⚡ “God vs GDP” — The Pope’s econ ick. David’s ice cream tease. Robinhood’s AI Butler. +Dude Butts

0:00Bella Hadid: This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, May 28th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy.

0:09David Protein: The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.

0:12Bella Hadid: Mark the calendars.

0:13David Protein: Mark the calendars. Tickets drop tomorrow. San Francisco, Boston, Seattle. Our next three live shows finishing out 2026.

0:21Bella Hadid: We see you Atlanta. We see you Denver. And we see you Europe as well. Yes, we will add you to the list for next year. Although Europe, I'm just going to pencil that in right now. But in the meantime, tomorrow we're dropping the links to our last three live shows of the IPO tour, the in-person offering. You'll be able to get tickets tomorrow.

0:38David Protein: We expect it to sell out, so mark your calendar.

0:40Bella Hadid: Yeah, the links will be in this episode description.

0:43David Protein: But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's team boy.

0:46Bella Hadid: What do we got on the pod?

0:47David Protein: For our first story, Bella Hadid was caught by the paparazzi eating mysterious ice cream on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Because David Protein perfected the tease. For our second story, Robin Hood is letting an AI agent take over your account and execute trades autonomously for you.

1:04Bella Hadid: And it's letting you make AI an authorized spender on your credit card.

1:08David Protein: And our third and final story is the Pope. He wrote 42 ,000 words about AI and it was hugely economic. The Pope. He wants to delete GDP. He's got a GDP ick. And the only prescription is some dignity. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories,

1:25Bella Hadid: no one else is doing that mix.

1:26David Protein: Love the mix on the show, Jack. There's nothing bigger right now than man butts. Literally, you're going to see it at the water cooler, guys. Guys' glutes are huge right now. According to the Wall Street Journal, men are prioritizing strong glutes over any other body part. It's big male butt energy, and the demand is soaring. And this is a surprise, as historically, guys have focused on pecs, byes, tris, and maybe washboard abs. But in the meantime, hip thrusts are now for him. Equinox says male bookings to its best butt ever class are up 17 % this year.

1:58Bella Hadid: Lifetime Health Club reported a surge in men at the glute trainings.

2:02David Protein: You want more receipts? We got them in our back pocket, but I can't pull out the receipt, Nick, because my butt's so huge these days.

2:08Bella Hadid: According to Whoop, over the last 24 months, man booty workouts have doubled.

2:12David Protein: What we're saying is man squatting is soaring.

2:15Bella Hadid: Yeah, we're getting all-time highs as you go to all-time lows. One gym in Los Angeles had to add three new glute machines because of demand from dudes. There were dudes lining up out the door.

2:25David Protein: Now, one reason for this is it's actually fascinating. Have you noticed the number of nude men on screen? Especially like full, not full frontal, full, full backle? Yeah, full backle. It's Hollywood, White Lotus, Sopper, and heated rivalry, anyone? Oh, heated rivalry. Don't even get me started. Also, the longevity and wellness obsession of our society, that's pushing butts. The butt cheeks are the muscles that help you live better and live longer. Yeah, these bison tries was the gym routine of dudes when Nick and I were in college. Jack, what are jocks now telling other jocks over at the gym? Squeeze their cheeks like they're trying to crack a walnut.

2:56Bella Hadid: Best, these biceps are out, butt cheeks are in. Welcome to the dude booty economy. Let's squeeze our three stories. Let's hit them, Jack. Fifteen years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a 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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4:24Bella Hadid: Monarch. All right, Yetis, you're never going to be able to guess how many accounts Jack has linked to Monarch. 31. Are there even that many financial products out there? Yetis, he's got credit cards, checking accounts, brokerage accounts, retirement accounts. 529 college savings accounts for each kid and my nieces and nephews, Nick.

4:41David Protein: Okay, I'm rounding up. Does that get us to 31? Where are we? Don't forget my mortgage, my house, the car I own. They're all linked and all their values in Monarch.

4:49Bella Hadid: You see, besties, Jack actually linked everything to Monarch one year ago during a little bit of spring cleaning.

