S8 Ep181: Nvidia's Jensen Huang and the AI Revolution: Colleague Brandon Weichert praises Nvidia's Jensen Huang as a pivotal geopolitical figure driving the AI revolution, comparing AI's growth to the railroad boom and predicting long-term economic benefits and mas
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Brandon Wyker of national interest joins me. |
| 0:13.9 | Brendan and I enjoy reading about artificial intelligence. It's the future. It's a bubble. It's the past. It's a catastrophe. We're all going |
| 0:24.2 | to die. The usual attention grabbing the headlines. However, I want to come and praise one particular |
| 0:31.0 | person in all of the mix of billionaires and people seeking fortunes. His name is Jensen Wang, |
| 0:39.8 | and he deserves to be the Financial Times person of the year. Why? This is an immigrant from Taiwan. When he first came to America, |
| 0:47.3 | he was in Kentucky, and he cleaned toilets to get through the summer. He has been working his whole life. |
| 0:54.9 | He has two things that are important to him, and I believe it. |
| 0:57.9 | His family and his work. |
| 0:59.6 | He works all the time, and he's founded the company we call Envidia in the early 1990s. |
| 1:07.0 | You can read this in any biography of him. |
| 1:09.8 | And they drifted so much that it was almost finished by the late 90s |
| 1:15.0 | because they were feeding just one market, which was gamers, |
| 1:19.3 | with this thing called a GPU. |
| 1:21.4 | And then, Brandon, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:23.8 | Something happened on Jensen Wang's journey to oblivion. |
| 1:29.4 | He had a GPU and a long-came AI. |
| 1:31.9 | Did anybody see this before we all saw it, Brendan? |
| 1:35.0 | Good evening, John, and thanks for having me. |
| 1:38.2 | Anybody who is a gamer like me growing up knew what NVIDIA was, |
| 1:43.5 | and we all knew that this is a company that once they |
| 1:49.7 | started talking about AI very seriously in the tech world, we all knew those of us who |
| 1:55.6 | continued following the tech world beyond the gamer world, but professionally in this case for me, we all knew |
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