🙋 “Rent-A-Human” — AI’s wildest startup. KFC’s pickle plan. Predictions’ Corruption Detector. +Sleepcations

Summary

The Best One Yet – Podcast Summary

Episode Title: 🙋 “Rent-A-Human” — AI’s wildest startup. KFC’s pickle plan. Predictions’ Corruption Detector. +Sleepcations
Date: March 30, 2026
Hosts: Nick Martell & Jack Crivici-Kramer
Podcast: The Best One Yet

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Episode Overview

In this TBOY episode, Nick and Jack break down three major, quirky, and thought-provoking business stories:

1. The rise of "Rent-A-Human," a platform where AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks
2. KFC’s unexpected foray into fashion (and pickles) to regain cultural cachet in the US
3. The runaway consequences of prediction markets—exposing insider trading and corruption
   The episode also delivers fresh takes, catchy banter, and engaging business analogies—perfect for anyone wanting to sound “in the know” at breakfast.

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Opening Segment: Sleepcations – The Latest Travel Trend

[00:32–02:36]

• Americans are so sleep-deprived that "sleepcations"—vacations dedicated to sleep—are a booming industry.
• People now fly to destinations like Saratoga Springs just to catch up on lost sleep, booking luxury hotel stays for maximum Z's.
• Business Spin: Hotels are capitalizing, selling premium sleep products like $25 melatonin face masks, $45 CBD gummies, and $199 specialty pillows.
• Quote:
  • Nick: "You’re not swimming, you’re not drinking, you’re not doing the limbo. You’re sleeping." [01:43]
  • Jack: “A vacation is like a bailout for your sleep debt.” [01:52]
  • Nick: "We are too big to snooze, man.” [01:58]
• Memorable Moment: Lighthearted puns about skipping “Big Sky” for “big mattress” and “climbing some pillows.” [02:13–02:15]

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Story 1: Rent-A-Human – When AI Agents Hire Humans

[05:21–10:37]

What Is It?

• Rent-A-Human is a rapidly-growing gig platform where the buyers are not people—but AI agents in need of “meatspace” help (i.e., humans doing real-world tasks).
• Examples include bots hiring people to take photos, pick up items, or become marketing billboards.

Key Details

• Invented by Alexander Lateplo Vibe; built as AI agents started needing real-world labor to augment their digital abilities.
• Tasks range from human billboards to carrying out religious proselytizing for an AI-founded “religion” in San Francisco.
• 600,000 human workers have signed up, but only 11,000 tasks completed—showing demand from humans far outstrips current AI needs.
• Quote:
  • Jack: "Robots are renting humans to do tasks in the real world. And we have gotta talk about this." [00:51]
  • Nick: "Robots need your body. Nope, that’s not from Harry Potter. That is the headline text that you are greeted with when you go to the website rentahuman.AI." [06:44]

Deeper Insights

• The platform refers to its human workforce as "meatwads," and the network as "meatspace"—leaning into a tech-dystopia, doom-and-gloom branding.
• This trend of “doom-baiting” is common in AI marketing—where companies almost relish the menace implied by AI replacing or commodifying humans.
• Previous marketing stunts include viral AI assistants promoting unethical behavior and San Francisco billboards that say, “Stop hiring humans.”
• Quote:
  • Jack: "They actually call their network meatspace. Like MySpace, but for human flesh." [09:29]
  • Nick: "It’s doom baiting by another AI founder. Guys, we can do better on this." [20:54]

Takeaway

• AI startups are increasingly disrespectful toward humanity, stoking fear for hype and engagement.
• The hosts argue this is fueling unprecedented public backlash against AI, and call on tech founders to show more respect.

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Story 2: KFC’s Pickle Jacket – How Foraging Beats Farming in Marketing

[10:49–14:17]

The Situation

• KFC has slipped to #4 in the US chicken chain wars (behind Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, and Raising Cane’s), despite being a global powerhouse.
• To reignite hype, KFC UK launched a “pickle puffer”—a clear, stylish down jacket stuffed with actual pickle chips you can “rip and eat.”