4:54David Protein: Until I used Monarch, I had a very messy, very chaotic spreadsheet, but now they're clean, synced, and automatic.

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5:32Bella Hadid: For our first story, David Protein has been hinting at its next big thing for months. So Jack and I are finally putting together the clues. Here it is. Protein ice cream.

5:44David Protein: Because the newest marketing is the breadcrumb trail.

5:49Bella Hadid: Yeti's Michelangelo's most famous art took a half a millennium to actually go viral. And it went viral finally in the form of a protein bar. David, eat this peanut butter flavored protein bar, grow a third bicep like a tasteful Renaissance nude.

6:02David Protein: $725 million valuation. This business is growing so fast, you gotta give it a piss test, Nick. Protein maxing has become the brand's identity. We covered David most recently after it survived the Regina George gate.

6:16Bella Hadid: They got accused of having twice as

6:17David Protein: much fat, but they didn't. Because its key protein ingredient is so innovative, it broke the nutritional label.

6:22Bella Hadid: But besties, pause the pod because here's the big question everyone in the consumer package Good Space is asking right now. What's David Barr's next big thing? And we're not talking about the codfish. Can't be another seafood, guys. We gotta remix things. Well,

6:35David Protein: Well, in October, we saw clue number one. A reporter from Fortune Magazine got to visit David's lab in downtown Manhattan.

6:40Bella Hadid: And they were sworn to secrecy on the ingredients, but in the article, we noticed a reference to trying a bite of ice cream.

6:46David Protein: In March, we saw clue number two. A big truck in California was spotted with a pint of David Barr ice cream on the back of the truck.

6:54Bella Hadid: Like a regular old-fashioned delivery truck, but with a cookie dough ice cream pint on the side and David's logo.

6:59David Protein: Another tractor trailer truck had a jacked cow on it, also with the David Barr logo.

7:05Bella Hadid: We repeat, a muscle-bound cow like Arnold Schwarzenegger with an udder.

7:09David Protein: And what do cows produce? Dairy. What's in ice cream? Dairy. But the wildest hint yet was yesterday, and we're calling it clue number three.

7:18Bella Hadid: It includes a model, a yacht, and paparazzi photos. You see, Besties Vogue magazine posted a picture on Instagram of Bella Hadid, the model sitting on a yacht in Saint-Tropez, holding a pint of David ice cream. Bestie's unclear if David Barr paid her for this, but we are certain they sent it to her. And our guess? They leaked that it was happening to the paparazzi. In one of the pictures, she is spoon-feeding a buddy of hers a taste of this stuff. Who happens to be another gorgeous model, by the way. But yet there is one other final clue that wasn't clear to anyone else, and we haven't seen this reported anywhere.

7:53Bella Hadid: That's because I just Googled it.

7:54David Protein: Yeah. I Googled David ice cream right before this pod, and the first hit on Google is a website from David. Okay, but that's not the full story, is it, Jack? No, you click the link that says David Ice Cream, and it's a 404 error. It's like they forgot to clean up their digital footprints when they took this website link down.

8:11Bella Hadid: Or did they? Is it a mistake, or is it a conspiracy? It's like Larry David's accidental text on purpose. Now, Yetis, add it all up, and CEO Peter Rahal, who we've interviewed on the show, he's only mentioned the word ice cream once publicly by our account.

8:26David Protein: And hasn't acknowledged any of these clues.

8:27Bella Hadid: But Jack, he doesn't have to, and why is that? Searches for David spike on Google each time one of these clues is revealed. We check Google Trends, and each hint is leading to more David interest. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at David Bar Maybe Ice Cream? It's the breadcrumb trail of launch marketing. You see, Yeti's luxury companies build demand by manufacturing product scarcity.

8:53David Protein: Hermes makes fewer bags, Ferrari barely makes any cars, and De Beers, they control the supply of diamonds.

8:58Bella Hadid: But David is revealing that you can treat info the same way. Manufacture information scarcity.

9:04David Protein: What's happening with David Ice Cream is more than a typical marketing tease because of the informality of these leaks.

