💄 “The Carrie Bradshaw Index” — Where to Live Solo. Amazon’s Prime Day retirement. Pizza by the Slice. +Jack’s Nvidia Poem.

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Best One Yet

Episode Title: “The Carrie Bradshaw Index” — Where to Live Solo. Amazon’s Prime Day retirement. Pizza by the Slice. +Jack’s Nvidia Poem.
Hosts: Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell
Date: October 10, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode brings the signature T-Boy energy to three big business stories:

• Amazon Prime Day’s questionable value and whether it’s time to retire it
• Why fancy restaurants are opening profitable pizza slice shops
• The debut of the "Carrie Bradshaw Index," a financial metric revealing how unaffordable it’s become to live solo in U.S. cities
  The episode is topped off with poetry, personal anecdotes, and that playful, witty, bestie banter fans love.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Jack’s Nvidia Poem: “Nvidia, I’m Not Kidding Ya”

Timestamps: 01:49 – 02:54

• Jack delivers his long-awaited, publicly traded poem, waxing poetic about Nvidia’s market dominance and legendary CEO Jensen Huang.
• Notable references: GPUs powering the economy, the company’s valuation surge, and Wall Street’s obsession with them.

Quote:

“Nvidia, I’m not kidding ya. You power our economy’s heart. Your GPUs are our IOUs. Jensen said it from the start…”
— Jack (02:05)

Memorable Moment:
Nick dubs Jack “Bobby Frost over here with the iambic pentameter— not too shabby.” (02:54)

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2. Story 1: Amazon Prime Day—Retire It Like Michael Jordan

Timestamps: 05:33 – 09:38

Key Points

• Amazon held “Prime Big Deal Days” this week (Oct 7-8), after already having had a Prime Day in July—leaving shoppers confused by constant “sales.”
• Fakeflation: Lawsuit alleges Amazon and brands like Dyson inflate prices pre-Prime Day to create fake discounts.
  • Example: The Dyson V11 vacuum never sold at its supposed “original” price until just before Prime Day. (07:18)
  • Evidence from CamelCamelCamel and The Washington Post confirm “deals” were often higher than regular prices.
• Market Impact: Competitors like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy now copycat Prime Day, making deals less special.
• It’s not exclusively Amazon’s fault (brands like Dyson are behind some pricing games), but the event hurts Amazon’s credibility.

Quote:

“Prime Day is full of fake sales, real things, or fakeflation as we referred to it back in July.”
— Jack (06:51)

Takeaway:

“Amazon should retire Prime Day and quit while they're still on top…It's time to kill Prime Day. Retire like Jordan when he turned 30.”
— Jack & Nick (08:49, 09:35)

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3. Story 2: Pizza by the Slice—The Profit Puppy of the Restaurant World

Timestamps: 10:01 – 14:03

Key Points

• Amid a tough restaurant economy, premium pizza slice shops are thriving.
  • Restaurants famous for $400 dinners and $300 bottles of wine (like Wiley Dufresne’s “Stretch Pizza” in NYC and San Francisco’s Flour and Water) are pivoting to $5-6 slices.
• The economics work:
  • Lower costs (fewer workers, smaller kitchens, simple ingredients) = higher margins.
  • Selling slices yields more total revenue per pie and offers diners an affordable meal.
• The trend isn’t about $1 slices—it’s high-quality, premium offerings.

Quotes:

“There is dough in the dough.”
— Nick (01:17, 12:53)
“Fine dining chefs are launching slice shops like they're little kids like Kevin McAllister saying, extra cheese please, more cheese please.”
— Jack (12:05)

Takeaway:

“Pizza by the slice is the rare consumer and business win-win.”
— Jack & Nick (13:00)

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4. Story 3: The Carrie Bradshaw Index—Living Solo in the Modern City

Timestamps: 16:29 – 20:54

Key Points

• Carrie Bradshaw Index: New metric from The Economist—measures how much you need to make to live solo in a city, inspired by Sex and the City’s main character.
  • Compares mean income to mean studio apartment rents.
• 41 of America’s top 100 metro areas are now “unaffordable” for solo living (up from 38 last year).
  • Cheapest: Wichita, KS—need $35,000/year.
  • Most expensive: New York, NY—need $151,000/year (vs. the median NYC wage of $60,000).
• Reality: Living alone means spending way more than the traditional “30% of income on rent”; in NYC, it’s often 50%.
• Hosts reflect on their own never-living-alone experiences and the rite of passage for young people to have roommates in major cities.

