Wall Street Wildlife Investing Podcast

GTA VI ships in November and everyone knows it will be enormous — which is exactly why Monkey lands on neutral for $TTWO: expectations and impact are two different things, and Take-Two hasn't posted an operating profit since 2022. Badger returns to his Greggs position after 14 months and admits the defensive thesis may be broken, and the episode opens with a masterclass in NOT panic-selling from the IREN earnings reaction.
🎮 Should you buy $TTWO before GTA VI? The Fiscal.ai chart: revenue up and to the right, operating margin at −2%
📉 "Take-Two has not actually been operating profitable since 2022" — four straight losing years
💰 The real bet is GTA Online, and the market has already taken its bow
🧠 The philosophical turn: Plato on imitation, whether 60 hours in GTA shapes character, and "okay, boomer"
🥐 Badger's Greggs confession: shop count up, like-for-like sales collapsing 22.4% → 2.1%
📊 ROCE falling while the estate grows — a capital-cycle bet now, not a defensive income stock
⚡ IREN: how NOT to react to a violent earnings call, and why knee-jerk sellers lost in ten minutes
🎯 "If the thesis seems to be broken and you decide to sell, that's a rational decision, not an emotional one"

Segments:
00:00 Cold open
00:41 Intro — back from Italy, catch-up
06:11 Being classy vs being greedy (the X spat, Anduril)
13:26 Welcome new Patreons — Joe, Ben, the Arctic Cod
15:36 $IREN: handling a volatile earnings call without panic-selling
24:27 $TTWO / GTA VI — the whole segment
27:34 The Fiscal.ai chart: no operating profit since 2022
33:04 The TradingView chart: six sideways years, then momentum
37:32 What games do to us: Plato, escapism, "okay boomer"
01:07:22 Should you invest in Greggs? $GRG
01:09:48 The Greggs chart: shops up, like-for-like down
01:20:19 Close — Fiscal.ai, become a beast of an investor

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Keywords:
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The world's most valuable company now trades at a market multiple — so the only question left is whether the earnings are real. Badger walks the whole Nvidia machine from graphics cards to five trillion dollars, while Monkey shows every DGXX share and option he's bought on the way to answering the question that actually matters: not "am I right about the story," but "am I making money?"

🐒 Should you buy $DGXX? DigiPower X from Bitcoin miner to AI data-centre landlord
📒 Monkey opens his books: every $DGXX share and option, on screen
📈 The book-value chart that explains the whole $DGXX thesis
🖥️ $NVDA from video-game graphics cards to 90%+ data-centre revenue
📊 Guidance: what Nvidia promised vs what they delivered, quarter by quarter
⚖️ 21x forward earnings — cheaper than the NASDAQ, cheaper than $AMD. Trap or gift?
🤖 Are the earnings durable? The "is AI real" question both hosts force themselves to sit with
🛠️ The vibe-coding redundancy problem, and what a seven-year-old's game says about it

SEGMENTS
00:00 Cold open
00:43 Welcome + banter
03:33 New Patreons + thanks to Thomas Chua (@steadycompound)
12:59 Monkey's build + the vibe-coding redundancy question
35:50 Should You Buy $DGXX (DigiPower X)?
38:15 Monkey's $DGXX positions — shares and options, on screen
48:06 The $DGXX book-value chart
56:30 $NVDA: from graphics cards to the world's most valuable company
01:02:08 Guidance — what they promised vs what they delivered
01:03:44 Valuation — 21x forward earnings and the five-trillion question
01:05:09 Are the earnings durable? Is AI real?
01:12:14 Wrap + close

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firephilosophy.substack.com
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portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard
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Two companies crater 48% and 33% in a single day. One gets sold immediately. One gets held. The difference? It comes down to whether management made a mistake, or committed fraud. This week, Krzysztof walks through three small-cap bloodbaths in real time, Luke dissects whether Adyen is a sleeping giant or a value trap, and someone on X accuses Luke of faking his 23% CAGR. It's a full episode of war stories, blood on the floor, and genuine investing decisions made under pressure.

💀 Krzysztof's "Not Entirely Bad, the Bad, and the Ugly" — three holdings got slaughtered in one week. Hear exactly what he did and why.
🎯 Inventure vs. AmpliTech: same headline (guidance pulled, stock collapses), completely different decisions — and the reasoning is more nuanced than you'd expect. $INV $AMPG
🧠 The covered call trap: how selling one option accidentally prevented Krzysztof from locking in a 160% gain in six weeks — and what he'd do differently.
📊 Should you buy $ADYEN? Luke owns it, barely believes in it, and still can't give you a clean answer — which might be the most honest take you'll hear.
🤖 A 7-year-old built a video game using Claude in two hours. What does that mean for education, creativity, and the next generation of builders?
🌐 Luke vs. X: someone publicly questioned his 23% CAGR over 22 years. He addresses it head-on, live, on the pod.
🎓 Short reports, shareholder lawsuits, and fake counterparties — a masterclass in knowing which red flags to ignore and which ones to run from.

