Boys Club

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This is a podcast for the deeply online, where we chat about all things tech, crypto, and pop culture news. Brought to you by Boys Club, a NY-based media and creative studio, and hosted by Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins. Have questions? So do we.

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Ep. 241 - Timothée Chalamet Kalshi Ad, NYC Microneighborhoods, Freddy the World Cup Tourist, Building in an AI World with guests Nick Devor (Barrons) and David Rosenberg (Notion) Video 18.06.2026 1:35:50

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:34 Williamsburg Cold Open 01:14 Pride and Internet Bits 05:03 NoDi Micro Neighborhoods 07:06 Why NoDi Went Viral 12:01 Commit to the Bit 13:32 Timothée Chalamet Kalshi Ad 21:02 Neighbor Noise and Sports Vibes 23:52 Is Basketball Scripted 27:18 World Cup Tourist Freddy 31:09 America Middle Class Envy 32:08 NYC Grass Is Greener 32:30 Freddy Goes Viral 35:27 Do You...

Ep. 240 - Boys Club LIVE @ ETHConf: Guests Amanda Cassatt (Serotonin), Scott Dykstra (Space and Time), Azeem Khan (Miden), and Chris Yin (Plume Network) Video 11.06.2026 48:49

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:34 On the Ground at ETHConf 05:00 Today's Guest Lineup 05:49 Amanda Cassatt (Serotonin) 06:57 Ethereum's Big Mission 10:03 Institutions vs Exit Money 12:12 Talent Drain to AI and Beyond 15:44 Marketing and What Sells Now 17:03 What Excites Amanda Next 18:22 Scott Dykstra (Space and Time) 19:40 Virtual Vaults Explained 22:27 CLARITY Act and Tokenization 26:43 Quan...

Ep. 239 - Boys Club LIVE: Phia is a good product actually, Obsession and Backrooms, Peptides Event, Victoria's Secret Stock Bump, Kalshi Knicks Bar Bet, Partiful bugs and NY Tech Week Events with guest Ana Bhoyrul Video 03.06.2026 1:11:39

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:49 Sponsor Vercel 02:35 To Do Lists and Taxes 03:47 Peptides Panel Takeaways 11:54 Sponsor Polygon 13:01 New Hollywood YouTube Horror 23:49 Victoria's Secret Meme Stock 33:10 Tech Week Directory Goes Viral 36:45 A16Z Runs Tech Week 38:50 Partiful RSVP Bugs 40:11 Founder Imposter Dinner 41:23 AI Native Law Firm 42:28 Best Tech Week Events 43:27 Fundraising Pow...

Ep. 238 - Boys Club LIVE: The Pope on AI, Enhanced Games, Ferrari's First EV and guest Jacob Taylor from Brookings Institution on "Context-maxxing" Video 28.05.2026 1:15:58

This week on Boys Club Live, Natasha and Quasimatt break down a viral Reddit dating discourse post about a woman who demanded an Uber from Greenwich Village to Williamsburg (7:58), react to Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word encyclical warning about AI and his tour of Ferrari's polarizing new electric car (16:58), sit down with Brookings Institution fellow and Oxford anthropologist Jacob Taylor to discuss...

Ep: 237- Boys Club Live: Deana's Peptide Stack, Everlane Sells To Shein, Waymos in Nashville, Murdoch Buys NYMag, Cyberdecks and special guest Raees Chowdhury (Tok-Edge) Video 20.05.2026 1:12:58

00:00 Welcome to Boys' Club Live 00:34 Summer Vibes and Weekend Plans 02:16 Touch Grass and Backyard Hole 04:36 Show Preview and Sponsor Polygon 06:37 Meeting a Crypto Macro Trader 09:52 Peptides Stack and Reta Results 20:38 Sam Altman GLP Overdose Story 23:33 Everlane Sells to Shein 33:30 Sponsor Vercel Plug 35:55 Waymo Backlash in Nashville 38:23 Kids Riding Waymo Debate 39:35 Waymo for Rural Sa...

