🍫 “Regina George’d” — David calorie controversy. AI’s Brain Fry. Dick’s Sporting madness. +St. Paddy’s Stock Luck

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Best One Yet

Episode: “Regina George’d” — David calorie controversy. AI’s Brain Fry. Dick’s Sporting madness. +St. Paddy’s Stock Luck
Hosts: Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell
Date: March 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

This lively TBOY episode dives into three major business news stories:

1. The calorie and fat label controversy around David protein bars
2. The “AI Brain Fry” phenomenon—how too many AI assistants can hurt productivity
3. Why Little League baseball is more expensive than ever, and how Dick’s Sporting Goods is profiting

Jack and Nick bring humor and personal anecdotes, add memorable pop culture references (like Regina George and St. Paddy’s Day stock luck), and wrap with well-articulated takeaways for each segment.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

St. Patrick’s Day: Luck of the Markets

[01:20–02:14]

• St. Paddy’s Day is statistically a strong day for U.S. markets.
  • “March 17 is actually one of the top performing days on the Wall Street calendar.” (Nick, 01:42)
  • “It’s the eighth best performing day of the year for the S&P 500 out of 252 trading days.” (Jack, 01:56)
  • “Over the last 20 years, stocks have risen over 80% of the time for St. Patrick.” (Nick, 02:01)
• Humorous takes about finance people skipping work for the holiday.

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1. David Bar’s Calorie Controversy: “Regina George’d”

[05:15–10:38]

The Issue

• David Bar, popular protein snack, faces a class action lawsuit alleging:
  • Twice the calories and six times the fat as listed.
  • Lawsuit claims: 270 actual calories vs. 150 on label; 12g fat vs. 2g.
• Pop culture angle: “Have we all been Regina Georged?” (Jack, 07:02) referencing Mean Girls.

Why the Discrepancy?

• The measurement method matters:
  • Bomb calorimeter: Measures all potential energy—resulting in higher calorie count.
  • FDA allows 6 different methods; David used one that discounts unabsorbable fat (proprietary ingredient “EPG”).
  • EPG: “A proprietary new fat substitute...like fiber, your body doesn't absorb most of what's in EPG.” (Jack, 08:13)

FDA Regulation Oddities

• Acceptable margin of error on nutrition labels? 20%.
  • “You can have 20% more or less calories or fat.” (Jack, 09:09)
• Labels aren’t as precise as expected.

Marketing Spin

• David responded not defensively but offensively:
  • Turned lawsuit into a marketing opportunity, even creating an ad mocking rumors.
  • “We think this could be a David Bar boost...the public gets educated about this miracle ingredient EPG that's only available in the David Bar.” (Jack, 10:13)
  • “It’s not a lawsuit, it’s an ad.” (Nick, 10:39)

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2. AI Brain Fry: Too Much of a Good Thing

[10:52–14:29]

Key Finding

• Boston Consulting Group/HBR study:
  • 1 AI assistant: Productivity up
  • 2 AIs: More productive, but with diminishing returns
  • 3 AIs: Peak productivity—“You’re like a maestro at work” (Nick, 12:12)
  • 4 AIs: Productivity drops—managing too many becomes counterproductive (AI “babysitting”)

Signs of “AI Brain Fry”

• “Mental fog, headaches, worse decision-making, overwhelming anxiety.” (Jack, 13:59)
• The tipping point varies by task and individual.

Takeaway

• “We each must find our own AI ratio. If not, you’ll get AI Brain fry.” (Jack, 13:26)
• “If you can name it, you can tame it. And this is called AI Brain Fry.” (Nick, 14:15)
• Over-reliance disconnects you from your own work quality.

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3. The Little League Industrial Complex & Dick’s Sporting Madness

[16:51–22:51]

The Explosion in Costs

• $1,100/season per kid for Little League baseball in the U.S., nearly double from 2019.
  • “Back in 2019, the average parent dropped 660 bucks on their kid to play baseball each season. But today...$1,100.” (Nick & Jack, 18:52–19:04)
• Major League Baseball’s cleat rule change in 2019 (allowing expressive, colorful footwear) fueled gear spending, trickling down to youth sports.

