TBPN - Open AI Acquires TBPN, Artemis II, The AI-Built $1.8B Company | Diet TBPN

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 We have some huge news. This is from the OpenAI blog. Open AI acquires TBPN, accelerating the global conversation about AI. This is not an April Fool's joke. April Fool's was yesterday. We didn't do anything for April Fool's Day. This is real. This is a very interesting deal. I think a lot of people will be interested in this. We're very excited about this. We have a bunch of context and information to share about how this changes things, what changes, what doesn't. I'm sure there's a million questions. We're going to try and get to them all. But then we also have a huge normal show. We got Mark Lour. That's the first thing that's not changing. TBPN's not going away. We're going to be live every day, three hours as long as we want. We have a lot of flexibility. We're going to do a lot of interesting things. If you are calling me right now, I can't pick up because I'm live. Yeah, I think you know.
Starting point is 00:00:50 Yeah, I think it might be time to turn off the phones. I think, yes, it might be time to turn off the phones. Yeah, very, very strange. I think this is maybe the first time in history. There's been a deal like this. two people that are a part of it have to go and talk for three hours straight, but it's technology, business, as usual, over here. We're very excited about the Artemis II mission going successfully. Hopefully you all watched it. It was a lot of fun. We were watching it here on the screen, and we were gripped as the rocket took off because
Starting point is 00:01:17 it's been so long. We were so locked in. We were joking around that it felt like it should have been a pay-per-view. Could we turn space into a profit center for the government? Somebody was saying that it was not entertaining. I was extremely entertained. I don't know. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Maybe they could do more, but I thought. NASA has a decent e-commerce business too. We were watching, they were selling like 10,000 patches a minute or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we were doing the back of the envelope. Just from the main call to action at the bottom of the YouTube stream, they were selling a patch for, I don't know, tens of dollars and they'd sold like hundreds of thousands of them. So as we were watching, they were selling like something like $10 million worth of merch.
Starting point is 00:01:53 So maybe go get some for yourself. Anyway, let's go over to PGCMO's post on the open. I blog. She shared this message with the company earlier today. She says, I'm excited to share that we've acquired TBPN. This acquisition brings a team with strong editorial instincts, deep audience understanding, and proven ability to convene influential voices across tech, business, and culture. That's... I'm still going to be hitting the soundboard. Yeah, you are. TBPN has built something pretty special. It's one of the places where the conversations about AI and builders is actually happening day to day. A lot of the people. of you already watch it and rely on it to stay close to what's going on as I've been thinking about the future of how we communicate in open AI one thing that's become clear is that the standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us we're not a typical company we're driving a really big technological shift and the mission of bringing uh and with the mission of bringing
Starting point is 00:02:49 a GI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for real constructive conversation about the changes AI creates with builders and people using the technology at the center and that's exactly what TBPN is built which is I was gonna say is the next line that is a huge part of the show is making sense of what's going on how these tools are actually being used all of the implications we've gone all over the place and we will continue to go all over the place yeah and over the last year like you know multiple years there's just been some there's so much uncertainty about AI yeah I don't think we can change that
Starting point is 00:03:22 yeah but there's also a lot of fear and just talking through it with the people that are actually helping diffuse AI through the economy across every single industry is something that we've enjoyed a tremendous amount and is exactly what we're going to continue to do. If you want to continue. Yeah, so she says, so rather than trying to recreate that ourselves, it made a lot of sense just to bring them in, support what they're doing and help them scale while keeping what makes them special. A core part of this is editorial independence. We can say whatever we want because we're live and we don't need to run anything through anyone.
Starting point is 00:03:57 not possible. It would be very difficult to have somebody here. Can we say this? I'm about to say a sentence. TBPN will continue to run their programming, choose their own guests, and make their own editorial decisions. That's foundational to their credibility, and it's something we're explicitly protecting as part of this agreement. And also, we were never in the scoop industry. People were kind of asking, like, is this journalism? Is it commentary? I think we've always been like, hey, we like to talk to a lot of people, have a conversation, bring in people all over the place. Yeah, and even when companies have approached us and said, we'll give you the exclusive. We don't. Yeah, we'll say, give it to somebody else.
