🗽 “Miracle Below 34th St” — New York’s 9/11 comeback. Bumble’s ultimate breakup. The Boring Company’s fundraise. +Pokemon $$$

0:00This is Nick, this is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday, September 11th. And today's pod is the best one yet. And this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. But yet he stocks been down all week. They are not celebrating the wins. What's going on, Jack? Oil is at $100 a barrel in the US, and it's $110 a drop. Yeah. It's up 30% in just the last month. The inflation situation very, very alive right now. The stock market doesn't like it. But in the meantime, we got three fantastic stories for the fun of showing finance, Jack. What have we got in today's T-boy? For our first story, Elon Musk's boringest company is actually his most exciting. Sure, so the boring company just raised $3 billion. Even though after 10 years, Elon's boring tunnels are open in just one city. For our second story, Bumble is losing its biggest ball street investor. Blackstone is swiping left for good. So Jack and I predict someone's going to acquire Bumble and bring them home to Mom and Dad. And our third and final story, 25 years ago, September 11th reduced America's most valuable neighborhood,

1:00Lower Manhattan, into a mountain of smoldering rubble. But today, Lower Manhattan is the greatest urban comeback in American history. Jack and I will tell you how they pulled it off. Well, besties before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories. Best mix to go into a weekend with Jack. The number one theme of this week for the news has been that AI might cause a human extinction. Apparently there's now a greater than 10% chance of an AI doomsday within 10 years. What's going on, guys? But the good news, because we're desperate for something. Throw them at me. If AI does destroy us, the first post-apocalyptic currency will be... Hockeymon cards. Get this, yeah, he's Peter Levin. A legendary venture capitalist says that Pokemon cards will outlast the US dollar. And the yen and the euro and the peso. Now we know what you're thinking. Isn't crypto the post-apocalyptic currency it's decentralized and all? Well, this year the price of Bitcoin is getting beaten by Bulbasaur. So this venture capitalist has bought 500,000 different Pokemon cards as an end of the world currency reserve.

2:01And Jack, why is he so long Pikachu? He's got a few reasons. First, Pokemon prices have gone through parabolic hockey stick growth. They're up 3,821% in the last 22 years according to a study cited by the journal. That's eight times better returns than the S&P 500 over that period. That is three times better returns than Metastock. The second reason he's all in on Pokemon, Pokemon cards are popular across the globe. So it's basically an international currency. Mewtwo's rookie card is like globally recognized these days more than LeBron. And finally, Pokemon cards are considered a greater store of value than diamonds and we have proof. We found one man who just bought his girlfriend an engagement Pokemon card instead of an engagement ring. Did she say yes Jack? I hope so. We hope she said yes. So best is if AI does destroy us, we told you here first. Well at least you could die rich if you put your state in Pokemon. And the AI that survives us humans will be impressed. Yeah, AI's final prompt before it terminates us. What is it Jack? Sel Shavron by Sharsart. Jack, GPD, give me the Pokemon back.

3:02Jack, let's hear three stories. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea across a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is an arm. Jack, Nick, that's the kid. I don't even think they need to practice. 50% that's a fat tip. Tea boy city on your ass list. If you know you know cause we've read to go, we can't wait no more. So just start the show. Start the show. First a quick word from our sponsor. Zip Recruiter. Yeah, he's Jack and I just hired a new person to handle our YouTube thumbnails. Checking out right now, they're looking fantastic. He's doing our clips too. It was a great hire. And we knew he was motivated because he went the extra mile. Get this. He wasn't waiting for us to respond to his application. He emailed us a hilarious animated video. He was animated, Nick, an animated Jack, reviewing his application with both laughed out loud