Quotes:

“You need an income of $151,000 a year to live in a studio apartment alone in New York City.”
— Jack (18:32)
“Pour out one for the single people. Because it's simply unaffordable to live alone. Period.”
— Jack & Nick (19:58, 20:03)

Memorable Moment:
A relatable roommate-life story, and the wry realization that the “affordable housing” yardsticks are outdated in today’s inflated markets.

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Other Noteworthy Moments

Quick Hit Business Bits

Timestamps: 21:54 – 23:04

• Ferrari Stock Tumbles: Electric Ferraris spark a 16% stock dip; the loss of that classic “roar” turns buyers off.
• Lay’s Potato Chips Rebrand: Now celebrating their “real potato era”—but hosts wonder what was before?
• Podcast Listening Trends: Most Americans listen to podcasts at lunch (10am–2pm), more than in the morning.

Best Fact Yet

Timestamps: 23:20 – 24:01

• Listener David Pitlak (Baltimore) shares: California now has 68% more charging connectors than gas pump nozzles—over 200,000 public chargers, plus 800,000 at homes.

“There are sources of anxiety living in California. Range anxiety is not one of them.”
— Jack (23:55)

Closing Banter

Timestamps: 24:10 – 25:51

• Nick gears up for his “Dachelor” party (“dad” bachelor party before a new baby).
• Multiple shout-outs to listeners celebrating weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, with the customary, quirky T-Boy flair.

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Episode Takeaways (Quick Recap)

Timestamps: 21:06 – 21:51

• Amazon Prime Day: Full of fake deals—Amazon should retire it.
• Premium Pizza by the Slice: Profitable for restaurateurs, good deal for consumers.
• Carrie Bradshaw Index: Living solo in U.S. cities, especially NYC, is basically unaffordable.

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Signature Quotes & Moments

• “If Mercury's in retrograde, Amazon's doing a Prime Day.”
  — Nick (06:11)
• “You pay extra to eat less at his restaurants.”
  — Nick (11:31)
• “Having the roommates, it spreads out the fun, and it spreads out the cost.”
  — Nick (19:05)
• “The 30% number that financial advisors have used—it's simply outdated with today's painfully expensive real estate realities.”
  — Jack (20:21)
• “Nvidia, I'm not kidding ya. You power our economy's heart.”
  — Jack’s poem (02:05)

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Overall Tone & Style

• Light-hearted, witty, packed with clever puns and pop culture references.
• Playful banter balanced with sharp business analysis.
• Listener engagement shines throughout—community shoutouts and crowd-sourced facts.

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For those who missed the episode:
You'll come away knowing why Amazon’s hallmark sale might be past its prime, why pizza slices could keep your favorite chef’s balance sheet afloat, and just how out of reach living solo has become—unless you’re in Wichita (and probably love pizza more than Prime Day).

Transcript

[A]

This is Nick, this is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, October 10th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T, boy.

[B]

The top three pop business news stories.

[A]

You need to know today. Oh, you know what's tonight? You know what's tonight, Jack? What? It's the Dachelor party. The Dachelor party. Here we go.

[B]

So, yet Nick has a Dachelor party tradition, which is wonderful. It's right before the baby's born. The dad gets to go out with his buddies right before a new baby comes into the house and loads responsibility on him to his plate.

[A]

Oh, we are having a wild steak dinner at Cotonia until 10:00pm, Jack, and.

[B]

Then I gotta be right home. Now, to be clear, Nick had to delay his Dachelor party because he got sick right before the baby got born, remember?

