SMOKE AND HAT PODCAST: YOU WANT CHIPS WITH YOUR CRYPTO?

This week we wade through the murk: the UAE’s quiet chips deal stitched together with real estate magnate Steve Witkoff’s crypto hustling, the velvet-draped rise of conservative social clubs in Washington DC where policy gets drunk at the bar, the strange gravitational pull of weird South Africans lurking in the administration, and the unlikely deployment of Infidel MC motorcycle gang members on the ground in Gaza.