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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week, including why movies are suddenly back with [Spider-Man clearing ~$1B globally in its opening weekend], Jonah Hill announcing he'll annihilate anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad, and the [$2.2B tariff refund Apple just got] that isn't showing up in anybody's prices. Plus a 25-year-old who ran a fund to $45B and got margin called on his wedding weekend, Elon saying money will be worthless by 2036, and colleges quietly spending endowment money that donors thought was going somewhere else.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Movies are back — Odyssey, The Invite, and two theater trips a month
• Why streaming is losing — no Stranger Things-level show to stay home for
• [Spider-Man's ~$1B opening weekend] and the flight to quality
• Jonah Hill says he'll beat up anyone who calls him the fat funny guy from Superbad
• White belt confidence, early martial arts syndrome, and why the guys still think everyone should learn to fight
• LeBron, Kevin Hart and Rich Paul golfing at [Sherwood] — and how nothing stays secret in LA
• [The Supreme Court overturning the tariffs] — and the refunds companies are getting back
• [Apple's $2.2B and Amazon's $640M] — the rocket-feather effect and why prices never come down
• Why this is exactly the story that makes socialism sound good to everyone else
• Mamdani, cheap bananas, and capitalism's optics problem
• The Elon trillionaire headline that made rich people feel poor
• [Elon telling the BBC money will be worthless by 2036]
• The friend who took a huge AI job — and called depressed about what he saw under the hood
• The nuclear bomb argument: everyone gets the robots, so nobody sends the robots
• [Leopold] went 0 to $45B in 18 months, then got margin called on his wedding weekend
• Ken Griffin and Citadel on the other side of the trade... again
• Zero day options, prediction markets, and why nobody holds anything for four years
• The new crop of 25-year-old gunslingers who'll run the next Blackstone
• Colleges are dipping into endowments to pay overhead — and donors are finding the money gone
• Why most colleges don't survive the next decade
• Critical thinking as the only skill that matters now

And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week and a returning guest Greg Goofried a CAA agent who's been in the creator business for years, from his UTA days to running one of the biggest creator companies in the world. The guys go deep on what creators actually get paid, why the biggest names in the business are people you've never heard of, and how the whole space turned into media companies while Hollywood wasn't looking. Plus the Department of Education's plan to hold colleges accountable, Arizona State's new influencer degree, and the average date night in America hitting $189.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Why livestreaming skews young and male — the male Love Island theory, Twitch's gaming roots, and unpoliced platforms vs YouTube
• iShowSpeed as a global phenomenon, and the categories agents won't touch
• Who actually has staying power — Jake and Logan Paul, MrBeast, Emma Chamberlain, Alix Earle, Jake Shane
• The real job: six days a week, 50 weeks a year, and comment sections that break young creators
• Why the algorithm rewards meanness, and why older people thrive on social media
• Creators are media companies now — taking bites out of Disney while big media still owns the $100 billion TV ad market
• Matt Damon vs. the creator economy — the script and the director vs. audience aggregation, and why the money is closer than you think
• The advice for anyone starting: find a niche, then get on a platform that actually pays you
• The Department of Education's accountability push — programs whose grads don't out-earn high school workers could lose federal student loans
• Arizona State's influencer degree — 160,000 students and a diploma that requires proving real follower growth
• The average date night in America is now $189, up from $168 last year — and why nobody's dating
• Odyssey in 70mm IMAX — [25 US theaters, 41 worldwide] and the family that drove 900 miles round trip to see it
• Why your music taste freezes at 33, and the catalog deals betting on it
• Del Taco named the #1 fast food chain in America — over In-N-Out, Chick-fil-A, and Raising Cane's

Group Chat News is back with a special guest Rohan Shah, co-founder of Extend.com, the platform doing over $1 billion in GMV making extended warranties actually work for retailers. The guys go deep with a true Silicon Valley insider on Google's monster earnings, how tech billionaires really spend their money, why NFL teams might be the safest asset in America, and what's actually happening inside companies spending big on AI.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Rohan's path — Harker, Stanford, and building Extend into a billion-dollar GMV business
• Silicon Valley's prep school pipeline and the public vs private school divide
• Inside enterprise AI spending — big token bills, unclear ROI, and why "we don't know yet" is the honest answer
• The AI job-loss story that went in reverse — companies that cut heads are rehiring
• Apple's patience play — keeping cash on the balance sheet while everyone else spends trillions
• Rohan's stock picks — memory semis, nuclear and energy infrastructure, mining, Google, DoorDash, Meta
• Google's monster earnings — a $9 vs $2 beat, $99 billion in other income from Anthropic and SpaceX stakes, and the stock still dropped
• The Khosla family, the Seahawks, and the NFL's first Indian owner
• Why NFL teams might be the safest investment in America — "the Cowboys will outlast all of it"
• Trump accounts, custom ETFs, and kids treating stocks like baseball cards
• Why Silicon Valley doesn't build libraries the robber baron playbook vs "changing the world"
• Gambling ads on every screen what we allow now that we'd never allow for cigarettes

And much more!