[A]

But Jack, you know what they say. The Dachshler party must go on. So it's happening tonight. I'll give you the update on Monday. Can't wait. Can't wait. But Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod?

[B]

For our first story, Amazon Prime Day came and went this week. Did you even notice it?

[A]

Because if you did, the deals you got were hot air, according to a new class action lawsuit.

[B]

Which is why Amazon needs to pull a Michael Jordan on Prime Day and retire this thing.

[A]

It's time, guys. You're at the top of your game.

[B]

For our second story. It's the best economic model in the restaurant industry right now. Pizza by the slice.

[A]

Fancy restaurants are opening pizza slice shops nationwide because there is dough in the dough.

[B]

And a third and final story. There's a new financial metric we wanna talk about. The Carrie Bradshaw Index.

[A]

What's the cost of living solo like the gals and Sex and the City? Well, Jack and I will break it.

[B]

Down for you, Citi City. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful.

[A]

Mix of stories, Fantastic mix to go.

[B]

Into the weekend with.

[A]

Honestly, best mix we've ever done. Jack.

[B]

Last week we celebrated the start of.

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The fiscal fourth quarter.

[B]

And we did it T boy style by reciting a publicly traded poem.

[A]

Yeah, I wrote an ode to Ford and I was very proud of it.

[B]

But I still owe my publicly traded poem. And I'm finally ready to reveal it. Yeah, it's called Nvidia. I'm not kidding ya.

[A]

He had me at the title, but go on.

[B]

Nvidia. I'm not kidding ya. You power our economy's heart. Your GPUs are our IOUs. Jensen said it from the start, from video games to hall of fames, the rise came prompt by prompt, your artificial is judicial. Those trillions, oh, they've chomped Analyst beats government sheets. Jim Cramer named his dog after you? Google, Microsoft, Altman, Zuck, they would give their dog to you. So please, oh please keep selling chips. Cause it powers our economy. Your calculus is our stimulus. Now put it in the cart. Jensen. Oh, Jensen, your leather jacket slaps. If this is not a bubble, all you'll get from us is claps.

[A]

Oh my God. Oh my God. Bobby Frost over here with the iamic pantamin are not too shabby. Jack. Besties, thank you for enjoying the publicly traded poetry. We'll whip up some more for Q1 of next year. But in the meantime, Jack, what do you say we hit our three stories? Let's do it now. 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.

[B]

Jack.

[A]

Nick.

[B]

That's it.

[A]

I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T boy city on your atlas? If you know, you know. Cause we read to go? We can't wait no more so just start the show, start the show, start the show. First, a quick word from our sponsor.

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Classic move.

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Another latte shout out to all the.

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So start a business, live your dream, and wake up to the power of ATT business. Business.att.com Airbnb Yetis, full disclosure, 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 booked next year's Christmas vacation for 2028.

[A]

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

[B]

It's my side. Hustle, profit, puppy. Besties.

[A]

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

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Really satisfying feeling by the 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.

[A]

So you're gonna give a day away for free?

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[A]

For our first story, Amazon Prime Day. It came and went this week. Did you even notice?

[B]

Yetis, if you did notice, you saw fake deals, fake flation and a real lawsuit.

[A]

True story.

[B]

That's why we think it's time to retire Amazon Prime Day.

[A]

Like a young Michael Jordan.

[B]

Well, a pre Washington Wizards.

[A]

A Prime. Yeah, a prime Michael Jordan. Now, besties, it's Amazon Prime Day again. I'm sorry, Prime Days, plural? Or is it Amazon Prime Week?

[B]

What are we going with on this one? What just happened this week was actually called Prime Big Deal Days, and it happened on October 7th and 8th this year.

[A]

Oh, also, Amazon already did a Prime Day back in July. Basically, if Mercury's in retrograde, Amazon's doing a Prime Day.

[B]

And in July, it was actually called Prime Day, but it was four days.

[A]

It's all very confusing. And shocker, Amazon's probably gonna announce record sales for this Prime Big Deals Day. But that's probably just driven by inflation, not by sales volumes.

