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NM Nick Martell On The Best One Yet

“Forget cocaine, Egyptian artifacts, or exotic Brazilian fruit. The top contraband in America right now is computer chips.”

The Best One Yet · October 2026

“Forget cocaine, Egyptian artifacts, or exotic Brazilian fruit. The top contraband in America right now is computer chips.” — Nick Martell, The Best One Yet

Context

Opening a story about a report linking Nvidia's CEO to a woman US officials reportedly believe is a Chinese intelligence asset connected to suspected GPU smuggling. The line sets up the chip-smuggling backdrop.

Transcript

The Best One Yet Around 07:19 into the episode
Nick Martell

for our first story. According to New York Times reporting, one of Jensen Wong's business contacts is a Chinese spy. It's

Jack Crivici-Kramer

corporate espionage and it's bigger than at any time since the Cold War.

Nick Martell

All right, Yetis, forget cocaine, Egyptian artifacts, or exotic Brazilian fruit. The top contraband in America right now is computer chips

Jack Crivici-Kramer

because the biggest AI policy of the Biden administration was preventing China from using our most advanced chips. And

Nick Martell

everything you're about to hear sounds like it's from a Netflix screenplay. And

Jack Crivici-Kramer

scene one is Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company suspected of buying NVIDIA GPUs and then smuggling them to China like they were Cuban cigars. So

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