9/15/26: Trump Panics On AI Slowdown, Bonds Hit 19 Year High, Trump 5k Checks

What you'll learn

• 1 (02:00) **Show Open & Top Stories Preview** - Krystal and Saagar tee up the day's main segments: Trump's AI and Iran crash-out, the oil price surge, midterm polling, and an interview with Cuba's deputy foreign minister.
• 2 (04:08) **Garrison Lovely on Trump's AI "Crash Out"** - Journalist Garrison Lovely joins to analyze Trump's Truth Social tirade and his phone call into an all-in event with NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, where Trump called AI existential risk a "hoax."
• 3 (07:23) **Trump's Longest Post: AI as Economic Engine** - Trump's lengthy Truth Social post links AI regulation to "oblivion and bankruptcy," arguing data centers are the greatest economic development engine in history.
• 4 (11:51) **The Scuttled FINRA-Style AI Executive Order** - Saagar reveals that weeks ago, Trump was poised to sign an executive order creating a model-testing authority, but Zuckerberg and David Sachs lobbied to kill it.
• 5 (20:52) **The Transhumanist Future vs. Existential Risk** - The conversation pivots to the "bull case" for AI: not extinction, but the replacement of all human labor, creating trillionaire oligarchs with zero democratic accountability.
• 6 (26:35) **Antitrust Concerns and the Bernie-Bannon Coalition** - The hosts discuss the unusual political coalition forming around AI regulation, noting Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon attending the same event.
• 7 (33:51) **Garrison Lovely's Book "Obsolete"** - Lovely explains his book focuses on the "obsoleting project" — the goal of replacing all human workers — as the most urgent and politically mobilizing concern.

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