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The Best One Yet

6 Feb 2026 · 23m · 8 chapters

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🐰 “El Supertazón” — Bad Bunny’s business. Anthropic’s book destruction. Chipotle’s $100K rule. +Football Birkin Bags

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  • Hosts: Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell
  • Description: A 20-minute pop-business news podcast delivering three key stories with fresh insights. Previously known as “Snacks Daily,” the show is now independent from Robinhood.

In this episode, Jack and Nick discuss three major business stories:

  1. Anthropic's disruptive approach to building AI by destroying books.
  2. Chipotle's price increase strategy aimed at high-income customers.
  3. Bad Bunny's remarkable rise in the music industry and diverse business ventures.

Written by AI. May contain mistakes.

Chapters

0:46

Upcoming Events and Trends

Discussion on major upcoming events including the Super Bowl and Olympic Games.

“For our second story, it's Chipotle's new strategy, telling anyone making under$100 ,000 to go to Taco Bell instead.”
3:01

Introduction to Stories

Preview of three main stories revolving around Anthropic, Chipotle, and Bad Bunny.

“Top hats, baseball hats, Von Dutch hats.”
4:31

Anthropic's Book Destruction

In-depth examination of Anthropic's controversial tactics involving book destruction for AI training.

“That's three weekends away just for one wedding right there.”
7:48

Chipotle's Pricing Strategy

Analysis of Chipotle's decision to raise prices amidst economic challenges.

“Yes, this sounds like the plot of like a nerdy James Bond, but it is real and here is how it went down.”
14:00

Pepsi vs. Chipotle: Pricing Strategies in Business

Explore how Pepsi and Chipotle adopt contrasting pricing strategies based on their target audiences.

“Do you go with Pepsi or do you go like Chipotle?”
16:47

The Business of Bad Bunny: A Branding Paradox

Delve into Bad Bunny's unique business strategies that blend luxury with grassroots marketing.

“Bad Bunny is performing the Super Bowl halftime show, but what about this man's business?”
20:38

Constraints as Growth Drivers: Bad Bunny's Approach

Understand how Bad Bunny leverages constraints to fuel his career growth and viral success.

“Well, one fundamental reason is that he's turned a limitation into an accelerator.”
21:32

Latest Trends: Spotify and Predictions Apps

Examine Spotify's new offering of physical books and the rise of predictions apps around the Super Bowl.

“Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday?”
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0:00This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, February 6th. 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. All right, Jack, pause the pod without the calendar. Olympic opening ceremony tonight. Super Bowl on Sunday. We got Valentine's Day in just over a week. Men's Olympic downhill competition on Saturday, which is the most exciting event, in my opinion. I mean, the only thing not having fun in February so far is Bitcoin. True. It fell big again yesterday. Ben, the Bitcoin, you're hurting us, buddy. Jack, three fantastic stories for today's pod.

0:37What have we got on the show? For our first story, Anthropic just dropped a Super Bowl commercial diss track on OpenAI. But the real story here, Anthropic destroyed a million books to get here, literally. For our second story, it's Chipotle's new strategy, telling anyone making under$100 ,000 to go to Taco Bell instead. Chipotle is raising prices again. And our third and final story, we're looking at the business of the halftime performer, Bad Bunny. And this story includes Gucci luggage, gas station Cheetos, and a$0 Super Bowl check. It's the business paradox of Bad Bunny Inc. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:14I mean, no one else is doing that mix. I love the mix before the weekend, Jack. You're going to see a lot of surprise things at the Super Bowl this weekend, not just during the halftime show. You'll see Hail Marys, flea flickers, maybe a butt fumble or a tush push if you're lucky. If you're lucky. But the biggest surprise is probably going to be the handbags. Trend alert! NFLers are carrying luxury handbags like never before. That's right. The most masculine sport is going for the most feminine fashion accessory. Yeah, it turns out this season, the handbag was the breakout star of the NFL. Earmuffs, Dad.