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Spain takes the World Cup, a free Chinese AI model just got rated #1 in the world, and the guys break down the Trump Accounts revolution — why every kid in America getting $1,000 in the market might be the biggest wealth-creation story in decades. Plus 550,000 people are now worth $30 million or more, Netflix gets hammered, fat cats are getting Ozempic, and Tom Brady has a problem.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Spain wins the World Cup — Argentina's dirty play, the $15 billion FIFA haul, and the Cup coming back to America
• Kimi — the free Chinese AI model rated #1 in the world that just maxed out its GPUs
• Fable 5, ChatGPT 5.6, and the AI model wars: what's anyone's moat anymore?
• The valet test — why 99% of small businesses still haven't spent $20 on AI
• GLP-1s for pets — fat cats, Ozempic, and the $200 billion pet economy
• Netflix down 30% — great company, hammered stock, and the Home Run Derby nobody could find
• Why all the capital is crowding into AI and semis while everything else gets abandoned
• Trump Accounts — $1,000 for every kid born, 6.5 million families signed up, and the app designed by Airbnb's co-founder
• Brad Gerstner's masterstroke and using the S&P 500 to save Social Security
• Stock is the new charity — why billionaires should give shares, not donations
• 550,000 people are now worth $30 million+ — up 14% in one year
• Fanatics Fest, the Tom Brady problem, and what his advisor should tell him

And much more!

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. The guys wrap the World Cup and get into the stories everyone's talking about — Kai Cenat's Streamer University getting a million applications, the betting markets that now let you wager on everything from flight delays to presidential speeches, Delta stripping down business class, and the sinkhole that swallowed one of LA's busiest streets.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• World Cup wrap — Spain vs Argentina, corporate ticket takeovers, and why game times were a miss
• A 100-year-old water main breaks and opens a sinkhole on Sunset Blvd, shutting down the heart of West Hollywood
• Fanatics Fest takes over NYC — the $90 million spend and the new all-in-one sports app projected to do $14 billion
• Why American sports franchises are the new safe asset class — "I'd rather own a football team than US Treasuries"
• The collectibles boom, GameStop's bid for eBay, and cards as the new art market
• Betting on everything — Polymarket, flight delay markets, and the Trump teleprompter scandal
• The Bryce Harper, FanDuel and Cameo controversy explained
• Delta launches Basic Business — business class up to $1,000 cheaper, but no lounge, no food, no perks
• IShowSpeed becomes the face of the World Cup and the biggest content creator on Earth
• Kai Cenat's Streamer University — one million applications, 120 spots, and why kids want it more than Harvard
• Inflation finally cools — CPI and PPI come down, and Marc Andreessen joins the new Fed task force
• The Ozempic economy — grocery sales fall, snacking declines, and the lightening of America

And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Team USA is out of the World Cup and the guys are done with soccer but not before breaking down why American sports franchises are worth more than every soccer team on Earth. Then they get into the wealth-building conversation nobody wants to hear, why nearly half of Americans under 30 live with their parents, and the $12 water that broke the internet.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• Team USA is out — the World Cup fallout, the Argentina conspiracy, and soccer's broken rules
• Vinod Khosla's group buys the Seattle Seahawks for $9.65 billion
• Why one NFL team is worth more than almost every soccer club in the world
• Thousands of hourly Costco workers now have over $1 million in their 401(k)s
• The boomer math nobody talks about — save 5-10% since 1990 and you'd have $6 million today
• Why the S&P 500 is the "Premier League" of investing and still available to everyone
• Is the system actually broken, or are we just wired for instant gratification?
• Nearly half of Americans under 30 now live with their parents — coddling or smart money?
• The participation trophy generation and how parenting changed the game
• Sleepaway camp, self-sufficiency, and raising kids who can take care of themselves
• Erewhon's $12 water sells out — genius marketing or peak status symbol?

And much more!

Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including

America is running out of places to gather

President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the Flo Balogun red card, Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has incurable disease: 'My stomach is eating itself, US Car Payments Hit a Record $777 a Month as Down Payments Drop, 3-hour flights from LA to NYC move step closer to reality after major restriction lifted, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Gave Cartier Watches to Guests at Wedding and much more!