Dick’s Sporting Goods: Winner by Big Bets

• “Dick’s now has 68% market share.” (Jack, 17:31)
• Bought Foot Locker, now focuses on boosting its profitability.
• Demographic challenge: Fewer kids, but they’re spending more.
• “Each piece of equipment is a fashion accessory that the kids are flexing their personality with.” (Jack, 20:15)
• Dick’s history of bold moves (sponsoring Little League/streaming/local sports tech/stopping gun sales/House of Sport stores)
  • “Dick’s stock is up 300% in the last five years, which is three times better than the S&P 500.” (Nick, 21:53)
• Field of Dreams quote: “If you build it, they will come—or they will spend.” (Jack, 20:42; Nick, 22:01)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Is the blueberry pie flavored David Bar you and I tried actually just a blueberry pie?” (Jack, 06:26)
• “Have we all been Regina Georged over here?” (Jack, 07:02)
• “It’s not a lawsuit, it’s an ad.” (Nick, 10:39)
• “Three agents, Jack, you’re like a maestro at work.” (Nick, 12:12)
• “Otherwise, you’re not an AI manager anymore. You’re an AI nanny with your hands full. And Claude is crying for your attention.” (Nick, 13:13)
• “Today peewee baseball players look like they’re on a catwalk at Paris Fashion Week-Day.” (Jack, 19:55)
• “If you build it, they will come...or they will spend.” (Jack & Nick, 20:42, 22:01)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:20–02:14] — St. Patrick’s Day stock market stats
• [05:15–10:38] — David Bar label controversy deep dive
• [10:52–14:29] — AI Brain Fry: How much is too much?
• [16:51–22:51] — Little League costs, Dick’s Sporting Goods’ strategy

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Recap: Takeaways

• David Bar controversy: Food labels can be misleading; lawsuits may become viral marketing. (09:30–10:39)
• AI Brain Fry: More AI isn’t always better; find your individual balance or risk lost productivity. (13:26–14:29)
• Dick’s Sporting leaps: Youth sports expenses are soaring, and big bets keep Dick’s ahead—even with demographic headwinds. (20:42–22:51)

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Using pop culture, original analysis, and a conversational tone, Jack and Nick deliver “the best one yet” on three pressing business stories—plus a side of St. Paddy’s Day luck.

Transcript

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This is Nick, this is Jack.

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It's Tuesday, t boy. Tuesday, March 17th. 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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Yeti stocks jumped 1% yesterday because oil prices didn't.

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With the war in Iran, investors are basically looking at the gas station and seeing what the price is and then either buying or selling stocks as a result.

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Besties. As two guys who worked on Wall street, we can tell you investing is actually pretty simple.

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Is oil up or is oil down?

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Buy or sell, hun? We're making money, Jack. Three fantastic stories for today's pod. What do we got on this profit puppy?

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For our first story, David Barr is accused of having two times more calories and six times more fat than it shows on the label.

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David. So Jack and I jumped in T boy style to the rules of nutrition labels, and you are gonna be shocked by the details.

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For our second story, it's AI Brain Fi. When using AI at work flips from helping to hurting.

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Turns out there's an exact number of AI tools you should use. Use one too many and you might get dumber.

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And our third and final story, League baseball changed one rule about cleats seven years ago. And the result, Little League costs 1100

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bucks to play now, and that has tripled one specific stock, and that stock is Dick's Sporting Goods.

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

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It smells and tastes like St. Patrick's Day out there.

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Frank from finance is definitely calling in sick today.

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KR from accounting. Turns out her last name is Ohanigan,

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which means she's probably at Ohanigan's right now.

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Yeah, with our buddy Timmy Besties. It is a T boy tradition that we track your portfolio every St. Patty's Day.

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Because St. Patrick's Day isn't just for the luck of the Irish. It's for the luck of all investors.

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In fact, March 17 is actually one of the top performing days on the Wall street calendar.

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Statistically speaking, St. Patty's Day is a golden day in the stock market. Rainbow. Get this.

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St. Patrick's Day is actually the eighth best performing day of the year for the S&P 500.

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Out of 252 trading days of the year, St. Patrick's Day is number eight.

