Memes and Markets

Keith & Ben talk to Damian Chen of the Starknet Foundation about crypto safety, Bitcoin privacy and the quantum threat, three problems that all come down to the same question of who can get to your money.Follow DamianX - https://x.com/thedamoooDamian's talk on stagePrivacy talk - https://youtu.be/SGdg7v64dPg?si=TxuvBkXOybbu-iaxQuantum talk - https://youtu.be/0lnLMcdgDP8?si=BUbVxrg75mKItlSwSources and Credits - https://docs.goog...

Asian Dad Energy is a 25 year big tech veteran who caught wind of the layoffs coming and instead of saving himself, deliberately put his own name at the top of the list so his junior colleagues could survive another round. In this conversation he breaks down what months of shock, depression and identity loss actually feel like after losing a career you built for 25 years, why LinkedIn does to white collar workers exactly what Insta...

Keith & Ben break down how AI video went from a rare stunt to the default content in your feed, who is making money from fake people and fake events, and what happens when nobody can tell what's real anymore.Sources and Credits - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvk_8kZLRWsWNAnhidbFxzxAeOyPubyDBzsYq3Xfju8/edit?usp=sharingIf you enjoyed the episode Click Subscribe + 'All' to be notified when we go liveJoin the Memes & Mar...

Ari Gutman is a Wall Street contributor and host of Masters of the Market who hit every milestone young and realized none of it made him want to be alive. In this conversation he gets into what it actually took to rebuild his life from the inside out, why the social circle you are in right now may be the single biggest thing holding you back, what happened when he sat with 367 people to make amends and heard silence for the first t...

Ari Gutman is a Wall Street contributor and host of Masters of the Market, a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of everyday people who have built real wealth from nothing. In this conversation he breaks down why chasing passive income through dividends while you are young is quietly costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, why volatile and risky are not the same thing and confusing the two is keeping you out of the best ...

Peter Diamandis is the founder of XPRIZE, has started 28 companies, and has known the people building AI personally for decades. In this conversation he gets into why the fear around AI is coming from completely the wrong place and what you should actually be paying attention to, why college graduates are ironically the group out of work the longest right now, what Elon Musk is actually like behind closed doors after knowing him pe...

Derrick Broze made a 17-part documentary series examining who runs the world, tested every claim from central bankers to reptilians, and landed on belief in authority as the real problem. He joins Keith & Ben to discuss what that means, what surveillance looks like today, and how ordinary people fight back.Follow DerrickYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@consciousresistanceDerrick's BookA Man of My Word - https://www.derrickbro...

Clive Thompson spent 47 years managing wealth in Switzerland and has become one of the most trusted voices on gold, silver and the global financial system. In this conversation he gets into why he believes the currencies we have today will not exist in 10 years, how governments have historically stolen from their own people when they run out of options from Rome to Yugoslavia to Cyprus, why Bitcoin is a personal parachute that nobo...

Clive Thompson spent 47 years managing wealth in Switzerland and has become one of the most trusted voices on gold, silver and the global financial system. In this conversation he breaks down why the gold and silver markets are completely dislocated right now meaning the price on your screen is not the price you will pay in the real world, why the US Treasury has a mechanism to revalue gold to $15,000 and use it to quietly wipe out...

Keith & Ben talk to James Corbett about the ideology at the top, the institutions nobody talks about, how a cover-up works while it's happening, and why he says the window to fight back through the internet is starting to close.Follow James CorbettWebsite - https://corbettreport.com/Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@corbettreportCentury of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeem...

Keith & Ben dig into Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus — the $42 billion headline loss that's mostly an accounting charge, the circular money flowing between Anthropic and its investors Amazon and Google, and what public buyers are actually getting for $2 trillion.Sources & Credits - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H6511IbNvTjwzJImXdhp8kWW-K5fD9l05FOB6EKtiJ4/edit?usp=sharingIf you enjoyed the episode Click Subscri...

Keith & Ben sit down with Henrik Zeberg to discuss the late-cycle rotation — why crypto is last in line, where the dollar goes, what the labor market is actually saying, and what happens to every risk asset when the recession he's been calling finally arrives.Follow Henrik:Substack - https://henrikzeberg.substack.com/aboutX - https://x.com/HenrikZebergSources and credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sT-eAr9gMcJ0Z8...

Santiago is the founder of Inversion and a former private equity investor who is now betting everything on stable coins changing the way businesses move money. In this conversation he gets into why over 80% of crypto's current value does not actually exist yet, why stable coins are already moving billions globally without most people knowing, and why the industry has five years to prove itself or risk becoming dramatically overvalu...

Charles Hoskinson predicted Bitcoin would hit 250K last year and it did not happen. In this conversation he explains exactly why, who is to blame, and why he still believes million dollar Bitcoin is inevitable. He also gets into why Bitcoin and altcoins are not enemies, why the Clarity Act is one of the worst things to happen to the crypto industry in years, and why the people who had the best chance to fix crypto regulation in Ame...

Charles Hoskinson has spent 15 years building the infrastructure for a world that does not exist yet. In this conversation he breaks down why every system around you is broken by design, why good people keep doing bad things inside broken systems, why corporations have quietly taken over every single industry, and why blockchain and crypto are not about price but about changing the rules of the entire game from don't be evil to can...

Keith & Ben sit down with Kyle Sonlin, co-founder of Global Settlement Network and author of Blockchain Explained, to discuss tokenization, what it actually unlocks, and what the next era of blockchain looks like for everyday people and institutions alike.Follow KyleX - https://x.com/KyleSonlinSources and credits - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F-x2E6pD2tluKWVxYghcGMNg4P9dwPjo6vg55EVAjQQ/edit?usp=sharingIf you enjoyed the...

Keith & Ben sit down with Bob Moriarty — Marine F-4B pilot, Vietnam veteran, founder of 321gold.com, and one of the longest-running voices in the resource world — to discuss the end of the American empire, the breaking petrodollar, and where money actually goes when the system cracks.Bob's Website - 321gold.comSources and credits - https://docs.google.com/document/d/136VgmAUOJa3c14gM-App7aOxSbK4YGKHABxHtAt3qKE/edit?...

Jeff Booth spent 15,000 hours trying to destroy the Bitcoin argument before he believed it himself. In this conversation he gets into why Bitcoin is the only money system in 5,000 years that governments cannot corrupt, why the banks are racing to get your Bitcoin into their custody and what happens to you if they succeed, why everything else in crypto is going to zero against Bitcoin in a long enough time frame, and why he believes...

Jeff Booth wrote a book in 2020 called The Price of Tomorrow that predicted everything you are living through right now. In this conversation Jeff breaks down why money today is actually debt, why prices are designed to rise and who benefits from that, why we have never actually lived in a free market, and why every problem you see in the world traces back to the money system. One of the most important conversations we have ever ha...