Phil Hellmuth

He could go to work every day and then he had to report to jail and that it was all just like a misunderstanding is how they framed it.

I think, looking back on it, I think he's a spy.

I think he worked for intelligence agencies.

Now, I am not the conspiracy theorist of this podcast, but- Worked for or shared intel with, because those are different.

It could be any in that spectrum.

Then I think the question becomes, was he an asset?

Was he sharing information?

To what extent?

And the reason I think this is because why would he have an interest in the top scientists in the top universities to get close to them?

And then who did he want to pass that information on to?

Who would want top intelligence from scientists?

Russia, Israel, the CIA.

And then the Kompromat thing does seem also likely because he had cameras everywhere and they've talked about this.

I think there is a non-zero chance that that part of the story is true.

The part of the story that's unanswered.

But I don't know that it's like a 90% chance that happened.

And I think that when we go back and we look at this, there's a bunch of people who have embarrassing interactions with this person who spread money everywhere.

Everybody wanted his money.

That's why they were lining up.

All the scientists, Joey Ito, Reid Hoffman, all of these folks were trying to get his money.