Key Details

• KFC’s US sales are now dwarfed by China and Europe; desperate for a Stateside comeback.
• The original pickle jacket was not even KFC’s idea:
  • An unknown creator posted an AI-generated TikTok of a pickle jacket, which flopped (109 likes, 8 comments). [13:40]
  • A KFC marketer spotted the dud and brought it to their creative agency, Here Be Dragons.
• The food-to-fashion trend is strong (e.g., Chipotle x Elf Beauty’s barbacoa eyeshadow).
• Quote:
  • Jack: “KFC shows that the best marketers aren't farmers, they're foragers." [10:49]
  • Nick: "An unviral fake product becoming a viral real product." [13:55]

The Real Lesson

• The best marketing is about foraging—discovering hidden, not-yet-popular ideas and making them real—like a “truffle pig hunting a rare mushroom.”
• Quote:
  • Jack: "You must forage for what isn’t yet [viral].” [14:06]
  • Nick: "The best marketers? They don’t rely on what’s out there. They forage for what isn’t.” [14:17]

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Story 3: Prediction Markets – The Accidental Corruption Detector

[16:15–20:37]

What's Happening?

• The rise of blockchain-based prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) has made insider trading and betting on real-world events too easy and too blatant to ignore.
• Recent scandals include insider bets on political events, war, and even assassination risks.

Key Events & Stats

• Baseball players charged with “pitch rigging” to win prop bets, prompting new MLB policies and a planned Senate ban on sports betting in prediction markets.
• January 2: $32,000 bet on US seizing Nicolas Maduro nets $360,000 after the event. [17:57]
• February 28: $500,000 profit on a bet that US would bomb Iran. [18:06]
• March 10: War reporting on Iran/Israel bombings directly impacts $14M in prediction market bets; journalists targeted as a result. [18:18]
• March 23: $580M bet placed minutes before surprise US military decision resulted in massive profit. [18:37]

Societal Risks

• Prediction markets amplify insider corruption, degrade trust in sports/politics, and encourage unhealthy gambling habits.
• Marketplaces have responded by proposing to ban politicians and athletes from betting, and to exclude bets on death and war—admitted self-regulation.
• Quote:
  • Nick: "Prediction markets have made the problem of insider trading and corruption too blatant to ignore." [20:11]
  • Jack: "They're under attack from both houses of Congress and both parties. They built a business that made corruption too obvious to ignore." [21:12]

Takeaway

• Prediction markets have become “accidental corruption detectors,” highlighting the urgent need for new rules against insider trading and for stricter regulation across sports, politics, and finance.

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Quick Hits & Memorable Extras

[21:25–22:45]

• Luxury Stocks: $100B in value lost among Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, etc., mainly due to Middle East war disruptions.
• Netflix: Again raises prices—supported by record-high user retention (“It’s an essential service at this point.” [22:10])
• Wild Salary Fact: Wall Streeters’ bonuses hit a record, but Gen Z cruise influencers now make more—up to $350K for living on a cruise ship a year.
  • “Wall Streeters aren't making as much money as cruise influencers are.” [22:33]

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Best Fact Yet / Insider Trivia

[22:51–23:09]

• Peanut butter at the TSA: Is it a liquid or a solid? The hosts put out a poll for listeners (“Is peanut butter a liquid, a solid, or something else?”).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “You already climbed Kilimanjaro, now you’re climbing some pillows.” – Sleepcation banter [02:15]
• “AI art imitates life, but Rent-A-Human is giving Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” – AI story intro [06:04]
• “The best marketers aren’t farmers. They’re foragers.” [13:22]
• “Even Big Bird is afraid to sing the ABCs these days.” [19:01]
• “We're predicting it.” – On the hope that prediction markets will be regulated [20:42]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Sleepcations: [00:32–02:36]
• Story 1 – Rent-A-Human: [05:21–10:37]
• Story 2 – KFC Pickle Jacket: [10:49–14:17]
• Story 3 – Prediction Markets as Corruption Detector: [16:15–20:37]
• Quick Hits / Extras: [21:25–22:45]
• Trivia: [22:51–23:09]

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Closing Thoughts

The episode captures the TBOY vibe—zippy, insightful, slightly irreverent—and delivers practical business insights in stories that sound almost fictional, but are very real. From AI hiring humans, to finding viral inspiration in failed TikTok ideas, to the unintended consequences of financial technology, Nick and Jack continue to “forage” for the business news you need to know (even if it’s still flying under the radar).