Ep: 236- Boys Club Live: Mira Murati's Thinking Machine demo, Hantavirus Conspiracy, Jake Shane/Kacey Musgraves Moment, Musk/Altman court case, with co-host Quasimatt and guests Rubén Steckel (AirTM), Prince Boucher (LumaAI), Sahil Goswami (Dart Bank) Video 14.05.2026 1:42:41

00:00 Welcome to Boys' Club 01:32 Show Me Your Stack 02:21 QuasiMatt Doxxing Bit 04:24 Thinking Machine Demo 13:06 Altman Texts and Lawsuit 16:43 Kacey Musgraves Discourse 23:14 Rubén Steckel Joins 24:47 Stablecoins Go Mainstream 29:48 Local Stablecoins 101 33:11 Stablecoins In The US 34:40 Institutional Tailwinds 36:51 AirTM Wallet Vision 38:06 Tala Loan Partnership 41:22 What Payments Lack 43:59...

Ep: 235 - Boys Club Live: Roasting Tech Stacks with Julia Rosenberg (Show Me Your Stack), Met Gala Recap with Blake Finucane, Biochar and Green Energy Bitcoin with Josh Phelps (Carbon Country) Video 06.05.2026 1:30:17

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club 00:33 Meet Jules and the New Show, Show Me Your Stack 01:30 Becoming a Media Face 06:00 Episode Two Teaser 07:53 Rate My Stack Explained 09:33 Live Dock Roast Demo 16:09 Notes App Philosophy 19:47 Wrap Jules and Invite Roasts 22:56 Newsletter and Personal Brand 23:43 Meet Blake Finucane, Met Gala Setup 26:26 Met Gala PR Crisis 29:35 Theme Versus Dress Code 33:09 Ranking...

Ep: 234 - Boys Club Live: Show Me Your Stack Launch, AI Psychosis Summit, Elon vs. Altman Trial, Rich Auntie, Shake Social App, Co-hosts Quasimatt and Julia Rosenberg, special guest Tiago Sada (Tools For Humanity, World) 04.05.2026 1:26:43

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:11 Hosts and Show Format 00:33 NYC Neighborhood Catch-Up 01:14 Tech Bathhouse Discourse 02:32 Meet Jules and New Show 03:24 Sponsor Shoutout Octant 05:21 Elon vs Altman Trial Talk 06:41 Show Me Your Stack Origin 08:46 Stack Philosophy and AI Tools 13:28 Season Details and Vercel 14:20 YouTube Launch and Subscribe 16:03 Behind the Scenes Plane Chaos 19:30 Rich Aun...

Ep: 233 - Boys Club Live: Nicest Weather in the USA, Slop Cannon Kids, GPT-2 Image Test Drive, plus guests Anthony Soohoo (MoneyGram CEO) and Stefen Deleveaux (Oasis Onchain) 23.04.2026 1:14:02

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:49 Today's Guest Lineup 01:36 Makeup Compact Debate 03:55 Octant Sponsor Update 05:19 Nicest Weather Map 08:43 Thunderstorm Monitor TikTok 09:58 Vercel Sponsor Shoutout 10:35 Slop Cannon Kids 13:32 Testing GPT-2 Image Tool 16:37 Writing the Brand Kit Prompt 26:13 AI Brand Kit Results 31:28 Stefan Deleveaux Joins the Show 33:10 Oasis Onchain Update 34:20 Caribbean...

Ep: 232 - Boys Club Live from a16z: San Francisco Tech Culture, Hudson River Trading's intern class, OpenClaw in China with guests Jimmy Lai (Vercel) on Next.js and AI Agents, and Seun Omonije (x-Google Quantum AI) talks quantum computing and bitcoin 17.04.2026 1:16:50

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live From A16Z 03:25 San Francisco Vibes Check 07:47 Hudson River Trading Interns 09:44 High Agency Career Paths 14:05 Guest Jimmy Lai Joins 16:59 Next.js Explained 17:30 Open Source How It Works 21:25 Next.js Growth And AI Agents 24:17 Future Of UI And Interfaces 28:48 Open Source Frenemies 32:23 Why Open Source Matters 35:30 Personal Software And Workflows 39:58 Busine...

