🤠 “Austin LIVE Show” — AI Mermaids. Levi’s skinny deregulation. Uber’s Swiss Army Knife. +Topo Chico shortage

0:01What's up, what's up, on C-Tap's end. Fifteen years before this song, two friends from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea for a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Come on, Jack, Mitch, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fact, tip. T-Boy City on your ass list. If you know, you know, yeah, we ready to go. We can't wait no longer, so just start the show. If you know, you know, yeah, we ready to go.

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0:59Hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up? Yo, cause the T-Boy party don't stop. Welcome out to Austin, Texas. This is the T-Boy Experience. Peace.

1:14This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, February 26th. Then today's live show from Austin is the best one yet.

1:42The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. It's the IPO Tour, our in-person offering, and you know what that means.

1:55Training has begun Jack, the first three stories for the show What have we got on today? For our first story, Waymo is taking over Texas as the capital of Robotex But Uber has a new plan Become the Swiss army knife of self-driving

2:09The Best One Yet Hosts: For our second story, the denim industry is facing its craziest trend crisis since cowboys first put on pants I'm sorry, skinny jeans are making a comeback in the baggy daddy era? And our third and final story. With all the AI fear freaking everybody out, we have a career solution. Be a mermaid. That's right. The best way to slop-proof your job is to be half human, half AI fish. Naturally. Yes. But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of storms. I love this live mix, Jack. Hold the Venmo requests. Cancel the custom tank tops. Yeah. True story. This is actually our first time in Austin, not for a bachelor party.

2:50The Best One Yet Hosts: True story. Austin, Texas. The land of the breakfast taco, the venture capital refugee, and highly synchronized bridge bats. Austin is also unique in its rejection of LaCroix, and they say no thanks to Spindrift. In Austin, instead, they choose a drink so violently fizzy, Topo Chico. Oh.

3:16Topo Chico made in Mexico, but scaled in Austin. Get this, 70 % of Topo Chico sales right here in Texas.

3:27The Best One Yet Hosts: Never knew water would get so much applause. Austin adopted Topo Chico mineral water like a techie transplant adopts a stetson. I'm sorry, Jack, did that cowboy hat pair well with my Patagonian? And this mineral water has led to the top-selling cocktail in the state of Texas. Ranch water. One part Topo Chico. One part tequila. Probably Tito's. Ranch water was actually invented right down the road at Ranch 616 in Austin on 6th Street. Just off 6th Street. But here is the news. We are officially running low on Topo Chico. That's right. It's a Topo shortage. According to Coca-Cola, Topo Chico is temporarily unavailable in the United States.

4:09The Best One Yet Hosts: Yeah, technical issues with the mineral wells in Mexico. it's not even going to be back until later this year. So Coca-Cola, which bought Topo Chico for$220 million, issued a dire warning this week. It was a thirst trap, literally. Yes, it was. So pause the pod and get to your local H-E-B, A-S-A-P, as possible to snag yourself the case. Chico sales are going up and to the right like Arch Manning's deep ball. Topo Chico Ranch Water added to the Hortus Almanac week 309. Austin, you look fantastic. Yes, you do.

4:45Jack, let's hit our three stories and let's keep them weird.

4:51Top hats, baseball hats, Von Dutch hats. We wear so many hats on this podcast. Honestly, we're not great at all of them.

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5:34The Best One Yet Hosts: So just go to Indeed.com slash podcast right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. That's Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need a hiring hero? This is a job for Indeed-sponsored jobs. So yet he's Jack's instituted a new business model for his Airbnb hosting. And Jack, what is it? Here it is. Host equals guest. Yes. I funnel all my revenue from being a host on Airbnb into one bank account and use that same bank account to book travel for myself. Basically, it's Jack's host guest bank account for when he hosts and when he's a guest somewhere else.

