🏙️ “JamieLand” — JPM’s Return-to-Office Tower. Scoreability’s LinkedIn for Athletes. Walmart’s Store of the Future. +Pumpkin Spice Weddings

Summary

The Best One Yet — October 13, 2025

Episode: 🏙️ “JamieLand” — JPM’s Return-to-Office Tower. Scoreability’s LinkedIn for Athletes. Walmart’s Store of the Future. + Pumpkin Spice Weddings
Hosts: Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell
Podcast: Nick & Jack Studios

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Episode Overview

Today’s episode highlights three standout business stories: the unveiling of JP Morgan’s massive new headquarters “Jamieland,” Scoreability’s ambitious “LinkedIn for college athletes,” and Walmart’s innovative new car service centers. Alongside these stories, Nick and Jack deliver their signature light banter, relatable anecdotes, and pop-culture-infused insights for a bright start to your week.

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1. Pumpkin Spice Weddings: Why October is Taking Over

(00:48-03:26)

• October is rapidly becoming a top month for weddings, overtaking June and September.
• June’s popularity stems from ancient Roman traditions honoring Juno, goddess of marriage and childbirth. June usually means good weather, but there are only four weekends—a recipe for scarcity.
• September’s weather is now disrupted by hurricanes due to climate change, pushing couples to October.
• “October has emerged as the Goldilocks month for weddings.” (02:53, Jack)
• October offers “off-peak pricing,” pleasant weather, and fewer sweaty brides.
• Big tip: Watch out for the Halloween effect—Uncle Ned might show up in a questionable costume!
  • Memorable moment: “The only risk to your October wedding is Uncle Ned showing up in a borderline offensive Halloween costume.” (03:13, Jack)

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2. Story 1: JP Morgan’s “Jamieland”—A New Era in Return-to-Office

(06:09-11:24)

Highlights:

• JP Morgan opens a colossal new headquarters on 48th and Park—14,000 employee capacity, 1,400 feet tall, surpassing Apple's Silicon Valley HQ.
• Amenities rival luxury hotels: a 40,000-square-foot gym, 19 restaurants (including Sweetgreen, Dirt Candy), cafes on every floor, 24/7 access, and even a custom building scent.
  • “There are more creature comforts in this building than a Four Seasons five star hotel.” (07:33, Jack)
  • “The gym is 40,000 square feet, two times larger than a typical Planet Fitness.” (07:39, Nick)
• Employees navigate building amenities using a custom JP Morgan app and must use biometric scans for entry.
• The building also acts as an urban campus, with JP Morgan buying five neighboring buildings—shifting New York's business gravity eastward.
  • “This is not just a building, it’s a neighborhood.” (09:43, Nick)

Takeaway:

• Jamie Dimon is using this $3 billion skyscraper as a massive investment in the return-to-office (RTO) trend.
• Physical office space is being reaffirmed as central to company culture despite remote work trends and AI innovations.
  • “The future is like pottery. It doesn’t just happen. It’s shaped by people.” (10:21, Jack)
  • “Jamie Dimon just gave 3 billion reasons to think that physical office real estate is the future.” (11:06, Nick)

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3. Story 2: Scoreability—The LinkedIn for College Athletes

(11:24-15:18)

Highlights:

• Getting recruited for college sports is a slog involving endless networking, emails, and costly camps. Scoreability wants to digitize and democratize this with an online recruiting platform modeled after LinkedIn.
• $51 million raised; already signed up 1.2 million student athletes and 3,000 colleges.
• Platform standardizes data, verifies athletic metrics (e.g., height, wingspan via video), and connects directly with coaches—coaches/universities pay, not athletes.
  • “Scorability lets players verify their measurables like height, vertical jump, wingspan. With video evidence.” (13:46, Nick)
  • Memorable moment: “I slipped index cards into my shoes to appear one inch taller. That was my brother's idea, by the way, and it got me in.” (12:40, Jack)
• Reflects a boom in college sports commercialization: jersey deals, pay for players, and endorsements now allowed.

