Episode 150 is the first Wall Street Wildlife recorded live in front of the Patreon community, questions from the chat included. Monkey makes the case for Oddity Tech after the post-earnings pop, the King of the Jungle scoreboard turns into a hare-versus-tortoise argument, and we spend half an hour on the 3,800 words Dario Amodei wrote asking the whole AI industry to slow down.🐢 King of the Jungle year three, six weeks to go: year one Badger won, year two Monkey ripped 380% (fourteen times the market) while Badger delivered 93%. If you're an investor, who would you rather be? The answer isn't obvious🧘 "It doesn't matter how Zen you are." Monkey on what a top holding down 70-something percent actually feels like, and why a 20-year-old should still swing big💸 All in on high-growth stocks while the US debt snowballs? Bitcoin, Chainlink, $ASST, and why diversification and hedging are two different things⚡ Luke's growth-plus-income "hedge": Iberdrola, Clearway, Brookfield Renewable and Constellation, half a percent each, and who buys their power💄 Should you buy $ODD? Beat guidance 11 quarters running, met one algorithm change, fell from $77 to under $10, and Monkey averaged in at $12. Two of three brands growing fast, buybacks with the excess cash, longevity products promised for 2027🤖 AI doomsday: the tweet that said insiders see a 10%+ chance AI kills us all within 10 years, and why OpenAI, Anthropic and Musk all lined up behind it the same week🏦 Dario's "embedded evaluator", explained by a banker who lived under one at HSBC. Then the China problem, Oppenheimer's non-zero chance, and the Elizabeth Holmes face-to-face documentarySEGMENTS00:00 Cold open00:37 Live for the first time01:40 Welcome to the Deep Investing Jungle03:44 Jose Luis's question: a first investing book for a 20-year-old07:47 Richer, Wiser, Happier and the WSW book club12:42 King of the Jungle, six weeks from the end of year three13:16 The all-time scoreboard: hare versus tortoise21:01 "It doesn't matter how Zen you are": living with a 70% drawdown22:55 Stephen's question: all in on high growth in a debt spiral?29:12 The other quadrant of options: hedges are insurance32:57 Luke's growth-and-income hedge: $IBE $CWEN $BEPC $CEG35:26 Diversification is not hedging40:17 Should you buy $ODD? Oddity Tech earnings42:58 The Fiscal.ai chart: revenue, guidance, the algorithm change45:03 Revenue by brand: Il Makiage, SpoiledChild, Methodiq46:56 Monkey's position, and the TLDR48:29 Seeking Alpha, Alpha Picks, and selling Badger on makeup54:29 Headline topic: AI doomsday55:49 The tweet: a 10% chance AI kills everyone within 3 to 10 years58:08 Sincere or psyop? The game theory of Dario's 3,800 words01:03:07 Monkey the virologist: the bioterror path01:06:33 How do you IPO while saying your product might kill everyone?01:09:04 The embedded evaluator: what HSBC's monitor was actually like01:14:52 Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and the limits of sincerity01:17:09 Dario's three levels, taken at face value01:22:00 Fiscal.ai and sign-off**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:⁠⁠x.com/7LukeHallard⁠x.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returns

Monkey is surrounded by Tesla robotaxis in Austin and the rides are cheaper than Uber. Luke has three years of hindsight on the India thesis: the macro delivered, the trade didn't. In between, UiPath beat earnings and fell 17%, and Monkey explains why he sold his January call the week before.

🚕 Tesla robotaxis are undercutting $UBER on price. Pelosi and Trump are both buying the stock anyway

🏛️ Uber's defence is Congress: lobbying for a minimum share of human-driven rides

🤖 $PATH went from scripted bots to Maestro: agents decide, robots execute, humans approve

📉 Stock-based comp cut from 43% of revenue to 11%. Then a beat, a flat guide, and a 17% drop

🎯 "Take off the long-term investor hat, put on the trader's hat": the anchored VWAP line and the $15 call sold for a 65% gain

😴 "I was thinking of getting back in, but I couldn't sleep well." Luke: UiPath "niched and probably dead"

🇮🇳 S&P 500 up 85% since the May 2023 India episodes. $NDIA up 27%. $IIND up 17%

💱 The rupee loop: AI shrinks India's $200bn services exports, the currency slides, foreign returns evaporate

🌾 Wendell Berry's death, a life of depth versus a life of efficiency, and his nine rules for a new tool

