A business quarter away and the world went feral without me. New York just hired a 34-year-old foreclosure counselor to run the most financially influential city on the planet, and everyone’s acting weird about it.

The craziest part is how the internet tricked all of us into thinking we should have opinions about everything, all the time. Elections aren’t thoughtful committee decisions anymore. They’re individual panic attacks aggregated into policy. And yet… stocks keep going up, we’ve got fresh water, and life is still somehow pretty good. Welcome back to the chaos.

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You really think you're gonna win by making the best underwear? The best shampoo? The best anything? Cute. The truth is, most of the time, the world doesn’t want the best. It just wants something. A thing that exists. A hotel that’s not the worst. A gym that’s $10 a month. A pair of Skechers. 

This one’s for every founder who’s stalling their launch because they think their product isn’t perfect yet. 

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If I had a dollar for every time someone called a starter home an “investment,” I’d be… well, not rich, but a lot richer. Let’s talk about why buying a house you can’t afford, just to repaint the walls, might not be the flex you think it is. Especially when two-thirds of your mortgage is just a fancy rent payment to the bank.

Also: a bartender smells suspiciously good, which leads me to uncover portals into alternate economic realities where making drinks at the airport nets you six figures. Oh, and I no longer believe in overcommunication. 

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This was one of those days when the world feels like it’s running on 1200 mg of caffeine and everything is annoying, from the 3 PM weekday traffic to the course-selling scammers, and the absolute circus that is NYC politics.

Why are there always people at Target at 10 AM on a Tuesday? Who’s still eating at Olive Garden? Why do crypto bros only trade at 2 am? Welcome to more of a therapy session than an episode of The Soup of Wall Street.

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Is it better to be flashy or just really freaking consistent? “Boring” just might be the ultimate business strategy. For example Warren Buffett, with his low-key empire in Omaha, routinely skips the spotlight.

Aren’t you tired of being told to “be louder” when you’re just trying to do your job well? In this episode, I’m joined by Brodrick Lothringer in a collaboration with his show, The Fintape. 

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This week I got blamed for bugs, told I invest too safely by a guy who lost $2 million, and remembered why most networking advice is useless. People say wild stuff with full confidence and zero self-awareness. Honestly, I’m just here to report the chaos.

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What do you get when you road trip through America in a Tesla, vlog with 106 YouTube followers, and try to import Canadian coffee mugs? A weirdly accurate snapshot of the modern economy, recorded from a hotel room in Bentonville—where everything feels fake, everyone works for Walmart, and your car decides where you're allowed to drive.

Between heatstroke in Texas, supercharger roulette in Oklahoma, and the realization that tariffs turned $600 mugs into a $1,200 mistake, this episode is part travel diary, part economic fever dream. If you've ever wondered what it's like to live inside a glitchy simulation run by algorithms, spreadsheets, and Walmart's HR department... you're in the right place.

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We’ve been sold the idea that more tools = more productivity. But what if the “helpful” things—email apps, calendar pings, handwritten parking notes—are actually making life harder, not better?

In this episode, we talk about the difference between being useful and being effective. Why Warren Buffett doesn’t pay dividends. Why deleting your email app might be the best decision you’ll ever make. And why asking strangers not to park on public streets is… not a strategy.

Turns out, doing less might get you a whole lot further.

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You ever pay for something that felt ridiculous—but you still did it? That’s not a pricing mistake. That’s capitalism at work. 

From The Masters to Coachella, we unpack how sky-high prices aren’t scams—they’re love letters from the free market saying, “You want this more than your money.”

Because when you roll your eyes and still tap your card? That’s not greed. That’s just how value works now.

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The market just threw its biggest fit since COVID… and nobody noticed. Restaurants are packed, streets are buzzing, and if you didn’t check your portfolio, you’d never know the S&P was spiraling. Unlike 2020’s synchronized collapse, today’s economic weirdness is a solo act.

So while the wealthy lose sleep over red charts, debt-holders might actually benefit. Call it a silent wealth tax, with bonds back in style and international stocks showing up to play. Meanwhile, the average American is more tuned into Taylor Swift than Treasury yields.

This isn’t just a blip—it might be the first market-led shift since 2008. The question is: will Wall Street’s mess eventually spill onto Main Street, or are we entering a new kind of economic split-screen?

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