Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. We get into fake peptides showing up in pools and locker rooms, Eli Lilly's gene therapy IV that drops cholesterol 65% for 18 months, and the wild gap between an S&P at all-time highs and consumer sentiment at all-time lows. We dig into the AI optimist vs. pessimist split, Andrew Sorkin's 1929 doomer pitch on 60 Minutes, and why the next Carnegies need to start building parks and libraries to win back public sentiment,the American fitness test, and much more

Group Chat News is back with the hottest news of the week including:

- Meta cuts 8,000 jobs as Zuck pivots the company hard toward AI
- Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic and what it signals about the AI race
- SpaceX IPO drops June 12 — and what Peter Thiel walking away with $80B means
- Anthropic, OpenAI and the SPV chaos behind the next round of mega rounds
- San Francisco's "AI depression" vs LA's quality-of-life money culture
- Jeff Bezos on CNBC pushing for no income tax
- America's #1 pizza chain
- Las Vegas struggles for the middle class as $200 all-inclusive packages return
- USA vs Paraguay Club World Cup tickets are dropping
-Plus much more!

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest news of the week including:

- Anand returns after 6 weeks dealing with two serious infections
- The AP Swatch collab and what it means for luxury strategy
- G-Wagens taking over LA
- Laurel Supply, Bristol Farms, and the elevated grocery wave
- How clipping democratized brainwashing
- Trump's historic trip to China with America's biggest CEOs
- SpaceX IPO and the SPV chaos coming
- The South Bay tax revenue California lost
- Berkshire switch up
- Is insider trading how the wealthy actually operate
- Pokemon lines wrapping around Gelson's

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week and a special interview with Michael Katz, founder of Trove and longtime mentor to Dee, to talk about the explosion of the trading card and collectibles space. Michael breaks down how Trove is reinventing pack opening as a digital experience with real graded cards, why physical assets are having a moment, and what's behind the cultural shift that put card ripping on the red carpet.

The guys go deep on the LA mayoral race and Spencer Pratt's surge, The market section tackles GLP-1 drugs as the biggest consumer shift in a generation, the collapse of junk food categories, the rise of Erewhon and Laurel Supply as the future of grocery, and the case for being long assets right now.

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest news of the week including, modern fatherhood would be unrecognizable to a 1950's dad, Historically every single time the market hits a P/E of 23, the next 10 years returned between 2% and -2% annualized,Spencer Pratt just hit a 28% chance to win the Los Angeles Mayor race,GameStop CEO Prepares Takeover Bid For eBay, Monthly Trading Card Volume by Year, and much more

Group Chat News is back and we got the hottest news of the week including Spencer Pratt is now polling second for LA mayor behind a socialist and we break down why a reality star might actually be the right pick for the city right now. Nick Shirley kicked off a whistleblower wave and we think fraud detection is about to be the next big YC batch.

LAUSD is spending $45K per student while California school enrollment drops over 15 percent. The UK as a 51st state would land below Mississippi on wages. China's GDP went from 78 percent of the US to 64 percent and we get into how the one child policy and going after their wealthy entrepreneurs cooked them.

Nike rolled out a Boston Marathon ad that said runners welcome walkers tolerated then pulled it after backlash. We get into pace shaming, why every kid needs to learn how to lose, and how brands get stuck in a stretch where they cannot do anything right.

Plus 56 percent of Gen Z women now have tattoos, and the Customs and Border Protection portal opens tomorrow at 8am ET to refund $127B in tariffs to 82 percent of US importers. If you imported anything since last April, get on it

Group Chat News is back

1001 and still going.

This week: the Masters broke every record with Rory's comeback. Online gambling is out of control. LIV Golf winding down as Saudi money dries up. Uber's AI budget produced nothing and big companies are rethinking the spend. S&P at all-time highs while Buffett sits on $300B cash. Allbirds became a meme stock. Zuck moved his desk. SpaceX SPV drama. Corporate lawyers getting quarterback money. American luxury thriving, Gucci bleeding, global luxury demand disappearing. Boomers have $90T and every spring break reservation. TMZ set up shop in DC.

Group Chat News is back with episode 1000!

One thousand episodes. Nearly nine years. And somehow we're still here. Dee, Anand, and Drama celebrate the milestone by looking back at how it all started, the eras the podcast has gone through.

Thank you to all the Kathys who have listened over the years

Heres to a 1000 more