1:45You're not going to like this. Jalen Hurts carried a coach carry-all into the stadium earlier this year. Jack Stefan Diggs has an Hermes Kelly purse. That's his go-to. Will Anderson, he prefers Prada and their double flat bag with two handles. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. We're talking clutches, pocketbooks, luxury handbags at a whole new level, baby. The devil already wore Prada. Soon Drake may will, apparently. I mean, Jack, you got to put your mouth guard somewhere, right? Man, there's a pocket. Now, this trend started either in the NBA or European soccer, but I can't believe it's come to the gridiron.

2:16I think it started with Emily in Paris. All the footballers are fans, Jack. Because the only thing a linebacker clutch is harder than a ball these days? It's a Birkin. Yeti's the locker room tunnel is the new catwalk. Super Bowl 60 is not going to Sports Illustrated. It's going to Vogue. Let's hit our three stories. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we're here to go.

2:51We can't wait no more, so just start the show.

2:56Start the show. First, a quick word from our sponsor.

3:06Top hats, baseball hats, Von Dutch hats. We wear so many hats on this podcast. Honestly, we're not great at all of them. No, we've been avoiding hiring someone to wear those hats instead of us, especially the Von Dutch one, because hiring and training can take forever. Well, proud to say that we are hiring right now at T-Boy, and this is a job for Indeed Sponsored Jobs. Because Sponsored Jobs, posted directly on Indeed, are 95 % more likely to report a hire than non-sponsored jobs. So besties spend less time searching and more time actually interviewing candidates who check all your boxes, less stress, less time, more results.

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4:11Yes. 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. And basically it's Jack's host-guest bank account for when he hosts and when he's a guest somewhere else. When I lived in the city neck, Like 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.

4:39Naturally. 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. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.com slash host.

5:02For our first story, Anthropic made huge headlines for troll and open AI in their Super Bowl ad. That's a great story, but an even better one? Anthropic's quest to destructively scan all of the world's books. Oh, yeah, it is. The theme of this year's Super Bowl is beef. because the number two AI brand is beefing it up with the number one AI brand. Anthropic spent$10 million with NBC to throw shade in a 30-second commercial. Because Anthropic ridiculed OpenAI's plans to launch ads on ChatGPT, and they did this through two Super Bowl commercials. Boom, roasted. It's an anti-ad ad. Yes, it is. From Anthropic, you know what I mean?

5:46Yeah, because it's mocking ChatGPT for adding ads. That's the ad, basically. Kendrick Lamar did last year's Super Bowl. But Anthropik's commercial is a diss track. Yes, it is, Jack. And Sam Allman, yeah, he felt emotionally bruised. He reacted on Twitter very defensively to the whole thing. We got links to Anthropik's two Super Bowl commercials and Sam's 400-word reply to those commercials in the show notes. But besties, pause the pot. Because we are way more interested in one wild move that got Anthropik to this specific place. One detail that we only know because it was revealed in court documents.

6:20Because to build its AI, Anthropic bought one million physical books and then destroyed them. This is a mind-bogglingly large and secret campaign that Anthropic did in 2024, and it's called Project Panama. Doesn't sound sketchy at all, Jack. So there's some wonderful reporting here from the Washington Post. It captures the story, but Jack and I dove in T-boy style for you. So before OpenAI launched ChatGPT, they downloaded the entire shadow library online, known as LibGen. Jack, what is a shadow library to sprinkle on some context? It's a massive online library of digital books that are all pirated.

6:58And at the time, about a decade ago, OpenAI was an academic nonprofit. So to train their large language model, their AI, they had to upload millions of books. And nobody really was concerned. But then, when OpenAI started straying from their nonprofit roots and became profit-hungry, some early OpenAI people left and launched Anthropic. And the first thing Anthropic did, what was it, Jack? The same thing OpenAI did. They went to that same shadow library, downloaded millions of books, and fed that digital text into Anthropic's LLM. But here's the key. In 2024, Anthropic wanted to differentiate their chatbot, make it smarter, make it book smarter.