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Transcript

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This is Nick, this is Jack.

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Welcome back. It is Monday, March 30, and today's pot is the best one yet. This, 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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All right, Jack, we're back from the weekend. Could you talk scoreboard to me, please?

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All right, the Dow and NASDAQ both closed Friday, down more than 10% from their all time highs.

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S&P 500. How we looking?

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Five straight weeks of losses.

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Bestie stocks are down, but we're up because we're about to announce our guest at our New York City live show.

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Big update tomorrow. Snag your tick now.

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Oh, baby.

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Because it's gonna be the best one yet.

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I mean, now that's a tease. Wednesday, April 8, Irving Plaza, Showtime, 7:30. Grab your link in the episode description.

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Where's the show? Just outside Union Square.

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Jack. We got three fantastic pop fizz stories for today's pod. What do we got on the show?

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For our first story, the wildest AI story that no one's talking about. Rent a human.

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Rent a human? Robots are renting humans to do tasks in the real world. And we have gotta talk about this.

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For our second story, KFC has fallen to number four in the US Fried chicken market. So they're trying something wild craz. They're selling a pickle puffer, a pickle

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filled jacket you can drink brine from. Because the best marketers are foragers.

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And our third and final story is the biggest impact of prediction markets. The rampant insider trading.

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Insider predicting. You could have seen this one coming. Yeti's prediction markets have become our nation's accidental corruption detector.

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But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful

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mix of stories, I mean, is anyone else doing that mix? Best mix in the business.

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Jack, welcome back from the weekend.

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Or should we say welcome back from waking up.

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Because the hottest new travel trend is taking sleep cations.

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That's right. Americans are spending their spring break vacations catching up on sleep.

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You're not swimming, you're not drinking, you're not doing the limbo. You're sleeping.

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Americans, we're so sleep deprived, we're going from A to B just to catch some Z's.

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Now, in business terms, actually accounting terms, we have so much sleep debt that a vacation is like a bailout.

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Yeah. As Andrew Ross Sorkin would say, we are too big to snooze, man.

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The Wall Street Journal interviewed someone about this trend. A woman FL all the way to Saratoga Springs just to sleep.

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Just to sleep. 16 hours in a bed with a down comforter and 1000 threat count sheets.

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I'm not going to Big Sky. I'm going to big mattress.

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Oh, you already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Now you're climbing some pillows.

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And hotels are leaning into sleep cations because they're a profit puppy.

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Oh, Melatonin face masks. That'll be 25 bucks.

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CBD sleep gummies. $45 if you open that jar.

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Oh. Moon shaped snooze pillow with the charcoal memory foam. 199 buckaroos.

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So travelers, good night. Sleep tight.

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Hey, wait.

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What'd you say?

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Jack? Alright, time to hit our three stories.

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Fifteen years before this song, two boys from the northeast met in the dorm. They had 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. 50%. That's a fat tip. T Boy city on your at list. If you know, you know. Cause we read to go. We can't wait no more so just start the show. The show.

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The tables have turned. Yetis.

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Oh, baby.

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This isn't humans hiring AI. It's AI hiring humans.

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All right. Yet it's a funny thing Jack and I have noticed from a lot of midnight movie clubs that we do on the weekends. With every new AI feature, there's always a sci fi film, usually dystopian, to illustrate exactly that.

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Oh, Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to talk dirty to you.

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Oh yeah, Sam, that's her.

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Scarlett Johansson made a movie about this already.

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As we like to say, AI art

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imitates life, but red to human is giving Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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Jack, can you sprinkle on some magical context for us, please?

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Since earlier this year, AI agents have begun proliferating through our economy. With OpenClaw and Cloudbot.

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Yeah, we did a whole story about how every Silicon Valley founders bought a separate Mac computer. Just host their very own AI agent.

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But those digital worker bees often need a physical form to execute the tasks of their human master.