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And over the last 20 years, stocks have risen over 80% of the time

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for St. Patrick and eight of the

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last nine days, including just last year. Hey, Liam Neeson, can you add that to your particular set of skills?

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This St. Patrick's Day stock record, it's gotta be in the Guinness Book of

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World Records thing, which was also invented over in Ireland.

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Do you remember what Jim Cramer told us when we interviewed him about the luck of the leprechaun? Oh, yeah.

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Lucky the leprechaun. What was that he told us about? Lucky?

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He bought Costco stock because of the gold bars.

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Classic. Lucky little leprechaun besties. This is not financial advice.

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We just heard Bono say it once.

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Bono is a yeti.

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You, Jack.

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Let's hear stories. Fifteen years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. The hat. An idea that caused 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.

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That's a fat tip. T boy city on your at Liz. If you know, you know. Cause we read to go. We can't wait no more so just start the show. Start the show. First, a quick word from our sponsor.

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So, Yetis.

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Jack's instituted a new business model for his Airbnb hosting. And Jack, what is it? Here it is.

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Host equals guest. Yes. I funnel all my revenue from being a host on Airbnb into one bank account and use that same bank account to book travel for myself.

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Basically, it's Jack's host guest, bank account for when he hosts and when he's a guest somewhere else.

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When I lived in the City Neck, every time my apartment was available on Airbnb, it would get booked like that.

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I mean, think about how often are you away from home? You got the bridesmaid, you got the shower, you got the bachelorette, you got the wedding.

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That's three weekends away just for one wedding right there. Plus, you gotta visit your mother, naturally.

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Well, that's a lot of potential hosting that you could be doing on Airbnb. Let someone else stay at your place while you're away.

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Take that host money and spend it when you're a guest somewhere else. Have a business model like me.

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That's indeed.com podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need a hiring hero? This is a job for Indeed Sponsored jobs. For our first story, David Barr is being sued for what we're calling Regina George gate having twice the number of calories as advertised on the label.

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We'll explain the issue with David Barr's nutrition label and why David has come out swinging.

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Oh yeah. It is Michelangelo's most famous artwork. It took nearly 500 years to go viral, Jack.

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In the form of a protein bar.

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Yeah, David Barr. Basically eat this protein and you get perfect abs. Like a tastefully nude Renaissance sculpt.

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This gold packaged protein bar is growing extremely fast. Like faster than any protein bar has before.

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Borderline steroid level. We're talking 100 million bucks in revenue, $725 million valuation, all in less than a year.

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Because Pilates mamas and crypto bros alike are protein maxing and willing to spend four bucks per bar. Which is like five times more than if you buy in bulk from Costco, Nick.

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So naturally, Jack and I interviewed the founder, Peter Rahal earlier this year. He even sent us a top secret prototype David Bar.

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And Nick, that prototyp type bar didn't have a label.

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I know. Now we know why. Because of the news. A new class action lawsuit that David Barr actually has twice as many calories and six times as much fat.

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This class action lawsuit alleges that the David bar doesn't have 150 calories per bar. It has 270 calories.

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And Jack, not 2 grams of fat. 12 grams of fat.

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Is the blueberry pie flavored David Bar you and I tried actually just a blueberry pie.

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One second. Jack, you hear that? It's people crying at the Equinox locker room right now.

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No, there is a Seinfeld episode about this. The zero fat frozen yogurt that Jerry and Elaine are really into. Yeah, it's really high in sugar. So they gain a bunch of weight.

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It's also a core plot of the movie Mean Girls, is it not, Jack?

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Katie gives the alpha plastic Regina drawers a Calteen bar.

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Yeah, some European protein bar with a nutrition label written in Swedish. She's duping them to add the pounds. First you bloat, Jack, then you lose like 10 pounds.

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Which begs the question, have we all been Regina Georged over here?

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We know what you're wondering. Yetis it 150 calories in a bar or 270 calories in the bar? And will Nick and Jack jump in t boy style for us, please?

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Well, we did. And the answer is both. It depends what method you use.

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Follow us in this one. It's fascinating. You see, David Barr explains in a public response to the lawsuit why there is some confusion here.

