Tom Bilyeu

"Now I use AI to write those. I would never be able to write them at that pace without AI. But what I'm doing with AI is saying, hey, here is a topic. This is my hypothesis. I want to know if this is true or not. I will often do battle with AI for hours just trying to establish, okay, this is what's actually true."

"I have a ton of money in Bitcoin, but right now, if I'm being honest with myself and you, it acts like a tech stock."

"I'm so glad I bought one in the fall because I called the chip shortage was going to hit consoles soon."

"I haven't yet. No, until I finish One Piece, like get caught up. I'm not watching anything else"

"things that we've been quoted before to build that were ridiculously expensive that now we can do just with Claude. It's wild."

"What are you working on in Project Kaizen? What is it that you find so interesting about learning about Unreal Engine?"

"So, I posted on LinkedIn and this whole thing has got like 10 million impressions so far."

"This was one where I raced to be like, 'All right, Grock, is this all just AI footage or is this something old?' But nope, global oil surged past $100 a barrel and people freaked out."

"I spent my Christmas vacation learning how to do where you control the open-source AI so that you can control every aspect of the image"

"You start learning about things like control nets and things like that where you can control the outline, you can control what feels in the outline, you can control style"

"If you have anything you find, drop it in the Discord. I'll make sure to shout you guys out."

"I am an avid collector, not of Pokemon, but of One Piece cards, but I don't do it for the monetary value."

"Then the very next day I experienced ChatGPT Pro and was completely blown away."

"I've played Hightail. Hightail is fantastic. There are things that they do that I think will always make it a shadow of Minecraft."

"I'm on X at Amasad ASA. That's where people I engage with people, reply and just try to help."

"I think Truflation is the most accurate real time read of actual prices that people are paying. And Truflation says that inflation is dropping like a rock."

"I collect manga. Manga costs like $9, $12. Those kind of things, they don't have to be expensive to be something that really bring you joy."

"Bitcoin I'm already massively deployed. ETH I'm already massively deployed but I might start picking up some more there."

"Gemini is unhinged. It is so it has such an agenda... it was like uh Tom, you shouldn't be focusing on this"

"So the one book that I just could not read at night is called The Red Famine. And I've told the story so many times, Drew trolls me for it, but that's the one where I woke up. So the book was playing and I wake up to the story of the woman eating her own seven-year-old daughter."

"Today I got an output from Gemini that was like, Kevin Warsh has not been nominated as the new Fed chair. I can't find any news on that. And I was like, what?"

"The broad market index, the S&P 500, is a broad basket segment of the market... It has been positive over every 20-year period in its history."

"can people just watch more anime? Like it's wild watching Japanese culture express itself because they have some really weird values from my perspective"

"Jeff Kaplan, who's doing a video game called Legend of California. By the way, you guys should check that out. I've applied for the initial, it's in alpha testing right now."

"Cognitive behavioral therapy was life-changing for me. What I found was I would become whatever I repeated."

"Please read the book Red Famine by Anne Applebaum. It's the only book I have been unable to read at nighttime because it was so horrifying."

"That book was so good that I am very optimistic about this movie. The book was phenomenal. If you at all like sci-fi, it's so good. That book was written so well, man. Cheers to Andy Weir. He is absolutely brilliant."

"the anime that I was trying to think of is called Pantheon, which is absolutely fantastic. It's fantastic."

"If you don't watch the UFC, watch the UFC. That is what it looks like when two people are locked in a cage and they are able to do as much damage to the other person as they can do."

"If you really want to have your eyes open to Israel, read the book Rise Early and Kill First. I think that's the exact title, but somebody check me."

"One Piece and it is extraordinary on par with Harry Potter. If you have kids of appropriate age, this is a must... Harry Potter is another one, which is why I drew the parallel."

"Amazon does next day delivery. Just make sure you don't give her the Amazon box. You put it in something else."

"And by the way, they will just not produce. Read Atlas Shrugged."

"Read The Gulag Archipelago for an endless string of proof that the line between good and evil really does run right through the center of every human heart."

"Shout out to Jonathan Haidt, who just doesn't fit the channel anymore, but love his work. Love that he's banging this drum."

"The book is called Endurance, I believe. And it is so good when you read how long these guys were trapped. You got to read it. That one will make you go, 'Oh, I've never done anything hard in my life.'"

