Members of Technical Staff
Episodes
SF Factions You Should Know About, with Kylie Robison and Noah Smith
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SF is nothing without its people so I brought on some of the greatest in @kyliebytes and @Noahpinion.We covered:- the different groups you can find in...
MOTS Extra: Leaving Parties to Check on AI Agents
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today's MOTS extra I sat down with @tejasybhakta of @morphllm to get a little technical.We covered:- programming with a piano foot pedal- leav...
Developing a Sense of Personal Style in SF, Dressing Well, Creating Culture and Appreciating Nice Things, with Jason Liu
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
@baelentina_ and I visited @jxnlco the other day to discuss whether dressing well in SF is low status or not, personal hygiene and how technology brot...
Social Media Tribes, Algorithms and the Permanent Underclass, with Signulll
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I turned @signulll into an ominous gray blob as we sat down in Alamo Square to talk about normal people things like how social media is tribal again, ...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 RFK Announces Peptide Reclassification
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RFK announces peptide reclassification!What does this all mean? Will the technology brothers finally be able to source peptides not of the sketchy Chi...
The State of AI Startups
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I had @0thernet over and instead of just hanging out over coffee or tea like normal people we decided to podcast like absolute morons. Anyway this MOT...
San Francisco Social Interactions
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I had both @baelentina_ and @NicoleSHsing over for some tea and to discuss different social interactions you might experience in San Francisco.We brok...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 TBPN Acquired by OpenAI, with Theo Browne and Ben Davis
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I visited Theo Browne and Ben Davis to break down the monumental TBPN OpenAI acquisition and what this means for all of our favorite buzzwords like ne...
Getting Jacked in San Franisco
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Due to popular demand I sat down for 40 minutes by myself and talked about my arms (very normal) and where to train in San Francisco. Also this is a ...
San Francisco Side Quests and Goth ABGs
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The weather in SF has been perfect so @NicoleSHsing (summer is literally in her name) and I set up on a park bench directly in the wind and talked abo...
An Update on the World of Peptides, with Max Marchione
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Since @maxmarchione and I last spoke a bunch of things have happened in the world of peptides from RFK's reclassification to Andrew Huberman post...
The Politics of Tech and AI, with Noah Smith
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday I visited @Noahpinion for some tea, to play with rabbits and to get political. From the tech right to old twitter vs Elon twitter to Anthrop...
The AI Anxietification of San Francisco
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
@ashebytes and I have decided that everyone needs to get offline, find some hobbies and go touch some grass (and a woman in my case) in order to overc...
Are Software Engineers Screwed? with Sam Lambert
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I took a trip to the PlanetScale office last week to chat with @samlambert about a couple of under-discussed topics:- AI (heard it's a big deal)-...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 The Gay Tech Mafia
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You didn't ask and I delivered! Seeing as I made an appearance in yet another mainstream publication what better way to increase my surface area ...
Valentines Day in San Francisco, with Valentina
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
@baelentina_ and I cohosted a Valentines Day SF rager with @zocomputer last night. We broke down Valentines Day restaurant locations in SF, dating an...
Gym Bro vs Bio Bro: Peptide Edition, with Max Marchione
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I wouldn't get used to polished MOTS but I figured what better way to announce a @superpower partnership than to bring in some cameras and microp...
The State of X Dot Com, with Roon
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I turned @tszzl into an ominous gray blob as we sat down with dearest @sofi_a and @baelentina_ to discuss the state of X Dot Com the everything app an...
Training with Navy Seals, with Blackbox
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I took a trip to the salesforce tower to talk to the @blackboxai guys about the leaning Millennium Tower behind us, training regiments of navy seals a...
Can a Psychic with LLMs Predict My Future? with Gillian Obrien
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today is the day everyone finally finds out my sexuality using the power of tarot and LLMs. Dearest psychic Gillian Obrien joins to me facilitate the ...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 xAI Engineer Fired for Podcasting?
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Another day another current thing in the niche San Francisco technology culture. Was Sulaiman Khan Ghori, a former xAI engineer fired for podcasting ...
The Real Perception of AI, with Anton Troynikov
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While AI is eating the world, it turns out that most people don’t actually like that idea, and current messaging around AI is on track to make thing...