Starting point is 00:04:29 It's like, hey, you can come on the show. We got a golden scoop more. We actually want you to go talk to the journal or the Times or Bloomberg, wherever you want to go. And then come and contextualize it with us and let us dig in and understand more about the strategy. And so, TBPN will continue running their programming, choose their guests, and make their own editorial decisions. That's foundational to their credibility and something we're explicitly protecting as part of this agreement.
Starting point is 00:04:52 I'm also excited to bring their amazing comms and marketing instincts to the team. We got lots of ideas, and we're very excited for this. They've helped many brands market online, and because they have a strong pulse on where the industry is going, their comms and marketing ideas have really impressed. Did you see him out me? I can't wait to leverage their talent outside of the show to innovate on how we bring AI to the world
Starting point is 00:05:14 in a way that helps people understand the full impact of this technology on their daily lives. TBPN will sit within our strategy organization, reporting to Chris Lahane, really excited to welcome Jordy, John, Dylan, and the broader team. And here's a statement from you. Do you want to read this?
Starting point is 00:05:29 What did you say? Over the past year, we've had a front row seat, not just to Open AI, but to the entire ecosystem covering the daily news announcements and launches in real time. While we've been critical of the industry at times after getting to know Sam, Fiji, and the Open AI team,
Starting point is 00:05:42 what stood out the most was their openness to feedback and commitment to getting this right. Moving from commentary to real impact in how this technology is distributed and understood globally is incredibly important to us. contextualize it a little bit more shared. You know, a lot of people are like, is this an April Fool's joke? I've been saying expect the unexpected. This is a plot twist. I'll give you that. It was unexpected. It was unexpected to me, but I'm really happy about it. And when I reflect on my
Starting point is 00:06:08 career, it's, I think it makes a lot of sense. And I can walk you through some of my career in my experience with Open AI and with Sam Altman. I've known Sam for maybe 13 years. He invested in my first company in 2013. And then we got in a really serious logjam during a financing. And And I wrote him an email. I told this story in Bloomberg a couple of years ago. I wrote him an email and said, hey, this is getting really rough. I'm a first-time founder. I don't know if we're going to be able to get this done.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And he called me, and we hopped on the phone for like five minutes. And he was able to completely resolve everything, and everyone walked out of the deal feeling pretty good. And so that always left this impression on me that he was founder friendly. Obviously he didn't, in this particular case, it was to my benefit, not particularly to his benefit, the way the deal, like, wound out. And he was just a great addition to the negotiation and really. And you were very young at the time.
Starting point is 00:07:04 You were just a wee lad. I was. You were about 23, 24 or something like that. Yeah. And then when I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time. And then when I joined Founders Fund, the very first deal that I saw in motion at Founders Fund was the post-Chatsypte round in OpenAI in late 2020, early 2020. And so I sort of had this like front row seat to all of this and then once we actually started growing
Starting point is 00:07:31 TBPN he was one of the first people that I texted to you know say hey do you want to come on the show And he was the first lab lead to come on the show and we're excited to continue having him on the show Hopefully have other lab leads on the show have other people from all over the industry and just generally I think that When I was at Founders Fund, I was not particularly in the weeds of Intra venture capital fights I was much more interested in the conversation around technological stagnation, not funding companies, not making great companies happen. I never was in a situation where I was like, oh, like, if a different VC firm backs a great company, that's bad, you know? And I think that's the same philosophy that I have always
Starting point is 00:08:13 taken forward and will continue to believe in, which is that the American AI industry is the most important thing, and that will continue to be the case. And I'm excited for all the different competition and everything that's happening in the industry to continue and push further. Jordy, did you have anything else to say? I just wanted to say some thank yous because a lot of people have been a part of this journey to date. It's been, I think, something like, let me do the math here, 496 days, roughly 16 months since we put out the first episode.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Yeah. It was just the two of us and Ben sitting in a room, couple cameras. a couple microphones, and I will just say I didn't know this special of a business relationship was possible between you and me. Yeah. Like, I think, like, if you look back on that almost 500 days, we've had disagreements around strategy or approaches or things like that, but we have, like, almost universally stayed perfectly aligned on everything that matters every single day, every step of the way.
