This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday. Oh, sorry, Wednesday. Three, two. This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Soviche, Wednesday, May 20th. 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, did we just finish our best interview ever right before today's show, Jack? Dude, the president of the Chicago Fed is charismatic. That was amazing. The Fed president, incredible. You were glowing, by the way, in that interview, Jack. You'd think a Fed president would be super buttoned up and careful? Not the case. He was speaking his mind. He was amazing besties. We're going to whip up that

episode for you over Memorial Day. But in the meantime, Jack, we've got three fantastic stories for the

most interesting show and business. What do we got on today's spot? For our first story,

the housing market is still frozen by interest rates. Not good for home improvement companies.

But Lowe has one big idea to save it. Mr. Beast gets a viral aisle. For our second story,

all meta employees are working from home today because at 4 a.m. local time, Zuck fired 8,000

people. And the cruel twist, these former meta employees trained their AI replacements.

And our third and final story. A book published yesterday reveals what really happens at Stanford.

Stanford-Aidate college, it's a startup incubator with dorm rooms.

The goal isn't to graduate.

It's to rule the world.

And Jack and I found out how to do it.

But yet he's before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

What a mix of stories.

No one else is doing that mix.

Happy allergy season to all those who celebrate. Which is no one celebrating right now. But we come bearing good news. The secret to stopping your allergies might be matcha. Get this. A new study suggests drinking macha, the trendy green tea, reduces allergy symptoms right now. Specifically, it reduces sneezing. Yeah,

this smells pretty legit. What do we got, Jack? It's according to the Nature Journal's

Science of Food. Macha doesn't treat inflammation like an antihistamine medication does. No,

it calms the nerves that trigger the sneeze reflex. What we're saying here is more macha less

gazentic. Claritin clear, MoMacha. Researchers, they gave mice some macha and basically the mice stop sneezing. That's the whole study. Although they could have given like macha to some Brooklyn hipsters instead of the mice. Dude, I haven't sniffed since the Passion Pit concert in 2013. So, Yetis, if you're feeling the pollen right now, order the macha latte. If your schnaz feel stuffy right now, make it an iced macha. If you can't sit down without your trademark double sneeze that you're known for. Hey, Dahlene, make it a double matchat doctor's orders. Macha, it's the new Flones. Yeah, which makes Starbucks a pharmaceutical company. Let's hit our three.

Three stories.

Fifteen years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm.

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