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Creators Are Media Companies, $189 Date Nights & Del Taco Takes The Crown | GCP 1020 Jul 27, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week and a returning guest Greg Goofried a CAA agent who's been in the creator business for years, from his UTA days to running one of the biggest creator companies in the world. The guys go deep on what creators actually get paid, why the biggest names in the business are people you've never heard of, and how the whole space turned into media companies while Hollywood wasn't looking. Plus the Department of Education's plan to hold colleges accountable, Arizona State's new influencer degree, and the average date night in America hitting $189.

This week's Group Chat covers:

Why livestreaming skews young and male — the male Love Island theory, Twitch's gaming roots, and unpoliced platforms vs YouTube
iShowSpeed as a global phenomenon, and the categories agents won't touch
Who actually has staying power — Jake and Logan Paul, MrBeast, Emma Chamberlain, Alix Earle, Jake Shane
The real job: six days a week, 50 weeks a year, and comment sections that break young creators
Why the algorithm rewards meanness, and why older people thrive on social media
Creators are media companies now — taking bites out of Disney while big media still owns the $100 billion TV ad market
Matt Damon vs. the creator economy — the script and the director vs. audience aggregation, and why the money is closer than you think
The advice for anyone starting: find a niche, then get on a platform that actually pays you
The Department of Education's accountability push — programs whose grads don't out-earn high school workers could lose federal student loans
Arizona State's influencer degree — 160,000 students and a diploma that requires proving real follower growth
The average date night in America is now $189, up from $168 last year — and why nobody's dating
Odyssey in 70mm IMAX — [25 US theaters, 41 worldwide] and the family that drove 900 miles round trip to see it
Why your music taste freezes at 33, and the catalog deals betting on it
Del Taco named the #1 fast food chain in America — over In-N-Out, Chick-fil-A, and Raising Cane's

Google's Monster Earnings, Invisible Billionaires & The NFL Is The Safest Bet | GCP 1019 Jul 23, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with a special guest Rohan Shah, co-founder of Extend.com, the platform doing over $1 billion in GMV making extended warranties actually work for retailers. The guys go deep with a true Silicon Valley insider on Google's monster earnings, how tech billionaires really spend their money, why NFL teams might be the safest asset in America, and what's actually happening inside companies spending big on AI.

This week's Group Chat covers:

Rohan's path — Harker, Stanford, and building Extend into a billion-dollar GMV business
Silicon Valley's prep school pipeline and the public vs private school divide
Inside enterprise AI spending — big token bills, unclear ROI, and why "we don't know yet" is the honest answer
The AI job-loss story that went in reverse — companies that cut heads are rehiring
Apple's patience play — keeping cash on the balance sheet while everyone else spends trillions
Rohan's stock picks — memory semis, nuclear and energy infrastructure, mining, Google, DoorDash, Meta
Google's monster earnings — a $9 vs $2 beat, $99 billion in other income from Anthropic and SpaceX stakes, and the stock still dropped
The Khosla family, the Seahawks, and the NFL's first Indian owner
Why NFL teams might be the safest investment in America — "the Cowboys will outlast all of it"
Trump accounts, custom ETFs, and kids treating stocks like baseball cards
Why Silicon Valley doesn't build libraries the robber baron playbook vs "changing the world"
Gambling ads on every screen what we allow now that we'd never allow for cigarettes

And much more!

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Everyone's Rich, The Tom Brady Problem, China's Free AI | GCP 1018 Jul 20, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Spain takes the World Cup, a free Chinese AI model just got rated #1 in the world, and the guys break down the Trump Accounts revolution — why every kid in America getting $1,000 in the market might be the biggest wealth-creation story in decades. Plus 550,000 people are now worth $30 million or more, Netflix gets hammered, fat cats are getting Ozempic, and Tom Brady has a problem.

This week's Group Chat covers:

Spain wins the World Cup — Argentina's dirty play, the $15 billion FIFA haul, and the Cup coming back to America
Kimi — the free Chinese AI model rated #1 in the world that just maxed out its GPUs
Fable 5, ChatGPT 5.6, and the AI model wars: what's anyone's moat anymore?
The valet test — why 99% of small businesses still haven't spent $20 on AI
GLP-1s for pets — fat cats, Ozempic, and the $200 billion pet economy
Netflix down 30% — great company, hammered stock, and the Home Run Derby nobody could find
Why all the capital is crowding into AI and semis while everything else gets abandoned
Trump Accounts — $1,000 for every kid born, 6.5 million families signed up, and the app designed by Airbnb's co-founder
Brad Gerstner's masterstroke and using the S&P 500 to save Social Security
Stock is the new charity — why billionaires should give shares, not donations
550,000 people are now worth $30 million+ — up 14% in one year
Fanatics Fest, the Tom Brady problem, and what his advisor should tell him

And much more!