Starting point is 00:09:22 And I think that's somewhat of a miracle. given that we went into this, not really knowing what it would become. Yeah, we did, like, one side project together, and it took, like, eight months, and it was, like, not, it was, like, successful, but it was not, like, oh, yeah, like, okay. We were, we were working together daily four months, you know. Yeah. It was a lot of just, just jumping and leap of faith, right? Yeah, and I think we've got this question so many times, like, do you guys get sick of each other? You know, you just have to talk to each other for three hours a day, and, like, I've said this before, I'll say it again.
Starting point is 00:09:54 And it is actually hilarious. The second that we leave the office, we both get in the car, we call each other, we end up talking for like another hour on the way home. And so it's just been the privilege of a lifetime to just build this business with you. And the whole team, the team has been absolutely incredible. You guys are all truly amazing.
Starting point is 00:10:22 And this very much is. is a this very much is a team like a team sport like business is a team sport but this is like a live team sport we come in here every single day and the show doesn't happen if we don't all come in and and make it happen and so the consistency of the team has been just incredible and watching everyone's individual talents just flourish has been incredible a lot of people came into this you know having done a thing or two in the past but learning new things. Brandon has been absolutely incredible.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Just an absolute rock in the organization. Brandon, if you're not familiar, writes our newsletter every day and is just remarkably consistent and has like, you know, helped us shape our editorial approach. And it's been incredible. Dylan, who joined us, I guess, technically Q4 of last year. You know, I'd worked with him at my last company,
Starting point is 00:11:24 but is truly, truly one of a kind, remarkable. I never want to do business without him. And he has just done such an exceptional job. Working off air, it's like, you know, challenging when you're building a company and you're also having to put on a live performance for three hours every day. He wrote the newsletter yesterday. That's true. That's true.
Starting point is 00:11:47 The op-ed. Ben, who's been here since day one. Before TBPN, he was working with me on my YouTube channel. When did we start working New York? I was here before Jordy. Yeah. Maybe like mid-2020-4 maybe, something like that. Sounds right.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Yeah. I've just fun videos. Yeah, we traveled a lot, a lot of Pelican cases. No, but it's been absolutely incredible to watch you grow from an extremely talented individual and too very capable and talented manager and building out a team of people that are so hardworking and wonderful. And Michael, Scott, Jackson, you guys, you know, are so, you know, such a joy to work with,
Starting point is 00:12:36 even though what we do is not easy and it's changing, you know, day to day. To all the guests, seriously, it's been so much fun. Like if you went back and rewound to the beginning of the show, to, we started with no guess. We did something like 50 episodes without any guess. We thought that there was a time that we thought we would just do that forever.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Because that was the only thing that was, you know, really unique about the show. Like, that's the reason I started creating content in 2020. Because it was during COVID, there were no events. There were no places to meet other founders, meet other business people. I wasn't thinking of it as like a media business. I was thinking of it as like a way to just have conversations and meet other. people who are building companies and now we get to do that all day long which is just yeah yeah so many so many guests have turned into to dear friends yeah you know
Starting point is 00:13:31 the the Joe Wisenthals the Dylan Patels there's there's really too many to list but we will have you all back on the show so I can't wait to everybody that's tuned in whether you've watched you know the RSS feed the live show the clips the newsletter laughing you know we've strived to to create the right product regardless of how much time you have. If you have two minutes a day, to read the newsletter, great. If you've got five minutes to watch some clips, if you want to watch the entire podcast, if you want to watch Diet TBPN, the Daily Cutdown,
Starting point is 00:14:07 thank you. Thank you for tuning in. And fortunately, pretty much everything is going to stay exactly the same. To our one and only Tyler. Tyler, Tyler, you are truly incredible, one of the brightest young people I've ever worked with, and you have such a bright future. You know, we always knew that I've felt from the very beginning that you would go on to start your own company, and we cherish every single minute that we have with you.
Starting point is 00:14:44 And we're going to do our very best to retain you for decades. But thank you for everything you've brought to the show. Everything you've built, Tyler, if you're just tuning in now, is built all of the internal software that we used to run the show. It's insane stuff. It is a fully custom content management system, CRM. It helps us edit all of our videos. It is the backbone of the show.
Starting point is 00:15:10 It's a tool that the entire team, uses on a daily basis and truly the show would not be possible without it. And yeah, your contributions on air as well. It's amazing. It's so much fun to be able to cut over to you. And so it is with great honor that I give you this soundboard. And our sponsors, we can start with the ramp team, Eric, Eric Karim and the whole team over there has just been incredible.
