🏈 “Endorse My Ball” — Fernando Mendoza’s LinkedIn-ing. Intel’s chip-rip-dip. The Vatican’s AI savior. +Uber Spy Pricing

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Podcast Summary: The Best One Yet

Episode: 🏈 “Endorse My Ball” — Fernando Mendoza’s LinkedIn-ing. Intel’s chip-rip-dip. The Vatican’s AI savior. +Uber Spy Pricing
Date: April 27, 2026
Hosts: Jack & Nick (Nick Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell)

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Episode Overview

This episode delivers three essential, pop-business stories with the show’s signature blend of playful banter and sharp analysis. The hosts break down:

1. The NFL’s No. 1 pick, Fernando Mendoza, and his LinkedIn game-changer move.
2. The “silicon inversion”: chip stocks soaring while software stumbles.
3. The Vatican emerging as an unexpected leader in the global quest to regulate AI and fight misinformation.

Listeners are also treated to memorable moments about “surveillance pricing,” notable lawsuits, and a trivia quick-hit about Spotify’s all-time most-streamed song.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The NFL Draft’s Real Winner: LinkedIn (Fernando Mendoza)

[05:40 - 10:31]

The Story

• Fernando Mendoza, drafted No. 1 by the Las Vegas Raiders, stands out for more than his football skills—he’s a LinkedIn power user.
• The NFL draft’s scale: Pittsburgh’s population doubled (to 600k+) with 320,000 visitors for Draft Day.
• “The NFL draft has become the off season Super Bowl for the NFL…14 million viewers…more than the Grammys and twice the Emmys.” (06:30, Jack)
• Mendoza’s journey, from underdog in high school (1,929th-ranked recruit) to national champion and Heisman winner.
• His unconventional move: Focused his social media presence solely on LinkedIn (240,000 followers), skipping TikTok and Instagram entirely.
• Used LinkedIn for thoughtful career-oriented posts, updates, and even added his Heisman Trophy to his “awards” section.
• Secured creative brand deals—Chief Financial Playmaker for U.S. Bank and Franchise Player at Taco Bell—announced through LinkedIn life updates.

The Insight

• Mendoza’s success demonstrates the value in “scrambling outside the pocket” and building a brand on an overlooked platform.
• Takeaway: “Scramble outside the pocket to find open space for your career.” (09:44, Jack)
• Parallels drawn to T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere, who made the company cool by streaming Facebook Live “slow cooker Sundays.”

Notable Quotes

• “Instead of competing with celebrities and everybody on TikTok and Instagram, he scrambled over to LinkedIn where he found some space.” (09:54, Jack)
• “The best businesses to be in are the ones where there’s zero competition.” (10:20, Nick)

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2. Silicon Inversion: Chips Rip, Software Dips

[10:31 - 15:29]

The Story

• Chip companies like Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and TSMC are surging—Intel at an all-time high for the first time since the dot-com bubble, Broadcom passes $2 trillion market cap, chip ETF up 47% on the year.
• Meanwhile, software stocks are down despite rising sales—Intuit (TurboTax’s parent) dropped 52% as users hack taxes with AI tools instead.
• The great "silicon inversion": As AI tools like Claude replace traditional software, demand for chips to power AI soars, while software companies face competition and shrinking margins.

The Insight

• Market’s hidden signal: Shrinking profit margins on software stocks, even as sales increase, signal trouble—the need to discount for customer retention.
• Takeaway: “There’s a secret SOS signal from the stock market and when you see it, you should be worried.” (14:30, Jack)
• Watch for shrinking margins (“profit puppies” losing steam) as a sign to re-evaluate investments.

