The Best One Yet - 🗽 “Miracle Below 34th St” — New York’s 9/11 comeback. Bumble’s ultimate breakup. The Boring Company’s fundraise. +Pokemon $$$
Episode Date: September 11, 202625 years after September 11th, we found the ultimate comeback story… NYC’s Financial District.Bumble is going through a breakup with a finance guy… We think AI will acquire it.Elon Musk’s The ...Boring Company just hit a $23B valuation… but it’s only in 1 city.Plus, the future currency of an AI apocalypse world?... Pokemon Cards.$BMBL $TSLA $SPCXGrab your Tickets to the IPO Tour: Our In-Person OfferingSan Francisco 9/23: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0064AFB5F688BDBoston 10/14: https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/tboy-the-ipo-tour-in-person-offering-8cdhupSeattle 11/4 (21+): https://www.axs.com/events/1446394/the-best-one-yet-ticketsNEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today’s top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is Nick.
This is Jack.
It's Friday, the real Friday.
September 11th.
And today's pod is the best one yet, and this is a T-boy.
The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
But Eddie, stocks been down all week.
They are not celebrating the wins.
What's going on, Jack?
Oil is at $100 a barrel in the U.S., and it's $110 a broad.
Yeah.
It's up 30% in just the last month.
The inflation situation very, very alive right now.
The stock market doesn't like you.
But in the meantime, we got three fantastic stories for the fun of show
and finance, Jack, what do we got in today's T-Boy?
For our first story, Elon Musk's
boringest company is actually his most exciting.
True story. The boring company just raised
$3 billion. Even though after 10 years,
Elon's boring tunnels are open
in just one city. For our second story,
Bumble is losing its biggest Wall Street investor.
Blackstone is swiping left for good.
So Jack and I predict someone's
going to acquire Bumble and bring them home
to Mom and Dad. And our third and final
story, 25 years ago,
September 11th, reduced America's
most valuable neighborhood. Lower Manhattan.
into a mountain of smoldering rubble.
But today, Lower Manhattan
is the greatest urban comeback in American history.
Jack and I will tell you how they pulled it off.
Well, besties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
What a mix of stories best mix to go into a weekend with Jack.
The number one theme of this week for the news
has been that AI might cause a human extinction.
Apparently, there's now a greater than 10% chance
of an AI doomsday within 10 years.
What's going on, guys?
But the good news, because we're desperate for some.
Throw it at me.
If AI does destroy us,
the first post-apocalyptic currency will be.
Pokemon cards.
Get this yet.
He's Peter Levin, a legendary venture capitalist,
says that Pokemon cards will outlast the U.S. dollar.
And the yen, and the euro, and the peso.
Now, we know what you're thinking.
Isn't crypto the post-apocalyptic currency?
It's decentralized in all.
Well, this year, the price of Bitcoin is getting beaten by Bulbosur.
So this venture capitalist has bought 500,000 different Pokemon cards
as an end-of-the-world currency reserve.
And Jack, why is he sold long, Pikachu?
He's got a few reasons.
First, Pokemon prices have gone through parabolic hockey stick growth.
They're up 3,821% in the last 22 years,
according to a study cited by the journal.
That's eight times better returns than the S&P 500 over that period.
That is three times better returns than meta's stock.
The second reason he's all in on Pokemon,
Pokemon cards are popular across the globe,
so it's basically an international currency.
Mew2's rookie card is, like, globally recognized these.
days, more than LeBron.
And finally,
Pokemon cards are considered a greater story value than diamonds, and we have proof.
We found one man who just bought his girlfriend an engagement Pokemon card instead of an
engagement ring.
Did she say yes, Jack?
I hope so.
Oh, we hope she said yes.
So, Bessie's, if AI does destroy us, we told you here first.
Well, at least you could die rich if you put your estate in Pokemon.
And the AI that survives us, humans, will be impressed.
Yeah, AI's final prompt before it terminates us, what is it, Jack?
Sell Chevron by Charzard.
Jack, Teebt, give me the former back.
Jack, what's in our three storms?
Fifteen years before this song.
Two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm.
They had an idea that caused a cultural storm.
It's the best one yet, but the best is a norm.
Jack Nick, that's it.
I don't even think they need to practice.
50% that's a fat tip.
Tea Boy City on your at list.
