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The Best One Yet

19 Aug 2025 · 26m · 13 chapters

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🍒 “$200 SmartBra” — Forme’s high-tech bra. Can’t buy house, buy crypto. Fast Casual’s bowl recession.

In short

T-Boy Tuesday business news—why millennials buy crypto over homes, a $200 tech-infused posture bra, and a “bowl recession” hitting fast-casual chains.

Guests

No guest interview. Hosts are Jack and Nick (“Yetis” audience).

Key claims

  1. Housing is “frozen” (high 6.6% mortgages; low inventory; construction tariffs/immigration issues), so would-be homebuyers park nest eggs in crypto and crypto stocks.
  2. Form’s $200 posture-correcting bra is marketed like tech (FDA approval, 35 patents) and is driving a shift back toward “ath” (athleisure).
  3. Chipotle/Sweetgreen/Kava growth is slowing—fast casual is stuck in a value trap; consumers are bringing lunch home (“brown bag rebound”).

Notable examples

  • Bullish (Peter Thiel-backed) IPO; S&P 500 up ~10% YTD.
  • Form: co-founded by an orthopedic surgeon + MBA son; Taylor Swift wore it; 500,000 US buyers; ~$100M revenue pace.
  • Fast casual: Kava location revenue +2% (down from 14%); Kava stock -20% in a day; Olive Garden as the “fix” model (product/price improvements).

Written by AI. May contain mistakes.

Chapters

0:45

Today's Top Business Stories

Overview of the top three pop business news stories of the day.

“For our second story, the latest IT product, it's a$200 tech-infused bra that corrects your posture.”
1:16

Nick's Health Scare

Nick shares his recent health scare involving shingles and meningitis.

“But my diagnosis is that you look fantastic right now.”
3:00

Lessons from the Hospital

Nick reflects on his hospital experience and the businesses behind medical equipment.

“and it becomes activated if you're getting older or you're stressed out.”
6:00

Return to Regular Programming

Hosts express gratitude and excitement to return to podcasting.

“And I also kind of love Miralax right now.”
7:42

Stock Market vs. Housing Market

Discussion on the contrasting trends between the stock market and the housing market.

“This is a job for Indeed Sponsored Jobs.”
12:20

Emerging Trends in Athleisure

Exploration of Form's expensive posture-correcting bras and the athleisure market.

“So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies staring at the hot stock market, cold housing market?”
14:00

The Rise of Forme's $200 Sports Bra

Explore how a $200 sports bra from Forme challenges the athleisure market.

“And it's a sign that the athleisure pendulum is swinging back from leisure to ath.”
20:43

Fast Casual Bowl Recession

Discuss the economic factors leading to a decline in fast casual dining.

“For our third and final story, first it was sweetgreen, then it was chipotle, and now it's kava.”
24:42

Final Recap and Personal Reflections

Wrap up the episode with key takeaways and personal insights.

“To charge really high prices, like 200 bucks for a sports bra.”
28:01

Gratitude and Support from the Community

The hosts express appreciation for community support during tough times.

“And we got his phone number with his submission.”
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28:35

Celebrating Birthdays and Milestones

Hosts celebrate various birthdays, including a noteworthy chicken's 14th birthday.

“There's only one word to describe everything Nick just said.”
29:18

Acknowledgments and Reflections

Hosts acknowledge listeners and reflect on their experiences, sharing thanks.

“And a happy birthday to Melina Flabiano from New York City.”
29:55

Stock Ownership and Market Insights

Jack shares insights on stock ownership and investments he is involved in.

“I own stock of Kava, Nickel and stock of Lululemon, and we both own stock of Apple, Chipotle, Robinhood, ETFs of the S &P 500 and some Bitcoin.”
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0:01Yetis, this is Jack. And this is Nick. It's Tuesday, August 19th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, Jack, I got a lot of context to sprinkle on about my situation. Let's do that in a second. Let's share the three stories first. To put this in a cringy LinkedIn post, what five days in hospital isolation taught me about investing. But yeah, what do you say we hit the three stories? What have we got for today's T-boy? For our first story, it's a strange phenomenon. Why are millennials buying crypto instead of homes?