Starting point is 00:15:53 They allowed us at the beginning, sorry, the end of 2024 when we had started doing the show, we really loved it. They were, they committed to sponsoring the show for a year and that allowed us to do so much in terms of investing in all the equipment that we use, hiring people. They made it possible and have been truly, truly exceptional partners. and watching ramps growth over the last couple years has just been phenomenal and they deserve all the success. And every other sponsor that has been a part of this.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Yeah, truly. Shout out Nick as well. Oh, did he not get one? Oh, we gotta get a direct shout out for Nick. We got to get a direct shout out for Nick. We don't know what to call Nick. We can't give his name on air because he'll get 10 times more emails. He, man, the lineup every day is,
Starting point is 00:16:46 is crafted by Nick. He is our liaison to 99% of the guests that come on the show. Sometimes it starts with an interaction over X or a text message or there's other intermediaries involved. There's a lot that goes into actually getting someone into the waiting room, into the show, making sure that they understand how the show will work. It's sort of like you're hot dropping into this live show. That's new for a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:17:12 And Nick does a great job communicating and part all the noise to understand what the best news of the day is, how we can contextualize it best with the optimal guests. And he's done a fantastic job. And we'll continue. It's an honor. David Senra. Yeah. One of a kind. He literally inspired us to grind harder. Yeah, David was our very first listener that I'm aware of. He gets sent a lot of podcasts. We sent a link in a Google Drive. And he listened. And from that first episode, even though it was very scrappy, he said, take this, take this, you know, a hundred times more seriously than, than you are right now.
Starting point is 00:17:56 And we did. And it's the best advice that I've ever gotten. And he has been. And we have a picture of framed. We couldn't print it full size. And in the fears that it was printed on a black and white photo printer. But it's a black and white photo. And he's a black and white brand.
Starting point is 00:18:10 So thank you to David Senn. who's been the podcast Godfather truly and the gong but you have the gong the chat is asking us to hit the gong we have to we have to the gong will remain the gong will remain uh willmanitis has already chimed in with his take he says many guy many people are saying we're in the deal guy yuga many are saying and it means a lot that will minitis the only he is the only guest who has co-hosted a full show from start to fin with us. And if you want to go back in the archives, you can watch that episode. It's a wild one. It was in a hotel room. We had yet to figure out the remote shows fully. The team worked really
Starting point is 00:18:58 hard to make that one happen. Very chaotic. Good time. Very chaotic. Is there anything else to say about opening? I mean, of course, we'll be in conversation with you forever. You know, anytime on the show, you're welcome to leave a comment or chat in the chat is asking, where is Wilmanitis right now? I don't know. Probably sailing a boat. I don't know. Yeah. And yeah, it's an honor to partner with OpenAI and every single person on the team that we've had the pleasure of meeting. We've been impressed by.
Starting point is 00:19:29 They are ridiculously talented and every single person is committed to getting this AI thing right. So we're very excited. We're incredibly excited. Great. Well, let's move on to the Artemis II. Pictures and images and news. Very, very exciting. It made the front of the Wall Street.
Starting point is 00:19:47 journal and NASA aims to orbit moon for first time for first time since 72 to boldly go the crew of that is asking is that three Diet Cokes yes I got you got you got to thank you got to thank Diet Coke thank you to the Coca-Cola Corporation for making this possible thank you to the the human team for the for the Matayina Yerba Matis the podcast in a can yes wouldn't be possible without you guys and thank you to tailors and suit makers there's a lot of people that make this possible the horse the prop department there's a million things here it's been it's been a great time so uh the crew of nassarctus two uh head to cape canaveral launch when launch pad wednesday for the first human space flight to the moon in half a century uh john kraus
Starting point is 00:20:34 hosted a incredible photo is he is he someone who actually yeah he he he uh special comms assistant Special comm assistant. He actually goes to the launches and brings special photography gear to get the best possible photos. And man, did he deliver with this one? What an incredible moment. We talked about a little bit. There's an article on the watches of NASA Artemis too. John, we have to thank our lovely wives. Of course. How could we not? Our families. Did you get a text? Maybe. We don't talk about them a lot on the show. This is a show about technology and business,
Starting point is 00:21:15 but they have been, they are the back, they're the truly the backbones of the show and have put up with, I think, like, a lot of travel, incredible hours, a lot of early mornings. A lot of early mornings.
