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Group Chat News is back with the hottest news of the week On this episode we discuss: Why Manhattan Beach is what everyone thinks they're moving to when they come to LA Entering your Meta era and yelling into your sunglasses Everyone suddenly plays golf and won't stop posting about it 70% of America hates AI and the CEOs aren't helping Is scaring everyone actually the strategy? Why your power bill went up but your TV got cheaper What are you actually doing differently than your parents? Whatnot raised at $23 billion and the collectibles boom is real Inside the National, the biggest card show in America Somebody pulled a $5 million card rippin packs Your parlay is playing against a hedge fund that only needs to be right 54% of the time The boomers had discipline and nobody wants to talk about it Rented cars, split mansions, and why Instagram tells you everyone is rich but you And much more! If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify — it helps more than you know.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest news of the week including:   Why Dee disagrees with everything Zach said about the next 18 months Has San Francisco brainwashed everyone into fear mongering? SpaceX is basically Verizon Anthropic projected at $400–500 billion next year Is there a finite amount of money in the world, or unlimited money? Why Waymos will never make it to every corner of the earth Lovable going from zero to a billion in ten months Mark Walter sells the Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for $12.5 billion How insurance float works, and the federal investigation into Walter's insurers The sports team tax loophole nobody talks about Should we start a professional little league team? Ro Khanna's 5% wealth tax and the problem with taxing illiquid founders Does AOC have a real shot in 2028? Why data centers actually lower electricity costs in the communities that get them Rich kids are skipping the Ivy League for SMU, Vanderbilt, Alabama and LSU Would you rather be the smartest kid at Harvard or the guy in the striped polo at LSU? The most successful adults were never the kid who focused on one thing Shannon Elizabeth made a million dollars in nine days Mississippi fourth graders are outpacing Berkeley students Palisades Village reopens 19 months after the fires And much more! If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple or Spotify it helps more than you know.

Group Chat News is back with the biggest stories of the week including... Zach returns to break down what he's seeing inside San Francisco, why he thinks you have about 18 months to get really rich, and what happens to everyone else. Plus Zuckerberg spars a UFC fighter on a barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe, and Kai Cenat and Speed attempt one of the hardest challenges in gaming. This week's Group Chat covers: Zach's take from inside SF — and why his timeline keeps getting shorter every week "You have about 18 months to get really rich" — and then what Why less than 25 people on earth are using AI to its full potential The company running seven employees and three agents at 300 pull requests a day Agents that proactively fire contractors and stand up their own businesses Can an entrepreneur still spot the gap on a Target shelf when P&G has infinite data? Taste as the last human advantage — and whether that holds Purpose, meaning, and whether people need hard things given to them The optimistic case: UBI, Waymos, deflation, and everything just getting cheap Zuckerberg vs. Merab Dvalishvili on a barge sparring Kai and Speed's hardcore Minecraft marathon, and why the clips matter more than the game Parasocial fame, the chat as a Pavlovian loop, and how streaming ends And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week, including why movies are suddenly back with [Spider-Man clearing ~$1B globally in its opening weekend], Jonah Hill announcing he'll annihilate anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad, and the [$2.2B tariff refund Apple just got] that isn't showing up in anybody's prices. Plus a 25-year-old who ran a fund to $45B and got margin called on his wedding weekend, Elon saying money will be worthless by 2036, and colleges quietly spending endowment money that donors thought was going somewhere else. This week's Group Chat covers: Movies are back — Odyssey, The Invite, and two theater trips a month Why streaming is losing — no Stranger Things-level show to stay home for [Spider-Man's ~$1B opening weekend] and the flight to quality Jonah Hill says he'll beat up anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad White belt confidence, early martial arts syndrome, and why the guys still think everyone should learn to fight LeBron, Kevin Hart and Rich Paul golfing at [Sherwood] — and how nothing stays secret in LA [The