It’s Only a Bubble If You Panic

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0	So I downloaded, are you using the new, the chat, you BT or the OpenAI app or the web browser? How is it? No. I just started using it like literally this morning. I haven't really put around with it that much. I just said, like, what am I doing tomorrow? And it connects to your calendar and it tells you what you're doing. So it reads your tabs and it helps you like complete things? I don't know. I just started using it.
0:21.9	But like,
0:22.0	for example,
0:22.6	it gives you ideas like
0:23.6	find movies and shows I recently viewed. So I clicked it and it goes through your search history. Oh, it's like prompt. Now it's basically full on mind control. It's like telling you what you should be doing. I need to be told what to do. I don't.
0:34.1	I love it.
0:34.8	This is like Shari 2.0.
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:36.8	I already have that.
0:38.7	I already have somebody who tells me what to do all that.
0:41.1	Has that? to do. I don't. I love it. This is like Shari 2.0. Yeah. I already have that. I already have
0:39.3	somebody who tells me what to do all that all that. Has that, have you watched the, um, the Marty
0:43.8	Doc? No. No. Should I? I've watched it. Yeah. I was too busy watching the John Candy one.
0:50.3	Um, I don't have Ben guys in my, in my headphones.
0:54.8	Wait, can we have Ben say confident in his assertions?
0:57.0	Oh, for confidence.
0:57.8	One, two.
0:59.4	Very confident in my assertions.
1:03.4	All right.
1:05.2	Shnali, I just got back from Las Vegas.
1:07.2	Oh, yeah?
1:07.9	Yeah.
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