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5:05Yeah, you set it up on Park. Yeah, we did it on Park. Vesties, no one gives you financial lessons in life. You end up figuring most of it out as you grow. But we love Monoc because it's like a financial advisor in your pocket. Because every minute it's tracking your saving, spending, investments, and more. For instance, Monarch's goal tracking feature shows if you're on track for that summer trip to Santa Fe. And it tells you what percent of your income is going somewhere, that's a surprise. I open Monarch all the time because it takes the mental load off tracking my finances. And whether you're single, you're in a family or you're dinking it up, Monarch's the way. Our personal faith, the AI Weekly Recapp. A once per week gut check and why you did with your money. Hey Nick, you spent 96 bucks at kids lemonade stand since July. Because we pioneered it for a jack. Resties, write your own story with Monarch. Use code T-boy at monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core half off at just 50 bucks. It's 50% off your first year at monarch.com with code T-boy. For our first story, Elon's boring company. It's just four X's its valuation to 23 with a B billion dollars. But after 10 years, you can still only

6:05ride the boring company in one city. Yeah, if you're trying to keep track of Elon Musk businesses right now, just remember, he has as many companies as he has mothers to his children. Four. Yeah, four. And one of his companies is boring. Boring. Actually, it's quite exciting. It's thrilling. Here's the mission statement of the boring company, which is literally boring, but it's not boring at all. Although it's also named boring. The mission is to solve traffic and beautify cities with rapid underground tunnel transit. Inspired by Elon's personal experience when he lived in LA, I mean stuck in traffic in LA. Are we moving on the four of five or what guys? Now New York City is like the one American city that's found a solution to traffic, the New York City subway. But here's the problem, Jack. To build one mile of the subway in New York City is gonna cost you a four billion with the B dollars. That's like one lift. Elon thought he could do it more efficiently so he built his own boring machine. A boring machine. And now he's got a funny and clever name with a cool logo to go with this boring company. The O in the boring company looks like a tunnel hole. It's pretty clever. What's the funny fact about the boring company's logo, Jack?

7:08It was sketched up by another Los Angeles guy, the Hollywood director, JJ Abrams. That's right, the director of Star Wars seven years ago designed Elon Musk's boring company logo. And the boring company just raised $3 billion at a $23 billion valuation, which increases the valuation by four X from the previous round. But yet he's this is what Jack and I find fascinating. We've talked about different types of invisible infrastructure on this show before. There's the 300 foot economy for drones that are flying 300 feet above our heads. And then you've got the 500,000 foot economy for low earth orbit satellites, also known as Leo, 500,000 feet above our heads. But what about 50 feet underground? Are you talking about the mall economy over there, Jack? Yes, I am, Nick, because the boring company's recent pilot tunnels in Dubai, they built four miles worth for just $39 million a mile. Jack, can you sprinkle on some context please? That's 100 times cheaper than the latest New York City subway extension. Oh, and to bore these tunnels, the boring company built seven boring machines. And these boring machines are huge.

8:09There are 465,000 pounds each, because they eat through the earth to create a tunnel behind it. So then they also had to build a new machine to carry those used machines, which is called the monster machine. The only vehicle in the world that can carry a $465,000 custom boring machine to the next project. So speaking of their next site, Jack, how many cities can you actually ride through a boring company tunnel right now today? Only one. It's the Las Vegas Loop, a tunnel network that is carried four million passengers since opening up five years ago. The Las Vegas Loop has got 14 stations across four miles. The first station opened to the public back in 2021. And here's the experience. You walk up almost like it's a parking garage, and then you sit in a Tesla driven by a chauffeur. And then that chauffeur drives you partly through a tunnel by the boring company and partly street level to get you from like your hotel to the airport. So you can go in this model-wide Tesla from the airport to the Las Vegas Convention Center or 12 bucks with a chauffeur to ride. And there's no traffic because you're the only vehicle

9:11in the tunnel and the only vehicle is allowed in boring tunnels right now are Teslas. Four million rides in five years, that sounds like a big accomplishment. And it is. But we should sprinkle on a little more context, Jack. 200 million people have visited Las Vegas since Elon's Las Vegas Loop opened in 2021. So that's one ride for every 50 hungover visitors to Las Vegas. And the boring company's second project just started construction a month ago. Nashville, congratulations. You'll soon be able to go from the airport to music city in a boring tunnel like a mall. And the third project is Dubai. The oil rich United Arab Emirates country has sent an Elon $3 billion in fresh cash to build a big tunnel. That's right. The UAE is both the customer for the next boring project project and the lead investor in this leading fuzz and the leading investor in this latest fundraising round. Okay, but when it comes to actually complete it, tunnels, what happens in Vegas has so far stayed in Vegas. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies boring at the boring company? You don't invest in Elon's business.

