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The John Johnston Lounge
Welcome to The John Johnston Lounge, where tech, business, politics, and culture collide. Join host John Johnston (JJ) for a daily breakdown of some of the most powerful tech companies and people. JJ goes beyond the headlines to critique the unusual psychology, strategies, and politics of tech billionaires Elon Musk (Tesla and SpaceX), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Peter Thiel (Palantir), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), and others. Whether it's an inflating AI bubble, a Silicon Valley coup, or the politics of…
Episodes
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SpaceX Stock Crashes $1T & AI Trade Reverses!
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how SpaceX stock lost around $1 trillion in market value from its initial peak, and short sellers are increasingly betting…
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SpaceX Stock is Crashing & Tesla Investors Want Answers
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how SpaceX Stock is sunk below its IPO price for the first time, and short sellers are having a field day as the stock continues…
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AI Bubble & SpaceX: 17x Bigger Than Dot Com | George Noble
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to investor and longtime fund manager George Noble discussing what he sees as a massive AI bubble, which he thinks is much bigger…
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AI Bubble: NOT Too Big To Fail! Let It Burn | Ed Zitron
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is saying about there being a massive, multi-layered AI bubble. In recent…
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Morgan Stanley Issues SpaceX Target Value of ~$4T!
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how SpaceX has received bullish recommendations from Wall Street banks, including Morgan Stanley, which has given Elon Musk’s AI…
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Is Sam Altman Making OpenAI ‘Too Big To Fail’?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Sam Altman wants the US government to have a 5% stake in OpenAI, and Meta is looking to rent out excess AI data…
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Aswath Damodaran: “SpaceX Looks AWFUL As An Investment”
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what investor and Professor Aswath Damoderan, the “Dean of Valuation”, thinks of the current stock market valuation of SpaceX…
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Corruption: How Trump Profited $4 Billion WHILE IN OFFICE
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how President Trump has made billions while in office during off his second term, from crypto schemes, to stocks, to…
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AI Bubble: Top Central Bank Warns of Global Financial Crisis
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is warning of the current “AI exuberance” driving up the risk of another global…
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What Could Burst The AI Bubble? | Dalio & Buffett
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what prominent investor Ray Dalio recently said about the AI bubble, and what he thinks could burst that market bubble. We also…
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AI Bubble & SpaceX: What Could Happen in A Bust? | Grantham & Buffett
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how longtime investor Jeremy Grantham asserts that there is a massive stock market bubble, currently being fueled by the…
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Elon Melts Down Over DOGE Allegations & Threatens to Sue
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk is angry at Democrat Ro Khanna, and Jennifer Welch from the I’ve Had It Podcast, and threatening to sue Khonna…
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Elon’s ‘Arrogance & Villainy is Begging For Cosmic Justice’
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some of a recent chat about Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and other Silicon Valley tech billionaires that journalist Gil Duran had…
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Summer of Ludd: The Kids Are Alright Offline
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how widespread techno-pessimism has sparked a positive and burgeoning analog movement, and an offline “Summer of Ludd” festival…
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AI Bubble: Are Retail Investors Flying Into A Trap?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the massive amount of money that has been flooding into the AI sector could be a warning sign of things to come? Is this one…
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AI Bubble: OpenAI’s Financials LEAKED & It’s UGLY | Ed Zitron
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how OpenAI’s financials have just been leaked to independent journalist Ed Zitron, ahead of the planned OpenAI IPO. The audited…
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AI CEO’s Disgusting Response to Iran School Attack
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to lack empathy and remorse in relation to his AI company’s possible involvement in…
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Legit Legendary Investor: AI ‘Has Characteristics of A Bubble’
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how legitimately legendary investor Seth Klarman thinks today's stock market, which is currently obsessed with AI-related…
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SpaceX & AI: “Bigger Than The Dot Com Bubble” | Jim Chanos
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to famous short-seller Jim Chanos, as he gives his vast experience-led opinions about the warming signs he sees in the current U.S…
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Dangerous AI Bubble: Retail Investors Are Being Conned | Ed Zitron
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what Ed Zitron is currently saying about the AI bubble he sees in financial markets, and the companies involved, including Elon…
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Politics: Trump Stormed Out of THAT Interview. Here’s Why He Couldn’t Take It
The Art of Value: Politics host John Johnston (JJ) breaks down part of President Donald Trump’s recent combative interview where he storms out in a rage over…
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SpaceX is About to Unleash Wave of Fever Pitch IPOs
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down some of the popular finance media and fund manager perspectives on the SpaceX IPO, and the wave of historic IPOs that are poised…
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Elon's SpaceX HAS TO Grow Like No Company Ever Has
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk’s SpaceX will need to grow 600x in 10 years to justify the $1.75 trillion IPO target valuation, and no…
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Is SpaceX Overvalued by ~$1 Trillion? (Morningstar Says So)
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down why the current SpaceX IPO valuation of $1.75 trillion is being challenged by Morningstar, which says SpaceX is being…
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Is Elon’s SpaceX ‘Coup’ About to Rob Your 401K?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how some investment and financial experts are sounding the alarm over Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO “coup” that could force retirement…
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SpaceX IPO is Stock Market Insanity
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the upcoming SpaceX IPO could be close to peak stock market AI bubble insanity, from a number of perspectives. JJ references…
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Politics: Trump Shut Out as Canada & Europe Ditch the USA
The Art of Value: Politics host JJ breaks down how traditional Western allies have been increasingly pulling away from working closely with the Trump…
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The Revolt Against AI Data Centers is EXPLODING
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how opposition to the construction of new AI data centers is escalating across the United States. Local people are questioning…
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Politics: Trump’s World Cup TANKING - Tourists Planning To Stay Away