Segments:
00:00:00 Cold Open: War Stories & Blood on the Floor
00:01:11 Intro: Small-Cap Carnage & Should You Buy Adyen?
00:04:34 AI Vibe Coding Contest: A 7-Year-Old Builds a Video Game
00:11:31 Luke & Krzysztof Are Both Building Apps — And Racing Each Other
00:15:34 The Not Entirely Bad, The Bad & The Ugly: Three Holdings Collapse
00:16:30 Inventure ($INV): Fake Orders, Shady Management, Immediate Sell
00:19:00 How to Tell Legitimate Short Reports from Market Manipulation
00:30:04 AmpliTech ($AMPG): Same Headline, Very Different Decision
00:37:00 The Covered Call Trap: How Options Prevented a 160% Win
00:43:50 EOS: The One He's Still Holding — Bias or Conviction?
00:48:46 Should You Buy $ADYEN? Luke's Honest (Ambivalent) Take
01:04:15 Luke's 23% CAGR Under Fire: Addressing the Twitter Accusation

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fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:
firephilosophy.substack.com
**********
To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:
portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard
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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
**********
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:
$ADYEN, $AMPG, AmpliTech, Inventure, $INV, $EOS, short selling, short report, small cap investing, microcap stocks, covered calls, options strategy, position sizing, management fraud, guidance withdrawal, payments stocks, fintech investing, Talon One, vibe coding, Claude AI, AI coding, investing psychology, when to sell a stock, CAGR transparency, Luke Hallard portfolio, Wall Street Wildlife

Earnings season hits Wall Street Wildlife this week — Rocket Lab reports, a tiny Long Island radio company is swinging triple digits, and Krzysztof is literally fighting for his life against Polish mosquitoes the size of scorpions. Two stocks, two very different risk profiles, one question: are these stories real — or just great narratives with no orders behind them?

🚀 $RKLB earnings preview: the ONE number Luke is watching that will make or break the bull case — and it's not revenue
📊 Rocket Lab's backlog hit $2.2B — but operating margins are getting *worse*. How does that math work?
🎯 Luke breaks down the Neutron rocket timeline: already slipped twice, and R&D costs are exploding. Has it slipped again?
🤖 $AMPG — a tiny Long Island radio company with NVIDIA and Amazon logos on its website. Genius move or red flag?
🌐 Why the giants (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei) literally cannot compete with AmpliTech in this niche — the answer is weirder than you think
💀 Krzysztof admits he didn't drill into the fine print before buying — and the stock promptly doubled, then gave it all back

Segments:
00:00:00 Cold Open: Mosquitoes, Edinburgh Fringe & Two Earnings Calls
00:03:31 What Is AmpliTech ($AMPG) and Why Does It Exist?
00:08:00 The ORAN Opportunity: Why Radio Frequency Is the AI Infrastructure Nobody Talks About
00:09:27 NVIDIA + Amazon Logos on a $150M Company's Website — Signal or Hype?
00:10:20 $AMPG Bear Case: No Orders, Customer Concentration, and Giant Competitors
00:13:21 Why Ericsson and Nokia Can't (Won't) Compete With AmpliTech
00:15:21 $RKLB Deep Dive: What Rocket Lab Actually Does (And What Makes Money)
00:18:00 $RKLB Stock Volatility: 58% Round Trip in 10 Weeks — What Happened?
00:19:00 Backlog, Gross Margin, and the Real Financial Story at Rocket Lab
00:21:00 The Neutron Question: Has the Timeline Slipped Again?

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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:
fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:
firephilosophy.substack.com
**********
To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:
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:
$RKLB, Rocket Lab earnings, Neutron rocket timeline, $AMPG, AmpliTech, ORAN open radio access network, AI edge computing, space systems backlog, small cap investing, earnings preview, customer concentration risk, Rocket Lab Neutron delay, radio frequency investing, satellite ground infrastructure, SpaceX competition, Rocket Lab gross margin, R&D spending growth stocks, small cap speculative investing, position sizing, King of the Jungle portfolio, growth stock volatility, $ASTS, Fiscal AI, Wall Street Wildlife

A 24-year-old prodigy builds a $45 billion fund on a single correct idea about AI, then watches 67% of it evaporate in a month. This week, Badger and Monkey dissect the brutal drawdown at Situational Awareness, the hedge fund that was right about everything except how to survive being right. It's not dead, but it's a gut-check case study in what leverage does even when your thesis holds. What went wrong, what it reveals about greed, ego, and leverage, and what every retail investor can learn before the next correction hits them.

⚠️ A $45B fund lost 67% in 30 days while holding positions that were fundamentally CORRECT — here's the brutal lesson on why being right isn't enough
🧠 Krzysztof names his greatest investing mistake over decades — and it's not what most people expect
🎯 Luke's mechanical 15% rule saved him from the $RKLB round-trip — and it has nothing to do with predicting the market
📊 $RKLB did a 58% round trip in 10 weeks — Badger walks through exactly how he managed it in real time
🤖 Was Leopold Aschenbrenner actually wrong about AI infrastructure? The contrarian case that's making Krzysztof rethink his entire portfolio
🎓 4X leverage explained plainly: why the structure of your bet can wreck you even when the call itself is right

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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:
fiscal.ai/wildlife
**********
Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:
firephilosophy.substack.com
**********
To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:
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:
Situational Awareness hedge fund, Leopold Aschenbrenner, AI infrastructure stocks, leverage investing, hedge fund blowup, $RKLB, Rocket Lab, position sizing, portfolio risk management, greed and investing, ego investing mistakes, AI drawdown 2024, $ASTS, AST SpaceMobile, $IRIN, margin call, 4x leverage explained, investing psychology, Kelly Criterion, long short fund, Citadel, Micron earnings, AI data centers, retail investor mistakes, Wall Street Wildlife