If you know, you know, because we're ready to go.
We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
Start the show.
First, a quick word from our sponsor.
For our first story, Elon's Boring Company.
It just four-xed its valuation to $23 with a B billion.
But after 10 years, you can still only ride the boring company in one city.
If you're trying to keep track of Elon Musk businesses right now,
just remember he has as many companies as he has mothers to his children.
Four.
Yeah, four.
And one of his companies is boring.
Boring.
Actually, it's quite exciting.
It's thrilling.
Here's the mission statement of the boring company,
which is literally boring, but it's not boring at all,
although it's also named boring.
The mission is to solve traffic and beautify cities
with rapid underground tunnel transit.
Inspired by Elon's personal experience when he lived in L.A.
I mean, stuck in traffic in L.A.
Are we moving on the 405 or what, guys?
Now, New York City is like the one American city
that's found a solution to traffic,
the New York City subway.
But here's the problem, Jack.
To build one mile of the subway in New York City
is going to cost you $4 billion with the B dollars. That's like one lift. Elon thought he could do it
more efficiently, so he built his own boring machine. A boring machine. And now he's got a funny and
clever name with a cool logo to go with this boring company. The O in the boring company
looks like a tunnel hole. It's pretty clever. What's the funny fact about the boring company's
logo, Jack? It was sketched up by another Los Angeles guy, a Hollywood director, J.J. Ambrams.
That's right. The director of Star Wars seven years ago designed Elon Musk's boring company
logo. And the boring company just raised $3 billion at a $23 billion valuation, which increases the
valuation by 4x from the previous round. But yet this is what Jack and I find fascinating. We've talked
about different types of invisible infrastructure on this show before. There's the 300-foot economy
for drones that are flying 300 feet above our heads. And then you've got the 500,000 foot economy.
For low-Earth orbit satellites, also known as Leo, 500,000 feet above our heads. But what about
50 feet underground? Are you talking about the mole economy?
over there, Jack? Yes, I am, Nick, because the boring company's recent pilot tunnels in Dubai,
they built four miles worth for just $39 million a mile.
Jack, can you sprinkle on some context, please?
That's 100 times cheaper than the latest New York City subway extension.
Oh, and to bore these tunnels, the boring company built seven boring machines.
And these boring machines are huge.
There are 465,000 pounds each because they eat through the earth to create a tunnel behind it.
So then they also had to build a new machine to carry those used machines, which is called the Monster Machine.
The only vehicle in the world that can carry a $465,000 custom boring machine to the next project.
So speaking of their next site, Jack, how many cities can you actually ride through a boring company tunnel right now today?
Only one. It's the Las Vegas Loop, a tunnel network that has carried four million passengers since opening up five years ago.
The Las Vegas Loop has got 14 stations across four miles.
The fur station opened to the public back in 2021.
And here's the experience.
You walk up almost like it's a parking garage,
and then you sit in a Tesla driven by a chauffeur.
And then that chauffeur drives you partly through a tunnel
by the boring company and partly street level
to get you from like your hotel to the airport.
So you can go in this model-wide Tesla from the airport
to the Las Vegas Convention Center for $12 with a chauffeur to ride.
And there's no traffic.
Because you're the only vehicle in the tunnel.
And the only vehicles allowed in boring tunnels right now are Tesla's.
Four million rides in five years.
That sounds like a big accomplishment, and it is.
But we should sprinkle on a little more context, Jack.
200 million people have visited Las Vegas since Elon's Las Vegas loop opened in 2021.
So that's one ride for every 50 hungover visitors to Las Vegas.
And the Boeing Company's second project just started construction a month ago.
Nashville, congratulations.
You'll soon be able to go from the airport to Music City in a boring tunnel, like a mall.
And the third project is Dubai.
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates country is sent to.
and Elon $3 billion in fresh cash to build a big tunnel.
That's right.
The UAE is both the customer for the next Boring Project project,
and the lead investor in this lading fuss.
And the leading investor in this latest fundraising round.
Okay, but when it comes to actually complete a tunnels,
what happens in Vegas has so far stayed in Vegas?
So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies
boring at the boring company?
You don't invest in Elon's business.
You invest always in his potential.
Yeties, since founding the Boring Company in 2017, they've announced a dozen city projects, but only one of them has actually opened.
