Nasdaq War Stories, Moon-Landing?, Fraud, AI Compute Crunch

John and I covered a lot of ground in this one, starting with a quick health check-in before jumping into a classic SpaceBat mix of tech, history, markets, and pop culture. We talked about seeing a Tesla Robotaxi/Cybercab in the wild, the spectacle of Tesla’s latest Roadster demo, and then wandered into Cold War and space-race history—Project AZORIAN, Soviet lunar efforts, why the moon-landing footage looked the way it did, and the enduring mystique of the SR-71 Blackbird. We also detoured into Apple, NeXT, Xerox PARC, and the all-too-common story of companies inventing the future and then fumbling it.

From there, we hit comics and sci-fi—Spider-Man, Venom, Andor, Loki, Battlestar Galactica, Alien—and then spent real time on market structure war stories from our trading days, including Nasdaq outages, the Russell rebalance, and the Facebook IPO. We wrapped on AI, CoreWeave, Grok, Claude, Neuralink, coding agents, and what all this means for work, productivity, and society, before closing with a serious stretch on 9/11, government fraud, and the gap between what systems are supposed to do and what they actually do in practice.