OpenAI's Investment Web Is A Schizophrenic Christmas Tree | Ep 24⚖️

Rise Up Media · Jul 1, 2026 · 1h 30m

Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues is back after a break, and Alex is joined by both Emily and Lindsay for a full-on Ben McKenzie takedown to open the show. Alex's thesis holds: he's barking up the right tree but he's the wrong dog to be doing the barking. Fresh from his latest interview clip, we walk through every misfired point — crypto crashing being unique to crypto (news: stocks crash too), no revenue stream (currency itself has seigniorage; Bitcoin has miner revenue), NFTs are 'just right-click save' (thanks for spotting exactly the problem NFTs solve). The irony of a man selling a…