They abandoned the other projects upon learning about the challenges of building through urban infrastructure.
From Chicago to O'Hare, D.C. to Baltimore, San Antonio, they all got announcements of the Boring Company, but those projects all died quietly.
And to sprinkle on just one more bit of context, the Las Vegas loops five-year total ridership of five million people so far.
And how much is that, really?
That's equivalent to one weekday of the New York City subway.
So add it all up, and it's hard to fathom that the boring company deserves a quadrupling of its valuation compared to 2022.
After all, in 2022, it was open in one city.
Vegas.
In 2026, it's still open in just one city.
Vegas, but investors are not investing in today's boring company.
They're investing in its potential tomorrow.
They're looking at things like full self-driving.
The boring company can remove those driver chauffeurs and improve the economics of the rides.
Oh, and those huge boring machines, they never.
now drive themselves. It's something called Z-Pit, zero people in the tunnel. So maybe the boring
company can finally break out with some growth after 10 years of very few new tunnels. I mean,
Jack, we've seen it with SpaceX, we've seen it with Tesla, and now we may be seeing it with
the boring company. You don't invest in what Elon has built. You invest in what Elon tweets
about building someday in the future. For our second story, Bumble stock is down 96% and it just lost
its OG Wall Street Sugar Daddy.
But Blackstone doubled its money with Bumble.
And there's a lesson in there for every investor.
Ah, Edie's.
One month ago, Bumble made history
by reversing the history they'd already made.
Bumble went viral by originally making women make the first move,
but now it lets men go first.
Sad to lose their differentiator, but Bumble stock,
it was down 96%.
They had to make a move.
It's not you.
It's me, said Bumble.
It was.
So, since that strategic,
Rural, how are they doing, Jack? Not well. The stock has only fallen further. Now, Bessie, Jack and I've
always admired Bumble's vision. In fact, Jack bought Bumble's stock right after their IPO. The female
first company, they tried to become a lifestyle brand. I mean, you had the BFF Friends app,
their professional women's networking app. Like five years ago, they opened their first restaurant
in New York City. We covered it on the pod. We were always rooting for Bumble, but the brand was
always much better than the business was. And the whole industry of online dating's been in a three-year
recession. But Nick and I found an interesting stock story in Bumble's downfall. Or is it a stock
situation ship, Jack? Because Bumble is also going through a major breakup right now. With Blackstone,
that's right, Bumble was hooking up with a finance guy, six foot blue eyes and definitely a
trust fund. That's right, Blackstone. The New York City private equity firm known for billion-dollar
real estate buyouts also acquired a majority of Bumble in 2019. Jack, tell me about the
meat queue. What was the Meeque for those two? Well, this was back when Bumble was buzzing.
They sold a majority to a private equity firm that could help it go public in an IPO.
An IPO, it did.
Bumble jumped from a $3 billion valuation when Blackstone first invested to a $13 billion
valuation at their peak.
But in recent years, Blackstone has been quietly ghosting Bumble.
Ah, the vibes are off, Jack.
In fact, on the IPO day, Blackstone sold $2 billion worth of their Bumble holdings.
It's a red flagman.
And a year later, Blackstone sold another billion dollars of Bumble.
I'm sorry, Bumble.
he's just not that into you.
Clearly. And now, Blackstone is making it official.
They announced a payment plan to sell their final shares of Bumble by next year.
Yet, besties, while Bumble's stock is down 96%.
Blackstone is walking away with a profit, baby.
And we'll explain how.
Blackstone didn't hold the stock forever.
They sold giant chunks of Bumble when they saw an opportunity to realize profit.
Now, the final shares that Blackstone is selling are at a big loss from what they originally
paid.
But the giant sales that Blackstone did,
in 2021 and 2022, it makes their Bumble investment overall a huge win.
In fact, according to Insiders, Blackstone enjoyed a 98% annualized rate of return over their
seven-year investment in Bumble. Compare that to the 15% annual return of the stock market
overall in the same period. You see what Blackstone's showing here is with discipline.
Even a losing stock story can be a win if you take profits at the right time and don't
stubbornly hold on forever trying to time up the market. Some stocks you think could be your
forever stocks, other stocks, take the gain if you get one. Well, now Bumble is worth just $500
million. 96% off its all-time high, which leads to our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway
for all our buddies over at Bumble? The eligible millennial brands are now AI acquisition targets.
