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by Lukas and Saila
A conversation about incentives, power, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify outcomes.Hosted by Lukas (https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ) and Saila (https://x.com/sailaunderscore)Sponsored by Polymarket, CitizenX and Network Press
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- 4 days ago2h 19m
Private Money And The Norwood Supremacy: w/ Mert
Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, joins Lukas and Saila to explain why privacy is crypto’s unfinished business, why he sees Zcash as encrypted—or “better”—Bitcoin, and what the Ironwood upgrade means for the Orchard pool, supply integrity, formal verification and quantum recoverability.They compare Zcash and Monero, unpack fungibility and tainted coins, discuss private finance on Solana and Helius’s work with Light Protocol, and examine why public blockchains risk becoming a global financial panopticon. The conversation then moves into AI, DeFi security, startup hiring, company names, Slavic relationship theory, emergency flowers and the collapse of straightforward Western dating.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comPassage Press: https://passage.pressPlausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscoreMert: https://x.com/mert
- 1 weeks ago2h 22m
The Libertarian Addiction to Losing and New Hampshire Nationalism: W/ Jeremy Kauffman
Jeremy Kauffman joins the Positively Deniable Experience to explain how spending a few hours per week on libertarian politics helped throw the national Libertarian Party into chaos—and why he believes the Free State movement is succeeding in New Hampshire while the national party remains committed to losing.Jeremy recounts the rise of LBRY and Odysee, the SEC case that destroyed the company, crypto’s early generation of true believers, and the attempt to build a censorship-resistant alternative to YouTube. He also explains how the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire grew its X account from roughly 4,000 to 110,000 followers and why political influence increasingly flows from culture, social media, and status rather than policy papers.The conversation also covers the Free State Project, concentrating committed political minorities in one state, anonymity and trust online, New Hampshire’s economy and quality of life, prediction markets, AI-model bets, right-to-try laws, Lumina, biohacking, GLP-1s, housing, fertility, dating, Palantir, and the difference between efficient and ineffective government.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore Jeremy: https://x.com/jeremykauffman
- 2 weeks ago2h 12m
Escaping The IQ Shredder: with Spandrell
Spandrell joins us to explain the “IQ Shredder”: how successful cities attract ambitious, intelligent people from across the world, place them into a hypercompetitive rat race, and then make it nearly impossible for them to reproduce.We discuss why fertility is collapsing across virtually every developed society, whether Israel has escaped the trend, why financial incentives have repeatedly failed, and what governments could realistically do to make family formation prestigious again.Spandrell also explains Bio-Leninism—his theory of how political systems recruit people with few alternatives and convert personal disadvantage into institutional loyalty. We connect it to the strange people selected by modern politics, why competent people tend to leave government, and why the political right struggles to build a durable machine.Later, we get into Spandrell’s life in Japan and China, how China changed under Xi Jinping, the decline of Twitter, the possible return of long-form blogging, Substack’s monetization advantage, Urbit’s future, AI-assisted development, and why Chinese companies can conquer entire industries without making their shareholders rich.https://spandrell.comSponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgExtra content: https://substack.com/@plausiblydeniableLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore Spandrell: https://x.com/spandrell4
- 3 weeks ago2h 9m
Nukes are Good For You, Actually