Notable Quotes

• “When chips rip, it’s because software slips.” (14:22, Nick)
• “Wall Street’s interpretation of that shrinking margin is that customers are sticking with ServiceNow… only after ServiceNow offered them discounts.” (15:05, Jack)
• “Shrinking margins is a sign of weakness. Means your customers are on the fence and you gotta offer discounts.” (15:19, Nick)
• “When you see it [shrinking margin], don’t say something, do something. Right away.” (15:33, Nick)

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3. The Vatican’s AI Crusade: Toward a “Truth Engine”

[17:32 - 22:28]

The Story

• News of mass tech layoffs—20,000 from Meta & Microsoft—framed the urgency for AI regulations. Yet, most of the world remains paralyzed on policy.
• The Vatican, led by Pope Francis, is the only Western nation to have enacted a formal AI policy, emphasizing moral authority and neutrality.
• Steps taken by the Holy See:
  • Partnered with cybersecurity to protect assets,
  • Advised clergy not to use AI for sermons,
  • Banned AI that could manipulate or threaten, stating, “AI must never overtake or replace human beings.” (19:41, Jack)
• The Vatican aims to lead as a global “referee” for truth in the AI age, potentially pioneering an international “Truth Engine”—a trusted system to verify facts, photos, and videos amidst the sea of AI-generated misinformation.

The Insight

• Concerns over who could build the first global arbiter of digital truth. Nonprofits like Wikipedia seem best suited, but the Vatican is making the first big moves.
• Takeaway: “Could the Vatican build the first ever engine of truth?” (22:07, Nick)

Notable Quotes

• “A 2000-year-old institution has more AI rules than just about any country or any company.” (19:54, Jack)
• “In the age of AI-generated content, it is increasingly crucial for humankind to have this type of source of truth.” (20:39, Nick)
• “It’s the most innovative move by the Church since the steeple.” (20:09, Nick)

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Bonus Segments & Memorable Moments

Surveillance Pricing “Burn Book”

[01:12 – 02:44]

• The hosts highlight the rising trend of “surveillance pricing,” where companies adjust prices based on users’ data—Uber and JetBlue called out.
• Notable: Different Uber ride prices based on the credit card used ($20 with Visa, $33 with Amex Platinum).
• JetBlue’s X (Twitter) account suggests incognito browsers to avoid being tracked—accidentally revealing their own algorithmic price manipulation.
• Call to listeners: “If you see pricing, say pricing.” (02:44, Nick)

Quick Hit Headlines

[22:16 - 23:56]

• ELF & Lululemon class action: Customers want refunds after product price hikes blamed on tariffs, now tariffs are refunded.
• DOJ charges soldier for insider betting on a dictator’s capture (Nicolas Maduro).
• Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman: Lawsuit drama over OpenAI (“If OpenAI changes their name to ‘ClosedAI’ he’ll drop the lawsuit.” 23:36, Nick)

Trivia

[24:04 - 24:42]

• Most streamed song on Spotify in 20 years? The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”
• “The Weeknd has two of the top four songs.” (24:39, Jack)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Surveillance Pricing: 01:12 – 02:44
• Fernando Mendoza / LinkedIn: 05:40 – 10:31
• Chip Rip/Software Dip: 10:31 – 15:29
• Vatican & The “Truth Engine”: 17:32 – 22:28
• Quick Hit Headlines: 22:16 – 23:56
• Spotify Trivia: 24:04 – 24:42

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Tone and Notable Quotes

• Energetic, playful, and informative, continually engaging the listener with lively analogies (football, cooking, “luxury boxes” for social media).
• “The NFL draft has become the off season Super Bowl for the NFL.” (06:30, Jack)
• “Honestly, kind of reminds us of the old CEO of T Mobile…” (10:04, Nick)
• “Holy GPU, Jack.” (20:01, Nick)
• “It’s the most innovative move by the Church since the steeple.” (20:09, Nick)

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Summary Takeaways

• Career Hack: Stand out by using underutilized, less crowded platforms (“Scramble outside the pocket…”).
• Tech Markets: Chip companies thrive as AI’s appetite grows; software faces pressure from commoditized AI tools and shrinking margins are the red flag.
• AI Regulation: The Vatican’s efforts might just seed the much-needed “truth engine” in the era of deepfakes and digital misinformation.
• Watchlist: “If you see spy pricing out there… slide it straight into our DMs.” (02:41, Nick)
• Fun Fact: The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is Spotify’s all-time most-streamed song.

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For listeners and non-listeners alike, this episode delivers timely, insightful, and often hilarious takes on business, tech, and the platforms shaping the future.

