: I'm a man of the people I was thinking about you

SPEAKER_32: is it more than 10 years more than 10 years since you've been on a commercial flight

SPEAKER_559: I set the over under at 15 years

SPEAKER_494: I haven't been on a commercial flight since 2012

SPEAKER_213: 2012 I don't know I don't know being real I mean what are you the audience didn't like it J.Kal what's the wifi password on the Lolita Express

SPEAKER_566: apparently

SPEAKER_567: it's one two three oh oh oh is that too that a stray really sorry sorry what are you doing come back okay we'll cut that it's a joke people CEO

SPEAKER_517: by the way why is it that all the liberal

SPEAKER_189: guests that you bring on the pod are like regular visitors to little St. James that's

SPEAKER_572: you're talking about what all of your liberal buddies that you bring on the pod oh okay

SPEAKER_573: yeah yeah but he did get some good dating advice apparently

David Friedberg: oh come on CEO CEO of the year

SPEAKER_489: not named Elon Musk we all consensus have to pick Elon Jensen Jensen

SPEAKER_23: 33 years in the making built a flywheel had the vision stuck through it ups and downs for whatever people said every generation

SPEAKER_197: of the last 33 years he kept building and this flywheel finally took off and here's a crazy statistic Nvidia 4.5 trillion market cap that's up from 300 billion 36 months ago so this is a company that in 36 months created 4.2 trillion dollars of market value that's 100 billion dollars every month for three years straight it's incredible I think it's insane what this guy Saks

SPEAKER_581: who is your CEO of the year not named Elon Musk

SPEAKER_538: well that was a great one but I'm gonna go with Alex Karp because if you heard him

David Sacks: if you heard him speak at all in Summit I think he brought down the house he out Tucker Tucker I mean so in addition to

SPEAKER_187: Palantir being a monster over the last year

SPEAKER_26: I went with Nvidia Trump's favorite company and Jensen Wang as well

SPEAKER_156: let me just say again even though this isn't my territory I want to give a shout out to a couple badass motherfuckers Nick Khan and Paul Levesque over at the WWE

SPEAKER_75: have taken on this massive historical company while you know and put it on have made so many huge deals with so many

SPEAKER_156: different networks to bring in so many big fans

SPEAKER_587: are you a WWE or a UFC guy

SPEAKER_156: I'm both you're both if you had to only go to one in fact since this is the only place it would be interesting to ever mention it was the only TKO is the only ever stock that I ever told my guy my golf buddy who actually after years of insisting I should give him money to put in stocks which I never believed in because I'm an Italian poor kid from Youngstown Ohio I believe before that just have cash in a shoebox is like the way to have money but then I did and the only one I ever recommended for him I heard about this Nvidia three years ago from my guy whatever but the only one I ever told him about was TKO because I Dana White knows how to put on a hell of a show and I know that obviously the WWE is always amazing and always growing so it's the only one I ever told him to get and we've seen you know whatever and in my little world

SPEAKER_589: did you buy the Nvidia?

SPEAKER_156: yeah you did? wild wild wild success yeah all right

SPEAKER_594: all right now each host gets to pick their disgraciad of the year the most disgraceful moment person company or trend disgraciad

SPEAKER_581: of the year

SPEAKER_597: disgraciad

SPEAKER_600: he was the best guy around what about the people he murdered what murder

SPEAKER_601: you can act like a man what's the matter with you

SPEAKER_602: he's just killed those f***ing manners

SPEAKER_605: he insulted him a little bit

SPEAKER_604: I'm smart and I want the space

SPEAKER_605: what's the world we do your hair was in the toilet water

SPEAKER_608: disgusting I gotta suffocate you you little f***

SPEAKER_607: it's a f***ing disgrace

SPEAKER_610: disgraciad

SPEAKER_611: all right disgraciad.com

SPEAKER_612: Tony

SPEAKER_409: whenever you're ready you can give us yours but Freeberg who's your disgraciad

