Boys Club

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

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: Bad Haircut TikTok and Collective Coping
52:30 Catherine (Default Friend) Joins: AI Cryptids, Reborn Dolls, and Manosphere Culture
01:05:00 Wrap-Up: Clavicular Discourse, TikTok AI Edits, and Officecore in Austin

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
19:51 Big Fundraises: Thrive's $10B and Dragonfly's $650M (Stablecoin Thesis)
23:03 AI Agents That Pay Their Own Compute: Wallets, Revenue, and Runaway Automation
25:24 Sponsor Break: Anchorage Digital and TGE and Banking Infrastructure
26:37 Jose Joins + Bagel Order Discourse (Scooping Is a Red Flag)
28:42 Logan Paul's $16.5M Pokémon Card Sale & Tokenization Controversy
34:42 Taste Discourse Begins: Paul Graham, 'Clothing Doesn't Matter,' and What Taste Really Is
38:33 Why Great Art Needs a Great Audience (and Better Taste)
40:47 Can Tech Companies Have Taste? Merch, Events & Unreasonable Hospitality
42:01 When "Taste" Becomes a Rigid Aesthetic: Gatekeeping & the Soho-ification Problem
45:32 Taste vs Capitalism: Markets, Monetization, and Letting Culture Marinate
47:58 Addison Rae as the Case Study: Contrivance, Effort, and Building New Pop Culture
50:31 The End of Jobs? Post-AI Work, Experience Creators, and an Abundance Future
55:52 Sponsor Break: Anchorage Digital meets QVC
57:01 Girl Scout Cookie Legend Pim: Viral Funnel, Scarcity, and Storytelling
01:01:29 Inside the Girl Scout Cookie Business: Revenue Split, Volume, and Product Hits
01:09:38 OpenClaw Gets Acquired: Timeline FUD, Open Source Promises, and Anthropic's Miss
01:15:24 Running OpenClaw in Slack: Privacy Fears, Setup, and What It's Actually Good For
01:21:43 Wrap-Up: Hallucinations, Lessons Learned, and Closing Thanks

00:00 Introduction to Boys Club Live
00:44 The viral Vogue clip
03:46 Market Talk
07:13 Shoutout to Octant 
11:29 AI Etiquette and Social Contracts
15:19 Gigi Claudid: Training our AI agent
20:49 Norwegian Athlete's Emotional Confession
23:34 Unpacking Relationship Drama
24:44 Messy Olympics: Scandals in Sports
25:32 Partner Shoutout: Anchorage Digital
27:27 Podcast Recommendation: The Rest is History
29:40 Interview with Tatum Hunter: Internet Culture Insights
30:06 Deepfakes and AI Ethics
38:43 Personal Surveillance and Trust Issues
48:52 TikTok's Mental Health Rabbit Hole
52:16 Shill Minute: Best Cookie in Crown Heights
53:08 Introduction to Octant: Innovating Funding Models
54:52 Funding Ethereum: Grants and Sustainability
56:50 Octant V2: Revolutionizing Community Funding
58:43 Sustainable Growth and the Future of Ethereum
01:05:56 The Intersection of Venture Capital and Sustainable Funding
01:11:25 Guest Nick Devor of Barrons on Prediction Markets
01:12:50 Gambling and Insider Trading in Prediction Markets
01:23:01 CFTC Challenges and the Future of Regulation
01:26:11 Free Groceries: A Marketing Strategy
01:29:50 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Thank you to 0x and Polygon for supporting this stream. 




 
00:00 Introduction to Boys Club Live
01:32 Guest Lineup and Show Overview
02:33 Big News with Polygon
06:53 Year in Review 
17:58 AI Design and Branding with Jamey Gannon
36:09 The Payment Stack with John Egan
43:04 Challenges of Cross-Border Transactions
43:58 The Role of Stablecoins and Blockchain
45:38 Competing with Established Brands
47:58 Polygon's Unique Position and Vision
53:21 The Future of Global Payments and AI
57:52 Retail Trading with Andrew McCormick
01:14:40 Throuples in WSJ
01:25:31 Introducing @Quasimatt
01:26:32 True Religion Jeans Comeback
01:29:22 Cultural Moods of 2025
01:40:22 Pete Davidson's Tattoo Removal
01:45:32 Six Seven Meme and Cultural Trends
01:51:46 Personal Cultural Moods for 2026
01:57:19 Closing Thoughts and Wrap-Up