Aug 5, 2026 · 36 min · 14 segments
Eminent babychild/investor Leopold Aschenbrenner has been in the news lately as his over-leveraged AI fund "Situational Awareness" collapsed in a dramatic fashion. Interestingly, the portfolio shares…
James
Raff
... you're a long way away.
Yep.
You've got a sharp new haircut though, I've noticed from this distance.
Thank you.
Um, I appreciate that.
I did, I got a haircut on Friday.
I just wanna, um...
I don't mean to put you on the spot.
But, um, me minutes ago, you said something that actually shocked me.
You said that watching movies is good.
I didn't say that.
[laughs]
I didn't say that.
I s-
What did you say?
I said they can be quite experiential.
Yeah.
That's what I've been saying for years.
No, I mean, I just mean, like, loud.
Yeah.
[laughs]
You know, they sound quite, you know...
They take you aback with their-
Yeah
...
the volume and, and, um, color and movement.
I went and saw, uh, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the hot, the hot new movie in the cinemas right now.
Everyone's seeing it.
Everyone's seeing.
Just a, a, a fun little story.
Packed screening, 9:00 at night.
Mm.
Right? Movie's pretty good.
I enjoyed it.
That's my official review, it was pretty good.
The guy that sat next to me at the cinemas, when we came in, he was, like, probably, like, in his 30s, mid-30s.
He clearly had, like, some...
You know, he was experiencing anxiety or something.
Okay.
And he was, like, talking-
Why would he go to a movie with...
Well, he...
Just, like, he was doing that before he watched the movie, right? And he was, he was sort of, like, talking to himself to be like, "You know, it's all gonna be fine, it's all good, no worries." And I was like, "Oh, he's dragged himself out of the house to, to see this movie he really wants to see." And, you know, I find that, you know, a, a-
That is good.
That's admirable
... that's admirable.
You know, I feel sorry for him, but, like, you know, I'm touched by it.
And then when they were showing, like, the production companies before that, it came up with, like, Christopher Nolan's production company.
[laughs]
Mm.
And as soon as that popped up, [laughs] he said in, like, a super deep voice, "Let's rock and roll." And I was like, "You've lost me, bro."
[laughs]
"You've fucking lost me."
You were no longer on his team.
[laughs] I wasn't on his team anymore.
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