7:37So they launched Project Panama, a secret goal to buy a million physical books scan the pages of those books, and feed the digital text into their large language model. Yes, this sounds like the plot of like a nerdy James Bond, but it is real and here is how it went down. First, they did a really smart thing. They hired the guy who like 20 years ago did the Google Books project of scanning millions of books into Google. Yeah, remember that like free service we had in college? Well, that guy started working with Anthropic and bought a million used books and destroyed them by slicing off the spines.

8:15They split Tolstoy in two, which begs the question, why destroy books? Are you anti-book, Anthropic? The reason they bought up the books and destroyed them, Jack, was because it's hard to scan books in a photocopier. Like, we've all been there, like, is this thing working? It's easier to scan a book if it's just a stack of pages that are not bound to each other. I mean, honestly, we'd love to talk to the guy Anthropic hired to spend six months destroying and copying books. Yeah, really weird gap year that that guy did destroying those books and scanning them. Don't tell anyone. It's all being done in a top secret warehouse.

8:48Actually true. Right. So the reason we know about this is that authors and publishers have sued Anthropic in court arguing that feeding these books into the LLM is an unlawful use of their books. So this court case, it even revealed an actual photo of a giant warehouse with millions of de-spined books. And every day, trucks and trucks took the pages and sent them to her recycling. It was like a really weird operation. Basically, Anthropic was eating Jane Austen for breakfast. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Anthropic? You are what you eat. And each chatbot has a different diet.

9:23Yeti's Anthropic's Claude chatbot, it's believed by some to be better at writing than other chatbots are. And now that you've heard this story, the reason for that is clear. Claude has a very book-heavy diet. Because Anthropoc was chewing Moby Dick. Books, they are high-quality yetis. They're written by humans who put in work. They're edited by humans. They are chosen by human publishers. On the other hand, Grok's diet is totally different. Elon's Grok is a very tweet-heavy diet, so it's inclined to be crude and troll people just like the text it's consumed. Google's Gemini, it's consumed the transcript of every YouTube video, so it sounds pretty YouTube-y.

10:01And OpenAI, having started years before the rest of them, has pretty much eaten everything. except for those million physical books in that warehouse. So Basties, if you want your chatbot to be a Phi Beta Kappa English major, you choose Anthropoc. Because you are what you eat. And Claude has read every book in the bookstore. Literally. For our second story, Chipotle's earnings just revealed it has a favorite customer. People who make$100 ,000 a year or more. Because in the K-shaped economy, you have to pick a side. Yetis. Earlier this week, Jack and I did a whole story on PepsiCo, the first deflation situation.

10:39Pepsi cut the prices of Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, and Fritos. Uh-ohs. By 15%. Because consumers have been pushing back on prices and buying store brand chips to save money instead. Chipotle's earnings showed a similar price pushback from consumers. Yes, they did. Comparable sales fell for the second time in three quarters at Chipotle. So, Chipotle's going to cut prices just like Pepsi did, right? pivot to budget burritos. I'm sorry, Jack. Pause the pod. That ain't the situation in the burrito line right now. Chipotle is not getting cheaper at all. In fact, yesterday they announced the opposite.

11:14They're raising prices by 2 % this year, which by our count is like the 10th time since the pandemic began that they're raising prices. This time the burrito's buying me. I mean, your post-workout Safritas burrito bowl, Jack, just got a whole lot pricier. I know. Guac was already extra, and now this. It's extra, extra. So why does Chipotle think that raising prices in this economy is an okay thing to do? Well, this is what Jack and I found fascinating, Yetis. Chipotle has a favorite customer, and that customer is making 100K. That customer is the Goldman analyst who has a Hamptons week timeshare.

11:46And that customer is the Millennial Millie with the Sapphire Reserve card next to the Amex Platinum card. It's the dink kicking it in Cabo this weekend. That's who Chipotle knows is crushing burrito balls three days a week. And so it is at At this point, Jack and I should sprinkle on the context about the K-shaped economy. You've heard it before. The wealthier are doing better. They're the upper leg. The low-income people are doing worse. They're the lower egg. The middle is getting squeezed, so Chipotle is picking sides. They're choosing people making$100 ,000 or more. In fact, in Chipotle's earnings, they revealed that 60 % of their customers are high-income households making over$100 ,000 a year.