[B]

And don't forget Walmart, Target and Best Buy. Whatever Amazon does, they do too. They just zucked their Prime Days with their own version.

[A]

But besties, if you did happen to buy a cute top or a thing you won't use on Amazon Prime Day, lured in by that 33% off deal, Jack and I, we got some rough news for you.

[B]

Because Prime Day is full of fake sales, real things, or fakeflation as we referred to it back in July.

[A]

And Amazon, you can't sue us for that because all of this is according to a new class action lawsuit filed last month in Washington State.

[B]

Here's the issue we mentioned in our July coverage of Prime Day. That the higher price you see on Amazon, that's crossed out, it was never the Real price. It was a fake price.

[A]

Let's jump in, T boy style. For example, the Dyson V11 cordless vacuum advertised on Prime Day this year as 37% off a $630 original price.

[B]

But Nick, the Internet doesn't forget.

[A]

No, it doesn't.

[B]

The website CamelCamelCamel tracks the price history of everything sold on Amazon, including that Dyson V11 cordless vacuum.

[A]

And I'm sorry, Jack, but that vacuum apparently has never been priced $630 until this September a month ago.

[B]

So here's what Dyson did. They jacked up the price, but only right before Prime Day, so that technically on Prime Day, they did drop the price by 37%.

[A]

It's a fake deal. In fact, the Washington Post found out that the deals on Prime Day can actually be the opposite of deals.

[B]

The lower price that you see, it's actually higher than it's traditionally sold on regular days. But Amazon and Dyson know that you only peruse for vacuums on Prime Day.

[A]

So they actually increase the prices on Prime Day, but advertise the discount by using a fake reference point.

[B]

Yetis, today, the T Boy podcast is a bajillion percent off the million dollar normal price that we charge you for a download.

[A]

Add it all up, besties, and it appears prices on Amazon are getting manipul more than pics of that Jack dude with a puppy and his mom on a dating app.

[B]

It's fakeflation, when the higher price on the price tag was never the actual price at all.

[A]

So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Amazon Prime?

[B]

Amazon should retire Prime Day and quit while they're still on top.

[A]

Let's pause for a sec though. Jack, why did Amazon invent Prime Day in the first place? To drive signups of Amazon Prime.

[B]

Mission accomplished. Capital One reported recently that in America, there are 180 million prime users. That's nearly every American household.

[A]

So it's done. Plus, Prime Day is not even differentiated anymore. Every big box store copies it, and it's just a margin destroyer.

[B]

Now look, Yetis, it's not Amazon who deceived us with the fake discount on that vacuum. It was Dyson who did that.

[A]

But it hurts Amazon's cred. And the existence of Prime Day is why Dyson did it in the first place.

[B]

So Amazon quit while you're kind of ish on top. Yeah, it's time to kill Prime Day.

[A]

Retire like Jordan when he turned 30.

[B]

Basically retire like Jordan after he made that incredible shot against the Utah Jazz.

[A]

Put out a press release with the quadrillions of dollars saved and just say mission accomplished. Off to retirement for our second story. Amid a struggling restaurant industry, one format is shining profitably. And that format is premium pizza by the slice.

[B]

Fancy award winning chefs are launching pizza joints because of unit economics.

[A]

Oh, yetis, there is no food that economists love more than pizza. Not because of the taste, by the way. It's actually just because of the numbers. Right, Jack?

[B]

Well, at every university you can always find free pizza somewhere.

[A]

That's fair point.

[B]

Some department has a talk and there's free pizza you can go find.

[A]

And on this pod, we have talked to you about pizza trends like delivery pizza, how it's tariff proof, and frozen.

[B]

Pizza, which is recession proof.

[A]

Also, we've covered the pizza paradox on this podcast as well.

[B]

During the pandemic pizza sales surged. Post pandemic pizza pulled back.

[A]

Now, Jack, it's been a while since I've been in an Economics 101 classroom, but I'm pretty sure economists love a pie chart or two which is shaped like a pizza. Besties, here's the news. One famous chef just told the Wall Street Journal that the economics of traditional restaurants simply don't work anymore.

