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#796: Own Your Intelligence Stack with Tommy Eastman Sep 28, 2026

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Tommy Eastman of Nous Research joins Marty to break down Hermes Agent and why owning your intelligence stack matters. They cover the leap from chatbots to autonomous agentic AI, self-improving memory, and model-agnostic harnesses that kill vendor lock-in. Tommy explains how open source models now handle most enterprise work at a fraction of frontier lab costs, why feeding company IP to OpenAI and Anthropic is a fiduciary risk, the GPU compute squeeze, trusted execution environments, and why Big AI lobbying against open source is disingenuous.

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#795: Tokenization Unlocks $900 Trillion in Wealth with Jordi Visser Sep 24, 2026

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Jordi Visser joins Marty Bent to break down why AI agents are about to collide with Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenization. Visser explains why crypto's guardrails are mispriced at zero, why tokenization could unlock $900 trillion in trapped assets, and why humans, not compute, are the real bottleneck to AI adoption. The conversation covers Fed policy, corporate debt panic, circular financing, energy constraints, and why Bitcoin remains the ultimate long-term store of value in an agentic economy.

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Ten31 Timestamp: Revenge of the Nerds Sep 21, 2026

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Trump tells the AI labs to quit "pacing the frontier" and go full speed ahead against China, while Bitcoin claws back above its 50 week moving average despite a mountain of bearish headlines.

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In this episode:

- Why the sudden AI "slowdown" panic looks like a coordinated op

- Trump's blunt response to Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the frontier labs

- What Latham & Watkins ditching OpenAI and Anthropic signals for enterprise

- The energy proxy war with China driving diesel to record highs

- The Fed hikes rates again as the ten year flirts with 5%

- Why Bitcoin ripping above its 50 week moving average matters

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Bitcoin nearing a green year for 2026

00:01:31 - Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic call for an AI pause

00:06:56 - OpenAI's secondary market sale signals trouble

00:07:17 - Latham & Watkins drops OpenAI and Anthropic over IP fears

00:09:55 - Anthropic's automated bio lab raises Skynet questions

00:12:05 - Trump tells the labs to stop being scared nerds

00:16:29 - Strait of Hormuz oil flows and the US-China proxy war

00:19:36 - Diesel prices hit all-time highs

00:22:10 - Atlanta Fed's 5.1% Q3 GDP estimate

00:22:53 - Kevin Warsh's Fed hikes rates again

00:25:20 - Ten year yield flirts with 5%

00:29:08 - Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill

00:29:52 - The US-Denmark-Greenland security deal

00:31:49 - China's rare earth stranglehold on samarium

00:33:24 - The Clarity Act fails in the Senate

00:33:54 - The ARMOR bill clears a House committee

00:35:30 - Bitcoin breaks above its 50 week moving average

00:36:49 - Sam Lyman on crypto regulation's momentum

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#794: Why Inflation Is Designed To Crush You with Gary Brode Sep 21, 2026

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Gary Brode joins Marty Bent to break down his month in El Salvador and the new white paper making the case that Bitcoin is officially a currency. They dig into Nayib Bukele's controversial rule, why the Federal Reserve no longer controls long-term interest rates, and why government overspending — not central bank policy — is driving persistent inflation. Brode also explains his shift from OpenAI to Anthropic, his bet on Intel and AMD as AI moves from training to inference, and why uranium and energy assets round out his portfolio alongside Bitcoin, gold, and silver.

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#793: China Is Funding The War On Data Centers with Sam Lyman Sep 19, 2026

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Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin Policy Institute joins Marty Bent to break down the collapse of the CLARITY Act, the stablecoin fight dividing community banks and Wall Street, and new bank charters reshaping crypto regulation. Lyman details his investigation into Chinese-funded propaganda campaigns — linked to financier Neville Singham — driving opposition to AI data centers, and unveils "data center dividends," a plan modeled on the Alaska Permanent Fund to pay rural households thousands per year. The conversation also tackles effective altruism, AI doomerism, the Anthropic-OpenAI duopoly, open source AI, and the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill ARMA.

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#792: Insurance Companies Are The Next Contagion with Nick Nemeth Sep 12, 2026

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Nick Nemeth returns to break down the Mark Walter and Guggenheim insurance scandal, exposing how billions in annuity and life insurance policyholder funds funded the Dodgers, Lakers, and F1 team purchases through opaque affiliate paper and shell entities. Marty and Nick dig into systemic risk across the insurance industry, the AI spending bubble, Federal Reserve policy, bond market dynamics, entitlement debt, and Bitcoin's role as a hedge against a fracturing financial system. A deep dive into contagion risk, monetary policy, and where smart money is positioning next.

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#791: The Bitcoin Playbook for Commercial Real Estate Owners & Investors with Chris Drzyzga Sep 09, 2026

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Chris Drzyzga, commercial real estate broker and investor, returns to break down his new Bitcoin playbook for CRE owners and operators. Marty and Chris dig into building a three-tranche Bitcoin treasury, using Bitcoin as a fifth return driver alongside NOI growth and cap rates, tax-loss harvesting Bitcoin gains, dual-collateralized loans through Battery Finance, and mining Bitcoin for building heat. They also cover Bitcoin rent payments, security deposits, and how Bitcoin-friendly tenants boost asset value amid ongoing monetary debasement.

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#790: MMR Vaccines Are Deadlier Than Measles with Nic Hulscher Sep 08, 2026

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Nicolas Hulscher returns to unpack Pennsylvania's fabricated measles deaths, a federal RICO lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, and new CDC WONDER data showing over 150,000 excess cancer deaths since mRNA vaccine rollout. Hulscher breaks down 35 mechanisms linking mRNA technology to turbo cancer, the decades-long suppression of antiparasitic cancer treatments, and why ivermectin remains safer than Tylenol. The conversation closes on magnesium L-threonate research showing measurable cognitive gains in just six weeks. A hard look at vaccine safety data, medical censorship, and public health accountability.

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