Takeaway:

• College athletics is now a full-blown, for-profit, growth industry—Scoreability’s marketplace is poised to grab a piece of this booming market.
  • “College athletics is now a growth industry, and it’s for profit.” (14:25, Jack)
  • “This is a huge multi billion dollar opportunity.” (14:43, Jack quoting VCs)

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4. Story 3: Walmart’s Car Centers of the Future

(17:38-21:56)

Highlights:

• Walmart launches tech-upgraded car centers at 10 locations—plans to expand to all 2,600 with tire centers.
• Main innovation: fully digitized, app-based check-in. Customers drop off keys in lockers and can shop in Walmart while their cars are serviced—targeted especially at busy parents.
  • “The goal of these new car centers is to save customers time.” (18:48, Jack)
  • “You shop because you’re at Walmart… while your car’s oil gets changed.” (19:49, Jack)
• Double-dip: Walmart benefits from both car service and increased in-store shopping during wait times.
• Frames Walmart as the ultimate "Omnichannel" retailer—seamlessly blending online and in-person experiences (unlike “purebreds” Amazon and Costco).
  • “Walmart is a labradoodle.” (17:55, Nick)
  • "Walmart always dominated physical retail, but they invested massively in online and e-commerce when Amazon arrived." (21:28, Jack)

Takeaway:

• Omnichannel is like a Labradoodle: the best of both breeds, or in this case, both retail worlds. Walmart’s hybrid model is driving record growth and success.
  • “Walmart is the only mixed breed in the big retail pack. It’s the Labradoodle.” (21:56, Nick)

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5. Quick Hits & Notable Quotes

(23:05-24:27)

• Market Run: The S&P 500’s current bull market has lasted three years and risen 88%.
• Trump Tariffs: New tariffs on China led to a recent 2.5% stock market drop.
• NBA Returns to China: After a six-year ban following a Hong Kong protest controversy, NBA games return, and Alibaba scores an AI deal with the league.
• Levi’s Update: Levi’s stock dips 10% on tariff concerns; half of Levi’s sales are now from “tops” (e.g., jean jackets), not bottoms.

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6. Best Fact Yet / T-Boy Trivia

(24:36-25:17)

• Bug Bounty Question: What’s the highest reward Apple offers for finding a critical bug in their code?
• Explanation: Tech companies pay “bug bounties” to find and fix code mistakes before hackers do.

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7. Memorable Quotes & Banter

• On the luxury of JP Morgan's tower:
  • “It’s like the Burberry of buildings.” (07:39, Nick)
• On the omnichannel revolution:
  • “Omnichannel—it’s like a labradoodle. You get the best of both worlds.” (20:53, Jack)
• On recruiting for college athletics:
  • “College recruiting is less about your 40-yard dash speed and more about your networking skills.” (12:15, Nick)
• On October weddings:
  • “The only risk to your October wedding is Uncle Ned showing up in a borderline offensive Halloween costume.” (03:13, Jack)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pumpkin Spice Weddings: 00:48–03:26
• JPM “Jamieland” Story: 06:09–11:24
• Scoreability / LinkedIn for Athletes: 11:24–15:18
• Walmart Car Centers / Omnichannel: 17:38–21:56
• Quick Hits & Notable Quotes: 23:05–24:27
• T-Boy Trivia: 24:36–25:17

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Episode Tone & Style

Nick and Jack balance energy and wit, infusing the pod with relatability (“besties,” “profit puppy,” “double dip”), pop-culture references, and practical takeaways for business-savvy listeners. Their engaging storytelling keeps the pacing brisk and the insights actionable.

Transcript

[A]

This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, October 13, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T boy, the top.

[B]

Three pop business news stories you need to know today.

[A]

I'm sorry, am I co hosting this podcast with the Maya Angelou of the stock market over there?

[B]

Are you tooting my horn from my poem again?

[A]

Jack, your poem on Nvidia went viral over the weekend. I didn't want to tell you this. I wanted to save this for the show. A yeti came up to me on Friday and said that your Nvidia poem was the highest highlight of their month.

[B]

So it went viral with an audience of one at least.

[A]

No, no, you gotta see this thing. Yetis. We're posting it on T. Boypod on Instagram. Jack's publicly traded poem on Nvidia. Nvidia stock did fall after you recited that poem, I should point out. Oh, shoot. The whole stock market fell actually on Friday. But besties, Jack and I have three fantastic stories to kick off the week. Jack, what's on the pod?

[B]

For our first story, JPMorgan Chase just opened its new headquarters building in New York City. It's 1,400ft tall, and it's got 19 restaurants inside the building.