[B]

And that was the founder of the meatball shop in New York City who said that.

[A]

But here's what Jack and I find fascinating. The savior for the restaurant industry in this age of inflation is actually pizza. Slices of pizza, to be precise. You see, Eddies, the new food trend in cities is famous restaurants opening pizza shops as a side hustle.

[B]

In New York, the Michelin star chef Wiley Dufresne is famous for $400. I'm sorry, am I reading this right? Foam covered prefix meals.

[A]

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Jack.

[B]

Foam covered.

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You pay extra to eat less at his restaurants. But his newest restaurant concept, Jack, is called stretch pizza. And what is that?

[B]

It's three different 10 foot by 10 foot holes in the wall across the city that just sell pizza by the slice.

[A]

Also down the street in San Francisco, Flour and Water, a restaurant famous for serving $300 bottles of imported Italian wine. What's their newest restaurant concept? Jack?

[B]

A pizza chain that serves late night slices with arcade games that you can play there.

[A]

Jack. I did my birthday party there this year and it was hilariously also like the cheapest birthday I've ever done.

[B]

Fine dining chefs are launching slice shops like they're little kids like Kevin McAllister saying, extra cheese please, more cheese please.

[A]

But besties, Jack and I should point out the key here. We ain't talking $1 slices from St. Mark's pizza that you vomit up at 2am, are we man?

[B]

We're talking prem premium slices of pie selling for five bucks a slice.

[A]

Let's look at the menu at Prime Pizza over in Los Angeles, their sausage kale pizza is made with fermented dough and a special super secret grandma sauce for five bucks a slice.

[B]

At Stretch Pizza in New York, it's six bucks a slice for an everything bagel piece of pizza.

[A]

So besties, add it all up and believe it or not, those pizzas by the slice can be more profitable than the award winning restaurant that they were.

[B]

Born out of because of inflation and because of our takeaway.

[A]

Yeah, there's dough in the dough. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at the premium slice of pizza?

[B]

Pizza by the slice is the rare consumer and business. Win, win.

[A]

Now, yeah, here's the deal. The restaurant industry, it is super low margin. But premium pizza slice shops can be a profit puppy.

[B]

Fewer workers, smaller kitchens, and just a handful of simple ingredients. Yep, it's lower costs.

[A]

So from the supply side, a slice shop, yeah, they can produce a more profitable product than a restaurant can.

[B]

But on the demand side, people are preferring pizza by the slice, especially in this economy.

[A]

I mean, Jack, let's look at lunch. Let's say you get two slices of that five dollar premium pizza slice.

[B]

Boom. The consumer gets a $10 lunch which is less than like a sandwich or a salad at most places.

[A]

Or what if the pizza place sells eight slices for $5 each?

[B]

That's 40 bucks for one pizza. That's more than you'd probably sell a full pizza compared to the slices.

[A]

So the premium pizza, it's combining three economic forces. First, the cost savings of a small pizza shop.

[B]

Second, the value of a two slice lunch or dinner. And third, the revenue of eight slices being bigger than the revenue of one pizza.

[A]

Primo pizza by the slice. It's the rare consumer business. Win, win. Now a quick word from our sponsor.

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For our.

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Third and final story before the weekend, we're looking at the newest financial measurement out there, and it's called the Carrie Bradshaw Index.

[B]

City by city, the Carrie Bradshaw Index tells you if your income is high enough to live solo and still live your best life.

[A]

Now, Yetis, come on a journey with us. You're strolling down Bleecker street in the West Village and one block past Magnolia Cupcakes. You're gonna hang, right? And you're gonna see the coolest apartment we'd ever seen in the city.

[B]

We only saw it on tv, though.

[A]

It was for Carrie Bradshaw's apartment from Sex and the City. Someone else lives in that townhouse now, but everyone is still on the stoop taking pics.

[B]

And the Economist magazine agrees, because they've turned that Sex in the City character's apartment into an economic term. It's called the Carrie Bradshaw Index.

