Nike Is Cooked, OpenAI Buys a Podcast, and Kanye's Back | GCP Ep 999

Group Chat

News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week on Group Chat, Zach White returns and the crew goes deep on Nike's earnings disaster and why the brand has become culturally irrelevant. From losing China to getting outpaced by Salomon and Arc'teryx, the guys break down what went wrong and whether the Swoosh can recover.

OpenAI just acquired TBPN, a tech podcast, for a reported $200M+ after only 18 months. The crew breaks down why 70K viewers of the right people is worth more than millions of the wrong ones, and what it means for the future of media acquisitions.

Kanye sold out two nights at SoFi for the first time in LA since 2019. 45 songs, Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, and $18M on night one alone. Is cancel culture officially dead? The crew debates what it means when the most controversial artist in the world sells out the biggest venue in the city.

Plus: the Artemis moon launch, the moon landing conspiracy debate (the crew votes), a GCP fan builds a SaaS product from a pod tip, Dee builds a baseball swing analyzer on a Duffy boat, and Venice is the new West Hollywood.

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0:00.0	What up?
0:00.9	What up?
0:01.9	What up?
0:02.9	We got a special guest. We have a guest, and we're all in studio, and it's Easter Sunday, and our boy, Zach White, you know, pod favorite. I feel like there's like a really, well, I don't get it. Polarizing figure. I think that group is so small, though. Yeah. We love you, Zach. I mean, my parents love you. That's great. My friends love you.
0:22.7	Everyone comes up to me.
0:23.7	Jesus loves you.
0:24.6	Jesus loves you. group is so small though yeah we love you Zach so I mean my parents love you that's great
0:21.6	my friends love you everyone comes up to me and like Jesus loves you Jesus loves you especially
0:25.4	today he is risen he has risen today yep Patrick Williams told us everyone told this did you say
0:31.3	that he tweeted or something yeah yep um so we're here it's a holiday holiday. What did you guys do?
0:37.7	Did you go to church? No, I didn't do anything. You did? No, I'm just a single guy out here paying for. I did. Okay. With the family? Yeah. Oh, nice. So. That's probably a good place to meet some ladies who wanted a DoorDash page. That is true. There's literally an article in New York Times. the longest line in New York City is the Catholic Church.
0:57.3	I've been to that church. who want that DoorDash page. That is true. There's literally an article in New York Times. The longest line in New York City is the Catholic Church.
0:57.3	I've been to that church.
0:58.6	It's like, it's past my line of, that just feels so dirty.
1:06.1	Why?
1:06.8	Going to church, if you know that your leading intention is to find girls.
1:10.0	I think your intention will be to find girls, but you will find God.
1:15.6	Well, I mean, hold on.
1:18.6	Think about it, like, was it eight, nine years ago when Bieber was doing his pastor thing and everyone used to go?
1:25.3	Every celebrity influencer went.
1:27.3	Yeah. Isn't the same thing? I don't say I won't partake. Okay, fine. I think it's a little different now because it's not, they're not going for the celebrities. There's no celebrities that are going to this. It's just mostly young, attractive people. Yeah. A lot of girls that I run into, and Zach, I'm curious your take on this, is, because I finally have another single guy on the pod. Let's go. Yeah. So finally. There's a lot of Jesus. JC's hot. JC's hot with the hot. I was so early on JC coming back. But I mean with the hot girls. They need a lot of forgiveness out here. See, it is kind of a red flag to me.
2:02.6	Yeah. Like if a girl's super J.C.ish, I'm like, eh.
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