⛷️ “Gnarly Numbers” — Vail’s ski-pocalypse. Robinhood’s VC IPO. Stanley’s manly pivot. +$700K Girl Scout Cookie

0:00Gabe Cooper: This is Nick. This is Jack.

0:02Cody Sanchez: It's Thursday, the new Friday, February 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.

0:12Gabe Cooper: I'm sorry, Jack. February, shortest month of the year, but also biggest month of the year. Started with the Super Bowl. Yep.

0:18Cody Sanchez: Then the Winter Olympics. Uh-huh. Then the, like, four-game NBA All-Star Game Tournament.

0:23Gabe Cooper: Okay, but it's also Black History Month, Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and we just started Ramadan yesterday.

0:28Cody Sanchez: day. Happy fast to all our Yetis fasting right now. But Nick, Lent started yesterday. So I'm actually withholding sugar for 40 days. Well, I'm eating twice as much sugar. February, keep looking fantastic. Jack, let's hit our three stories. What do we got? For our first story, Colorado is having its worst ski season ever. The situation in the Rockies is rocky. Your skis are going to get dinged up. So how do we save the ski industry, Yetis? It's with fences and Fenway. For our second story, Robinhood is turning Silicon Valley's most exclusive VIP room into a$25 stock.

1:01Gabe Cooper: It's the People's Venture Capital Fund, and we just found out what's in it. SpaceX?

1:07Cody Sanchez: Question mark? And our third and final story is the Stanley Tumblr. It's no longer the it accessory for the cup girlies.

1:14Gabe Cooper: So Stanley is making the biggest pivot yet. Can Stanley get manly? Again. If you know, you know.

1:20Cody Sanchez: But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:23Gabe Cooper: Oh, I mean, what a mix of stories. love the mix of stories for the new Friday, Jack.

1:27Cody Sanchez: Everyone's talking about the Olympics medal count. Okay, but Jack, we talked about the most important podium out there right now. Girl Scout cookies. Yeah, it's the cookies. Because six-year-old Pim Neal of Pennsylvania just set a record for most boxes of cookies sold in one single selling season.

1:43Gabe Cooper: Get this, this kindergartner has sold

1:45Cody Sanchez: over 100 ,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

1:47Gabe Cooper: Yeah, real number.

1:48Cody Sanchez: 100 ,000 boxes. That's$700 ,000 in revenue and she's only been selling for six weeks. Jack, could you sprinkle on some calendar context, please? Girl Scout cookie selling season is January through April. So we're not even halfway through this thing yet. Which means Pim is on pace to sell 200 ,000 boxes.

2:07Gabe Cooper: Which would break the career record of sales in just one single season.

2:12Cody Sanchez: Pim is a thin mint mogul. Jack, she's a wolf on Main Street. I love her name, but she's the Jamie Dimon of Do-Si-Do's, isn't she? Hey, Andreessen, we got the Carnegie of Samoas. Yes, she does sell door-to-door like all Girl Scouts do.

2:25Gabe Cooper: And yes, her family posts her links on Facebook to scale it.

2:28Cody Sanchez: But little Pim, who has disabilities, is winning on TikTok especially with her honest authenticity. Link in bio, that's a CTA you just can't resist

2:37Gabe Cooper: after seeing one of her selfies.

2:39Cody Sanchez: Nick, with these numbers, she'll graduate from Daisy to Brownie this year, I guarantee you.

2:43Gabe Cooper: Hey, Jack, the Girlstowns don't do a bonus, but they do give a reward to girls who sell 2026 boxes in the year 2026. A trip to Niagara Falls, that's the reward. But what if you beat that goal by 50x and counting, Nick? Well, the cookie queen, probably going to have her parents tag along, Jack.

2:58Cody Sanchez: I see what you did there, and I approve.

3:00Gabe Cooper: Not that for a guy cutting out sugar. Jack, let's hit our three stories. Fifteen 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 ready to go. We can't wait no more. So just start the show.

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5:35Gabe Cooper: For our first story, Colorado's ski resorts are having their worst season ever. It's peak ski, and yet over half of the trails are closed.

5:43Cody Sanchez: So how can we save the ski industry right now? By adding fences and being more like Fenway Park. Fences and Fenway.

5:51Gabe Cooper: But besties, before Jack and I start a ski story today, we should point out, you know, it's a bittersweet, complicated day in the entire skiing industry, right Jack?