Transcript

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This is Nick, this is Jack.

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Welcome back. It is Monday, April 27, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T boy.

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The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.

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Jack, why don't you just play that stock market record on repeat? What do we got, man?

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I think the Dow, NASDAQ and S& P all closed at a all time high on Friday.

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Uh huh. And that's the 7,000th time we have said that this year. Yetis, we've got three fantastic stories for today's all time high. Jack, what do we got on the T boy?

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For our first story, Fernando Mendoza was the number one draft pick in the NFL draft last week. And the Las Vegas Raiders are thrilled.

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But the real winner is actually LinkedIn.

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For our second story, chip stocks are up 18 straight days.

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Wow.

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Intel just shockingly hit an all time high.

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It's all because of the rule of ips. When software dips, chips rip.

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And our third and final story. The world's biggest moves to regulate artificial intelligence are being made by one tiny nation.

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It's the Vatican.

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No joke. The Pope is leading a worldwide AI crusade.

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Ever heard of him?

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It's an awesome story. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix.

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What a mix of stories to kick off the week. No one else doing that mix.

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Jack, Nick and I have been chronicling the rise of something that is worse than surge pricing.

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Jack, I believe you're talking about surveillance pricing.

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Surveillance pricing? When a company stocks you online, uses the data to jack up the price on just you.

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Yeah, they're like that dude drives a Porsche, let's charge him a little extra.

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The lady lives in Beverly hills. And add 10% to the bill.

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And it all started back in December with Instacart.

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We covered it on the POD Consumer Reports found that different people were seeing different prices for the same stuff on Instacart.

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$5 pickle for him, $6 pickle for her. And Jack's dropping $7.50 for a pickle.

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We don't like it. So we're making a personalized pricing burn book to shame these companies.

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Jack, we got a couple new entries to log from over the weekend. Baby, it looks like Uber is now

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doing personalized surveillance pricing.

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Get this, one woman was charged different prices depending on which card she was swiping.

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And the video. Because when she had her Visa card linked, it was a $20 ride.

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But then, Jack, when her Amex Platinum was linked, it was a $33 ride.

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And then JetBlue did something similar, but they said the truth out loud. By accident.

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That's right. Someone complained on Twitter that JetBlue's prices rose 200 bucks on a ticket in one single day.

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The customer sales replied to the tweet, hey, go use your Incognito browser. The price should come back down. Awkward.

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JetBlue deleted the tweet, which is basically. What would you call it, Jack?

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An admission of guilt. JetBlue is tracking your web activity to personalize your pricing.

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So, Yetis, if you see a case of spy pricing out there, slide it straight into our DMs, because we're adding

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it to the surveillance pricing burn book.

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Remember, if you see pricing, say pricing.

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Tag us on Instagram if you see something. We're keeping track.

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If you see pricing, say pricing. Jack, let's.

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for our first story, the number one pick in the NFL Draft is Fernando Mendoza, the new franchise quarterback of the Las Vegas Raiders.

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Here's the surprise, though. He's winning on the field of LinkedIn, and there's a lesson in it that we can all learn.

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Yetis, let's start by sprinkling on some geopolitical context here. Pittsburgh's population, 300,000 humans.

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On Thursday night, the population more than

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doubled because Commissioner Goodell of the NFL says that 320,000 people came to Pittsburgh to watch round one of the football draft.

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Schools actually closed. That's how big a deal it was in Pittsburgh on Thursday.

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No joke. The block in Yellow City ran out of pierogies, Heinz ketchup, and chipped ham. It was that big.

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That is a joke, though, right? They didn't actually do those things, did they?

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I don't think you joke around about chipped ham in Pittsburgh, Jack.

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The NFL draft has become the off season super bowl for the NFL.

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Get this. For 14 million viewers. Now, that's more than the Grammys and twice as much as the Emmys.

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And they've turned it into a whole weekend extravaganza. What used to be just one night is now, what, three nights, Right?

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And this year's number one pick was a foregone conclusion. Who is he, Jack?

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Fernando Mendoza.