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Jack and I call it Jamieland. And its opening will influence every white collar worker in America.

[B]

For our second story, what if collegiate athletics got their own version of LinkedIn?

[A]

Well, a startup called Scoreability has raised 50 million bucks to get you committed to Clemson with one click.

[B]

And our third and final story is Walmart, because they just unveiled the car center of the future, and it's coming to 2,600 locations.

[A]

Because besties, Walmart ain't a purebred retailer. Walmart is a mixed breed Labradoodle.

[B]

But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

[A]

Fantastic mix of stories, perfect mix to kick off the week.

[B]

Jack, we know where you were last weekend.

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Wedding, baby. Because it is pumpkin spice wedding season.

[B]

October has quietly crept up there as a top month to get married.

[A]

June and September, you have long been the most popular months for marriages out there.

[B]

But October is surging and the context is wild.

[A]

Jack, why don't you sprinkle it on, baby?

[B]

The tradition of June being the most popular wedding month isn't just about the weather. It actually goes back to ancient Rome.

[A]

You see, Juno was the goddess of marriage and childbirth, and June conveniently happens.

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To be a month of warm weather.

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I mean, Jack, remember them 2009 movie Bride Wars?

[B]

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway battling Over one wedding weekend at the Plaza Hotel in June.

[A]

But with only four weekends in June, we got a scarcity problem here. September became the 2 most popular month.

[B]

Because July and August were just too hot.

[A]

But Jack, now September has its own weather problems. Hurricanes.

[B]

With climate change, there's increasing odds that rain will ruin your big day for a September wedding.

[A]

Although if you're getting married next year in September, don't worry, you'll be fine. So October has emerged as the Goldilocks month for weddings.

[B]

It's not too hot in October.

[A]

You won't sweat through the dress, but.

[B]

It'S not too cold either.

[A]

You can still go with the open toe shoes.

[B]

Plus you benefit from off peak pricing.

[A]

And you know what that means, Jack. Oh, yeah.

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Now the only risk to your wedding happening in an October weekend.

[A]

I know what it is, Jack. You want to tell the Yetis?

[B]

It's that Uncle Ned shows up in a borderline offensive Halloween costume.

[A]

Oh, besties, you gotta get specific about the October dress code.

[B]

Uncle Ned sends his best from the grave.

[A]

What are we working with? What are we working with? Jack?

[B]

Let's hit our three stories.

[A]

Fifteen years before this song, Two boys from the northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet. But the best is the norm. Jack. Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice.

[B]

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[A]

That's a fat tip. T. Boy City on your @ Liz. If you know, you know. Cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more. So just start the show. Start the show. First, a quick word from our sponsor.

[B]

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[A]

You know, Jack, something I thought about in therapy last week. If I were a therapist, I would need my own therapist.

[B]

Think of the questions, the venting, the complaints, the tears that we all bring into that leather couch.

[A]

I mean, therapist me would need a break. For me, you know, relieving other people's trauma every day for work, that could be pretty traumatic.

[B]

It's secondhand trauma. Now, they do get paid to hear it. But still, I appreciate how welcoming my therapist is to hear all my issues.

[A]

Good point. Good point, Jack. Good point.

[B]

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[A]

We're already thinking about holiday vacation. You gotta book these things early these days.

[B]

Are you kidding? I booked my holiday vacation like six months ago. I do it like the Germans right after my Christmas vacation. I book next year's Christmas vacation for 2028.

[A]

Okay. But also full disclosure, Yeti, I'm jealous here because I'm paying for my whole trip. But Jack, you have money from your Airbnb helping pay for yours.

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You can host your entire place or just your extra space.

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Really satisfying feeling, by the way, when my guest messages me that their first night went wonderfully, it just puts me at ease. And it's like, wow, I am making money right now and somebody's having a great time.

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So you're going to give a day away for free?

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No, I wouldn't say that yet.

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[A]

For our first story, welcome to Jamieland, America's biggest bank. JP Morgan just opened its brand new New York City skyscraper.

[B]

It should be called back to the Office Tower because this building is gonna influence every worker in America.

[A]

Now, Yetis, Jack and I a few years ago worked at banks and at the time, Goldman Sachs simply had the best office in the city.

[B]

I walked past it every day. There was a mural in the lobby that was definitely custom commissioned. And I wanted to go in there like a museum.