9:09Bella Hadid: They're generating earned media in ways official teases from the company's Instagram just wouldn't generate.

9:15David Protein: Yeti's the typical marketing playbook is to announce a launch, share pictures exclusively with one reporter, and then let that reporter interview the CEO. But David's playbook is a mystery truck, a secret reporter test, and then a paparazzi surprise. With one model feeding another model ice cream by the spoon.

9:30Bella Hadid: Plus an accidental SEO link on Google, but on purpose. It's a series of drips, not a single drip.

9:36David Protein: They didn't tease this launch. They leaked it on purpose.

9:39Bella Hadid: One breadcrumb at a time. Like Hansel and Gretel. Because besties, the more info you control, the more hype you can build. It wasn't Hansel and Gretel. It was Bella and Gigi. Jack and I call it the breadcrumb trail of launch marketing. For our second story, Robinhood is letting AI agents trade and make credit card purchases

10:02David Protein: on your behalf. Which begs a new AI question we'll all eventually face. How long is your AI's leash?

10:09Bella Hadid: The AI butler is here. Besties, two weeks ago, we covered a popular story by the Wall Street Journal entitled, I Let ChatGPT Manage My Stock Portfolio. We called it Wolf of Claude Street, and AI was a pretty decent portfolio manager.

10:24David Protein: How's your portfolio, Greg? I don't know, ask the robot. It's quite strong. But that was theoretical. You asked ChatGPT for investing advice, which you can act on or not act on.

10:32Bella Hadid: But here's the news. Robinhood just launched Agentic Trading, letting you link your chatbot to Robinhood so it can be your own personal 24-7 robo-trader.

10:42David Protein: Here's how it works. You open up a separate account and fund it with whatever money you're comfortable with, and then you let AI run with an investing strategy that you approve.

10:50Bella Hadid: Like, hey, here's$10 ,000. I'm a risk-tolerant guy. Goal is to double my money by chasing trends that you see on Reddit. Go.

10:58David Protein: Or here's$100. I hate volatility. I'm not seeking, like, much risk. Invest only in profitable companies in the S &P 500. Try to beat the market, but again, don't lose my money.

11:07Bella Hadid: You can even say, like, only companies headquartered in the New England region. That would be a strange prompt, but yeah, you could do that. But then Robinhood would let you manage the notifications for your robo-trader.

11:19David Protein: You could get updates every time it makes a trade, or you could say, I don't want updates. I'm going to stick my head in the sand and check back in a year.

11:25Bella Hadid: Either way, this innovation is like a Waymo of money. But besties, pause the pod because this is what Jack and I find even more fascinating. Robinhood also created a Gentic credit card for Roboshopping. Sit down, stand up, and turn over the plastic besties. Robinhood, to sprinkle on some context, launched their first credit card last year.

11:45David Protein: 800 ,000 users are swiping so far. Now, you can connect an AI agent as an authorized spender for that Robinhood credit card. Basically, let it go full Mary Poppins on your lifestyle. You set a budget, you set your shopping instructions, and then you let the AI shop till she never drops.

12:03Bella Hadid: Because she will never drop. Like, you could give your agent a list of desired meals, and then they would order groceries on Instacart with the Robinhood card without you knowing.

12:12David Protein: If you're a sneakerhead, you can tell the agent to buy a new Nike release in your size whenever it drops below$300 on the platforms.

12:19Bella Hadid: Jack, you know, next time we're in New York, we're trying to go to San Sabino, but it's like impossible to get a reservation.

12:24David Protein: So what would you do here? You could tell your AI in the Robinhood credit card app to snag the reservation when it becomes available.

12:30Bella Hadid: You just got to hope, S.E., that your personal Robinhood shopper is more Pam Beasley, less Dwight Schrute, right, Jack? And start compiling a Battlestar Galactica collectible collection. Not a good look. You don't have that conversation with a robot at any point.

12:44David Protein: Before this, we could already ask AI to give us price alerts and tell us when stuff becomes available to purchase online.

12:49Bella Hadid: But then we had to order it ourselves, and that was a burden.

12:53David Protein: This new Robinhood feature eliminates any friction. It lets the AI buy it, which is faster than a human possibly could.