Supreme Court overturning the tariffs] — and the refunds companies are getting back [Apple's $2.2B and Amazon's $640M] — the rocket-feather effect and why prices never come down Why this is exactly the story that makes socialism sound good to everyone else Mamdani, cheap bananas, and capitalism's optics problem The Elon trillionaire headline that made rich people feel poor [Elon telling the BBC money will be worthless by 2036] The friend who took a huge AI job — and called depressed about what he saw under the hood The nuclear bomb argument: everyone gets the robots, so nobody sends the robots [Leopold] went 0 to $45B in 18 months, then got margin called on his wedding weekend Ken Griffin and Citadel on the other side of the trade... again Zero day options, prediction markets, and why nobody holds anything for four years The new crop of 25-year-old gunslingers who'll run the next Blackstone Colleges are dipping into endowments to pay overhead — and donors are finding the money gone Why most colleges don't survive the next decade Critical thinking as the only skill that matters now And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week and a returning guest Greg Goofried a CAA agent who's been in the creator business for years, from his UTA days to running one of the biggest creator companies in the world. The guys go deep on what creators actually get paid, why the biggest names in the business are people you've never heard of, and how the whole space turned into media companies while Hollywood wasn't looking. Plus the Department of Education's plan to hold colleges accountable, Arizona State's new influencer degree, and the average date night in America hitting $189. This week's Group Chat covers: Why livestreaming skews young and male — the male Love Island theory, Twitch's gaming roots, and unpoliced platforms vs YouTube iShowSpeed as a global phenomenon, and the categories agents won't touch Who actually has staying power — Jake and Logan Paul, MrBeast, Emma Chamberlain, Alix Earle, Jake Shane The real job: six days a week, 50 weeks a year, and comment sections that break young creators Why the algorithm rewards meanness, and why older people thrive on social media Creators are media companies now — taking bites out of Disney while big media still owns the $100 billion TV ad market Matt Damon vs. the creator economy — the script and the director vs. audience aggregation, and why the money is closer than you think The advice for anyone starting: find a niche, then get on a platform that actually pays you The Department of Education's accountability push — programs whose grads don't out-earn high school workers could lose federal student loans Arizona State's influencer degree — 160,000 students and a diploma that requires proving real follower growth The average date night in America is now $189, up from $168 last year — and why nobody's dating Odyssey in 70mm IMAX — [25 US theaters, 41 worldwide] and the family that drove 900 miles round trip to see it Why your music taste freezes at 33, and the catalog deals betting on it Del Taco named the #1 fast food chain in America — over In-N-Out, Chick-fil-A, and Raising Cane's

Group Chat News is back with a special guest Rohan Shah, co-founder of Extend.com, the platform doing over $1 billion in GMV making extended warranties actually work for retailers. The guys go deep with a true Silicon Valley insider on Google's monster earnings, how tech billionaires really spend their money, why NFL teams might be the safest asset in America, and what's actually happening inside companies spending big on AI. This week's Group Chat covers: Rohan's path — Harker, Stanford, and building Extend into a billion-dollar GMV business Silicon Valley's prep school pipeline and the public vs private school divide Inside enterprise AI spending — big token bills, unclear ROI, and why "we don't know yet" is the honest answer The AI job-loss story that went in reverse — companies that cut heads are rehiring Apple's patience play — keeping cash on the balance sheet while everyone else spends trillions Rohan's stock picks — memory semis, nuclear and energy infrastructure, mining, Google, DoorDash, Meta Google's monster earnings — a $9 vs $2 beat, $99 billion in other income from Anthropic and SpaceX stakes, and the stock still dropped The Khosla family, the Seahawks, and the NFL's first Indian owner Why NFL teams might be the safest investment in America — "the Cowboys will outlast all of it" Trump accounts, custom ETFs, and kids treating stocks like baseball cards Why Silicon Valley doesn't build libraries the robber baron playbook vs "changing the world" Gambling ads on every screen what we allow now that we'd never allow for cigarettes And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

  Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Spain takes the World Cup, a free Chinese AI model just got rated #1 in the world, and the guys break down the Trump Accounts revolution — why every kid in America getting $1,000 in the market might be the biggest wealth-creation story in decades. Plus 550,000 people are now worth $30 million or more, Netflix gets hammered, fat cats are getting Ozempic, and Tom Brady has a problem. This week's Group Chat covers: Spain wins the World Cup — Argentina's dirty play, the $15 billion FIFA haul, and the Cup coming back to America Kimi — the free Chinese AI model rated #1 in the world that just maxed out its GPUs Fable 5, ChatGPT 5.6, and the AI model wars: what's anyone's moat anymore? The valet test — why 99% of small businesses still haven't spent $20 on AI GLP-1s for pets — fat cats, Ozempic, and the $200 billion pet economy Netflix down 30% — great company, hammered stock, and the Home Run Derby nobody could find Why all the capital is crowding into AI and semis while everything else gets abandoned Trump Accounts — $1,000 for every kid born, 6.5 million families signed up, and the app designed by Airbnb's co-founder Brad Gerstner's masterstroke and using the S&P 500 to save Social Security Stock is the new charity — why billionaires should give shares, not donations 550,000 people are now worth $30 million+ — up 14% in one year Fanatics Fest, the Tom Brady problem, and what his advisor should tell him And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. The guys wrap the World Cup and get into the stories everyone's talking about — Kai Cenat's Streamer University getting a million applications, the betting markets that now let you wager on everything from flight delays to presidential speeches, Delta stripping down business class, and the sinkhole that swallowed one of LA's busiest streets. This week's Group Chat covers: World Cup wrap — Spain vs Argentina, corporate ticket takeovers, and why game times were a miss A 100-year-old water main breaks and opens a sinkhole on Sunset Blvd, shutting down the heart of West Hollywood Fanatics Fest takes over NYC — the $90 million spend and the new all-in-one sports app projected to do $14 billion Why American sports franchises are the new safe asset class — "I'd rather own a football team than US Treasuries" The collectibles boom, GameStop's bid for eBay, and cards as the new art market Betting on everything — Polymarket, flight delay markets, and the Trump teleprompter scandal The Bryce Harper, FanDuel and Cameo controversy explained Delta launches Basic Business — business class up to $1,000 cheaper, but no lounge, no food, no perks IShowSpeed becomes the face of the World Cup and the biggest content creator on Earth Kai Cenat's Streamer University — one million applications, 120 spots, and why kids want it more than Harvard Inflation finally cools — CPI and PPI come down, and Marc Andreessen joins the new Fed task force The Ozempic economy — grocery sales fall, snacking declines, and the lightening of America And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Team USA is out of the World Cup and the guys are done with soccer  but not before breaking down why American sports franchises are worth more than every soccer team on Earth. Then they get into the wealth-building conversation nobody wants to hear, why nearly half of Americans under 30 live with their parents, and the $12 water that broke the internet. This week's Group Chat covers: Team USA is out — the World Cup fallout, the Argentina conspiracy, and soccer's broken rules Vinod Khosla's group buys the Seattle Seahawks for $9.65 billion Why one NFL team is worth more than almost every soccer club in the world Thousands of hourly Costco workers now have over $1 million in their 401(k)s The boomer math nobody talks about — save 5-10% since 1990 and you'd have $6 million today Why the S&P 500 is the "Premier League" of investing and still available to everyone Is the system actually broken, or are we just wired for instant gratification? Nearly half of Americans under 30 now live with their parents — coddling or smart money? The participation trophy generation and how parenting changed the game Sleepaway camp, self-sufficiency, and raising kids who can take care of themselves Erewhon's $12 water sells out — genius marketing or peak status symbol? And much more!

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including America is running out of places to gather   President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers  from outside the government to challenge the Flo Balogun red card, Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has incurable disease: 'My stomach is eating itself, US Car Payments Hit a Record $777 a Month as Down Payments Drop, 3-hour flights from LA to NYC move step closer to reality after major restriction lifted, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Gave Cartier Watches to Guests at Wedding and much more!