Campaign manager and political operative Phillip Stutts returns - one week prior to the 2022 midterm elections - to help James finalize his bets on PredictIt.org. The pair examine how Phil's predictions from his September appearance on the show have played out and give updated predictions on specific competitive races. James also gives his initial impression of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, the upcoming Federal Reserve Board meetings, and how a divided government might boost the flagging stock m...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The conclusion of last week's two-part two-hour conversation with Andrew Gold! This half of the interview centers around Andrew's experience as a world-traveling Brit experiencing different American cities for his first extended visit to the States. The two discuss "tipping culture" in America, corporations banning "wrong thought" for the sake of their own profits, and Andrew's surreal visit to Tim Pool's compound when being interviewed on his podcast.-----------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Mr. Wonderful" Kevin O'Leary joins James for a 'fireside chat' in front of a live audience at this year's Web3 Expo in Las Vegas!The pair discuss Kevin's current venture, WonderFi, which "provides access to decentralized and regulated centralized crypto platforms and is focused on building the future of finance". The conversation also pivots to how federal regulation and the $USDC stablecoin will open investment opportunities to sovereign wealth funds and provide a much faster and cheaper repla...
Oct 28, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Before there was "Fake News" there was the Fake News, and today's guest - The Onion co-founder Scott Dikkers - was the driving force behind the farce. Dikkers has been an editor-in-chief or General Manager of the newspaper and website for three spans between its founding in 1988 and 2014.Scott is also the bestselling author of over 20 humor books, including the lauded 3-book How to Write Funny series, and codified the '11 Funny Filters' that are used in almost every joke. ------------Visit Notep...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast On October 3rd, SOFREP Editor-in-Chief Brandon Webb wrote an OpEd asking "Is The Media Edging us Closer to Nuclear World War Instead of Diplomacy in Ukraine?". Today, Brandon - a famous Navy SEAL sniper, military instructor, author, and entrepreneur - joins the show to discuss the war in Ukraine's past, present, and future from multiple perspectives.Additional Topics Include:How did the Iraq war boost Iran's influence in the Middle East? (00:07:23)Why does Putin want Ukraine? (00:09:32)How could...
Oct 25, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast At this year's Web 3 Expo, James sat down with @PioVincenzo_ for a special interview on The NFT Show YouTube channel.Topics include:The importance of product vs. services (00:07:17)StockPickr.com and Mike Lazerow (00:13:43)James' crypto ads plastered across social media (00:18:24)James' hedge fund days (00:30:54)James' take on the NFT space (00:36:47)Bitcoin vs Ethereum (00:47:34)Will corporations adopt Ethereum or use their own blockchains? (00:53:44)------------Visit Notepd.com to read our ide...
Oct 22, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast "If there are three ways to win status: one is dominance, one is success, and one is virtue." Fan favorite guest Andrew Gold returns to the show for a 2-part, 2-hour meta-interview focusing on the thornier aspects of interviewing polarizing guests and how the public reacts.In recent years, Andrew Gold has hosted psychopaths, gang members, accused murderers, and cult members. James has taken an apolitical - or possibly anti-political - approach to the guests on his show. While Andrew has been rel...
Oct 21, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Whenever you need anything, why would you look anywhere else? Philanthropist and entrepreneur Bernie Marcus joins James on the show to coincide with the release of his new book, Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing it Yourself. One part chutzpah lesson, one part masterclass in charitable giving, our 93-year-old guest gives straight-ahead answers and personifies the concept of lifelong learning and finding out "how dumb we were yesterday".Additional topics include:Be...
Oct 18, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, former Make You a Millionaire mentee James Quandahl hosts James on his one-on-one podcast, "The James Quandahl Show". Below are the notes James Quandahl wrote to accompany the interview:This is a very special episode because I finally had a chance to record a conversation with someone who needs no introduction for the listeners of this show... my good friend and mentor James Altucher.During today's episode, we discussed why James believes hosting a podcast is like taking classes from the ...