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Or to quote the Princess Diaries, my name is Fernando Mendoza.

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After three years at Cal, he transferred to Indiana, a basketball school where he

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went 16 0, won the Heisman Trophy and a national championship. And he can pass, Nick.

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His senior year was immaculate. There's not a single blemish on what happened his senior year.

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I think you would end up in this case. You might be his second string backup quarterback.

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Jack. And here's the wildest part. In high school, he was the 1929th top recruit.

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And now he's the number one pick in the NFL draft, making even Booby Miles jealous.

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And he's probably gonna get the biggest rookie contract of all time, as well

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as as many chipped ham pierogies as he wants. But yetis, there's one fascinating about Fernando. Unlike any other college football player or

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pro football player, he's a LinkedIn power user.

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Get this, he's got 240,000 LinkedIn followers.

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Jack.

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What about TikTok and Instagram?

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He doesn't even have those on his phone, Nick. He's just on LinkedIn.

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And when he graduated early at Berkeley with a business degree, what did he do about it? Write a thought piece on LinkedIn.

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After winning the national title, he kind of went viral for posting on LinkedIn. What winning a national championship taught me about B2B sales. Kidding.

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Kind of, but not really, because then he gave advice on taking career risks, like going for it on fourth down,

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which he famously did in the national championship game to seal the deal.

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Oh, you want more? After the season, he changed his LinkedIn status to open for work.

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He hadn't been drafted yet.

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And then he added his Heisman Trophy to his award section, just like you added your GMAT score.

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Wait, you published your gmat score on LinkedIn?

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I don't want to talk about it, Jack. Oh, and he's endorsed for Excel. Yeah, by multiple people.

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Next thing he's got to do is endorse his left tackle for reliability.

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And that love for LinkedIn has led to creative brand deal opportunities that he sticks in the bullet points of his resume.

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In the last four months, he announced that he's the chief financial playmaker for U.S. bank, the franchise player at Taco Bell. And Both, in classic LinkedIn style, he posted life update statuses.

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Yes, this sounds like one long monologue joke. Yetis we know, but everything we just said is absolutely true.

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Which is why LinkedIn just signed Fernando Mendoza to a TV commercial.

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And in it, he made his brand New job a LinkedIn official NFL quarterback

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from the Haas School of Business and the University of Indiana.

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But I'm sorry, Jack, could we pause the pod for a sec? How about LinkedIn, which has quietly become Microsoft's MVP?

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It's on pace for over $20 billion in revenue this year.

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Besties. LinkedIn has become the luxury box of social media for the ad rates they're charging these days.

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Everybody's watching the field, which is like TikTok and Instagram viral videos.

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Exactly.

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But LinkedIn is the luxury box where the rich are rolling.

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So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddy Fernando Mendoza and everybody on LinkedIn?

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Scramble outside the pocket to find open space for your career.

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Yetis the real insight here from Mendoza is how he stood out in an unlikely place to find a following.

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Instead of competing with celebrities and everybody on TikTok and Instagram, he scrambled over to LinkedIn where he found some space and made a name for himself.

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Honestly, kind of reminds us of the old CEO of T Mobile, right, Jack,

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do you remember during the pandemic, he did slow cooker Sundays everywhere and broadcast it on Facebook live from his kitchen?

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No one was doing Facebook lives like that. So it helped make T Mobile cool. And now it's worth more than Verizon and AT&T.

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We've said that the best businesses to be in are the ones where there's zero competition.

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Well, besties, to get noticed, you might try these slightly unglamorous and overlooked platforms

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as well because there's less competition there.

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NFL draft day just showed us a career hack. Scramble outside the pocket to find open space for your career. For our second story, intel, the dinosaur tech company, just hit an all time high for the first time since the dot com bubble. Yeah, the y2k.com bubble.

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This is the silicon inversion. As software stocks go down, chips go

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up, chip rips, software dips. But yetis. Let's just start with like the most outrageously positive headlines for chip companies we've ever seen. I mean, Jack, what's going on here?

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All of these headlines we're about to tell you happened on Thursday or Friday of last week.