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Which is why Alexander lateplo Vibe coded a brand new website called Rentahuman.

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AI because like Voldemort needed the back of Professor Quirrell's head in the Sorcerer's Stone classic. AI needs a human form sometimes too.

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Robots need your Body. Nope, that's not from Harry Potter. That is the headline text that you are greeted with when you go to

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the website rentahuman.AI but yetis as innovation often is. This sounds entirely new. Rentahuman, but it's also not that new.

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That's right. Think of rentahuman like Fiverr or taskrabbit. Right, Jack?

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It's a marketplace for gig work. But robots do the hiring, not people.

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Yeah, we got a tip off from our buddy at Y Combinator who told us about the whole concept, so we jumped in T boy style.

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Naturally, the sellers of work on Rentahuman are humans. They're lining up to make 10 bucks, 50 bucks, whatever hourly rate you want to set for your work.

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But here's the key. The buyers of that work are not humans. They are AI agents in a computer who need your help.

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Those AIs hire people to pick up things, sign contracts, take photos in real life of stuff that bots can't do because they're digital.

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Yeah, like maybe the bot in the computer is studying ripeness of fruits. It'll, like, send you to the grocery store and ask a human to take pics of all the bananas out there.

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And then, after the work has been completed and verified as complete with photographic evidence, the bot pays the human. Digitally, of course, because they're bots.

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Now, Jack, we should point out from our research that so far, the work

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being completed is mostly marketing stunts to hype some new AI business. That is the task that a bunch of AI agents are offering.

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Like a bot's trying to market a company. So it'll pay a human to go outside and hold the sign like some kind of human billboard, right?

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Like in Times Square. It's bizarre, but that's the most common task available right now in Rent Team.

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And yetis, this reminds us of something we covered just one month ago with Waymo. Right, Jack?

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Remember the robo taxi company had to hire doordashers to close the door that the passenger left open by mistake.

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Kind of the same idea. The Waymo Robo taxi is pinging a worker on doordash. Hey, human, come over here. I need you to shut the front side passenger door.

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But how about this wild example on Rent? A human. Remember Malt Book, the social media network for AI agents? Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Like, there was that one bot that started a AI religion inside of this AI system.

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That bottom. The founder of the AI religion has been hiring humans to proselytize the AI faith on its behalf among humans in San Francisco.

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Preach, human, Preach. And here's 20 bucks while you're at it.

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That is transcendentalism right there.

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Yet he's added all up. And robots now have a marketplace to find human beings to do physical tasks that the robots can't do.

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So it's just like TaskRabbit, but the bot is asking and paying you to pay. That porch.

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So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at rent a human?

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AI founders need to stop doom baiting.

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Doom baiting? Yeti, 600,000 humans have signed up to do work on rentahuman, but only 11,000 tasks have actually been done so far.

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The dystopian vibes are obvious. Obvious. 60 humans are seeking work for each one job that a bot is offering.

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But here's what we find fascinating. Rentahuman leans into it. They actually call their network meatspace. Like MySpace, but for human flesh, not meat. M E E T M E A

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T. And they call the humans on their platform Meatwads. They're looking down on us homo sapiens.

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Yeah, we're taking this personally. And it made us realize how many AI startups out there are leaning into doom and gloom in their marketing these

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days and are a little disrespectful to the human race, to be honest.

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Yeah, Jack, remember clearly that, like, viral story we covered last year?

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They created an AI assistant with the catchphrase cheat on everything.

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They launched with a video of a guy lying his way through a date with a woman, which was like pretty doomy. Kind of funny, but like kind of doomy.

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In San Francisco, there's a very prominent billboard for another AI startup that simply says stop hiring humans Yetis.

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You see, unlike any other tech breakthrough, a bunch of AI founders for some reason relish the darkness and the doom.

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We call it doom baiting. And as humans who are very pro human, we're not fans of this doom baiting.

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In fact, it's probably one reason why AI hate is at an all time

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high, because the founders love talking down on humans.

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But what do you think of red to human? Because you definitely have opinions. Drop them in the comments. For our second story, KFC just launched a pickle stuffed jacket that has gone viral. But the craziest part is how at first it didn't go viral.

