In this episode of Plausibly Deniable, the boys investigate the greatest arbitrage in modern America: food trucks, male slop, crockpots, Discord servers, fake enterprise software, BlueAnon, healthcare middlemen, manifesto technology, European decline, and a raccoon bite story that probably should have gone to a doctor.

They also get into Polymarket AI model markets, why Discord should just rebrand itself as Slack for adults, why cooking for one person is fake productivity, whether every market can be explained with rugs, and why the modern political internet keeps producing increasingly deranged mythology.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

0:00 The Discord server1:11 Food trucks as an infinite money glitch

3:00 New York rats, mobile kitchens, and food truck hygiene

6:20 Designing the worst possible meat-and-rice truck

7:36 Taipei screen protector middlemen

9:01 Choosing how many middlemen you want

11:01 Polymarket AI model markets and betting against Google

12:35 The Chicago slop truck business plan

14:56 College students, fake poverty, and $20 cookies

17:39 Avocado toast discourse was partly right

20:03 Male slop cooking and Parmesan block meals

21:23 Gluttony, groceries, and eating two pounds of carrots

22:49 Why cooking for one person rarely makes sense

24:22 Food as the least embarrassing status purchase

25:06 Coffee optimization and grocery-store beans

26:23 Crockpots, rice cookers, and the college protein-maxxing solution

28:27 The one-item crockpot food truck

31:02 Men cooking, makeup, skin, and mustaches

34:21 Masculine vs feminine cooking

37:05 Hipster meals, soups, and paella discourse

38:58 Roadrunners, birds, and YouTube Shorts

41:10 Using ChatGPT to rebrand slop as ethnic cuisine

44:42 Low T, testosterone numbers, and androgen receptors

46:49 The Discord server bit returns

48:10 Discord has a great product and cursed branding

51:27 Chinese automaker names and “Beyond Your Dreams” branding

53:03 Current events, Reddit manifestos, and Caltech guy discourse

56:16 Meme careers and people choosing the wrong life path

57:31 Manifesto technology and Kaczynski posting

1:02:26 Kaczynski accounts, bodybuilding, and anti-tech contradictions

1:03:51 Protein myths and science-based lifting people

1:07:48 Real estate markets, boomer sellers, and “I know what I got” pricing

1:09:45 Healthcare explained through rugs and middlemen

1:13:34 Democracy, voting, and the rug analogy collapsing

1:14:54 BlueAnon and assassination-attempt denial

1:20:54 Europe being ten years behind the news cycle

1:22:35 European decline and why talent leaves for the US

1:25:00 Homelessness, food stamps, and urban dysfunction

1:35:00 Restaurant work, service labor, and strange incentive structures

1:40:00 Microplastics, gloves, and restaurant paranoia

1:45:00 The raccoon bite story

1:46:34 Antibiotic-resistant infection and improvised heat treatment

1:51:30 Rabies logic, animal control, and the raccoon test

1:55:00 Wrap-up and sponsor thanks

Christian Angermeyer joins Plausibly Deniable to discuss the Enhanced Games, performance-enhancing drugs, psychedelic medicine, longevity, telehealth, ambition, and building companies around controversial ideas before they become mainstream.

Christian argues that the debate around performance enhancement is stuck in moral panic, bad incentives, and missing data. He explains why the Enhanced Games are designed not just as a sports spectacle, but as a research and media platform: athletes competing with medically supervised enhancement, data being collected at scale, and a broader business built around health, recovery, and human performance.

We also get into the ethics of PEDs, whether banning enhancement actually harms athletes, why recovery may be the real performance unlock, how psychedelics went from fringe to medical legitimacy, what founders misunderstand about ambition, and Christian’s path from European finance to building and selling a major African banking group.