12:20They mentioned$100 ,000 five times on their earnings call. We counted it. They said it five times. And because of this new data that they got last week about that$100 ,000 income, they're making this move. Chipotle is confident to lean more into those high-income earners in a quote-unquote more meaningful way. But Jack, what about for the people making below$100 ,000 a year? Like, are they even, like, allowed into Chipotle anymore? Chipotle said that tax refunds are supposed to be bigger this year, so that can pay for the 2 % price increase. So Chipotle is willing to let the guy with the student loans trade down to Taco Bell for the time being.

12:54Basically, that's what Chipotle said, yes. Kind of an adios situation. But we should also math the math on this thing, right, Jack? You want to whip out the whiteboards? Chipotle must figure they could cut prices to make that lower 40 % happy, those making less than$100 ,000. But if they did, they'd be leaving more money on the table from the upper 60%. Chipotle stock is down 32 % in the last year. If they realize they have to do something, they have to make a change. So they're going upstream instead of trying to go mainstream. Chipotle, why stop here? I mean, you keep going upstream. Caviar on that carnitas, Jack?

13:26No, that is not a good flavor combination, Nick. Yeah, I know you. You want the barbacoa made with A5 wagyu flown in from Japan, if I know you. I thought it was barbacoa. And this is why we can't get into a love in Madison Park, Jack. So Jack wants to take away from our buddies over at Chipotle. In the K-shaped economy, you have to pick a side. So, Yetis, this is wild. We've got two case studies this week in two brands facing the same exact problem, but opposite decisions. Pepsi saw a sales decline and lowered prices. Chipotle saw a sales decline and is raising prices. So we know what you're wondering.

13:59Like, if your business is facing the same problem, which one is right? Do you go with Pepsi or do you go like Chipotle? The answer is yes. Both Pepsi and Chipotle were right because it depends on your customer. Pepsi aims for scale, mainstream, a wide audience. So they're following down the K-curve by lowering prices. Chipotle's aim, on the other hand, is to go premium. them. They're more Shake Shack than McDonald's, so they're following up the K-curve by raising prices. Add it all up, Bessies, and in this economy, you probably have to cut prices or raise them, but either way, you have to pick a side.

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16:46For our third and final story before the weekend, Bad Bunny is performing the Super Bowl halftime show, but what about this man's business? We found the growth hack that made Bad Bunny bigger than Taylor Swift. True story, but Jack, let's start with Apple because Apple Music has sponsored the Super Bowl halftime show since 2023 for like 50 million bucks a year. Yeah, but none of that money goes to the headline performer. Zero. The gig is free because you are paid with, oh, a whole lot of publicity, baby. Kendrick Lamar had one of his tracks that he played at the Super Bowl last year rise in streaming platforms by 400 % after the Super Bowl.

17:28And this year, Benito Antonio Martinez-Ocasio, a.k.a. Bad Bunny, is doing the same. the unofficial prince of Puerto Rico. Now, Yetis, Latin music is just 9 % of total streaming in the United States. And yet Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist of the year last year on Spotify. In the last six years, there's only been two people to hold that crown. Bad Bunny won it four times, and Taylor Swift won the other two. That's right. Bad Bunny is beat in Taylor Swift, and it all goes back to a church choir in Puerto Rico where he began singing. In high school, he was bagging groceries in Puerto Rico while writing lyrics on the side and eventually uploading his tracks to SoundCloud.

18:05He dropped out of college and eventually came up with the name Bad Bunny for his musical career. And why was that, Jack? Well, Nick, when he was a kid, his parents made him wear a bunny costume for Halloween. That's rough. He did not like that costume, so he became the Bad Bunny. And he knows that this was a marketing opportunity because he realized every time someone saw a bunny, they would think of him instead. And basically every lawn I've ever seen has had a bunny scamper across it at some point. But here's what fascinates us, besties. Bad Bunny Inc. isn't just a diversified business, is it, Jack?

