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.