SEGMENTS00:00 Cold open00:41 Intro05:12 Tesla robotaxis vs $UBER, Pelosi and Trump buying, lobbying Congress16:07 Wendell Berry: depth vs efficiency, the nine rules, protecting time from technology35:40 A live show for Patreons?37:20 $PATH: from robotic process automation to Maestro41:31 The Fiscal.ai chart: ARR up, stock-based comp down45:03 Should you buy UiPath? The trader's hat, the anchored VWAP line, selling the call58:22 India revisited: the 2023 thesis, three years on01:01:37 India vs the S&P 500 chart01:04:44 The rupee loop and the AI threat to services exports01:12:26 "Update our mental models of what counts as safe in 2026"01:13:56 Hare and tortoise: next week's King of the Jungle check-in01:15:01 Close**********

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GTA VI ships in November and everyone knows it will be enormous — which is exactly why Monkey lands on neutral for $TTWO: expectations and impact are two different things, and Take-Two hasn't posted an operating profit since 2022. Badger returns to his Greggs position after 14 months and admits the defensive thesis may be broken, and the episode opens with a masterclass in NOT panic-selling from the IREN earnings reaction.

🎮 Should you buy $TTWO before GTA VI? The Fiscal.ai chart: revenue up and to the right, operating margin at −2%

📉 "Take-Two has not actually been operating profitable since 2022" — four straight losing years

💰 The real bet is GTA Online, and the market has already taken its bow

🧠 The philosophical turn: Plato on imitation, whether 60 hours in GTA shapes character, and "okay, boomer"

🥐 Badger's Greggs confession: shop count up, like-for-like sales collapsing 22.4% → 2.1%

📊 ROCE falling while the estate grows — a capital-cycle bet now, not a defensive income stock

⚡ IREN: how NOT to react to a violent earnings call, and why knee-jerk sellers lost in ten minutes

🎯 "If the thesis seems to be broken and you decide to sell, that's a rational decision, not an emotional one"

Segments:

00:00 Cold open

00:41 Intro — back from Italy, catch-up

06:11 Being classy vs being greedy (the X spat, Anduril)

13:26 Welcome new Patreons — Joe, Ben, the Arctic Cod

15:36 $IREN: handling a volatile earnings call without panic-selling

24:27 $TTWO / GTA VI — the whole segment

27:34 The Fiscal.ai chart: no operating profit since 2022

33:04 The TradingView chart: six sideways years, then momentum

37:32 What games do to us: Plato, escapism, "okay boomer"

01:07:22 Should you invest in Greggs? $GRG

01:09:48 The Greggs chart: shops up, like-for-like down

01:20:19 Close — Fiscal.ai, become a beast of an investor

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The world's most valuable company now trades at a market multiple — so the only question left is whether the earnings are real. Badger walks the whole Nvidia machine from graphics cards to five trillion dollars, while Monkey shows every DGXX share and option he's bought on the way to answering the question that actually matters: not "am I right about the story," but "am I making money?"

🐒 Should you buy $DGXX? DigiPower X from Bitcoin miner to AI data-centre landlord

📒 Monkey opens his books: every $DGXX share and option, on screen

📈 The book-value chart that explains the whole $DGXX thesis

🖥️ $NVDA from video-game graphics cards to 90%+ data-centre revenue

📊 Guidance: what Nvidia promised vs what they delivered, quarter by quarter

⚖️ 21x forward earnings — cheaper than the NASDAQ, cheaper than $AMD. Trap or gift?

🤖 Are the earnings durable? The "is AI real" question both hosts force themselves to sit with

🛠️ The vibe-coding redundancy problem, and what a seven-year-old's game says about it

SEGMENTS

00:00 Cold open

00:43 Welcome + banter

03:33 New Patreons + thanks to Thomas Chua (@steadycompound)

12:59 Monkey's build + the vibe-coding redundancy question

35:50 Should You Buy $DGXX (DigiPower X)?

38:15 Monkey's $DGXX positions — shares and options, on screen

48:06 The $DGXX book-value chart

56:30 $NVDA: from graphics cards to the world's most valuable company

01:02:08 Guidance — what they promised vs what they delivered

01:03:44 Valuation — 21x forward earnings and the five-trillion question

01:05:09 Are the earnings durable? Is AI real?

01:12:14 Wrap + close

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Two companies crater 48% and 33% in a single day. One gets sold immediately. One gets held. The difference? It comes down to whether management made a mistake, or committed fraud. This week, Krzysztof walks through three small-cap bloodbaths in real time, Luke dissects whether Adyen is a sleeping giant or a value trap, and someone on X accuses Luke of faking his 23% CAGR. It's a full episode of war stories, blood on the floor, and genuine investing decisions made under pressure.

💀 Krzysztof's "Not Entirely Bad, the Bad, and the Ugly" — three holdings got slaughtered in one week. Hear exactly what he did and why.