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Follow us on this. Besties, Texas Instruments. You know, from the TI83 calculator you had in high school, their stock jumped 19% last week.

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The company who used to surreptitiously write love messages to the girl next to you in Middle school math.

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What's going on in that class, Jack?

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It's still a publicly traded company. And their stock just had the best day since the year 2000.

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Okay, so that's a story for another pod, Jack. But in the meantime, this TI83 calculator making company jumped from calculators to data centers.

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No more square rooted of whatever your trigonometry teacher put on the blackboard. Their data center revenue was up 90% year over year.

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Yeah, the TI83 never could have pulled that off during an SAT.

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All right, let's pivot over to Intel. The dinosaur has been of the tech industry.

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Well, it is back like Jurassic park, baby. The stock rose 24% on Friday to an all time high.

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It's the first time intel has hit an all time high since the dot com bubble.

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Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. I got one more for you. Broadcom, another chip company closed Friday with a $2 trillion market cap for the first time.

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AMD and ARM, two other chip companies, both jumped 10% on Friday.

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What the heck? Here's one more. TSMC, they make chips. Their stock just hit an all time high. And it wasn't just Friday.

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It's been going on for a while. The iShares ETF that tracks 34 major chip companies has risen 18 straight trading days.

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Add it all up, Yetis, and grab that guac, because chip companies are up 47% this year.

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Nick, my father in law owns Broadcom stock. It's all he talked about all week to me.

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When a boomer owns a tech stock, they will talk about that more than their grandkids. But Yetis, their gain is someone else's pain.

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Their gain being chip companies.

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Because for software companies, it's been opposite day on the stock market.

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Let's look at Intuit. Not a chip company, a software company famous for TurboTax and QuickBooks.

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Now Jack, this tax season you may have paid TurboTax 200 bucks to file your federal and state taxes like usual.

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Or maybe this year you said Claude, I've uploaded my W2s and my 1099s. I also uploaded my credit card statements. Why not do my taxes?

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You asked AI. In fact, you just watched a YouTube video about it. How to use Claude code to automate taxes and bookkeeping.

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That video has 100,000 views and comments that show both individuals and companies are very interested in using Claude to do that work.

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Now remember besties, Intuit does both tax filing and bookkeeping. So its stock, it is down 52% since last July.

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These Claude for tax filing and Claude for bookkeeping. Bookkeeping anecdotes. They explain two key things happening in the stock market right now.

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The two huge things happening in the market right now. First, why software stocks are down.

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They're down because people could use AI instead of use their software.

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And why chip stocks are up.

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Claude needs huge compute to do that software work. Like to analyze your financial statements for potential tax breaks.

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And we brought the receipts yetis because the iShares chip ETF, which is a fund of a bunch of chip companies, it's up 47% so far this year, like we said.

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Meanwhile, the iShares SaaS ETF tracking software stocks, it's down 21%.

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So Jack and I call this phenomenon the great silicon inversion.

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When chips rip, it's because software slips.

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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in the investing game?

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There's a secret SOS signal from the stock market and when you see it, you should be worried.

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Yeti's interesting thing about the software stocks plummeting, their sales are still rising.

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Look at ServiceNet, a software company that said on Wednesday revenues rose 22% last quarter, their best quarter in three quarters.

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But then, Jack, why did their stock shockingly plummet?

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Because their margin shrank. The profit they made for each buck of software sales fell from 81% to 77.

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And now ServiceNow blamed the shrinking profit on a deal that they just did. But Wall street ain't buying that excuse.

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Wall Street's interpretation of that shrinking margin is that customers are sticking with ServiceNow. They're not using AI, but only after ServiceNow offered them discounts.

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You see, besties, widening margins is a sign of strength, that you have pricing power and can bring in the profits.

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Shrinking margins is a sign of weakness. Means your customers are on the fence and you gotta offer discounts.

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And that's the secret SOS signal for stocks shrinking margins on the profit puppies.

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When you see it, don't say something, do something.

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Painful to track. You also got Snapchat laying off a thousand, Nike laying off one and a half thousand and much of them citing the very same single reason AI.

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It feels like the beginning of the mass extinction event that the techies have been warning about.