Yay, happy cuffing season to all those who celebrate. Cuffing season is a real thing, by the way. It
starts every autumn here in America. From September to November, single people feel the urge to find a
Cuddle Buddy before the cold and the holidays settle in.
Well, Jack and I think it's also cuffing season on Wall Street for some very eligible and affordable
companies.
We're talking about Bumble, Snap, Pinterest, Lyft, all great brands.
Companies founded 10 to 15 years ago, they've all IPOed and they all have big user bases.
Ah, but financially, they've all stagnated.
They're all now worth under $10 billion.
Their stocks, they're way off their all-time highs.
The brands are beloved.
The business models work, but these companies never hit.
Hypo-scale Zuckerberg-style Velocisic.
So Jack and I think these eligible
and very available tech brands are now
acquisition targets. Now, the obvious
acquirer would be private equity again.
True, true, true, true. But Nick and I think it's going to be
AI. AI. OpenAI would
love Pinterest image library.
Amazon would love Lyft's user base.
And Sam Alpin would love to see if he could
do to Bumble what Elon did to Twitter.
Right. Slash the staff
and leverage AI instead. And now, Bessis, we're not
saying we're excited about that, but it is
a prediction we're making now and we're foreseeing.
This cuffing season, AI will buy up the eligible millennial tech brands.
Let us know anything in the comments, and Jack and I, we'll see after the break.
Now a quick word from our sponsor.
For our third and final story, 25 years after 9-11, Lower Manhattan has pulled off the greatest urban comeback in American history.
We'll tell you how they did it.
Yes, we will.
Now Yet, he's college students, recent grads, the young workforce out there, all born after,
the deadliest attack ever on American soil. So we want to sprinkle on some context here.
September 11th, 2001 was 25 years ago. We remember it though like it was yesterday.
Yeah, we were. Because we were both in eighth grade, and we experienced this in chaotic ways
through the school day. I remember seeing the smoke because it was floating up, and it started
coming almost near our field. I was stuck in the Bronx, and we were like trying to get back into
Manhattan any way we could, and we didn't have cell phones then. It was scary for me. I can't imagine
how scary it was for you in New York City. And my aunt also lived just a few blocks away from all of this
on Hudson Street, so she couldn't even go home for months after all of this. Did she stay with you
in your apartment on the Upper East Side? She didn't stay with us at the apartment like full-time.
We saw her, and she actually is a birthday gift a few years later. She gave me letters that had
floated into her window that she'd caught and that they got when they were cleaning up.
Yeties, the term ground zero came first from the U.S. military. It was used in 1946 to refer to the two
cities in Japan where the atomic bombs had been dropped. On September 12th, there was no better term for
what happened in Lower Manhattan and what it looked like. Because it had become a mountain of
smoldering debris with 2,753 people dead. Rubble, toxic dust, smoke, you could see it from
space for a week. As the city recovered, nobody knew what to do with Lower Manhattan and how to
rebuild it. No one knew what it would become like. Do you turn it into a giant memorial park? Do you
rebuild the two towers exactly? Do you just let it stay there?
there, no one thought this was going anywhere. But 25 years later, when you look at the data,
the receipts, when you take a look with your own two eyes, everything in Lower Manhattan is
off the charts right now. Even the vibes. In fact, Lower Manhattan, in our opinion, is the
greatest urban comeback in American history and we'll back it up at the receipts. First,
the U.S. census. Compared to the year before the attack, the population of the financial district,
where the towers once stood, is three times bigger. Tripled! Because after,
9-11, $20 billion was spent to redevelop 10 million square feet of office space,
500,000 square feet of retail, a transit hub, and a world-class 9-11 Memorial and Museum.
To sprinkle on some context on how much money $20 billion is.
How much is that, Jack?
That's the GDP of Jamaica.
Uh-huh.
That's more money than was spent to build the Panama Canal.
It is 10 Yankee Stadium's worth.
10 stadiums for lives, Jack, 10 million new square feet of space.
How much is that if you sprinkle on some context?
That's two pentagons, three malls of America, or four Empire State buildings of new office space since 9-11 in Lower Men Had.
And the result? The Financial District is now the oldest and the newest and arguably the most vibrant neighborhood in New York City.
