Chris Josephs
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 15 Sep
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Morning Wire · Evening Wire: Shutdown Vote Underway & AI Song Tops Charts | 11.12.25 · 12 Nov 2025
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If we can get this ban through, it literally benefits everybody.
There is no net negative for this bill not to go through, except for the politicians.
It will bring more trust.
It'll bring more transparency.
We need that.
How'd you do that? How'd the whole thing start? I mean, I'm 29 now. At 25, would I say that, you know, looking five years from then, I'll be running a Pelosi Stock Tracker, building an app with the slogan, invest like a politician, having that thing become a thing? No, I don't think I would have ever gotten to that. Um, so at 25, I was actually living in Bali.
I quit my New York city job when I was doing finance and I started working on my family company where we would sell sports compression products, like little ones with numbers on them, a custom ones that you would get for your kid for, you know, peewee football. And I was so sick of the finance grind in New York that I was like, I'm going to work on this family thing.
I'm going to try and take it up to another level. I'll go travel around, move to Bali. I was working out there for probably like six or seven months. Moved back to Boston, which is where I'm from. Then went up to New Hampshire, became a snowboard instructor. Was working on the ski slopes. There's a whole story behind it. I was working on the ski slopes. As a snowboard instructor.
Where in New Hampshire? Bretton Woods. Great, great mountain. Very family friendly. And this is my phone. We're all up there. And then when COVID hit, moved back in with my family. And then that's how I connected with my co-founders, Brian, Aaron, and Scott. They're out in LA. And there's a whole story on how I essentially connected with them, which we can get into. But...
we started building an app together. And long story short, I'm sure we'll get into the majority of this stuff. We essentially built out on a tech side, the first way to follow your friend's stock portfolios. So if you had a Robinhood and I had a Webull or a Fidelity, we would connect it to our app and you can get push notifications of when a trade would happen.
I was the co-founder of it and I was in charge of the growth. And one obvious way to do it, this was during the GameStop era, was let me build a Nancy Pelosi portfolio. I'm seeing on Twitter, I'm seeing on TikTok, I'm seeing on Instagram, politicians crushing it and them getting called out for their trades, especially during COVID. I never will forget it. Yeah, you covered it, the Richard Burr.
I was disgusted by it. They got investigated by the DOJ, investigated by the SEC. Nothing happened. And that story is insane. And I think that story was where it really started to get— Can you just give us the outline of it for people who forgot?
So, Unusual Wales, he's an account on X. He was the one that initially started all this. So, the Pelosi tracker came— You know him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We work with him. Great guy. Yeah.
Obscure guy doesn't want the world to know about him, but he actually takes, deserves so much credit for this stuff. I don't think anyone would be unusual whales on Twitter. Yep. He is the one that would essentially call them out at the beginning. He started the Pelosi tracker in a way he was calling out the politician stuff.
And then the Pelosi tracker came probably in 2022, but he started in 2020. And I think Richard Burr, that whole story started because Unusual Will started calling it out. The story behind the Richard Burr is around his COVID traits. And it was a full-on scandal. You covered it at Fox News.
The story is on February 7th, 2020, he wrote an op-ed with another senator saying, hey, Americans, don't worry. COVID's not that bad. We're keeping an eye on it. Everything will be okay. While he has and writes that op-ed, he's getting insider kind of details because he sat as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee while he was writing that op-ed.
So while sitting as the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he's getting private meetings saying, hey, guys, COVID is actually way worse than we think. This is not going to end the same way that people expect. be ready for some sort of rapid response.
Exactly. And he was tasked with partly like, get ready for a response. You know, like once COVID hits, we think this is going to be bad. Get ready for a response. Have your materials ready to tackle this situation. So he probably knew the severity of it. to a 10x what the everyday American and also probably what other senators and representatives did as well.
So if you follow the timeline, though, February 7th is when he wrote that op-ed. February 13th is the day that he went and he sold off $1.65 million of his entire retirement account. So a week after he told the American, not only just a normal kind of investment account, his retirement account, he sold the whole thing.
No, no, no, no. Yeah, the retirement account is something you don't touch. Those are the simply buy and hold, never touch them forever. But selling off that to that degree is extreme. And I think is what caught a lot of people's attention of like... You don't just do that. You know what? Yeah. You don't just do that while you're the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, you know?
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