The New Economy: AI Builds It, GLP-1s Shrink It | Ep 994

Group Chat

News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It is a special midweek drop and the group chat is packed. This episode covers the forces quietly reshaping the economy right now — from AI slashing business costs overnight, to GLP-1 drugs gutting the snack industry, to private credit markets showing their first real cracks. The guys break down what is actually happening beneath the headlines, why sports viewership is at an all-time high, which consumer brands are quietly hitting $10 billion, and why the stock market may be setting up for a violent rally. No fluff, no filler — just the conversations happening in every serious group chat right now.

Topics Covered This Episode:

1. AI Is Replacing Your Entire Software Stack How using Claude cut one company's AWS bill from $9,500 a month down to a projected $500 — and what that means for every business owner still paying for legacy SaaS tools. Plus: Lovable jumps from a $300M to $400M run rate in a single month, and Anthropic adds $6 billion in run rate in two months. The AI economy is not coming — it is already here.

2. The GLP-1 Effect Is Hitting Corporate Earnings Campbell Soup's snack division dropped 6% in a single quarter with no obvious explanation other than 30 million Americans now on GLP-1 medications. The guys explore the downstream ripple effects — grocery aisles, fast food, supplement brands, and what retailers like Kroger do when people simply stop snacking.

3. Private Credit Is Cracking Blackstone, Blue Owl, and Cliffwater are all facing record redemption requests after two major auto suppliers backed by private credit funds went under. Is this an economy problem, a bad-lending problem, or a panic problem? The guys break it all down and explain why it matters even if you have never heard of private credit.

4. Sports Is on an Unprecedented Run Every sport — NFL, NBA, MLS, World Baseball Classic, UFC — is posting record ratings. The guys explain why gambling, fragmented media, and the death of cable news are all fueling the surge, and why the Tom Brady flag football league and the Gronk vs. Logan Paul beef are the perfect example of how modern sports entertainment actually works.

5. The $10 Billion Consumer Brands Nobody Is Talking About Quince hits a $10 billion valuation doing nearly $2 billion in revenue by going factory-direct to consumers. The guys break down why consumer investing is back, who is losing market share, and what the rise of brands like Keats and Whatnot means for traditional retail.

6. Millionaire Taxes, Fraud, and the Wealth Exodus Washington State's new 9.9% millionaire tax, the staggering scale of hospice care fraud in Los Angeles, and why billionaires — and now regular millionaires — are leaving high-tax states for Nevada, Texas, and Florida. The argument is simple: clean up the fraud first, and you would not need to raise taxes at all.

7. The Stock Market Rally Nobody Wants to Miss Goldman Sachs is calling for an extreme stock rally. The guys explain why $8.5 trillion sitting in money markets has nowhere else to go, why the US stock market is the only investable market left in the world, and why owning assets — not just earning a salary — is the only play that makes sense right now.

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0:00.0	All right, Kathy's, welcome back.
0:02.9	Special midweek episode, not traveling this week.
0:06.1	Yeah, very rare.
0:07.3	Very rare, but we still get once in a while.
0:12.1	Action pack with news.
0:15.4	Too much.
0:15.9	A lot of exciting stuff.
0:18.0	I think the big news of this morning is Iran is trying to say they're
0:22.9	going to attack California. Yeah, and the image they're showing is, seems like Coachella.
0:29.2	From what we know, these scumbags like music festivals. Sure. And so if they touch Coachella...
0:38.3	That's a sacred place.
0:40.3	Nuk the fuck out of them.
0:42.6	Nukum.
0:43.6	Do you think the news organizations use that palm tree to like...
0:48.9	Obviously for clicks, right?
0:50.2	Here's a reality.
0:52.0	So I look this up.
0:53.6	Their drone technology can go 1,500 to 2,500
1:00.0	kilometers. Okay. Okay. So that's, you know, call it, let's say roughly around 1,000 miles,
1:09.2	you know, in terms of like...
1:11.0	Which isn't close to Coachella.
1:13.2	Well, well, I'm saying...
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