[A]

Now, Basti, as Jack and I should point out as the Economist subscribers, their magazine is famous for doing this kind of a thing, right? Like they invented the Big Mac index, too.

[B]

The Big Mac Index taught in every economics department, shows you the purchasing power across the world with the local currency pegged to a universal item like a.

[A]

Big Mac, the Big Mac hamburger. So this Carrie Bradshaw Index, well, it measures the price of apartments in top cities based on wages and rents in those cities.

[B]

It compares the mean income in a city with the mean rent of a studio apartment in that city where Kerry.

[A]

First conquered Mr. Big, if I'm correct, which I'm actually not 100% certain on.

[B]

Jack, let's get back to the Carrie Bradshaw Index from the Economist, please.

[A]

Jack, what was the result in the Carrie Bradshaw Index?

[B]

It looked at the top top 100 US metro areas, and 41 of them are considered unaffordable, up from 38 of them last year.

[A]

Cancel my Jimmy Choo order, Yetis.

[B]

Wichita, Kansas, is the most affordable of America's top 100 metro areas.

[A]

True. You only need to make $35,000 a year in order to afford a studio apartment there.

[B]

The least affordable city is New York.

[A]

Now, that was not shocking. But what is shocking is the amount of money you do need to make to live solo in New York City.

[B]

You need an income of $151,000 a year to live in a studio apartment alone in New York City.

[A]

Now, full disclosure, besties. I have never lived alone in New York. Jack's never lived alone in New York. We've done the whole bunk beds.

[B]

I actually have never lived alone in my whole life.

[A]

I've lived with you for, like, half your life.

[B]

I had four years of bunk bedding with Tuck, four years of bunk bedding with my brother Teddy after that.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Then two years of bunk bedding with you, and then more roommates through college and. And then roommates after college, and then my girlfriend who became wife.

[A]

But I think, like, half of it was with me. Jack. You see, having the roommates, it spreads out the fun, and it spreads out the cost. Yeah.

[B]

Finding roommates is a rite of passage for young people in all the desirable cities.

[A]

But in New York City, the median wage is $60,000. So you would need to make two and a half times more than that to afford living alone.

[B]

Let me say that again. You need to make two and a half times more than the median wage in New York to afford to live alone.

[A]

Oh, and that doesn't even include the late night cosmos with Miranda over at Baltazar. Jack.

[B]

And if you zoom out from New York City, 41 top cities in America have unaffordable rent on average, according to the Carrie Bradshaw Index.

[A]

Which leads us to two conclusions. The first of which is that either rents have to fall or wages have to rise.

[B]

Or second, the definition of what is affordable is outdated.

[A]

Well put, Jack. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies living solo in the city?

[B]

Pour out one for the single people. Because it's simply unaffordable to live alone.

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Period. Now, Yetis, on this show, we've talked to you about dinks and dinkwads and dinkwood asses and the high cost of being a parent as well.

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But what about the single ladies and the single guys? This story shines a light on their economic plight too.

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You see, the truth is that living single in the city requires way more than 30% of your income.

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The 30% number that financial advisors have used. It's simply outdated with today's painfully expensive real estate realities. A more realistic number today is 50% of your income, which stinks.

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Which also reminds us of that old adage in baseball, Jack. Like if you could pitch 95 miles per hour, that was fast.

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But now every team has like five random pitchers who can throw 98. It's like statistical inflation.

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So basti is the 30% of affordable housing ratio. It might make sense for couples with combined incomes, but it's the wrong percentage.

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If we're talking about the realities for single people.

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Yet he's poor one out for the single people because it's simply unaffordable to live alone in the city, Period. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday?

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Amazon Prime Day. I mean prime days. I mean prime Big Deals day. It was full of fake deals and fake fliction according to a class action lawsuit.

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Amazon, you gotta retire Prime Day. Quit while you're still on top. Retire like a young Michael Jordan.

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For our second story, high end restaurants are opening pizza slice shops that are actually more profitable than the restaurants.

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Premium pizza by the slice it is the rare consumer business. Win, win.