Starting point is 00:21:28 I think out of the last, out of every single day that we've done the show, I haven't, I've left the house past 6 a.m., maybe twice, right? It's been a long, it's been a long road. And the good news, ladies, is it's, nothing's going to change. No, thank you to both of you for supporting us and allowing us to do what we do. Can we pull up this picture, Ben, in the production chat of the first episode that we recorded in the Jonathan Club in downtown showing a little behind. Yeah, I put it up earlier. Oh, you did? Yeah, behind the scenes.
Starting point is 00:22:06 This is, yeah, such a wild time. Remember that? Yeah, remember that, Jordan? Suitless. We had the flag. Yeah. But no suits. It looked pretty good on camera.
Starting point is 00:22:17 I was happy with the way it came out. Yesterday, the long-awaited Artemis II mission took to the stars and root to the moon for the first such manned mission since 1972. The chat asked for a flashbang. Oh, okay. Flash out. Okay, that's good. Yes. The flashbang has been a highlight for sure.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Both literally... Yeah, the soundboard. It's truly a character on the show. And I have some too now. Its members all had Omega Speedmaster X33 models strapped to their flight suits. Danny Milton just wrote a full article on the site now detailing the watch is worn on the wrists
Starting point is 00:23:01 of the four astronauts throughout their time as part of this mission. Watches have a long-standing history with spaceflight, most notably through the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch, but there are countless others that have cemented their place in the cosmos. So we can pull up this video now of the astronauts working on what looks like some type of tablet. So here he is typing in.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Most secure password known to man. What is that, 9393 or something? 399. 399. 9393. Powerful. Powerful. We're going back to the moon.
Starting point is 00:23:34 Apparently that video we played yesterday was a little bit of fake news. the young man, the adolescent who swears and says, we're going to the F and moon. The real line, I believe, in the community note, is that he says, we're going to the frickin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it had been altered to add the actual F word. But the sentiment is still the same.
Starting point is 00:24:00 It's very exciting, very inspirational. And Jared Isaacman on launch day says, oh, this kid is definitely getting it back at NASA gear. That's great. Very cool. There are some wrinkles with the launch, right? Fortunately, nothing like disasters or catastrophic or anything, but the good news is that we're on our way back to the moon.
Starting point is 00:24:16 The bad news is that the toilet's broken, apparently. And I believe this is from the live blog from the New York Times. The NASA Associate Minister said there is a controller issue with a toilet on the Orion capsule, and it would take a few hours to troubleshoot. We're just getting started, he said, when addressing that and some other glitches with the spacecraft. The spirit of Apollo 10 lives on. they said 135. They told us that. Here's another. It seems like this is not the first time that this has happened, but we're hoping for the best here. Sounds like there were some other issues with
Starting point is 00:24:47 Outlook as well. We can pull up this video from Tom Warren. Can remote in and take a look directly. Off to Outlook. Two. Why do you have two? Like web and desktop? Or do you think it's like two separate desktop installations? We will join in on your PCD and we'll let you know when we're done. Honestly, this is the best possible failure scenario is Outlook and not the rocket itself. I think it's a good outcome. There were so many amazing images coming out yesterday.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Peyton Alexander says this is the real reward for Artemis. This is who we are actually doing this for. They will grow up knowing they can one day work in their country's bases on the moon and Mars. We are not just abstractly hoping for a better world for them. We are going there. and two kids here watching the launch from Orlando. Just beautiful. Yeah, my five-year-old said it was boring,
Starting point is 00:25:47 which is not what you want to hear, but we'll have to give some more context to him about how big of a deal it is. He was like, yeah, I don't know, maybe he wants more flashing lights on the screen. We were driving for the actual launch, and it was so funny listening to the audio feed and sitting in traffic and just looking out at everyone.
Starting point is 00:26:07 Yeah. and realizing that it felt like the majority of the world still wasn't paying attention or didn't care. Yeah. I mean, like, rockets do launch like every day now. I know. SpaceX has normalized it to such a degree. Isn't there some sort of subplot on the Apollo missions that by the third or fourth Apollo mission, there was no, like the actual viewership had dropped off and like the American population had gotten forward with it?
