GameStop Buying Bitcoin, an Activist Play at Lyft, & Gen Z Unemployment
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Hey, this is Peter Kafka. I'm the host of Channels, a podcast about technology and media and how they're both changing all the time. And this week, I'm trying to figure out how Donald Trump is changing the media in Washington and the courtroom and in the boardroom. On to help me figure it all out is Sarah Fisher, the excellent Washington-based media reporter for Axios. That's this week on Channels, wherever you get your favorite podcast.
Buying a house has long been considered the best way to build wealth and move into true adulting.
Isn't it? I mean, at least that's what society wants us to think. Gotta get a Birkin, gotta get a home, you know.
Okay, the handbag you can probably manage without. But what about a house? Surely that's actually good, right? We're going to find out this week on Explain It To Me. New episodes every Sunday morning, wherever you get your podcasts. Today is number 1461. That's how many beers there are in a Canadian brewery's presidential pack, offering one beer for every day of Trump's presidency. Ed, what's the difference between America and Canada?
What's the difference?
America has really nice neighbors.
I'm very pro-Canadian.
I'm feeling very Canadian. I'm feeling super Canadian. Actually, I don't know if you know this, but Canada both passed same-sex marriage and now marijuana, which means actually they're interpreting the Bible correctly. Leviticus 20.13, if a man lies with another man, he should be stoned.
That's good. That is good. I like that joke. That's clever and historical. It's time for banter. What's going on in your life? I'm doing okay. I woke up with a bit of a cold this morning, which isn't ideal, but otherwise doing quite well. You sound fine.
You sound good. Sound fine. That's good. Okay. Okay, enough of that. Back to me. So last night... So I don't know if you heard, but Chiltern Firehouse is burned down. So daddy needs... And by the way, I'm pretty sure that I... Oh, I think I told you this. I was borderline hypertensive, which means I almost had high blood pressure. I was 140 over 80. And I uploaded all my results, my urine, my blood, all this shit, and basically everything came back. And I uploaded it into ChatGBT, and it said, okay, dumb shit, drink less. And so... I just did my blood pressure last night, and it's 127 over 74-something, which means I'm back to, you know, the fucking rock star superhero I've always been. And I was trying to figure out what's changed, and I'm convinced that my blood pressure has come down 13 points because Chiltern Firehouse has burned down. I would go there twice a week. I'd have four to five makers in ginger. So that's 10 makers in ginger. Four to five each trip? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Daddy goes deep in the pain. Oh, wow. I told you I'm a better version of me, a little bit fucked up.
You've seen me fucked up. I'm nice. No, I agree. Yeah, and so that's 10 makers and ginger a week. So I'm basically drinking a half a bottle of makers. So I'm convinced, and I'm glad no one was hurt, I'm convinced the reason my blood pressure has come down is because Chiltern Firehouse burned down. That makes a lot of sense, yeah. I'm trying to find the new place. Last night I went to Soho Muse. I told you about this, right? Last I heard, you haven't been yet. Is this your first time? I went last night. So fucking Soho House decides, okay, we've let in too many riffraff at Elson. Ha ha. And we need a place for the players. Scott Galloway. Small cap player. I called them and they're like, no, we're sending out invitations slowly to members. I'm like, what the fuck? I'm a member.
And she said, no, it doesn't matter. So anyways, I called someone who knew someone who knew someone. Went last night. Nice. Not Chiltern, but still pretty nice. And definitely like you could tell it's sort of a little bit of another level. And tonight I'm going to this place called Kensington Gardens, which is, I guess, also a new hotspot. So I'll soon be hypertensive again. Interesting. Yeah. What's going on with your drinking?
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