0:35The answer, because nest eggs are stuck in Bitcoin. This story explains the whole stock market and the housing market right now. Yeah, Bitcoin nest eggs, baby. For our second story, the latest IT product, it's a$200 tech-infused bra that corrects your posture. Form is doing 100 million bucks in bra sales because athleisure has become more ath, less leisure. And our third and final story is the bowl recession. Chipotle, Cava, and Sweetgreen are no longer growth companies. Fast Casual has gotten slow. And ironically, Sweetgreen could be saved by the Olive Garden. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:17So good to be back. Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Nick, I am not a doctor. No, you're not. No, am I not either. But my diagnosis is that you look fantastic right now. Oh, this feels so good. I mean, this is the best medicine podcasting with you, Jack. I've been extremely lonely without you. But yet, for the last week, Nick has gone through the first real scare, like health scare, of his life. This was the first time I've had something like this, Jack. This was absolutely wild. It was scary for me, too. I've been very nervous and very scared the last few days, but it's amazing having you back.

1:52Jack, can I sprinkle on some context for you? Dude, I've tried to explain in the last few episodes what's going on, but can you play it from the beginning? Like what happened? Yeah, I basically got a doctorate in this. So I went to the ER one night with the worst headaches, worst vomiting in my life, and they sent me home. I got the worst headaches and worst vomiting in my life a second time. I went back and I said, I ain't leaving until we figure out what's going on here. And that's when they said it was the shingles, right? Okay. So they realized it was shingles, and then they did a spinal tap because they were like, these headaches are worse than we'd expect.

2:21Turns out it was meningitis. The shingles virus had gotten into my spine, which goes up to your brain. And that's why I had the horrible headaches. Early takeaway here, Yetis, if you're feeling badly, go get yourself checked on. Because if Nick hadn't, things could be even worse. And be an advocate for yourself. You gotta really push for getting solutions. So I end up in the hospital for five days getting taken care of by the infectious disease team, who was amazing at the San Francisco hospital, and the T-Boy team, which was running the podcast show. All right. So just to recap, back to you, Nick.

2:52On like your third time at the hospital, that's when they realized this isn't just shingles. It's meningitis too. Because apparently you have the chicken pox virus in you if you've had it before, and it becomes activated if you're getting older or you're stressed out. And that's what happened to me. And then it was just a total fluke. It ended up in my spine and became meningitis, which is really serious. So you were hospitalized for like four or five nights. I know you were so frustrated you couldn't work, but you must've been scared too for your health, right? Yeah. I mean, I did consider sneaking the microphones into the actual hospital, but I just wasn't in a place to.

3:28I was like just in pain all the time. Dude, there was no way you were going to work. Your health was too important. That's what we needed to focus on. I'm glad you thought about work as little as possible. Well, the prognosis, Jack, was that I could go home if I had a portable IV attached to me 24-7, which I do right here, as you can see. Okay, so you're home from the hospital, but like you're not fully in the clear yet, right? What's this IV machine doing? I've got this fanny pack I'm wearing, which has an IV in it, pumping medication into my veins, into my heart 24 hours a day. I call this thing my Hermes IV because it's like a little bag.

4:06Do you pee into that thing? It's my Birkin bag for blood, Jack. It's highly, highly fashionable, as you can see. And it's pumping right now. For two weeks after these medications have been pumping into you, you're going to be all better? I will, Jack. But this still leaves me with a takeaway I got to share with you. I've been very excited about. About wisdom and philosophy? While I was lying there in the hospital bed and I was looking around at all the equipment, I realized this could be an ETF. I feel like I could invest in all these companies that are actually helping save my life right now.

4:35Oh, like the medical equipment? Yeah. So I put together a little fund of these cool companies that make metal devices that I was using. So like the first, the Spinal Tap was done by a company called Striker, publicly traded stock. Nice. Okay. The antiviral medication I'm on is Teva Pharmaceuticals, publicly traded stock. Okay. Okay. This portable IV made by Medtronic. Oh yeah. It's a publicly tradable stock. Can we bundle this into the dollar symbol Nick ETF? Well, Jack, I also haven't had a bowel movement in like a week at this point because the medications, I am so loaded up on Miralax, the actual liquid, that I just bought Stock and Bear, the company that makes Miralax.

