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Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong) Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:26 Joe Lonsdale It's like these little communist, like strongholds of California.
  • ▶ 34:27 Joe Lonsdale I guess, I guess the people who are trying to tax the billionaires here in California are the healthcare workers unions, which is like ironic, because it's like, that's the area we need to make efficient, you know.

How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale Jul 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:00 Aaron Cannon He had also built watch duty, which, which was a, which is like the most downloaded app to track fires in California.

SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis · Joe Lonsdale Jun 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:03 Scott Nolan Obviously in places like California, you're, you know, people are paying 30 cents.

How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams Apr 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:36 Scott Wu Most people were from like, you know, California or like New York or, or like, you know, around like Massachusetts, like around, around MIT and Harvard and stuff like that.

Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:26 Joe Lonsdale I think there was an article I was in recently that interviewed 21 people who'd had ties to California who were very successful, and I was the only one willing to go on the record.

Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale Mar 13, 2026 · 5 mentions

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:08 Joe Lonsdale I go walk on walks with like the billionaires who haven't been chased out yet by the new taxes here and they, or they're just visiting like me and they, sorry, try to avoid this, these like little snipes against California, but I, but I go…
  • ▶ 48:38 Joe Lonsdale I guess, I guess the people who are trying to tax the billionaires here in California are the healthcare workers unions, which is like ironic because it's like, that's the area we need to make efficient, you know?

The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:31 Joe Lonsdale We still own a house in California, and during the buy administration, the, the cartels in the very nice area hit five of the houses right around it.

These Jobs Will Skyrocket in the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale Dec 30, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 11:47 Chris Sununu Even California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:36 Chris Sununu We'll see a state like California or New York and Massachusetts pass something very liberal, very progressive. 2 times in the scene

How this Governor is Proving Trump Right · Joe Lonsdale Oct 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:27 Joe Lonsdale Cause you know, in our view, coming from California, I know a lot of these things were grifts where they'd hire all of their friends, all of their family, you know, even their, even their aunt Sally, everyone's working for the nonprofit…
  • ▶ 16:15 Joe Lonsdale Talk to us a little bit about that, because that's not how California handles it. 2 times in the scene

What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:01 Joe Lonsdale Our house we have out in California, five of the neighbors got hit last year by cartels.

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:32 Max Meyer It's a more, uh, more Austin focused magazine compared to some of the previous ones, which naturally gravitate toward California.

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:11 Senator Eric Schmitt California has way too many representatives than it should have because we count illegal immigrants.
  • ▶ 35:51 Senator Eric Schmitt Um, look at when California does a crazy emissions, um, uh, rule that effectively were to, was to box out the, uh, in, um, 2 times in the scene

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:06 Joe Lonsdale And, and, and your home didn't even have proper insurance, I guess, because they, we just lost the insurance market in California.

Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale Jul 28, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:25 Reid Hoffman Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but of course in modern regulatory environment,
  • ▶ 1:09 Joe Lonsdale A little more on the right recently, we've had Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Dave Rubin, Steve Hilton's running for governor of California.
  • ▶ 10:58 Joe Lonsdale Another example of this, the head of the California Labor Union, like, I think attacked me personally in some random tweet for, um, for supporting autonomous construction. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:28 Reid Hoffman Well, I mean, look, so Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but of course, you know, in, in modern regulatory environment, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:01 Reid Hoffman And I think that's one of the things that made California and Silicon Valley what it is.

New Face of DOGE Agenda Explains the Big Beautiful Bill · Joe Lonsdale Jul 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:00 Russ Vaught Almost a fake tax on a healthcare provider, use that to cause their Medicaid, ah, share to go higher, and then turn around and spend more dollars, they pocket, they have some walking around money for things like illegal immigrants in the…

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:20 Joe Lonsdale And I think the head of some California labor union tried to like use it to attack me and say I was a bad person.

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 11:02 Marc Andreessen I did a jump to, you know, kind of the polar opposite kind of culture, uh, and kind of world.
  • ▶ 17:17 Marc Andreessen We, we have a project to build a new city, um, in California.
  • ▶ 18:50 Marc Andreessen California state government almost passed a law to outlaw AI in California six months ago, which is an indication how crazy California is. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:24 Marc Andreessen And so every time there's a housing crisis, you know, perpetual housing crisis in California, the answer always is subsidies for home buyers.

Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:03 Dave Rubin But you know, refugees, 20 years ago, you'd move from Cali to Utah because your taxes were too high, and then you'd get to Utah and vote the same stupid way, right? 2 times in the scene

Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale Jun 19, 2025 · 59 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Steve Hilton It's crushing the spirit of entrepreneurialism and innovation and all that California represents. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07 Joe Lonsdale We talk a lot about how broken California is. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:33 Joe Lonsdale Candidate for governor for California officially now. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:20 Steve Hilton And there's many lessons from that, that I, I think of all the time in relation to the task ahead in California, in terms of really taking on the bureaucracy and the overregulation and so on. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:09 Joe Lonsdale So I want, I want to shift to California, but I want to use this as a shift because I think it's very courageous and smart to bring Jay Bhattacharya on. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:16 Steve Hilton But the reason I bring it up is that now here in California, I talk to a restaurant. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:17 Joe Lonsdale But why did California turn deep blue? 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:04 Steve Hilton In, in, in most cities in California, we have not enforced the law. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:38 Steve Hilton I'm not the actual simplest way of thinking about the solution is this instead of forcing housing into communities that don't want it, let's allow housing to be built in the places that do want it, which is there's a, and there's a lot of… 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:44 Joe Lonsdale What's the best case for California getting its act together?
  • ▶ 46:21 Steve Hilton I'm just at the beginning of it, but I think the ingredients of success are there for change in California. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:23 Steve Hilton Uh, and the, that upward mobility, the dream of making it in California and climbing the ladder of opportunity. 2 times in the scene

Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale Apr 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:31 Tom Cotton Probably the best example of that is Congressman from California, Eric Swalwell, who was targeted by a Chinese spy, apparently had a romantic relationship with her.

Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale Feb 21, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:50 Anson Frerichs From the state of California whose pension fund dollars they manage, state of New York whose pension fund dollars they manage, European sovereign wealth funds, others that are now pressuring business to so-called solve a lot of these… 6 times in the scene

$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale Jan 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:51 Zach Bookman And you wanted to map the California budget and understand where the money was going and what was happening and why the state was having trouble, which it was and is.
  • ▶ 42:06 Zach Bookman If it's a horse community in Florida or in California, they don't want massive building and five minute permits. 2 times in the scene

Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale Nov 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:44 Raj Bhakta So I come out to California and anyway, very long story short, I, we created an interesting solution to be able to price cars online.
  • ▶ 52:51 Joe Lonsdale This is Fremont, East Bay, California, Silicon Valley.

Jonathan Greenblatt on Ta-Nehisi Coates, CRT, and woke politics · Joe Lonsdale Oct 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:37 Jonathan Greenblatt Um, in between, after that, I got an MBA at Northwestern, and then I went out to California to be part of the internet revolution. 2 times in the scene

This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 12, 2024 · 1 mention

A Conversation with Wall Street Legend & U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross · Joe Lonsdale Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:07 Ken Langone In 1977, I had a small medical device company in California by the name of IVAC Corporation.

A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale May 10, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:28 Dr. Clarence Jones In the event, um, make a long story short, one day in the second week of February, Martin Luther King, Jr., and someone who traveled with, uh, Bernard Lee, they showed up at my door at 27 51 Highview Avenue, an altitude of California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:25 Joe Lonsdale I was really interested to see your letter to Governor Newsom in, in opposition to the ethnic studies curriculum we have in California public schools.

Ep 87: Dr. Cliff Winston — Deregulate Lawyers, Deregulate Airlines & Let Markets Correct Themselves · Joe Lonsdale May 2, 2024 · 1 mention

Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale Apr 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:20 Joe Lonsdale If you could get the Jews and the Persians working together, you know, some of our very best companies here in California.

Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale Feb 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:46 Joe Lonsdale California is very broken.
  • ▶ 32:59 Joe Lonsdale Is California and Brussels and Europe gonna, gonna stop AI and break it, or are we gonna be able to break out, and AI's gonna lead to these more positive visions?
  • ▶ 35:25 Mike Solana Or most of us come from family members who wanted to come here for something better, which is, it's like in our lineage as well, is this sort of like optimism, and Peter has this crazy thing he says about going west, like, like people kind…

Ep 75: Leadership Lessons with Intuit Founder & Silicon Valley Legend Scott Cook · Joe Lonsdale Dec 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:11 Scott Cook And I was just touring Amazon's newest and largest, excuse me, newest and most modern warehouse, which is in Tracy, California, about two hours south of here.

Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale Nov 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:46 Joe Lonsdale Going back to CCP for a little bit, speaking of all these special interests, like what else have you found of their influence operations inside the U S you recently put out a report on illegal biolab in California.
  • ▶ 21:57 Congressman Mike Gallagher You know, we, we had, we, I brought the committee out to California early on in our work, and we had an off the record round table with a bunch of Hollywood executives.

Ep 71: No Debt, Top Professors & Personal Coaches — A New Community College with Tade Oyerinde · Joe Lonsdale Nov 23, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:35 Andrew McAfee Um, John Markoff, who's the longtime technology reporter for the New York Times, wrote a great book called What the Dormouse Saw, or, or said, I can't get the line right, about this early confluence of, of freak, of freaky hippie culture,…

Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale Nov 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:59 Boyan Slat The, the largest one is this Great Pacific Garbage Patch between Hawaii and California.

Ep 63: Eddie Margain on Fleeing Mexico and Building Austin FC · Joe Lonsdale Jun 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 62: Ben Rubenstein Says Resumes Are Useless; Here's How to Find the Best Salespeople · Joe Lonsdale Jun 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:34 Joe Lonsdale So this home is, this home is twice as big as my home in California for a fourth the cost.

Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale Jun 11, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 8:34 Guillermo Rauch They, they still, the one thing is they always talk about is the language barrier, but I always tell them like, Hey, in California, like you, you, you can go so far and you can learn as well.
  • ▶ 23:15 Guillermo Rauch So it's hosted in California or, or about there. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:42 Joe Lonsdale Are you doing everything in person in California?

Ep 58: Private Markets Outperform Public But They're a Mess! Eliot Hodges Is Fixing That. · Joe Lonsdale May 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:14 Eliot Hodges And, um, but at the time, you know, it was very, uh, considered very adventurous and, um, you know, stopped for a while during college, but then sort of picked it up again, uh, moving back here in California.

Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25 Nathan Mintz Well, one thing I learned is that Sacramento is basically locked into a number of special interests who pretty much called the shots in the state, and, and the assemblymen, uh, mostly on the, on the majority side, but some on the minority… 3 times in the scene

Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 12, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 4:35 Joe Gebbia As you know, you did a lot of work in California. 7 times in the scene

Ep 51: Adm. Bill McRaven on Leadership, Modernizing the Dept of Defense & Dealing with China · Joe Lonsdale Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:31 Adm. Bill McRaven So as he tells the story, he and about four other members of the Cleveland Rams, you know, got in a car and drove to California and, and enlisted in the Army Air Corps.

Ep 50: Troy Carter on Discovering Lady Gaga, Future of Music, and Speaking Out on School Choice · Joe Lonsdale Mar 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:05 Troy Carter And this is, and the difference is, you're talking to somebody, I've only voted, I voted Republican once in my life, and that was for Meg Whitman when she was running for governor of California, because I liked her, like, I think Meg is,… 2 times in the scene

Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale Jan 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:28 Joe Lonsdale The problem is, there's, there's, there's a famous story in California where they, where there's an apartment of Native Americans, whatever they called it, and they're spending, it turned out, like some insane amount of money, like 40,000…

Zach Latta: Founding Hack Club & Inspiring the Next Generation of Builders · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:33 Zach Latta One cool project was a Hack Clubber from California and a Hack Clubber from a pretty rural part of the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia worked together to make a fragment shader programming language.

Oklo's Amazing Small Reactor That Can Reuse Nuclear Waste · Joe Lonsdale Apr 6, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:25 Jake DeWitt Well, here in California, we have the lovely joy of paying at peak hours.
  • ▶ 32:29 Jake DeWitt Cause right now you see places like, like here in California right now, I mean, well, it's not just in California, but in a number of States, you're seeing great deployment of clean technologies like solar and like wind, but energy prices… 2 times in the scene

Free Housing Won't Solve the Homeless Crisis. Here's What Will. · Joe Lonsdale Mar 24, 2022 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 2:19 Joe Lonsdale So judge, we, we were, you were working with us in California for a while.
  • ▶ 6:55 Judge Glock So the environmental movement in California was more powerful than it was elsewhere. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:12 Judge Glock But one of the things I often point out to the Yimby's, who, which I have worked with, and again, largely support a lot of their goals, is that California has 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:53 Judge Glock So, you know, we, we are, when we were previously based in California, we did a lot of stuff about trying to rearrange the incentives. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:42 Judge Glock Uh, and you know, what I saw there was what I saw in the tent, uh, encampments in California.
  • ▶ 41:21 Judge Glock You know, one of the surprising things in California, uh, homelessness is rated as the number one issue in the whole state, which is amazing. 3 times in the scene

Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:15 Chris Sprowls Uh, in combating rioting in our community, because we wanted to send a message to the rest of the country, to, to your Californias, your Oregons.
  • ▶ 26:36 Chris Sprowls Had he not been governor of Florida, and even if we had a Republican legislature as a backstop, you know, we would have been much more like New York or California during the pandemic than Florida.

Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale Jan 14, 2022 · 2 mentions

How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:20 unnamed speaker And the requirements for, um, being a nurse practitioner in Tennessee are going to be very different from those in Arizona or California.

Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale Dec 15, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:12 Bo Marmon So the, actually the, um, analogy I like to use is, uh, I, so I live in a Manhattan beach, uh, California down in Los Angeles.

Billionaire Founder of KIND & Shark Tank Star Daniel Lubetzky · Joe Lonsdale Dec 15, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:24 Daniel Lubetzky I lived in Texas for two years of high school, three years of college, a little bit abroad, and then I was in California, New York for a while.

Jake Kloberdanz: Cause-Centric Commerce and the Art of Award-Winning Winemaking · Joe Lonsdale Sep 9, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:42 Jake Kloberdanz And so the first distributor we ever got in California had just dropped 60 brands.
  • ▶ 13:54 Jake Kloberdanz Um, they're more expensive than the average as you go throughout the rest of the state, but relative to that bottle of wine, generally the grapes are 10 to 15% of the cost.
  • ▶ 19:57 Jake Kloberdanz So we source from Napa, Sonoma, the central coast, which are the three best regions of California.
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