The boys return under plague conditions to discuss why nukes might be less socially destructive than dating discourse, the ethics of height-maxxing children with growth hormone, the “ship it, I guess” approach to biohacking, trad life vs gene editing, Europe’s anti-AC death drive, Singapore, Yarvin, Nick Land, cats, prediction markets, bought accounts, World Cup confusion, and why prediction markets might just be manifestation markets.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore0:00 Nukes vs dating discourse1:26 Intro + sponsors2:46 Growth hormone for short kids6:00 Correcting disorders vs height-maxxing9:17 Short women, short sons, and dating math13:13 How tall is too tall?16:23 “Ship it, I guess” and gene editing18:35 Ted Kaczynski as meme philosopher23:15 The “media arena” problem25:04 Pets, illness, and irrational coping27:20 Copper peptides and supplement stupidity31:26 Remineralizing toothpaste and managing 100 trillion variables34:24 Everyone is a drug addict now38:36 When the Giga Chad opinion is dumb41:43 The green screen blanket era45:41 Nukes don’t matter theory47:59 Radiation poisoning vs modern dysfunction50:22 Compliment euphemisms and dating language53:51 The mommy-dommy tangent56:48 Do we actually want tradition?59:50 Trad or supercomputer gene editing1:02:18 Brian Johnson, rationality, and religion1:04:07 Europe’s heatwave and anti-AC ideology1:06:41 Singapore, order, and political realism1:12:00 America’s smaller future1:15:50 The K-shaped economy: AI or fraud1:18:23 Are consultants ready for AI?1:19:15 The singularity as a crash GIF1:21:00 Everything is destroyed and that’s beautiful1:25:24 Universal suffrage, kings, and weird politics1:27:03 Yarvin in San Francisco1:29:42 Becoming Nick Land1:32:22 Cats vs dogs1:38:54 Prediction markets and insider information1:42:17 Does paying people more change behavior?1:44:29 Americans pretending to care about soccer1:53:41 Millennials vs Zoomers1:56:26 Bought accounts and viral posting1:57:42 How much is an X account worth?1:59:23 Nikita, X payouts, and not drawing aggro2:02:21 2026 midterm markets2:05:30 Prediction markets as manifestation markets2:06:22 Bonus episodes on Substack2:07:42 Closing fever/green screen delirium
- Jun 26, 20262h 2m
The Sensitive Old Man Problem
Lukas and Saila return from San Francisco with takes on city discourse, scam calls, GLP-1s, power-law dating, Elon’s financial engineering, Polymarket political markets, RFK Jr., airport lounge arbitrage, SFO baggage purgatory, “not financial advice” disclaimers, pharmaceutical ads, weed, birth control, IQ-tiered libertarianism, and why every abstract argument eventually becomes a dating take.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore0:00 San Francisco safety, homeless discourse, and wanting something to happen3:00 Scam calls, robocalls, lost wallets, and why phones are unusable5:44 Intro, sponsors, and the first Plausibly Deniable employee8:30 Listener demographics, microwaving your brain, and PD setup talk10:00 The muted Bachelorette split-screen strategy10:43 San Francisco in the Twitter bio and coastal-elite accusations14:50 “Just pay the taxes, bro” and California cope18:18 GLP-1s, hunger, desire, alcohol, and biological side effects20:15 Hunger receptors, carbs, sleep, and social calibration23:20 Power laws in wealth, cities, dating, and status25:54 Elon Musk liquidity, SpaceX shares, and private-market weirdness28:00 Elon’s all-stock empire and the fake-perfect S-130:00 Low-float IPOs, crypto traders, and baby’s first pump33:24 Grocery shopping as the ideal first date35:00 Public anthropology, grocery-store flirting, and social passes40:14 Sensitive young men, sensitive old men, and the empath/sociopath problem41:39 Polymarket: Vance, Rubio, Tucker, Nikki Haley, and GOP nominee odds47:30 Democrats as the party of rich white women50:07 RFK Jr., Kennedy aura, voice problems, and outsider politics53:00 ER dehydration, DIY electrolyte ratios, Sprite, and Gatorade56:00 Why every abstract argument becomes a dating take57:37 Garden leave, severance, and explaining tech jobs to normal people58:48 Tracing Woodgrains, disclaimers, and “not financial advice”1:02:35 Pharmaceutical ads, WebMD sales pitches, and legal disclaimers1:03:59 Birth control, weed, fertility, and long-term health tradeoffs1:07:21 Libertarianism, paternalism, and unlocking drugs by IQ score1:07:58 The IQ-tiered drunk-driving proposal1:10:00 Alcohol, reaction time, weed concentrates, and useful hangovers1:11:30 Tracing Woodgrains, furries, lawyers, and credibility laundering1:14:40 Yudkowsky’s meme glasses and hostile interviews1:15:08 Guest screening calls and why podcasting is harder than people think1:18:03 Airport lounges, Amex economics, salmon, broccoli, and disgust-response flexing1:19:56 Dessert etiquette, eating disorders, and what not to say1:20:26 SFO baggage purgatory: Delta, United, and no actual ticket1:24:43 Explaining modern culture to boomers1:25:00 Escorts, dating, and embarrassing relationship