Podcast
This Could Be Religious
Hosted by Mark Stitz, Evan Nico Albert, Marcelo Lima · EN
This Could Be Religious is a tech culture and gossip podcast from friends and podcast professionals, Mark Stitz, Marcelo Lima, and Evan Nico Albert. Together they share their takes on Big Tech, startups, crypto, AI, VCs, agencies, pop culture, and more.
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Ep. 4 Mark, Evan, and Marcelo
Feb 3, 202501:03:14Tap to summarizeMark, Evan, and Marcelo discuss the 2025 YC drinking game, FB birthday reminders, Medieval Times?, crowdfunding a militia with your neighbors using Patrol app, Cocos own West LA, Marcelo’s dog is on the loose, reconsidering child labor, building a Data Center on a budget, is YC still a good deal?, Seeking the Deep, Scottie Pippen is satoshi-pilled, Pump Fun is fucking us, beeeeeep, witnessing real-time shit-coinage (check out Memescope or Axiom), gambling is the final fantasy, ethnonationalism is dumb, what is the Elon endgame (race war), the driving power of spite, (again) children should be working full-time, Apple’s aesthetic downfall, Johnny Ive’s W-9, Teenage Engineering suppositories, your kid’s Vision Pro birthday party, smiling frying pans, the Meta-Snap-Google garbage design alliance, X’s Grok is the next Google (not joking!), Marcelo’s mother called him a butcher at one point, Tech Broe Style-volution, Williamsburg as a US export, the Zuckerburg tunic, the strength to be ironic, Natty Tatooine, and Happy Birthday to Evan. Enjoy!
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Ep. 3 Mark and Marcelo
Jan 25, 202500:59:00Tap to summarizeMark and Marcelo discuss BMW’s infotainment transgressions, heated seat subscriptions, the dreaded XM, Bryan Johnson’s johnson competition with his son, joy is life, why Brazil is lindy, we are our fathers’ blood boys, raving at 3pm, with great looks comes great responsibility, the amazing Deepseek R1 exposes the AI grift, Deepseek is running on a Raspberry Pi :), fine tuning a model with Chain of Thought (CoT) data, reproducing the results (cope harder),
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Ep. 2 Evan, Marcelo, Mark
Jan 22, 202500:49:18Tap to summarizeEvan, Marcelo, and Mark discuss Trump inauguration, Elon Musk stops pretending, the siren song that is making your own Sonos speakers, all 100 of our listeners (thank you for listening!) actually use Homepods, only Marcelo is drinking this time, Ross Ulbricht is pardoned, Republicans hate trans people but actually love fentanyl, gay Russians, dark times on the pod, $TRUMP and $MELANIA, we're "in it for the tech", Vitalik changed his pfp to a Milady, soyboy politics, the crypto dream is over unless your crypto dream is scams, ai16z, Bitcoin - The Slow Shitcoin, the trifecta of grifts, Masayoshi son back in the mix, Stargate is the new Manhattan Project, Contact quotes, the basics of ERCOT and the Texas energy grid, a 75% fact aka "walking the dog", nuclear will get here any decade now, too many CCP spies at OpenAI, Marcelo's deep state theory ("pure nirvana"), why did Trump seat Sam Altman next to Theo Von, Deepseek R1 and why you can't predict the future of AI, building jets is hard, Canada banned the inauguration, Evan heard a rumor about Instagram, the presidential YubiKey, lizard people replaced religion, and good news we are not starting a Patreon. Enjoy!
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Ep. 1 Mark, Marcelo and Evan
Jan 17, 202501:21:58Tap to summarizeMarcelo, Mark, and Evan discuss David Lynch, Dune, Redfin, Rednote, TikTok refugees, Duolingo psyop around the rise of people learning Mandarin, Facebook Marketplace and the challenges of buying and installing routers, friend of the show Donald Trump and the creation of an External Revenue Service, Palmer Luckey's Fashion and Tech Impact, 1980s coming back, 3D printing a glock, Explode app by Nikita Bier, Instagram and FaceBook are cooked, Zuckerberg is an Australian molly dealer, Marcelo is taking Brian Johnson's supplements (RIP), Chinese app backdoors for surveillance, Chinese version of US influencers, do people genuinely care about their privacy, blimps, unconventional branding, terrible Nvidia keynote branding, agentic AI, Truffle AI having a google search problem, the state of the blockchain and crypto utility, whether or not to ban the entire internet or phones.
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