Wall Street Wildlife Investing Podcast

Vegas, baby! We're back from the Vegas Patreon meetup and ready to deal. This week: how poker skills translate to investing success (and failure). Plus, Monkey on the mind-bending challenges that make investing so darn hard. What's at stake? Your portfolio, your sanity, and maybe a little bit of tilt!

🎴 Learn which poker skills can make you a better investor (and which will get you rekt).
🧠 Discover how your brain is *designed* to trick you into making bad investment decisions.
🎯 Position sizing: are you betting too big, or too small? Badger & Monkey debate.
💀 Hear about mistakes both hosts have made — and how YOU can avoid them.
📊 The Kelly Criterion: what it is, and how to use it to optimize your portfolio.
🌴 Why the WSW Patreon is like a "gated community" for smart investors.
🚀 $RKLB: Badger admits he may have been over-allocated. Lessons learned.

Sources:
Investor's Mirror App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/investors-mirror/id6760048070

Segments:
00:00:00 Intro: Vegas Recap & Episode Overview
00:01:15 Poker & Investing: Surprising Parallels
00:02:47 Chess vs. Poker: Which is More Like Investing?
00:03:54 Good Decisions, Bad Outcomes: The Investor's Dilemma
00:05:15 Position Sizing: Don't Get Wiped Out!
00:06:45 EOS $EURN: When Conviction Goes Wrong
00:07:33 The Kelly Criterion: Optimal Bet Sizing
00:10:59 Pot Odds & Expected Value: Risk vs. Reward
00:12:44 Avoiding "Tilt": Emotional Investing
00:14:26 Knowing When to Fold: Cutting Your Losses
00:15:52 $AAPL Apple: A Mistake Badger Regrets
00:17:53 Staying Invested: The Power of Nuance
00:18:58 Reading the Table: Market Insights
00:20:47 Table Selection: Finding Your Edge
00:23:05 Key Takeaways: Process Over Outcome
00:24:54 Why Investing Is So Hard: Monkey's Perspective
00:39:14 Investor's Mirror App — Know Yourself to Outperform the Market

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http://firephilosophy.substack.com
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Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation
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🎰 What happens when two investors hit Vegas with their Patreons? Craps strategies, poker tournaments, and a $50 bounty on Monkey's scalp
🧠 The one investing mistake almost everyone makes — and why borrowed conviction will cost you everything when the market turns
🃏 Why poker pros keep becoming legendary investors — the David Einhorn, Carl Icahn, and Annie Duke crossover you need to hear
⚡ NVIDIA just revealed Vera Rubin — 10x performance per watt and 1.3 million components. The AI infrastructure arms race just escalated
💀 We let AI score our stocks on a "Death by Claude" survival scan — $MNDY got 18 months to live, $PATH got a eulogy, and Greggs $GRG is immortal!
🔋 Luke decides to sell $BYDDY and buy $CWEN live on air — the "would you buy it today?" test that instantly clarifies every portfolio decision
🤖 Jensen Huang calls OpenClaw "the operating system for personal AI" — and Monkey's $INV cooling play just showed up at GTC

Sources:
https://deathbyclawd.com/

Timestamps:
00:00 Cold Open
01:00 Welcome & Subscribe CTA
03:09 Vegas Preview — Sphere, Zoox Robotaxis & Amazon Warehouses
06:43 Craps Strategy & Poker Stories
08:28 When Nothing Works — Poker Patience Meets Market Patience
10:21 Institutions Are Buying While Retail Panics
11:35 Luke Sells $BYDDY and Buys $CWEN
14:42 The "Would You Buy It Today?" Test
17:10 Do Not Invest on Borrowed Conviction
22:08 Why "Luke Was Wrong" Blocks Your Growth
24:48 Monkey's Investor Mirror App Preview
28:01 Vegas Presentations — Poker vs Investing
34:57 What Makes Investing So Hard?
38:09 $NVDA GTC 2026 — Vera Rubin Deep Dive $NVDA
42:24 $INV / Accelsius — The Cooling Bottleneck Play
44:06 NemoClaw & OpenClaw — The AI Operating System
49:53 💀 Death by Claude — SaaS Apocalypse Scanner
55:29 Fiscal AI
56:19 Close

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Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.
Get 15% off any premium plan with:
https://fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:
http://firephilosophy.substack.com
**********
To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:
⁠https://www.portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard
**********
Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation
**********
Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?
- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game
- Discover the world's leading companies
- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst
- Learn how to start investing
- Essential investing principles to boost your returns

Keywords:
investing conviction, borrowed conviction, NVIDIA GTC 2026, Vera Rubin, poker investing, Las Vegas investing, growth investing, portfolio management, Death by Claude, SaaS disruption, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Monday.com AI, clearway energy, CWEN stock, BYD stock, options university, Wall Street Wildlife, stock market podcast, investing psychology, what makes investing hard, poker skills investing, AI replacing SaaS, NVDA stock, INV stock, retail investors