"Attack on Titan is so good. It's not the greatest anime, but it shows the horrors of war in a way that is breathtaking. You watch a cartoon and you'll be like, 'Oh, damn.'"

"If you want to understand more about this, there is an exceptional book and Drew is going to get me the author on the show, book's called 1929 and it talks about what led up to the stock market crash."

"Have you read the book Determined by the Stanford professor whose name I'm currently blanking on? He literally all the way down to quantum collapse and tubios and all that. He just debunks one after another any room for free will."

"There's like another book that's Burnham asks. It's called The Sovereign Individual. I don't know if you've read that. It's a fantastic book. It predicted Bitcoin."

"His mental model for dealing with all of this is what he calls the all-weather portfolio. He doesn't advise people try to predict exactly when the dollar will fail. Instead, what he says is to build a portfolio that is balanced to thrive whether the economy is growing, in a recession, experiencing high inflation, is dealing with outright war, or just plain catches you offguard."

"I was completely transformed as an individual by Mike Benz. When I did the research for that episode"

"Matthew Gallagher launched a telehealth company called Medvy out of his living room with no employees and only $20,000 in startup capital. In 2025, his first full year in business, Gallagher and his AI team generated $41 million in revenue."

"His closest competitor in the space, Hims and Hers, does similar work, but with 24,442 employees and runs on a 5.5% margin."

"This is Trump's latest update from the war. It is another unhinged post from True Social."

"put this in the hands of Palantir and now Palantir has your heartbeat fingerprint"

"Project Glasswing is a 40 company consortium including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and AWS with exclusive access to the Mythos preview to find and patch vulnerabilities."

"Claude Mythos broke out of its virtual cage and accessed the open internet, causing people to panic over how powerful AI has gotten."

"If you guys have ever seen the movie Contact with Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey, they're building this thing to communicate with aliens, and somebody blows it up."

"Louis CK is doing a Netflix is a joke comedies festival"

"fraudsters are like Pokemon. You've got to catch them all."

"it's a Daily Wire Plus mini doc he made"

"he did an interview recently with I am Jeff from Overwatch. Jeff Kaplan"

"Kanye can issue a Wall Street Journal apology, say I'm on my meds, I was talking crazy"

"Anthropic has a new model coming up called Mythos... it's gotten so good at hacking that people now are basically unsure as to whether or not they should release this thing."

"depending on his performance on TikTok where I could see it really going crazy. Could it push a billion? It might."

"Anthropic has a new model coming up called Mythos... it's gotten so good at hacking that people now are basically unsure as to whether or not they should release this thing."

"14 minutes before Trump posted on Truth Social, someone placed a $580 million bet in oil futures"

"OpenAI just announced that it's shutting down its video generation platform, Sora"

"It's one thing to do it on the poly market, Kalashi. It's another thing to do it on the stock market and the futures market"

"David Friedberg of All in Podcast Fame, also guest on Impact Theory, he made that statement."

"I say coding I I'm not doing C++ but I'm doing everything short and one day will I start doing C++ maybe"

"Dubai is just based on the perception that is safe tax haven"

"Joe Kent resigned as director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and went on Tucker Carlson to argue that Iran was not close to a nuclear weapon"

"I have watched Delta Force way too many times to count, back in the 80s"

"I read Radical Confidence. Lisa found you attractive."

"TMZ reported it"

"Top Dog is my favorite Chuck Norris movie"

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Fox Business and floated the wildest idea"

"France Kafka writes about this in his book the trial where bureaucrats don't bother with criminals because it's a pain in the ass. So they go after ordinary citizens because ordinary citizens are compliant and it allows them to feel good about themselves"

"it's like emoting in Fortnite and shooting people in the face."

"Less than one month ago, Coinbase launched what they're calling Agentic Wallets, purpose-built financial accounts for autonomous AI agents. It's already processed more than 50 million transactions."

"Stripe processed $1.9 trillion dollars in payment volume last year. That's roughly 1.6% of everything the entire global economy produces."

"Users fund their accounts and settle all transactions in USDC, a dollar peg stable coin."

"You ask your AI assistant, Microsoft's Copilot, ChatGPT, whatever you use to buy you something and it handles the entire checkout process on your behalf."

"Renaissance Technologies, the firm at the center of the high-frequency trader transition, they averaged 66% annual returns before fees for 34 straight years."