6:09When I lived in the city neck, every time my apartment was available on Airbnb, it would get booked like that. I mean, think about how often are you away from home? You got the bridesmaid, you got the shower, you got the bachelorette, you got the wedding. That's three weekends away just for one wedding right there. Plus, you got to visit your mother. Naturally. Well, that's a lot of potential hosting that you could be doing on Airbnb. Let someone else stay at your place while you're away. Take that host money and spend it when you're a guest somewhere else. Have a business model like me. If you want to travel more, hosting more is a great way to make it happen financially.

6:40Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.com slash host.

6:52The Best One Yet Hosts: Yeah, it is. Can we give it up for Blacklack? The rap duo responsible for our jingle.

7:00The artist who could take this show and turn it into a rap. Only Black Black could do it. And they are based... Right here in Austin. Yes, they are. So cool, Adam. That duo was actually formed right here at the State Theater. True story. Yeah. But Yetis, the vibes in Austin right now are electric. I mean, the glass skyscrapers look like other glass skyscrapers.

7:25The Best One Yet Hosts: The food, the live events, the robo-taxis. Austin, it's great to be here, but there's no city that makes you question where you currently live like Austin, Texas does. I mean, true story. Glenn Powell and his chin were born here, moved to Los Angeles, and have now returned to Austin. Formula One brought race cars to Austin, and soon they're bringing roller coasters to Austin. Yes. Oh, and the weather, Jack? I mean, it's going to be at least two or three more months before it hits 143 degrees. And the barbecue. Last night, we went to Terry Black's. The food was fire. Jack actually broke some brisket, which is a real term, with his aunt and uncle who live here and are at the show in the audience right now.

8:10And for once, I paid the tab for them. Oh, but Jack, this is the IPO tour and everything is bigger in Texas, including this show.

8:21The Best One Yet Hosts: Why don't you sprinkle on a little context for us? Well, the IPO tour is our in-person offering. But if you're listening to the show right now, you should know we're live at the Historic State Theater on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. That's right. If you're only listening to us on the pod, you are not here live. Tomorrow you are going to get the interview with our super secret, super cool guests who we're interviewing today live. But if you're here in person, you're going to get some extra sprinkle dinkle and razzle dazzle. Here's what we got. Jack and I are doing T-Boy Insider Trivia. We are bringing you up on stage to pay trivia inspired by insider trading knowledge of the show.

9:00The Best One Yet Hosts: We're doing our fourth quarter earnings report followed by investor Q &A from you. And you know, I can't even hold it anymore. The spoiler, the guests, it's Steven and Allison Ellsworth, the co-founder power couple of poppy based here in Austin.

9:21The Best One Yet Hosts: And when we whip up our takeaways, Nick and I are going to need your help. So we're going to ask you to come up on stage. Yes, we will. It's going to be a good one. Oh, oh, oh, we will. But then, Jack, I mean, IPO tour, in-person offering. It was a loud bell, but I could use one more bell ringing to kick it off. Why don't you take the honors? Because I already have. It would be an honor. Trading has begun. Let's hit our first story, baby. For our first story, Uber's master plan to win the robo-taxi industry is to sit shotgun for it. To beat Waymo and Tesla, Uber is becoming a Swiss army knife.

10:02Yeah, it is. Waymo announced yesterday the Texas Trifecta, which is not a dish at Terry Black's, we should point out.

10:09The Best One Yet Hosts: No, they launched robo-taxi service in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, bringing the number of Texas cities they're in to four. All right, all right, all right. Jack, can you please tell me why Waymo is so obsessed with Texas? Adventurous young people willing to try things out, less regulation, and no snow. Yeah, pretty much ever. No snow. Impressive. But Waymo can't close their doors to their self-driving robotaxis. Yeah, they have an arrangement with DoorDash. For 11 bucks a pop, they'll send a dasher to close the door that a customer left the jar. It goes to show us that robotaxis, the AI that everyone loves, they need some help too.

10:46They need some love.

