Ep 192: Dumb B!tch Hour. NVIDIA's Eras Tour, Google Acquires Wiz, Solana's Terrible Ad, Kim K and the Tesla Robot, and more

[00:01] Dumb Shower is a weekly live chat on all things tech, crypto and pop culture news brought to you by Boys Club, a New York based media and creative studio. DVH is hosted by myself, Dina Burke and Natasha Hoskins. Hi. Co-founders, marketers and entrepreneurs that have built our careers in new tech and startups. We're also proudly the dumbest bitches in the room and we love to learn in public. DVH is recorded live and best consumed as a video podcast. Here's this week's show. [00:31] you [00:33] Okay, we're live. We're going to talk about a lot of things here, cover a lot of ground, from corporate espionage to Kim K. I did have to pull Bad Bunny out of the deck today, even though I was going to talk about him, but I realized I talked about him two dumb bitch hours ago, so I can't. He got bumped. He got bumped, but he is the new face of Calvin Klein, if anybody was wondering. Okay. [01:03] We've arrived. It's Wednesday, March 19th. We love Polygon for supporting the [01:10] DBH. They are wonderful partners. We did some fun stuff with them at ETH Denver. We're going to do more stuff with them throughout the year. They've been supporting us on our experimental drops. If you haven't yet seen our concept collection, our Oura Ring competitor, wearable health tech concept collection, do check that out. They're wonderful and they've been great to us. And also incredible

[01:40] see it. I saw this post that says today the RWA TVL reached the 10 billion mark TVL is total value locked. So the sector leader is Ethereum with 7.[redacted address] is Polygon with $255 million total locked in RWAs in real world assets. And so that's pretty cool. Everything is token. Everything is token. On Polygon too. Put it on the ticker. So we love them. Thank you so much [02:12] Okay, we're going to get started here talking about... Do we quickly just want to say some of the things we're going to... [02:18] Oh, yeah. Great. Great. Go off. So just to give you guys an outline, we're going to talk about NVIDIA. We're going to talk about Rip Duolingo. We're going to talk about M&A being back with Wiz. We're going to talk about the Rippling and Deal episode. [02:32] drama. We're going to briefly touch on the Solana ad. And then we're going to do some quick hits that cover everything from pop culture to space. So that's sort of the overview on all the things that we're going to touch on today. [02:49] Great. Okay, starting us off, NVIDIA had their annual developer day yesterday. [02:58] And I was seeing some headlines about this and I was like, okay, cool. I understand. That's a big deal. Like I, I, I, I, [03:05] everyone was talking about it seemingly on the timeline and so i was like this is something significant i was not familiar with the game this is insane this so for those of you you who are listening who are just listening and not watching it is a a full-blown like arrow eras tour level stadium filled with people yes so very much giving taylor swift tour uh it used to be so it started

[03:35] An academic event with like a couple dozen researchers and academics and whiteboards. Like that's how you can think of it. Whoa. Okay. And now today, yesterday, 25,000 people at an NHL arena in San Jose, California. A lot of people, just like the sheer volume number of people and volume of people and production level is insane as you'd expect. Are these all developers? [04:04] So, no. [04:07] Investors, developers, definitely a lot. Mostly probably developers. But, like, the Dell guy was there. 50s. [04:16] What's that? Swifties. [04:18] Swifties. Are the Swifties in the room with us? So yeah, I'd say a pretty... [04:26] I think it's gone past developers at this point, but I think that's who it's designed for. Now, there was a Denny's activation, which I want to speak to briefly. So Denny's is part of Jensen Huang, who's the CEO. It's part of his lore. So he came to America. I'm not exactly sure, but I think he was a teenager. And he worked at Denny's as a dishwasher, a busboy, and a [04:55] uh waiter so he's like very much a denny's company man through and through um so he they did they did a whole activation at denny's uh they did this thing called nvidia breakfast bites and but he's like so into it that

