Ep. 239 - Boys Club LIVE: Phia is a good product actually, Obsession and Backrooms, Peptides Event, Victoria's Secret Stock Bump, Kalshi Knicks Bar Bet, Partiful bugs and NY Tech Week Events with guest Ana Bhoyrul Video

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:34 Williamsburg Cold Open 01:14 Pride and Internet Bits 05:03 NoDi Micro Neighborhoods 07:06 Why NoDi Went Viral 12:01 Commit to the Bit 13:32 Timothée Chalamet Kalshi Ad 21:02 Neighbor Noise and Sports Vibes 23:52 Is Basketball Scripted 27:18 World Cup Tourist Freddy 31:09 America Middle Class Envy 32:08 NYC Grass Is Greener 32:30 Freddy Goes Viral 35:27 Do You Bet 37:24 Nick Devor (Barrons) 38:06 Kalshi Chalamet Ad 40:06 Sportsbooks Plateau 44:55 CFTC Draft Rules 48:15 World Cup Betting Boom 52:21 Polymarket US Volume 54:58 Sports Shift And Partnerships 57:42 Sportsbook Vs Event Contracts 01:01:07 Five Year Outlook 01:02:52 Kalshi vs Polymarket 01:03:53 Do Fees Matter 01:05:34 World Cup Betting Economics 01:07:30 Guest Swap and Research 01:08:07 David Rosenberg (Notion) 01:09:41 Career Bets Explained 01:13:38 Founder Psyop Debate 01:16:07 Fun Is the Moat 01:18:01 Notion as AI Company 01:20:57 Founder Advice in AI 01:26:01 Model Drops at Notion 01:29:06 Emrata Essay Discourse 01:35:32 Wrap and Thanks

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:34 On the Ground at ETHConf 05:00 Today's Guest Lineup 05:49 Amanda Cassatt (Serotonin) 06:57 Ethereum's Big Mission 10:03 Institutions vs Exit Money 12:12 Talent Drain to AI and Beyond 15:44 Marketing and What Sells Now 17:03 What Excites Amanda Next 18:22 Scott Dykstra (Space and Time) 19:40 Virtual Vaults Explained 22:27 CLARITY Act and Tokenization 26:43 Quantum Threat and ETH Outlook 28:41 Buy The Dip Banter 29:23 Azeem Khan (Miden) 33:28 Privacy Versus Compliance 35:38 Digital Assets Rebrand 36:52 Crypto Maturity Optimism 40:09 Chris Yin (Plume) 40:27 Plume RWA Vaults 42:15 Looping Yield Strategies 45:07 TradFi Culture Clash 47:25 EthCC Closing Thoughts

This week on Boys Club Live, Natasha and Quasimatt break down a viral Reddit dating discourse post about a woman who demanded an Uber from Greenwich Village to Williamsburg (7:58), react to Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word encyclical warning about AI and his tour of Ferrari's polarizing new electric car (16:58), sit down with Brookings Institution fellow and Oxford anthropologist Jacob Taylor to discuss his paper on "Context-maxing" and how to use AI without losing your cognitive agency (36:41), and close out with a breakdown of the Enhanced Games, a for-profit, doping-encouraged athletic competition that somehow drew real Olympic athletes (1:05:06).

00:00 Welcome to Boys' Club Live 00:34 Summer Vibes and Weekend Plans 02:16 Touch Grass and Backyard Hole 04:36 Show Preview and Sponsor Polygon 06:37 Meeting a Crypto Macro Trader 09:52 Peptides Stack and Reta Results 20:38 Sam Altman GLP Overdose Story 23:33 Everlane Sells to Shein 33:30 Sponsor Vercel Plug 35:55 Waymo Backlash in Nashville 38:23 Kids Riding Waymo Debate 39:35 Waymo for Rural Safety 42:15 Murdoch Buys New York Mag 46:44 Girls Building Cyberdecks 50:21 Meet Tok-Edge Founder Raees Chowdhury 51:23 Why a Regulated Crypto Fund 54:37 Redemption Token Explained 58:16 TradFi DeFi Tradeoffs 01:03:07 Who Wants This Product 01:09:48 Market Outlook and Wrap

00:00 Welcome to Boys' Club 01:32 Show Me Your Stack 02:21 QuasiMatt Doxxing Bit 04:24 Thinking Machine Demo 13:06 Altman Texts and Lawsuit 16:43 Kacey Musgraves Discourse 23:14 Rubén Steckel Joins 24:47 Stablecoins Go Mainstream 29:48 Local Stablecoins 101 33:11 Stablecoins In The US 34:40 Institutional Tailwinds 36:51 AirTM Wallet Vision 38:06 Tala Loan Partnership 41:22 What Payments Lack 43:59 Hantavirus Conspiracy 50:59 Meet Prince From Luma AI 51:56 How Luma Works 56:06 Enterprise Adoption Fears 01:01:55 Slop Cannon Culture 01:06:10 Intentional Slop Debate 01:06:43 Inside the Creative Summit 01:07:25 AI Unlocks VFX Creativity 01:09:59 Mission Athletic Club Story 01:11:38 Designing Club Merch 01:12:04 Luma Model Stress Tests 01:12:34 Why Tools Empower Creatives 01:13:27 Show Me Your Stack Plug 01:15:10 Farza and Clicky Clip 01:19:41 New Segment Cash Tips, guest Sahil Goswammi 01:21:04 Sahil's Crypto Banking Path 01:24:10 Clarity Act Breaking News 01:26:02 Stablecoin Yield Fight 01:34:27 Future of Money Programmable 01:36:37 Agentic Payments and Stables 01:40:49 One Minute Cash Tip 01:42:25 Wrap Up and Sign Off