10:11You invest always in his potential. Yet he's since founding the boring company in 2017, they've announced a dozen city projects, but only one of them has actually opened. They abandoned the other projects upon learning about the challenges of building through urban infrastructure from Chicago air. DC to Baltimore San Antonio. They all got announcements of the boring company, but those projects all died quietly. And to sprinkle on just one more bit of context, the Las Vegas loops five year total ridership of five million people so far. And how much is that really? That's equivalent to one week day of the New York City subway. So add it all up and it's hard to fathom that the boring company deserves a quadrupling of its valuation compared to 2022. After all, 2022 is open in one city. Vegas in 2026 is still open in just one city. Vegas, but investors are not investing in today's boring company. They're investing in its potential tomorrow. They're looking at things like full self driving. The boring company can remove those driver chauffeurs and improve the economics of the rides. Oh, and those huge boring machines, they now drive themselves.

11:12It's something called Zipit, zero people in the tunnel. So maybe the boring company can finally break out with some growth after 10 years of very few new tunnels. I mean, Jack, we've seen it with SpaceX, we've seen it with Tesla, and now we may be seeing it with the boring company. You don't invest in what Elon has built. You invest in what Elon tweets about building some daily future. Ha, ha, ha. For our second story, Bumble stock is down 96%. And it just lost its OG Wall Street sugar daddy. But Blackstone doubled its money with Bumble. And there's a lesson in there for every investor. Ah, Eddie, one month ago, Bumble made history. By reversing the history they already made. Bumble went viral by originally making women make the first move, but now it lets men go first. Sad to lose their differentiator, but Bumble stock, it was down 96%. They had to make a move. It's not you, it's me, said Bumble. It was. So since that strategic reversal, how are they doing, Jack?

12:13Not well, the stock has only fallen further. Now, best he's, Jack and I've always admired Bumble's vision. In fact, Jack bought Bumble stock right after their IPO. The female first company, they tried to become a lifestyle brand. I mean, you had the BFF friends app, their professional women's networking app. Like five years ago, they opened their first restaurant in New York City, we covered it on the pod. We were always rooting for Bumble, but the brand was always much better than the business was. And the all industry of online dating's been in a three year recession. But Nick and I found an interesting stock story in Bumble's downfall. Or is it a stock situation, Jack? Because Bumble is also going through a major breakup right now. Ah, with Blackstone, that's right. Bumble was hooking up with a finance guy, six foot blue eyes, and definitely a trust fund. That's right. Blackstone. The New York City private equity firm known for billion dollar real estate buyouts also acquired a majority of Bumble in 2019. Jack, tell me about the Meeq, what was the Meeq for those two? Well, this was back when Bumble was buzzing. They sold the majority to a private equity firm that could help it go public in an IPO.

13:14An IPO it did. Bumble jumped from a $3 billion valuation when Blackstone first invested to a $13 billion valuation at their peak. But in recent years, Blackstone has been quietly ghosting Bumble. Ah, the vibes are off, Jack. In fact, on the IPO day, Blackstone sold two billion dollars worth of their Bumble holdings. It's a red flag, man. And a year later, Blackstone sold another billion dollars of Bumble. I'm sorry, Bumble, he's just not that into you. Clearly. And now, Blackstone is making it official. They announced a payment plan to sell their final shares of Bumble by next year. Yet, besties, while Bumble stock is down 96%, Blackstone is walking away with a profit, baby. And we'll explain how. Blackstone didn't hold them. They didn't hold the stock forever. They sold giant chunks of Bumble when they saw an opportunity to realize profit. Now, the final shares that Blackstone is selling are at a big loss from what they originally paid. But the giant sales that Blackstone did in 2021 and 2022, it makes their Bumble investment overall a huge win.