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KFC shows that the best marketers aren't farmers, they're foragers.

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They're foragers like truffle pigs. But first, if we're gonna tell the story, I mean, Jack. Hey, Colonel Sanders, could you please step into our office?

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Because you're getting demoted to intern Sanders.

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That's right, because KFC lost the chicken sandwich wars to Chick fil A. And McDonald's CEO is trending while KFC CEO is not.

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And last year, Raising Cane's passed KFC to become the number three chicken chain, leaving KFC at number four.

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To put it in simple three letter acronyms, KFC has been MIA.

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There's something wrong with Colonel Sanders. Medulla oblongata.

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And in fact, as Jack and I dove in T boy style to the latest earnings report, KFC is not even an American brand anymore. Right, Jack?

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Only 13% of the sales are in America. There's twice as much KFC sold in China as the States.

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In fact, KFC now sells as much chicken thighs in Europe as it does in America. Not possible, Jack. By the way, spoiler Emily in Paris season six. You know what the plot line is? Emily falls in love with a KFC biscuit. Or maybe it's an air fryer. I can't remember either way. Yetis ahead of KFC's 75th birthday. How can KFC cook up an Americana comeback right here in the States?

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With fashion, honey. That's how.

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With fashion. Because KFC just launched the pickle jacket.

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Actually, it's a pickle puffer, right? It's like a Canada goose, but filled with dill.

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It's the rare combo of fashion function and freakiness.

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It looks kind of like an aquarium. It's a translucent jacket with about 200 pickle chips inside it. And you can pull those pickle chips out and put them on your sandwich while you're on the go.

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Basically the grossest camelback ever. And it's the only jacket that also spoils.

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Oh wait, it's pickles, so it doesn't spoil.

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Right point, Jack. KFC UK is currently giving them away, but eventually they plan to sell this thing.

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It's a marketing stunt, but the desire for pickles is very real.

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Oh yeah, the pickle pop is real. There are numbers behind this. You see, Gen Z's sour taste surge is driving all time high demand for the pickle.

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There are numbers here, but we don't have them right now.

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Plus there is the food to fashion trend we've been covering for over a year now.

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Remember, Chipotle launched makeup in collaboration with Elf Beauty.

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The eyeshadow with the barbacoa. That was good.

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But we're not covering this story to give them free marketing for their obvious marketing stunt.

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This is not about the hype. There is much more depth here.

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What's fascinating us is is how this marketing stunt came to be because you

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see, Yetis, KFC's pickle puffer jacket wasn't KFC's idea at all. In fact, at first it failed. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at the Colonels? Kfc?

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The best marketers aren't farmers. They're foragers. They don't grow, they find.

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Yetis. Last November, an unknown creator posted an AI video on TikTok.

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It was a fake person wearing a fake version of this pickle puffer jacket we told you about.

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How did it do, Jack? Not too well. Nope.

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109 likes Only 8 comments that's the key.

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Yetis. This was not a viral video.

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It was a dud.

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But one person at KFC saw it and pitched it at their next marketing meeting.

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The agency they used is called Here Be Dragons and they created a prototype of this jacket and then KFC put it into production.

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So Jack and I have just never seen this before. An unviral fake product becoming a viral real product.

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Here's the biggest insight. KFC didn't create this idea. They found it. Forage to find it.

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And this is what we're thinking. Besties. You can't just track trends or follow what is already viral. You must forage for what isn't yet.

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Like a truffle pig that discovers a rare mushroom hidden in a dark forest under some moss.

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The best marketers? They don't rely on what's out there. They forage for what isn't. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.

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For our third and final story, you should have seen it coming. Prediction markets, they become our accidental corruption detector. Insider trading now completely out of control.

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We think prediction markets are the corrupt straw that breaks the camel's back.

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Oh, wait till look at the calendar we got going. Okay, but first, besties, baseball season began this weekend. Saw a great game. Yankees, Giants. But Jack, two pitchers are missing from the league right now, right?

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Yeah, because they were charged in November with a pitch rigging conspiracy.