5:59Cody Sanchez: In the Sierra Nevadas, just outside of Tahoe, eight people died in an avalanche this week, which is an absolute tragedy.

6:06Gabe Cooper: And yet on the other side of the world, Michaela Schifrin, best skier in the world and Colorado native, finally won gold medal in the slalom yesterday. And she won it by one and a half seconds.

6:15Cody Sanchez: A great moment from Michaela.

6:17Gabe Cooper: But it is a good thing that Colorado is not hosting the Winter Olympics in 2026. And Jack, what's the good reason there?

6:23Cody Sanchez: There's no snow. Yeah, there's snow bankrupt right now. Arapahoe Basin, the third highest ski resort in the U.S. by elevation, has just 35 % of its terrain open right now.

6:33Gabe Cooper: On the other hand, over in Vermont, they're having a good but bitter cold ski season, and Utah's doing okay out there. But Breckenridge is snow broke right now. If you had a ski-kend last weekend, you know what we're talking about.

6:44Cody Sanchez: The technical term for what's happening in the ski season in Colorado is gnarly, I believe. I think it's gnarly. And it hurts financially for the resorts, the bartenders, and the Airbnb host, too. But besties, there is one publicly traded ski stock, a pure play powder stock, if you will, and that is Vail. Vail Resorts is a$5 billion company. It owns five Colorado ski resorts and like 50 more all across the world.

7:08Gabe Cooper: It's worth almost one lift, and they announced in January that visits are down 20 % through January 4th, which is a problem.

7:15Cody Sanchez: It's because of the lack of snow, but lift revenue is only down 2%.

7:19Gabe Cooper: So how is that bizarre situation happening, Besties? Well, it's because of non-refundable ticket sales and your classic season passes.

7:26Cody Sanchez: You paid for your skiing before Thanksgiving, before you had any idea how much snow there would be.

7:30Gabe Cooper: More on that in the takeaway. But Besties, what is happening in Colorado this season, it's going to happen to the entire ski industry with increasing frequency.

7:37Cody Sanchez: Because of climate change. So we're phoning our friend Charles Darwin. Chucky Darwin! And we're looking at the ski resorts that are adapting best to a world with less snow. And the responses, the options, the creativity is wild. But Jack, let's start with the obvious one first. Let's start with the snowmaking. Vail is investing$100 million this year in CapEx so that they can turn their water ponds into man-made snow when it doesn't dump.

8:02Gabe Cooper: But here's the wild part. Each one of those water-to-snow guns has a built-in weather station. It turns on when freezing, and it turns off when it's too warm out.

8:09Cody Sanchez: To maximize efficiency. But there's still a problem, Nick, of not being enough water to turn into snow.

8:14Gabe Cooper: Yeah, you see that drought that's causing the lack of snow. It's also caused the lack of rain, which means they can't convert the rain into snow.

8:21Cody Sanchez: Which leads to a shocking survivor of this snowpocalypse. It's called Monarch Mountain in Colorado, which has 100 % of their terrain open right now, despite the lack of snow.

8:31Gabe Cooper: And they're doing it without any man-made snow. I'm sorry, Jack, sit down, stand up, and sit back down on the gondola again. How is that possible in the world of physics and economics?

8:40Cody Sanchez: It's an all-natural mountain. And according to the Denver Post, they're 100 % covered in snow because of snow fences. We repeat, fences for snow. They have 80 portable fences they set up on the side of the trail that capture snow being blown by the wind in drifts. And then the snow machines spread them out across the whole trail.

9:01Gabe Cooper: It's created a natural snow oasis at Monarch Mountain, Colorado. Oh, another winner, by the way, Jay Peak over in Vermont. They built a water park at the resort for when the snow stinks.

9:11Cody Sanchez: Jack, how about our buddies over at Breckenridge? They have an outdoor roller coaster that operates year-round, even if it's 10 degrees out.

9:18Gabe Cooper: So Jack, add it all up and I'm seeing concerts, competitions, comedy shows, basically anything to entertain the visitors who are bummed about the snow bankruptcy situation. It's the new business model of skiing.

9:28Cody Sanchez: Yeah. Skiing is increasingly secondary. Right. Bells and whistles keep the customers coming even when the snow doesn't. That's right. It works for Disney World. It could work for Beaver Creek, too. Which reminds us of something the Yankees are doing.