14:14In fact, according to insiders, Blackstone enjoyed a 98% annualized rate of return over their seven year investment in Bumble. Compare that to the 15% annual return of the stock market overall in the same period. You see what Blackstone's showing here is with discipline, even a losing stock story can be a win if you take profits at the right time and don't stubbornly hold on forever trying to time up the market. Some stocks you think could be yours forever stocks, other stocks, take the gain if you get one. Well, now Bumble is worth just $500 million. 96% off its all-time high, which leads to our takeaway. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies over at Bumble? The eligible millennial brands are now AI acquisition targets. Yes, happy cuffing season to all those who celebrate. Cuffing season is a real thing, by the way. It starts every autumn here in America. From September to November, single people feel the urge to find a cuddle buddy before they're cold and hot in the middle. Well, Jack and I think it's also cuffing season on Wall Street for some very eligible and affordable companies.

15:16We're talking about Bumble, Snap, Pinterest, Lift, all great brands. Companies founded 10 to 15 years ago. They've all IPO'd and they all have big user bases. Ah, but financially, they've all stagnated. They're all now worth under $10 billion. They're stocks, they're way off their all-time highs. The brands are beloved. The business models work, but these companies never hit hyposcale, Zuckerberg style of the loss. So, Jack and I think these eligible and very available tech brands are now acquisition targets. Now, the obvious acquire would be private equity again. Sure, sure, sure. But Nick and I think it's going to be AI. AI. Open AI would love Pinterest image library. Amazon would love Lift's user base. And Sam Altman would love to see if he could do to Bumble, what Elon did to Twitter. Right. Slash the staff and leverage AI instead. And now, Bess, we're not saying we're excited about that, but it is a prediction we're making now and we foresee. This cuffing season, AI will buy up the eligible millennial tech brands. Well, let us know what you think of the comments and Jack and I will see you after the break. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.

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18:19You could be number 71 by launching another nine franchise near you. So head to www.franchise.anothernine.com to run one of your own. That's www.franchise.anothernine.com. For our third and final story, 25 years after 9-11, Lower Manhattan has pulled off the greatest urban comeback in American history. We'll tell you how they did it. Yes, we will. Now, yet, these college students, recent grads, the young workforce out there, all born after the deadliest attack ever on American soil. So we want to sprinkle on some context here. September 11, 2001 was 25 years ago. We remember it though like it was yesterday. Yeah, we were. Because we were both in eighth grade and we experienced this in chaotic ways through the school day. We remember seeing the smoke because it was floating up and it started coming almost near our field. I was stuck in the Bronx and we were like trying to get back into Manhattan any way we could and we didn't have cell phones then.

19:21It was scary for me. I can't imagine how scary it was for you in New York City. And my aunt also lived just a few blocks away from all of this on Hudson Street. So she couldn't even go home for months after all of this. Did she stay with you in your apartment on the Upper East Side? She didn't stay with us at the apartment like full time. We saw and she actually is a birthday gift a few years later. She gave me letters that had floated into her window that she caught and that they got when they were cleaning up. Yet he's the term ground zero came first from the US military. It was used in 1946 to refer to the two cities in Japan where the atomic bombs had been dropped. On September 12th, there was no better term for what happened in lower Manhattan and what it looked like. Because it had become a mountain of smoldering debris with 2,753 people dead. It was a double toxic dust smoke. You could see it from space for a week. As the city recovered, nobody knew what to do with lower Manhattan and how to rebuild it. No one knew what it would become like. Do you turn into a giant memorial park? Do you rebuild the two towers exactly? Do you just let it stay there?

20:23No one thought this was going anywhere. But 25 years later, when you look at the data, the receipts, when you take a look with your own two eyes, everything in lower Manhattan is off the charts right now. Then the vibes, in fact, lower Manhattan in our opinion, is the greatest urban comeback in American history and will back it up at the receipts. First, the US census. Compared to the year before the attack, the population of the financial district, where the towers once stood, is three times bigger. Trip Bulls, because after 9,11,20 billion dollars, was spent to redevelop 10 million square feet of office space, 500,000 square feet of retail, a transit hub, and a world-class 9,11 Memorial and Museum. There's sprinkle on some context on how much money 20 billion dollars is. How much is that check? That's the GDP of Jamaica. That's more money than was spent to build the Panama Canal. It is 10 Yankee Stadiums worth. 10 stadiums for Livsjack, 10 million new square feet of space. How much is that if you sprinkle on some context?