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00:00 — The moral case for performance enhancement
02:52 — Intro: Christian Angermeyer
03:26 — What are the Enhanced Games?
06:01 — PEDs, medical supervision, and building the first real data set
09:09 — Biohacking, looksmaxing, and body autonomy
14:40 — The Enhanced Games pitch: approved drugs, doctors, and athlete choice
17:14 — Why recovery may matter more than strength
21:09 — Psychedelics, stigma, and using data to change public opinion
22:42 — Which world records could the Enhanced Games break?
24:49 — Are elite athletes already using PEDs?
30:22 — Clean Olympics vs enhanced competition
32:17 — Enhanced Games as a viral sports business
38:12 — Future events: older athletes, celebrities, robots, and combat sports
41:00 — Telehealth, supplements, peptides, and the Red Bull model
47:45 — The data business behind human enhancement
48:47 — Christian’s personal health philosophy and stack
01:00:04 — Can retail investors get exposure to the Enhanced Games?
01:03:00 — Europe, America, ambition, and risk-taking
01:10:00 — Christian’s early career in finance
01:30:35 — Building and selling an African banking group
01:43:00 — Consent, alcohol, drugs, and personal choice
01:50:00 — Christian’s five-point self-improvement framework
02:00:00 — Coming out, identity, and personal narrative
02:15:04 — Psychedelics, therapy, religion, and founders
02:30:32 — What psychedelics actually reveal
02:33:11 — Closing thoughts

Lomez joins Plausibly Deniable for a long conversation on the old internet, the rise of online politics, academia, Gamergate, Twitter, AI, prediction markets, publishing, and the strange incentives of modern work.

We talk about Lomez’s path from an early remote job at Google to academia, how 2014-era campus politics pushed him online, the evolution of the dissident right, the social justice warrior era, the shifting meaning of “woke is over,” and how internet subcultures moved from fringe jokes to real political force.

We also get into Passage Press, Lomez’s publishing company, including its role in preserving online writing, publishing controversial or neglected work, and building something closer to the “real economy” than most internet projects. Check out Passage Press and use promo code PD10.

Later, the conversation turns to AI, Claude vs ChatGPT, the tech right, Bannon-style anti-tech populism, X vs YouTube, bot accusations, gender war discourse, office jobs, girlboss marketing, and whether the “normie job” fantasy is actually just another internet mirage.

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0:02:17 — Fake jobs, make-work, and being too close to the real economy0:03:48 — Introducing Lomez0:04:30 — Lomez’s early life and getting a remote job at Google0:06:00 — Human search ranking, porn SEO, and “artisanal Google”0:10:19 — Leaving tech, traveling, and deciding to become an English professor0:11:55 — UC Irvine, academia, and the politics of 20140:13:02 — Charlie Hebdo, free speech, and campus liberalism0:15:36 — Why online transgression felt politically meaningful0:17:21 — Gamergate, gamers, and the online right0:21:02 — Is woke actually over?0:24:42 — Early Lomez internet lore: forums, Twitter, sports, and betting0:30:43 — The old alt-right, Breitbart, Spencer, and Charlottesville0:34:35 — Passage Press, Scott Greer, and White Pill0:35:00 — Social justice warriors, Tumblr, and naming the enemy0:40:00 — Trump, Kavanaugh, liberal coalition discipline, and political hysteria0:43:19 — Male feminists, the cuttlefish strategy, and dating discourse0:48:56 — The gender war escalates0:56:15 — Wirejacking, welfare, work, and the broken social contract1:05:32 — Passage Press books, QR codes, and preserving internet archives1:10:11 — Digital censorship, stealth edits, and why print still matters1:15:05 — Lomez’s doxxing and public-interest journalism1:25:38 — Polymarket, betting markets, and “selling dollars for 50 cents”1:30:14 — Scale, inefficiency, local culture, and AI1:34:00 — Hard takeoff AI and whether acceleration is inevitable1:45:18 — Nick Land, nation-states, and machine intelligence1:55:01 — Who fears AI more: the left or the right?2:08:21 — Sam Altman, OpenAI, Claude, and AI politics2:13:15 — The tech right, the administration, and institutional conservatism2:16:20 — Policy battles, post-humanism, Bannon, and anti-tech populism2:25:00 — San Francisco, crime, tech elites, and urban decline2:35:00 — Online discourse, media narratives, and AI acceleration2:50:00 — Political aesthetics, millennial posting, and internet memory3:06:14 — Bots, real people, hate-farming, and X engagement3:10:15 — YouTube vs X: analytics, algorithms, and distribution3:15:00 — The return of the gender war meta3:25:00 — The normie office fantasy, PF Chang’s, and work wives3:28:52 — Mega-corporation incentives and fake corporate jobs3:34:27 — Escape hatches, mortgages, and the terror of being stuck3:35:47 — Closing thoughts and subscribe

