E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
4.0 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Show Notes:
0:00 Bestie game show: Who got COVID? How was the experience?
9:30 Delta breakthrough causing concern, potential new approaches, vaccine mandates
24:26 Implications on the economy, will people self-isolate even without government shutdowns?
40:09 Billionaire Space Race: Addressing the negativity, benefits of innovators
47:29 Investments in space, parallels to 1500's maritime shipping, potential for global broadband
1:04:07 Besties go to space, Bezos' cheap shot, Elon's support, Melvin Capital's tough first half of 2021
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https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
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Intro Music Credit:
https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg
Intro Video Credit:
https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect
Referenced in the show:
WSJ Opinion - What Drives GOP Resistance to Vaccines?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-drives-gop-resistance-to-vaccines-11623190392
NYT - Some Republican Leaders Speak Up for Vaccines
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/14/world/covid-variant-vaccine-updates
Reuters - Living with COVID-19: Israel changes strategy as Delta variant hits
Study Finds - Over 200 COVID 'long hauler' symptoms identified, many lasting longer than 6 months
https://www.studyfinds.org/200-covid-long-hauler-symptoms/
CNN Opinion - Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt
Truth Out Op-ed - Billionaire Tax Cheat Travels to Space for a Few Minutes
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-tax-cheat-travels-to-space-for-a-few-minutes
Fox News - Richard Branson says critics are 'not fully educated' on benefits of space travel
https://www.foxnews.com/media/richard-branson-critics-not-fully-educated-space-travel
CNBC - Investment in space companies put at record $8.9 billion in 2020 despite Covid
Bloomberg - Melvin Struggles to Shake Reddit Attack With 46% Loss So Far
Books:
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135202
Jeremy England - Every Life Is on Fire
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Life-Fire-Thermodynamics-Explains/dp/1541699017
Tweets:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1415287991954640901
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1415122089720254467
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1414157827145404419
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week we're gonna play our favorite new game show guess who's got COVID. Yes, that's right |
| 0:06.4 | Somebody on the pod |
| 0:09.4 | COVID it it it's not the me |
| 0:16.1 | Oh, sorry, so here's the game |
| 0:19.4 | Person who got COVID have they been vaccinated or no? Okay all four of us have been vaccinated |
| 0:24.0 | We covered that on our previous pot so everybody's vaccinated double Vax |
| 0:27.2 | Everybody's been double Vax didn't we all get Pfizer. I was Pfizer Pfizer. Pfizer. Okay, so Pfizer across the board. We got quads and |
| 0:37.9 | This is a break through infection has anybody |
| 0:42.4 | taking a Z pack after a night of party |
| 0:46.0 | I |
| 0:50.1 | Hooked in the pot lasted 39 episodes. I'm I was good. I was good. Okay, so number one clue number one |
| 0:56.6 | This bestie got a |
| 0:59.9 | Break through infection outdoors |
| 1:02.5 | At a restaurant number one got it outdoors number two got it from somebody who was also vaccinated number three |
| 1:08.9 | This bestie does not fly commercial and |
| 1:13.3 | He's not a fan of being interrupted and he is not an in evangelical |
| 1:19.6 | David the breakthrough |
| 1:21.6 | David's sex. I'm glad that my getting a breakthrough case of COVID is |
| 1:29.7 | Comedy fodder for you somehow |
| 1:31.7 | Oh |
| 1:49.8 | Saxie poop break it down walk us through that like what happened and then how you felt yeah, okay? |
| 1:55.2 | So what happened? You're safe obviously obviously we wouldn't be joking. You're still living way you lost five pounds |
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