The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon…

**Lon Harris** (0:00)
He's building the first lunar hotel using an on-site factory that turns the moon's soil into bricks.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:08)
You're kidding me. It's not a put-on. You sure this isn't a put-on?

**Skyler Chan** (0:12)
We basically got like Manifest Destiny going on on the moon.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:14)
This is sci-fi becoming reality.

**Skyler Chan** (0:17)
We would build the entire hotel end-to-end without actually needing to send humans because we would have robots that assist us.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:23)
You're asking people to put down a million dollar deposit to visit the moon, to own a moon condo. What do you get for a million bucks here?

**Skyler Chan** (0:30)
They've experienced everything that can be done on earth, that they want to do something greater. The moon hotel is simply just the first wedge towards enabling us to build products on the moon.

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**Jason Calacanis** (1:18)
All right, everybody, welcome back. It's TWIST. It's Monday, June 15th.
The New York Knickerbockers have won the World Championship. I was there, Lon. I was there with my brother, Josh.

**Lon Harris** (1:30)
And in beautiful San Antonio, the Frost Bank Center.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:34)
Very simple ride from, you know, Austin, 70 minutes or so.

**Lon Harris** (1:39)
Yeah, it's not so bad.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:41)
But it's a lot better than the original Blacks Barbecue.

**Lon Harris** (1:44)
For people who don't know, the Black family of Texas, they're having a war right now over who controls the barbecue. So there's one young Black who runs the original Blacks Barbecue that's on the road from here to San Antonio. And then there's Terry Blacks here in Austin, which is a different child of the Black family. It's a whole thing.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:07)
We had a very similar thing in Brooklyn and Harlem. There's a place, Pazzi Grimaldi's Pizza, Pazzi's, Grimaldi's, brick oven pizza, fantastic. Frank Sinatra used to go to the one under the Brooklyn Bridge, and then there's the one up in Harlem. Anyway, long story short, same situation. You know, the kids, the cousin, the uncle, whatever, everybody's got the same last name.

**Lon Harris** (2:24)
And they all want to be the inheritor of the tradition because Black's one of the oldest barbecue places in Central Tech.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:31)
And it was fantastic.
Really great beef rib, really great brisket. If I were to swap those two items with Terry Black's, I probably wouldn't know the difference, if I'm being honest. But I just want to say, you know, my brother had an observation being from Brooklyn. He's like, wow, Texas is amazing. Everybody's so polite.

**Lon Harris** (2:50)
Oh man.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:50)
Everybody's so cordial. And it's like it used to be in Brooklyn when we were growing up. You just assume everybody's of good faith. And we walk into Black's barbecue.

**Lon Harris** (3:01)
What is that?

**Jason Calacanis** (3:01)
Laredo? I don't know, Kyle, Buddha, somewhere down there. Anyway, there's like two or three down there.
And everybody's like, oh hey, you going to the game? They said, oh man, good luck, man. I said, oh, thanks. You a Nick fan? They said, no, I'm a Spurs fan. I said, oh, well, I really appreciate that. You have a great team and just really cordial. And I was six rows behind the Knicks bench. Cost me a fortune.
But you know, I poly marketed YOLO'd 6K into it in 115 So I paid for the ticket, gambling. I love these prediction markets. It's so much fun. Shout out to my guys at Polymarket. I think I saw Shane with court side seats. Probably. Everybody was there. It was fantastic. And just a great relief after, you know, I was there for two of the failed attempts versus Houston and versus Spurs. I was there when the Spurs won on our court. Spurs got a bright future. A lot of great young players, but man, this Knicks team is transcendent. Thank you to Leon. Thank you to Coach Brown. Thank you to Jalen Brunson, Oji Ananobe, Mitchell Robinson, Josh Hart. I mean, just bridges, F them picks. Just so many great players. I had a great time calling in this season to Knicks Fan TV. Shout out to my guys over there, Alex, CK2K, and of course, CP of the Fanchise. Great YouTube channel to follow. They do this fan TV, which is like a thing in soccer, where they have all these fan shows. The fans just get on and they're drunk and blah, blah, blah. They're yelling, but they're obsessed with the game. Knicks Fan TV has got 100,000 followers and he's been following the team for nine years. What a great story. He was following the team when they had 17 wins a season. There's 82 games a season, Lon. When we were the worst team in the league, he was following this team and had literally 30 people watching his live stream. Then when they win games, he has 3, 4, 5,000 people watching live, and then another 100,000 watching after that.