It’s 7:42 a.m. You’re standing in the kitchen with coffee in one hand and your phone in the other. You open one app and read one headline. Your thumb freezes, your eyebrows go up, and you say it out loud to an empty room.
“Seriously?”
You’ve done it a dozen times this month. So have I.
Starting this Thursday, that moment gets its own show.
It’s called Seriously?, and I’m co-hosting it with two people I’d want next to me on any breaking story. Guy Kawasaki is a venture capitalist and a true Silicon Valley OG. Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. is a lawyer extraordinaire who’s seen a few things in her career.
Every Thursday at 11 a.m. Pacific, we’re hitting the go live button on Substack and having some fun while taking apart the headlines that made you say “Seriously?”
Here’s the deal
Picture what you get for showing up. You get a best selling author and Silicon Valley legend who has been part of and watched tech reinvent itself for more than forty years, sitting beside two business, tech and political savvy lawyers who read the fine print for a living. We take the breaking news in politics, business, technology and everyday life, and we answer the exact question you asked when you read it.
Here’s what it costs you. Zero dollars and one tap on a subscribe button.
Here’s what it saves you. The hour you would otherwise burn scrolling hot takes, trying to figure out what actually happened.
The fastest way to beat a confusing headline is to talk it through with people who have already read the fine print. That’s the whole show, and our plan is to deliver this to you every Thursday unless we’re surfing, paddling or kicking ass in court.
This Thursday’s likely lineup
Here’s my best guess at Thursday’s lineup. The news will probably rewrite it by Wednesday night, and Guy and Ann may scrap my list for ideas of their own. I’m good with that. Whatever makes the final cut, consider yourself warned: we have strong opinions on every story we cover, and we’re putting all of them on the table.
Stephen Miller. Despite America’s message last Tuesday, his role inside the White House is shifting. We’ll talk about why we think the power he still holds should worry every American, and we won’t sugarcoat it.
Jensen Huang and the spy story. U.S. intelligence reportedly flagged a suspected Chinese spy who honey potted the Nvidia CEO. Reports also say the White House knew for about a year and never warned him or us. We’ll separate what has been reported from what has been proven, and then we’ll ask hard questions about who was supposed to be protecting the rest of us. I wrote about this story earlier this morning and shared 17 questions he, Marco Rubio and the convicted felon in the Oval Office all need to answer under oath. Take a look and tell me what I missed.
Pete Hegseth. He keeps running out of friends on Capitol Hill, and now he faces articles of impeachment in the House, including a set filed by a Republican congressman. When your own party starts drafting impeachment articles, the problem runs deeper than politics.
The Tesla Cybertruck. Production in Texas shuts down in 2027. We have thoughts on how a truck with this much hype ended up here, and they aren’t kind (at least mine aren’t).
Expect straight talk and zero spin each and every week.
You run the room
Here’s my promise, and I want you to hold us to it. We watch the chat for the entire show. You type a question, we see it, and we talk about it on air. Nobody gets ignored.
The best seat at this show belongs to the person typing in the chat.
We’ll walk in with the big stories mapped out, then we’ll wing it on purpose. The best conversations of my forty years in law happened off script, and I want that energy every Thursday morning.
Do this right now
Here’s what I want you to do the second you finish reading this paragraph. Open each link below and hit subscribe on all of them. We all offer free and paid options. It takes ninety seconds, and it puts every show alert and every last-minute schedule change in your inbox the moment we send it.
• Guy Kawasaki: https://guykawasaki.substack.com
• Anne P. Mitchell: https://annepmitchell.substack.com
• Mitch Jackson: https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com
Live shows reward the people who show up in the moment. Make the decision now, while you’re thinking about it, and let Thursday take care of itself.
Here’s this week’s show link. [Make sure you subscribe to my free and/or paid Substack newsletter community for new weekly show links. I’ll also share them in my Notes before we hit the “live” button.
We’ll be sharing a new updated show link each week so make sure to look for all future links too, in our respective Substack posts, notes and communities.
Guy, Anne and I are ready to share our two cents with you. Bring your coffee and bring your sharpest question. I’ll see you Thursday at 11 Pacific.
Let’s go!
Mitch Jackson, Esq. | recommendations
2009 OCTLA Trial Lawyer of the Year | 2013 California Litigation Lawyer of the Year
I am so so so looking forward to joining you and Guy every week! It's gonna be great! ❤️