[A]

It was like the Equinox spa of offices.

[B]

They had their own ferry to ferry them across the Hudson River.

[A]

But Yetis, here's the update. Now it is JP Morgan Chase's new skyscraper, or as we call it, Jamieland, that has taken over the mantle.

[B]

It's at 48th street and Park Avenue. It can hold up to 14,000 employees. And it's just one building. For context, that is more capacity than Apple's headquarters on that campus in Silicon Valley.

[A]

They broke Ground in 2021. Completed in August. And finally this month, people are moving in.

[B]

Nick, it took three times as many people to build this tower than it took to build the Empire State building.

[A]

Jack, this J.P. morgan Tower is taller than the Empire State Building at 1400ft.

[B]

This is like as tall as the World Trade center was.

[A]

But besties. What Jack and I find fascinating here is something bigger than the engineering. It's the amenities.

[B]

Because there are more creature comforts in this building than a Four Seasons five star hotel.

[A]

It's like the Burberry of buildings. Get this, the gym is 40,000 square feet, two times larger than a typical Planet Fitness. Now, Yetis, maybe the wildest feature of all is this. A custom smell.

[B]

That's right. They commissioned. What do they call them in France? A nose. So that every pitch room in the whole building has the same hint of hibiscus.

[A]

There's even an art collection gifted by the Rockefellers throughout the tower.

[B]

Yes, that is a real Monet and.

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It will motivate you. But Yetis, the real story here is that Jamie doesn't want you working here. He wants you living here.

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Yeah, the tower, it's open 24 7. And every life necessity is included in the building. It's a subliminal message that, yeah, you should be in this building pretty much all the time.

[A]

There's no excuse to go home. But frankly, when you hear these details, you may not want to go home. I mean, Jack, the key is the restaurants. Can we talk about the food situation?

[B]

There are 19 different restaurants in this.

[A]

Building on three floors. That's like more than in most of SoHo, man.

[B]

It's more than your typical, like, shopping mall food court too, although it's way fancier.

[A]

Oh, you don't want to take the elevator. No problem. There's a cafe on each of the building's 60 floors as well.

[B]

There's a sweetgreen restaurant inside the building.

[A]

Dirt Candy, the award winning vegan restaurant you can't get a reservation at. Downtown. They also got a location in the JP Morgan building.

[B]

There's even a Starbucks on the 14th floor so you can pumpkin spice those spreadsheets.

[A]

Now, besties. We checked in with our buddies who work there. And to navigate all of this, you had to use an app that JP Morgan built just for the building.

[B]

And according to the Financial Times, employees must provide their eyeball and fingerprint biometrics to access the building. So, yeah, outsiders not welcome without a sponsor.

[A]

But Jack, once you're an insider inside the building, these circadian custom lighting mimics natural light so your 18 hour day doesn't feel like one fluorescent blur.

[B]

Yeah, if you're wrapping up that IPO pitch deck at 2am, you got Twilight vibes on your 37th floor cubicle, which is soothing.

[A]

And yes, you can still order the Starbucks Frappuccino besties. This is not just a building, it is a neighborhood.

[B]

J.P. morgan bought five nearby buildings. It's an urban campus.

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It's a multi block campus. Call it Midtown Morgan. Call it JP Village. We're calling it Jamieland.

[B]

For New Yorkers, this new tower shifts the gravity of power from west side to east side.

[A]

Yeah, looking at you. Hudson Yards.

[B]

Awkward. And for the rest of the country, this tower shifts the status quo as well.

[A]

And that is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over up on the 60th floor of JP Morgantower?

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The future is like pottery. It doesn't just happen. It's shaped by people.

[A]

Yeti's Jamie Dimon is the longest serving big bank CEO. He's the only one left from the great financial crisis. And he is a fascinating person.

[B]

Since he took over 20 years ago, the stock of JP Morgan has 9x'd. It's worth nearly a trillion dollars today.

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Biggest bank in the country. In addition to that business success, Jamie is also the leader of corporate America in general. Specifically on return to office.

[B]

Well, his $3 billion skyscraper is the biggest investment yet in the return to office movement.

[A]

You see besties, if your CEO is uncertain about their return to office situation, or if you're a founder and you're uncertain about it and you're not sure big offices are needed in an AI future.