🎯 Inventure vs. AmpliTech: same headline (guidance pulled, stock collapses), completely different decisions — and the reasoning is more nuanced than you'd expect. $INV $AMPG

🧠 The covered call trap: how selling one option accidentally prevented Krzysztof from locking in a 160% gain in six weeks — and what he'd do differently.

📊 Should you buy $ADYEN? Luke owns it, barely believes in it, and still can't give you a clean answer — which might be the most honest take you'll hear.

🤖 A 7-year-old built a video game using Claude in two hours. What does that mean for education, creativity, and the next generation of builders?

🌐 Luke vs. X: someone publicly questioned his 23% CAGR over 22 years. He addresses it head-on, live, on the pod.

🎓 Short reports, shareholder lawsuits, and fake counterparties — a masterclass in knowing which red flags to ignore and which ones to run from.

Segments:

00:00:00 Cold Open: War Stories & Blood on the Floor

00:01:11 Intro: Small-Cap Carnage & Should You Buy Adyen?

00:04:34 AI Vibe Coding Contest: A 7-Year-Old Builds a Video Game

00:11:31 Luke & Krzysztof Are Both Building Apps — And Racing Each Other

00:15:34 The Not Entirely Bad, The Bad & The Ugly: Three Holdings Collapse

00:16:30 Inventure ($INV): Fake Orders, Shady Management, Immediate Sell

00:19:00 How to Tell Legitimate Short Reports from Market Manipulation

00:30:04 AmpliTech ($AMPG): Same Headline, Very Different Decision

00:37:00 The Covered Call Trap: How Options Prevented a 160% Win

00:43:50 EOS: The One He's Still Holding — Bias or Conviction?

00:48:46 Should You Buy $ADYEN? Luke's Honest (Ambivalent) Take

01:04:15 Luke's 23% CAGR Under Fire: Addressing the Twitter Accusation

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Earnings season hits Wall Street Wildlife this week — Rocket Lab reports, a tiny Long Island radio company is swinging triple digits, and Krzysztof is literally fighting for his life against Polish mosquitoes the size of scorpions. Two stocks, two very different risk profiles, one question: are these stories real — or just great narratives with no orders behind them?

🚀 $RKLB earnings preview: the ONE number Luke is watching that will make or break the bull case — and it's not revenue

📊 Rocket Lab's backlog hit $2.2B — but operating margins are getting *worse*. How does that math work?

🎯 Luke breaks down the Neutron rocket timeline: already slipped twice, and R&D costs are exploding. Has it slipped again?

🤖 $AMPG — a tiny Long Island radio company with NVIDIA and Amazon logos on its website. Genius move or red flag?

🌐 Why the giants (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei) literally cannot compete with AmpliTech in this niche — the answer is weirder than you think

💀 Krzysztof admits he didn't drill into the fine print before buying — and the stock promptly doubled, then gave it all back

Segments:

00:00:00 Cold Open: Mosquitoes, Edinburgh Fringe & Two Earnings Calls

00:03:31 What Is AmpliTech ($AMPG) and Why Does It Exist?

00:08:00 The ORAN Opportunity: Why Radio Frequency Is the AI Infrastructure Nobody Talks About

00:09:27 NVIDIA + Amazon Logos on a $150M Company's Website — Signal or Hype?

00:10:20 $AMPG Bear Case: No Orders, Customer Concentration, and Giant Competitors

00:13:21 Why Ericsson and Nokia Can't (Won't) Compete With AmpliTech

00:15:21 $RKLB Deep Dive: What Rocket Lab Actually Does (And What Makes Money)

00:18:00 $RKLB Stock Volatility: 58% Round Trip in 10 Weeks — What Happened?

00:19:00 Backlog, Gross Margin, and the Real Financial Story at Rocket Lab

00:21:00 The Neutron Question: Has the Timeline Slipped Again?

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A 24-year-old prodigy builds a $45 billion fund on a single correct idea about AI, then watches 67% of it evaporate in a month. This week, Badger and Monkey dissect the brutal drawdown at Situational Awareness, the hedge fund that was right about everything except how to survive being right. It's not dead, but it's a gut-check case study in what leverage does even when your thesis holds. What went wrong, what it reveals about greed, ego, and leverage, and what every retail investor can learn before the next correction hits them.