The Group Chat is back, and this one's a masterclass in how the internet actually works now. The guys sit down with Max Peterson, the 23 year old who built a seven figure clipping empire, paying out over $3 million to 38,000 clippers. Max breaks down how brands like Taco Bell turn podcasts and events into millions of views. Then the crew gets into Meta's surprise new business, Elon's rumored iPhone killer, and why Nike might be the most fixable company in America.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• From posting memes at 12 to running clipping campaigns for Taco Bell and major brands
• Max Peterson's come up: bootstrapping a seven-figure business on $2,500
• The new American dream making $30K a month just posting clips
• How clipping works and why every brand will soon have to pay for it
• Meta's surprise pivot selling its excess AI compute like AWS, and why the stock popped
• The investing lesson hiding in plain sight: when Zuckerberg tells you the plan, believe him
• SpaceX's rumored phone Starlink connected, slimmer than the iPhone, and coming for Apple
• Why Elon might be the only one who can actually dethrone the iPhone
• Bending Spoons' IPO and the business of buying dying brands (AOL, Vimeo, Evernote)
• Nike's big miss the US Men's Soccer merch fumble and how to fix the brand
• Michael Burry shorting Nvidia and Tesla, and the Substack doom grift
• The $40M Sam Altman movie Amazon shelved because no one wants to upset OpenAI

Plus World Cup fever, team USA mania, and why history keeps repeating itself in marketing. Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Group Chat News is back for America's 250th birthday week and the guys go deep on the gamification of everything, AI gatekeeping, and the great retail shakeup. Steve Pitino of Ales Grey stops by with a massive Walmart 4th of July shoe giveaway before the crew gets into why politics might be the biggest trap of all, the AI lockout dividing the haves from the have-nots, and how Jersey Mike's just dethroned Chick-fil-A.

This week's Group Chat covers:

• America at 250 — is the country falling apart or winning more than ever?
• NYC affordability, the DSA, and the middle-class squeeze in big cities
• Declining birth rates and the forecasted hit to car sales by 2040
• The gamification of everything — sports betting, Polymarket & Kalshi, and $165 billion wagered
• How retail traders and day-trading boomers now move even the biggest stocks
• AI gatekeeping — Anthropic and OpenAI limiting frontier models to 100 companies and the government
• China's open-source AI catching up to the US frontier labs
• Should you put confidential financials into AI? The data privacy debate
• Jersey Mike's dethrones Chick-fil-A and goes public at a $12 billion valuation
• Reformation's IPO and why "retail is dead" is a lie
• Sephora's new "quiet hours" and the future of the in-store experience

⭐ EXCLUSIVE ALES GREY 4TH OF JULY SHOE DEAL ⭐ Steve Pitino is doing the biggest giveaway yet for the 250th. Here's how it works:

1. Head to Walmart.com and buy any Ales Grey shoes (seven colors, including the new Red, White & Blue — made in the USA.
2. For every pair you buy, Ales Grey matches you with a FREE pair of black shoes, unlimited. If you buy 10, get 10 free.
3. The first 25 Catties also get the limited Red, White & Blue pair free — only 250 made in the world, each a one of one, not even available to the public yet.
4. To claim: DM a picture of your receipt to @alesgrey on Instagram and they'll send your free shoes.

Group Chat News is back with the hottest topics of the week. The guys get into Father's Day, youth sports, and the real life lessons hiding in a kid's baseball tournament before diving into LVMH's stunning decline, OnlyFans' $2.6 billion machine, and World Cup mania taking over America.

On this episode of Group Chat, Dee Murthy and Anand Murthy break down:

– LVMH's negative growth and what the decline of Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the luxury giants says about the global economy – The K-shaped recovery, the vanishing middle class, and why a "violent rebound" in luxury may be coming – OnlyFans hitting $2.6 billion in US spending. the cash machine, the brand moat, and the AI creators cashing in – The #1 OnlyFans spending city in America (it's not LA, New York, or Miami) – World Cup mania: SoFi Stadium vs. MetLife, and why the finals should've been in LA – The "Freddy" phenomenon America's viral World Cup hero, and whether the whole thing is a marketing plant – Whether Europeans are really "discovering" America, and why the world sings American songs – Team USA's run, the magic of a hot team, and the country roads takeover – Father's Day real life lessons: learning how to lose the lessons sports teach that carries into business and life

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Hosted by Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Chris "Drama" Pfaff