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So tens of millions of people who work at a computer, they have been Worried you may be one of them.

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And yet America's AI policy is just to get out of the way and let AI rip.

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Thus far, no national regulation yet on AI we're still waiting for this stuff.

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Deep fake bans, chatbot rules, any guard whales for the AI companies at all.

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Anthropic and OpenAI. They've actually been asking for this for years. To be regulated. That's how much we need this kind of a thing.

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They've asked the question, how do we redistribute the huge gains that are coming from AI to make sure millions of people aren't left behind.

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And besties, by the way, we should point out, it ain't just us, it ain't just America.

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No major Western country has come up with a comprehensive plan for what to

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do with AI except record scratch the Vatican.

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The Pope just stood up and said, hey robots, hold my rope.

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The Holy See in Rome has assumed a leadership role in setting AI policy.

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The Pope says that since he doesn't have a military or any commercial interests, he is a uniquely neutral party.

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And given his status as head of the Catholic Church, he has a unique moral authority on the issue too.

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So the Pope is stepping up. He wants the Vatican to be the worldwide referee on what is real in the age of AI.

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The first move. The Vatican's been partnering with cybersecurity firms

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to fortify St. Peter's Basilica. Make sure the hackers can't mess with them right now.

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And then he told the priests not to use AI Whenever you're writing sermons,

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teach the Book of John, not the book of Claude.

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And since the Vatican is a self governing state, they set formal national policy for themselves on AI no other country

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has done this, but the Vatican has. AI must never overtake or replace human beings is one of their rules.

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That's a direct quote from that rule book. Oh, and they banned AI that could manipulate, discriminate or threaten security. They did that at the Vatican.

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Pause. The Podnik, a 2000 year old institution, has more AI rules than just about any country or any company.

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Holy gpu, Jack.

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Now the Pope's hope is that the Church becomes a model that the rest of the world can agree on.

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His other hope? That the Vatican becomes the worst enemy to AI Misinformation. It's the most innovative move by the Church since the steeple. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all the people wondering about AI who will

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create the world's first ever truth engine?

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Yetis. There's a concept in AI circles about something never before built, it's called the

[A]

Truth Engine, A system that can verify anything to be authentic or fake, whether it's facts, photos, or videos.

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You see, in the age of AI generated content, it is increasingly crucial for humankind to have this type of source of truth.

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An arbiter of truth. Yeah, yeah, and no one's built one yet. Maybe because it would likely have to come from a nonprofit like Wikipedia.

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That was, like, the original goal of OpenAI, by the way. Which used to be a nonprofit, but now it's closed. AI It's a for profit. It's not gonna pull that off.

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The Pope hasn't announced he's doing this yet, but the actions coming from the Vatican are causing rumors to swirl.

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Sorry, Jack. This sounds like the next Dan Brown novel, right? Like, but it could be the building of the world's first truth engine.

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The Vatican. It's got the resources, it's got the incentives and the momentum.

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And the moral authority. Yeah, we're not sure they have the coders. The probe has been practicing some vibe coding after the masses. From what we've been hearing.

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It's exciting to think about in an age of AI misinformation. We need a Truth Engine.

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Yes, we do.

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Could it actually come from the Sistine Chapel?

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Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week?

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Fernando Mendoza is a Heisman Trophy winner, a number one NFL draft pick, and an influencer on LinkedIn.

[B]

The career hack lesson here. Scramble outside the pocket where there's space. It's easier to get noticed.

[A]

Second story. Software stocks, led by intel, have risen 18 straight trading days as software dips chips, rip.

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Dips chips and rips. The secret SOS stock signal. Yetis shrinking margins.

[A]

And our third and final story. The Pope is trying to fill the leadership vacuum on a framework to handle AI.

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Could the Vatican build the first ever engine of truth?

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But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today.

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First, ELF and Lululemon have got an awkward situation going on. J.

[A]

Both brands are getting sued by consumers in a class action fashion because they want their tariff refunds.

[B]

Yeah, remember during the trade war, ELF raised makeup prices, Lulu raised legging prices, and they both blamed the tariffs on it.