5:15Well, dude, it's amazing having your sense of humor back. Yetis, I don't know if that was TMI for you, but it was just enough for me because I've been craving information from this guy. Oh, I feel fantastic. I love being back on the pod with you, Jack. It makes you remember that it's not just that we get so excited to do this and how fun it is, but also that we get to do this. Like you say, we get to do this every day. And the thank you messages from the Yetis, Yetis, thank you. I just shared a video on Instagram from our account Just so appreciative for everything you said. We don't have to do this show.

5:44We get to do this show. And thank you, Jack, for getting the podcast through it all. Always having a backup plan. Yetis, we're back to regular programming. This is the best one yet. I'm so frigging pumped. Let's get to those three stories. Jack, can't wait to hit him. Let's do it. Would it be inappropriate for me to say I love you, man? Because I do. Jack, I love you too. And I also kind of love Miralax right now. Let's hit him, baby.

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8:55For our first story, the stock market is hotter than ever. But the housing market is colder than ever. Those two facts are way more connected than you realize. Because crypto is filled with nest eggs. Jack and I will explain. Yetis, while Nick was out last week, another blazing hot IPO doubled on day one on the stock market. I'm sorry. It's not a stock and it's not a crypto. It's a crypto stock. A crypto stock. It's like a mythical creature. Backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, it's called Bullish and it jumped 86 % on day one. Bullish. Charles Dickens couldn't have picked a more poetic name for this business.

9:35By the way, Didn't I text you these guys were going to blow up like a month ago? I mean, everyone could have predicted it because stock markets have gone unstoppably up for the last four months. The more crypto-y, the more risky, the more meme-y, the higher it's going up. We're talking big money mojo animal spirits, baby. Anytime stocks have fallen the slightest bit, investors have bought the dip and rocketed to new all-time highs. Follow us on this one. After rising 26 % in 2023 and 25 % in 2024, the S &P 500 is up another 10 % so far this year. So there's two questions worth asking right now.

10:10The first question, who's buying the dip? And the second question, with what money are they buying the dip? Okay, but Jack, let's hold those two questions for just a few seconds. First, how about we compare this ripping hot stock market to the icy cold housing market? Because what's happening on Wall Street, it's the opposite situation in the world of real estate. I mean, pump the brakes on that patio, Jack, the housing market is worse than it's ever been. There are only two types of buyers in the housing market. And who are they, Jack? Boomers and more boomers. Boomer buddies. The 30-year mortgage, the typical standard mortgage in America, it is still at a crippling high rate of 6.6%.

10:51And yet these high mortgage rates haven't reduced home prices. The average and median price of homes sold in the United States remains stubbornly at all-time highs. I mean, at the one hand, Jack, nobody's selling. Those with homes don't want to give up that sweet 3 % mortgage they got five years ago. But also, nobody's building. Tariffs and the immigration crackdown are hurting the construction industry the most. So add it all up, Jack, what's the result? The housing market is pretty much frozen. The only one buying homes right now are old people who already have homes. Get this, Yetis. The median age of a home buyer in the United States right now is 56 years old.

11:31That's up from an average home buying age of 36 years old in 1981. A 20 year difference, Nick. I mean, Jack, the housing market is supposed to be exciting for 20 and 30 somethings out there, you know? Yeah, you finally stop being a renter and you buy your first house. You're a first time home buyer. Condos, they're cool. But that's completely not happening anymore. Nope. Because our housing market is dominated by retirees trading from one Del Boca Vista condo to another. And I'll see you on the shuffle boards in five. All right, so let's get back to those two questions we posed earlier. First, who's buying this stock market dip?

12:09The answer, 20 and 30 somethings who can't afford a home. And second question, with what money are they buying the dip? With the money they had saved to buy a home. Bingo. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies staring at the hot stock market, cold housing market? Crypto is filled with our nest eggs. We'll explain. So, Yetis, what's driving stock and crypto markets higher? It's us retail investors. And you know what? We got new data to prove it. According to Sherwood, non-professional stock investors now make up 20 % of all stock trading volume on any given day. These everyday investors with a Robinhood account are now influencing stock prices more than hedge funds are.