10:47The Best One Yet Hosts: Nick and I picked Lyft as one of our big stock picks for 2026. We did. They do the unsexy work that the self-driving tech companies don't want to do. But Uber must have heard our prediction, Jack, and said, Cute kid. Cute kid. Because Uber just dropped three huge announcements this week that Lyft simply can't compete with size-wise. Number one, Uber acquired Spot Heroes. You can now snag a garage parking spot through the Uber app. Number two, Uber is spending$100 million to build autonomous vehicle depots in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Dallas with a whole bunch of charging stations. And Uber announced a brand new division, Uber Autonomous Solutions, that we have way better branding names for.

11:30The Best One Yet Hosts: U-A-S. I'm sure they're referring to it at that, at Uber HQ. Think of Uber Autonomous Solutions as Uber's Department of Defense. Yes. Against the threat of robo-taxis eating their entire business. Now remember, to sprinkle on some context, Uber does not make self-driving cars. Uber ended their self-driving car initiative after a pedestrian was killed by their test car in 2018. So Waymo and Tesla racing to 10 ,000 robocars? That's an existential threat over at Uber. But Nick, running a self-driving business isn't just about the self-driving car. True. Uber says they're going to do everything but the car.

12:09The Best One Yet Hosts: Yeah, the way we see it, Uber is becoming the Swiss army knife of the self-driving. So this new division they just announced offers self-driving car insurance, self-driving customer support, charging for the self-driving cars. Yeah, Jack and I on our way back from Terry Black's, we spilled a little BBQ sauce in the back seat. It's got to get cleaned up. Uber's new division is going to whip out the wet wipes for it. When Volkswagen's fleet of self-driving cars launch, Uber's going to connect those cars to people who need a ride on the app. Hey Ford, you need like, I don't know, a million miles of drive data to train your autonomous vehicles?

12:44Uber's got it.

12:44The Best One Yet Hosts: Hey, GM, your self-driving Suburban can't navigate past that double-parked car? Uber's going to take care of the remote control remote assistance. Uber is becoming a self-driving Swiss Army knife that probably even comes with a toothpick. Definitely tweezers. But to use another analogy, Uber is becoming an arms dealer in self-driving. They're not competing directly in the self-driving tech war. Instead, they're providing the technical arms. So Jack, what is the takeaway for our buddies over at Uber? You could throw away your driver's license, but not until the year 2046. All right, so funny thing, besties.

13:20This week, Uber's CEO said that in 20 years, platforms will have 9 million drivers that will be replaced by autonomous vehicles.

13:29The Best One Yet Hosts: 9 million Uber drivers and Uber employees will be replaced by autonomy. That's what Uber's CEO said. Okay, but Jack, 20 years is like a really long time, dude. A few. A few. Why is it going to take 20 years? Because today, Waymo only has 3 ,000 cars on the road, and Tesla has 1 ,000. That's not much compared to 9 million Uber cars. Now look, raise your hand if you're driven in a self-driving taxi. There we go. For everyone listening, it's everybody. Self-driving cars, they can handle the base level, 7 degrees and sunny. You're in your bathing suit. That's easy for the robo. Basically, you're off-peak situation.

14:07The Best One Yet Hosts: Once it rains, or once demand spikes because of an event, humans are going to be needed to jump on the app and handle that surge. A UT football game with Willie Nelson at halftime? You're probably going to call an Uber human for that one and not the Waymo circle in the block. Now, Lyft's CEO, who we interviewed last year, actually thinks that autonomous cars will never be able to meet the demand spikes of surge moments like a T-Swift concert. So Uber's planning for a hybrid future in 20 years when humans and technology both drive cars. And as a Swiss army knife, whoever wins in self-driving cars, Uber believes they can win too.

14:45Besties, self-driving cars are here, but human-driven cars aren't going anywhere until 2046. Circle your calendar.

14:59For our second story. For the first time ever, the most stylish pair of jeans in your closet is all pairs of jeans?

15:08The Best One Yet Hosts: It's the great denim deregulation. Oh boy. And it shows how fads can actually be fabulous for business. Spoiler, we're going to connect this one to Willie Nelson by the end of it. But besties, first. Before half the tech industry moved to Texas, Jack, who was the first California transplant to end up in Austin? Jeans. We did a whole episode of The Best Idea Yet about Levi Strauss. Yes, this man invented jeans during the California Gold Rush in 1873. But Jack, in Texas, denim has become a lifestyle. Get this. In 1993, Texans bought 32 million pairs of jeans. I'm sorry, hold the cookie crisp, Jack.