Starting point is 00:26:33 2.6 has put subway surfers on it. Yeah. on the NASA feed. Crazy. You actually need to, maybe need to do this. How AI helped one man and his brother build a $1.8 billion company. Who needs more than two employees that when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks, it's super efficient and a little bit lonely.
Starting point is 00:26:54 So Aaron Griffith tells the story of Matthew Gallagher, who took just two months, $20,000 and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools to get his startup off the ground. From his house in Los Angeles, Mr. Gallagher 41 used AI to write the code for the software that powers his company, produce the website copy, generate the images and videos for ads and handle customer service. He created AI systems to analyze his business's performance, and he outsourced the other stuff he couldn't do himself. His startup, MedVee, a telehealth provider of GLP1 weight loss drugs, got 300 customers in its first month. In its second month, he gained more than 1,000 more. In 2025, MedV's first year in business, the company
Starting point is 00:27:33 The first full year in business, the company generated $401 million in sales. Mr. Gallagher then hired this only. This is absolutely insane because as GLP-1s were starting to take off, I had, I remember distinctly talking with somebody that was like, I want to start a telehealth company for GLP-1s. And at that time, I was like, okay, there's a lot of telehealth companies that are at scale. And they're all going to be very quick. They're well aware of this.
Starting point is 00:27:58 They will immediately introduce this product and other, you know, similar products to their customer base and it's going to be incredibly difficult to be competitive. And it turns out there's just such overwhelming demand for these products that you could come in as a new company and scale. Like one year in maybe, he hires his only employee, his younger brother, Elliot. This year they're on track to do $1.8 billion in sales. A $1.8 billion company with just two employees in the age of AI, it's increasingly possible, says Aaron Griffith in the New York Times. Sam Allman, The chief executive open AI predicted the rise of a new breed of super efficient company in 2024.
Starting point is 00:28:40 A one-person business worth $1 billion would have been unimaginable without AI, he said on a podcast, and now it will happen. Now is AI tool spread. Entrepreneurs are harnessing the technology to expand their startups to an enormous scale at breathtaking speed with very few humans. Big companies, especially in tech, are getting in on the disruption two. Pinterest, Block, and others have cut thousands of workers in recent months, citing efficiency enabled by AI. Does this count yet, though? Like, I feel like to be the one person, one billion
Starting point is 00:29:07 dollar company. You got to be able to log into your payroll tool, and you're the only person there. Oh, so is. And he's got his brother in there. Sorry, bro. Take a walk. The startup, which is not raised outside funding, also has no official valuation, but many highly valued tech companies can only dream of hitting one billion in revenue with so few workers. Medvea is also profitable. That is great and important if you're bootstrapped. Can't, can't. Is this a wrapper company? It's like a GLP1 wrapper. But it's AI enabled, but it's not wrapping the AI foundation model.
Starting point is 00:29:41 It's like using the tool to wrap another industry and just create the efficiency between the manufacturer and the actual distribution. It really is remarkable that they were able to hoover up so much revenue in such a competitive space because you would assume that the other telehealth providers would have significant ad operations and that the margins on customer action. acquisition would be very, very tricky to crack, but he must have found some unique insight into how to distribute the product, get actual people to the website, because the AI certainly can build the website and write the copy, but it can't necessarily get people to show up and actually
Starting point is 00:30:20 put down their hard-earned cash for the product. I texted my dad, the news. He says, congratulations. That's so exciting. Thanks for letting me now. Talk to you soon. great day. Thank you. Thank you, Dad. Oh, it's amazing. Well, if you've texted me or you've called me in the last three hours, there's a good chance that I might respond to you in the next couple hours.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Leave us five stars in Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Subscribe to our newsletter, TBPN.com. Everything is the same. We will see you on Monday. The fun week, next week, five shows, 15 hours. Let's be honest. It'll probably be more like 17 or 18 or 19. We'll see. The world is our oyster. And thank you for being with us along the journey. Let's get one more gong hit, John. One more gong hit. It's been an honor.
Starting point is 00:31:16 A gong hit. Goodbye, everyone. See you soon. We'll see tomorrow.

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