9:40Gabe Cooper: Ah, that sounds like our takeaway, bro.

9:43Cody Sanchez: Again, that's not us skiers talk.

9:45Gabe Cooper: Jack, I did my bachelor party in Park City. I got us skiers talk, bro. Nothing wrong with a 1 p.m. app, right? So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Vail in the ski industry? For ski resorts to survive, they have to be more like the socks. Yeah, the red socks. Commiserate in bad season. and celebrate the good ones, but be paying customers no matter what.

10:07Cody Sanchez: Two-thirds of Vail's ticket revenue is sold before the season begins, thanks to the Epic Pass and non-refundable single-day tickets.

10:14Gabe Cooper: Well, Jack and I noticed that is similar to the 70 to 80 % of Major League Baseball ticket sales that come from season ticket holders.

10:21Cody Sanchez: If the Red Sox have a bad season, you already spent your money, and you hope for better luck next year. You know what? It's kind of the same with the ski resorts these days. Management's job at both baseball teams and ski resorts is to minimize the torture of a bad season by distracting customers with other stuff to do.

10:37Gabe Cooper: The concerts, the competitions, the shows. You book summer weddings to help offset the lost revenue from people who canceled the ski trips.

10:43Cody Sanchez: Half the time, being a Sox fan is torture. Increasingly, it feels the same with skiing. But Red Sox Nation pays up no matter what. And for ski resorts to survive, yeah, they need to do the same.

10:54Gabe Cooper: They need to adopt baseball's business model. For our second story, Robinhood is IPO-ing again. This time, though, it's for their first ever venture fund.

11:06Cody Sanchez: We call it the People's VC because anyone can invest. And now we finally know what unicorn stocks you can get a piece of.

11:14Gabe Cooper: Now, besties, it's not deja vu. We did cover this when it was breaking news. Robinhood's first ever venture fund back in September.

11:21Cody Sanchez: They announced it back then, and it was consistent with their mission to democratize finance for all.

11:25Gabe Cooper: Jack, could you use an analogy here with, I don't know, uh...

11:28Cody Sanchez: With my dad's favorite band? Yeah, I was saying you're dad's favorite Irish fan, Jack. Okay, Bono made more money investing in Facebook pre-IPO than he did with his music.

11:38Gabe Cooper: That's the power of pre-IPO investing. The lead singer of U2 made more money with one Facebook investment than he did on Vertigo.

11:45Cody Sanchez: Well, now with this publicly traded venture capital fund that Robinhood's building, you can be like Bono, invest in top startups through this fund.

11:53Gabe Cooper: But Jack, I gotta pause the pod for a sec. Back in September, we warned the Yetis that the devil is in the deals.

11:58Cody Sanchez: In other words, what companies will this VC fund get you access to? Is it going to be SpaceX or is it going to be Space Y?

12:05Gabe Cooper: Yeah, you don't want Space Y. Well, Robinhood told us this week. Yes, they did. The fund has already taken stakes in Databricks, Aura Ring, Stripe, even Robinhood's rival Revolut. Robinhood now owns shares of it.

12:16Cody Sanchez: It also owns stock in Boom Supersonic, which is a jet company, and Ramp, a fintech company, and a couple other startups you probably haven't heard of yet.

12:24Gabe Cooper: Should put out, there's no SpaceX, there's no Anthropic, and there's no investment in OpenAI.

12:29Cody Sanchez: yet. But Nick and I jumped in T-boy style to the prospectus for this new stock, and it did say the word space 19 times and AI 77 times. So Robinhood is hoping to get their hands on some of those red hot private companies before they IPO, probably later this year. Once this thing launches next week, this new fund will invest in at least 10 private companies and no single name will represent more than 20 % of the assets.

12:51Gabe Cooper: Add it all up and basically Robinhood

12:53Cody Sanchez: has created a stock of startups. Now, Nick and I were very interested in how this VC would be packaged and sold to us retail investors. And now we know through an IPO. So Jack, let me just

13:05Gabe Cooper: clarify this for a sec. Publicly traded Robinhood is now creating a new company and using that company to buy stocks in private companies and then IPO-ing that fund to be a publicly traded stock. Which you can buy on Robinhood. I feel like Christopher Nolan, it's finance inception. what is going on, Jack.