JJ’s Politics Unfiltered host JJ breaks down how the FIFA 2026 World Cup was expected to bring a huge tourism surge to the United States, as the majority of…
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Tesla Robotaxi Safety Issues Hidden as ‘Convenience Issues’
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how a Reuters investigation of Tesla’s unsupervised Robotaxi rollout has found long wait times, bizarre routing, and close to…
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Musk vs Altman: OpenAI 'Gigatrial' is Getting Messy
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest developments in Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI. Sam Altman and Elon Musk are…
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AI Bubble: Reckless Multi-$Trillion Data Center Buildout
John Johnston (JJ) questions whether the expected multi-trillion dollar AI data center buildout will end in a bust, like the internet infrastructure buildout…
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Elon Musk’s AI Power Grab is Collapsing
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk’s AI empire appears to be unraveling in real time. The current trial of Elon Musk vs Sam Altman is…
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Robotaxis $34T by 2030? Cathie Wood’s ARK Makes BOLD Call
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest says that the robotaxi market could hit a massive $34 Trillion by 2030, in just 4 years. JJ also…
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Why The AI Hype Cycle Just Hit A Gen Z Wall
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Gen Z’s opinions of AI are reportedly hitting new lows. The more young people use AI, the more they dislike it, if recent…
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Musk & Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Hypocrisy Exposed
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have a very different attitude towards free speech behind the scenes, that they do in public…
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Palantir’s Descent into Fascism is Scaring its Employees
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how some of Palantir’s employees are concerned about the big tech company’s “descent into fascism”. Leaked Slack messages, and…
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Elon Musk is Losing More Fans Over This
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk’s almost daily online rants about race are turning off more fans.Elon has posted over 850 times on the divisive…
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THE TESLA STOCK CRASH WILL BE EPIC
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how veteran investor George Noble is asserting that this will be the year Tesla fully implodes. After doing a sum of the parts…
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir Just Posted A Neo-Fascist Manifesto
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s company Palantir has published what seems to be some version of a neo-fascist manifesto…
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Tesla Q1 Earnings: Elon Sort of Admitted the FSD Truth
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down Tesla Q1 2026 Earnings, including what Elon Musk said on the earnings call. The results seemed okay on the surface, be digging…
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There’s A Growing Revolt Over Tesla Self-Driving Promises
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Tesla car owners are in revolt over Tesla’s Full Self-Driving promises. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that an…
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AI Bubble Just Got Stupider: Allbirds ‘Pivots’ to AI
John Johnston (JJ) discusses how failing shoe brand Allbirds is “pivoting” to be an AI company, and how this is yet another sign of the AI boom turning into a…
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Tesla Robotaxi 'Expansion': Pre-Earnings Smoke & Mirrors
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Tesla is supposedly expanding it’s unsupervised robotaxis to two new cities in Texas (Dallas and Houston), and more in…
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Why The AI Backlash Turned Violent: Sam Altman Attacked
John Johnston (JJ) discusses the ramifications of the recent attacks on AI tech billionaire Sam Altman and others, and why AI is facing a growing public…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Fraud Deposition Was A Trainwreck (Footage)
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some video clips from Elon Musk’s revealing deposition from the Twitter fraud case, in which Elon was found by a jury to have…
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SpaceX IPO: Elon Musk is Preying on His ‘Elon-gelicals’
John Johnston (JJ) responds to an Atlantic article about the upcoming SpaceX IPO, that asserts that Elon Musk is banking on his “Elongelical fanboys” to make…
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Mark Zuckerberg Wasted $88B on His Pathetic Metaverse
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to part of a Patrick Boyle video, in which he chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg spent $88 Billion on Meta’s failed Metaverse. We also…
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Sam Altman: Silicon Valley’s Greatest Grift? (Ed Zitron Reaction)
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some of a recent interview with Ed Zitron, who thinks that OpenAI’s Sam Altman “is an historic con artist”, and the the AI boom is…
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Politics: Trump’s Obsession with Autocrat Viktor Orbán Explained
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to authoritarian expert Anne Applebaum, who discusses with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller how the Trump administration has been copying the…
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SpaceX IPO Valuation Hype: Elon’s Ultimate Reality Distortion?
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to a Bloomberg opinion piece, in which Max Chafkin asserts that the upcoming SpaceX IPO is Elon Musk’s most audacious product launch…
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They REALLY Want SpaceX Starship to be a War Machine
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship could in the future be used to launch powerful munitions into orbit, to be deployed quickly…
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OpenAI Buys Sam Altman’s Favorite Tech Podcast for Huge Price
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the astonishing news that OpenAI has acquired TBPN tech podcast for “low hundreds of millions” of dollars, supposedly to…
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OpenAI Insiders: Sam Altman's an Untrustworthy Sociopath
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how new interviews and closely guarded documents about the head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, have shed light on “persistent doubts”…
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Why Bank Analysts Warn of 60% Tesla Stock Collapse
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that multiple investment banking analysts are predicting as much as 60% downside for Tesla stock, after the Q1 2026…
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Biggest Money Grab Ever? Elon’s SpaceX Files To Go Public
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has filed to go public ahead of AI rivals, with an IPO that is poised to be one of the biggest…
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Stop Believing AI Hype (Elon Taught Them Everything)
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Silicon Valley AI CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have been making some grand claims and…
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Why the AI Boom is Smoke and Mirrors
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest AI boom or bubble news. JJ reacts to an Ed Zitron interview from The Tech Report, in which Ed discusses how AI data…
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How Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Is Reclaiming "Woke Mind Virus"
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged trans daughter, has turned Elon’s anti-trans comment into a fundraiser for…
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Elon Musk's Double Blow: Chauffeur “Robotaxi” & X Lawsuit Fail
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that the California regulator says that Tesla’s “Robotaxis” are not yet operating as an autonomous vehicle service, and…