21:24That's two pentagons, three malls of America, or four Empire State buildings, of new office space since 9,11 in lower Manhattan. In the result, the financial district is now the oldest and the newest and arguably the most vibrant neighborhood in New York City. You see, before 9,11, it was the financial district. Foddye, you went there to work in finance and then commute home right after. It was the only part of the city that went completely dead after dark. Well, a rezoning started in 1995 under Mayor Giuliani, and 9,11 put that on steroids under Bloomberg. Foddye went from a purely commercial zone where if you stayed down there for a couple weeks, you would forget what the sound of a laughing child sounded like because there were no children down there. Even the pigeons weren't hanging around. To what is now a vibrant mix of office, residential, and commercial. In fact, at Lower Manhattan, became America's office to housing conversion success story on a scale we've never seen. 37,000 apartments in Lower Manhattan today used to be offices.

22:26It is three times more living spaces than there were before 9,11. But since people were still afraid, understandably, after September 11th, the city actually gave $14,000 grants to encourage New Yorkers to stay or move in post 9,11, which actually created a flywheel effect. Because the more full-time inhabitants a neighborhood has, the more fun it is to spend money in that neighborhood, which actually attracted tourists to. On the clock vibe, which then attracted non-financial companies to the financial district. Just one example is Spotify, which set up their US headquarters at 4 World Trade Center, which happens to be the location of the first live podcast Nick and I ever did. If you had told us that 25 years ago, we never would have believed any of it. In 2019, we recorded a live show on the 72nd floor overlooking the World Trade Center Memorial. In fact, I don't know up and we wouldn't even call the financial district a financial district anymore, right Jack? Finance used to be two thirds of the employers down there. Now it's just one third.

23:27It's the financial district, 36 new hotels since 9,11, that's more than any other hood when it comes to new spaces. Now not everything we've done with Lower Manhattan has worked. Jack, the Trans-Dation, did run $2 billion over budget, billion with B. And office vacancy down there is slightly higher than in Midtown, New York right now. The besties, Jack and I think we don't talk enough about the diversity of industries in the area where the twin towers used to stand. We got bars, restaurants, fashion companies, media companies, frances tavern, South Street seaport, that little cobblestone street, way down there. What's it called next? Stone street? Yes, stone street. You got housing and offices, you have people and pets. And yes, you have babies laughing and giggling in Battery Park. Add it all up and the diversity of industries and all the hardworking people who helped rebuild those industries saved Lower Manhattan. The jack what's the takeaway for all our bodies looking at the miracle below 34th Street? We built it and they came. So yet as you can see there are a few replicable lessons here for other struggling downtowns

24:28to borrow from. But a lot of what happened in New York is exceptional. Like the billions of dollars in federal money that supported New York's comeback were the fact that the whole country was emotionally invested in its recovery. And still the overall theme here that's relevant to all of us is that we rebuilt the financial district despite no guarantee it would actually come back. After I graduated from college I worked in a mess of construction, mazes and tunnels and bridges to get to my office right next to the World Trade Center. The whole 2010s every time I visited you Jack. And there was no certainty that the $20 billion splurge would save America's most devastated neighborhood. And despite that uncertainty we still built a new transit hub even bigger than the pre-911 version. We even hired an artist architect to make it a masterpiece tourism marvel it is today. And we built a memorial and museum and outdoor space that is just absolutely incredible to visit. What we did best is we planned and built for success even if a comeback seemed totally unlikely. After 911 we had a unique bipartisan public and private push to rebuild even better than

25:32what was there before. And more people came than anyone expected. Jack could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday. The boring company just raised $3 billion at a $23 billion valuation even though it's still just in one city. Because you don't invest in what Elon's built you invest in what he's built in. For our second story Bumble is losing its former majority owner as Blackstone walks away with huge gains. It's a breakup and all these mid-size millennial tech brands out there they're now AI acquisition targets. And our third and final story with triple as many people and huge industrial diversity. More Manhattan is America's most winning post 911 bet. We built it and we came. But besties this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. Ferris President Trump pledged on Wednesday what is basically being described as a bribe. A $5,000 stimulus check only if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. President calls it a Trump dividend. Taxpayer money going back to taxpayers.

