Group Chat News is back and we have a friend of the pod Mark Brazil catching us up on everything he has going on with Ikonick and Open Residency we jump into some news, including an American won the LA Marathon for the first time in 31 years, USA airlines slash earnings forecasts as economic concerns grow, the national average wholesale price of eggs drops for the third week in a row, Pepsi Co is nearing a 1.5 billion dollar deal for soda brand Poppi, Klarna files for USA ipo, David Sacks sold 200 million in crypto-related holdings before taking his white house position, DeepSeek a national treasure in China is now being closely guarded and more!

Timeline of What Was Discussed:

· Drama's got beef. (0:00)

· Introducing special guest Mark Mastrandrea, Co-Founder of IKONIK and podcast host of Open Residency. (11:26)

· Drama's HUGE plug. (21:40)

· Travel spending is down, is it time to panic? (31:11)

· Shout out to Poppi! (52:04)

· It's good to see some IPOs again. (59:29)

· Nefarious acts by David Sacks? (1:03:05)

· Yet another DeepSeek update. (1:06:23)

· Reading the YouTube comments. (1:08:02)

· Group Chat 'Kathy' Shout Outs. (1:09:08)