13:23Cody Sanchez: You just said what's going on. So next week, they're going to sell 35 million shares of this new Robinhood venture fund to Robinhood users at$25 per share. And then on February 26th, it will begin trading like any other stock. And how is Robinhood going to

13:38Gabe Cooper: make money on this new publicly traded venture capital fund?

13:41Cody Sanchez: By charging a 2 % fee on the holdings.

13:43Gabe Cooper: Yeah. Interestingly, Robinhood is not taking a 20 % share of the profits of the fund, which a venture capitalist would typically do.

13:49Cody Sanchez: But this does represent a big jump in maturity for Robinhood. Yes, it does. From purely transaction-based revenue to recurring fee revenue.

13:56Gabe Cooper: Basically from dating-style revenue to marriage-quality revenue.

14:00Cody Sanchez: And that is why we think it's a mature move for Robinhood. So the stock is going to be RVI, that's the ticker symbol, trading on New York Stock Exchange starting February 26th. Okay, but Jack, what will this stock of startups actually be worth at the end of the day? It should be the sum of the valuations of the private companies that it's invested in. You add up Databricks, Aura stock, Stripe stock,

14:20Gabe Cooper: Revolut stock, that should be the value of this new venture capital stock.

14:24Cody Sanchez: But what it should be worth, it kind of doesn't compute to the retail investor crowd that's trading meme stocks on Robinhood.

14:31Gabe Cooper: Yeah, could this thing go to the moon? And what does that mean? So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies

14:37Cody Sanchez: over at Robinhood? The private stock market is the most exclusive VIP section in finance, but a door just opened for meme traders. Yeah, they just got bottle surface.

14:48Gabe Cooper: Besties, let's talk valuation numbers here. If Robinhood's venture capital fund owns stocks in 10 private companies and each is worth$1 billion, the sum of the shares should be$10 billion.

14:59Cody Sanchez: That's what the valuation should be. But as a publicly traded stock, there's no telling how Robinhood's VC will trade and at what price.

15:08Gabe Cooper: Like Jack, Robinhood's venture capital fund could trade like Tesla. It could be given a way higher price than the underlying profits justify.

15:15Cody Sanchez: Or it could be treated like GameStop, a price completely divorced from the underlying businesses it owns.

15:22Gabe Cooper: Basically, what we're saying is it would be interesting to see if Robinhood's venture capital stock trades at a huge premium to its actual book value.

15:28Cody Sanchez: And if Robinhood's VC becomes a meme stock? Oh boy, mooning over here. I mean, I don't know how that could mess with the whole private capital valuation market. I honestly don't know.

15:39Gabe Cooper: This is Pandora's box. Somebody tells me people will be pretty happy though. Bestie, this stock of startups, It is a first of its kind, and we hope it succeeds. And honestly, we hope Robinhood launches more of them.

15:47Cody Sanchez: Because Nick and I getting a piece of Robinhood stock pre-Robinhood IPO, that was a life-changing moment for the two of us.

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18:21Cody Sanchez: So Stanley's not just pivoting from women to men. Stanley is pivoting to black gym bags for guys who are protein maxing.

18:29Gabe Cooper: Besties, over the last three years, the ultimate female's millennial status symbol was a 40 ounce can that could survive getting run over by a tank. Well, I think you're talking about the Stanley Tumblr. Yes, I am, Jack. Good point.

18:40Cody Sanchez: Saturday Night Live called it the Big Dumb Cup, and I was a little offended because I do have two of them.

18:45Gabe Cooper: Yeah, and it's kind of part of like the Zillennial brand trilogy. You know, it pairs well with a Sephora haul and an SUV. And a Big Dumb Hat. But let's talk numbers yetis, because when we covered Stanley back in 2021, their revenues had jumped 275%. In 2024, they were doing 750 million bucks in revenue. The Rose Court Stanley Quencher basically ran your Pilates studio. But here's the problem, besties. Despite their beautiful new color innovations and collabs with Wicked, Stanley stopped sharing their revenue numbers just last year. Our guess?

19:14Cody Sanchez: Everyone who wanted a Stanley Tumblr got a Stanley Tumblr.

19:18Gabe Cooper: And according to Piper Sandler's famous survey of teen spending habits, Oh Walla is the new Stanley.