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David says that the lawsuit used the bomb calorimeter method, which measures the total heat released from food to get to the calories.

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Jack, I was a history major, but could you please whip up the chemistry class takeaway for us over here?

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One calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius.

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So if you use the bomb calorimeter method, yes, you do get 270 calories in a David protein bar.

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But here's the kicker. The FDA actually allows six different ways to measure the number of calories.

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And this is where David Barr's secret unpronounceable ingredient, epg, would come into the formula.

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I'm gonna take a shot at pronouncing EP as terrified. Propyloxylated glycerol.

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Sounds like a chemistry econ major over there, Jack. Double major. You see, it's called epg. It's a proprietary new fat substitute that's actually in the David bar.

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And David Barr liked this new ingredient so much, they acquired the company that makes it.

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That's right. We covered the story last year. The CEO Peter actually said we're taking all the supply of the epg.

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And now we understand why. Because, like fiber, your body doesn't absorb most of what's in epg.

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That's why David Barr wanted a monopoly on epg. So, besties, when David Barr tests calories by a method appropriate for EPG that's approved by the FDA, they get the number 150 calories.

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Nick, it's kind of like the breathalyzer test versus the blood test to measure the alcohol in the body.

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I see where you're going with this, Jack.

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They both try to get to the same result but if you just used mouthwash, then the breast Lyther test isn't accurate. And that's kind of like what David's arguing here.

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But Jack and I noticed from our research that this drama also reveals how food regulations are not as black and white as you thought.

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Did you know the FDA has a acceptable margin of error? That's surprisingly big.

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Can you tell us about the margin of error, Jack?

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20%. Yeah, you can have 20% more or less calories or fat or whatever it is you're measuring, and that's okay.

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So that black and white nutrition label on the back of all our foods is actually a little bit more colorful than you realize, possibly a little bit more caloric. So Jack, what's the. You're looking great over there by the way. Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at David Bar?

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This lawsuit is actually an advertisement.

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Yetis, we've Talked about the 4A's of crisis management before. You acknowledge, apologize, act and then overact.

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But David has done the opposite. They didn't go on the defense in response to this lawsuit. They went on the offense. Yeah.

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Instead of apologizing, David said they're innocent. The lawsuit is misleading us by using a wrong calculation method.

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And within 24 hours, they whipped up a commercial mocking all of the rumors about David Barr that are clearly not true.

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The strategy here, they're trying to reposition the lawsuit as a rumor and undermine the plaintiff's credibility.

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Now, whether David is found guilty or not, in to consumers, perception is often reality. So this could be bad.

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But Jack, if what David says is true and even if not totally what they say is true, this is still a net positive for them.

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We think this could be a David Barr boost. It could be fantastic marketing as people read about this story and the public gets educated about this miracle ingredient epg, that's only available in the David Barr.

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It's basically an EPG ad. And you know what, we've seen something similar before with Tesla. The lawsuits about their self driving issues. They marketed Tesla's self driving technology.

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So Yetis, if what David said about this lawsuit is true, and even if it's not totally true, we actually think it's an advertisement.

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It's not a lawsuit, it's an ad. But let us know what you think in the comments for our second story. AI is a powerful tool, but using too much AI, that'll actually hurt your productivity.

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Introducing AI brain fry. It's the number of projects you can have AI do before AI starts to make you dumber.

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It's gonna fry that cerebellum. Yet he's AI, you know, think of it like your digital intern, but potentially smarter than you. Not cooler, just smarter.

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As long as AI doesn't actually take your job, having AI at work sounds pretty awesome. It'll do your boring work you don't wanna do.

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But Jack, what happens when you got two AIs working for you at the same time?

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That's the question that Boston Consulting Group tried to answer with a new study published last week in Harvard Business Review.

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That's right. They interviewed 1,488 full timer.

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Here was their key finding. They found the break even number of AI assistants that a human worker can oversee before having all those assistants starts to backfire. All right, let's start from the beginning. BCG found that using one AI assistant makes you more productive at work. But yetis, if you're like me, you may shuffle between Gemini, that's built into your browser, and Anthropic, that's just right over there ready to work too.

