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Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN Aug 12, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:58 John Coogan Paramount is threatening to leave California by October first. 6 times in the scene

Hank Green Faces AI Backlash, OpenAI Math Advances, Million-Dollar Solo Firms | Diet TBPN Aug 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:22 Jordi Hays Broca relishes his ability to make whatever decisions he wants on his own, often from his sun-drenched Sausalito, California living room.

Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models Jul 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 17:44 unnamed speaker Ah, right now, there's a, I think an eighty million dollar campaign being spent to, ah, ah, block the, the, the billionaire tax here in California, but it seems like there are other things 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:58 unnamed speaker When you're next time you're in California, the three of us,

Thinking Machines’ First AI Model, California Loses $3.2B to Texas, TSMC Adds $100B | Diet TBPN Jul 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit Jul 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:50 unnamed speaker Rohan in Semaphore says Paramount Ways leaving California over Warner Brothers Rift.

Palantir's AIPCon 10, Ramp Hits $44B, 60 Minutes Eyes Rogan | Diet TBPN Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:38 unnamed speaker But this format certainly maybe makes it harder to build momentum in places like California, at least Southern California, Arizona. 2 times in the scene

Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions May 29, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 41:53 Brad Gerstner Um, and, uh, we're going to announce some big things here in the state of California. 8 times in the scene

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN May 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:24 Jordi Hays This was particularly top of mind when California was in a massive drought and then you drive through different parts of California and it's just almond trees as far as the eye can see. 2 times in the scene

Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN May 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:19 unnamed speaker California tamales?

FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck May 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Gary Vee Says the Smartest Investors Are Going Analog Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:02 Gary Vaynerchuk It's like, the Brooklyn extremists are like, let's go, you know, hippie cool culture, and they get their little thing in a little sub pocket, it bleeds out a little bit, then the Manhattanites feel like they're not cool anymore, so they do…

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN Apr 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:00 unnamed speaker A 20 10 Rolls Royce ghost in Lake Arrowhead, California, where there are, in fact, bears.

SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN Apr 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:58 unnamed speaker She died of natural causes in California last year.

Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN Apr 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:04 unnamed speaker It's unclear if any of them have been backed by private equity as the California lawsuit appears to have been.

The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN Apr 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:27 John Coogan Uh, they were also sued in a class action lawsuit last month for violating California's anti-spam law.

The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company” Apr 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:36 John Coogan Uh, they were also sued in a class action lawsuit last month for violating California's anti-spam law.

Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN Apr 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:05 unnamed speaker You know, you don't say the California, the Texas, the Florida.

Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN Mar 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:10 unnamed speaker Water to three-year-old Californian towns were diverted in order to cool his locally-ran LLMs.

Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:17 unnamed speaker In California, but is allowing stay for one week.

Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN Mar 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:12 Turner Novak They made it to the front page because, uh, they were found guilty or, you know, uh, by California jurors. 2 times in the scene

Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It Mar 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:52 unnamed speaker If the California government thinking about one, one kilometer of track.

Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:28 unnamed speaker Animals roam free at California's one three seven Oak Hill Preserve, which has a five bedroom lodge and a helipad. 2 times in the scene

Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN Mar 19, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:26 John Coogan 5.4 extended thinking, like, what is the capital of California?
  • ▶ 24:36 Jordi Hays Uh, California has, uh, now spent over a hundred million dollars on a new bridge to nowhere. 3 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup Mar 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:27 unnamed speaker Last question about Texas for the Californians.

Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN Mar 12, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:35 unnamed speaker At the time he was easily the richest man in California with six 3 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat Mar 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:33 Alex Epstein But in this case in particular, this, this as Californians, we should all recognize this. 2 times in the scene

Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN Mar 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:34 unnamed speaker This is not taking the data from AWS East to California.

Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN Mar 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:12 unnamed speaker So, of course, Mark got this because of, uh, California's wealth tax, which if it goes through, he would still be subject to at least a one-time payment, you know, which, which would get litigated, of course.
  • ▶ 23:12 unnamed speaker Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders are proposing a national wealth tax on billionaires going even further than California.

Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Feb 21, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:28 John Coogan A California judge quickly narrowed a pool of 92 prospective jurors Thursday, excusing, excusing, 38 potential jurors who said they couldn't be fair

Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank Feb 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:38 Palmer Luckey Um, and, uh, they're, they're, they're headquartered on, on Catalina Island, California, Indiana, and Avalon.

Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN Feb 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:13 Jordi Hays And I guess it was, I guess it was all over California. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN Feb 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:57 unnamed speaker The 54 year old spent most of his 28 years at Disney, uh, working in theme parks, in the theme parks business in the U.S. and overseas, overseeing stints at California's Disneyland and Florida's Walt Disney World.

Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Google targets Chinese Cyber Weapon, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Jan 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:58 John Coogan Macklow, who worked on the design and development of Four Three Two Park alongside California-based CIM, bought two units in the Supertall for himself for forty-seven million dollars in twenty-twenty-two, financing the purchase with loans…
  • ▶ 25:50 John Coogan When Floor Mora, when Floor Mora closed on her new home for four million in November, 25, she knew she was acquiring a piece of California history.

China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN Jan 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:59 John Coogan It's just like, like, most, like, DTC founders in, in, in, in California, like, can't figure out how to get off a co-packer.

Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Davos Reactions, Waymo in the News, WB & Netflix Strike All Cash Deal | Diet TBPN Jan 21, 2026 · 1 mention

X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN Jan 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:23 John Coogan No, that was not, that, that got me unfollows because I posted about bringing tech, you know, I was early on the let's leave California train and I said, we gotta go to Alaska. 2 times in the scene

The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN Jan 17, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 28:31 unnamed speaker California-based unicorns being routed to the glue factory. 7 times in the scene

Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN Jan 16, 2026 · 1 mention

Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN Jan 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:32 John Coogan It's time for Silicon Valley to actually get involved and organize in California. 4 times in the scene

We're all Jerome Powell, Apple and Google Make it Official, Anthropic Health Care | Diet TBPN Jan 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:23 unnamed speaker Uh, California, also Hawaii, and I think one other state, so it's somewhat tricky.

The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN Jan 9, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 18:19 Jordi Hays Do you see Jensen came out yesterday and said he doesn't care about California's proposed billionaire tax. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:50 Jordi Hays Drew Tuma is reporting for the first time in 25 years, not a single square mile of California is dry on the U.S. drought monitor. 2 times in the scene

CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN Jan 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:45 unnamed speaker Knowing that there was going to be this whole like Ro Khanna, Peter Thiel, uh, Teddy Schleffer, like the whole like wealth tax thing that was going on in California.

Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:55 Doug DeMuro When I get asked by people who want a car, I live in California, everybody's got an electric, everybody wants a electric car.
  • ▶ 36:04 unnamed speaker Uh, do you think that, uh, how many, how many people do you think are frantically trying to re-register their cars to California after the Whistlin' Diesel scandal?

OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:42 Tyler Hogge Huang's remarks come after the Trump administration maintained a ban on California-based Nvidia selling its most advanced chips to Beijing following a meeting between U.S.

Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality Oct 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:08 unnamed speaker Staying in California? 2 times in the scene

Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN Oct 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:17 Palmer Luckey There's a lot of things that are easier when you're 23 than when you are 33, and, like, you're not supposed to talk about that, particularly as an executive of a company in California.

Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN Oct 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:26 unnamed speaker There are four ones next year, according to Sheil, uh, including Steve Jobs, uh, for California. 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI Sep 27, 2025 · 5 mentions

Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption Sep 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:22 unnamed speaker OpenAI says it's engaging in California and Delaware.

Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew Aug 30, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping Aug 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:51 John Coogan Five months ago, things were looking up for the Malibu, California mansion abandoned by Kanye West.

9 Mansions Every AI Researcher Should Own Aug 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker The California ranch is for sale for about fifty million. 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5 Aug 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:25:43 Jordi Hays For now, but the broader AI deployment has just begun showing a chart of Waymo weekly rides in California.

Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs Jul 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:14:37 Casey Neistat You know, I've got a dear friend of mine, a kid named Hunter, who works in the building with me, but I met him in California.

CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses Jul 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:23 unnamed speaker Um, and that we went through this with the California fires, you know, it was like a, everyone was searching for like a single person to pin it on.

Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill Jul 5, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:30 Jordi Hays In California, it's gotten more lenient.
  • ▶ 1:15:41 Zach Kukoff So you can have California, states, whatever, who wants you, Marsha Blackburn, her home state, Tennessee, passed last year, something called the Elvis Act, which, uh, was cutely named, but basically said, look, if you are building like a,… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:30:52 Jordi Hays You'd have to move AI out of California. 2 times in the scene

THE MEGA BILL - What's ACTUALLY inside? Jul 2, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:26 unnamed speaker So you can have California, states, whatever, who wants you, Marsha Blackburn, her home state, Tennessee, passed last year, something called the Elvis Act, which was cutely named, but basically said, look, if you are building like a, you… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:44 unnamed speaker So sorry, that was, you didn't answer, you asked the question about California and I dovetailed it back to the federal level.

Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers Jul 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:49 unnamed speaker You'd have to move AI out of California. 2 times in the scene

Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows May 31, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:15:08 Teddy Warner One way or another found myself in California, uh, worked at Mid Journey in a past life. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:34:56 Jordi Hays Went on to be the governor of California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:45:38 Jordi Hays In California, when there's this certain communities that are threatened, they'll have, like, private fire response.

We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts May 28, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24:51 Teddy Warner One way or another found myself in California, uh, worked at mid journey in a past life. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:44:40 Jordi Hays Went on to be the governor of California. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:18:21 Jordi Hays In California, when there's this certain communities that are threatened, they'll have like private fire response.

The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:01 unnamed speaker I've heard, like, oh, there's water, and at a certain point, you can draw out the chemical process for turning, like, carbon and hydrogen into some fuel, but, like, that's hard to, desalination is hard in America, in California.

Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

Why Hallucination Is Good For AI Voice Agents | Russell D'Sa on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

Building Durable Funds in the Post-Boom Era | Nichole Wischoff on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

What It Takes to Build a Mine | Ted Feldmann on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 1 mention

The Real Cost of Ultra-Processed Food | Calley Means on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:56 unnamed speaker Those kind of, uh, numbers are so shocking living in California or, or any, you know, if, if you live in California and New York, it's just, you would never believe those numbers. 2 times in the scene

This Company is Building the Future of Logistics | Keller Cliffton on TBPN April 10th Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:12 Keller Cliffton So I think people are often surprised that you can like achieve that level of scale in California.

Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th Apr 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:06 unnamed speaker High-speed rail in California's been a little bit of a rough go, uh, and I don't really want to see a California high-speed rail of six hundred billion get burned on a nuclear 2 times in the scene

The OCEAN Is the Next BATTLEFIELD | Shane Arnott on TBPN April 7th Apr 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:45 Shane Arnott Group, because all the tests are horrible places like Florida and, you know, Sydney or, um, you know, California or whatever.

Casey Handmer (Terraform) on Turning Sunlight and Air into Fuel Apr 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:22 Casey Handmer Uh, particularly for their interests, you know, and I wrote a, I wrote a post about this as well in the context of California, like California. 2 times in the scene

Augustus Doricko (Rainmaker) Talks Terraforming, Regulation Battles, and Climate Tech Apr 6, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 3:13 Augustus Doricko Um, and then there's a couple of water barons that, like, you can't even say the name of, or you'll be, like, compared to California. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:56 Augustus Doricko Um, I'm going to wait until Q one or Q two, 26 to do this, but, um, we're just going to stand up a land fund and we're just going to start buying up the land that currently isn't arable, primarily in Arizona and California, because the…
  • ▶ 22:34 Augustus Doricko So should California be more reliant on it? 3 times in the scene

David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes Apr 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:25 David Senra Uh, I'm getting like calls from Geordi at like five 30 in the morning, California time, just letting me know he's on his way to the, to the studio.

Lulu Cheng Meservey on Founder Mode, Attention as Currency, and Building the Future. Mar 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:59 Lulu Cheng Meservey It goes away, and you didn't do anything with it, so you're doing, like, attention, catch and release, like, uh, like, uh, California with illegal migrants, or, like, sports fishing.

Harry Stebbings Talks About Reviving European Tech and Finding the 1% Founders Mar 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:57 unnamed speaker Or is, is Europe kind of, uh, solidified in the same way that the United States is kind of a block, even though obviously there's a difference between Florida and New York and California.

Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world. Mar 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:32 Jordi Hays Uh, what's, uh, just pivoting back, uh, I don't know if you're in California right now or, or up at the Northern office, but, uh, how do we solve the wildfire crisis, uh, in the, in, in California, right? 4 times in the scene

Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG. Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:21 Justin Mares Like if you grow, you know, spinach in California, package it, put it on average, like a 12 day, uh, kind of like supply, put it through the supply chain.

Chrisman Frank on AI Tutors, the Path to Learning, and Struggles with the Modern School System. Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:21 Chrisman Frank There's some really exciting stuff going on now, which, um, I don't know if you guys had Ryan dealt from primer on, but he's done some work in like kind of lobbying, uh, governments in Florida for increased school choice, which is like, so…

"I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness. Mar 7, 2025 · 1 mention

Could NIKOLA Make a Comeback? Feb 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:41 Austin Petersmith Uh, California regulators and the Biden administration tried to boost the electric truck market with mandates and subsidies.
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