26:34And it would cost about $1.3 trillion and be paid for with debt. So it faced bipartisan rejection from both parties on Thursday. Remember the $2,000 per American tariff dividends? Those didn't happen either. And second we've got another daring French art heist. This time thief stole four red wires from a can the museum. Two of those are still missing by the way. But it's not just you. There has been a big uptake in art thefts beginning with the crown jewels that were taken from the Louvre last year. It's kind of funny reason why. What is it Jack? Criminal experts say that thieves have realized that the police don't arrive for five minutes. So if your theft can be done in four minutes, it's kind of a positive ROI. It's possible. And finally the Girl Scouts are expanding their billion dollar empire with two new cookies. The first new Girl Scout cookie is allergen free. It's called sparkables. And the second is for dogs. It's called patchballs because puppy people ultimately prioritize puppies. The Girl Scouts by the way they did $800 million in revenue last year. Sales to dogs and the allergic oil I can help them across one billion.

27:36Now time for the best fact yet. This one with up by Jack and I from our research on Apple in yesterday's show. We call that was new folding iPhone the iPhone. But the real name from Apple is the iPhone duo. That name duo was trademarked by Apple six months ago. But in Lichtenstein that's right. One of the smallest countries on earth. They were where they trademarked the term by Apple. Yeah, it's an old notice. And another funny thing because duo is also the name of duo lingos owl mascot. To do a link up the language learning app their social media team is going off right now on the new Apple iPhone name. Yesterday during the event they were like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, my ass, yo, my ass, yo, my ass, yo. God, please pick up the phone. And then do a link of tag the singer do a leap up to like ask for help and how to fix the whole situation with Apple and the trademarks. It was pretty hilarious. Thread of tweets. So Apple stealthily trademarked the name duo in another country. But duo lingos the real winner in this country. Please, you look fantastic this weekend. Jack, you were glowing even despite that 105 degree heat in Texas.

28:38You know where it's not 105 degrees? San Francisco. We're performing on September 23rd presented by Liquid Ivy. This is our most legit show of all time. You gotta see it. Biggest show yet. A thousand in the audience. Grab your tickets now at tboypod.com or right here in the episode description. Nick and I will see you tomorrow. Actually, we'll see you Monday. But either way, celebrate the wins. And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Adam Schuler who's listening to us at Max Vaim in the shower right now. Now, in Milton, Wisconsin. Happy birthday to Todd McConnell. In Mission Viejo, California, he's prepping for his son's wedding in Boise, Idaho right now. And Ada Cole's turned in four years old and shaker Heizle Hightsohio singing our rap jingle all the way to school. Happy birthday to Michelle Wendell, mom in North Carolina, and her son Dexter, who's turning 10, both have birthdays this week. And the Lening the Wits coming to her live show in Seattle November. Thanks for grabbing tickets, Lening. And happy birthday, buddy. Happy birthday to soon to be dad, John Mitchell in South Carolina.

29:39And Caitlin Zaboodle, the world's fastest reader just outside Chicago, is doing logistics for the birthday. Happy birthday to Cassie Zhou. Her first birthday as mom in Portland, Oregon. And Moral Leo is down in San Antonio's got the best birthday. Happy birthday to Trishmall and Sussex Wisconsin. And Gary Murphy's sub-ren as birthday, his anniversary, and his granddaughter Olivia's birthday all in New York City. Congratulations to Allison and Alfonso of Oakland. Their daughter Sophia Castillo is turning one year old. And a brother Nico is being a great big brother birthday best friend for it. And congratulations to Lexi Leahy and Adam. Eight years after meeting at Purdue, they're getting married tomorrow in Dunes National Park. Better be some boilers there. And to anyone else, celebrate something today. Make it a tea boss. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack, Ion Stock of Lift and Amazon. We both own Stock of Apple. We own ETFs of the S&P 500 and we both own some Bitcoin. Bitcoin, they've been. This episode is sponsored by Hey Jen. Hey Jen turns a script, photo, or presentation into a polished video of you.

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