[B]

Well, Jamie Dimon just gave 3 billion reasons to think that physical office real estate is the future of corporate America.

[A]

Like it or not, this tower will probably shift the pendulum toward in office culture.

[B]

Yetis, there's millions of companies that will determine America's corporate future. But they'll look toward leaders for guidance.

[A]

You see, the future, it doesn't just happen. It's shaped by individual people. Like Jamie Dimon making big bets. For our second story. Score ability has raised $51 million in venture capital money to scale the LinkedIn for athletics.

[B]

With college sports looking more like pro sports, Scorability has found a lucrative new marketplace.

[A]

Now Yetis Jack and I can tell you from personal experience that for high school athletes trying to get recruited to play sports in college. Oh man. Dude, it is a slog.

[B]

Unless you're like the 28th Manning brother and coaches are coming to you. You as the athlete, have to email coaches your game tapes. You have to attend like, expensive camps on the weekend.

[A]

Jack, you probably have got a Salesforce account just to keep track of all I was trying to convince coaches we even played lacrosse.

[B]

New York City. Whether you got recruited to play sports in college depends just as much on your networking skills as your 40 yard dash time.

[A]

Oh, I'm sorry, little Johnny. How'd you get into Georgetown for water polo?

[B]

Well, my mom took a class in video editing and mailed my highlight tape to 100 programs.

[A]

Hey, Jack, you want to admit something for the Yetis, though? Why don't we pause the pod and you can share your little secret?

[B]

When I visited Middlebury College to meet the football coach.

[A]

Yeah, your little secret.

[B]

I slipped index cards into my shoes to appear one inch taller. That was my brother's idea, by the way, and it got me in.

[A]

Well, Yetis one startup has realized that when there are two sides of a market struggling to connect, that is a platform opportunity.

[B]

Which leads to the news. A startup called scoreability just raised $40 million and their product borrows a bunch of tricks from the tech world.

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You see, like other industries, sports recruiting is now happening mainly online.

[B]

There's no more coaches traveling to your living room to pitch you to come to Penn State to play football. That's not happening anyone.

[A]

Recruiting is happening remotely and increasingly on an app like scorability.

[B]

And scoreability offers standardization like Airbnb requires a property listings. Scorability requires uniform metrics about high school.

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Athletes so coaches can compare and contrast and filter results based on academics, athletic performance or geography.

[B]

Scoreability also has Data verification like StockX requires authentication of sneakers. Scorability lets players verify their measurables like.

[A]

Height, vertical jump, wingspan. You prove they are real with video evidence on the app, which I suppose.

[B]

Would have caught my index card trick. It also has the same business model as tech, like Zillow. Only one side pays for Zillow. It's the realtors for scoreability. It's the coaches and the universities.

[A]

Add it all up and a platform has now arrived for college sports recruiting.

[B]

I wonder if they have endorsements. Like, I tried to tackle my buddy Timmy. He absolutely pancaked me. He belongs at whatever program you're working for.

[A]

Jack. What you're saying is this is the LinkedIn for lacrosse, right? We'll take it. We'll take it. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Scorability?

[B]

College athletics is now a growth industry and it's for profit.

[A]

Yeti's scoreability already is 1.2 million athletes and 3,000 colleges signed up to the platform.

[B]

But the reason venture Capital has invested 50, $51 million into Scorability. It's not amateur athletics.

[A]

No. As the investors put it, this is a huge multi billion dollar opportunity.

[B]

Yetis as recently as 10 years ago, alcohol sales were banned at NCAA games, players were banned from being paid, and players couldn't transfer without taking a full season off.

[A]

Okay, but everything Jack just said has now changed, right?

[B]

Man in fact, LSU just signed the first jersey sponsorship deal in NCAA history.

[A]

Besties add it all up and score ability's long term value is in taking a piece of college sports commercialization because.

[B]

College athletics is a growth industry and it's for profit.

[A]

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[B]

It's about four men. The four men who ruled New York City the year that you were born.

[A]

Nick, I gotta give my parents credit. Check. New York in 1988 was insane. It was like mob bosses, gang fights, and all these subway cars covered in graffiti. It's like seeing how the city was run when my mom was like pregnant with me. I'm blown away by this whole new imagination.

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Yeah, last night while I was doing the dishes, Jack, I listened to a story about the abysmal late 1980s New York Yankees.

