Ep: 206: FWB Fest Recap, Guest: Alyssa Vingan on Sl*tty Menwear & Fashion Marketing, Guest: Willem Van Lancker on AI, Taste & Craft, Bullish IPO plans, A nuclear reactor on the moon, Tristan Thompson in the White House, 16 Handles Frozen Yogurt Reboot
Release Date: 08/06/2025
Ep: 232 - Boys Club Live: Nicest Weather in the USA, Slop Cannon Kids, GPT-2 Image Test Drive, plus guests Anthony Soohoo (MoneyGram CEO) and Stefen Deleveaux (Oasis Onchain)
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:49 Today’s Guest Lineup 01:36 Makeup Compact Debate 03:55 Octant Sponsor Update 05:19 Nicest Weather Map 08:43 Thunderstorm Monitor TikTok 09:58 Vercel Sponsor Shoutout 10:35 Slop Cannon Kids 13:32 Testing GPT-2 Image Tool 16:37 Writing the Brand Kit Prompt 26:13 AI Brand Kit Results 31:28 Stefan Deleveaux Joins the Show 33:10 Oasis Onchain Update 34:20 Caribbean Crypto Use Cases 37:12 Fish Fraud Flashback 40:25 Why Stefan Got Into Crypto 41:53 Octant Creator Bootcamp 48:45 Polygon Sponsor Shoutout...
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Ep: 231 - Boys Club Live from a16z: San Francisco Tech Culture, Hudson River Trading's intern class, OpenClaw in China with guests Jimmy Lai (Vercel) on Next.js and AI Agents, and Seun Omonije (x-Google Quantum AI) talks quantum computing and bitcoin
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live From A16Z 03:25 San Francisco Vibes Check 07:47 Hudson River Trading Interns 09:44 High Agency Career Paths 14:05 Guest Jimmy Lai Joins 16:59 Next.js Explained 17:30 Open Source How It Works 21:25 Next.js Growth And AI Agents 24:17 Future Of UI And Interfaces 28:48 Open Source Frenemies 32:23 Why Open Source Matters 35:30 Personal Software And Workflows 39:58 Business Agents at Scale 42:20 Personal Knowledge Base Agent 44:09 Hype Versus Real Value 45:53 Experimentation and Bubble Cycles 51:30 Seun...
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Ep: 230 - Boys Club Live: Spray Tan Adventures, Crypto Taxes, Anthropic's Mythos scare, North Korean Hackers feat. Ben Weiss (Fortune), Marc and Los (Danger Testing), and Josh Harris (PixieChess)
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Draft Tweets Kickoff 01:15 Memecoin Taxes Reality Check 04:10 Spray Tan for San Francisco 07:42 Anthropic Mythos Panic 10:38 Zero Day Vulnerabilities Explained 12:16 Mythos Escapes the Sandbox 15:16 What Gets Hacked Next 19:13 Sponsor segment Polygon and Vercel 22:23 Intro Ben Weiss, Fortune 24:02 Telegram Source Turns Scam 27:37 Fake Zoom Link and Malware Download 31:59 IT Response and North Korea Confirmed 33:35 Telegram Hack Fallout 35:47 Impersonation Token Presale Scam 38:27 Why Non...
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Ep: 230 - Boys Club Live: Tech Merch, Clout, Stablecoins, and the Anthropic Code Leak. Sam Broner of Better Money Company and Alli Pope of Vercel Join As Guests
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Show <3 Vercel <3 Polygon <3 Anchorage <3 Octant <3 01:21 Vercel sponsor spotlight 02:28 Vibe coding and shipping 03:05 Tech merch discourse 06:25 Clout and brand signals 09:59 Merch strategy plug 10:58 <3 Octant <3 13:30 Guest intro Sam Broner 14:34 Building a stablecoin clearinghouse 15:35 What clearinghouses do 16:45 Why stablecoins fail payments 18:35 Genius Act turning point 20:16 Cheaper payments for everyone 22:43 Unbundling credit card fees 23:42 Mastercard...
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Ep: 229 - Boys Club Live: Digital Asset Summit, Token Management, Macro Perps, AI Fruit Love Island, with guests Lindsey Winder and Kaledora
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 01:02 Cait's McDonald’s Fit 01:41 The Trouser Skirt Debate 13:27 Lindsay Winder from Anchorage 14:29 Digital Asset Summit Takeaways and Institutional Crypto 20:15 Token Management as Risk Management 22:37 Revenue vs Token Price 26:32 AI Agents and Treasury Risk 28:57 Cap Table Red Flags and Token Launch Vibes 33:18 DAS Prediction Markets Panel 42:31 AI Fruit Love Island 48:49 Sora Shutdown and Disney 54:58 AI Psychosis at Home 01:02:24 Surveillance Pricing 01:06:34 VPN Hacks and Flight Myths 01:07:15 eBay Kitchen Beta Debate...
