Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after 33 years — resigned as president, CEO, and board member, effective immediately. So naturally, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I'm a normal, moral man, I'd take a salary only 20% above the number two, and I have an actual org chart with an actual succession plan. Nvidia, the job is mine if you want it.

Plus: a staff pick from Nick — Zaho de Sagazan's La Symphonie des Eclairs, piano-forward French singer-songwriter with an electro edge (think Tori Amos, but French and plugged in). Markets went slightly red despite the Nvidia chaos, Nebius dropped 17% on earnings and capex fears, Bitcoin fell below its 200-day moving average, and Microsoft is having a widespread outage — I noticed it too. And Democrats took a Mississippi Senate seat for the first time since 1982.

Topics covered: Jensen Huang resigns Nvidia, Nvidia CEO search, Colette Kress interim CEO, Bruce for Nvidia CEO, Zaho de Sagazan, La Symphonie des Eclairs, Nebius earnings, neoCloud stocks, Bitcoin 200-day moving average, Federal Reserve December rate hike, Microsoft outage, Mississippi Senate race, Scott Colom, Cindy Hyde-Smith

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They got me. I teared up a little at the end. The VisionQuest finale lands the plane — an uneven season, but a fulfilling ending, and I think we'll all look back fondly on this show. That's the lead, then the news: the Nvidia saga keeps escalating, with a shareholder class action, the board hiring Wachtell Lipton — the same firm that investigated Kawhi Leonard and uncle Dennis — and the FBI now examining the affair. Huang testifies behind closed doors before three House committees on November 18, one day after earnings. The stock fell about 10% over two days, then bounced 4% premarket.

Plus a Veterans Day thought: the holiday's meaning gets a little lost over time, but what we're honoring is sacrifice, primarily — and one way to honor it is making sacrifices in our everyday civic life. The NFL's Sunday-night troop-support vignettes are great, but they miss that point. Markets claw back some of the selloff while the 10-year touches 5.03% and a December hike looks near-certain. Anthropic's IPO is priced at up to $1.4 trillion — well below the $2 trillion originally thrown around — trading November 19, the same day as GTA 6. Kirk Cousins is a Viking again. The House shelved the Hegseth impeachment and Jim Jordan took the GOP gavel. GTA 6 boxes with nothing but a code hit stores tomorrow — who buys a box that's just a download? And Jaylen Brown's revenge game flopped: 13 points, minus-27, Celtics 123–101.

Topics covered: VisionQuest episode 8 recap, VisionQuest finale, Nvidia Huang FBI investigation, Wachtell Lipton, Veterans Day, World War I armistice, stock market rebound, 10-year Treasury yield, Federal Reserve December hike, Anthropic IPO, Kirk Cousins Vikings, Hegseth impeachment, Jim Jordan, GTA 6 boxed copies, Jaylen Brown Celtics 76ers

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GTA 6 downloads are live — check your console to make sure it's actually downloading — and Rockstar dropped a new 30-second trailer to celebrate. Take-Two posted a slight earnings miss yesterday, but the stock is up anyway on launch expectations, and the game could pull in $3 billion in its first month. But here's the real question: this is the first GTA without Dan Houser, Lazlow, and Leslie Benzies. Will the tone change? Will the script skew younger? Every GTA has been an homage to R-rated action and drama movies — the writers think they're making games for adults. Red Dead and GTA 4 were tragic tales, GTA 5 was lighter but still grown-up. So will Rockstar age with the audience that grew up on Vice City and San Andreas, or chase the younger, larger demographic?

Plus a staff pick: Panchiko's Ginkgo — the wild backstory of a demo found rotting in a charity shop that went viral a decade later, and a good excuse to finally learn the difference between shoegaze and dream pop (this one's dream pop, with billy woods on one track). Bonus pick: Maps by billy woods. Then the news: Gunn and Safran are out at DC — is this a mess, does anyone care, and somebody protect John Stewart. Hot CPI has the Fed floating a 50-point December hike, Wemby dropped 40/11/9 in 25 minutes as the Spurs won their ninth straight, Schumer's leadership is already under fire, California killed the billionaire tax, U2's new album lands Friday, the Blade Runner 2099 trailer is out, and France says Iran hacked supermarket freezers.

Topics covered: GTA 6 pre-load, GTA 6 trailer, Take-Two earnings, Rockstar Games, Dan Houser, Panchiko Ginkgo, billy woods Maps, James Gunn DC Studios, John Stewart, October CPI, Federal Reserve, Victor Wembanyama Spurs, Chuck Schumer, California Prop 40, U2 album, Blade Runner 2099, Iran cyberattack France

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