[B]

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[A]

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[A]

For our third and final story, Walmart just launched the car centers of the future. Walmart is adding techiness to their 2,600 tire centers.

[B]

This story highlights how Amazon is the Internet, Costco is bricks and mortar, but Walmart is both.

[A]

Walmart is a labradoodle. Now, besties, we should point out we've got a lot of you listening right now down around Walmart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Right, Jack?

[B]

Enjoy the mountain biking this weekend, I bet.

[A]

Yeah, we bet you did some mountain biking.

[B]

And on Friday, our LinkedIn feed was stacked with messages like this. A big thank you to all our cross functional partners who worked tirelessly the past few months to make this launch possible.

[A]

Yeah, classic LinkedIn. And the this that's referred to in that LinkedIn message is a new store concept, the Autocar Centers of the future.

[B]

They're open today at 10Walmarts in Arkansas. And if this works, they're going to expand it to all 2600 Walmarts that have tire and car service centers.

[A]

So Jack and I were curious. Like a techified car center of the future, is this like a rocket ship car center? Like a flying self driving car center? What are we working with here, Waymo?

[B]

What's going on? Well, to understand the strategy, let's look at the goal. The goal of these new car centers is to save customers time.

[A]

And the target for a digitized car service center, parents with kids, those with the leave time. In fact, parents happen to be the biggest spending demographic of retail customers, so it makes sense to target them.

[B]

And here's why. They're targeting parents. Every time you need to get your car something done with your car, they say, yeah, just leave the vehicle with us and we'll have it ready for you by 5 o'. Clock.

[A]

Okay, but if you're a parent, that doesn't work, Jack, right?

[B]

No, you need your car to drop off your kids at school and pick them up afterwards. And no, you can't just take an Uber. You need the car seats that are set up in your car already.

[A]

I learned that the hard way last year. So Walmart is letting you schedule your car service on an app and do the entire thing contactless.

[B]

Here's how it's gonna go down. You're gonna park your car near the Walmart car center, check in on your app at your scheduled time, and then drop off your keys in a locker designated for you.

[A]

And then, Jack, while your car is getting worked on, what do you end up doing?

[B]

You shop because you're at Walmart. You hit up aisle six during your car's oil change.

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The app then pings you when the chassis is fixed. You go back to your locker an hour later, and then your key is waiting for you.

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Boom. Your car got worked on while you did your Walmart shopping.

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Anyway, what this is really, and this is the powerful strategy here, is captive retail, right, Jack?

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Customers have no choice but to fill up their shopping cart the two to three times a year they do their car service.

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So it's also kind of a bit of a double dip from Walmart, isn't it, Jack?

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Walmart got your oil change and your Sunday grocery shopping.

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Ka ching ka ching.

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Double dip.

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Double dip. Profit puppy.

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But this is also Omni retail.

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Yes, it is. And that is a cue for our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our techie buddies over at Walmart?

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Costco and Amazon, they're purebreds. Walmart is mixed breed.

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Now, Yeti's Omnichannel is a frustratingly jargony concept, but is basically using the Internet to make in person shopping more efficient.

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Omnichannel, it's like a labradoodle. You get the best of both worlds. You get Labrador like athleticism, but poodle like hypoallergenicness.

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Yeah, Omnichannel is online and offline shopping.

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Now.

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Amazon dabbled with Amazon Fresh. Amazon, go Whole Foods. But none of those brick and mortar physical efforts really worked.

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Costco has dabbled in online shopping. It's available technically, but Costco's experience is very unchanged from 20 years ago.

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However, Walmart is the one big box giant truly fluent in both physical retail and digital retail. And it's working.

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Walmart always dominated physical retail, but they invested massively in online and E commerce when Amazon arrived.

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On the digital side, they've got a techie style bougie campus down in Arkansas doing the Unsexy but important work of building tech features.

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And the result is Omni retail. Walmart's shopping strength is both. In person, online, or some kind of a mix of both.

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Oh, and what's the other result? If you're a shareholder, Jack, Walmart stock.

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Has nearly tripled in the last three to an all time high.

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You see Costco and Amazon, yeah, they're purebreds. But Walmart is the only mixed breed in the big retail pack. It's the Labradoodle. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week?

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J.P. morgan's new headquarters sets a new standard in office amenities. We call it back to the Office.