12:51That's right. Regular retail investors like you and Nick and me and all of us, we represent 20 % of trading volume. Hedge funds, just 15%. So here's the interesting theory originally from journalist author Derek Thompson. You see, 20, 30-somethings want to buy a house, and they've saved money to buy that house, but they can't afford it right now. So what are those 20 and 30-somethings doing with that down payment they saved up? They're not just letting it sit there, Nick. They're buying stocks and buying crypto and buying crypto stocks, hoping it'll double in value so they can afford a house. I guess you could put it this way, Jack.

13:262021 meme stocking was funded by stimulus checks and boredom. 2025 meme stocking is funded by nest eggs and frustration with the housing market. That, besties, is how the ripping hot stock market is explained by the ice cold housing market. We're buying bitcoins, not bedrooms. The crypto, it is filled with our nest eggs.

13:51For our second story,$200 for a sports bra? Yeti's forms, posture-correcting bras and shirts are going viral for their record-setting prices. And it's a sign that the athleisure pendulum is swinging back from leisure to ath. More ath. You know, Jack, half of our listeners out there, half of the besties, they are men. So should we start by sprinkling on some context here? Oh, on sports bras? Yeah, I got you. I got you, Jack. A Nike sports bra, average price,$40. I didn't know that. A Lululemon, average price of their sports bra,$50. That makes sense. Jack, I discovered a Versace luxury Italian fashion sports bra,$95.

14:37What is that for like elite country club golf only? If you have to ask, you're not allowed inside that tennis club, Jack. But the fastest growing sports bra right now costs$200. and it's produced by a startup called Form. We're talking the Birkin of brassieres. Jack, this bra is priced like a top shelf bourbon. And Form sales are surging. 500 ,000 buyers have bought this$200 bra in the United States. This company is on pace for$100 million in revenue this year, mainly on sports bras. And a big moment for this company, shocker, was Taylor Swift. When she became person of the year in Time Magazine, In one of the photos, she was wearing this sports bra during her Aeros tour.

15:22Boom. Forms$200 sports bra. Sales surged to a new era. They jumped 400%. Just do it? Yeah. They just did it. But Yetis, here's what Jack and I find fascinating about this$200 sports bra. They're not positioning it as apparel. They're positioning it as tech. The category isn't Lululemon. It's Apple Watch. So Yetis, Jack and I jumped in T-boy style. Here's the deal. Form was co-founded by an orthopedic surgeon and his MBA son, who is at Warden. The family grandmother suffered from cancer that caused her to hunch over. And because she was hunched over, she struggled to breathe. So the solution here?

16:00They developed a sports bra to fix her posture. Reverse the hunch, open her shoulders back up, you know, like that. So she could breathe more easily. The sports bra is made up of eight different panels of technical fabric that gently correct the posture. like braces gently correct the straightness of your teeth or those little baby helmets gently correct the shape of a skull. But here's the strategic move they made. Here's the key. They got FDA approval for the design and then they marketed it as a wearable. And they got 35 patents for the technology. Now they make a bra for women. They make t-shirts for men.

16:36Form even makes socks to nudge that arch up on your flat-footed foot right there. In each case, the fabric kind of squeezes and pushes just the right points to make your body just the right straightness. But the bra has become the hero product. Yes, this medical grade sports bra outsells the t-shirts four to one. And here's what's fascinating about the positioning. The target is white collar workers. You know, the ones like you who are probably hunched over a MacBook 24 hours a day. The company actually cites this wild statistic. They say that 75 % of the world has posture issues because we all look down at tech devices all day.

17:13So that's wild, but what we find wilder is that there's no electronic technology in this sports bra, and yet it is marketed like a tech wearable. Form is using the$200 price tag to align with, like, AirPods or Fitbits, but its high price is only driving more demand. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies with the$200 sports bra? Tech is fashion's new muse. Ah, a muse Yeti's a muse is a term in the art industry For a source of creative inspiration Speaking of Taylor She has a muse Her boyfriend Travis Kelsey was the muse for her latest album Cute But we think the tech industry is becoming A strategic business muse to the fashion industry Remember that story we did last month On Skechers Designing a new sneaker Built and designed to hold air tags Yeah, that is tech being a muse for fashion Or how about Zuckerberg wearing his$300 Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses every day, and now they're the best-selling AR wearable.