Internet comedian Howling Mutant joins Plausibly Deniable to talk about getting doxxed, becoming an accidental Goodreads influencer, the strange sociology of right-wing Twitter, journalism, media trust, AI art, gym culture, looksmaxxing, and why the internet turns every private embarrassment into public lore.

The conversation starts with the story of how Howling’s personal information was dug up and spread online, then veers into Goodreads power rankings, the decline of nerd culture, media narratives, “fell for it again” politics, Iran war arguments, anime pronunciation scandals, AI-generated comedy, recycling scams, posture, lifting, and bone-smashing aesthetics.Sponsored by:

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00:00 Howling Mutant gets doxxed

02:00 The Goodreads scandal begins

06:29 Face reveals, internet expectations, and nerd culture winning

10:08 Gay culture, repression, and mainstreaming

11:41 The media lie that broke Lukas’s brain

13:20 “Fell for it again” politics

16:07 Iran discourse and losing internet arguments

18:47 The Asuka pronunciation scandal

20:43 Frazier Payne, AI animation, and right-wing creativity

23:35 Censorship, bleeping, and edgy comedy

26:02 Sponsors and monetizing Goodreads influence

28:19 Book ratings, Karl Marx, and 800 reviews

29:59 AI art, anti-tech politics, and environmental objections

32:06 Ferry work, old coworkers, and online personas

34:46 How the doxxing happened

38:21 Contacting an ex through her workplace

39:34 How doxxing spreads when people “defend” you

41:53 Posture, camera presence, and gym culture

45:05 Forum experts, deadlifts, and niche knowledge

47:01 Looksmaxxing, bone-smashing, and viral advice

48:46 Closing chaos

Welcome to the Plausibly Deniable experience. Today, we have a very special guest: one of the greatest posters on X, Signull

We explore the bizarre realities of hyper-optimized capitalism, from the dual opt-in mechanics of dating apps to the wild world of DIY Korean Botox and 14-year-olds getting "preventative" injections before Signull tells us about the app he just built - https://skyeapp.ai/

Later, we discuss OpenAI's side quests , Anthropic's focus on coding , and why the infinite scroll is the ultimate IQ filter

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00:00 - Intro: The $4,000 Testosterone Check & Haggling in Taipei

06:59 - Welcome Signal: Pod Slop & The Podcast Tax

10:26 - Frictionless Capitalism: Diet Cherry Coke & Dating Spreadsheets 20:27 - The Botox Epidemic: Masseter Injections, DIY Kits, & 14-Year-Olds 32:11 - Privacy in the AI Era: Cambridge Analytica & LLM Spies

38:23 - Exclusive Reveal: Signal’s New Agentic App "Sky"

54:32 - Trump, Influencers, & How 200 Accounts Control the Zeitgeist

1:06:00 - TikTok, Netflix, and How Infinite Scroll Obliterated Search Skills

1:12:04 - Apple's Missed AI Opportunity & The Steve Jobs "What If"

1:32:30 - Focus vs. Side Quests: Apple, OpenAI (Sora), & Anthropic (Claude)

