E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
So, I was not going to bring this up, Sacks said, bring it up.

**David Sacks** (0:03)
No, no, you're already creating mischaracterizations. You said you want to bring it up, I'm like, sure, I'm not going to veto it, go for it.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:10)
No, I said, well, I have to bring up my COVID, obviously, I'm the second bestie to get COVID.
And I told you offline, without the other two besties, I will just say I got it at a social function, period, end of story. You said it's okay to talk about.

**David Sacks** (0:24)
Yeah, it's not like I wanted to bring it up, but you want to bring it up, and I'm allowing it because I'm fine with it. So go for it.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:31)
We all got something at Sacks' event. You got COVID.
I got Chlamydia.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:37)
Oh, you guys went to the downstairs rooms?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:43)
God damn it.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:45)
Chamath again. You promised.
It was a great party.

**David Sacks** (0:49)
All right, let's hear Jason's accusation. I've been hearing about it all week in the chat.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:53)
It was a great party.

**David Sacks** (0:54)
Nah, you've been saying, you know, you're super spreader.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:58)
Jason, you were angry, you were angry, and you were, yeah, you were really mad at Sacks because you thought he actually gave you COVID, even though Sacks had people test, every single person tested on the way in.

**David Friedberg** (1:09)
Except you, J Cal. J Cal, you walked around the velvet room.

**David Sacks** (1:12)
I have.

**David Friedberg** (1:12)
And you said, guess what? I'm a bestie. I don't have to test. And you walk right in that party.
At the end of the day, at the end of the day, there's nothing.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:19)
The one person that flouted the rules got it. Karma's a bitch, J Cal.

**David Friedberg** (1:24)
Nothing better personifies poetic justice as what to place.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:27)
I do not place blame on anybody for hosting a superspreader.

**David Friedberg** (1:30)
All year round, you rant at Sacks, you make fun of him, you poke him, you poke the bear.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:36)
It was a Republican superspreader. It was a GOP superspreader.

**David Friedberg** (1:40)
And then you go to his party and you run around the velvet rope and you don't get your test. And you go in and you walk out with COVID.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:47)
That was amazing.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:48)
It was really amazing.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:49)
I don't wait on lies. I'm a bestie.

**David Sacks** (1:51)
I think he walked out with COVID because I think he walked in with COVID. He was the only one not to test, so who brought it in?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:57)
My daughter and I came to your wonderful party.

**David Friedberg** (1:59)
It was amazing.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:00)
It was delightful.

**David Friedberg** (2:01)
We tested.

**David Sacks** (2:02)
And no, you didn't. When you got to the party...

**Jason Calacanis** (2:04)
I 100% tested.

**David Friedberg** (2:05)
You told us you didn't.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:06)
You told us you didn't.

**David Sacks** (2:07)
You were either lying then or you're lying now.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:10)
I was lying then or you're lying now. Which one is it?

**Jason Calacanis** (2:11)
I was joking then. I 100% tested with my daughter.

**David Sacks** (2:15)
No, you were telling the truth.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:16)
Both was on the line testing with me. I had the bracelet. I tested 100%.

**David Sacks** (2:20)
When I asked you, when you got into the party and I said, how'd your COVID tests go? You said, oh, I pulled my bestie card. I walked around. I pulled my bestie card.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:29)
That's true. That's what you said.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:31)
You guys are getting up on me and making up bullshit now.

**David Sacks** (2:34)
No, you said that.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:35)
OK, I may have made a joke, but I 100% tested.

**David Sacks** (2:39)
And then I find out the reason why Jade wasn't at the party. She was home taking care of two sick kids.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:45)
No, she wasn't. We had one kid.

**David Sacks** (2:47)
So how do we know that it wasn't you?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:50)
OK, we know because I know it was you, Fredo, told us that she brought it to the party.

**David Sacks** (2:55)
You broke my heart.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:57)
All right, here's what happened. I went to the party.
I did test.
There was a group of people that got there early, had tested at another event. They told me this. They had tested before they got there. And they told me that they had accidentally brought it with them because they were the first to have a positive test result. So, in all likelihood, it was that group.