⚠️ A $45B fund lost 67% in 30 days while holding positions that were fundamentally CORRECT — here's the brutal lesson on why being right isn't enough

🧠 Krzysztof names his greatest investing mistake over decades — and it's not what most people expect

🎯 Luke's mechanical 15% rule saved him from the $RKLB round-trip — and it has nothing to do with predicting the market

📊 $RKLB did a 58% round trip in 10 weeks — Badger walks through exactly how he managed it in real time

🤖 Was Leopold Aschenbrenner actually wrong about AI infrastructure? The contrarian case that's making Krzysztof rethink his entire portfolio

🎓 4X leverage explained plainly: why the structure of your bet can wreck you even when the call itself is right

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This week, we took the long, scenic, cosmic route through AST SpaceMobile, a company we think has a real shot at mattering — both for the problem it solves and for the investors who don't fall off the drunken-price-action rollercoaster.This five hour epic episode goes deep, don't miss the full hour heated bull vs bear debate that answers the question, should you invest in $ASTS?Segments:00:00:00 PART 1: THE GAP — Abel's phone call 00:03:16 90% of Earth, 3bn people, no signal 00:07:30 Fishermen, M-Pesa and GDP growth 00:11:04 When Wire Was King: the AT&T years 00:15:49 The case against universal coverage00:22:15 PART 2: THE GRAVEYARD — all dead 00:23:15 Five companies, $17bn, no survivors 00:24:58 Iridium: the $3,000 brick phone 00:29:04 Globalstar and Apple's SOS 00:32:35 LightSquared, Ligado and the FCC 00:37:20 The handset trap and spectrum trap 00:39:55 Rocket Lab buys Iridium $RKLB00:41:46 PART 3: ABEL — one man's company? 00:42:25 45, rich, one impossible problem 00:44:36 No salary, $50m in, 71.6% control 00:58:51 The Kerrisdale short, answered 01:05:20 Wisniewski: the banker who quit 01:11:03 Mikitani, Rakuten and the call01:15:30 PART 4: THE SCIENCE — the physics 01:16:58 What is light? Faraday and Maxwell 01:25:46 170x further away, 29,000x weaker 01:30:36 223 sq m vs Starlink and Iridium 01:35:54 Phased arrays: 20,000 antennas 01:43:43 The bent pipe: dumb satellites win01:56:23 PART 5: THE BIRDS — the hardware 01:58:20 Block 2: 6 up, 7 lost, 8-10 flying 02:04:48 Inside the Midland factory 02:07:05 The only chart that matters 02:14:59 The Tesla Model 3 ramp lesson $TSLA02:18:57 PART 6: SPECTRUM WARS — invisible 02:26:54 Don't buy spectrum, partner for it 02:28:49 Ligado: $550m for $9-27bn of value 02:37:46 1,150 MHz vs T-Mobile's 5 02:43:35 Japan picks AST, Europe follows02:49:32 PART 7: THE BUSINESS — the model 02:50:18 AST doesn't sell you anything 02:53:52 $10 a month, split 50/50 02:54:44 Scrooge McBadger objects 03:04:42 Are 90% margins credible? 03:07:04 The hidden business: defence03:12:31 PART 8: THE COMPETITION 03:14:11 T-Satellite live: 16 million users 03:15:22 Amazon buys Globalstar $AMZN 03:20:55 Wild card: Starlink V3 and Starship 03:27:01 Badger: it's a commodity 03:32:56 China and India carve up a quarter03:39:40 PART 9: THE MONEY 03:41:29 Valuation today is a fool's errand 03:45:22 Burn rate, and how dilution hurts 03:46:36 The billion dollar raise 03:49:46 Bears: zero. Bulls: a trillion03:52:22 PART 10: BULL VS BEAR 03:52:56 The bull case: Abel's July tweet 03:59:46 Space AI edge computing 04:03:30 The bear concedes the technology 04:05:59 Bear: European regulatory approval 04:13:43 Bear: hostage to a rival's rockets 04:37:18 Bear: the space mob is a risk 04:39:26 Shout-outs: Kook, Anpanman, CatSE 04:49:12 The Badger reveal 04:53:21 The bookend, and the 911 call

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Two very different investors. One philosophy episode that might change how you think about your entire approach to the market. This week, Luke lays out his complete investing framework — 23 years, 23% CAGR, distilled into rules you can actually use — while Krzysztof makes the case for a $161M micro-cap that could be the infrastructure backbone of the AI + satellite era. Plus: is Palantir a world-changing tool or a surveillance weapon you shouldn't own?