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Well, BCG found that having two AI agents like we do, it makes it even more productive. Right, Jack?

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Although the returns diminished with the addition of the second agent compared to the first. But here's where things get interesting. Adding a third AI agent, like two clods plus a Gemini, makes you even more productive.

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I mean, three agents, Jack, you're like a maestro at work. Overseeing the New York Philharmonic, whipping up symphonies. There it is, pure AI harmony.

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Except the orchestra members are all AI agents just doing so much work for you. While you, maestro, as the only human,

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your numbers are up, your vibes are higher. And Carol from accounting is calling you in for that promotion.

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Maybe, but pause the pod.

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Oh boy.

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Because according to this study, adding a fourth AI to your workforce, it's going to backfire. According to this survey, it will actually reduce your productivity, adding that fourth AI assistant and besties.

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If you've ever managed human beings, you know exactly what we're talking about. Getting stretched too thin.

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Think about it. If Your day is 100% assigning and reviewing the work done by your Derek reports, you don't have any time to think as a manager. And that's basically what BCG says happens when you hit four AI assistants working for you.

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Exactly the basically the mental effort of babysitting, sitting the AI, fact checking, tweaking the prompts, jumping between windows, it actually makes you less productive.

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You're better off having three AIs working for you than four.

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Otherwise you're not an AI manager anymore. You're an AI nanny with your hands full. And Claude is crying for your attention. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies? Curious about brain fry?

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We each must find our own AI ratio. If not, you'll get AI Brain fry.

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Now, yetis, we know most of you work at a computer, and that means there is an expectation you will be

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using AI and as you progress through using your first AI, maybe your second, at the same time, or several AI agents all working for you, you need to be mindful that there is this limit. There is a tipping point.

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It's shocking, but more AI can become counterproductive. And given that AI is already kind of soul sucking, would be a shame if you use too much of it.

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And BCG calls the feeling that you'll get AI brain fry.

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Yeah. Any symptoms we should disclose there, Jack?

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Yeah, mental fog, headaches. Worse decision making. Just a feeling of overwhelming anxiety, too.

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So the magic number, it's actually different for each person. It depends on how you use AI and for what products you're actually using it for.

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Across these 1400 workers, it happened to be going from three to four. But it might be a different situation for you.

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But as my therapist said, and I've shared with Jack, if you can name it, you can tame it. And this is called AI Brain Fry.

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Because overseeing too many software agents means you'll lose the connection to your actual work, which will make your work worse, not better.

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Besties, we each must find our own AI ratio. And if not, you're gonna get a bad case of AI Brain fry. Now, a quick word from our sponsor, Monarch.

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Dix loves it, but it all traces back to one rule change made by Major League Baseball seven years ago now. Yeah it is.

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You may not know this, but before Jack was a second string backup high school quarterback. Varsity for the second string quarterback. He also happened to play baseball. So what did you treat yourself to this spring Jack?

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Well, wilder. He turns 5 next month.

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Sounds like a long story. Jack. What did you treat yourself to?

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I'm gonna be his T ball coach dude. So I had to get a baseball glove because I can't find my old one.

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And statistically speaking Eddies, if you bought a baseball glove as well, you bought

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it at Dick's because get this, among the big publicly traded sporting goods companies, Dick's now has 68% market share.

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Sit down, stand up and step up to the plate again. Two out of three mitts, pucks or cups in America is sold at Dick's Sporting Goods.

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That's why Dick's has so much cash in their bullpen.

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They do.

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They were able to acquire their biggest competitor last year, Foot Locker.

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They did. Foot Locker. They now make Dick's 50% bigger, revenue wise. But we should point out, they actually make Dick's smaller, profit wise.

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So this year, Dick's is cleaning up all the Foot Locker locations, trying to make them as profitable as the Dick's locations are.

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Yeah, expect to see some 50% off air Jordan sales coming pretty soon. But we should point out, Dick's actually faces a bigger demographic problem. Don't they, Jack?

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There's not enough kids. Yeah, and that's a problem for Dick's.

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The whole millennial baby delay, it's messing with Dick's bottom line.

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Get this. The number of American kids under 18 is down from 10 years ago.