🎂 Jensen's Five-Layer AI Cake — NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang lays out his framework for how AI is built, from energy and chips to infrastructure, models, and applications. What does this roadmap mean for investors, and are our portfolios actually aligned with the tidal wave?
🌊 Catching the AI Tidal Wave — Luke and Krzysztof map their own portfolios against Jensen's five layers, discovering that the new AI era looks a lot more physical than the SaaS era — satellites, batteries, data centers, and power lines, not just software.
🐕 Is AI Actually Curing Cancer? — A viral story about an Australian tech entrepreneur who used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a custom mRNA vaccine for his dog's cancer sparks a bigger conversation: are we at the beginning of an AI-driven biotech revolution, and what does regulation need to look like?
⚡ DGXX Deep Dive: The Trials of Small Cap Investing — Krzysztof walks through his thesis on Digi Power X (ticker: DGXX) — a micro-cap data center and energy play with a pristine balance sheet and first AI revenue expected in April. Then the weekend drama: a 22% stock drop, insider equity controversy, and how a galvanized investor community forced management to clarify the record.
🗡️ Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword — Small cap investing means turbulence. Krzysztof reflects on the emotional rollercoaster of micro caps and the pattern across EOS, Oddity, and DGXX — massive drops, management questions, and the decision to hold or fold.
🏔️ The Valley of Death Framework — Luke revisits the US DOE's technology readiness chart from last week and applies it to the portfolio debate: why would you invest in an earlier-stage company rather than a later one? The question is left open — join the conversation in the YouTube comments!
🦁 Community Shoutouts — A big thank-you to Patreon members Steven (who built an impressive custom portfolio tracker) and Eric (sharing his AI research prompts and outputs). The Wall Street Wildlife community is leveling up.

Sources:
US DOE Building Technologies Office framework: https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/technology-market

Segments:
00:00 Cold Open
01:11 Intro: Jensen's AI layer cake, AI curing cancer, DGXX deep dive
04:27 Identity-driven investing
06:16 Jensen Huang's 5-Layer AI Cake framework
08:37 Catching inevitable waves — internet parallels to AI
11:35 Jensen: "We are still early" — trillions of infrastructure still to build
16:24 Mapping our holdings to the AI layer cake
24:29 Direct alignment vs adjacent — should you own non-aligned stocks?
26:07 AI curing cancer?
30:16 Regulatory bottleneck — approvals take longer than the actual science
35:40 Medical tourism 2.0 — "Turkey teeth" to cancer treatment?
37:33 Safari Stock: $DGXX (Digi Power X)
44:56 $DGXX community revolt forces management clarification via 8-K
50:17 How retail investor communities enforce transparency
53:54 The Valley of Death framework — US DOE technology adoption curve
56:53 Why invest in early-stage vs late-stage companies?
57:39 Community spotlight: Steven's portfolio tracker, Eric's research prompts
59:41 Listener call to action: share your tools and techniques
01:02:15 Close

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If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1⁠
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SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:
https://wallstreetwildlife.com
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⁠x.com/7FlyingPlatypus
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Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.
Get 15% off any premium plan with:
https://fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation
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Do your stocks own YOU — or do you own them? This week we tackle identity-driven investing, with a Thomas Chua quote that should make every investor uncomfortable.
Monkey walks through his complete $ODD (Oddity Tech) investment process — from first nibble at $36, to options at the lows, to literally unboxing Spoiled Child collagen live on air. It's classic Peter Lynch meets beauty influencer.
Plus: Gold smashes through $5,150 while Bitcoin bleeds. VIX at 32 — why Monkey sees opportunity when everyone else sees chaos. An 18-year trendline break that questions US exceptionalism. And a YouTube troll who accidentally gave us great content.
Key topics:
- Options selling in high-VIX environments
- $ODD full investment process: fundamentals to technicals to options to becoming a customer
- Thomas Chua: "Some investors don't own a stock — the stock owns them"
- Gold vs Bitcoin vs Bonds vs Property: is there ANY store of value?
- 18-year US vs Rest of World trend break
- YouTube troll response: why holding contradictory views is the point
- Spoiled Child product unboxing
Sources:
Thomas Chua (@SteadyCompound): https://x.com/i/status/2030833466506682776
Tickers: $ODD $LINK $BTC $TSLA $GOOGL $AMZN $EOSE $PLTR