18:15Tech being a muse for fashion. Form could be the sign of a shift. Since the pandemic, the athleisure category has been more leisure than ath. But a$200 techie sports bra? That is the biggest example yet that athleisure could become more ath, less leisure. Tech is becoming a muse for fashion. Now a quick word from our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by Bill, the intelligent finance platform that helps businesses scale with proven results. Yet he's paying and getting paid. That is a pain for small and medium-sized businesses. Jack, did you send the invoice? Did they see the invoice? Did you remember to remind them to see to pay or remember to pay the invoice?

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20:36Built for every industry, ready for every boardroom, netsuite.ai slash tboy. For our third and final story, first it was sweetgreen, then it was chipotle, and now it's kava. Fast casual bowls are shrinking. We're in a bowl recession. To save itself, fast casual has to look to the one restaurant they never dine at. Oh yeah. The Olive Garden. Oh, no. My alma mater. Oh, Yeti's back in May. Jack and I covered Kava on the podcast. Kava, the Mediterranean fast casual restaurant chain offering 12 variations on harissa hummus. Because millennials, we sit at our desks and we eat Buddha bowls for lunch while we keep working.

21:21Now, Jack, back in May, what was our observation? Kava was beating Chipotle and Sweetgreen. While Chipotle and Sweetgreen were both suffering shrinking sales, Kava's Mediterranean-style fast casual was still growing strong. But here's the update. Now, even Kava's epic fast casual growth has slowed. They are barely growing right now. Revenue at each Kava location rose just 2 % last quarter, down from 14 % growth the year before. And Jack, what's the result? Kava's stock started tanking just like Chipotle and Sweetgreen did. Kava's stock fell 20 % in one day last week. It's now down 38 % this year.

21:58Chipotle is down 27 % this year and sweet green is down 70 % this year. Let me just spat out my sweet potatoes. Yet it is a falafel fatigue. It is a hummus holdup. Guac is extra and you're not buying it. Like we said, it's a bowl recession. So what does this bowl recession say about the economy? Well, look who buys fast casual bowls, Nick. High income white collar workers do. That's right. Or as we like to call them, kale collar workers. True. You see, Yetis, over the last week, fast casual CEOs have cited economic fog and general anxiety about their jobs and future about these kale collar workers.

22:3825-year-old white collar workers, they're less concerned about a recession right now. They're more concerned with artificial intelligence. People are spending half their day practicing using chat CPT to make sure chat CPT doesn't use them. Especially those gen zennials who sit at desks and binge those shroomami bowls for lunch. You know what, besties? This has caused a surprising new phenomenon, a brown bag rebound. Concerned about money and their future paychecks, people are bringing their lunch into work. In fact, we are now seeing the highest level of cooking at home since the very first months of the pandemic when you were forced to cook from home.

23:15So the fast casual industry has to convince nervous white collar workers who are worried about losing their job that they're worth the 17 buck price tag. But right now, those fast casual brands are stuck in a value trap. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in the bowl recession? Fast casual needs to pick a side, like the Olive Garden did. Yetis, back in 2014, the Olive Garden actually faced a similar situation as Sweetgreen, Cava, and Chipotle do today. They just weren't perceived as good value. How do you solve that? You either improve the product or you improve the price. Well, the Olive Garden improved the product.

23:55An activist investor took over, replaced the board, and went back to basics. They started salting the pasta again, right, Jack? Right. And in the 10 years since then, Darden, which is the Olive Garden's parent company, has saw its stock quadruple. Well, today, Sweetgreen now says they're going to improve their product. They announced they're increasing the portions of chicken and tofu by 25%. And Chipotle has pledged to improve their price. They pledge to not pass on the cost of tariffs to us consumers. And both those brands are testing robo-kitchens to eventually improve both the price and the product.

24:28Yet these fast casual bowls aren't dead. No, they ain't. They're just stuck in a value trap right now. I do eat it three times a week. So Cava, Sweetgreen, and Chipotle, they need to do something they've never done before. And what is it, Jack? Dine at the Olive Garden. Because when you hear, you're pivoting.

24:49Jack, I've been wanting to say this for a week Can you whip up the takeaways for us For T-Boy Tuesday Amazing having you back, Nick The hot stock market is connected to the cold housing market One is funding the other Because crypto is filled with the nest eggs Of would-be homebuyers For our second story, it's Form They make a$200 sports bra That's techie and doing$100 million in sales to correct your posture. Fashion, it's finding its muse in tech. To charge really high prices, like 200 bucks for a sports bra. Like tech does. And our third and final story is Cava. They're following Chipotle and Sweetgreen.