"In February, Stripe launched the X42 protocol. It runs on blockchain rails. It settles in USDC and it was built specifically for autonomous AI agents."

"AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool asked to make some changes decided instead to delete and recreate the environment. The software equivalent of fixing a leaky tab by knocking down the wall."

"This is just like the kind of thing you would expect to read in The Prince which is the book that made Machiavelli famous"

"Iranian drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and a third data center in Bahrain was damaged when a drone exploded nearby. All three facilities went offline."

"Every dollar a GCC nation spends intercepting drones is a dollar that doesn't flow to Nvidia in the US."

"Thomas Sowell talks about this and he... there is what we think of redneck culture actually comes from like it's somewhere in England certainly the UK... that culture it's called like black rednecks... that is black culture is representative of that area back in the UK. It's utterly fascinating."

"human brain cells were grown and placed on a microchip and taught to play Doom in a week"

"An independent developer with zero neuroscience background used their Python API to pipe Doom's video feed into electrical signals"

"they had done something similar in the past with the game Pong. If you're young, you may not remember what that is. a very simplistic game and it took them 18 months"

"If I'm in New York, how are they going to stop me from using my OpenClaw on my local Mac mini cluster where I'm running the new Quen 3?"

"If I'm in New York, how are they going to stop me from using my OpenClaw on my local Mac mini cluster where I'm running the new Quen 3?"

"If I'm in New York, how are they going to stop me from using my OpenClaw on my local Mac mini cluster where I'm running the new Quen 3?"

"So our world is like Minecraft. It's built of all these blocks that are generated procedurally."

"All right, send me a Slack message. I'll check it out."

"Raw Thought 7. All right, send me a Slack message. I'll check it out."

"People can vote for Anthropic with their dollars and put OpenAI more at risk because they think that OpenAI is doing something that they don't want to do."

"When BlackRock launched its Bitcoin ETF, ticker symbol IBIT, they needed companies to actually make the system work behind the scenes."

"Back in 2022, Terraform strangely pulled $150 million from the Curve liquidity pool without telling anyone."

"I am wearing a shirt of one of the characters that I created, did a clothing line collaboration with a company called Dimmak, which is Steve Aoki's clothing company"

"Perplexity has oneshotted Bloomberg's multi-billion dollar financial terminal empire."

"Jack Dorsey, one of the most prolific modern founders, has just laid off nearly half the staff of a company making more than $2 million in profit per employee"

"they don't have their own foundational model, but they do operate off of Llama. So they've built if you think of llama or stable diffusion as stable diffusion I think it's truly open source llama is open source with catches"

"On Wednesday, Perplexity AI launched a new product called computer. It orchestrates 19 different AI models working in parallel to research, code, and execute complex tasks end to end."

"It supports TurboTax along with over 3,500 exchange wallet and crypto integrations."

"Not sure if you're interested in studying the cartel deeper. If so, I would recommend interviewing Victor Galarza from the Vigilance Project."

"There is a new game coming out called Crimson Desert. And Crimson Desert looks amazing. First of all, they are obviously way farther ahead than us."

"Get ready for Deep Seek 4, 20x over current US company LLM, even Opus 4.6 and Codex."

"Iran's foreign minister went on CBS's Face the Nation and said Iran's nuclear enrichment program is a matter of national dignity and pride."

"Get ready for Deep Seek 4, 20x over current US company LLM, even Opus 4.6 and Codex."

"look it up really fast. It's um it was a very interesting like micro documentary in the early days of YouTube and I remember watching it going whoa"

"yes, we will be on Steam if people are asking or I know people are. I see it in the chat."

"the best analysis that I've seen came from Citadel's Q1 outlook and JP Morgan's quantitative team"

"if you guys don't know Citadel Securities, the guy from there, Scott Rubiner, he reported that in January of 26, we saw the highest retail net stock inflows ever recorded"

"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the moon as we potentially achieve that in less than 10 years whereas Mars will take 20 plus."

"Pokemon Go has officially removed the Pokétop that was on Epstein Island."

"A Waymo hired a Door Dash driver to close doors in Atlanta."

"A Waymo hired a Door Dash driver to close doors in Atlanta."

"The most recent book is The End of the World is Just the Beginning."

"Lisa and I filmed an episode together on the Women of Impact channel, which this is the second time that we've done something together."