Segments:
00:00 Cold Open
01:07 Intro: Bear Markets, Oddity, Gold $5,150 & Is US Exceptionalism Over?
02:34 Vegas Meetup Update & Monkey's Secret Project
03:44 OpenClaw Migration: Mac Mini Weekend from Hell
04:47 Geopolitical Chaos: What Does It Mean for Investors?
05:09 VIX at 32: Why Monkey Gets EXCITED When Markets Crash
07:00 Badger's Cash Buffer Strategy (20%+ Cash Position)
08:01 Bitcoin vs Gold: Where Do You Run for Safety?
11:45 Is There ANY True Store of Value?
13:54 Chainlink Deep Dive: Is Monkey an Ostrich?
17:31 Thomas Chua: "Some Investors Don't Own a Stock — The Stock Owns Them"
21:15 Badger's Shopify Confession: When the Thesis Changes
22:04 Could Monkey Be the $EOSE Guy? Self-Awareness Check
24:11 The Palantir Identity Trap
26:19 YouTube Troll Response: Contradiction is the Point
30:38 Is This the End of US Exceptionalism? (18-Year Trend Break)
33:13 Has Badger Only Beaten the Market Because of US Tailwinds?
35:28 China, India & AI as a Global Equalizer
39:35 $ODD YouTube Comment: "What Happened to the Technical Trading?"
44:34 Oddity Crash: Meta Algorithm Mismatch Explained
47:18 Monkey's Oddity Playbook: Nibble > Wait > Strike
51:40 Becoming a Customer: $ODD Spoiled Child Unboxing (Live!)
56:11 Aggressive Marketing Tactics: Good Sign or Red Flag?
58:42 Preview: Valleys of Death Framework
01:02:09 Close

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If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1⁠
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SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:
https://wallstreetwildlife.com
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Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.
Get 15% off any premium plan with:
https://fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:
http://firephilosophy.substack.com
**********
To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:
⁠https://www.portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard
**********
Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation
**********
Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?
- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game
- Discover the world's leading companies
- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst
- Learn how to start investing
- Essential investing principles to boost your returns

KEYWORDS:
Oddity Tech stock, ODD stock analysis, gold vs bitcoin 2026, VIX volatility options, US exceptionalism, technical analysis explained, Peter Lynch investing, options selling volatility, store of value debate, Spoiled Child review

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — EOS Energy misses massively, Oddity Tech loses 49% in a day, and Mercado Libre goes nowhere for five years. We dig into three portfolio battle scars and what every investor can learn from them. Plus: WSW hits #19 on Pod Ranker's Top 25 investing podcasts, and an Alex Honnold-inspired lesson on managing fear as an investor.
📉 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — EOS Energy misses massively, Oddity Tech loses 49% in a day, and Mercado Libre goes nowhere for five years. Luke and Krzysztof dig into three portfolio battle scars and what every investor can learn from them.
💥 EOS Energy: Betrayal or Gray Area? — Monkey breaks down the emotional rollercoaster after EOS missed guidance by 30-40%, supply failures, yield problems, and insider selling. Was this management fraud, or an ethical gray area? Should you stay or sell?
📊 Mercado Libre: 5 Years, Zero Gains — MELI has delivered great fundamentals — revenue up 400%+ — but the stock price is down ~6% over five years. Luke defends the long-term thesis while Krzysztof challenges whether "feeling good" about a company is enough when the price says otherwise.
💄 Oddity Tech: Black Swan or Fat Pitch? — A Meta algorithm shift wrecked Oddity's customer acquisition model overnight, sending the stock down nearly 70% from its highs. Krzysztof makes the case that a company trading near its cash balance, with 25% revenue growth and 70% repeat customers, might be a rare, asymmetric opportunity.
🧠 Managing Fear Like a Free Climber — a powerful insight from Alex Honnold's interview on Diary of a CEO: the goal isn't to eliminate fear — it's to develop a relationship with it so you can act rationally when it creeps in. A must-listen for any investor navigating volatility.
⚖️ Portfolio Allocation: The Bear Trap You Set for Yourself — Luke delivers some tough love: if a single stock's earnings can leave you emotionally wrecked, your allocation is too high. Hard limits, tax tail, and house money fallacies all get unpacked.
🏆 We Made the Top 25! — Wall Street Wildlife lands at #19 on Pod Ranker's list of the best investing podcasts in the world, alongside We Study Billionaires, Motley Fool Money, and Invest Like the Best. The jungle is growing.

Segments:
00:00 Cold Open — The Bear Trap
00:49 Welcome & Episode Overview
03:06 The Good: Top 25 Investing Podcast
07:16 EOS Energy: Setting the Scene
10:32 The Miss — Guidance vs. Reality
13:27 Supply Failures, Yield Issues & Insider Selling
17:00 Lie by Omission? The PayPal Analogy
20:05 Should You Sell If You Distrust Management?
27:29 Luke's Psychiatrist Moment: Portfolio Allocation
33:20 Mercado Libre: 5 Years, No Returns
36:26 The Fundamentals vs. Price Action Debate
40:05 Squeezing Luke's Shoes
46:41 Oddity Tech: Record Results Meet Technical Storm
50:00 Meta's Algorithm Dislocation Explained
54:17 Is Oddity a Fat Pitch or a Black Box?
57:21 Warren Buffett on Fear & Cheap Stocks
01:04:00 Patreon Update
01:04:55 King of the Jungle Portfolio — The Ugly Chart
01:07:40 Climbing Without Fear: Alex Honnold & Investing Psychology
01:11:39 Wrapping Up — Three Investing Ideas: EOSE, ODD, MELI

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If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1⁠
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SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:
https://wallstreetwildlife.com
**********
Follow us at:
⁠⁠x.com/7LukeHallard
⁠x.com/7FlyingPlatypus
**********
Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.
Get 15% off any premium plan with:
https://fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation
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