This Week in Startups
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.
00:30:55 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:30:55] S0: I got a two point o request for you. Okay. I wanted to... I want you to create a series of keywords that when they come up in your Plaud, trigger actions from your Grok bot or whatever. Yeah. So, you know, if you say action item, email Jay Cal. Action item, make me a... Add to my to do list. All that kind of stuff. Mhmm. I wanna see if you can maybe, when you do a follow-up to this Plaud post, kinda get into that because I need to have that for ski season. When I'm in ski season Yeah. What frequently happens to me is, I'm on a lift and, first world problems here. I see a couple of things in the email. I have gloves on. I can't, you know, start taking my gloves off and typing. It's snow. It's gonna... I'm gonna drop my phone, all this kind of craziness. I wanna just have that stream of consciousness. Then when I get to the bottom of the lift, after I ski a run, it will sync with the Wi Fi. Right? The... These places all have Wi Fi at the bottom. Mhmm. When it syncs, then I wanted to take the actions and send those actions to the team. Yeah. That's what I need, in this crazy world. [00:31:59] S2: Set this up through Plaud. I think you need [00:32:02] S0: to go into figure it out. [00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that
00:32:03 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that [00:32:15] S0: I want a whisper sync on my plaud. This is a little feature request. You know, when you get a a Kindle, you pay... I I don't... I think it comes with Kindle that they pick up low data usage Right. Over, like, five g to download the books. And I and I think Amazon has a data plan built into it. So you don't have to subscribe to this. So if you bought a book, it will download it. Right? Yeah. So you don't have to pay for another 5 g plan. I would love for Plaud to have that in, like, a $2.99 or $399 Plaud. So somebody send this to the CEO of Plaud and CC me, or I'll tell my Plaud to do that. What I really wanna have is if it had LTE or five gs, three gs, whatever, then it's just always syncing, always syncing. Right? That would be super magical for me. I need, like, an enhanced hardware version. I'm willing to pay for it to my friends at Plaud. Who knows what they Ad[00:33:10] S2: have in the lab? Get in on all of this with us and start experimenting with your Plaud. Check it out at plaud.ai/twist. Use the code Twist, and they'll give you an extra 10% off on your Plaud pin. And you could experiment with all the things you can do with your Plaud now that it's connected to literally every other AI app. Ad[00:33:28] S0: How great is our life that, we have partners, and we love their products. It makes life so easy.