[05:11] There's this thing that happened where the Acquire guys were filming something. And they're filming something with someone else with this researcher. And at the event. And Jensen Huang came up while they were filming chaotically into the shot. And was like, did someone order a grand slam? Yeah, exactly. He's so, so into it. So... [05:39] that that's so cute i really that's really heartwarming there's something about this man that i just [05:45] I love him. I love him. [05:47] I want nothing but success for him. [05:49] Yeah, you know, he's I do think right at this moment, he has a lot of folks on his side for I think reasons exactly like this. Like he's like a self made guy. Yeah, I think a lot of people. [06:01] Respect that. So just in terms of like what was covered, the NVIDIA... [06:06] uh, celebration is a week long event. So there's a lot of stuff. Oh my gosh. But this was the main event really. Um, [06:14] So agentic AI is a huge theme. AI agents doing things on our behalf, like ordering things. [06:23] meals and groceries and booking plane tickets and stuff like that. He introduced new, more powerful chip families. So that's a big part of, yeah, wholesome guy, Riley commented, which I totally agree. There was a partnership with Google and DeepMind and Disney that was talked about on stage. That's about improving the precision of robots. There were some onstage interviews

[06:45] theater with some robots that happened. Another robot thing, he revealed Isaac Groot to N1, which is the first open [06:53] human humanoid robot foundational model um so lots of robotic stuff coming into play here he said scaling is not slowing down um so there's been a lot of i don't know concern talk about especially like deep mind came into the picture and everyone's like god wait hold on is nvidia in trouble like what what's the role of these chips moving forward and he's like hey it's better than ever um which you know you do if you're him you got to what else what else is there to say [07:23] I'm [07:24] And yeah, so he spoke for two hours. It's he famously unscripted, like it's it's off the cuff. He's yapping. He's out there. So that's that. And then just a quick update. We're going to do a update to our [07:43] Jensen jacket watch once we get off the tower here. He wore a [07:49] It's in the end of the deck. Oh, okay. Great. Maybe we'll get, we'll get to it. We'll cover it in more detail. Yeah. Okay. So that's Nvidia. And then just a quick one here. Uh, I saw this last week and I felt like it didn't get enough airtime. Apple is going to introduce live translation feature for AirPods with iOS 19. I'm very excited about this because for those who have been following along and listening to boys club for a while, they will

[08:19] We're running it back. Natasha will be in Paris again this summer. And this is going to do wonders for me. [08:25] I'm going to be going around translating everything. Oh, just [08:29] Just speak right into the little guy right there. No problem at all. So this is huge for me. This is very exciting. I'm so excited about it. I think that like, I don't know why it's not getting more airtime. Although I do, I mean, it all comes down to how it feels when you're wearing them and how like seamless it is and the translation, like the lag and stuff like that. I do remember just in terms of some Lauren's backstory, when we were working at Indiegogo, [08:54] what, six years ago? No, more than that. Nine years ago? Yeah, maybe nine years ago. Nine years ago. I do remember a few projects that seemed to claim this type of thing at that time. And I don't know if they were ever shipped. I don't think they were. Which is what was the problem with Indiegogo. [09:14] But I will... They did not Indiegogo. They did not. I think that one of the things that... [09:22] I just don't believe it. Like I'll believe it when I see it is totally how I feel about it. And I have a lot of confidence in Apple to execute on this. But I also think like, um, [09:36] I was watching, I was telling you guys earlier, I was watching The Pit, which is a new Mac show. It's not very good. I don't, like, recommend it. It's just, like, on sometimes in my apartment. And it's, like, a... [09:48] er style show um and that one of the people who was a patient like they didn't know what language she spoke and a huge subplot of the episode was like trying to figure out what language she spoke and i was just like guys like

[10:03] literally Google Translate. Like, it's like, it was very actually like bizarre. Like, I felt like I was like living... [10:10] Like I was like, this is a current show. How is that a Seinfeld episode where they didn't have cell phones? Right. It was so bizarre. Like it was truly bizarre where I was like, am I living in like a really deep tech community? Like what is going on? Anyway, all that to say, it's going to take a long time, I think, for HBO to be. [10:28] like rolling this out in a plot on a show. [10:33] We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. But exciting stuff here. Okay. My last big story, and then we'll move on to you, Natasha. This really made a lot of headlines yesterday. So Wiz... [10:48] Thank you. [10:49] was acquired by Google for, oh man, I lost my number here. [10:55] Oh, I think it was 38 billion. Yeah. [10:58] Let's get the right number. $32 billion. $32 billion. $32 billion. [11:03] acquisition, Google's biggest acquisition by a pretty big margin. I think their second biggest acquisition now was like for $12 billion or something like that. So, [11:12] 32 billion dollars is a lot of money. Oh, yeah, 32 billion. Great. So, Wiz, Natasha and I were like, what's Wiz? And you were like, I think it's that – [11:27] No, no. I was like, I know it's not. But there's a Squarespace competitor that's, I think, called Wiz. I think it's called Wiz. No, Wix. Wix. With an X. Wix. Wix. Okay. And I was like, there is literally...