19:24Cody Sanchez: So Stanley's decided to pivot to Dudes. Their new product lineup launched this week and it clearly targets guys. Oh, it clearly does.

19:31Gabe Cooper: Here's the question.

19:32Cody Sanchez: Can Stanley become manly? Last week, Nick and I noticed the colors of the tumblers were changing. Jack, is that cup tiger lily red? I'm sorry, is that what that is? No, it's Atlanta Falcons red, Nick.

19:43Gabe Cooper: Ah, that was interesting, but more fascinating is that Stanley has pivoted their whole product lineup.

19:48Cody Sanchez: The product that launched this week is a waterproof tote backpack, a gym bag, and a giant protein shaker.

19:54Gabe Cooper: Each come in a classically female Stanley color, but also come in black, matte black,

19:59Cody Sanchez: and that's what they're advertising. Each bag has a special pocket to hold your new Stanley protein shaker from when you leave the gym.

20:05Gabe Cooper: They're heavy, they're edgy, and it's not just the dark design here, Yetis.

20:08Cody Sanchez: It's also, interestingly, the partnerships.

20:11Gabe Cooper: A couple years ago, they did a floral collaborative cup with Love Shack Fancy. Instead, though, now Stanley's sponsoring

20:17Cody Sanchez: Lionel Messi and Paris' top soccer club. So from style to product to partners, Stanley has injected their product with testosterone. own.

20:24Gabe Cooper: But besties, the most ironic part of this entire story, it's that Stanley launched 113 years ago for working men. And now they're pivoting to working out men. So if you add it up, this is

20:35Cody Sanchez: really Stanley's second pivot. Women made Stanley relevant again, but they need guys to keep it alive.

20:39Gabe Cooper: So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Stanley?

20:43Cody Sanchez: If everyone's a member of the club, Nick, then no one lines up to get in.

20:47Gabe Cooper: Now yet it is possible that Stanley's taking a lesson here from Apple. If you find the right hero product, then just sell accessories for it. Stanley's hero product is the 40 ounce tumbler. And these gym bags, they help you take it on the go. Okay, but what we think is missing is the club element. Can Stanley convince guys that it's exclusive?

21:05Cody Sanchez: Stanley became a status symbol, not because the mug is so expensive, but because that mug was exclusive.

21:11Gabe Cooper: Totally having the latest color style, the crystal coated quencher, you could only get a target that signaled you were on the inside.

21:17Cody Sanchez: But once every woman had a Stanley and they could

21:19Gabe Cooper: be bought anywhere, it didn't feel as special anymore. So, Bastis, the real challenge here isn't selling protein mugs and backpacks to that guy on the go. It's how do you make men feel like

21:30Cody Sanchez: Stanley is a club that they would line up to get into. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday? Colorado is having its worst ski season ever, but snow fences are helping it do more with less snow.

21:44Gabe Cooper: It's a snow bankruptcy, so resorts are realizing they need to be more like baseball. Good season or bad season, fans will pay either way.

21:50Cody Sanchez: For our second story, Robinhood's second IPO is for the People's VC Fund. It's already got Oura Ring and Revolut in there, but no SpaceX or Anthropic yet.

21:59Gabe Cooper: Either way, it's a door into finance's VIP section that anyone can now walk through.

22:03Cody Sanchez: And our third and final story, Stanley's 40-ounce mug is no longer viral,

22:07Gabe Cooper: so they're pivoting to men with black gym gear. From wellness girlies to gym guys, but remember that no one lines up for a club if everyone is already inside. But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, James Dolan, who inherited Madison Square Garden from his dad, owns and controls both the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.

22:29Cody Sanchez: And he announced yesterday that he's considering spinning off the Knicks and the Rangers into two separate publicly traded companies.

22:37Gabe Cooper: I mean, Jack, my chats are blown up on this. We might have a Knicks, Inc. and a Rangers, Inc. publicly traded stocks. What kind of ticker symbol are you thinking here, Puck? Dunk for the Knicks. and I don't know hockey. That's your department. Now we should clarify, MSGE is already a publicly traded company, Madison Square Garden, the publicly traded company, and it already owns both teams.

