Justin and Jason discuss Justin's recent post about converting his site from PayPal to Stripe, Jason's idea for a mathematical equation describing the tyranny of choice, the latest on Pluggio, AnyFu and Appignite, why Jason believes war with Iran is likely and how the price of oil will skyrocket if it happens, the story of how Jason's attempt to sell his house before the market crashed in 2007, 3D printing, RepRap and MakerBot, Colby's awesome new RC helicopter, the DC taxi commissioner who's trying to stop Uber, what kind of jobs belong to the 1%, Jason's idea for crowd-sourcing the identification of logical fallacies in news columns and opinion pieces, whether journalists should be truth vigilantes, how Jason and Guyon built a profiler for Node.js, NASA's discovery that there are 1,500 earth-sized planets within 50 light-years of earth, upcoming interviews and Jason's idea for creating a synthetic university education.

Justin and Jason discuss: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, How in-flight entertainment systems are architected, Irish ATM's weird defaults, How Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly, Justin's idea of flipping a house, and much more.

Justin and Jason discuss why Peter and Alex were asked to fill in for Jason on last week's show, why our brains seem to get slower over time, Justin's struggle to remain productive while on his six week "work-cation", why Jason accepted a full-time consulting contract with Uber, whether it's worth entering the LAUNCH startup competition if you're not planning on raising money, the process of setting up the AnyFu bank account, switching some of Uber's infrastructure from MongoDB to Redis, comparing Uber's rocket-ship growth rate to it's humble beginnings, the success of Louis C.K.'s DVD experiment, Jason's one-dollar Christmas moment, capturing light at a trillion frames per second, the latest breakthrough in solar panel efficiency, why long vacations and retirement are boring, the only real way to stop SOPA, the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA and the FBI's abuse of National Security Letters, and how Jason's kids helped him get through his mother's death.

Justin and Jason discuss Jason Cohen's WP Engine, the idea for a Kickstarter-like site that would allow customers to prepay for a pre-launched service, getting AnyFu out the door and lessons learned so far, the man-made super flu that could kill half of humanity, why musicians and other creatives seem to get progressively worse over time, 17 Jedi mind tricks for persuading people, understanding the Hype Cycle, selling brand name training shoes in India, and the latest on Justin's juice diet.

Justin and Jason discuss working while traveling, their dissatisfaction with Asana and the low tech solution they've adopted, the pros and cons of "banking your enthusiasm", the Cern Neutrino experiment, how a vacuum isn't empty but contains "class definitions" of real particle known as virtual particles, the TV show John Doe, Arrested Development's deal with Netflix, ideas on how to create AnyFu's legal documents, PicoMoney and the virtual money concept, why SOPA is a nightmare, the best time to submit an article to HN, Jason's experiment in using economic incentives to spike his son's academic and athletic progress, how Roger Craig broke the all-time Jeopardy record using a knowledge tracking web app, three memory hacks that work, the dawn of the robot age, how the inventor of the Super Soaker is creating a new electric car battery and how spacing your kids two years apart makes them smarter.

Justin and Jason discuss the progress being made on AnyFu and related business decisions, concepts from the book Running Lean, Paul Paetz of Innovative Disruption, why no one is going to steal an unproven idea, why you want to buy when everyone else is selling and sell when everyone else is buying, how Mark Pincus is attempting to steal equity from his employees, selling equity in private companies on Second Market, whether Andrea Rossi's E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) is real or a fraud, how a new cancer drug is being used for weight loss, how energy efficiency of computing is doubling every 18 months, how the FBI is using GPS trackers without warrants and how Twitter had to turn over user information to the Feds without a warrant, the book The Shadow Factory (about the NSA), what elite achievers do differently and how the founder of Color is off his rocker.

Justin and Jason discuss the tradeoffs of various payment options for AnyFu, Jason's recent trip to Uber's headquarters in San Francisco, Justin's evolving partnership with Company 52 and Pluggio's new design, the possibility of starting a TZ Fund, how news is like junkfood, MongoGate, Node.js for beginners, how to increase your "follow me on Twitter" conversions, why Justin unsubscribed from AppSumo, why Anonymous isn't as anonymous as they need to be, the secret U.S. panel that can put Americans on a "kill list", why the feds want to be able to lie about the existence of public records, and how the New York Times is suing the federal government for refusing to reveal its secret interpretation of the PATRIOT Act.