E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more

**David Friedberg** (0:00)
Hey, everybody, it's me, Jason Calacanis. Welcome, welcome.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:04)
Hey, everybody, it's me, Jason.

**David Friedberg** (0:05)
Thank God Trump's out.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:07)
I hate Trump, and I love myself.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:29)
Hey, everybody.

**David Friedberg** (0:31)
Happy days are here again.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:34)
Champagne cart of bottles popping, both click-o again. Happy days are here again. Yay, Sacks is so happy. Trump's out of office. He gave an amazing speech about how great Biden's inauguration was. Welcome to the All-In Podcast.
Oh, my gosh. With me today in our post-inauguration, afterglow is the dictator, Chamath Palihapitiya, the queen of Kinois, David Friedberg, and riding the blue wave, diving in. No more red pills.
The blue wave is David. Rain Man Sacks is with us.
David, how did it feel to watch Biden's inauguration speech, which you said hit all the notes, and I see you wearing blue today. Let me have a sip of my VUV Clicquot and tell us. You've got the blue jacket, the blue shirt and the blue headset on. You've ridden the blue wave. Tell us how you feel with Biden in office. I'm going to drink my VUV.

**David Sacks** (1:43)
Jason, I'm just happy to see that you're happy.
Does this mean that your Trump derangement is over? You've gone cold turkey. You're on the wagon. I'm just happy to have my friend back and not have you part of this Trump derangement zombie horde that you've been in for the last few years.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:12)
I'll tell you two quick stories. The first one turned out not to be true, but there was a New York Times alert that came out this weekend saying that they were going to lift the travel ban. For a moment, I was a little in shock. I'm Canadian. My family is in Canada. I haven't seen them in a year. My mom is 80 years old. I haven't seen her in a year.
And then the second was on the day of the inauguration, Biden signed an EO, I guess, that starts to basically create a path to citizenship. And there are two women in my life who I think are just lovely, lovely people who I've never been able to hire.
And now this gives us a path to hire them and compensate them the way that we want it to. And so in these moments, I started crying. And I've probably had three or four moments and I realized like, holy shit, I have had so much pent up emotion, waiting for honestly just like a normal average day and like simple, humane, good things. And I'm not trying to sort of jump on the Biden bandwagon. I think that he's got a lot of work to do.
But I do think that just at a level, simple, basic level of humanity, it was a big sea change.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:43)
How did you take it, Friedberg? I'm curious. Did you cry as well?

**David Friedberg** (3:48)
I observed the inauguration. It was interesting.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:51)
Oh, we didn't upgrade your firmware. Sorry. We were supposed to push the two David firmwares for the ability to cry. But did you feel any emotion of the three emotions we've given you in your programming? Did any of them move at all?

**David Friedberg** (4:05)
I don't remember. I mean, I don't remember the origin of my non-emotional characterization, Jason, but yeah, I think it was based on every interaction we've ever had with you.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:16)
But continue.

**David Friedberg** (4:18)
I guess that makes sense. So I feel like the Biden, the Biden moment on Inauguration Day, it really did feel like a sigh of relief because so much of Trump love him or hate him has been driven by a degree of tension. Right. I mean, he came in to office on the premise that he was going to drain the swamp. I mean, that's kind of a very kind of active position. He's going to go in, he's going to change things. And I think the Biden tone is like, let's take it down a notch. Let's all take a deep breath. And I feel like that generated a collective sigh of relief. I'll also say that I watched that with the eyes of someone who voted for Trump.
I didn't vote for Trump.
But I don't think I voted this year. I can't remember. It was in the middle of the pandemic. But I basically feel like there was a lot of folks. It's easy to say, let's unite the country when you're on the winning side and when you're not and you're sitting there and your guy got kicked out of office and your guy claimed that he got kicked out because of fraudulent activity and you're one of the 46% of Americans that are already disapproving of Biden's performance in his first two days of office.