You see, before 9-11, it was the Financial District.
Fidei, you went there to work in finance and then commute home right after.
It was the only part of the city that went completely dead after dark.
Well, a rezoning started in 1995 under Mayor Giuliani, and 9-11 put that on steroids under Bloomberg.
And the FIDI went from a purely commercial zone where if you stayed down there for a couple weeks,
you would forget what the sound of a laughing child sounded like, because there were no children down there.
Even the pigeons weren't hanging around.
To what is now a vibrant mix of office, residential, and commercial.
In fact, Lower Manhattan became America's Office to Housing Conversion Success.
story on a scale we've never seen.
37,000 apartments in Lower Manhattan today used to be offices.
That is three times more living spaces than there were before 9-11.
But since people were still afraid, understandably after September 11th, the city actually
gave $14,000 grants to encourage New Yorkers to stay or move in post-9-11, which actually
created a flywheel effect.
Because the more full-time inhabitants a neighborhood has, the more fun it is to spend money
in that neighborhood, which actually attracted tourists to.
Around the clock vibe, which then attracted non-financial companies to the financial district.
Just one example is Spotify, which set up their U.S. headquarters at four World Trade Center,
which happens to be the location of the first live podcast Nick and I ever did.
If you had told us that 25 years ago, we never would have believed any of it.
In 2019, we recorded a live show on the 72nd floor overlooking the World Trade Center Memorial.
In fact, add it all up.
You wouldn't even call the financial district a financial district anymore, right, Jack?
Finance used to be two-thirds of the employers down there. Now it's just one-third.
It's the financial district. 36 new hotels since 9-11. That's more than any other hood
when it comes to new spaces. Now, not everything we've done with Lower Manhattan has worked.
Jack, the transit station did run $2 billion over budget, billion with the B.
And office vacancy down there is slightly higher than in Midtown, New York right now.
But Bessie, Jack and I think we don't talk enough about the diversity of industry.
in the area where the Twin Towers used to stand.
You got bars, restaurant, fashion companies, media companies,
France's Tavern, South Street Seaport,
that little cobblestone street way down there.
What's it called, Nick?
Stone Street?
Yeah, Stone Street.
You got housing and offices.
You have people and pets.
And yes, you have babies laughing and giggling in Battery Park.
Add it all up, and the diversity of industries,
and all the hardworking people who helped rebuild those industries
saved Lower Manhattan.
So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all of our?
our buddies looking at the miracle below 34th Street. We built it and they came. So yeties, as you can
see, there are a few replicable lessons here for other struggling downtowns to borrow from. But a lot of
what happened in New York is exceptional. Like the billions of dollars in federal money that supported
New York's comeback or the fact that the whole country was emotionally invested in its recovered.
And still, the overall theme here that's relevant to all of us is that we rebuilt the financial
district despite no guarantee it would actually come back. After I graduated from college, I worked
in a mess of construction, mazes and tunnels and bridges
to get to my office right next to the World Trade Center.
The whole 2010s every time I visit you, Jack.
And there was no certainty that the $20 billion splurge
would save America's most devastated neighborhood.
And despite that uncertainty,
we still built a new transit hub even bigger
than the pre-9-11 version.
We even hired an artist-architect
to make it a masterpiece tourism marvel it is today.
And we built a memorial and museum and outdoor space
that is just absolutely incredible to visit.
What we did besties is we planned and built for success,
even if a comeback seemed totally unlikely.
After 9-11, we had a unique, bipartisan, public and private push to rebuild
even better than what was there before.
And more people came than anyone expected.
Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday?
The Boring Company just raised $3 billion at a $23 billion valuation,
even though it's still just in one city.
Because you don't invest in what Elon's built, you invest in what he's built in.
For our second story, Bumble is losing its former majority owner as Blackstone walks away with huge gains.
It's a breakup. And all these mid-sized millennial tech brands out there, they're now AI acquisition targets.
It's coffin season.
And our third and final story, with triple as many people and huge industrial diversity,
Laura Manhattan is America's most winning post-9-11 bet.
We built it, and we came.
But besties, this pod's not over yet.
Here's what else you need to know today.
First, President Trump pledged on Wednesday what is basically being described as a bribe,
a $5,000 stimulus check only if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
The president calls it a Trump dividend, taxpayer money going back to taxpayers.