Ep: 231 - Boys Club Live: Spray Tan Adventures, Crypto Taxes, Anthropic's Mythos scare, North Korean Hackers feat. Ben Weiss (Fortune), Marc and Los (Danger Testing), and Josh Harris (PixieChess) 09.04.2026 1:44:01

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Draft Tweets Kickoff 01:15 Memecoin Taxes Reality Check 04:10 Spray Tan for San Francisco 07:42 Anthropic Mythos Panic 10:38 Zero Day Vulnerabilities Explained 12:16 Mythos Escapes the Sandbox 15:16 What Gets Hacked Next 19:13 Sponsor segment Polygon and Vercel 22:23 Intro Ben Weiss, Fortune 24:02 Telegram Source Turns Scam 27:37 Fake Zoom Link and Malware Dow...

Ep: 230 - Boys Club Live: Tech Merch, Clout, Stablecoins, and the Anthropic Code Leak. Sam Broner of Better Money Company and Alli Pope of Vercel Join As Guests 01.04.2026 1:26:40

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Show

Ep: 229 - Boys Club Live: Digital Asset Summit, Token Management, Macro Perps, AI Fruit Love Island, with guests Lindsey Winder and Kaledora 25.03.2026 1:34:31

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 01:02 Cait's McDonald's Fit 01:41 The Trouser Skirt Debate 13:27 Lindsay Winder from Anchorage 14:29 Digital Asset Summit Takeaways and Institutional Crypto 20:15 Token Management as Risk Management 22:37 Revenue vs Token Price 26:32 AI Agents and Treasury Risk 28:57 Cap Table Red Flags and Token Launch Vibes 33:18 DAS Prediction Markets Panel 42:31 AI Fruit Love Is...

Ep: 228 - Boys Club Live with Austin Federa of DoubleZero, James Kiernan of Octant and chat about Grimes joining LinkedIn, the Crypto Vanity Fair article, Expensive Basketballs and Cait's Dupe Shopping Skills 19.03.2026 1:08:56

00:00 Show intro and hosts 01:19 Haircut chat and cohost banter 02:16 Today's lineup and sponsors 03:00

Ep: 227 - Boys Club Live with Zehra Naqvi (Lore.ai) and Megan Graham (Wall Street Journal), also covering Meta buying Moltbook, Distorted Emoji, Lookalike Competitions and more 11.03.2026 1:03:14

00:00 Live Show Kickoff 01:04 Lookalike Competition Talk 03:16 Meta Buys Bot Network 05:25 Distorted Emoji Moment 06:36

Ep: 226 - Boys Club Live with @quasimatt and @tednotlasso on AI psychosis, defense company swag, and more. 07.03.2026 1:22:53

Special episode with Ted + Quasimatt!! 02:10 Ted Topic 1: GLP-1s, Hedge Funds, and the "Does Ozempic Kill Ambition (or Love)?" Debate 08:45 Ted Topic 2: "Bops:" IG-to-OnlyFans Funnels, Teen Incentives, and Internet Permanence 15:30 Natasha Topic 1: Hot Girls in Palantir & Anduril Merch 23:40 Natasha Topic 2: AI Moments: Bots Talking to Bots, Sora War Videos, and AI Psychosis 32:15 QuasiMatt Topic...

Ep: 225 - Citrini Doomsday article, Justin Brill from Anchorage, Nicholas Cary from Blockchain, & Katherine Dee aka @Default_Friend 07.03.2026 1:55:00

00:00 Cold Open: Weird Austin Airbnb, Snow in NYC, and Weather Discourse Fatigue 07:20 Citrini Doomsday article and Flop Tweets 10:45 Snow Removal, Mamdani, and Doomsday Anxiety About AI + Unemployment 08:10 Justin Brill (Anchorage) Joins: ETHDenver Vibes, Stablecoins, and Institutional Adoption 20:45 Nicholas Cary (Blockchain) Joins: 2011 Origins, Surviving Every Cycle, and Agentic Payments 35:3...