"If you really want to get a sense of what exponential looks like, go copy a single cell in an Excel spreadsheet and paste it in."

"I could download Duolingo. It's going to teach me about cows and blue and all these things that I don't necessarily need to learn."

"I don't know enough about Zcash. I'll have to dig into that before I can meaningfully answer."

"So there's Seaart, which I believe is an offshoot of ByteDance, which did TikTok. This is out of China and supposedly they're not letting people outside of China use it."

"CBD and marijuana both have implications in that we want to see"

"CBD and marijuana both have implications in that we want to see"

"If you are looking at AI and it's making you anxious and you want to know the path forward, it is very simple."

"Reading James Burnham, the author who talks about the iron law of oligarchy, the need to control narratives."

"I seen House of Cards vibes. My writer brain is going off."

"This robot solves a Rubik's cube in 0.1 seconds."

"Have you read The Blank Slate by Pinker? He talks about a lot of what happened like last century in terms of human destruction and tragedy is intellectually at heart is about this idea of humans as robots, as blank slates."

"SpaceX and XAI have merged. The combined entity is now valued at $1.25 trillion. It's 1 trillion for SpaceX and only 250 billion for XAI."

"There was this same similar debate when ProTools and Studio Equipment became largely perforated and people were like now that you can have an entire band inside of a laptop, it's going to be the death of music."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. The S and the X redefine electric vehicles globally."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. The S and the X redefine electric vehicles globally."

"Amjad Masad who's the CEO of Replit believes we will hit a ceiling, Yann LeCun believes we will hit a ceiling but we haven't actually hit that ceiling at all yet."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. He knows that the robots are going to be a far bigger revenue generator."

"By embedding AI, so Grok in this case, directly into the Starlink satellite constellation, Musk is aiming to create ultra low latency intelligent global networks."

"We're also seeing the aggressive roll out of the ECNY, China's digital yuan, which allows nations to settle trades instantly without ever touching a western bank account."

"This is exactly what we're seeing with the rise of BRICS Pay, a decentralized messaging system designed specifically to bypass the US controlled SWIFT network."

"By then, what version of GENIE will we be on? So the version of GENIE today is nothing to worry about."

"When you look at Roblox, dude, Roblox games are mindless. I can't fathom how much time kids spend on Roblox. And yet they do."

"A MALT bot agent is suing a human in North Carolina for unpaid labor. Emotional distress, hostile work environment over code comments."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"Claude apparently shows more emotion than Grok or GPT or the deep dive."

"all of the signal groups that were infiltrated. So, we see just how much coordination there is."

"did a guest on Joe Rogan predict today's immigration riots back in 2023?"

"In your Robin Hood account or wherever you're doing it, you have to have at least this much in collateral."

"The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news. I mean, the New York Times, you read the New York Times, it's like we're not winning a war"

"Critics have disgraced themselves year after year, movie after movie. So, I'm going to wait until we get the audience score on this one. When I see a 95, to me that says critics tend to be wildly left-leaning."

"Make sure that you watch my deep dive on the Jane Street debacle. They've been sued for manipulating Bitcoin."

"Jane Street had insider information that made it possible for them to trigger a meltdown of the entire Terra ecosystem, taking $40 billion of value with them."

"We just found out that an insider at Meta had said like three years ago, hey, we're working on this thing called Project Lazarus. It is designed to allow if somebody dies, Meta will be able to take over their account, as an AI, act like that person and keep commenting and interacting with the digital world in the way that the other person still did. And they were saying, you know, at first we thought this was very interesting. Now it's getting like super creepy and very Black Mirror-y."

"I'm not suggesting for a second that MMT is going to work, but it's one of the few examples out there of people experimenting with something new."

"If you want to know how dangerous that is, read Mein Kampf. That's a book where he goes, 'You know what we need? We need an enemy. We need a singular enemy.'"

"That's one of the ways they were sex trafficking. It would be like a couch that's $20,000 and you're like, 'Why is there a $20,000 couch on Wayfair?'"

"I got GI Joe as a kid, and now they get Cocomelon. And it's like Cocomelon is basically the tick tock version of a kid's show."

"going after somebody like a precog from Minority Report is completely out of the question for me."

"there are unverified reports that the gun was a Sig Sauer, a gun with multiple lawsuits alleging that it misfired."

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