Oct 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast When the most powerful people in the world are trying to destroy you and you refuse to die, it starts to cross your mind, "What's coming next?" In 2015, Andrew was a world kickboxing champion known to James as the son of International Chess Master Emory Tate. The two started conversing in the wake of Emory's untimely passing and have sporadically kept in touch.Seven years later, Andrew - retired from competitive contact sports - has taken the internet's mantle as a self-proclaimed free speech ad...
Oct 13, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast By popular request, Entrepreneur editor-in-chief Jason Feifer returns for a follow-up episode devoted to the fundamentals of starting and building franchises, a pillar of the Entrepreneur ecosystem.Starting from the very basics, James peppers Jason with the critical few questions necessary to understanding how franchises operate, which types of business are suited to part-time operators, and what kind of financial returns a franchisee might expect based on their business.Additional Topics Includ...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recent guest Andrew Gold returns the favor this week by interviewing James on his own podcast, "On the Edge with Andrew Gold". Andrew claims his podcast's aim is to interview "fascinating minds & quirky outsiders"...we're still waiting to learn in which camp he places James!As Andrew's bio states, he's "a journalist and TV presenter who speaks 5 languages & lived in 6 countries, producing docs on bizarre and controversial subcultures. I battled an abusive exorcist, duelled with the Crazy Baby La...
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast "The negative actually gives us information, the positive never gives us information"On the heels of his most recent book's release, author, entrepreneur, and (most recently) independent bookstore operator Ryan Holiday returns to the podcast. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control is the second book in Ryan's 4-book series on The Stoic Virtues, and this book "draws on the stories of historical figures we can emulate as pillars of self-discipline, including Lou Gehrig, Queen Elizabeth I...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Political operative Phillip Stutts, founder and CEO of political marketing company Go Big Media and corporate marketing company Win Big Media, joins the show to discuss James' 2022 midterm election bets and how & why the numbers on PredictIt may vary significantly from more tailored polling models.Additional Topics Include:The 'Shy' Trump voter, the 'Hidden' Trump voter, and the 'Submerged' Trump voter (13:14)Registered voters vs 'highly motivated' registered voters (22:19)The impact of the Roe ...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the unexpected and untimely passing of Coolio, we have decided to re-air this early episode of the podcast.From the original release notes:"Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum artist Coolio joins The James Altucher Show to share his story of success. With more than 30 million records sold globally, Coolio gives a side to his story that most people don't know. Teacher? Psychologist? Author? There are many surprising career paths that Coolio he had interests in pursuing.You'll hear how h...
Oct 01, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast "This is one of the best economic history books I've ever read."J. Bradford "Brad" DeLong, Berkeley economics professor, former Clinton-era Treasury official, and pioneering economics blogger* joins today's conversation on the heels of his latest book release, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Part history lesson, part economic theory discussion, Brad and James debate what DeLong has dubbed the "long twentieth century" from 1870 to 2010 where the "last three...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Loneliness will be the next cancer." - Scott GallowayBestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway returns for a blunt and fascinating discussion about America's current crossroads. In Professor Galloway's newest book, Adrift: America in 100 Charts, he demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, creat...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast "If you're not in the top 1% or striving to be the best you can be at whatever you love doing, you're not going to feel fully alive in the short amount of time you're alive."Friend of the show and Entre Institute founder Jeff Lerner returns, and the tables are turned this time. Today, we're pleased to share Jeff's interview with James on his Unlock Your Potential podcast, which focuses on three pillars:Humans have extraordinary potentialUnlocking our potential is part of our purposeHard things a...
Sep 24, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast "I thought I was a joke or a test!"Douglas Rushkoff was led into a room at a desert resort where five mysterious billionaires awaited him. They peppered the media theorist and author with binary questions: Bitcoin or Ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Alaska or New Zealand?This experience sets the stage for Douglas's newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, which focuses on "The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their coh...