13:00Bella Hadid: So add it all up, and Robinhood's robo traders and shoppers could grow their business, and that's what investors think too.

13:05David Protein: The stock popped 2 % yesterday.

13:07Bella Hadid: But we should point out this is also a risk to Robinhood because this is agentic commerce.

13:12David Protein: If AI takes over our purchasing decisions, then brands don't matter anymore. The AI just finds the lowest price. Do you care if it's a Robinhood trader or a Schwab trader if it's just trading on your behalf without you knowing? Brands are concerned about it. Robinhood's rushing into it, but others are hoping agentic commerce never comes. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies

13:29Bella Hadid: over at Robinhood? How long is your AI leash? Yetis, by this time next year, Jack and I want to make a bet that you won't be just asking an AI chatbot questions like you do Google search style.

13:42David Protein: No, you'll probably have at least one AI agent, a bot that independently does work on your computer for you 24 seven. But a year from now, here's the big question you're gonna face. How much slack do you give that bot to act on your behalf? For AI agents at work, you might give it a lot of slack. Go do my spreadsheets overnight. I'll check it out in the morning. If you make a mistake, my boss is encouraging me to use AI so he'll understand.

14:03Bella Hadid: And for no risk functional tasks, you'll also probably give it a lot of slack.

14:07David Protein: Yeah, go fight for my refund from Delta. Take as long as you need. If you take six hours, that's still worth it. No cost to me. But Jack, what about managing your money? An AI agent could lose all your money in one stupid trade or rack up a huge grocery bill that you didn't ask for because of a hallucination. I'm sorry, robot. What's all this Wagyu beef we suddenly got delivered for 700 bucks? When your money's at stake and AI's mistakes cost you something, the AI is going to have to earn your trust.

14:33Bella Hadid: So the trust challenge that we'll all face is how much latitude, how much leeway, how much discretion we're going to give the bots. It's the AI leash question. How much slack do you give your bot? Let us know in the comments, Jack and I. We'll see you after the break. Now, a quick word from our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by Built, the intelligent finance platform that helps businesses scale with proven results. Look, Yeti's paying and getting paid. That is a pain for small and medium businesses out there. Did you send the invoice? Did they see it? Did you remember to remind them to remember to pay it?

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16:53Bella Hadid: For our third and final story, in a 42 ,000 word encyclical, we'll explain that in a moment, The first American pope had a message for the world. The pope disagrees with GDP. Ah, the encyclical.

17:08David Protein: Who says ah, the encyclical? This is the first time anyone in the world has seen or read or said the word encyclical. Can you whip up a definition for us over there, please, Jack? It's like an open letter to the world from the pope.

17:19Bella Hadid: Yeah, and the latest one from the pope was entitled Magnifica Humanitas.

17:23David Protein: Which I think means magnificent humanity in English. Yeah. Although there's a Latin major in the comments who's going to call me out right now. I like the SAT flex. Besties at 42 ,000 words. Pope Leo is getting full credit for the word count on this thing. 42 ,000 words is twice as long as Metamorphosis, the famous novel from Franz Kafka.

17:42Bella Hadid: Jack, 42 ,000 words is five and a half U.S. constitutions long. If you include all of the amendments. All of them. This thing was written in all six languages that the Pope speaks, plus Arabic. Although it wasn't published in Latin, even though the Pope speaks Latin. No-It-Us was not-It-Us, Jack. And the focus was all about artificial intelligence.

18:02David Protein: And you see on the spectrum of Doomer to Optimist, the Pope, well, he's alarmed. He's alarmed that our leaders are only hoping for the gains of AI and not preparing for the potential losses.

18:11Bella Hadid: Here's what he said on truth, that disinformation didn't begin with AI, yet today it finds a powerful amplifier in AI.

18:18David Protein: Here's what the Pope said about war. He called for an international ban of fully autonomous lethal weapons.

18:23Bella Hadid: And here's what he said on social media. Well, he trashed the algorithms that reward polarization, basically. And he called on policymakers to help parents keep their kids off phones. But at the end of the day, the core theme out of the Vatican is that AI is like the Tower of Babel.

