E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's "traceability" law, Coinbase's fact check, media consolidation & more

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:00)
Okay, so Jason, you're going to send a Zoom link.
Great. I'm going to make Lefkin at that. It will take 70 minutes, and then I'm going to stretch and shower.

**David Friedberg** (0:08)
Have lunch.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:09)
I'll be ready at 1.15.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:11)
Awesome.
Thanks. I just puked in my coffee a little bit, but okay.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:17)
It's just that he gets seconds and minutes mixed up.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:21)
You know, it's a little bit-
Thank you for tuning in to the All-In Podcast. We got our cold open.

**David Sacks** (0:32)
That's going to be a highlight.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:34)
That should be the cold open. That should be the cold open. That should be the cold open.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:37)
70 seconds in paradise. By the way, that 70 seconds includes Chamath brushing his teeth.
Rain Man, David Sacks.
Hey, everybody. It is another edition, episode 34 of the All-In Podcast with us today. David Friedberg, the Queen of Quinoa, the science sorcerer of the pod, Rain Man, David Sacks, hot off his 60th birthday bash in Los Angeles. Sorry, sorry, that was just going by his looks. And the dictator, Chamath Palihapitiya, fresh off of writing editorials about himself in Bloomberg. Congratulations, everybody.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:36)
Thank you, thank you.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:37)
Chamath, give yourself a pat on the back for that exceptional.

**David Sacks** (1:40)
Friedberg is now my favorite bestie because he actually showed up at my birthday party and like you guys.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:44)
Oh, I'm sorry, David. David, how do you expect people to react in 24 hours to fly to a different city?

**David Sacks** (1:51)
72 hours, yeah. It was a surprise birthday.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:53)
Surprise to the guests.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:54)
It was a surprise to all the invitees as well.

**David Friedberg** (1:57)
Let me tell you guys what you missed out on, okay?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:58)
All right, wait, let's give background.
Sacks is now 50 years old, 74, 72, and his wife decides to throw a last-minute birthday party after I bought tickets to the Knicks and the Nets and invited family members. Go ahead. And now we're the bad guys.

**David Friedberg** (2:17)
We fly down for the birthday, they shuttle you on the cars from the plane to the house. We get to the house, long driveway, there's dudes making watermelon tequila beverages while you hang out and wait. There's some dude from America's Got Talent playing the guitar or playing the violin in the driveway. The bathrooms are nicer than the bathrooms I have at home, these porta potties they rented in the driveway.
And we're all waiting, of course, Sacks is late, two and a half hours to his own party. We're all hanging out starving. But then we go into the party, sit down for dinner, and then who shows up as our dinner experience? It's the guy that won American Idol two nights before.
So no one knows who this guy is, except 17 year old girls and myself. So I like hop out of my seat, I'm like, Oh, my God, is that guy from American Idol? I had to rush into the backstage to get a photo with him, you know, Sacks' garage.
And then they have like, Coolio shows up. So we're like, sitting down at dinner for course two, all of a sudden pop comes out of the woodwork, Coolio, I lose my shit.
I run up on the dance floor. I grew up Coolio, like it's like high school jams, man. I mean, that's like in the car cruising. And at this point, I'm like seven tequila, watermelon tequilas in. So I'm like, Oh, my God, you got smacked so in the dance floor, you know, jamming out to Coolio. I think Coolio thought I was Sacks, you know, because he's like, he's like, Oh, to South African Jews, you guys all look the same. Coolio comes up, starts high fiving me and hugging me. And I'm like, what's up, Coolio? Oh, my God, this is like a dream come true. He's like hugging me. His face is right next to my face. I didn't know what to say. And I'm like, I've had a little bit of tequila and I whisper in Coolio's ear. I'm like, Oh, no, I appreciate I appreciate you.
I stan you, Coolio.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:18)
Oh, my God.

**David Sacks** (4:19)
I think I saw Friedberg throw his panties on stage too at one point.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:24)
What a nerd.

**David Friedberg** (4:25)
I didn't know what to say. I mean, what do you say when Coolio's face is in your face?

**Jason Calacanis** (4:29)
Clearly, you don't know what to say.