[11:44] no world in which that company is getting acquired for 32 billion dollars by google but what the fuck is wiz um anyway what is it tell okay wiz is not wix the website building uh software which honestly great stuff if you guys have yeah not bad please come through frizz uh does [12:06] cybersecurity stuff. It's like cloud, cloud, the cloud category, the cloud category, which is a very big category, uh, that Microsoft currently dominates in. And so this is their play to, um, compete on that stage with them. Uh, it was an all cash in, whoa, sane. I saw, I saw, I saw, [12:30] um ali i think tweeted like if if if the company i was working on was acquired for 32 billion dollars in cash you would never hear from me again ever and i was like absolutely same but also like can you like i actually can't fathom opening a [12:48] Opening your chase... [12:51] app and there's 32 billion dollars i don't think once you're at that level it's in an amex um high yield savings account [13:02] Oh, my gosh. Insane. Insane. Okay. One other piece to put into that is that it's a five-year-old company. Unbelievable stuff. [13:11] unbelievable stuff is insane so this is the founder his name is a soft rep report is he wearing great gray goose i think so yeah of course he is i think so i can you imagine being this man right now can you imagine i would be feeling so great we've been working on boys club nearly i was talking to someone yesterday we we in october it'll be four years that we've been working on

[13:41] Okay, just a couple other details on the story so folks have context. So the one reason why it's such a big deal in addition to it being Google's largest acquisition ever is that the tech M&A space has been cold, ice cold for years. [13:58] really under Lena Khan's [14:01] She's the former commissioner of the FCC. She did a big antitrust effort and that just like cooled the M&A market a lot. So new administration, she's out. And this is like kind of a test in many ways where it's like, okay, we're going to do this big thing. Google also has been like the main thing that's been scrutinized under the antitrust stuff. So I'm sure like there'll be some [14:23] Well, we'll see. We'll see what happens from here. But it's it's that's a part of the story is that like, OK, is that are the floodgates open again for for M&A? And I think, yeah, evidence to that also or like a building upon M&A is the Pepsi. [14:40] Poppy deal. [14:41] So $1.9 billion. [14:43] Pepsi bought poppy. [14:45] four which seems like too much money to me i gotta be honest but what's crazy is i saw a tweet from uh andrea who andrea who is always just like on it and she was retweeting someone who was like basically saying that 1.9 billion seemed low and her take was like [15:04] tech valuation and sort of the cycle that we [15:09] of four years ago has like brain rotted us in terms of valuation and what people think

[15:15] anything is worth any more. Totally. And so, yeah, I agree. $1.9 billion for [15:21] the the thing at the bodega that i'm like what that's crazy that's a crazy situation but i totally agree i totally agree um [15:30] Okay. [15:31] Rippling deal. Who knew HR software could be such a sexy topic? There is some corporate espionage that has been going down between these two competitors. So on Monday, Rippling, an HR startup that does payroll and stuff like that, all the boring stuff that you genuinely don't ever want to think about, filed a lawsuit against its competitor deal, accusing it of corporate [16:01] Rippling claims it uncovered the alleged infiltration using a honeypot trap on Slack and asserts that the mole, identified as DS, attempted to access sensitive internal information. Deal obviously denies any wrongdoing, calling the lawsuit an attempt to distract from Rippling's own legal troubles. The lawsuit escalates an already fierce rivalry between these two members. [16:28] multi-billion dollar HR tech firms. So essentially, these two companies have hated each other forever. And what Rippling is saying is that there was someone, literally a spy, who came in and started working in the Dublin office and then was collecting secrets about the company and passing it back to their competitor deal. And then there was speculation that this was happening.

[16:58] deal and started to like put information in it at, [17:01] to see if it would get leaked back to them. And it did, in fact. Deal spokeswoman said in a statement, weeks after Rippling is accused of violating sanction laws in Russia and seeding falsehoods about deal, Rippling is trying to shift the narrative with these claims. We deny all legal wrongdoing and look forward to asserting our counterclaims. [17:25] So there was some drama with Rippling recently about violating sanctions in Russia. And so they're claiming they want to cover up that noise with a big story about corporate espionage. And that's actually what's going on here. The founder of Rippling did a really great thread going through basically like all of like documentation of how they found this person, [17:55] for the miniseries. I will be locked in, tuned in on that. And basically one of the things that they said is like, when, uh, this mole, the person DS was confronted in the office, he hid in the bathroom and was like, um, basically like, I don't care. Like I'll take like the court ordered sanction. Like I will not give up my phone and I will not give up my computer. So, which means either two things. [18:19] Either he's guilty or he's having an affair. [18:22] That's always what it is. Like, that's always what it is. My ex was a lawyer. And many times people did not want to give up their, like, phone or email or whatever because they were having an affair. And they didn't want it to come out. And so it's really interesting how – that's my take. I love that. One argument is one of those. I feel like one thing that – when I saw this story, I was like – at first I didn't. I gave it no time because I was like –

