OUT OF SCOPE, Ep. 1: Hot Takes Roundtable with Tori Pastore (Soup) and Austin Campbell (Zero Knowledge)

And now for something (almost) completely different.

Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series where Austin and Tori Pastore (aka Birb Bernake) riff with guests on hot takes from the frontiers of tech, finance, policy, and whatever else is the flavor of the week In this debut episode, they sit down with Austin Campbell to discuss... quite a few things: running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why banks resemble cartels, insider trading, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and—most importantly—a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools.

00:00 - Introducing Tori

01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained

02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle

05:40 - Peptides and Food Science

10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell

16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules

20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios

22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly

34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques

38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives