Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305

**Jason Calacanis** (0:00)
We have a full news docket. We're gonna talk about OpenAI not releasing its models. The government's got involved there. Claude launched Claude Tag. Apple prices have raised by like 20%.
Mark Cuban checked in on X. Talking about data centers, the hate for them. Zuckerberg wants to build a cash-free prediction market.

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**Jason Calacanis** (1:09)
Hey, everybody. It's Friday, June 26th. The summer has started. Your boy, Jay Cal, is in Hawaii and we had to tape on Hawaiian time, so you're listening to the show on Saturday instead of the normal Friday drop. Mahalo for joining us. mahalo.com is for sale. Rest in peace.
We did our best, Lon.

**Lon Harris** (1:27)
We tried. A mighty effort. We made a mighty effort.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:31)
But inside.com and mahalo.com, both for sale.
Looking to get some money back to our investors in that company, so go to those two domain names if you're interested or include you. Yes, I have some shareholders there. And we have a full docket today and a great guest.

**Lon Harris** (1:45)
We do.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:46)
I was e-foiling this morning.

**Lon Harris** (1:49)
What is, I'm gonna show my ignorance here. You messaged us. What is e-foiling?

**Jason Calacanis** (1:54)
Yeah, so e-foiling is like somewhere between a surfboard and a boogie board, but closer to a boogie board.

**Lon Harris** (2:02)
Okay.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:03)
And it has a little turbine that comes down on a stick. And then it goes down a little bit more and there's a foil, like a fin.

**Lon Harris** (2:12)
Right. Okay.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:13)
You ride on top of it, you get a joystick. The joystick has different levels and it has a throttle. You can have a foil, which you'll see Mark Zuckerberg doing, where he's pounding and that gives you the motion in the ocean.
In this case, those are e-foils.

**Lon Harris** (2:27)
Yes.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:28)
And it's just like, that's it. Now you see there, there's the two blades and you see there's the little rotor. Now they used to not have a cover on the rotors, but mine had a cover on it. You would be foolish to have the blade showing because what happens is, is a very rare instance where the board goes flying up into the air, twists over and you land on top of the board.

**Lon Harris** (2:48)
Right.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:49)
It's incredibly rare. It's like a 1% chance of happening. You can show the injury here that I experienced this morning. If you have the picture, which I sent to Slack, you get to see my enormous calves.

**Lon Harris** (3:03)
Do you have that pulling ready to go?

**Jason Calacanis** (3:06)
Yeah, there it is. So I flipped the board and the foil, either the blade casing or the foil itself, those two fins just whacked into the back of my calf, just smashed it. So I just took a bunch of motrin. I had the leg up for an hour before the show and iced it up. So you got to carry me through the show, but no pain, no gain.
You know, I'm knock on wood. I've been incredibly lucky at action sports, but this was incredible. I hope I'm healed for my session on Monday. And I'm trying to go Sunday or Monday before I leave Hawaii.

**Lon Harris** (3:42)
Yeah, so near misses this year. You also had a skiing incident back in January.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:46)
I did, I did. I am, yeah, I am really, really pushing the envelope in a reasonable way. So a couple of injuries, a couple of close calls.

**Lon Harris** (3:58)
But light, yeah. Light.

**Jason Calacanis** (4:00)
I mean, I don't want to exaggerate it. I'm not going heli-skiing or anything. But let's take a pause here. And to applaud, applaud, I'm going to take my plow, which I have on my wrist here. And when I ski, I just press that button.