15:50The Best One Yet Hosts: Can you sprinkle on some context for us, please? That is two pairs of jeans for each and every Texan. It's also one out of 20 pairs of jeans sold on Earth were bought by Texans. Now, that's 1993 data. We think it's only gotten more extreme. All right, raise your hand if you're wearing jeans right now. Spoiler, one of our guests tonight is wearing two pairs of dentists. Messing with the numbers. But right now, Yetis, whether you're a Levi's, a Lee, a Carhartt, a Wrangler, a Dickies person, it doesn't even matter. This is the strangest moment yet for the denim industry. Follow us on this one. Because right now, multiple jean styles are trending at the same time.

16:35We are in the anything goes era of jeans. And as someone who does not wear jeans, this is awkward for you.

16:41The Best One Yet Hosts: I don't know how I feel about this. So Levi's stock is up 20 % in the last 12 months. And on their latest earnings call, the CEO called this a head-to-toe opportunity. Jack, can you actually share? Jack and I jumped at D-Boy's Douts to read the whole transcript of the earnings. What did the CEO actually say? Customers are buying bottoms, new bottoms, new jean styles, but also tops to match the bottoms. Boom. Double dip. It's a facto, the result, an 11 % jean jacket growth over at Levi's. We repeat, demand for Canadian tuxedos is why Levi's is now worth twice as much as lift. But besties, as we open up the closet, this denim disparity is even more dramatic, is it not?

17:20It started with the pandemic.

17:22The Best One Yet Hosts: The comfort economy. True. The pendulum swung from skinny jeans to wide boyfriend relaxed jeans. And the story last year that we did, right, Jack? Like on the baggy daddy look? The baggy daddy. Levi's most wide jean of all time was their top seller. Sales rose 15%. But besties. To study business, Jack and I also study culture, which is why we spent all last weekend enjoying the latest Vogue magazine prediction, which is... Skinny jeans will come back in 2026. True story. Skinny jeans. I heard one whoa. I'm surprised we didn't hear six woes there. Was that a boo or a woe?

17:59Well, it's two factors. You've got Ozempic leading to skinny jeans, and you've got millennial core nostalgia leading to skinny jeans.

18:09The Best One Yet Hosts: So I hope you hung on to those made wells. So according to a denim analyst on Wall Street, which is a real job, by the way, multiple styles are now trending simultaneously, something the industry has never seen before, Which is Jack and I asking the existential question. Can the baggy daddy and the skinny mama coexist in one closet? Is this denim nirvana or denim disaster? Now, for consumers, it's confusing. Jeans, they're like a capitalist Rorschach test. What's your identity? What's your age? It depends what you're putting on this morning. We all have to, like, have an answer to our own personal denim dilemma.

18:41The Best One Yet Hosts: Or just reject it. So, what's the takeaway? Well, other than never throw out your out-of-style jeans because they're going to come back, like, maybe today. Jack, what is the takeaway for our bunnies in the jeans industry? To quote Willie Nelson, fads are like cowboys. Some fads ride off, but some ride forever. Now, Eddies, have we not warned you about the three Fs of fads? No industry is more vulnerable to fads than food, fitness, and fashion. But there is a flip side to fads that is not a business risk, but a business opportunity. Because if trends are always changing, then as long as you can move fast to adapt to those trends, you can always sell products.

19:22In fact, the fashion industry intentionally pushes fads in order to keep the sales flowing.

