# The Sensitive Old Man Problem

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Podcast: [Plausibly Deniable](https://stenobird.com/podcast/plausibly-deniable-7648867)
Published: 2026-06-26T18:56:18+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/plausiblydeniable/episodes/The-Sensitive-Old-Man-Problem-e3lapl8
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## Resource

Lukas and Saila return from San Francisco with takes on city discourse, scam calls, GLP-1s, power-law dating, Elon’s financial engineering, Polymarket political markets, RFK Jr., airport lounge arbitrage, SFO baggage purgatory, “not financial advice” disclaimers, pharmaceutical ads, weed, birth control, IQ-tiered libertarianism, and why every abstract argument eventually becomes a dating take.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore 0:00 San Francisco safety, homeless discourse, and wanting something to happen3:00 Scam calls, robocalls, lost wallets, and why phones are unusable5:44 Intro, sponsors, and the first Plausibly Deniable employee8:30 Listener demographics, microwaving your brain, and PD setup talk10:00 The muted Bachelorette split-screen strategy10:43 San Francisco in the Twitter bio and coastal-elite accusations14:50 “Just pay the taxes, bro” and California cope18:18 GLP-1s, hunger, desire, alcohol, and biological side effects20:15 Hunger receptors, carbs, sleep, and social calibration23:20 Power laws in wealth, cities, dating, and status25:54 Elon Musk liquidity, SpaceX shares, and private-market weirdness28:00 Elon’s all-stock empire and the fake-perfect S-130:00 Low-float IPOs, crypto traders, and baby’s first pump33:24 Grocery shopping as the ideal first date35:00 Public anthropology, grocery-store flirting, and social passes40:14 Sensitive young men, sensitive old men, and the empath/sociopath problem41:39 Polymarket: Vance, Rubio, Tucker, Nikki Haley, and GOP nominee odds47:30 Democrats as the party of rich white w…

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