18:37It's the most strategically paradoxical business we've ever seen. Yes, music is Bad Bunny's number one source of income. In December alone, his 10 live shows he did grossed$100 million, according to Billboard. And he could have made way more, but he did a 31-show residency to support Puerto Rico after the hurricane in 2025, which boosted Puerto Rico's GDP by$300 million. Okay, so Jack and I then dove deeper into Bad Bunny's business, and we realized Pitbull walked so that Bad Bunny could run. Is that what we realized, Nick? Yeah, I think that's an early takeaway here, Jack. Bad Bunny isn't doing an energy drink collab like every other celebrity out there.

19:14He is doing a restaurant. It's called Gecko in Miami, where six bites cost$160 as the tasting menu. But interestingly, Bad Bunny also launched a talent agency for Latin American athletes based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's called Remus Sports. It's the UTA for Latino athletes. MVP winner, Ronaldo Acuño Jr., he's on the team. All-star, Fernando Tatis Jr., also on the team. Both signed with Bad Bunny's talent agency. But Bad Bunny is also partnered with a range of brands so wide they seem to conflict with each other. On the one end, Bad Bunny has a sponsorship with Gucci for luggage and Calvin Klein for underwear.

19:52But Jack, Bad Bunny is also hawking Cheetos at gas stations and promoting the WWE World Wrestling Entertainment in the ring. He's not just a celebrity or a guest cameo or like guest host of the WWE. He actually wrestles, including a fight he did at the Royal Rumble and at WrestleMania. I'm sorry, Jack, pause the pod, but I can't think of many Cheetos eating Gucci owners who also know a Stone Cold Stunner. I might be the only one, actually. I like all three of those things. Any marketer would say this is a mistake, and yet Bad Bunny is spanning luxury labels and budget ones like no other person or business can.

20:24Bad Bunny is a branding paradox, and it's working. So Jack, mic check, mic check, what's the takeaway for our buddy Bad Bunny Inc.? Constraints breed creativity. So Yetis, how has Bad Bunny gone so viral? Well, one fundamental reason is that he's turned a limitation into an accelerator. He speaks English, but he only sings in Spanish, potentially limiting his audience. And that Puerto Rico concert tour he did, the masses had to fly to Puerto Rico to see him. He didn't go anywhere else. But those limitations have differentiated him and driven awareness of him and unlocked growth for him. And you know what?

20:59Jack and I have seen the power of limits in businesses as well. Like, remember the social media app, Be Real? You can only take one picture a day. That made it go viral. Wordle, you could only play one game per day. That made it go viral. Winners started with just 140 character limit and dating apps are now cap and swipes these days. The haiku poem, remember 575? It's limited to just 17 syllables. That's how you can create beauty. Besties Orson Welles once said that the enemy of art is the absence of limitation. The greatest growth hack is that constraints breed creativity. It works for apps in Silicon Valley and it's working for bad money.

21:32Also in Silicon Valley this Sunday. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday? Anthropic will troll OpenAI this Sunday It got here, though, by destructively scanning a million books Yeah, because you are what you eat And Anthropic's Claude has eaten every single book in the bookstore For our second story, PepsiCo is lowering prices But Chipotle is raising them Same problem, different solution Because in the K-shaped economy, you gotta pick a side And Chipotle is choosing 100K And our third and final story is Bad Bull. He was the number one most streamed musician for the fourth time in the last six years beating Taylor Swift.

22:11The Bad Bunny growth hack, constraints breed creativity. But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, speaking of books, Jack, Spotify is now selling physical books. Yes, because a lot of people read a physical book alongside the book they're listening to as an audiobook. We did not know that was a thing, but congratulations, you now have a solution. This is key though. Spotify added a page match feature to show you what page you should start at to pick up where you left off in your audiobook. And second, Kalshi and Polymarket, the two predictions apps, are getting a lot of attention for this weekend's Super Bowl.