1:43:00 - Why Consumer Startups Are "Harder" Than B2B Enterprise

1:49:16 - The Wellness Industry vs. The TikTok Dopamine Machine

2:24:23 - Polymarket, Zcash, and the Art of Judging on Twitter

Today, we sit down with the legendary Alexander Campbell, former prop trader at Lehman Brothers during the '08 crisis and ex-head of commodities at Bridgewater

He unpacks his viral (and wildly profitable) silver trade, breaking down why the massive demand from solar panel production has created the perfect setup for a historic supply squeeze. (Follow his substack btw: https://www.campbellramble.ai/)

We also take a deep dive into the macroeconomic landscape, dissecting why Ray Dalio was a dollar bear, how the US suffers from financial "Dutch disease," and why stablecoins are actually incredibly bullish for the US Dollar's reserve status

Campbell pulls back the curtain on the Chinese financial system, explaining the 200% market manipulations and the reality of their wealth management products

Plus, we cover the death of legacy media, the value of prediction markets like Polymarket, why most "preppers" have terrible supply chain strategies, and where the real alpha is hiding in agriculture and AI infrastructure. Hit subscribe, drop a comment, and enjoy the alpha

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00:00:00 - Intro, prepper trades, and the pain of being a macro investor early to a trade.

00:10:22 - Introducing Campbell: Lehman Brothers, Bridgewater, and transitioning to AI.

00:12:00 - The Silver Squeeze: Why solar panel demand and AI make silver the ultimate macro bet.

00:18:25 - Physical vs. Paper Metals: Holding silver as "zombie apocalypse" insurance.

00:23:38 - The US Dollar as a reserve currency and the "Dutch Disease" of financial markets.

00:31:36 - Inside China's $5 Trillion debt crisis, Evergrande, and fake wealth management products.

00:40:00 - The death of the NYT, Nate Silver, and the rise of citizen journalism (Lord Miles & Beaver).

00:49:57 - Crypto talk: Analyzing Bitcoin in 2011, Stablecoins, and the future of digital dollars.

01:08:32 - Polymarket, Hyperliquid, and how prediction markets act as real-time info for hedge funds.

01:17:13 - War, inflation, and how institutional investors are trained to "buy the dip" blindly.

01:31:42 - Bridgewater's culture of radical transparency and rating your boss.

01:35:18 - Geopolitics: Trump's "madman" negotiation style, NATO, and the US vs. China.

01:47:20 - AI energy constraints, local models, and replacing human tasks with compute.

01:57:35 - Unhinged billion-dollar tanker ship macro trades and wrapping up.

Welcome back to another episode of Plausibly Deniable. This week, Lukas and Saila are joined by the legendary X poster Covfefe Anon. We dive deep into the cultural shifts of the past few years, from the COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of low-trust societies to the modern dating market and the incentive structures of prediction markets.

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00:00:00 - Intro & The Shifting Cultural Frame: Why political enemies adopting conservative language is the ultimate bullish sign.

00:02:09 - The COVID Retrospective: Looking back at hoarding N95 masks and meat, the introduction of woke language, and the social pressure of Instagram black squares.

00:11:00 - The Economy & Post-Scarcity Myths: Why cheap TVs do not offset the skyrocketing costs of lower-quality healthcare, housing, and insurance.

00:14:37 - The Descent into a Low-Trust Society: How increased frictionless interactions and hyper-efficiency turn everyday transactions into a scammer's market.

00:21:00 - The "Just Fk Her Good Bro" Theory:** Analyzing a flawed dating theory, the Tom Brady/Gisele dynamic, and the reality of long-term marriage logistics.

00:31:00 - Video Games & Manufactured Productivity: Why games like Factorio and Minecraft act as massive productivity sinks to satisfy male drives.

00:33:31 - Yo-Yos & The Openness Camp: China's approach to optimizing obscure sports and the fake NGO extracurriculars used by the upper class for college admissions.

00:36:00 - OnlyFawns vs. The Real Deal: The misallocation of resources, donating adult scam money to Bangladesh, and why modern platforms act as a societal "wirehead".