18:38David Protein: I think it was that AI could be like the Tower of Babel. If we humans get too ambitious, God will strike us down. It's a story of hubris building too high, too fast, and the whole thing falling apart. But what Nick and I find most interesting is that the American Pope is telling Americans that our economic religion is basically wrong.

18:56Bella Hadid: He's got to call out the economists on this one. Because for 80 years, one economic stat has made us Americans feel like we're winning, baby.

19:05David Protein: GDP. Gross domestic product. But the Pope says we're not winning.

19:09Bella Hadid: So Jack, pause the pod for a sec. What really is GDP besides a nice acronym?

19:14David Protein: GDP is an economic calculation of both what we as a country spend and what we as a country receive as income.

19:21Bella Hadid: And by that measure, we're number one, China's number two, and Japan and Germany come right behind a three and four. But the Pope says GDP is broken

19:28David Protein: as a North Star of measuring economic wellness.

19:30Bella Hadid: Basically, it gives them an ick worse

19:32David Protein: than the Chicago Cubs do. And to explain why, Nick and I are giving our own example. We're looking at data centers.

19:37Bella Hadid: We were curious what he meant by this, and we think we see with data centers, you know, because tech companies are spending a trillion dollars this year on these things.

19:44David Protein: And that one trillion dollars of data centers adds to our GDP. But does anyone actually benefit from all that GDP? People do benefit.

19:52Bella Hadid: NVIDIA benefits and their shareholders benefit from this huge splurge on data centers.

19:56David Protein: And so do the profits and the shareholders of the entire AI supply chain.

20:00Bella Hadid: But from the Povus' perspective, the other 99%, they're not benefiting from all these data centers.

20:04David Protein: For everyone else, these data centers mean higher electricity prices, increased risk of job displacement if you're a white-collar worker, oh, and maybe some surveillance capitalism that'll jack up the price of us. But besties, in the BAI era, the before AI era, GDP did make sense as a measure of economic wellness. Spending at restaurants on one side of GDP became income for the farmers, the cooks, and the waiters on the other side of GDP.

20:29Bella Hadid: That was a good measurement of wellness. But after decades of companies minimizing the labor costs, GDP is now more of a measure of profit.

20:36David Protein: And markets don't distribute profit equally, not by a long shot. AI could make that even more extreme.

20:42Bella Hadid: So, if the Pope says that GDP ain't a good measurement, then Jack, what should we be measuring? We should be measuring dignity, according to this Pope from Chicago. So Jack, I got a confession to make. I'm ready for the takeaway. What's the takeaway for our buddies who aren't in heaven, A.I. be their name? UBI is not the solution. Meaningful work is. Yetis, the Pope did not call for specific replacements to GDP. He just gave moral direction here.

21:11David Protein: But we can tell what he thinks needs to be measured. It's dignity. The word dignity. He mentioned the word dignity 107 times in this document.

21:19Bella Hadid: And those 42 ,000 words, the Pope said, it is through their work that individuals develop many dimensions of their existence.

21:26David Protein: He also said, a lack of responsibility in the absence of daily tasks results in human and cultural impoverishment. This guy's not a fan of bedrock.

21:34Bella Hadid: So interestingly, the Pope's big policy wish for governments, It's specifically to retrain workers before unemployment hits. Because unemployment, according to the Pope, is a grave evil. Interestingly, he's not calling for giving away money or distributing AI dividends or universal basic income, as many have called for in the AI age. Because without work, humans are missing part of their dignity. The dignity. Besties, over the last year, the Catholic Church has emerged as the shocking policy guru on AI.

22:04David Protein: And the Pope's pitch? It's to stop using GDP as our measurement of economic success, and that UBI alone ain't the solution meaningful work is. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday? David Protein is about to launch ice cream, we know, because of the trail of intentional leaks. The new marketing launch hack, leave breadcrumbs.

22:24Bella Hadid: We'll eat them up like Hansel and Gretel.

22:26David Protein: For our second story, Robinhood launched agentic trading and agentic spending. Let your AI manage your portfolio and shop with your credit card.

