#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

The session opens with the hosts introducing one another to a live crowd and then launching into a running gag: one co-host, called J. Cal in the transcript, is accused of embezzling the group's money. The jokes are explicitly staged, with lines about a "Theranos moment" and the money being put into Luna and run through Bitcoin tumblers.

A speaker then tells the room the bit is a joke, and says one person nearby is genuinely nervous about the accounting. Another adds that the person who always calls out grift would know best how to run one, and asks whether any of the accused host's relatives are "on the payroll". None of this is presented as fact.

The gag continues with a speaker claiming to have defended the accused host until now. Opening a bag in the hotel room, the speaker jokes that a cup might cost $4,000, since it is "a heated cup" and nobody present would know the going price.

The humor turns to how out of touch wealthy people can be, comparing it to George Bush at the supermarket not knowing the price of a tomato or a gallon of milk. A speaker asks another when he last flew commercial. The hosts then thank the crowd and ask how many people travelled more than ten hours to attend.

The hosts say they are struck that fans came from around the world. One host says the show reached the 26th most popular episode in the App Store two weeks earlier, which he calls crazy. He says they began it during COVID, when they could not play poker or see each other and felt lonely.