🧠 Luke's single most powerful investing rule — and why 'press no buttons' is actually a superpower most investors will never master

🎯 The 3-skill hierarchy that explains why most stock pickers are working on the least important skill (and what to focus on instead)

💀 Krzysztof admits he's 'a disaster right now' — but the King of the Jungle track record tells a more complicated story

🤖 $AMPG: a 46-person Long Island company that might be the only American-made radio supplier for the AI + satellite revolution

🚀 Why $ASTS led Krzysztof down a rabbit hole to amplifiers, NVIDIA partnerships, and a micro-cap with a massive upcoming earnings catalyst

📊 $PLTR is trading at 113x free cash flow — and Luke owns it anyway. Here's the uncomfortable math behind that decision

🌐 The ethical tightrope of owning Palantir: surveillance weapon or the reason COVID vaccines reached 300 million arms?

🎓 Cash as an emotional hedge: why Luke runs 23% cash right now and how it rewires your psychology during drawdowns

Segments:

00:00:00 Pessimists Sound Smart But Optimists Make Money

00:01:13 Episode Overview: Philosophy, $AMPG & $PLTR

00:01:33 What Is Philosophy — And Why It Shapes Your Portfolio

00:07:14 Luke's 23-Year Investing Framework Explained

00:14:03 The 3 Skills of Investing (Most People Focus on the Wrong One)

00:17:45 Rules That Keep Luke Emotionally Neutral: Cash, Caps & Inaction

00:24:51 Drawdowns in Days Not Dollars: The Mindset Trick That Works

00:35:32 Should You Buy $AMPG? Krzysztof's King of the Jungle Pick

00:43:49 American-Made RF Tech: The Huawei Angle Nobody's Talking About

00:48:02 $PLTR Deep Dive: Gotham, Foundry & AIP Explained Simply

00:51:07 Is Palantir Dangerously Overvalued? The Bear Case in Plain English

00:53:12 The Ethics of Owning Palantir — An Honest Conversation

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Keywords:

$PLTR, Palantir, $AMPG, AmpliTech, investing philosophy, position sizing, cash allocation, portfolio management, behavioral finance, investing psychology, growth investing, long-term investing, Kelly Criterion, $RKLB, $ASTS, NVIDIA, AIP Palantir, RF amplifiers, 5G infrastructure, AI infrastructure, micro-cap stocks, valuation, free cash flow, King of the Jungle, Wall Street Wildlife

Two gorillas, one marketplace — and Waymo just walked out the door. This week Luke and Krzysztof tear apart three King of the Jungle stocks with real money on the line, debate whether active fund management is structurally broken, and wade into the most confusing rights offering either of them has ever seen. Buckle up.

💀 Fundsmith, the legendary UK fund manager just abandoned his own principles — and Luke says it proves you should NEVER give your money to an active manager, no matter how good their track record

🤖 Waymo ditched Uber's platform to go solo. Luke owns $UBER. Is his entire thesis now in jeopardy — or is this actually fine?

🚗 $TSLA at 180x earnings: is it a car company, an AI company, or just a Musk narrative trade? The hosts disagree on when, or whether, to buy

💊 Krzysztof makes the case for $PRCT (Procept BioRobotics) at near all-time lows and explains exactly what he's watching in the August 5th earnings call before he adds a single share

🎯 Down 40% on a position and refusing to add, Krzysztof walks through the discipline behind sitting on your hands when every instinct says buy

🎓 The Fundsmith collapse explained: why "do nothing" is the right strategy for YOU but a career-ending strategy for a fund manager — and why that misalignment matters

⚡ EOS Energy's rights offering has become a genuine disaster — death spiral mechanics, four-cent warrants, and brokers who have no idea what's happening. Krzysztof breaks it all down and tells you what to do RIGHT NOW if you're a holder

Segments:

00:00:00 Cold Open

00:11:00 Fundsmith's Fallure: Why Even the Best Fund Managers Crack

00:20:13 $PRCT Procept BioRobotics — Near All-Time Low, August 5th Catalyst

00:36:13 How to Sit on Your Hands When You're Down 40%

00:41:20 $TSLA Tesla — Car Company, AI Play, or Pure Narrative?

00:54:07 $UBER vs Robotaxi: Does Uber Survive If Waymo Goes Solo?

01:01:00 The Gorilla Problem: Why Krzysztof Isn't Convinced on $UBER

01:13:37 $EOS Energy Rights Offering Disaster — What Holders Must Do Now

01:23:11 Learning in Public: Why We Don't Delete Our Mistakes

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Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation

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- Essential investing principles to boost your returns

Keywords:

$UBER, $TSLA, $PRCT, $EOS, Procept BioRobotics, Tesla robotaxi, Uber Waymo, Fundsmith Terry Smith, active management, rights offering, aquablation, Optimus robot, full self-driving FSD, robotaxi investing, network effects, position sizing, investing psychology, King of the Jungle portfolio, razor blade business model, med tech investing, EOS Energy warrants, retail investor mistakes, anchoring bias, compounding stocks, growth investing