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And you're not buying shin guards when you go to work. It's kids who buy sports equipment.

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So how has Dick's doubled their revenue in the last 10 years despite Amazon and there being fewer kids to buy sporting goods?

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I mean, Jack, it's not inventory management. It's gotta be something more exciting than that.

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Here it is. Yeti's. According to new data from the Aspen Institute, there's a little league industrial complex that Dick's is benefiting from.

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That's right, gary. Back in 2019, the average parent dropped 660 bucks on their kid to play baseball each season.

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But today, the price is up to $1,100 to put your kid through baseball.

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That's nearly twice the cost in just seven years.

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People are tapping into their 401 to pay for T ball.

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That doesn't even include the custom stringing for the lacrosse sticks you're doing on the side, Jack.

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Well, we're only talking about baseball. I bet lacrosse is way more expensive than that.

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No, no, you start with baseball and then you switch over and start playing lacrosse. I think that's how it works.

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But Yetis, where is this huge price hike from base? Well, it all started with a rule change passed by Major League Baseball in 2019.

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You see, seven years ago, pro baseball loosened the rules on cleats that players could wear. They let them add colors.

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The Major League Baseball Players association wanted their players to be able to express themselves through Their footwear choices, just like basketball players do.

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And guess what? That rule change at the pros trickled down to the youths.

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Today, Pee Wee baseball players look like they're on a catwalk at Paris Fashion Weekday.

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Totally. Jack, do you want to sprinkle on some context? As a former retired baseball player, I

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had two pieces of baseball equipment. Black cleats and a glove. And the glove could only be black or ground. And Nick, I borrowed a bat. Not every player needs to have their own bat.

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Jack's like, we used to cut down the trees and make the bat out of the wood there. We could.

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But today I went to Dick's. Last week, Nick, the cleats on the wall looked like a pack of Skittles had spilled everywhere. There's an ice cream baseball glove. Most of the glove looks like the cone, and then there's like. Like pink ice cream dripping down the gloves. And each of these pieces of equipment is actually a fashion accessory that the kids are flexing their personality with.

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For those not watching on YouTube, Jack's using air quotes. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our baseball buddies over at Dick's?

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Just like Kevin Costner's classic flick. If you build it, they will come

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or they will spend. You see Eddies, Dick's is actually one of our favorite companies because they're in the business of big, bold bets.

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We love that it's easy to be a hater in the corporate, corporate boardroom and not believe that a big investment will pay off in big profits down the road.

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But for Dicks, this started in the 1940s when the OG Dick convinced local businesses to sponsor little league teams.

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The OG Dick believed that that would boost participation in baseball and boost sales for the company. And they did.

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It did. And then in 2016, Dick's got techie. They bought an app for live streaming local sports and keeping stats and scores of players.

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They believed players and families would shop at Dick's more. And they did.

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Then in 2018, after the Parkland shooting in Florida, Dicks stopped selling firearms.

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It was a brave move. They believed leadership in guns would boost the Dick's brand. And it did.

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Then in 2021, Dick's opened its first house of Sport, a huge Sports Complex store.

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350,000 square feet, three times larger than

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a regular big box store.

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Rock climbing walls, driving ranges, batting cages.

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Because Dicks believed becoming a true sports destination would boost sales.

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And the extra investment paid for itself in less than two years in more sales at those huge locations.

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Oh, sorry, besties. You want More receipts? You want more proof? It all worked well. Dick's Stock is up 300% in the last five years, which is three times better than the S&P 500.

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Dick's is in the business of big bold bets. To quote Kevin Costner, if you build it, they will come.

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Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us?

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For T boy Tuesday, David Barr allegedly has twice the calories and six times the fat as on the label. But it might just be a measuring mix up.

[B]

Yeah, even though the entire steam room at my Equinox is still crying, Jack, we think that this lawsuit could just

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end up being an ad for our second story. It's AI brain fry. Having three AIs makes you feel like a maestro. Having four makes you feel like a nanny.

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But the break even ratio is different for every person, so you need to find it to avoid AI brain fry.

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And our third and final story. American spending on youth baseball has nearly doubled in seven years. And Dick Dick's is loving it.