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Kai's Streamer University, Betting On Everything, Delta's $1,000 Discount | GCP 1017 Jul 17, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. The guys wrap the World Cup and get into the stories everyone's talking about — Kai Cenat's Streamer University getting a million applications, the betting markets that now let you wager on everything from flight delays to presidential speeches, Delta stripping down business class, and the sinkhole that swallowed one of LA's busiest streets.

This week's Group Chat covers:

World Cup wrap — Spain vs Argentina, corporate ticket takeovers, and why game times were a miss
A 100-year-old water main breaks and opens a sinkhole on Sunset Blvd, shutting down the heart of West Hollywood
Fanatics Fest takes over NYC — the $90 million spend and the new all-in-one sports app projected to do $14 billion
Why American sports franchises are the new safe asset class — "I'd rather own a football team than US Treasuries"
The collectibles boom, GameStop's bid for eBay, and cards as the new art market
Betting on everything — Polymarket, flight delay markets, and the Trump teleprompter scandal
The Bryce Harper, FanDuel and Cameo controversy explained
Delta launches Basic Business — business class up to $1,000 cheaper, but no lounge, no food, no perks
IShowSpeed becomes the face of the World Cup and the biggest content creator on Earth
Kai Cenat's Streamer University — one million applications, 120 spots, and why kids want it more than Harvard
Inflation finally cools — CPI and PPI come down, and Marc Andreessen joins the new Fed task force
The Ozempic economy — grocery sales fall, snacking declines, and the lightening of America

And much more! Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

Costco Millionaires, Half of Gen Z Lives At Home & Erewhon $12 Water | GCP 1016 Jul 13, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week. Team USA is out of the World Cup and the guys are done with soccer but not before breaking down why American sports franchises are worth more than every soccer team on Earth. Then they get into the wealth-building conversation nobody wants to hear, why nearly half of Americans under 30 live with their parents, and the $12 water that broke the internet.

This week's Group Chat covers:

Team USA is out — the World Cup fallout, the Argentina conspiracy, and soccer's broken rules
Vinod Khosla's group buys the Seattle Seahawks for $9.65 billion
Why one NFL team is worth more than almost every soccer club in the world
Thousands of hourly Costco workers now have over $1 million in their 401(k)s
The boomer math nobody talks about — save 5-10% since 1990 and you'd have $6 million today
Why the S&P 500 is the "Premier League" of investing and still available to everyone
Is the system actually broken, or are we just wired for instant gratification?
Nearly half of Americans under 30 now live with their parents — coddling or smart money?
The participation trophy generation and how parenting changed the game
Sleepaway camp, self-sufficiency, and raising kids who can take care of themselves
Erewhon's $12 water sells out — genius marketing or peak status symbol?

And much more!

Soccer Mania, How To Live Forever, Car Payments Record High | GCP 1015 Jul 06, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including

America is running out of places to gather

President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers from outside the government to challenge the Flo Balogun red card, Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has incurable disease: 'My stomach is eating itself, US Car Payments Hit a Record $777 a Month as Down Payments Drop, 3-hour flights from LA to NYC move step closer to reality after major restriction lifted, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Gave Cartier Watches to Guests at Wedding and much more!

7 Figure Clipping Empire, Meta's New Plan, SpaceX Phone | GCP Ep 1014 Jul 02, 2026

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The Group Chat is back, and this one's a masterclass in how the internet actually works now. The guys sit down with Max Peterson, the 23 year old who built a seven figure clipping empire, paying out over $3 million to 38,000 clippers. Max breaks down how brands like Taco Bell turn podcasts and events into millions of views. Then the crew gets into Meta's surprise new business, Elon's rumored iPhone killer, and why Nike might be the most fixable company in America.