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And our third and final story. It's the Carrie Bradshaw Index. It shows that for 41 cities in America, you cannot affordably live like a gal from the Sex and the City.

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So pour one out for the single people. It's simply unaffordable to live alone in American cities.

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

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First, Ferrari just had its worst day on the stock market ever. Fast and furiously, the stock dropped 16% yesterday.

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The reason? Electric Ferraris. The CEO announced that they expect to sell less than half as many as they expected before.

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Because apparently, here's the problem. If you buy a Ferrari for the engine, what if you don't get the roar of the engine with the ev? Right? Like, that's the issue here, I think. Right?

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I mean, I think it was a stretch to think that anyone would pay 300 grand for an electric Ferrari.

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Hey, Ferrari, we got an idea. Launch a $6,000 baby stroller instead. And second, Lay's potato chips just got a rebrand to embrace their real potato era.

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Were you made with fake potatoes before?

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Yeah, it's one of those announcements where we would like to jump in t and find out about the old potatoes, please.

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It's one of those announcements that didn't clarify. Confused.

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And finally, according to a new study, you are most likely to listen to podcasts at lunch.

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Edison Research surveyed Americans over the age of 13 and 29% of American podcast listening happened between 10am and 2pm their.

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Local time, which is a higher percentage than those who listen in the morning, which is 24% of people.

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So odds are you're listening to this pot at lunchtime. A $5 slice of fancy pizza.

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If you know, you know. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one is an audio fact sent in by legendary yeti David Pitlak.

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Nick and Jack. David Pitluck from Baltimore, here to follow up your story about the last call for EVs. You guys said there's like just as many chargers as gas stations. Sounds like a guess to me. Let's follow that up with the best fact yet. According to the California Energy Commission, last month they announced that There are now 68% more charging connectors than gas pump nozzles in California. That's a little over 200,000 plugs in total, plus an estimated 800,000 installed in single family homes. 800,000.

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I mean, Jack, you could basically in San Francisco pull up to a blue bottle coffee and charge your car if you wanted to.

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There are sources of anxiety living in California. Range anxiety is not one of them.

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Yetis, you look fantastic all week. And if you want to know the best way to help t boy, it's to help grow the show and tell a buddy. Hyh tboy.

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It stands for Nvidia. I'm not kidding ya.

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The poem of the century. All right, Jack, I gotta get showered up for this Dachelor party. Do you think you get presents at a Dachelor party?

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Do you receive presents? No, I think the presents and fun.

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From your buddy lame. Okay, well, I'm expecting presents in the meantime. Besties, you did look fantastic. Celebrate the wins and Jack and I will see you Monday. And before we go, a shout out to legendary yetis, Josh Sooey and Cali Morora in Millville, New Jersey, who are listening to this T boy on the way to the best wedding yet. Their wedding.

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And happy birthday to Sydney Jones who's turning 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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And Cody Rhodes has got a birthday and just had a baby. Meet lovely Alana, born in Fantastic, Germany.

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And happy 10th birthday to Ahmad Al Ishmael, who's turning 10 in Katy, Texas with his cat Oreo.

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And to the puppy Cristiano Nasreddin is aka the Chicken in Savannah, Georgia, celebrating a birthday.

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Happy 26th birthday to Alyssa Raza in West Hills, California.

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And Caleb in Fayetteville, Arkansas has got the best birthday yet. And happy 24th birthday to Kate Casey just outside Boston.

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They're starting a new adventure cross country.

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And Jack, I'm hungry for Tomono Yamanaka's cooking traditional Japanese food. She's serving it at her first farmer's market in Dallas, Texas.

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Happy first anniversary to Dan and Nuvia Kepley in Dayton, Ohio.

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And Alexandra and Ronald Rosales in New Jersey are celebrating their 10th anniversary and the best birthday yet.

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And Sydney Brown, congratulations for getting on the Kent State homecoming court.

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And Michael and Kaitlin Brown in Fredericksburg, Virginia have got their fifth and fantastic est anniversary.

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If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad free right now by joining Wondery and the Wondery app or on Apple podcasts.

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