And it would cost about $1.3 trillion and be paid for with debt.
So it faced bipartisan rejection from both parties on Thursday.
Remember the $2,000 per American tariff dividends, those didn't happen either.
And second, we've got another daring friend.
French art heist. This time, thieves stole four Renoirs from a canna museum. Two of those
are still missing, by the way. But it's not just you. There has been a big uptake in art thefts,
beginning with the crown jewels that were taken from the Louvre last year. Yeah, it's kind of
funny reason why. What is it, Jack? Criminal experts say that thieves have realized that the
police don't arrive for five minutes. So if your theft can be done in four minutes, it's kind of a
positive ROI. It's possible. And finally, the Girl Scouts are expanding their billion-dollar empire,
two new cookies. The first new Girl Scout cookies, allergen-free, it's called sparkables.
And the second is for dogs. It's called Patch Pals. Because puppy. People ultimately prioritize puppies.
The Girl Scouts, by the way, they did 800 million bucks in revenue last year. Sales to dogs
and the allergic? Oh, that can help them cross one billion. Now, time for the best fact yet.
This one whipped up by Jack and I from our research on Apple in yesterday's show. We called Apple's new
folding iPhone, the I-fold. But the real name from Apple is the iPhone duo.
That name, Duo, was trademarked by Apple six months ago.
But in Lichtenstein, that's right, one of the smallest countries on Earth,
they were where they trademarked the term by Apple.
So no one would notice.
And another funny thing, because Duo is also the name of Duolingo's owl mascot.
So Duolingo, the language learning app, their social media team is going off right now on the new Apple iPhone name.
Yesterday, during the event, they were like, oh my God, oh my God, my SEO, my SEO.
John Turner is, please pick up the phone.
And then Duolingo tagged the singer Duolipa to ask for help on how to fix the whole situation with Apple on the trademarked.
It was pretty hilarious thread of tweets.
So Apple stealthily trademarked the name Duo in another country.
But Duolingo is the real winner in this country.
Yeties, you look fantastic this week.
And Jack, you were glowing even despite that 105 degree heat in Texas.
You know where it's not 105 degrees?
San Francisco.
We're performing on September 23rd, presented by Liquid Ivy.
This is our most legit show of all time.
Gotta see it. Biggest show yet. A thousand in the audience. Grab your tickets now at T-Boypod.com or right here in the episode description. Nick and I, we'll see you tomorrow. Actually, we'll see you Monday, but either way, celebrate the wins.
And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Yeti, Adam Schuller, who's listening to us at max volume in the shower right now, in Milton, Wisconsin.
Happy birthday to Todd McConnell in Mission Vieho, California. He's prepping for his son's wedding in Boise, Idaho right now.
And Ada Cole is turning four years old and Shaker Heights, Ohio, sing her.
our rap jingle all the way to school.
Happy birthday to Michelle Wendell,
a mom in North Carolina,
and her son, Dexter,
who's turning 10,
both have birthdays this week.
And Lenny DeWitt's coming to our live show
in Seattle and November.
Thanks for grabbing tickets, Lenny,
and happy birthday, buddy.
Happy birthday to soon-to-be-dad,
John Mitchell in South Carolina.
And Caitlin Zaboodle,
the world's fastest reader
just outside Chicago,
is doing logistics for the birthday.
Happy birthday to Cassie Jo,
her first birthday as a mom in Portland, Oregon.
And Morrow Leo,
down in San Antonio's got the best birthday yet.
birthday to Trish Mahler in Sussex, Wisconsin. And Gary Murphy's celebrating his birthday,
his anniversary, and his granddaughter Olivia's birthday all in New York City. And congratulations
to Allison and Alfonso of Oakland. Their daughter, Sophia Castillo, is turning one year old.
And her brother, Nico, is being a great big brother birthday best friend for it. And congratulations
to Lexi Leahy and Adam. Eight years after meeting at Purdue, they're getting married tomorrow
in Dune's National Park. Better be some boilers there. And to anyone else celebrating something
today, make it a tea boy.
Celebrate the wins.
This is Jack. I own stock of Lyft and Amazon. We both own stock of Apple. We own
ETFs of the S&P 500, and we both own some Bitcoin. Bitcoin name Ben.