[18:51] The two names of these companies strike me as just San Francisco startup, like nothing companies where I'm like, this is too low stakes for me. But I want to say I'm very – I'm corrected on that because they are a $12 billion and $13 billion company. Yeah, huge companies. Huge companies. And so – They're sleeper companies. [19:21] rich and you're like how did he get rich and it was like oh he his family like makes the dials on the planes and you're like what this is the software equivalent of that totally totally totally so i i um [19:34] I apologize, but I think mostly they have bad names. Like they're two like 2010 San Francisco startup names with the vowel and the this and that. So bad names. They can maybe deal with that. But that's their main, that's the main thing they should be getting. I do want to say this. I want, I. [19:55] Love a corporate espionage. Love. More of it. [19:59] I was a call. More please. I think it's great. I don't, no one do any crimes who's watching this or listening to this, but, um, man, it's just so juicy. And also like it's low stakes in a way that's just like, just enjoyable for me. Yes, I agree. Um, when I read one of these stories, the feeling I always have, which is like, totally doesn't make any, literally doesn't make sense

[20:29] like, oh, maybe I, I maybe could have done this at one point and not even have known that I was doing this. Like, do you have that feeling ever? Do you know what I'm talking about? Couldn't be me. [20:38] I, I, I do feel like the, you could inadvertently download something that people misconstrued to be you having some sort of grand plan about how you're going to use that document when like you were just downloading it. [20:53] something for like I could I could see that I I know or like texting myself something and people are like you can't do that I'm like oh right I mean I don't obviously have I don't work at one of these companies right now so the only person who would be saying that to me is you um but but anyway okay so um next slide here oh this is great classic meme format um [21:16] I'm just going to read it really quick. So there are two, it's the girl like yelling at the festival, yelling into a young man's ear. And so there are two HR software companies called Deal and Rippling. They hate each other. They're like the Harkonnens and the Atreides of payroll. Rippling just found out Deal had a spy in their office. They set up a fake Slack channel to catch him, but he locked himself in the bathroom in Dublin, Ireland, and tried to flush his phone down the toilet. Now Deal [21:46] how do you feel about microdosing? Oh my God. Really good. Really good. Like synopsis. And then the last one here, a great shot of, um, [21:56] Bond 007 machine gun in one hand phone and the other how it feels to work in corporate espionage for B2B SaaS.

[22:06] Okay. On a less light note. Uh, [22:11] There was a whole newsletter about this yesterday. So if you read the newsletter, great. If not, subscribe at... [22:21] boysclub.beehive.com. Just go to boysclub.bap and you'll find all the links. There you go. Solana, [22:30] put out an ad, a rage bait ad. Big time. That was just to put it in like a TLDR, a white man [22:42] who represented America in therapy. [22:45] And they are having a discussion about, I guess, his issues that become about like, and then it becomes about like innovation and innovation. [22:53] and gender politics. It's horrible. Like it's horrible in every way, but also just literally not well done. The writing is shocking. Like I actually saw someone on Crypto the Game that said that if they won, [23:14] they would take the [23:16] They would take the winnings and they would produce an ad for Ethereum that Ethereum deserved. [23:23] And my first thought was... [23:26] that's cute. That's cool of them. But I'm sorry. 71 ETH would get you this level of commercial. Like it's not, it's ads are like $3 million. Like to produce a great ad is like, like a real, like a Superbowl level ad. And yeah,

