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*PREVIEW* Live, Laugh, Lars feat. Rob Smith

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the show and Financial Times journalist Rob Smith joins us to discuss Euro finance guys. Why are they so louche and strange? Why are they just sort of hanging around connecting people? Why is this entire episode a name alert? We also discuss Volocopter and Neom some more. It's an episode you don't want to miss. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104395947 *LIVE SHOW ALERT* See us live in London on May 29th with special guest Nish Kumar! Get tickets here: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashfuture-presents-liz-truss-presents-ten-years-to-save-the-west-ft-nish-kumar/   *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

To explain who Christian is, right?

0:02.0

So he's friends with Peter Thiel.

0:04.7

He's very close with Peter Thiel.

0:06.2

They invest a lot together.

0:07.8

And he's, yeah, he runs a family office, which is just a term for when you have a

0:12.3

pool of your own money.

0:13.6

But he was really early in like, you know, psychedelics as a therapeutic cure.

0:20.2

Okay.

0:20.6

Yeah, this is very Euro finance guy.

0:22.7

So he's trying to medicalize, he's trying to make medical grade like magic mushrooms.

0:26.5

He's very obviously into crypto, massively into crypto.

0:29.8

And he has this penthouse in London, actually.

0:31.7

He has like the top floor of this big building.

0:34.5

I may have been there.

0:36.6

And he has all these like ancient relics and

0:39.7

antiquities, like Greek statues and stuff, but he has a story for each one about how it's related

0:44.1

to psychedelia. You know, like this is a statue of Hester or whatever, you know. Be 100% honest.

0:50.7

This sounds like one of the most annoying people I could ever hope to meet in my life.

0:54.2

He's very charming. He's like the guy that Johnny Depp is working for in the ninth gate.

0:59.1

That's the enemy. I want you to get me a book written by as a devil himself.

1:04.7

Yeah. It is, it does seem as though like we, to be a European finance, a Eurofinance guy in this way you really just you

1:13.5

have to be kind of weird enough that people remember you yeah but that you don't really

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