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Tower Jamie, or we call it Jamieland.

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Because the future is like pottery.

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Doesn't just happen, it's shaped by individual people.

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For our second story, it's Scorability. They've raised $51 million as they create a recruiting platform for NCAA programs. Basically LinkedIn for athletics.

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Because coming from a recruited athlete in Jack and a walk on in me, college athletics is now a growth industry and is for profit.

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I was walk on too, bro. I tried to recruit myself. They didn't reciprocate.

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You were also kind of in high heels based on the story about the cards.

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And our third and final story is Walmart. They're techifying their car and tire centers to save busy parents time.

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Amazon and Costco, they're the purebreds. But Walmart is a super mutt.

[B]

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

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First, congratulations and happy birthday to the bull market. That's right, the stock market's upward run has now gone on for three years straight. A three year anniversary.

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Three years ago yesterday the stock market hit a low. Since then, The S&P 500 is up 88% now.

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Funny. Quick update here. The stock market tanked 2.5% on Friday after President Trump unleashed new tariffs on China.

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100% in extra new taxes on stuff we import from China. He was very mad and markets did not like the escalation.

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But still, it's been a wild three year run. And second, speaking of China, the NBA just returned to China after a six year battle break because China banned the.

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NBA in 2019 after one general manager criticized the country's handling of protesters that were happening in Hong Kong.

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But things have cooled and there's a lot of money in China. So there were two games over the weekend and Yao Ming was pumped.

[B]

So is Alibaba, which won the NBA's AI deal over in China.

[A]

And finally, Levi's Jean stock dropped 10% after announcing earnings. It got torn like a pair of ripped jeans.

[B]

Levi's warned investors that tariffs will will start to hurt profits in the all important fourth quarter holiday season.

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But what Jack and I found most fascinating in the earnings is that it's not the pants. It's all about the tops.

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Get this, nearly half of Levi's sales are from tops, not bottoms.

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The jean jacket's back, baby. Now time for the best fact yet, which because it's Monday, means T boy trivia. Jack, what do we got on the pod?

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Do you know what a bug bounty is?

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Jack and I learned about this a few years ago when we started working in tech. It's when a tech company offers a prize if you find a mistake in their code.

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Why would a tech company pay you for telling them about one of their mistakes?

[A]

Okay, here's why. Because if they don't spot a typo in their code and you don't spot it, then the hackers will and then.

[B]

They'Ll hack you and hold you ransom for millions of dollars.

[A]

That's why tech companies like Apple do a bug bounty. And here's our trivia question for you.

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What is the top bug bounty that Apple will pay you for finding an issue in their code?

[A]

If you find something off in Apple's app, what amount of money will they pay you?

[B]

The answer is in tomorrow's pod.

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Yetis, you look fantastic. And if you're on the 48th floor of Jamie's tower right now waiting for that sweet green order and you want to help today's show. Jack, what can you do for the pod?

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Grab the link to this show, drop it in your favorite text channel and send it to your buddies with hyh.

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Tply have you heard the best one yet? That's how we grow the pod.

[B]

Nick and I. See you tomorrow.

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If you know, you know. And before we go, a happy 30th birthday to legendary Yeti Liz Glover celebrating in Denver, Colorado. Long time Yeti here.

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And happy 25th birthday for the ninth time to Amanda Gerard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Great year, love the mid-20s. And Oscar Balthazar in Maxicali, Mexico is not just a fantastic father in law. Also celebrating the best birthday yet.

[B]

And congratulations to Spencer who's visiting the United States from France and he just heard that he and his wife are having a baby.

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Congratulations guys. Was so cool to hear it.

[B]

And a big shout out to Greg Hager and the whole Fox fold team for closing a $5 million Series A for their awesomely refillable tissue dispensers.

[A]

Okay. Apparently you can find these things in 20,000 restaurants, including no Boost, because believe.

[B]

It or not, the biggest source of waste in the hospitality industry.

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Yeah, Jack.

[B]

Is unused toilet paper. They always give you a new role.

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I have never heard that, but I'm just gonna roll with it. Jack. Jack and I will see you tomorrow.

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This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock of Apple and we both own ETFs of the S&P 500. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad free right now by joining Wondery plus and the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.

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And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short [e-mail] survey we want to.

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