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Dick's biggest strength, Making big smart bets and believing they'll pay off. If you build it, they will spend.

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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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And the Oscar goes to. Warner Bros. Bad at making profitable movies, but great at making unprofitable films. Jack.

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Warner Bros. The lame duck movie studio just had its best Academy Awards ever, taking home 11 golden statues.

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And second, Nvidia just held its huge annual computer chip event. Basically, it's the Coachella for chips.

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The CEO Jensen Huang said what you'd expect yesterday at their big annual gala of a conference.

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These numbers are just huge. Nvidia is expecting $1 trillion in sales of their flagship Blackwell chip and its successor, the Rubin chip.

[A]

Because their chips aren't just powering AI, they're also powering video games, self driving cars, probably your laundry machine.

[B]

And finally, Brita, the pioneer of kitchen water filters, just invested in a bathroom water filter.

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Showers with built in filter. Not so that you can drink the water that's coming down out of the shower head. Although everyone does that, right?

[B]

Yeah, it's to soften the water that hits your skin, which apparently plays a role in eczema and psoriasis.

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Investors love the filter business, by the way. Yetis because refills are required forever.

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Subscripturation if you know, you know. Now, time for the best fact yet, which because it's T boy Tuesday, means an answer to yesterday's trivia question.

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Yesterday we asked you where the name Brent came from. As in Brent Crud, the international benchmark for oil.

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So where does the term Brent crude come from? Is it a person, a place, a bird or a food? That's what we asked you.

[A]

Here's the answer. Brent is named for an oil field in the ocean just off the coast of England. So kind of a place.

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But back in the 1970s, the custom was to name oil fields in alphabetical order after water birds. So the first oil field was called the Auk, which is a type of bird. The second oil field found was called the Brent, which is a type of goose. And the third oil field found was called a cormorant, also a walk water bound bird.

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So Brent oil is named after a water bird.

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Yetis, you're looking fantastic over there. Jack, you're looking pretty good over there.

[A]

Are you talking about my old fashioned baseball skills?

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You know, in my day we didn't wash our face. Face washed us, Jack. Yetis, if you haven't yet, tap to follow us. So you get this pod every single day. Plus following us, subscribing it helps us grow in the rankings.

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And Nick and I, we'll see you tomorrow for the best one yet.

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Getting losers. We're going shopping. And before we go, a happy 9th birthday to legendary Yeti Kia Lee down in Paso Robles, California. She listens on the way to school with her dad Cory. And together they're running the coolest winery south of San Francisco, the Dresser winery.

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And happy birthday to Docs Achowsi in Pune, India.

[B]

And Taylor Searcy in Windsor, Ontario is dominating the renewable energy industry. Happy alone.

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11th birthday to Unhud Singh in Suwannee, Georgia, who just asked his dad for an iPhone so he can listen to T boy.

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And Angel Gonzalez is in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. He and Kendra were just at our live show in Austin. Guys, you look fantastic. Happy birthday.

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And happy 11th birthday to Unhud Singh in Suwannee, Georgia. Dad, if you're listening, get this kid an iPhone so he can listen to T boy.

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And Angela Gonzalez in Travelers Rest, South Carolina has got the best birthday yet. He and Kendra were just at our live show in Austin. And Gary, guys, you were looking fantastic.

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Happy birthday to Peter Yasula in Brooklyn, who's also opening two new restaurants in that borough this year.

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Peter, we can't wait to check him out. And Ted Bell is skiing from Switzerland to Italy for his birthday. Enjoy Ted. And don't forget the passport.

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Happy birthday to Jennifer Yee, who's got a new job and taking a road trip to celebrate down the pch. Sorry up from LA to SF and

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Karen Soyen in Palo Alto, California's got the best birthday yet.

[A]

Happy Birthday to Amanda Webb in Raleigh,

[B]

North Carolina and Tommy Munsel. We see that first birthday. Enjoy the celebration with the parents parents in St. Louis.

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Happy birthday to Super Macaroni the golden retriever turning four in Santiago and Jack

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Shout out to Hunter Legendary Yeti ran into him at the Farmer's market. He's got his family visiting from Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Austin having the best weekend yet.

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