Hey, guys. Welcome to Group Chat. We're here with some news and we'd like to get you all caught up and ready for the rest of the week and to sail into the weekend.

Got a good one. We got a good one. We got a lot to talk about. It is our midweek episode, which is now when we end with winners, losers and content. So you have that at the end. And then, you know, we're talking about inflation. Things are booming.

Elon has thrown his hat in the ring, not with Zuckerberg, because he's ripped and hanging out with UFC stars, but with AI.

So x.ai. Elon is entering the AI. What's the motivation? That's what we retried to debate. That's what we're going to debate. What's the motivation behind the old Elon here? And I have a little bit of different perspectives, but starting to get a little crazy.

Yeah, and then a lot of other news. And like I said, we end with our winners, losers, content. We got a good episode for you. You ready? Let's go. Let's do it.

Members 10. Yeah, that's where I belong. Wow. I mean, fresh out of the members. 10. I see you got your merch.

Your head to toe, huh? Yeah, I got, I got the t-shirt on, got the hat on courtesy of Eric Deluxe. Javier, wait, got, got me my merch yesterday. You know, I belong in all members' tents except for the boys. That's the one tent that I just can't get out. That's the tent that's like the most the toughest to get into. Yeah, tough.

The boys over in Venice tough crowd. But good thing there's stuff. Yeah, but I mean, I get it. That's a tough tent. Is that stuff for sale?

It's it has been for sale and shipping this week. So people have been buying for the last 10 days, I think.

Been great feedback, great sales. So everyone who's purchased, they're shipping this week. So you should get any day now.

So, you know, rock your members tent and be proud. The group chat members 10 is the hottest 10 of them all.

We definitely got to do like something with this, you know, like maybe next time we do an event, we have a little tent.

You know, yeah, because it's one of the few times like my friends, you know, they're not like Jen's ears. They're obviously my age. Yeah, we're all turning 40 this year. And

everyone wants it. Everyone has been texting me for it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you live in a member's tent sort of crowd. Yep. And I guess, I mean, you know, it is still resonating with the young audience because the boys.

They go with the tent strategy, you know, 10. Yeah, because if if you're not in the real members tent, you at least want to try to be in a member's tent.

When look, I would say in their world, that tent is the members tent. Yeah, no, it definitely is hard to get into.

Okay, well, I think all of our events from now on, we should have little tents, even if they're just little baby tents, and it's still our members tent while we're growing.

Yeah, everyone wants some sort of exclusivity and what they're attending. They want to be like, I'm here for a reason, and I belong here.

And what says hot event like a tent, you know, yeah, totally.

Okay, so shopnewrepublic.com. They're for sale now. They're shipping shout out to Eric Deluxe with a quick turn around.

There you go. He's on his way to Tokyo rocking members tent. So we're going global. Wow. We'll use some picks. Yeah.

Okay. Well, D's out. He's running around New York. Um, you got me and on and today we got some news to go over. I think the first thing we should just celebrate is we are hot market.

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