19:27The Best One Yet Hosts: This isn't technical obsolescence. It's fashion obsolescence. The cowboy hat Jack wore out, that was like a 2023 model. The cowboy hat I wore on stage was like new 2026. All right. Let me tell you what the jeans industry is not doing right now. They don't want to be Instapot. Right. Right, right, right. Instapot was an absolute sensation. Everybody bought one, but they only bought one. Now, Instapot is bankrupt. Yeah, denim doesn't want to be like a one and done situation. They want the opposite. Yeah, and you'll buy a mom fit today, a baggy fit tomorrow, a skinny jeans next year. Basically, we're calling this denim's deregulated era.

20:04And it might cause you to pause and decide what you're going to wear in the morning.

20:08The Best One Yet Hosts: But it is also a profit puppy for Levi's, which is selling one of every fit to you right now. Boom. And that is why Levi's stock is up 20 % in the last year, despite a trade war. Because as Willie Nelson said, sometimes for business, fads can ride on forever. Giddy up.

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21:48Well, one year ago, I proudly killed that spreadsheet I'd been building for 12 years.

21:53The Best One Yet Hosts: RIP spreadsheet. Because Monarch is a way better solution. All your financial accounts are linked to Monarch. Every credit card, checking account, brokerage account, even our mortgages, lie balances updated in real time. I'm still paying down my mortgage and Monarch gives me the visibility and tools to do it. You can use it too. Create savings buckets and financial goals in Monarch. Set yourself up for financial success this year. Are you familiar with the Sankey diagram? I had no idea what it was, Jack. Well, once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's brilliant. And Monarch visually shows you what you're spending.

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22:55The Best One Yet Hosts: Here's the key though. Figure out what's your human half and what's your AI fish half. Oh, honey, Jack, 2026, it has been a year of anxiety for white collar workers, my friend. Kale collar workers are feeling it in their sweet green bowls every lunch. It's like Pixar needs to make an inside out three, but instead of for kids, they need to make it for computer programmers. Anxiety, yeah. It's the SaaS-pocalypse. It's the AI grim reaper of the stock market. It's the sub-stack sell-off that we covered yesterday. Okay, but Jack, pause the pod. Right now, we are in Austin, Texas. We are in Tech Capital 2.0.

23:30I know, I know.

23:31The Best One Yet Hosts: At Terry Black's barbecue last night. Yeah. People were eating cornbread and talking about their AI stress. So, besties, Jack and I wanted to share our advice, our framework for how to thrive in the AI era. And it's inspired by mythology. Become a mermaid. But instead of half fish, we want you to become half AI. That's how you let AI enhance you, not eat you. You be a mermaid. Merman? No, and I'll tell you why in a second. Okay, okay, okay. But here's the key. Don't try to replace your human part with AI. Let AI showcase your human part. All right, Jack, why don't we like whip up an example here?

24:10The Best One Yet Hosts: What kind of stuff are you thinking, man? So we're like three years into this AI revolution, right? For the last year or two, Nick and I have tried to use AI to help prepare us for our interviews. Yes. In fact, for tonight's interview, we threw in the transcript from our last interview with Allison, and we asked it to suggest discussion topics for this interview. And what were the results when we did that little test? Bland. Yeah, they weren't good. They were not good. No, no. We had used AI suggestions. the interview would have become essentially call it slop yeah it would not have been a good interview the task that you have at hand yet is is to figure out what is the most human artistic part of you and what is the most human artistic part of your job for us it's the content we publish on our podcast yes that's not something ai can do no no no this is something only you and i can do you don't replace that with ai the human artistic part of your job that's what the ai can't do so the networking.

25:07The Best One Yet Hosts: They're recognizing what is my boss really saying? The presenting the pitch to convince Carol from accounting to approve your application. Keeping someone's attention is important and that's not AI's job. That's your job to recognize what their priorities are and adapt. Now I love the mermaid analogy, however silly it comes off initially. You want to be like a corporate Ariel. That's what we're saying. Like a mermaid, your human half is way more important than your AI half. Go on, Jack. Your human half is unique. Your AI half, it's just a tail. Every mermaid has the same tail. Yeah, just like every AI has the same formula and content style.

25:46Content created by AI, it looks like all the other content created by AI. So your human half, that is the differentiator of your mermaid work life. Your AI tail, that's just there for the function. And of course, you can't spell mermaid without AI.