SPEAKER_197: the crackdown on speech in Europe 3,000 plus arrests in the UK for malicious communication mostly fines but also incarcerations including recently calling a convicted rapist a pig landed someone in jail 84,000 politically motivated communications crimes in Germany 6,000 defined hate crimes based on speech in France across Europe this has become a major issue again I'll reflect on Gavin Newsom vetoing SB 771

Chamath Palihapitiya: in this state but we were very close and I think it's very important that we pay attention to it Saks

SPEAKER_614: that's a really good one that's a good one well I I would agree with that one

SPEAKER_00: but the one I meant I would choose is that at Stanford they said that if you're disabled you get more time on tests and you can kind of be unproctored and kind of

SPEAKER_616: accommodations

SPEAKER_00: right so now 50% of students at Stanford say they're disabled

SPEAKER_581: and you had a case to make yourself and you never pulled the Asperger's card

SPEAKER_189: I never pulled that card but anyway but no this is all part of a piece with grades

SPEAKER_00: basically there's no grades anymore and everyone's sort of claimed to be disabled in order to get special advantages Disgratziad

SPEAKER_26: Disgratziad my Disgratziad was very good was socialism in New York

David Friedberg: my hometown absolutely disgraceful and the actual true New Yorkers didn't vote for it

SPEAKER_149: but the people who've been there for under 10 years did overwhelmingly Disgratziad for me Tony

SPEAKER_621: who's your Disgratziad for 2025

SPEAKER_07: I'd have to say the people that just cheered that people won't be leaving California next year

SPEAKER_156: in this crowd is the Disgratziad you guys realize there's other places right I was guilty of it too I lived in LA happily for almost 20 years I loved it I really never thought I would move to another place and as a touring comedian you know you go visit places and you would go back to LA that was just the headquarters it took so much chaos for me to even try to go to another place and fall in love with it but when you do try other places you find that

SPEAKER_75: it's better than this and it's definitely better than this

SPEAKER_57: because LA is better than this and this is

SPEAKER_165: just the worst and the world and by the way the world is laughing at you and some of you are booing but you're clearly not the ones making the money off the app that shows you where the shit on the sidewalks is in this hot

SPEAKER_43: fucking dump that you call home so anyway you're the Disgratziad

SPEAKER_630: I love it bring in the heat see I'm a real

SPEAKER_633: wrestling fan I'll do a heel turn live in real time way to win the audience

SPEAKER_636: they loved you for 90 minutes you were doing so well

SPEAKER_501: you couldn't love yourself

SPEAKER_189: burning it down

SPEAKER_501: you assholes

SPEAKER_189: that was not only a heel turn it was a low blow it was a chair shot over the head

SPEAKER_75: of the entire audience and what's perfect is that half of them now won't bother me at the after party it's a win-win right there

SPEAKER_149: alright listen this has been absolutely amazing let's give it up for the one the only Tony Hinchblatt you're fresh unbelievable let me just thank Tony

SPEAKER_181: Tony thank you for what you do

SPEAKER_197: people don't have to agree with your speech I feel it's really important that comedians

SPEAKER_171: act as the flag bearers to keep freedom of speech alive for all the jokes we can make about the things you say and the way you offend people I think that pushing

SPEAKER_249: the limits is so important and for that I appreciate what you do and love your work yeah

SPEAKER_189: and more need to say honestly I think this is like the most fun Christmas party we've had ever

SPEAKER_00: ever and probably the most fun event we've ever had is because of Tony here yeah thank you no question about it thank you thank you cheers

SPEAKER_57: and I was kidding audience you're not really that much of a disgraziato it was a joke but it's a little bit

SPEAKER_653: they were with you until that

SPEAKER_313: these nerds are used to they're having flashbacks to getting bullied back in the day

SPEAKER_558: you just stuff them all in the locker metaphorically we'll see you next year and we really appreciate all of you coming out tonight thank you guys

SPEAKER_656: so much thank you honestly I didn't know

SPEAKER_558: what to expect from this and honestly this is the most fun we've ever had during an event thank you to all of you thank you