22:57Cody Sanchez: Second, rent control laws are gaining traction

23:00Gabe Cooper: across America's biggest cities. The news is that Boston's mayor endorsed a statewide cap on rent increases to match inflation. Washington DC passed a rent cap into law last year and New York and LA are moving to do the same. Now, econ theory says that the true solution is to build more homes, but with that not happening right now, rent caps are gaining popularity even if they don't solve the root problem. And finally, Erewhon,

23:22Cody Sanchez: the trendy, pricey grocery store in LA, just launched the world's healthiest smoothie. That is their terms. Their lawyers actually let them say that. Can't believe their lawyers approved it.

23:32Gabe Cooper: Erewhon is famous for the Hailey Bieber smoothie, which Jack and I have indulged in. It was a write-off, but this one is not backed by a celebrity. It's backed by 160 scientists.

23:41Cody Sanchez: According to Erewhon, it has no filler, no aesthetic-only superfoods, looking at you, Cal.

23:46Gabe Cooper: And no shortcuts in the recipe either. Yeah, but like the Haley Beaver smoothie, it costs 25 bucks because like Jack and I have said, when it comes to branding, there's always opportunity in the extremes. Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Catherine Caldwell from lovely Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. And it's one of the many facts that got sent in after we did a story on the profits of martinis.

24:09Cody Sanchez: Shaken or stirred?

24:10Gabe Cooper: Yeah.

24:11Cody Sanchez: In a poll on Spotify, four times more people said they ordered their martini shaken, not stirred.

24:16Gabe Cooper: Okay, but the correct way to order a martini is actually stirred, because it takes longer but tastes smoother as a final product. Several bartenders commented that we got that wrong in our stories. Okay, which leads to the big question. Why does James Bond, the legendary 007, order his martinis shaken instead of stirred? According to the original Ian Fleming novels, it's because he was in a rush. Yeah, you know, someone could kill him. He didn't have time to have a martini stirred.

24:43Cody Sanchez: But he did have time for a martini.

24:46Gabe Cooper: Besties, remember to buy your Girl Scout cookies right now. Load up on those Samoas. And if you haven't yet, tell a buddy, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. That's how we grow the show.

24:55Cody Sanchez: Nick and I, we'll see you tomorrow.

24:56Gabe Cooper: Have you heard the best one yet?

25:03Gabe Cooper: And before we go, a happy sixth birthday to legendary Yeti, Ellington Millinder, the Kindergartener CEO in Burlingame, California.

25:11Cody Sanchez: Happy birthday to Kurt Peters, turning 26 in Pella, Iowa and celebrating with the legendary fiance, Laura.

25:18Gabe Cooper: And Peter Collins, enjoy the best birthday yet over on the Upper West Side.

25:21Cody Sanchez: Enjoy Sillivan cookies. Happy birthday to Sidra Smith in Denver, Colorado.

25:25Gabe Cooper: And Ashley Lundgren, celebrating the big day over in Vegas.

25:29Cody Sanchez: And to Austin Alfaro, you are looking fantastic running into your 31st year over in California.

25:35Gabe Cooper: And Malvika Mayra, enjoy that 23rd birthday in Mumbai, India. Thanks for celebrating with us all the way across the world. Happy anniversary to Melissa and Gilberto Chahides in Aurora, Illinois. And Emily Harrison and Adam Goldblum are closing on a condo in White Plains. The cats are pumped and we are too. Congrats, guys.

25:51Cody Sanchez: Good luck and congratulations to Sean Little and Nick DeFrancesco, who are leading the Pennsylvania DECA State Career Development Conference.

26:00Gabe Cooper: Have a great competition in Hershey. You got this, guys. And thanks for all the HYH-TBOYs.

26:04Cody Sanchez: And congrats to Kavi Mistry, the 14-year-old who's launching a side hustle in the United Kingdom on Etsy. It's called The Printed Craft, 3D printed objects that look incredible. Congrats, Kavi. We love the side hustle.

26:19Cody Sanchez: This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock of Airbnb, Apple, and Robinhood.

26:25Gabe Cooper: Youth mental health is a complex challenge that requires comprehensive solutions. We must strengthen after-school programs. We must make digital literacy tools available in our schools. We must work with mental health professionals to support children. And we must empower mentors, educators, and parents to keep kids happy. Learn more about our commitment to finding lasting solutions at empowerourfuturecoalition.com slash solutions. Paid for by the Coalition to Empower Our Future.