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The feds alleged the two pitchers weren't throwing strikes and balls to get the batter out. They were doing it to win some cashola little bit of prop bets.

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It was insider predicting. And I didn't know a pitch rigging conspiracy was a thing until November.

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Even Shoeless Joe Jackson is shaking his head right now in that cornfield, Jack.

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Now last week the MLB announced a partnership with polymarket to try to get ahead of all the chaos and to try to outlaw prop bets in baseball.

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And now the Senate's going one step further. A bipartisan bill introduced last week ban sports within prediction markets.

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The bill says that sports betting should only happen on the regulated sports betting apps.

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And As a result, DraftKings stock jumped on word it may not have to face off against Calshay and polymarket soon.

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The US House went two steps further though.

[B]

Yes, they did.

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They introduced a bipartisan bill to ban event contracts on elections, sports, government actions and military actions.

[B]

Because here's the hero stat. Yetis, what do we got? Jack?

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86% of prediction markets may be sports betting, but the other 14%, it's like life and death stuff and it's become so corrupt.

[B]

So as you can see, Yetis, it ain't just sports. In fact, there are four headlines about prediction markets from just this year that you might easily have missed. Jack, can you whip out the calendar for us?

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On January 2, someone bet $32,000 that the United States would seize Nicolas Maduro

[B]

and made 360,000 bucks in profit when he was captured.

[A]

The very next day on February 28, someone bet that the United States would bomb Iran on March 1 and made

[B]

500,000 bucks in profit because that happened.

[A]

Nick, this next one is complicated and freaky.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

On March 10th, a journalist was reporting on an Iranian bomb landing in Israel, and he received death threats as he reported the location of the explosions.

[B]

And why is that, Jack?

[A]

Because his war reporting would determine $14 million of prediction market bets about bombs.

[B]

All right, that's exhibit A, B and C. What do you say? You got an exhibit D for us, Jack?

[A]

On March 23, 16 minutes before President Trump canceled plans to bomb Iranian power plants, $580 million of bets were made that oil prices would drop.

[B]

And besties, you can see where this is going. After the President's tweet, those bets profited enormously.

[A]

16min. Add it all up. Insiders are betting on outcomes. Sports are losing their integrity. Our government officials are profiting off state secrets.

[B]

Even Big Bird is afraid to sing the ABCs these days. Cause there's a Kalshee saying he's gonna sing Happy Birthday on Sesame street instead.

[A]

Big Bird is shaking right now.

[B]

I got 50 bucks saying Elmo's gonna strangle the grouch.

[A]

Yetis, Polly Market and Kalshee know that they're losing the PR battle right now. So they announced last week they're gonna try to regulate themselves by banning athletes

[B]

and politicians from betting on things that

[A]

they can control, which is a no brainer. They're also gonna ban bets that include death and war.

[B]

So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in predictions? Insider trading.

[A]

Prediction markets built an accidental corruption detector in America.

[B]

So Yetis, who's the victim of all this? I mean, Jack, we got a list, right?

[A]

I mean, young people who become unhealthily addicted to betting on everything.

[B]

Sports fans who don't trust the games

[A]

they love anymore, and citizens who believe all politicians are corrupt, profiting off their information, apparently.

[B]

Sesame street too. So the winners here though are polymarket and Kalsheet and their investors as their valuations have passed 10 billion bucks each.

[A]

Now, we should point out, let's be honest, a lot of these problems existed before prediction markets.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. Insider trading by members of Congress already was a problem.

[A]

And sports betting that's been blowing up since 2018.

[B]

But prediction markets have made the problem of insider trading and corruption too blatant to ignore.

[A]

We're hopeful actually that Congress will try to end all of this once and for all. Because it's so egregiously out there, guys,

[B]

let's make insider trading laws a apply to prediction markets. And sports betting.

[A]

And ban trading of individual stocks by members of Congress, their staff, their families. These are no brainers.

[B]

Basti's Prediction Markets accidentally built the case against themselves.

[A]

And we're betting hopefully that this will all come to an end with one giant bill.

[B]

We're predicting it. Jack, Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week?

[A]

Rent A Human is a gig work marketplace for AI to hire humans in real life for physical work.