26:02That's why it's not Merman. Nailed it. So Jack, What's the takeaway for our Poseidon buddies under the sea curious about saving themselves from AI?

26:14The Best One Yet Hosts: If you don't like to do it, then don't do it. Let your AI tail swish it instead. Now, Yedis, as part of Jack's MyQ4 earnings, our accountant asked for a list of our travel and meal expenses. Basically, what were you guys writing off, and why do you go to Sweetgreen so much? And that's what I said. Shoot, Nick, I forgot to tell you, our bookkeeper stopped working for us last year, and we never got around to replacing him. All right, so what do we do, Jack? So instinctively, I opened up QuickBooks, and I'm like, I'm going to have to characterize, you know, hundreds and hundreds of transactions to find the travel and meal expenses.

26:49Oh, boy.

26:49The Best One Yet Hosts: But then I stopped, and I said, AI can probably do this. So we downloaded a CSV of all of our spending activity. I uploaded that into AI. I told them I need the travel and meal expenses. Boom. That's the tail. That's the tail. AI did the highly tedious time-consuming task better than we would have. That is the mermaid tail. It saved us a bunch of time, which is the key unlock of artificial intelligence. Saving you time by doing the things you don't want to do. Which meant Jack and I then got to do the human half of the mermaid. We got to create great content and whip up a whole takeaway on the denim industry for you.

27:26The Best One Yet Hosts: So here's our advice to you. when you're about to start doing that task you don't want to do, like classifying those transactions, stop yourself. Let AI do that instead so you can do the stuff you're best at. As Sebastian told us many years ago in The Little Mermaid Jack, under deceit, that's how AI can enhance your human half. Let the mermaid tail swish away the stuff that you don't want to do anyway. Let the tail do it.

28:01The Best One Yet Hosts: so Nick I'm not stalling right now but this is the time to whip up the takeaways do the best fact yet do some shout outs what we're saying is this pod's not over yet and we need your help to pull it off so we are going to ask a few select VIP yetis and besties up to the stage is a LaSalle Vaughn in the audience yes there he is Here we go. Is there Kelsey Black and Savannah Westwood in the audience? Yes, there they are. Come on up, guys. We need your help with the takeaways and the best fact yet. Now, these are legendary yetis who come to us from both near and far.

28:50What's going on?

28:52The Best One Yet Hosts: So LaSalle was our compliance officer at Robin Hood and taught us so many lessons that I've never forgotten. I can't even keep track. LaSalle once predicted that if we continue to be successful, we'll get sued someday. And we got sued. We got sued. Who did we get sued by? Ice Cube. True story. Ice Cube, the rapper, sued us. It's a story for another prime. On our behalf. So LaSalle and Jack, what are the takeaways for Thursday, the new Friday, our live show in Austin, Texas. It's the Swiss Army Knife Strategy and it's all about the year 2040. That's right. Uber is trying to spin the threat of self-driving into an opportunity by wingmanning self-driving.

29:39The Best One Yet Hosts: Takeaway number two. To quote Willie Nelson, like cowboys, some fads can ride on forever. It's the great denim deregulation. Great for jeans companies who are serving up the denim buffet. And final takeaway of us all. If you don't like to do it, let your AI tail swish it. That's how you slop-proof your career and thrive in the AI era. Be a mermaid. There we go!

30:09Now time for the best fact yet.

30:13The Best One Yet Hosts: This one sent in by Savannah Westwood of Orlando, Florida and Kelsey Black from right down the road in Wingerville, Texas. Can you take it away, Savannah? I'm going to do the best I can. This is why you do it. The Texas State Capitol in Austin, four blocks north of this theater, was completed in 1888 and is a National Historic Landmark standing 302.64 feet tall. Which makes it over 14 feet taller than the United States Capitol in D.C., a fact Texans are very proud of.

