Dre (@Dreunlimited) and Rodney (@Rg2official) link up from the cold Midwest for a wide-ranging episode. Dre shares his first factory tour as he explores manufacturing acquisitions — and why the physical world holds more value than most tech folks realize. Then the guys dig into the backlash against Flock Safety cameras and what it signals about America's growing unease with mass surveillance, before taking a hard look at the Epstein files, learned helplessness, and why accountability feels impossible in a distracted society. They break down Anthropic's "safety as a moat" strategy — calling out the distillation drama with DeepSeek and whether Claude's brand can hold up to scrutiny — then close on OpenAI's jaw-dropping $100B funding round and what Sam Altman's relentless momentum says about the future of AI and founder archetypes.

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• Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited⁠⁠⁠
• LinkedIn:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/⁠⁠⁠

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• Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Rg2official⁠⁠⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/⁠⁠⁠

Brylan

• Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/0xHimzel⁠⁠⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/⁠⁠

Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) are back. Dre opens on acquiring a new business and the real psychology of walking in as the new owner — what the team is feeling, what you observe before you move. Then the crew gets into the big idea of the episode: acceleration and destabilization are happening at the same time, and they're connected. Waymo leads the conversation — from Rodney's driverless ride from SFO to what autonomous vehicles mean as a logistics platform, job displacement at scale, China's dark factories, and whether civil unrest is closer than people think. Then the guys shift to AI video models, deepfakes, and what the erosion of truth means for Hollywood and society at large. They close debating the OpenClaw acquisition, agentic AI, and whether Dario Amodei and Anthropic can actually compete — Rodney has a strong take, Brylan pushes back hard, Dre tries to keep the peace.

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• Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited⁠⁠
• LinkedIn:⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/⁠⁠

Rodney

• Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Rg2official⁠⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/⁠⁠

Brylan

• Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/0xHimzel⁠⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/⁠

After a year-long hiatus, Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) are back. The guys catch up on major life changes — career pivots, health journeys, acquiring businesses, and navigating dark seasons. Then they dive into the AI spending war ($600B in capex this year), whether SaaS is dying, Waymo eating Uber's lunch, the future of coding tools like Codex and Claude Code, Meta vs Apple in the hardware race, shifts in the monetary system with stablecoins and blockchain-based stock trading, and Rodney closes with a powerful message on the erosion of trust across institutions and why verified outcomes matter more than ever.

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Dre

• Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DreUnlimited⁠
• LinkedIn:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dandree/⁠

Rodney

• Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/Rg2official⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneygainous/⁠

Brylan

• Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/0xHimzel⁠
• LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brylandonaldson/

Today's episode discusses maintaining peek health, Google's new AI models, United Health Care murder, and much more.

Behind the scenes at Mercury, a story about Starlink satellites, an inside look into a plumbing company with $2M in profit, and much more.

Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how United Healthcare was hacked for $22M, Liquid Death's $1.4B valuation, hate speech on X, and much more. 

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Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss how AI is disputing movie production in Hollywood, the business of podcasting, social classes and much more. 

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Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss Usher's Superbowl performance, the rise of Chinese marketplace Temu, Sam Altam's quest to raise $1T for AI chips, and much more. 

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Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the lessons of being a founder and much more.

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Dre (@Dreunlimited), Rodney (@Rg2official), and Brylan (@0xHimzel) discuss the state of the US economy, activities happening in crypto, and much more. 

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