Ep: 224 - Brian Armstrong vs. Bryan Johnson, RFK + Kid Rock, MrBeast's Business Breakdown, Big Fundraising from Thrive and Dragonfly, Special Guest Jose Mejia on "taste discourse", Girl Scout Cookies Business Breakdown, OpenClaw 18.02.2026 1:22:15

00:00 Cold Open & ETHDenver for Republicans 00:29 Mar-a-Lago Check: World Liberty Financial Summit Explained 02:16 Who's Showing Up: Brian Armstrong, FIFA, Kevin O'Leary & the Weird Guest List 03:58 What Even Is ETHDenver? 04:55 Brian Armstrong vs Bryan Johnson 06:55 RFK + Kid Rock 'Wellness' Video: Cold Plunge Fever Dream 11:28 Sponsor Break: Octant's Vaults, Grants, and Migration Day! 12:54 MrB...

Ep: 223 - The Messy Olympics, Gigi Claudid our AI agent, Tatum Hunter on Internet Culture, Mashal Waqar and Artem Brazhnikov from Octant on sustainable funding models, Nick Devor of Barrons on Kalshi, Polymarket and the Super Bowl 12.02.2026 1:31:19

00:00 Introduction to Boys Club Live 00:44 The viral Vogue clip 03:46 Market Talk 07:13 Shoutout to Octant 11:29 AI Etiquette and Social Contracts 15:19 Gigi Claudid: Training our AI agent 20:49 Norwegian Athlete's Emotional Confession 23:34 Unpacking Relationship Drama 24:44 Messy Olympics: Scandals in Sports 25:32 Partner Shoutout: Anchorage Digital 27:27 Podcast Recommendation: The Rest is His...

Ep: 222 - Year end special, AI design with Jamey Gannon (@Techbimbo), Disrupting the payment stack with John Egan (Polygon), retail investing in 2026 with Andrew McCormick (eToro US), and Quasimatt on Cultural Moods 19.12.2025 1:58:41

Thank you to 0x and Polygon for supporting this stream. 00:00 Introduction to Boys Club Live 01:32 Guest Lineup and Show Overview 02:33 Big News with Polygon 06:53 Year in Review 17:58 AI Design and Branding with Jamey Gannon 36:09 The Payment Stack with John Egan 43:04 Challenges of Cross-Border Transactions 43:58 The Role of Stablecoins and Blockchain 45:38 Competing with Established Bra...

Ep: 221 - LIVE from Solana Breakpoint, Day 3. Feat. Amanda Young (BitRobot), Abhay Kumar (Helium), Emmett Hollyer (Solana Mobile), Amy Boudreau (0x), Mashal Waqar (Octant), Austin Hurwitz (Neuko) 13.12.2025 1:13:45

Thank you to 0x and Polygon for supporting this stream.

Ep: 220 - LIVE from Solana Breakpoint, Day 2. Feat. Raj Gokal (Solana), Cathy Yoon (Harmonic), Brandon Millman (Phantom), Ian C Rogers (Ledger) 12.12.2025 1:04:36

Thank you to 0x and Polygon for supporting this stream.

Ep: 219 - LIVE from Solana Breakpoint, Day 1. Feat. Austin Federa (DoubleZero), Caitlin Cook (Moonwalk Fitness), Trevor McFedries, Robinson Burkey (Wormhole), Maya Caddle (Solana Foundation), Ran Goldi (Fireblocks) 11.12.2025 1:12:30

Thank you to 0x and Polygon for supporting this stream.

Ep: 218 - Live from Devconnect Argentina, Sandeep Nailwal, founder of Polygon Foundation, William Duran (Minteo), Patrick Kearney (Relay Protocol), Grigore Rosu (Pi Squared) 08.12.2025 1:49:27

Live from Money Rails by Polygon at Devconnect 2025. 00:00 Introduction to Boys Club Live at Devconnect 00:41 Setting the Scene: Dev Connect and Money Rails 02:48 Draft Tweets: A Fun Warm-Up 05:50 Shoutouts and Event Highlights 10:23 Exploring Argentina 15:44 Trending Topics at Devconnect 25:17 Interview with Sandeep Nailwal of Polygon 38:03 Polygon's Network Effects and Scalability 39:11 Real-...

Ep: 219 - Special ep! The Boys Club DAO donates $200K to the Lower Eastside Girls Club, feat. guests Jenny Dembrow (Executive Director) and Aicha Cherif (Alum) 04.12.2025 29:10

Thank you to Polygon for supporting this podcast.