H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
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What is the new $100,000 one‑time fee for H‑1B visas and why was it introduced?
All right, everybody. Welcome back to the number one podcast in the world. The all-in podcast. We're back. We're back. We got the original crew here. It's a tight foursome. With me again. He's returned from, I believe, the UAE uh in MENA. The one, the only, your chairman, your dictator, Chamath Palihapatia. He puts the dick in dictator. That's what they all say. How are you doing? Good. You? So you went and you got that wow, what's that beautiful airline that we all take to the region?
Emirates First Class,
yeah. Oh, Emirates First Class with the cabin. It's insane. With the wine? Take everybody in. Cause I
do business class for 14 dimes round trip. Emirates is unbelievable. But the problem is there's like literally a thousand movies. A thousand. So you have to like favorite out thirty or forty of them. There was like 95 different menu choices. I have probably 8,000 calories. Oh, really? And that was just the wine, I take it.
Yeah.
By the way, the wine is incredible. The wine list, like nineteen ninety six mantros, and I was like is this an air I had never seen an airline wine list? It was pretty strong. Did you bring your
Sommier
Josh? Was he
in
the cabin next to
you
with his own? I didn't need it. No, I didn't
need it. I like that. And of course your Sultan of Science. We got a great docket for him. It's kinda like the Super Bowl for Sultan fans this week because
Yeah. I hope I deliver, bro. I mean,
autism and you're gonna comment on it. It's a pretty big deal. It's
a pretty big deal. So let your winners ride. Rainman David
Sack. And it said we open source it to the fans and they've just gone crazy with it.
And then of course. Ah, the one the only He puts the bazaar in czar. David Sarks calling in from his his southern
experts. It's it's you put the czar and bazaar, not the bazaar and czar.
Yeah, I kinda was I'm playing with it. I'm workshopping it. I've been trying both ways. Um, but yes. And uh you're calling in, you're echoing, which is great.
I'm on the road.
You're on the road between meetings? Well Yeah, basically.
Exactly. Are you in
a are you in a motorcade? No. No. Okay, listen. The topic of the week, H one B visas are being overhauled. Trump administration announced a new hundred thousand dollar fee for all future H1B applications. It's a one-time fee. There's been a little confusion about it and the details, but you know, that's how they they do things in the 47th. Just some excitement, a big announcement, and then we we figure out the details. Lutnik originally said it would be a hundred thousand a year, but then the White House clarified it will be a one-time fee. This is a huge jump. The current fee is nothing. It's like two to five K that you pay to the government. You might pay a lawyer, you know, double that or triple that to to do the work for you if you're a big corporation.
Um, but um, you know, this this hits on a lot of the Trump campaign promises, tougher on immigration, looking out for U.S. workers. We've talked before here about the abuse uh in the H1B system. I'll give some of my personal um you know insights in that after I I maybe I throw to you, Chemoff. And before I do, they had an interesting polymarket. Will courts block Trump's hundred K H one B by September thirtieth? Three percent chance of that happening. So it looks like everybody's kind of aligned with then with this program. All right, Saks, uh I know you're on the road, but you the your your your fans demand to hear your take on this. What what's what's your take?
I think it's a good idea to have this hundred thousand dollar fee and I'll tell you the reason why is because right now there's something like five times as many H1B applications as there are slots. So I think they grant about 85,000 H1Bs a year and many more apply for it. And as a result, they have a lottery where they just kind of I guess they randomly choose who the winners are gonna be. And if you look over the past decade, roughly half the H1Bs go to these like IT consulting firms. And the average salary is like $65,000 a year. So it kind of puts the lie to this idea that you hear that H1Bs are for like high skilled engineers, AI researchers, things like that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the new $100,000 one‑time fee for H‑1B visas and why was it introduced?
0:00–11:38
2
How does the $100,000 H‑1B fee aim to curb abuse and prioritize high‑skill jobs?
11:38–25:12
3
What evidence shows that many H‑1B visas go to low‑pay IT consulting firms?
25:12–38:01
4
How might a $100,000 fee reshape the H‑1B lottery and benefit American companies?
38:01–50:06
5
What recent research links prenatal acetaminophen use to increased autism risk?
50:06–1:05:34
6
How do the new autism studies explain the role of folate‑receptor autoantibodies?
1:05:34–1:18:33
7
What was Jimmy Kimmel’s response to the controversy and did he truly apologize?
1:18:33–1:21:33
8
What are the implications of California’s proposed hate‑speech law for social media platforms?
1:21:33–1:23:43
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