This week's Group Chat covers:

From posting memes at 12 to running clipping campaigns for Taco Bell and major brands
Max Peterson's come up: bootstrapping a seven-figure business on $2,500
The new American dream making $30K a month just posting clips
How clipping works and why every brand will soon have to pay for it
Meta's surprise pivot selling its excess AI compute like AWS, and why the stock popped
The investing lesson hiding in plain sight: when Zuckerberg tells you the plan, believe him
SpaceX's rumored phone Starlink connected, slimmer than the iPhone, and coming for Apple
Why Elon might be the only one who can actually dethrone the iPhone
Bending Spoons' IPO and the business of buying dying brands (AOL, Vimeo, Evernote)
Nike's big miss the US Men's Soccer merch fumble and how to fix the brand
Michael Burry shorting Nvidia and Tesla, and the Substack doom grift
The $40M Sam Altman movie Amazon shelved because no one wants to upset OpenAI

Plus World Cup fever, team USA mania, and why history keeps repeating itself in marketing. Drop us a 5-star rating and a review if you're rocking with the show.

AI Gatekeeping, Gamified America & Jersey Mike Takes The Crown | GCP 1013 Jun 29, 2026

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Group Chat News is back for America's 250th birthday week and the guys go deep on the gamification of everything, AI gatekeeping, and the great retail shakeup. Steve Pitino of Ales Grey stops by with a massive Walmart 4th of July shoe giveaway before the crew gets into why politics might be the biggest trap of all, the AI lockout dividing the haves from the have-nots, and how Jersey Mike's just dethroned Chick-fil-A.

This week's Group Chat covers:

America at 250 — is the country falling apart or winning more than ever?
NYC affordability, the DSA, and the middle-class squeeze in big cities
Declining birth rates and the forecasted hit to car sales by 2040
The gamification of everything — sports betting, Polymarket & Kalshi, and $165 billion wagered
How retail traders and day-trading boomers now move even the biggest stocks
AI gatekeeping — Anthropic and OpenAI limiting frontier models to 100 companies and the government
China's open-source AI catching up to the US frontier labs
Should you put confidential financials into AI? The data privacy debate
Jersey Mike's dethrones Chick-fil-A and goes public at a $12 billion valuation
Reformation's IPO and why "retail is dead" is a lie
Sephora's new "quiet hours" and the future of the in-store experience

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LVMH's Decline, World Cup Mania & Father's Day Life Lessons | GCP 1012 Jun 22, 2026

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Group Chat News is back with the hottest topics of the week. The guys get into Father's Day, youth sports, and the real life lessons hiding in a kid's baseball tournament before diving into LVMH's stunning decline, OnlyFans' $2.6 billion machine, and World Cup mania taking over America.

On this episode of Group Chat, Dee Murthy and Anand Murthy break down:

– LVMH's negative growth and what the decline of Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the luxury giants says about the global economy – The K-shaped recovery, the vanishing middle class, and why a "violent rebound" in luxury may be coming – OnlyFans hitting $2.6 billion in US spending. the cash machine, the brand moat, and the AI creators cashing in – The #1 OnlyFans spending city in America (it's not LA, New York, or Miami) – World Cup mania: SoFi Stadium vs. MetLife, and why the finals should've been in LA – The "Freddy" phenomenon America's viral World Cup hero, and whether the whole thing is a marketing plant – Whether Europeans are really "discovering" America, and why the world sings American songs – Team USA's run, the magic of a hot team, and the country roads takeover – Father's Day real life lessons: learning how to lose the lessons sports teach that carries into business and life

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Hosted by Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Chris "Drama" Pfaff

SpaceX Hits $2.1 Trillion, AI Shutdown Scare & World Cup Mania | GCP 1011 Jun 15, 2026

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The Group Chat crew breaks down the biggest SpaceX IPO on Wall Street, the AI shutdown scare gripping the tech world, and the World Cup mania taking over America. Business news, markets, and culture from one of the longest-running business podcasts.

This week on Group Chat News:

SpaceX goes public at a $2.1 trillion valuation: We break down the IPO frenzy, the OG Starbase investors, and Elon's path to $1 trillion by 2030
The El Segundo wealth boom: how space money is about to reshape the South Bay
World Cup mania hits America, Team USA run, and the electric atmosphere in LA
A Middle East peace deal looks imminent: what it means for summer gas prices and inflation
The Stanford walkout: graduates, free speech, and real-world consequences in tech and finance
The Knicks' historic win, Wembanyama, and how you're supposed to carry a loss
The Fable 5 AI shutdown scare, government involvement, and Satya Nadella's warning to the industry
Should the US government invest in AI companies? The guys debate the trillion dollar question

Group Chat News covers business, markets, tech, sports, and culture every week. If you like All-In, My First Million, and business news that actually keeps up with the week, follow and subscribe.

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Hosted by Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Chris "Drama" Pfaff

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