E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:00)

Jake Calat, you have a really long nose hair.

Nick Friedberg (0:02)

Thank you.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:03)

On your left.

Jason Calacanis (0:04)

This one here? This side?

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:05)

Yeah.

Jason Calacanis (0:06)

Hold on one second.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:07)

You see it, Nick? You see it? See that? You can see it.

Nick Friedberg (0:09)

Take care of it.

David Sacks (0:10)

Every show, we have this issue.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:12)

Every show, he's got all this like-

Jason Calacanis (0:14)

I'm getting old man hairs. I feel like Sacks.

Nick Friedberg (0:16)

You got to get a grooming tool.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:17)

I am tired of treasure hunting. Send me a link for what he used.

David Sacks (0:19)

Get a lawnmower.

Nick Friedberg (0:20)

Manscape makes one.

Jason Calacanis (0:22)

I'm going to get it.

Nick Friedberg (0:23)

Yeah.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:23)

Just look in the mirror, bro.

Jason Calacanis (0:25)

Can you come over on the way to Parker, Friedberg and help me manscape?

Nick Friedberg (0:28)

Yeah.

Chamath Palihapitiya (0:28)

You're not coming to poker. Don't come to poker, you're sick.

Jason Calacanis (0:31)

If I manscape, can I come to poker?

Nick Friedberg (0:49)

Okay. So, J Cal, you're going to be a participant today.

The world's greatest moderator is taking a week off to allow his voice to recoup, to recover, to heal. So, he can come back blaring with his usual mid-sentence interruptions and excellent moderating tactics next week.

David Sacks (1:06)

With his foghorn, leghorn moderation.

Nick Friedberg (1:10)

We are going to miss you at the moderation.

Jason Calacanis (1:12)

Welcome to the top 20, Sacks. You're welcome.

Welcome to the top 20 podcasts in the world.

David Sacks (1:16)

Well, hold on. Who should be thinking whom? I mean, you've been doing this for 10 years.

I walk in here off the street, all of a sudden we're top 20

Jason Calacanis (1:23)

Let me explain something to you. Number one blog in the world I created with my guys Engadget. Okay. Top five magazine in the world. Then I do a podcast with you three idiots, and all of a sudden I dropped out to top 20 in this medium.

So drop.

David Sacks (1:34)

What are you talking about?

Jason Calacanis (1:35)

Yeah.

Exactly. I drop.

David Sacks (1:37)

This has been A-B tested.

Jason Calacanis (1:38)

No, I mean, this week in startup is a niche.

David Sacks (1:40)

I know what I'm embarrassing you, but look at twist ratings compared to ours.

Jason Calacanis (1:43)

This week in startups is about startups. It is a niche audience by design, and it's the number one startup podcast in the world.

David Sacks (1:49)

That's what you wanted this show to be.

Jason Calacanis (1:51)

No, I didn't. This show is about all topics.

All topics by design.

David Sacks (1:55)

Every time we try to talk politics, you're like, it's too much politics, Sacks.

Jason Calacanis (1:58)

I think you're talking about Friedberg. I think you're talking about Friedberg.

David Sacks (2:00)

Let's focus on narrow legalistic tech issues.

Jason Calacanis (2:04)

We had this discussion, Sacks, and I said we should always do the top story of the week, even if it's politics.

David Sacks (2:09)

And now you're taking credit for my insight about McLaughlin Group.

I saw you on some pod. Who was it?

Jason Calacanis (2:15)

I absolutely designed this pod around McLaughlin.

David Sacks (2:18)

The fact that you also watched McLaughlin Group. I'm the one who said McLaughlin Group.

Jason Calacanis (2:23)

It's possible for two people to have the same idea, Sacks.

We both grew up on McLaughlin Group. That's why we're both cantankerous assholes.

Nick Friedberg (2:30)

Moderator intervention. Cut it out.

No one is individually responsible for this podcast.

David Sacks (2:36)

It was Tim Ferriss.

Nick Friedberg (2:37)

Yeah, Tim Ferriss.

David Sacks (2:38)

Here's what happened. So I was on YouTube and, you know, I'm not going to watch some two-hour like podcasts with J Cal, of course, but for some reason, for some reason, Tim Ferriss clipped. He clipped 10 minutes of J Cal and the video is called The Origin of the All-In Podcast.

Nick Friedberg (2:56)

I can't stand when he does that.

David Sacks (2:57)

Here we go.

Nick Friedberg (2:57)

I can't stand when he does that.

David Sacks (2:59)

So I'm like, okay, well, I got to watch this.

Nick Friedberg (3:00)

Chamath wrote this in the partnership agreement. He said, here's the party line and J Cal will not stick with it.

Jason Calacanis (3:05)

Yeah, we're going to re-create history.

David Sacks (3:06)

I got to watch this. I got to see this alternative reality that J Cal is trying to create about the origin of the All-In Podcast.