{"podcast":{"title":"Lions of Liberty Network","slug":"lions-of-liberty-network-169417","podcast_index_feed_id":169417,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/lionsofliberty","website_url":"https://LionsOfLiberty.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/264ccd56-3eaf-11ed-8984-23da9a3f9982/image/b1421f776ce81eeea6a8662b84e4ec7e.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Lions of Liberty","episode_count":1896,"summary":"Welcome to The Lions of Liberty Podcast Network - where culture, comedy, and capitalism collide. The true OG voice of liberty and freedom in the podcast space. We cut through the noise with razor-sharp takes on politics, free markets, and the cultural battles shaping our world. Whether you're a politically inclined free thinker or an entrepreneurial disruptor shaking up the status quo, the Lions of Liberty will deliver what you need. www.lionsofliberty.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417"},"episode":{"title":"TLPP: Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship w/ Victor Varnado","slug":"tlpp-worldwide-tic-tac-toe-championship-w-victor-varnado","published_at":"2026-04-28T17:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-worldwide-tic-tac-toe-championship-w-victor-varnado","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ENTSL4194280320.mp3?updated=1777409468","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ENTSL4194280320.mp3?updated=1777409468","summary":"Victor Varnado is many things: standup comedian, founder of Supreme Robot, King Super Nuts, and the man behind the Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship. He's also the guy who built disability gaming tech worth $500K — and never saw a dime. Lou sits down with Victor for one of the more wide-ranging conversations we've had on this show: Richard Pryor's evolution as a performer, what a histology class taught Victor about how history gets told, the UCB rap battle comedy scene, why AI is \"like discovering electricity,\" and how you turn tic-tac-toe into a global competitive sport. Oh, and the story of the National Science Foundation grant Victor received to build voice-control and audio-description software for disabled gamers — software that could help people who are paralyzed, blind, or deaf play video games without extra hardware — that got sold to a tech company for shares against their IPO... and then the IPO never happened. TOPICS: — Gary, Indiana, The Jackson 5, and tall-tale fathers — Richard Pryor vs. George Carlin (and why Pryor won) — The histology class that changed how Victor sees the world — Bombing at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival callback — 7 years of rap battle comedy at UCB (Battle Ish) — Supreme Robot: how Victor builds and tests IP before finding investors — AI and what stays valuable when everything changes (people's attention) — Opening for Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) and Gilbert Gottfried — Norm MacDonald on Sam Kinison and what comedy is actually about — Tic-tac-toe as a strategy game (and how to make it competitive) — The disability gaming tech that a company bought and buried — Neuralink and the medical future Victor actually wants Play the game: highscoregamearcade.com 0:00 Intro — who is Victor Varnado? 1:35 Growing up in Gary, Indiana and the…","meta_description":"Victor Varnado is many things: standup comedian, founder of Supreme Robot, King Super Nuts, and the man behind the Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship. He'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2724,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/episodes/tlpp-worldwide-tic-tac-toe-championship-w-victor-varnado/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-worldwide-tic-tac-toe-championship-w-victor-varnado.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}