structures1:28:56 Situationships as straight lavender marriages1:30:12 The life-checklisting meme1:33:21 GLP-1 relationship study and “relationshiped persons”1:35:04 Cohabitation, relationship definitions, and survey weirdness1:39:30 Podcasting as marriage theory1:40:32 The “Obsession” movie discourse1:45:12 Work mode, meetings, and lying about when you have to leave1:50:08 Friend-zoned men, bears, and male slave friends1:51:32 Girls in tech, attention complaints, and bad-faith incentives1:55:29 Allowing people dignity in relationships1:55:46 Instagram models, humiliation, and basic partner etiquette1:59:01 Twitter likes, relationships, and never getting too comfortable2:00:17 Twitter personas vs real-life personalities2:00:51 The new Chinese AI model, ZAI, and Lukas victory-lapping2:01:49 Closing
- Jun 11, 20261h 58m
Bay Area House Party Epilogue
Lukas records through food poisoning while the boys recap San Francisco, Bay Area house parties, Twitter people becoming real, unlimited oysters, Crime George, social minefields, Uber drivers, crypto trading, Modern Warfare 2, travel degeneracy, lost wallets, coconut water, Ray Peat breathing, Veblen goods, publicists, and whether having a podcast has made normal social interaction impossible.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore0:00 Crime George1:51 Welcome back / Lukas has the plague4:49 How Lukas somehow didn’t get sick earlier7:04 SF social life becomes dangerous9:11 Food poisoning as a weight-loss arc10:00 Peptides, Reda, and dysphoria12:20 Lukas gets white-pilled14:23 Bay Area house parties16:42 The suit hack at SF parties18:00 Unlimited oysters and suspicious abundance21:15 Meeting Twitter accounts in real life22:00 Everyone is lying about height23:00 San Francisco rent and income realities24:10 Looping AI overlays24:49 Is Lukas juiced?26:14 Walking 20,000 steps in SF26:43 Homeless biomes30:00 Crime George returns32:00 Disheveled podcasting35:00 Social climbing and SF party dynamics40:00 Podcast lore makes dating worse43:30 Grok as internet argument referee50:00 Uber drivers, market structure, and SpaceX IPOs55:00 The anti-social corner at the house party1:00:00 Lukas’s extreme sociability range1:02:00 Bay Area housing roulette1:05:00 Crypto trading styles1:10:00 Modern Warfare 2 nostalgia1:15:00 SF weather complaints1:20:00 Travel mode and neglected responsibilities1:25:00 Alcohol, hangovers, and forbidden tactics1:30:00 The bad airplane seatmate1:33:00 Losing the Amex card1:35:00 Recovering a lost wallet through Uber1:40:00 Coconut water and looksmaxxing accusations1:42:00 Ray Peat, bag breathing, and CO21:48:00 Veblen goods and luxury pricing1:51:00 Publicists and how articles happen1:55:00 Podcast listeners in the wild1:58:00 Respecting the audience / actual cut
- Jun 6, 20261h 58m
Beyond Dual Citizenship: The Case for Becoming a Rootless Cosmopolitan
NEED SOME PASSPORTS??https://citizenx.com/?ref=PlausiblyDeniableAlex from CitizenX joins Plausibly Deniable to explain the strange, funny, and increasingly important world of buying citizenship.We talk about why wealthy people are collecting passports, how citizenship by investment actually works, why Europe is cracking down on “golden passport” programs, and why more people are treating passports as geopolitical insurance. Alex breaks down the difference between residency, citizenship, and passports; the main tiers of citizenship programs; why El Salvador’s passport is different; and why places like Switzerland, Singapore, the UAE, Hong Kong, and the U.S. keep attracting millionaires even as the global order gets more unstable.We also get into exit taxes, global taxation, real estate risk, prepper psychology, offshore banking, prediction markets, insider trading rules, and why the best flex might not be a Rolex anymore — it might be seven passports.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore00:00 Passport flexing is the new Rolex flex00:46 Intro: Alex from CitizenX01:36 What CitizenX does03:00 Is “buying a passport” actually legal?05:51 Why the EU hates citizenship by investment07:11 Rich people want poor-country passports10:01 Who buys second passports?11:36 Crypto, trucker protests, and country risk12:46 Global taxation and FATCA14:34 The EU asset register17:15 Where wealthy people move19:12 Why UAE, Singapore, and Switzerland are hard to naturalize in20:49 Why Americans give up citizenship22:40 The decline of the U.S. passport25:12 Brazil, BRICS, and neutral passports27:31 The future of passports and individual surveillance29:28 The three tiers of citizenship programs30:49 The cheapest passports33:33 Caribbean citizenship programs36:29 Germany, conscription, and European demand38:45 Geopolitical chaos as passport marketing41:13 Pavel Durov, UAE citizenship, and state protection43:35 El Salvador’s million-dollar passport45:21 Where millionaires are moving48:10 How to design a good citizenship program53:00 What passport programs actually cost57:00 “Donation” vs buying citizenship1:01:00 Can you own too many passports?1:05:00 Passport portfolios and the ultimate flex1:09:00 Exit vs voice: preppers, bunkers, and passports1:13:00 Drafts, national identity, and exit planning1:18:00 Privacy, Swiss servers, and client secrecy1:23:00 Remote islands, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay1:28:00 U.S. polarization and internal exit1:34:00 Passports as downside protection1:39:00 Real estate as national-risk exposure1:45:00 Prediction markets and forecasting1:50:00 Insider trading, regulation, and Polymarket1:56:00 Final riffs and outro
- May 30, 20263h 44m
Vegas: Ragebait Advertising and The 'Idea' of Fun
Vegas is no longer pretending to be normal.This episode starts with the Enhanced Games, Polymarket’s viral “steroid Olympics” coverage, the strange incentives around performance enhancement, and why people misunderstood what the first Enhanced Games actually proved. Then we get into the anthropology of modern Vegas: male models, status games, fake DJ sets, clubbing where nobody talks to each other, and a dating culture where the photo has replaced the actual interaction.We also cover TSA house rules, American tort law, why healthcare and contact lenses are so much more annoying in the U.S., European models reading Curtis Yarvin, the collapse of normal social scripts, and why every modern public interaction feels like five layers of game theory.Sponsored by Polymarket, Zcash, CitizenX, and Passage Press.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore0:00 — Dating apps, girls trying men’s profiles, and A/B-tested pickup lines5:00 — Dating zones, cold approach, and clubs as “PvP zones”10:00 — The photo replacing the actual interaction15:30 — Vegas DJs, Zedd, bad drops, and fake live performance23:30 — Modern clubs as Instagram stories in person30:00 — Boomer dating advice and the post-meta dating world36:30 — Intro / welcome back / sponsors38:00 — Enhanced Games, Vegas parties, and the weird elite crowd41:00 — Gas station dick pills, sildenafil, and medical gray zones44:00 — TSA house rules and the safety razor incident48:00 — Contact lenses, U.S. healthcare friction, and tort law53:00 — Playground liability and burning down the backyard structure55:00 — Vegas clubbing, male models, and VIP gender-ratio engineering1:02:00 — Snapchat, looksmaxxing, and scripted nightclub behavior1:05:00 — European models reading Curtis Yarvin1:07:00 — Polymarket’s Enhanced Games tweets1:11:00 — Steroids, genetics, and why the Enhanced Games results were misunderstood1:16:00 — Usain Bolt, doping speculation, and the $10M bounty1:22:00 — Betting, prediction markets, and people needing skin in the game1:30:00 — Capitalism, shareholders, and weird startup/product incentives1:38:00 — Streamers, cameras, and online performance as labor1:48:00 — Rich people, models, and party status games1:56:00 — Podcast production, green screens, and making video work2:05:00 — Online mobs, being clipped, and reputational risk2:12:00 — Streamer infrastructure and jealousy over simple phone setups2:20:00 — Fame, money, and the current content economy2:30:00 — Medicine, hair-loss drugs, and information quality online2:35:00 — Dating apps return: response-rate meta and soulless optimization2:43:00 — The girl who wanted the photo, not the interaction2:50:00 — Why older people can’t understand modern clubbing2:55:00 — Zedd drops, fake DJing, and the audience losing energy3:00:00 — Vegas as fake degeneracy and the private jet analogy3:07:00 — Boomer dating advice, wax seals, and outdated social scripts3:15:00 — Approaching, shoulder-checking, and broken in-person scripts3:22:00 — Politics, media, and people not knowing other worlds exist3:30:00 — SF dinners, networking, and the awkwardness of opinion questions3:38:00 — Consensus reality, social scripts, and closing riffs
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A conversation about incentives, power, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify outcomes.Hosted by Lukas (https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ) and Saila (https://x.com/sailaunderscore)Sponsored by Polymarket, CitizenX and Network Press
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