Sep 22, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mitch Lowe has been a significant disruptor of Hollywood's distribution models over the past two decades, promoting all-you-can-eat subscription models on personal devices and at the box office. Netflix famously redefined consumer video distribution while Movie Pass infamously imploded in 2019. Today, Mitch speaks openly with James about why his companies ended up on their trajectories while describing the analytics that factor into their business plans.For a deeper dive into the dramatic evolut...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Trung Phan returns to the show for a third time to discuss Warren Buffett's $18 billion miss on Disney - twice!He and James discuss the 92-year-old's growth investment strategies focused on long-term stakes, reducing risk profiles, and increasing margins decade-over-decade.Additional topics include:Warren Buffett's 1966 Meeting with Walt Disney (03:56)How Warren Buffet became CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (13:50)Warren Buffett's relationships with Michael Eisner and Bob Iger (20:00)Buffett's willing...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast "It must be embarrassing for the World Champion to lose to me - I feel bad for him!" said Hans Niemann, after the defeat of Magnus Carlsen on September 5, 2022. Carlsen's subsequent withdrawal from the Sinquefield Cup - the first in his career - followed by a cryptic tweet suggesting Niemann cheated, have put the chess world on edge.Five days later, Chess.com - one of the largest online chess sites - banned Hans Niemann from its tournaments after accusations arose that Niemann had cheated in onl...
Sep 14, 2022•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $325 billion from 26 offices around the world. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Gallery of Art. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the ...
Sep 13, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast You can't believe some of the pitches that we heard during our hedge fund days! One of the funds that we managed almost got scammed out of 10's of millions of dollars! Also, do you think a hedge fund for crypto is possible?In this episode, Dan, Omid, and I talked about the craziest pitches we have heard, what it's like investing privately, and Omid's origin story into the crypto world after he quit!This will be the last episode of the Wall Street Insane, however, we will do another series on all...
Sep 10, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, we're sharing James' recent interview on the RealVision podcast 'My Life in 4 Trades'.Hosted by Maggie Lake, My Life in 4 Trades is a weekly podcast featuring the brightest minds in the world of finance. Each guest shares insights on the extraordinary trades that transformed their careers and the trades that set them back.Here's how they describe their interview with James:"James Altucher has been to hell and back. On the morning of September 11, 2001, James was just three blocks away fro...
Sep 08, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast "What is so deep in our core...that it's unchangeable in times of change?" - Jason FeiferEntrepreneur EIC Jason Feifer takes James through the stories and philosophies that resulted in his new book Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your CareerIn this jam-packed episode, Jason shines a light on the tunnel vision that companies and employees force upon themselves and urges both to embrace the self-examination needed to thrive when market co...
Sep 06, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast "Politics makes people stupid," says James, an outspoken critic against buying into skyrocketing college tuition fees. James attended Cornell and has finished paying back his loans. Robyn chose not to go to college and pursued an entrepreneurial lifestyle. The two of them now have five college-aged children. Jay went to a private college but, as a foreign national, wasn't eligible for federal student aid.Today, our non-partisan co-hosts dissect the Biden administration's decision to cancel up to...
Sep 02, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cult dominated the news cycle a couple of years ago, and the government has been talking about releasing UFO footages, and psychics, are they even real?In this episode, I was joined by Andrew Gold, the host of the award-winning podcast, On The Edge, a BBC journalist, filmmaker, and TV presenter, to talk about some absurd and insane things that he has to do while chasing the cult story, UFO story, interacting with a psychopath, and exorcism!We talked about if Will Smith's apology is sincere, how ...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast You know, back in our hedge fund trading days, it was so stressful that Dan and I seriously thought about pivoting to selling Diet Pill on Television! after failing 9 of the other ideas, we eventually started StockPickr, which was eventually acquired by Thestreet.com. It is at that time, Omid wrote a 10-pages letter, and he quit me! We also talked about how we get connected to thestreet.com, how Jim Cramer crashed our website, how it was rebuilt and optimized, how Omid actually felt about the wh...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you miss the conversation between General Spalding and me on the potential war that might happen between China, Taiwan, or the US, make sure you check out Episode 884: Will the US lose to China in the War!? with General Robert Spalding, it's one of the pemissitic episodes that I have done in years, and this episode is almost a sequel to the episode.In this episode, my business partner, Dan Kelly, and Omid Malekan joined me in this episode breaking down how we would trade and our strategy if t...
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