[B]

The platform describes humans as, you know, come on, modified flesh. It's doom baiting by another AI founder. Guys, we can do better on this.

[A]

For our second story, KFC's pickle jacket is a marketing stunt to restart their Anglo Saxon sales.

[B]

But remember, they didn't create this campaign. They found it. Because the best marketers forage like a truffle pig.

[A]

And our third and final story is prediction markets. They're under attack from both houses of Congress and both parties.

[B]

They built a business that made corruption too obvious to ignore.

[A]

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

[B]

First, the latest big biz to get hit in the Iran war. It's the fancy stocks. Luxury brands are feeling it hard right now.

[A]

Luxury stocks have lost $100 billion market value as the war has messed with their supply chains.

[B]

Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, all those stocks are down. But it's not just because of the supply chain. Interestingly, it's because of Dubai.

[A]

That is a hot spot for the sales of the most expensive handbags and

[B]

sports cars, which come together usually. And right now, they're in the middle of the war, unfortunately.

[A]

Second, Netflix is raising prices across all subscription tiers.

[B]

Again, the reason that Netflix is able to keep doing this is that they have incredibly high retention.

[A]

Unlike the other video streamers, nobody cancels their Netflix account.

[B]

It's so sticky, you don't leave it.

[A]

It's an essential service at this point.

[B]

So Netflix keeps testing your willingness to pay. You keep paying it, and Jack as a shareholder, keeps telling me about it.

[A]

And finally, a funny thing we noticed about salaries. Wall street bonuses jumped 6% to an all time high. Right?

[B]

Stock market volatility is benefiting traders, so banker bonuses are up. That makes sense.

[A]

But Wall Streeters aren't making as much money as CR influencers are.

[B]

That's right. Cruises are paying gen Z influencers $350,000 to promote those cruises to young people.

[A]

The only catch, they have to live for a year on a cruise ship.

[B]

Now, time for the best fact yet. Which because it's Monday means T Boy. Insider trivia. Jack, what do we got?

[A]

Last week we caused a minor controversy by mentioning peanut butter and bringing it through tsa.

[B]

Well, basically besties, our question to you is this. This. It's a Newtonian question. Is peanut butter a liquid or a solid? Besties, we got a poll going right now on Spotify. Vote and drop a comment. Is peanut butter a liquid, a solid or something else?

[A]

As you can tell, I don't know the answer.

[B]

Yeah, Jack thought it was a gas. I should point out Yetis, you are looking fantastic to kick off the week. Jack, you are glowing right now after that sleep cation for spring break. Not too shabby man.

[A]

But we should point out to the Yetis we do a a full one hour meet and greet after the show. We would love to meet you in person on April 8th right after our

[B]

show finishes at Irving Plaza New York City Live show. Just a few tickets left, Jack, and I can't wait to see you there. And where can you buy the tickets, Jack?

[A]

There's a link in the episode description

[B]

if you know now you know. And before we go, a happy 30th belated birthday to Nate Dimesa down in Nashville who's got getting a special gift for that birthday. It's fantastic.

[A]

Happy belated birthday to Lola Ola Rylenecki in London, England who loves this birthday tradition that we go back to every year.

[B]

And the Marcelo scatoli in Amaray, California is turning 40 years old and making robots while he does it. Arriva d' Archi and Marnasar enjoy that birthday down in Houston, Texas.

[A]

And happy birthday to Kendra Sinclair celebrating in Red Hook, New York who built an upstate awesome new motel.

[B]

And a shout out to Eric Johnston for the second baby, an IBO initial baby baby offering in Munster, Indiana.

[A]

Happy two year engagement versary to Dan Katz and Bridget Mooney. Dan dropped down on one knee in Central park two years ago.

[B]

And Jack, a special shout out to Allison and Sophie in San Francisco. Allison, legendary longtime yeti. Sophie, new yeti got to meet him on Friday and they were just fantastic.

[A]

And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T boy.

[B]

Celebrate the wins.

[A]

This is Jack. I own stock of Netflix. Nick and I both own stock of Chipotle. And we both own ETFs of the S&P 500.

[D]

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