00:46:00 - The Fragility of Modern Society: Why the current American legal system is younger than you think, and the normalization of fake service dogs on flights and in supermarkets.

00:54:00 - "Gooning" and Dopamine Traps: Debating the legality of adult scams, the rise of AI girlfriends, and why modern digital stimuli are destroying male motivation.

01:05:00 - The Modern Dating Market: How men have weaponized female social strategies, the reality of male standards, and the shift towards "Dark Motivation" in gym culture.

01:16:00 - Covfefe Anon's Origin Story: Moving from Slate Star Codex comments under the generic name Steve Johnson to Twitter fame, and how the internet exposes false media narratives.

01:23:00 - Professional Sports & Bodybuilding: The financial reality of making no money in professional tennis and the grueling, unrewarding nature of bodybuilding prep.

01:36:00 - Privacy is Dead: The realities of women's group chats, the digital panopticon, the Lomez effect, and why doxxing isn't necessarily a career-ender.

01:43:00 - Global Information Flows: How instant translation is breaking down media narratives, featuring the Japanese historical debate on Samurai and the Staten Island Chuck cover-up.

01:50:00 - Polymarket & Prediction Markets: Betting on Kick streamers going to prison and how prediction markets act as real-world bounties rather than pure forecasts.

01:58:49 - Tariffs, Jan 6th, and Political Realities: Analyzing the media's alternate reality, comparing BLM riots to January 6th, and geopolitical shifts with China, Russia, and Iran.

02:17:00 - Credit Scores & Faking IQ: The absurdity of bragging about credit scores, inflating Mensa test results, and final thoughts.

In this episode, we dive deep into the absurdities of modern society, starting with some highly questionable dating advice at the gym. We explore why people are treating AI like the ultimate "yes man," the delusion of the paperclip trading hustle, and how Grok's diagnoses will tell you you're just "ascending".

The conversation gets real (and slightly unhinged) as we break down why the U.S. healthcare system acts like a massive money laundering operation and why flying to Asia for medical care might be your best bet. We also tackle the ultimate financial scams: timeshares, 30-year mortgages, and why buying a house right now is a terrible idea.Plus, we cover Costco losing billions on $1.50 hotdogs, the bizarre world of Polymarket bets (will Apple release a folding phone? Will Jesus return?), and why Zoomers don't know what a Leatherman is.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Unethical Gym Dating Advice

02:13 - Faking Your Relationship Status

04:35 - AI as the Ultimate Yes-Man

06:36 - The "Paperclip" AI Supercomputer Hustle

09:51 - Modern Parenting: TikTok Fame & Ivy League Dropouts

15:45 - AI Medical Diagnoses: ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Grock

22:48 - Why Timeshares Are the Ultimate Scam

26:11 - Squatters Rights & Cheating the System

31:00 - Zoomer Gym Anxiety & $5 Hamburgers

36:41 - The U.S. Healthcare "Money Laundering" Collusion

42:10 - Healthcare Tourism & Maxing Your HSA

45:51 - Corporate Warfare & Squeezing Consumer Surplus

49:01 - Caleb Hammer & Absurd Financial Audits

53:35 - Costco's $1.50 Hotdog Strategy

01:01:19 - Imposter Syndrome & Why Being Too Nice Fails

01:03:13 - Gifted Kid Syndrome & Ruining Children

01:06:12 - Sela Explains Reddit Gold

01:15:16 - Why Buying a House is a Massive Scam

01:24:53 - Algorithm Distribution & Politician Flip-Flopping

01:30:52 - Polymarket Bets: Apple Foldable Phones & Jesus Returning

01:36:20 - The Vaporware Group Chat Grift

01:46:38 - 45-Degree Camera Angles vs. Staring

01:47:45 - Zoomers Don't Know What a Leatherman Is

01:56:08 - Plausibly Deniable Outro & Editing Tricks