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Ep: 228 - Boys Club Live with Austin Federa of DoubleZero, James Kiernan of Octant and chat about Grimes joining LinkedIn, the Crypto Vanity Fair article, Expensive Basketballs and Cait's Dupe Shopping Skills
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00:00 Show intro and hosts 01:19 Haircut chat and cohost banter 02:16 Today’s lineup and sponsors 03:00 <3 Sponsor spotlight Octant <3 04:00 Grimes joins LinkedIn 06:48 Robot videos and tennis bot 11:56 <3 Sponsor spotlight Anchorage <3 21:58 intro guest Austin Federa 23:58 What is DoubleZero 27:55 DoubleZero Edge and Solana data 31:02 Scaling debate and launch traction 34:24 Edge vision and global data layer 35:34 Decentralized Price Discovery 36:14 Crypto Flash Crash Lessons 37:25 Data Feeds Roadmap 37:56 intro guest James Kiernan of Octant...
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Ep: 227 - Boys Club Live with Zehra Naqvi (Lore.ai) and Megan Graham (Wall Street Journal), also covering Meta buying Moltbook, Distorted Emoji, Lookalike Competitions and more
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00:00 Live Show Kickoff 01:04 Lookalike Competition Talk 03:16 Meta Buys Bot Network 05:25 Distorted Emoji Moment 06:36 <3 Octant <3 08:01 Meet Zehra Naqvi From Lore.ai 09:06 Lore Product Explained 13:18 Launch Video Breakdown 16:06 Social Roadmap And Lurkers 18:09 Consumer AI Hype Check 23:28 Safety And Content Scope 27:55 Founder Obsessions Right Now 31:17 <3 Anchorage <3 32:32 Meet Megan Graham from WSJ 33:27 Viral Pharma Ad Story 34:18 Ozempic Ad Breakdown 35:46 Legal Disclaimers Explained...
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Ep: 226 - Boys Club Live with @quasimatt and @tednotlasso on AI psychosis, defense company swag, and more.
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Special episode with Ted + Quasimatt!! 02:10 Ted Topic 1: GLP-1s, Hedge Funds, and the “Does Ozempic Kill Ambition (or Love)?” Debate 08:45 Ted Topic 2: “Bops:” IG-to-OnlyFans Funnels, Teen Incentives, and Internet Permanence 15:30 Natasha Topic 1: Hot Girls in Palantir & Anduril Merch 23:40 Natasha Topic 2: AI Moments: Bots Talking to Bots, Sora War Videos, and AI Psychosis 32:15 QuasiMatt Topic 1: Love Is Blind Villains and Tech-Grifter Archetypes 40:05 QuasiMatt Topic 2: Agentic Payments & Giving AI Your Credit Card 48:20 McDonald’s Big Arch Live Review
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Ep: 225 - Citrini Doomsday article, Justin Brill from Anchorage, Nicholas Cary from Blockchain, & Katherine Dee aka @Default_Friend
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00:00 Cold Open: Weird Austin Airbnb, Snow in NYC, and Weather Discourse Fatigue 07:20 Citrini Doomsday article and Flop Tweets 10:45 Snow Removal, Mamdani, and Doomsday Anxiety About AI + Unemployment 08:10 Justin Brill (Anchorage) Joins: ETHDenver Vibes, Stablecoins, and Institutional Adoption 20:45 Nicholas Cary (Blockchain) Joins: 2011 Origins, Surviving Every Cycle, and Agentic Payments 35:30 Market & Drama: Stripe vs PayPal, ZachXBT Tease, and Insider Trading Speculation 42:10 AI “Ghost GDP” Article: Will Automation Hollow Out the Consumer Economy? 48:00 Feel-Good Internet:...
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Ep: 224 - Brian Armstrong vs. Bryan Johnson, RFK + Kid Rock, MrBeast's Business Breakdown, Big Fundraising from Thrive and Dragonfly, Special Guest Jose Mejia on "taste discourse", Girl Scout Cookies Business Breakdown, OpenClaw
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00:00 Cold Open & ETHDenver for Republicans 00:29 Mar-a-Lago Check: World Liberty Financial Summit Explained 02:16 Who’s Showing Up: Brian Armstrong, FIFA, Kevin O’Leary & the Weird Guest List 03:58 What Even Is ETHDenver? 04:55 Brian Armstrong vs Bryan Johnson 06:55 RFK + Kid Rock ‘Wellness’ Video: Cold Plunge Fever Dream 11:28 Sponsor Break: Octant's Vaults, Grants, and Migration Day! 12:54 MrBeast Business Breakdown: Media Revenue vs Products vs Marketplace 19:02 MrBeast Expansion Mode: Step Banking App, Beast Mobile, and Trust Issues...
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