Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
All right, everybody. As you know, there was a big verdict that came out today in the Trump trial in New York City. However, it came right after we were taping. So enjoy this episode. And then at the end, we'll go around the horn and get quick reaction from each of the besties on what they think of the Trump guilty verdict in the New York hush money trial. And a little update on the market close and tech stocks tanking in after hours trading stick with us.
Man, what a week I've had.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:31)
Oh, you have an intro. I smell an intro.
Tell us, J.

**David Sacks** (0:35)
Cal, what was the week like?

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:37)
What kind of week have you had?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:38)
Incredible. You know, I've always been a fan of Howard Stern.
And his agent, Don Buchwald, called me. He saw the show last week. This is all true.
And they said they want to start a production company. So I started a production company, and I've already got my first show. I've signed my first show, The Pilot.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:56)
What is the show?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:57)
Well, here it is. Thanks for asking.
What you are witnessing is real. The Besties are not actors. The cases are real. Both parties have agreed to settle their disputes here, in our forum, J-Cal Production, The Rain Man's Court.
On today's show, Chamath guilty of first degree unbuttoning? Friedberg accused of plastic perjury? Jason appealing his grifting conviction? Throw in the book at Thelonious Fauci. Welcome to the stand, Judge David Sacks.

**David Sacks** (1:40)
Nice.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (1:40)
That's really good.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:41)
It's a first show from J-Cal Production.

**David Sacks** (1:42)
If I'm the judge, then what does that make you? Are you like the bailiff?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:45)
I'm like the host. He's the guy who does American Idol, Ryan Seacrest. I'm like going to be the new Ryan Seacrest. That's what they envisioned for me. And that's my first spin-off show.
Rain Man, David Sacks.
There's a lot of news. My inbox is blowing up. I went over to Threads to see what was going on over there and I got absolutely savage. Threads is like all the hall monitors left one school. Like if they took the four hall monitors from every school in the country and you put them all in one place, that's Threads. Threads is like Zuckerberg's Twitter revenge killer that he created, but all the journalists and woke folks went there. And then all the conspiracy theories took over X and Twitter and like freedom of speech in one place and then the hall monitors in the other. But my lord, the inbound I'm getting Sacks on, apparently you're having a party this Thursday and a couple of people are coming, a soiree. Well, it's my birthday. It's my birthday party.
So there's a little soiree happening. Sacks, enlighten the audience. What are you up to?

**David Sacks** (3:05)
We're hosting an event for President Trump. He's just retaking.
Yeah, we're hosting an event for the once and future president. Who's we? 45 is soon to be 47

**Jason Calacanis** (3:24)
Who's we?

**David Sacks** (3:25)
As I saw from your own polling data that you tweeted this morning, Jason.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:28)
Oh God, it's so dark.
It's so dark. I mean, the betting markets are just, basically they seem to have already made their decision. The betting markets, right? And the betting markets, they're not always right, but they were wrong actually about Hillary and Trump. So who knows?

**David Sacks** (3:43)
And polling historically has underestimated Trump's support because people have been reluctant to say they're supporting him for some reason. So yeah, things are looking very positive for Trump right now. But in any event, we're hosting a fundraiser for him.
And he said that he wants to come on the All-In pod at some point, so we just need to schedule that. And by the way, we did this for, let's not forget, we did this for RFK Jr. He appeared on the pod, we did a fundraiser for him. And we did it for Vake Ramaswamy. He came on the pod, we did a fundraiser for him.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:16)
We did it for Dean Phillips.

**David Sacks** (4:18)
Yeah, that's right.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:19)
Chris Christie came on.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:20)
And Chris Christie came on, although I don't think we technically did a fundraiser, but we would have. And we've asked President Biden, and we have not heard back.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:29)
And when we say we- Sorry, let me just ask, parse that out.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (4:32)