E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
All right, everybody, welcome to the next episode, perhaps the last of the All-In podcast, you never know. We've got a full docket here for you today with us, of course, the Sultan of Silence, Friedberg coming off of his incredible win for a bunch of animals.

**David Friedberg** (0:17)
The Humane Society of the United States.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:20)
How much did you raise for the Humane Society of the United States playing poker live on television last week? $80,000.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:29)
How much did you win, actually?

**David Friedberg** (0:31)
So there was the $35k coin flip and then I won $45k, so $80,000 total.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:37)
$80,000.

**David Friedberg** (0:39)
We played live at the Hustler Casino Live Poker Stream on Monday. You can watch it on YouTube. Chamath absolutely crushed the game, made a ton of money for Beef's Philanthropy. He'll share that.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:48)
How much? Chamath, did you win?

**David Friedberg** (0:51)
He made like $350,000, right?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:53)
$360,000.

**David Friedberg** (0:55)
He crushed it.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:56)
So, between the two of you, you raised $450,000 for charity?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:01)
It's like LeBron James being asked to play basketball with a bunch of four-year-olds.
That's what it felt like to me. Wow.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:10)
You're talking about yourself now.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:11)
Yes.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:12)
That's amazing.

**David Friedberg** (1:13)
You're LeBron and all your friends that you play poker with are the four-year-olds. Is that the deal?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:17)
Yes.

**David Sacks** (1:35)
Who else was at the table?

**David Friedberg** (1:36)
Alan Keating.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:37)
Phil Hellmuth.

**David Friedberg** (1:38)
Stanley Tang.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:39)
Stanley Tang. JR. JR. Stanley Choi.

**David Friedberg** (1:43)
Stanley Choi.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:44)
And Nitberg.

**David Sacks** (1:45)
Who's that?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:46)
And Nitberg.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:47)
Yeah.

**David Friedberg** (1:47)
My new nickname.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:49)
That's the new nickname for Friedberg.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:51)
Oh, he was knitting it up, Sacks. He had the needles out and everything.

**David Friedberg** (1:54)
I bought him 10K and I cashed out 90

**Jason Calacanis** (1:56)
And they're referring to you now, Sacks, as scared Sacks, because you won't play on the live stream.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:00)
His Vip was 7%.

**David Friedberg** (2:01)
No, my Vip was 24%.

**David Sacks** (2:03)
If I had known there was an opportunity to make 350,000 against a bunch of four-year-olds, I would have been.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:09)
Would you have given it to charity? And which one of DeSantis' charities would you have given it to? Which charity?

**David Sacks** (2:14)
If it had been a charity game, I would have donated to charity.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:17)
Would you have done it if you could have given the money to the DeSantis Super PAC? That's the question.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:24)
You could do that. You can do that.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:25)
Good idea. Why don't you host up? That's actually a really good idea. We should do a poker game for presidential candidates. We all play for our favorite presidential candidates.
And the donation, we each go in for 50K, and then Sacks has to see his 50K go to Nikki Haley.
That would be incredible. Let me ask you something, Nitberg. How many beagles, because you saved one beagle that was going to be used for cosmetic research or tortured, and that beagle's name is your dog. What's your dog's name?

**David Friedberg** (2:54)
Daisy.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:55)
So you saved one beagle.

**David Friedberg** (2:56)
Nick, please post a picture in the video stream.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:59)
From being tortured to death. With your 80,000, how many dogs will the Humane Society save from being tortured to death?

**David Friedberg** (3:06)
It's a good question.
The 80,000 will go into their general fund, which they actually use for supporting legislative action that improves the conditions for animals in animal agriculture, support some of these rescue programs, they operate several sanctuaries. So there's a lot of different uses for the capital at Humane Society. Really important organization for animal rights.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:31)
Fantastic. And then Beast, Mr. Beast has, is it a food bank? And Chamath, explain what that charity does, actually, what that 350,000 will do.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (3:40)
Yeah, Jimmy started this thing called Beast Philanthropy, which is one of the largest food pantries in the United States. So when people have food insecurity, these guys provide them food.
And so this will help feed, I don't know, tens of thousands of people, I guess.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:55)
Well, that's fantastic. Good for Mr. Beast. Did you see the backlash against Mr. Beast for curing everybody's, as a total aside, curing a thousand people's blindness and how insane that was?