25:27Sales have stopped growing. They're stuck in a value trap. It's the bowl recession. Fast casual needs to pick a side, just like the Olive Garden. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Soho House. The network of private social clubs is going private. Four years ago, Soho House went public with an IPO. Even if the club rejected you, you could buy the stock. We got you. We got you, Soho House. Well, the stock's been down ever since then. So a hotel group is buying the whole thing for 2.7 billion bucks. And leading this new hotel group of Soho House is Ashton Kutcher.

26:05Yeah. Who reportedly is going to rename it, Dude, Where's My Soho House? And second, MSNBC is rebranding to MSNOW. And even bigger, they're losing the Peacock logo. MSNOW is an acronym. The MS stands for My Source, and the NOW stands for News Opinion World. I feel like they overthought it, Jack. So it's My Source for News Opinion and World. Well, nobody understood what MSNBC stood for, so I guess, like going back to HBO, this is an improvement. And finally, the Cambridge Dictionary just added 6 ,000 new words. It's the biggest increase in the modern era. Which is another term for years, by the way.

26:45What are the new words? DeLulu, Trad Wife, Broligarchy, and Luke. All those Gen Z terms you don't understand, they're now in the dictionary. Apparently, they only add words now where they think they will have staying power. Apparently, Skibidi is a word. It's Skibidi, Jack. It's Skibidi. You ruined it. You ruined it. You just blew us up. Are you sure it's skivity? It's skivity. I've only read it. I've never heard it. Well, it means like everything. So yes, it has staying power. Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in as a voicemail from Amit Om from lovely Charlotte, North Carolina. Push and play.

27:22Hey, Nick. Hope you feel better soon. It's Dr. Om here again. And as your resident dermatologist, I'm here to break down a fun fact about shingles. So normally we think of shingles as what's on your roof. But the same word also names the disease because in Latin, it means belt. And as you know, the rash often wraps around your body like a belt. And the blisters overlap just like roof shingles. So yes, your house and that rash actually do share the same name. Amit, great fact. And Nick, I think we're done talking about shingles. Yeah, I do, I do. My chest does look like a roof right now, I will say that.

27:58Although, Amit is a dermatologist. Yes. And we got his phone number with his submission. I'm going to ask him about that thing on my phone. Thank you, Jack, for doing that. And also, Jack, I just got to say thank you for everything you did last week. You know, Yetis, Jack sent me a text when I was sleeping and in the hospital, and he just said, don't worry about this. I got it. Call me whenever you're awake. And I think that says it all. Well, the Yetis were wildly supportive. All the comments, I read them too. It is a wonderful, wonderful community. Besties, thank you. Celebrate the wins and celebrate your health.

28:33We'll see you tomorrow, as awesomely always. There's only one word to describe everything Nick just said. Skibbity. Oh, Jack, the deepest of thank yous to my wife, Molly, who is nine months pregnant, is still working, and taking care of Maxie at home, and still managed to come to the hospital every single day. And she brought enough food that I think each time she actually made me more sick. Molly, thank you for everything.

29:07And before we go, a happy birthday to Pearl turning 14 years old in Texas. Pearl is actually a chicken and she's now officially the world's oldest chicken. At age 14? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. In chicken years. Cool. And a happy birthday to Melina Flabiano from New York City. Congratulations, Melina. The legend of e-commerce. And happy 26th birthday to Molly Giles in the West Village of New York City. And a congratulations to Cannon Daffin, a summertime Yeti after carpooling every day with his girlfriend, stepdad. He just finished his summer internship with Corrigan down in Dallas, but this guy's got CEO written all over him.

29:44And to all those Yetis who sent us all those DMs, seriously, thank you so much. You know what? I really did get to read them all. Thank you.

29:54This is Jack. I own stock of Kava, Nickel and stock of Lululemon, and we both own stock of Apple, Chipotle, Robinhood, ETFs of the S &P 500 and some Bitcoin. Name that.

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A $200 posture-correcting bra?... It’s gone viral, and could be Apple’s next acquisition target.

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