22:48The Patriots or the Seahawks? Who are you putting money on for the big game? Kalshi and Polymarket also just opened grocery stores. What? Yeah, that's right. In a wild marketing move, this week, Kalshi made groceries free for a day at a grocery store in New York. If you want us to cover the story, drop a comment. And finally, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is tonight in Milan, Italy, because Rome is putting the first ever tourism fee on their famous Trevi Fountain. So if you're visiting Rome this summer, like I might, then you're going to have to pay a two euro fee to see it. Now time for the best fact yet, this one sent in by legendary Eddie Richard Blythe from lovely Tulsa, Oklahoma.

23:27With all the buzz surrounding AI's insane electric usage, I'm reminded of the ENIAC unveiled to the world in 1946. Built from thousands of vacuum tubes, this computer size would fill half a basketball court, require the power of 100 homes, and delivered just 5 ,000 calculations per second. Now if that sounds fast, a modern computer chip the size of your fingernail can do trillions of calculations every second using a fraction of the power. So I think our planet is way overdue for another hardware revolution. That is insane. Also, the ENIAC computer he referenced, it's actually an acronym. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.

24:06The best fact yet, within the best fact yet. Yetis, you look fantastic this week. And Jack, I also thought you looked fantastic back when we were roommates and you would go to the football games in college and you would bring that coach bag with you. The Kate Spade. That's the one you used to bring, right? That's where you brought your equipment. I can never remember. Dad, if you're listening, this is all misinformation. Got the photos, Jack. We've got the photos. Besties, if you haven't yet, you got to buy tickets to our live show in New York and DC. We're almost sold out and we want to see you there.

24:37March 11th, Arlington Draft House. Nick and I will see you there. April 8th, Irving Plaza. Nick and I will see you there. And if you're wondering, yeah, we'll bring the Birkins for the live podcast show because we got to put our microphones somewhere. Happy five-star Friday. Drop down to give us a rating and review, and Jack and I will see you on Monday. Can't wait.

25:04And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Eddie, Sasha Gang, in Saratoga Springs, Utah, fifth year in a row, getting a shout-out on the pod. Congrats, Sasha. Happy 27th birthday to Jake Nembhard in London, celebrating in Thailand with his girlfriend, a couple of the T-boys together. And a happy first birthday to Stefan and Corey Hoffman's baby in Chicago. That baby, already doing logistics. And happy birthday to Ali Patron in New York City. And Kelsey Albertson had the best birthday yet over in Queens. Happy birthday to Sarah and Camille in Maryland, a mother and daughter with back-to-back birthdays.

25:36And a happy birthday to Joe Morford over in San Francisco, dad of the year because his daughter Bella is listening over in New York City. And happy anniversary to Emily and Alex White, who are celebrating in San Diego and filling themselves with cheese and meat and wine. And Deirdre Allen's retiring down in Austin, Texas, but we'll be seeing Deirdre in the front row of the Austin show, Jack. Can't wait to see you there, Deirdre. And a big shout out to Zach Isaacs, the Middlebury Panther, who I met last week at Middlebury, but the whole movement team is crushing it. Yes, they are. We'll see you in San Francisco, Zach.

26:08It's a panther. It's a panther. I don't know. And Raj Shanker and the Yeti who tipped us off to the NFL handbag story. Thanks for the heads up. And a correction from Allie Doglish, who's pointing out that Carrie on Sex and the City, she didn't drink martinis, Nick. She drank Cosmos. Same glass, different drink, but in our defense, I'm a total Samantha. And finally, a shout out to Wilder. Nick, a live mouse was in our car today. Wilder was freaked out. And in the backseat, he said, I'm trying to be brave, but I'm not feeling brave right now. The pod son, though, is so brave. You can be scared and brave at the same time, and that's what you were yesterday.

26:44Wilder, that sounds like the plot of a future Pixar movie.

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From the publisher

Anthropic is trolling OpenAI, but they got here… by destroying 1 million books.

Chipotle is raising guac prices… it’s ok with ppl making less than $100k going to Taco Bell.

Bad Bunny is the Halftime Show performer… but do you know the business of Bad Bunny?

Plus, football players have made a big pivot… they’re all buying Hermes Birkin Bags.


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Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials:

#1: https://youtu.be/kQRu7DdTTVA?si=GId96WxL4sImMmSD 

#2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSam25u8O4 

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