This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, October 15th, and today's pod

is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.

I'm sorry, Jack, I'm checking the cows, and we are halfway to Halloween, baby besties. This is your

warning pod. It's October 15th. You need a semblance of a concept of an idea of your Halloween costume. Yeah, no pressure, besties, but I'm feeling the pressure, dude. I'm clueless right now. But Jack, we have that thing. We're working on that thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The couple's costume. All right, but in the meantime, Yeti's Jack and I had three fantastic stories for today's

tea boy, Jack, what's on the show?

For our first story, Gen Alpha, the generation younger than Gen Z is obsessed with one company,

Bulldog ramen noodles.

Bulldogs is now an $8 billion noodle business because it's so spicy, it got banned.

For our second story, on November 6th, China is cutting off rare earth metal exports to the United

States. So Jack and I are looking at the company that raised $65 million for a patriotic

metal mine. That company is Vulcan, the Vulcan. And our third and final story. Why did an AI

chatbot open up a coffee shop in New York City? And why does that coffee shop have a line going

around the block? Claude's anti-slop coffee shop has a real purpose and here's what it is.

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

Sam Altman, latte for Sam Altman?

For years now, Yeties, Nick and I have been keeping track of the ultimate corporate competition.

Oh, we got it up on the whiteboard.

Whose Office offers the best work perks?

Well, the newest work perk is by far the

biggest, at least financially speaking. Because that work perk, which is a tongue twister, by the way,

is down payments. That's right. Some Bay Area companies are offering down payment assistance

as an employee benefit. Called the 20% down work perk, baby. Here's the story. Businesses want employees to live closer to the office to shorten their commutes. Okay, but the problem with that, Jack? There's nothing in San Francisco, and I mean nothing under a million dollars. It's a seven-digit city. It's a seven-digit city. And with high interest rates, they're double as expensive. So, cash-rich companies are offering cash stipends or low-interest loans for nearby housing. And you know what? If you do live closer to your work, you'll probably go to work more often. So, Jack, it's kind of a work perk to benefit the employee and the employer. You're joining the company? Here's a 0% loan for that apartment

...