[23:44] This is so bad in so many ways. [23:47] Dina, I feel like you're just kind of leaving me here to talk about it. Oh, I totally agree. I totally agree. I mean, I wrote a whole newsletter on it. I mostly, in hearing you talk about it, I'm just thinking about [24:00] what it is an ad. [24:01] Uh-huh. What is an ad? What is an ad? And like in 2025, what is an ad? And [24:09] What does that mean? [24:11] And who was it for? I guess is that that's what I'm thinking about. For Solana for this, it was for their... [24:17] they have a conference coming up and so it was an ad for that conference. [24:21] It was after that conference, yes. But [24:24] Yeah, I guess I'm just like the odd... [24:27] as a piece of video media goes up on [24:31] And you're hoping that that reaches, I don't know, maybe that's all you need these days is to get enough attention. I don't know. It's just like there's also something about it that feels... [24:47] Even if you did have the money to do an ad for Ethereum, [24:52] I don't know that that would be the best way to spend that money. Totally. Totally. This is what happens. Solana put this ad out. [25:00] most everybody... [25:02] hated it. I hate I actually what happened is I didn't watch it. I was like, I actually don't even need to see it. Like, I don't even need to watch it. Then they took it down. And, [25:13] because there was so much backlash and rayhan put it on zora which is incredible move it got up to over a 500 000 market cap which i'm just like this is this is this industry is so unserious and i absolutely i'm so here for it with this um and then sparked a ton of discourse around

[25:37] crypto around like [25:41] a tone deafness around rage bait there's like a million things that people are talking about around this ad and then so then yesterday i was like okay i'm gonna watch it i watched it i was like this is so stupid i can't even believe people put this out like i truly it's shocking to me and uh [25:59] it's no no they successfully got people to talk about solana they did and we're talking about it now so that's almost why i'm like let's move on because we're here the next slide we have to read [26:11] of this week, Winnie responded to the post, which has now been deleted, which was the ad and said, the vibe of this is so bad. I literally expected him to be a shooter at the end, which is a like flow state. I commented and I was like, this is flow state 10 out of 10 stuff. Like, [26:26] Incredible because it's exactly [26:29] exactly my sense my feeling she put into words something I was not able to express yeah and for for folks who haven't yet watched the sauna ad what she's speaking to is that like he he had like a um I'm just gonna say it like a toxic masculinity like chip on his shoulder angry male thing that was like if with the right [26:52] algorithmic nudging [26:54] gets that type of guy into kind of a bad state. Radicalized. He's radicalized. He's either radicalized to crypto or something darker. So anyway. [27:05] That's it. That's it. Let's move on. Read the newsletter though. Cause it's really funny stuff. Do you know? Incredible. Aligned. Okay. On a much lighter note, huge day for lesbians yesterday. Um, for those who are not familiar, boy genius is an incredible band. There's three of them that make up boy genius, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julian Baker. And it was confirmed yesterday

[27:35] and Julian Baker, two of the three are dating. And there was some really, really bizarre photos to announce this where it was, for those of you just listening, it was like the three of them on a beach and then like a heart, um, [27:54] what would you even cut out what would you call this cake um like a [27:57] a blur effect okay a blur effect over just lucy and julian that just leaves [28:04] Phoebe Bridgers had a bit, which is so bizarre and weird way to weird thing to post. And then, uh, Phoebe Bridgers, Brazil, a Stan account in Brazil, which you can always rely on them to produce the best of content. [28:19] inverted it where it's just a blur effect heart around just Phoebe Bridgers, which I thought was really wonderful. So happy for them. [28:28] Great stuff. Not surprising. Not a soul was surprised, but people were excited. [28:36] Great. Let's move on. We can talk more about it. I can say my perspective, which is that I actually like... [28:47] I want to take a contrarian take on it, which I'm so happy for them. And like, this is so exciting, but I do think that when [28:55] when [28:56] people get into a committed, happy relationship. [28:59] their art [29:01] their song their songs aren't as good so i'm like i the time will tell the proof is in the pudding and you're a fan of boy genius right because i don't listen to the genius huge fan of boy genius and part of what i like about born genius is the yearning

[29:18] Mm hmm. OK. But didn't they say that they were done? [29:21] i thought that they had said we're done phoebe i think was like i'm done and that's why lucy dacus julian britt as artists even separately [29:29] Oh, no. As artists separately. Okay. Just in their work, the gurn, the want. It's so important. It's so important. And it's so tangible with these three incredible songwriters. And so I'm just like, you're happy. You're committed. Everything's good. You're... [29:50] that that piece is missing for me personally. [29:54] That's just my take. That's a great take. I'm hoping what it does is Phoebe, she feels a yearning because she's now left out. She's not in the throuple and that will produce some really great work for her, I think. [30:09] Okay, next thing. This is really quick, and it's more a PSA than really about this story. So Lipton iced tea announced yesterday that they were getting of their peach iced tea flavor, which many will know that this is a very beloved flavor. I don't drink this, but... [30:26] other people do and people were upset in the comments what the actual what am i supposed to drink now this is worse than 9 11 oh my god like people were losing their mind about this and then of course [30:38] Well, not of course, but it turned out to be [30:41] that it is an early april fools forget it campaign i know i knew this would piss you off that's why i put this in here this is dina has a hard hard stance if you can go to the next slide hard oh my god that i i deeply agree with this aligned fully aligned do not do two things three things one do not do an april fools