Navigating the SF Social Scene as a Straight Dude
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I booked a $1k-a-night hotel room and, instead of feeling the touch of a woman, I decided to talk to myself on camera for nearly 40 minutes. Anyway, t...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Chinese Peptides Made the NYT, with Sina Hartung
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
So it really is a new year, new me, because I made The New York Times for my commentary on unregulated Chinese peptides. My dear friend Sina joins me ...
New Year New San Francisco, with Matt Palmer
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The world needed another podcast of two single straight dudes giving predictions for 2026, so don’t ask and you shall receive. @mattyp and I covered...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Looksmaxxing Into 2026
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Looksmaxxing is on the cards for 2026, and that’s something I know a thing or two about. I decided to take on Clavicular at his own game and mog him...
2025 Timeline In Review, with Valentina
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The X timeline giveth and the X timeline taketh away. From Chinese social media apps to accounts becoming the main character for weeks, the 2025 timel...
Tech Bros Deserve Love Too This Christmas, with Valentina
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Christmas time and everyone is scrambling to book meetings, close rounds, and decide whether to see their family or go skiing. However, one ...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Cline's Head of AI Was Fired
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Woke is back! Was Cline's Head of AI being fired due to VC pressure or a severe miscalculation? I have no idea, but my unemployed ass would never...
Y Combinator Demo Day F25, with Spor
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the quarterly startup equivalent of the NBA draft, and I was lucky enough to be let in as neither a founder nor an investor. YC Demo Day F25...
Climber Vs Gym Bro, with Keller Cliffton
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keller joined me on the day his company, Zipline, announced their $150 million contract with the US State Department, which will include $400 million ...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Going Viral For the Wrong Reasons, with Theo Browne
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Theo joined me to cover one of the greatest dunks and most brutal ratios X dot com has ever seen at the expense of yours truly. We talked about how a ...
Intro Culture and Raising Venture Capital, with Paige Finn Doherty
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's raising season, and you know what that means. Young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed startup founders have flocked to San Francisco for introducti...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Girlsgiving, with Madison Kanna
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was lucky enough to sit down with Madison Kanna the day after "The 7 Girls of SF" Thanksgiving party where I was even luckier to be invite...
Dating a Founder in SF, with Adam Tazi
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pre-seed, pre-product-market-fit founders in SF deserve love too. We break down why they may or may not be hard to date and talk about the quirks ...
The Rise of the Anonymous Tech Twitter Account, with Spor
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not many people know this, but some of the most influential figures in technology today are or once were anonymous Twitter accounts. This conversation...
Throwing the Perfect San Francisco Party, with Miranda Nover and Valentina Escudero
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We threw an absolute rager in San Francisco and it was actually good! This conversation covers how we did it, the ratio, the costumes, the lack of net...
The Ghosts Of Silicon Valley, with Will Depue
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost Halloween, so we dressed up as disgraced founders and covered the dead companies and fads of Silicon Valley. This conversation takes a t...
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Extropic Hardware Launch, with Gill Verdon
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I managed to catch Extropic founder and CEO Guillaume Verdon on launch day for their new thermodynamic computing hardware. We cover all things from be...
Congratulations On Your Unemployment, with Andi Duro
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In San Francisco you are lauded and in New York City you are exiled. This conversation covers being unemployed in the big cities, the different labels...
The Yoked Chads and Staceys of Silicon Valley, with Matt Palmer
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Soylent and Huel meal replacement shakes have been replaced with Fairlifes and energy drinks in FAANG refrigerators and squat racks are being put ...
Agentic Workflows and the State of the AI Hype Cycle, with Sam Hogan
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI hype cycle is in full swing and now agentic workflows are all the rage. From prompt engineering to asking for AGI timelines on dates. This conv...
996 and the Rise of The Striver in Silicon Valley, with Turner Novak
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Those in Silicon Valley have adopted 996 and you know this because they will simply tell you about it online. From pictures of girlfriends being fired...
The Quest for Beauty and the Evolving Tech Bro Stack, with Max Marchione
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Those in Silicon Valley now want to be hot and are willing to cut all kinds of corners in order to get there. This conversation covers the evolution o...
Fixing the San Francisco Party, with Madison Kanna
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While tech-adjacent parties in San Francisco are home to the most powerful social circles on the planet they come with a few negative stereotypes. No ...