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Hey everyone,

As a Christmas bonus surprise we interview the YouTube investigator Coffeezilla on Crypto Gurus, NFTs, Financial Scams and other related businesses.

This is the unedited version and I've done a bit of work to try and level out the sound but not perfect.

Regardless, hope some of you enjoy it. Musk is still the next release on the main feed! 

EDIT: Coffee's volume is really low... going to try and fix and reupload but will keep this version up for now.

EDIT EDIT: New version up sound should be better.

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Coffeezilla with Sound Fixed

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Charlotte Goodall

Ohhhhh! Coffezilla is quite incredible. His interview with Lex Fridman I thought showed clearly how childlike Lex is. Can’t wait to listen to this.

Hugh Corrigan

This was fantastic. Great job on the interview and for getting coffee on. He’s such a thoughtful guy and strikes me as exceptionally smart.

MaxPlan

Yes, having seen him on Lex I can't wait to listen, Lex didn't come up?

Andy First

I like Coffee specifically because he has so many opportunities to overclaim his evidence and be the hero and yet he generally sticks within what he can prove. When what he can prove is devastating, he’s not afraid to drop a nuke or two but only when he has the receipts. I would imagine there’s a lot of pressure on him to be sensational but he seems to me like a straight shooter. Glad to see him on the podcast.

Paul Bowman

Side-note. When the subject of MLMs and the feature of deliberate complexity came up, Chris linked in the proliferation of boddisatvas and hierarchies of angels/demonologies, etc. This reminded me very much of a feature of fan culture (for scifi/fantasy fans like Trekkies, not so much K-Pop etc). Half of the joy of fan culture seems to be the "pleasure of proliferation", that there are so many fictional alien races, sub-species of orc, dinosaurs, pokemon, etc, to learn about and master the lore. I'd be fascinated to see a look at gurus followership through the lens of the anthropological study of fan culture (I'm assuming such a field exists).

Paul Bowman

Like, from the perspective of their fans, are the gurus producing not such much analytical systems, but firehoses of new "lore". When a guru's loyal defender accuses critics of taking their hero "out of context" and admonishing us that "you need to listen to more of the content to get the context" are they not telling us something important about how they relate to the content and its creators?

Jenny

In reference to Coffeezilla’s mentioning of the draw of theories for which people have weak convictions (I think that was the terminology), and thus the reason for the popularity of “theory of everything” books by Gladwell and the like, I recommend the new podcast by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri called “If Books Could Kill” precisely about these sorts of books