Michael Calore: OK.
Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman's other company. It was a super weird vibey crypto eye scanning thing at a warehouse in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Michael Calore: The orb?
Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yeah. But there was swag there and there was a really nice sweatshirt that had World emblazoned on it, and I looked at the label and it's by a company called Original Favorites, and so I ordered one. So I have the Sam Altman Worldcoin sweatshirt without the World logo on it. I'm showing it to you right now.
Michael Calore: Yeah. This is what you're wearing.
Lauren Goode: And I love this sweatshirt. It is like in the '90s when you used to buy sweatshirts and they were so rough and tough, they almost felt like cardboard?
Michael Calore: Yes.
Lauren Goode: Like good old Champion sweatshirts, you know what I mean?
Michael Calore: Yes.
Lauren Goode: That feeling. And you'd wash it a hundred times and it would still have that ... This is what this is.
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