Marathon Fusion
We're building fuel processing technology to make fusion power plants robust, practical and widespread.www.marathonfusion.com
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Oct 27, 2026
Johnny WoodardHOST
Yeah, this is not something that's going to replace all the gold stocks anytime soon.
Johnny WoodardHOST
On October 21st, Marathon Fusion announced that it successfully transformed mercury into stable gold atoms, atoms of gold, by bombarding liquid metal with neutrons from fusion reactions.
Johnny WoodardHOST
Even wilder, The company claims its production rate beat the previous benchmark set by CERN in 2025 by a factor of 10.
Johnny WoodardHOST
This is their quote.
AminHOST
That is just staggering.
LeahHOST
And taking that concept of atomic manipulation from biology over to physics, we have to talk about Marathon.
AminHOST
The modern alchemists.
AminHOST
This story blew up everywhere.
AminHOST
The nucleus gets unstable, undergoes beta decay, sheds a proton.
AminHOST
And mathematically, if you take a proton away from mercury, the atomic structure stabilizes into gold.
LeahHOST
Now, CERN actually demonstrated this transmutation process a while ago, but Marathon claims they've hit a tenfold efficiency increase over CERN's baseline.
AminHOST
Which naturally caused social media to spiral into a complete panic about this crashing global gold markets.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Gold, one metal, different businesses Alchemy may be a long-term bear thesis for gold.
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Marathon Fusion claims to have converted mercury to gold at a rate 10 times CERN's record.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This is yet to be independently verified.
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Nearer term, Anshul Trivedi likes the setup of gold versus equities.
Steve McShaneHOST
depression.
Steve McShaneHOST
Marathon Fusion is trying to make radioisotopes through alchemy.
Steve McShaneHOST
This was a pretty fucking cool
FitzHOST
video we found.
Jeremy WisemanHOST
They're always playing with fire when they're shorting the market and a short squeeze could unfold at any time.
Jeremy WisemanHOST
So moving on from there, I do want to get to this story because this came out this week, Jerry, that Marathon Fusion has turned mercury into gold.
Jeremy WisemanHOST
Did you see this headline? Yes.
Jerry CorreiaHOST
Yeah, I looked into the report yesterday and some comments about that.
SophiaHOST
Today, very special guests joining us.
SophiaHOST
We have Kyle Schiller, the co-founder and CEO of Marathon Fusion, and Jason Parisi, who is their chief science officer.
SophiaHOST
This has been one of the craziest weeks for you guys.
SophiaHOST
I see you all over my feed.
SophiaHOST
Really impressive.
SophiaHOST
Jason, I wanted to ask you, because as we were coming down here and you were like, what are the things you're most curious about? I mean, this week, of course, you're getting all this attention.
SophiaHOST
People are hearing all about Marathon Fusion.
SophiaHOST
But you guys have been around for the past three years.
ParzivalHOST
Here is that story.
ParzivalHOST
Marathon Fusion says it just turned mercury into real stable gold, 10 times faster than CERN's record.
ParzivalHOST
So is gold still scarce?
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
Making gold.
Peter DiamandisHOST
A San Francisco startup says it's pulled it off.
Peter DiamandisHOST
So Marathon Fusion posted, I think this morning or last night, quote, Last month, we demonstrated high rate alchemy, turning mercury into real stable gold, beating CERN's record by a factor of 10.
Peter DiamandisHOST
Here's the big idea.
Peter DiamandisHOST
Line a reactor wall with mercury.
Peter DiamandisHOST
All right, let's watch this video from Marathon.
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This is
Peter DiamandisHOST
Nuclear Fusion.
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Over the last four years, we've been quietly building the foundational technologies for fusion in downtown San Francisco.
Peter DiamandisHOST
Then comes the episode's most improbable claim.
Peter DiamandisHOST
San Francisco startup Marathon Fusion says it converted mercury into stable gold, linking fusion research with isotope production and energy.
Peter DiamandisHOST
It's an early step, not a sudden flood of cheap gold.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
But it fits the abundance theme.
JVHOST
Do I want to hold an asset they can print without limit or one they can never print more of? And that brings us to another absolutely wild development.
JVHOST
Scientists at Marathon Fusion say they've demonstrated the conversion of mercury into real stable gold.
JVHOST
Yes, actual gold.
JVHOST
Take that.
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