Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
All right, everybody, today on the All-In Podcast, we're joined by our friend Ben Shapiro, and we have a full docket, including Trump's trip to the Middle East, the executive order on pharma benefits. We talk a little bit about mock meat being banned in Montana, and Friedberg is really upset. He drops a distraction on the tax bill being supported by Republicans. All that and more on the number one podcast in the world, the All-In Podcast. Stick with us. One thing I'm trying to figure out, do daily mail stories actually end? Because I've scrolled up like seven times.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:38)
No, no, no.

**David Friedberg** (0:39)
And then eight times, they never end.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:41)
Those guys are like the methamphetamine of clicks. It's like click crack.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:45)
Yeah, they're like one more paragraph.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (0:47)
Every time I see a daily mail article, I'm like, okay, do I have 15 minutes here? Because I'm going to click on one, I'm going to look at the photos, and I'm going to go to the right rail. I'm going to click on nine other articles.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:56)
See, that's desgraciad. When you go on the right rail, you're a true degenerate.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:00)
Stay on the right rail of the Daily Mail.

**David Friedberg** (1:01)
That will keep you on the carousel for hours. Oh my God.

**Ben Shapiro** (1:06)
My favorite Daily Mail story, one time Jared and Ivanka were over at our house, and the paparazzi were following them around. They were like, can you give us a tour of the area? So we drove them outside for a hot second, and the paparazzi immediately captured a picture of them on the back of our golf cart, because we're in Florida, and me and my son in the front. And the Daily Mail, it was the Daily Mail of paparazzi. And so the headline was, Jared, Ivanka, unnamed driver and small boy.

**David Friedberg** (1:30)
Nick, Nick, find that picture.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:33)
Nick, can you cut it in?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:53)
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**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:03)
Hold on one second. Let me do the intro properly.

**David Friedberg** (2:07)
Ben, this is going to be so good right now. You're going to feel so uncomfortable. It's going to be amazing. Go ahead. It's going to be great.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (2:12)
Look, Ben has a hard out in an hour and 40 minutes, so we're going to get the show started. However, Ben, we need to take a pause. Jason will explain what happened last week. He's going to issue a formal apology. If that formal apology is not good enough, I will step in over to you, Jason.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:29)
Okay, we, the members of the All-In Podcast, including Chamath Palihapitiya and myself, Jason Calacanis, would like to formally and respectfully apologize to Polka Legend Phil Hellmuth for our previous comments about his relationship with Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet and the Los Angeles celebrity community more generally. On a previous episode of this podcast, a number of inaccurate, potentially legally actionable statements were made by the host regarding Mr. Hellmuth. It was strongly implied on this program that Mr. Hellmuth was not acquainted with Mr. Chalamet, and it was further suggested that he had harassed and manheld the Oscar-nominated performer during a social event in Miami, Florida. This was a flagrant misrepresentation of the facts for which we are sorry. We here at All-In are committed to journalistic responsibility and integrity, and we hope to use this time to correct the record. In fact, as a noted Bonvivant and publicly visible representative of the gaming community, Mr. Hellmuth is acquainted with many celebrities from the worlds of film, television, athletics, business, modeling, finance, and beyond. The list of celebrity friends is far too vast to list here in its entirety, but we have prepared this section we feel demonstrates how his overwhelming popularity among this demographic. Matt Damon, Steve Martin, Charles Barkley, Bill Clinton, Khloe Kardashian, Mr. Beast, the guy from Billions, Tiger Woods, Mario Lopez, Drake, and of course Jay-Z. Once again, we here at All-In regret the era we should publicly apologize to Mr. Hellmuth and recommit ourselves to truth and accuracy in reporting. Thank you.

**Chamath Palihapitiya** (3:58)
Jason, that was great. I would just like to add a couple of things.
Phil is my best friend, has been for a very long time. I love him. He does have a lot of friends and he opens his Rolodex to us. And so to the extent that Phil was hurt, because he was a little bit hurt last week, because we were ribbing him, we rib him a lot. We make jokes in the group chat a lot. But it's because we enjoy it, he enjoys it. But I think the way that we said it really hurt his feeling. So, Philly, I love you. We love you.