E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
Point of privilege, Sacks wore this hat last week.
What's this brand? Is this a Montclair hat?

**David Sacks** (0:06)
Montclair, yeah. And actually, did you see that tweet?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:10)
It's trending.

**David Sacks** (0:11)
It started trending after I wore it.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:13)
So it's sold out, dude. You sold out the Montclair hat.
So we have no advertising.

**Erik Friedberg** (0:18)
I feel like if we're not going to do any advertising on the show, we should at least get free clothes. We get to pick through them, wear what we like.

**David Sacks** (0:25)
I know. Where's my cut? Where's my cut as an influencer?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:28)
The tweet basically said that I name drop Lora Piana and send it through the roof and then Sacks, they drop Lora Piana. Both brands, obviously are Italian. Both entrepreneurs we know very well.
I asked Nat, I said, Nat, can you basically send this tweet over to them, so maybe they can give us free clothes. Let's get the griff going boys.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:47)
Now we're talking. Now we got some Bestie griff.

**Erik Friedberg** (0:49)
Now you're speaking my language. This is Kapitiya.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:52)
Speaking of griffs.

**David Sacks** (0:53)
I do like Montclair the way that Chamath likes Lora Piana.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:56)
Just so you guys know at the birthday, Jason, that you missed. We had a surprise birthday party for me. That threw it. Sacks showed up.
Friedberg showed up. Their wife showed up. It was incredible.

**Erik Friedberg** (1:13)
J.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:13)
Cal basically stiffened me.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:15)
I'm very sorry. By the way, that came together four days before your birthday.

**Erik Friedberg** (1:19)
So just show you.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:20)
Well, you know what? Kevin Hart showed up.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:22)
Give us the best one-liner. Which one landed?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:24)
No, J. Cal, you have no idea. These guys roasted me.
It was fucking incredible. But the best of it was at the end, Kay Hart gets up with no preparation and skewers everybody. Friedberg, what do you think of Kevin's roast?

**Erik Friedberg** (1:40)
I never laughed harder. He was so funny. He's like, my wife walked in here and she looks at me and she's like, these guys.
It was so funny. Bleed my shit out, Nick. But it was so funny. He dropped a line after a line after a line.

**David Sacks** (1:55)
Well, he's a ringer. He's a professional.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:57)
Well, he's maybe the funniest person in the world.

**Erik Friedberg** (2:00)
And then Sacks had to come after.

**David Sacks** (2:01)
Yeah, exactly. Xander. I don't know why Xander was the MC.
But you should have saved Kevin Hart for last. But instead he calls up K-Hart in the middle.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:11)
Sacks was so tilted.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:13)
Okay. So wait. So I couldn't make it because I had Burning Man. Xander does the MCing. Then Kevin Hart, you were saying is just to fill in the audience here so they can understand it.
Kevin Hart comes in. He gives this incredible ad lib roast and then Sacks has to go after him.

**David Sacks** (2:32)
First of all, Xander is as funny as a root canal.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:35)
What a sandbag.

**Erik Friedberg** (2:36)
It's a root canal.

**David Sacks** (2:37)
Xander is as funny as a root canal. He should not have been the MC.
So yes, we did miss you, Jay Cal. You should have been the MC. Second, K-Hart should have been left for last, obviously.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:47)
Of course.

**David Sacks** (2:47)
But Xander, you know, Xander being a good liberal couldn't censor me. Outright.
So he had me go after K-Hart. That's like the next best thing.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:57)
Did you steal his documents? Did you steal all his jokes and put them in your car?

**David Sacks** (3:01)
I had all these jokes written. I just threw them out the window because what am I going to do? I'm not going to deliver jokes after Kevin Hart.
So I just told a story, you know.

**Erik Friedberg** (3:09)
Kevin Hart, like, killed. I mean, the room was rolling.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:12)
I mean, that's like getting punched by Mike Tyson and being like, oh, my God, that hurt, it's like, shit, it's Mike Tyson.

**David Sacks** (3:16)
Jason.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:35)
We were at the Code Conference. We had the poker game. It was the last one after 20 years.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (3:40)
Big shout out to Kara Swisher.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:42)
Just I want to say to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, because they did the conference many years together. Congratulations on a 20-year run. They're not going to do it. Kara is not going to do it next year, but my friend Jim Bankoff, who runs Vox, is going to run it next year. So congratulations to him and Kara for a great run in All Things D.