30:55Biggest round of applause of the night, I think, for this Texas State Capitol right there. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, guys. But before we go, just like any show, Jack and I don't want to leave you hanging because there are birthdays, celebrations, bar mitzvahs. You want to take that home? We got a bunch to celebrate, right, Jack? Yeah, we do. So let's get into the audience and let's see who's got a shout out for us. Raise your hand if you've got a shout-out and a win to celebrate tonight. Let's out. Unbelievable. So good to see you, man. All right, we got one right up here.

31:32Tonight is our son's third birthday, or not third birthday, seventh birthday, sorry. We also have a three-year-old, just for context. And we're here instead celebrating her birthday, which is next month. And your names? Matt and Jenny. Matt and Jenny, let's get a round of applause. Do you have any shout-outs over here? Hello. Oh, I got one right here, Jeff. Oh, hi. This is my husband's last day of his 30s. He is turning 40 tomorrow, so we are here celebrating with y 'all. We'll see you at the after party. Oh, morning, morning.

32:20The Best One Yet Hosts: Anthony, I think you have a shout out for your lady friend next to you. Yes, my fiance. Whoa, congratulations to the ring. My Shaleen, epic. Anthony is from Brattleboro, Vermont, the same time I grew up in. Hi, this is Ross from just outside Austin. Just outside Austin. We are launching our first IBO, our initial baby offering in May. Whoa, we got an IBO coming. Your name? Brooke. Congratulations, guys. Hello, everybody. So last year, I got proclaimed by the city of Austin for my blog and my content creator journey. The Nueva Latina Day is May 22nd. It's coming up. Celebrate with me. Yes, the city of Austin named May 22nd, Nueva Latina Day.

33:10You're welcome.

33:14I got one right here, Jack. Hi, my name is Victoria Abling. I'm here with my three boys who have been graduated since the time they were, I don't know, maybe 2018. And I also just started a new job at IBM as a VP of sales. Congratulations, what a family! We got one over here next. I'm Mallory, and I wanted to shout out my brother-in-law, Leighton Biola, for getting me into the T-Boy pod. There we go. Damn! Son of a gun. It was Anthony, and I got my first Shopify sale just now. First Shopify sale. Full disclosure, Jack and I are shareholders. We got one in the nosebleeds, Nick. I'm Vanessa, and I'm here with my friend Courtney Lynn Harris, and this is the last day of her 20s.

34:08She's turning 30 tomorrow. Hey, y 'all.

34:13I'm Andy from... Thank you. I had a little handyman business run and just take five years this month. Five-year anniversary of the business, baby!

34:27Any more final shout-outs for the night? Oh, we got a last couple, Jack. Hi, I'm Tom, and I don't want to jinx it necessarily, but I'm just about to sell my third company. The hat trick.

34:45Hi, my name is Andres. I'm going to shout out to Alvaro, our friend. This is the first time that I hear you guys. Truly, we are four guys. This is the first time, and all thanks to Alvaro, and we love the show. Thanks so much, guys. Thank you, Alvaro. Thank you so much.

35:07Well, Jack, I think that takes us full circle on this journey of the night of the IPO it appears the T-boy stock is hitting all time high thanks to this incredible stack of shareholders that IPO pop wow it's real you feel it so yet is Nick and I

35:26The Best One Yet Hosts: just want to thank everybody for coming out tonight thank you to Black Lack for the unbelievable opening of the show that was live baby live rap jingle thank you to the staff here at the State Theater.

35:44Thank you to Allison and Steven for sharing everything in a couple's interview that I don't think they've ever done before. That was just special to get to be a part of.

35:55Thank you, Jack, for everything leading up to this. I mean, what a night. Thank you, man.

36:04The Best One Yet Hosts: And the biggest thank you? well this is just such a special night when Nick and I get to meet you in person so the biggest thank you is to everybody who came out tonight and to everybody listening at home you let Nick and me get to do what we get to do and it's the best turn of our lives we've ever had and Austin you made it extra special tonight

36:29so for anybody else celebrating something today

36:32The Best One Yet Hosts: make it a T-boy Celebrate the race!

36:43If you know, you know.

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