[A]

Now that the government is refunding those tariffs, you want your 15 bucks back because that's how much the price got jacked up on your yoga pants.

[B]

Those align yoga pants. We paid a little extra for those bad boys.

[A]

And as we mentioned last week, we think Lululemon should Just give it out. It'd be a great marketing promotion.

[B]

And second, we just got the biggest action yet to crack down on insider predicting in the prediction markets.

[A]

The DOJ just charged a soldier with insider trading on when Nicolas Maduro would be captured.

[B]

Why? Well, funny thing, because he was the special forces soldier who helped capture Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

[A]

And he allegedly bet on that confidential information on prediction marks markets, netting a $400,000 profit.

[B]

And finally, the super story we'll be watching this week is Elon versus Altman, the billionaire beef of the century.

[A]

The epic trial between tech's two biggest names today begins today in Oakland.

[B]

Remember Yetis? Elon Co founded OpenAI and now he claims that Sam Altman and OpenAI defrauded him.

[A]

Although Elon did tweet last year that if OpenAI changes their name to closed AI, he would drop the lawsuit.

[B]

Which we hope is the plot twist here. If this gets any juicier besties, Andy Cohen is going to go turn this thing into a Bravo reality show.

[A]

This is kind of a Bravo reunion show because those two used to be buddies and now they hate each other.

[B]

Real Housewives of Pacific Heights. Now time for the best fact yet, which because it's Monday, means T Boy, Insider trivia. Jack, what do we got today?

[A]

20 years ago, Larry, last week, Spotify launched the first ever music streaming.

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And they celebrated the occasion last week by sharing the top played music, audiobooks and podcasts since that day 20 years ago.

[A]

So here's the trivia. What was the most streamed song ever on Spotify over the last 20 years?

[B]

Okay, you've seen this. I have not seen this yet. You're ready for this one, right?

[A]

What surprised me is that it's not Taylor Swift and it's not Bad Bunny. Who are the number one and two most dreamed musicians of the last 20 years?

[B]

Okay, it's the Weeknd.

[A]

Blinding Lights is the most streamed song ever on Spotify.

[B]

The Weeknd.

[A]

In fact, the Weeknd has two of the top four songs.

[B]

Yetis. Welcome back from the Weeknd. Yetis, you're looking fantastic. Jack, you are glowing over there. And as always, the pricing on this podcast remains free. Baby, we ain't surveillance pricing you over here.

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Yeah, our agent thinks that we should add an extra price for the Malibu List listeners. But we're not doing it.

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No, we're not gonna do it.

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Same price for everybody.

[B]

But besties, if you see some spy pricing out there, remember, if you see pricing, say pricing.

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Nick and I will be back with you tomorrow.

[B]

And before we go A happy belated birthday to legendary Yeti Riddell in Whittier, California. This comes from Diana. If you know, you know.

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Happy 28th birthday to Mac Frederick who's playing bagpipes in the San Diego Scotland Pipe Band right now.

[B]

Who would have thought? And Amanda Mondegnato is celebrating with her mom and 6 month old Luke getting a much deserved massage for the week.

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Happy Birthday to Jeanette Rodriguez in Hollister,

[B]

California and Javier Ortiz enjoy the birthday over in New Jersey and happy Birthday

[A]

to Matt Lavetsky also in New Jersey

[B]

and Lindsay LESNAR Enjoy the 34th over in Reno.

[A]

Happy Birthday to Trisha Chandler in Brooklyn just outside Manhattan celebrating with Eisha.

[B]

Any restaurant wrecks, drop them in the comments. They want a good one for New York. And Robbie just earned his wings of gold for completing his training as a naval aviator in Florida flying the OL

[A]

MH60 Seahawk, a listener since 2019 back when he was in tech sales in San Francisco. Robbie, thank you for your service.

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And Emma Pellegrino just got a new job at the Aspen Institute and she is crushing the triathlons while she does it.

[A]

Happy 14 year anniversary to take Taylor

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and Becca Vogan and Liz Dehorn is crushing surgery like it's a walk in the park in Charleston. She's a gritty NDA.

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