This Week in Startups
00:24:18 · Lon Harris
[00:24:18] S2: about it on the show. Alright. MCP 2292 from May third of this year twenty twenty six. This is you. I thought this was really prescient as well. This is you talking about sort of the civil war within the Republican Party and within the Trump administration about AI, about tech that was kind of driving the administration apart. And when you look back at it today, that clearly was creating a wedge among Republicans that even drove some people maybe from participating. Let's take a look at this clip.
00:24:48 · Jason Calacanis
[00:24:48] S0: I haven't reviewed any of these. Parts. These are all becoming one issue. Polarization of wealth. Okay. We now have a couple of trillion dollar companies with these AI tokens. We have jobs being retired at an alarming rate. And is every truck driver gonna lose their job? Is every cab driver gonna lose their job? Is every delivery driver gonna lose their job? Every factory worker, everybody at Amazon gonna lose their job? The answer is yes. All those jobs are gonna go away, or the majority of them will go away, and those people will have to be redeployed in some intelligent fashion. You combine that with, hey. The intelligence wants this and America first. This is really about the civil war inside of the Trump administration and the Republican Party. The civil war in that party is people's jobs, America first, and these tech oligarchs, as they call them, are they running away with this and stealing everybody's money, quote unquote, and is it just gonna create a permanent underclass that always loses their jobs? This is what Bannon, Fuentes, Tucker, they've all departed. They've... Meg and Kelly, they're all leaving the Trump camp or trying to put pressure on the Trump camp to stop kowtowing in their minds to big tech, to oligarchs. Trump loves money. Nailed it again, I guess. Yeah. I mean Very captain obvious on that one.
00:26:12 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:26:12] S2: Yeah. Feels feels prescient, but... Yeah. And, and, I mean, I think that now we're we're in this interesting situation of, you know, do do the Democrats who just came out and voted for this blue tsunami who put all of these new candidates of power, are they gonna accept a compromise on this? Like, are they... If if the the Gina Hinojosa's of the world come back in in a few months and say, actually, we're gonna have data centers, but don't worry. They're gonna be, you know, clean. Like, is that is that gonna fly? I don't know. It's an interesting question. [00:26:44] S0: Split government's great. I think the democrats are not socialist lunatics in large part. A lot of the people we saw win were actually moderates. I think they're gonna go to the center. Just like, you know, Hillary Hillary's Clint... Clinton's assessment of the right and MAGA being deplorables was, like, a a dangerous move for her to frame all of them that way. It's a dangerous move for the Republicans to frame everybody on the left as, like, socialist freaks, trans, whatever, blue hair, sept... You know, rings or septum rings and pronouns and all this nonsense. That's just not true. There are a couple of questionable characters in the winning, like... But most of them are moderates. Let's call it what it is. And so they should drop that rhetoric, start working with the left, move everybody to the center, and let's just try to solve some problems for the American people.
00:26:44 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:26:44] S0: Split government's great. I think the democrats are not socialist lunatics in large part. A lot of the people we saw win were actually moderates. I think they're gonna go to the center. Just like, you know, Hillary Hillary's Clint... Clinton's assessment of the right and MAGA being deplorables was, like, a a dangerous move for her to frame all of them that way. It's a dangerous move for the Republicans to frame everybody on the left as, like, socialist freaks, trans, whatever, blue hair, sept... You know, rings or septum rings and pronouns and all this nonsense. That's just not true. There are a couple of questionable characters in the winning, like... But most of them are moderates. Let's call it what it is. And so they should drop that rhetoric, start working with the left, move everybody to the center, and let's just try to solve some problems for the American people. [00:27:34] S2: Yeah. That Talarico stuff just didn't play. You watch him talk, and he's like, he's a... He seems like a pretty normal guy. He's not he's not... That seem like crazy [00:27:41] S0: to me. You know what speaks volumes for him? Day after? He's like, I totally respect Elon Musk. I would love to sit down with him. I think SpaceX is amazing. I think Tesla's amazing. Would love to support him in any way. Hey. Listen. He spent $200,000,000 to... You know, against me, but I don't take it personal. This is how politics works, and I can't wait to sit down with [00:27:59] S2: him. Right.
00:27:59 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:27:59] S2: him. Right. [00:28:00] S0: And then he was like, oh, Ted Cruz? Yeah. Can't wait to govern with him. He called me Talarico. I'm gonna give him a... And he literally said, I'm gonna give him a Talarico T shirt when I [00:28:07] S2: see him Yeah. [00:28:08] S0: And we'll have a laugh about it. Let's get back to work for the American people. That that line of... That approach by the Democrats this time is to just, like, not respond to anything about the woke stuff, trans stuff, lunacy, whatever. And they just said affordability. Affordability. Whoever, like, came up with the strategy, who was like, affordability, no corruption in government, no wars. Just keep saying those same three things over and over again. It... That's why people came out. They're like, yes. Somebody hears me again. [00:28:38] S2: My argument is it's the it's the... That was Bernie's thing. Bernie was always like, I don't care about the culture war stuff. It's about the the billionaire class. You know? It's about like [00:28:46] S0: The people, thought we haven't had the minimum wage. Yeah. We're on the minimum wage. [00:28:50] S2: Just talk about economic populism every single time somebody puts microphone in front of you. [00:28:54] S0: You see the bills at my summer home. I have a lake house. I work very hard with the books. I wrote many books. I got a lake house. You you wanna see the bills [00:29:00] S2: for my hot tub? He works hard. He deserves that, like [00:29:03] S0: I don't deserve anybody having a third home.
00:29:05 · Lon Harris
[00:29:05] S2: Alright. Let... I do wanna... I wanna talk... I wanna pause briefly and talk about This Week in AI. I wrote a, a brand new, demo went up today. I wanna share that right here. I did. We talked about this on the show, which is why I thought we would follow-up here. I connected everything in my life to my Plaud pin. I made a little graphic here about it. So I tied... Plaud has all these connectors now. You could connect it to your Gmail. You could connect it to your calendar, to your Slack, to your Notion, to your Grok bot, to your Claude. So that's what I did on the way home from, work the other day. I just recorded a voice note in my car. Here, I'll play this without sound. There's me about to record it. You can see my Plaud pin is on. I just talked out loud. Here's what I think would make a good Plaud demo. I'll connect it to these apps. I'll do this. I'll do... I'll route it through here. And then, I did... I put the whole post together. All of this was automated through Plaud's agent. I sent it to Claude to help me write the rough draft. I even emailed, Jacob and Jordan here at the office. Like, I sent them part of the transcript of my notes. Like, look this over for me. Tell me if there's visual elements I should add. I went to Grok Bot and had it look up extra clips. Like, I found... I had Grok Bot find this clip of us talking about Plaud that ties in to all the stuff that the demo's about. So check it out This Week in ai.ai. That's the new post over there. And check out Plaud and all of the various things that you could connect to your Plaud now that they have this incredible Plaud agent. And they got an agent in the app, Jason. So you could just connect all these things. Oh. And you could go right into the Plaud app, and you just tell their agent, send this recording to Notion. Send this to Claude. Send this to my Gmail. And it all is from one hub. It's it's very clever.