22:34Bella Hadid: But the next personal question for AI, it's how long is your AI's leash?

22:39David Protein: And our third and final story, the Pope laid out moral guidance for how we should handle AI, and he trashed GDP.

22:44Bella Hadid: UBI alone ain't the solution, because meaningful work is a core part of human dignity. But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. Oh boy, we got a new entrant in the 10-year fried chicken wars.

22:58David Protein: This time, it's shockingly, Chipotle. Chipotle is testing a crispy fried chicken as a protein option at select restaurants in California.

23:05Bella Hadid: See, beef prices are so high, Chipotle is flirting with a fry-olator for the first time

23:10David Protein: ever in the biz. But like guac, fried chicken is a bit extra. A buck 25 extra.

23:14Bella Hadid: And second, remember last week Everlane sold to Shein, America's sustainable pioneer, sold to China's fast fashion?

23:21David Protein: Well, here's a wild detail. Everlane's founder didn't know. They found out the same way we did in the news headlines.

23:27Bella Hadid: Okay, even wilder, that Everlane founder, Michael Prisman, is already making moves on a new competitor to his old company. He announced this week he's launching a new company that's basically Everlane 2.0, but it's called Still Radical. And finally, America's World Cup team is officially set. The final roster has been revealed for next month's tournament.

23:48David Protein: The problem isn't the roster, Nick. It's how the roster was revealed. Because the players who didn't make the cut, they were notified over email.

23:56Bella Hadid: Just like Zuck, Oracle, and all the big tech companies these days, the U.S. men's national team basically fired the players who didn't make the team over email.

24:04David Protein: Our coach, who's from Argentina, by the way, vigorously defended this move of letting the players go via email.

24:11Bella Hadid: Classic boomer line, like, this happened to me, so it's going to happen to you. Now time for the best fact yet. This one's sent in by Nathan Kai Kendall from lovely Tulsa, Oklahoma. Push and play. What's up, Yetis? did you know looking slightly beside a star can actually make it appear brighter? That's because the macula, your central point of vision in your eye, is packed with cones which see detail and color. However, the rest of the retina also contains rods which are more sensitive to brightness and motion. So the next time you're on that dark sky vacay, look just next to the star and it's going to look a little more bright.

24:50Bella Hadid: We do one star on the dark sky vacation trend. We got like half a dozen facts from the Yetis on this thing. Unreal. So the takeaway is don't look directly at the sun. Don't look directly at the stars either. Your next summer vacation is probably Arizona. Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Jack, you are glowing and so is our third co-host, your butt. You mean our third and fourth co-hosts.

25:16David Protein: Oh, the big guy booty economy. I mean, it is blowing up right now, besties. You know, half the time I try on new jeans, I can't even get them past my thighs. I didn't hear you. I was on the squat rack. What was that, Jack? Yeah, it is. If you've got a buddy who's, the real heated rivalry is between my left cheek and my right.

25:34Bella Hadid: I'm always being impressed if you can get one side bigger than the other. That's a story for another pod. Send it to your buddy who's squatting right now, and Jack and I will see you tomorrow.

25:46Bella Hadid: And before we go, a happy 51st birthday to legendary Yeti Leanne Darmanin in Melbourne, Australia. Happy birthday to Rotimi, the human encyclopedia who's celebrating their Geburtstag in Berlin, Germany. And Frank Eichenberry is turning five years old on the way to school over in Fydeville, Arkansas. Great to have you with us, Frank. Nick, Frank is rolling his eyes right now. It's Fayetteville. We got you, Frank. And Fersey Nunaez from Middletown, New York, from the Snacks Light Daily Days, is turning 27 and celebrating the wins. Happy birthday to Nicole Lawson, turning 29 in St. Louis. And Ezekiel Hernandez, the fifth-grade basketball star of Europa Valley, California, is celebrating the best birthday yet.

26:27Bella Hadid: Happy birthday to Caleb Myers of Dallas, Texas. And Joaquin Romero's got a 36th birthday in Junín, Argentina. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the glutes, uh, the wins.

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