[31:03] joke. It's tired. Nobody wants it. It's noisy. It's bad. That's point one. Point two is to do this in April or in March and [31:14] is so weird. Like... [31:17] We've run out of things to talk about. That was my third feeling. We've run out of things to talk about, both on this podcast and on the internet. I was like, this is ridiculous. Anyway, it's just a PSA. We don't need to talk about it any further, but don't do that. Don't do that. This is marketing slop. [31:33] It is. It's AI. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Wow. Great. [31:37] Okay, great. Thanks. Thanks. [31:40] No, no. [31:41] now you know um so honestly if you see any of that on the timeline you can just ignore it completely you know thank you that's a gift um okay kim k tesla robot shoot for perfect magazine um lots of very salacious images of kim k with the tesla robot um on the beach on a tesla next to a tesla [32:03] Seems... [32:04] Any which way, any which way you cut it. And Token Gay had a great retweet here that I feel in my bones. I'm not sorry that I stan. And that's how I feel. I love this woman. She can do no wrong to me. She's done a lot of wrong, I think, but not for me. And I loved the shoot. I thought it was cool. I thought it was weird. I saw someone post it. [32:27] and really hated it and was like, I do not want to see this woman everywhere. And I was like, I want to see her everywhere. I want her to see her wherever she wants to be. And so, uh, that's the Kim K Tesla robot. Um, you know what I appreciate about this? And we actually have been working on a piece about this and maybe it's the, this week is the week that we put it out, but yeah, so don't steal the idea. Yeah. If you still there, here are the receipts. If you still the idea, then we know and we'll come for you. But, uh, the, what I, what I like about this,

[32:57] the [32:58] the set design for how humanoid robots have been like rolled out to us in ads and in different promotional stuff. It's so boring. It puts it in, it's, it's bad. It's boring. It's like, it, [33:15] it's unimaginative it's lacking creativity they're all the same humanoid robot in some generic house that's like walking around and being weird and what i love [33:25] love about this shoot is that they took the humanoid robot robot and put it in totally a totally different environment gave it a totally different treatment gave it sexuality whatever I don't say good right wrong who knows it's weird and it gets the people going and got me thinking and like that's just like it made me feel something this thing and like I that is IMO [33:55] about what's happening with robotics and AI than putting it in a weird Airbnb and like hoping for the best. So I couldn't agree more. I think like there's a lot of stuff that questions, ethics, all of this comes up in all of this, all of this comes up robots, but like it made it interesting and it gave it a cool treatment, visual, like color treatment and stuff and fashion. It felt [34:25] Why am I in an idea? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. So I totally agree. So check out perfect magazine, I guess. I never heard of that magazine ever in my life, but.

[34:34] that's probably the point there you go um okay uh speaking of uh for moving from robots to space um [34:42] I want to watch this video, so we're going to pull it up. But before we do that, I'm just going to explain what happened. So NASA astronauts back on Earth after 286 days in space. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams of Crew 9 have returned home. So NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore safely returned to Earth after being stranded on the ISS for over nine months due to Boeing's Starliner capsule failure. [35:12] for a 10-day mission in June 2024. They remained... [35:16] aboard the ISS as crew members. And when Starliner was sent back to Earth, [35:22] And Starliner was sent back to Earth empty. So basically, there was like an issue with this Starliner. It had to go back. They had to stay in space. And then this was essentially like a rescue mission to get them back with SpaceX. [35:52] So those are like the players. And we should watch this video because it's like, [35:56] unbelievable cinematography. Like it's like, it's, [36:00] it's insane like i i watched it so many times and i was like this can't be real so um i don't know who's controlling those slides but if i can remove this from the stage if you have the link that you link is in the deck um okay okay but already just give us one second here and it's basically like the what you're going to see is this

[36:25] um little vessel this it looks tiny but it's actually quite large because it has both of them in it and these huge umbrellas and it coming and landing in the ocean and then like the aerial shots of it are this landing in the ocean and then all of these like dolphins jumping around it like it's something truly out of a movie it's crazy okay can you guys see it yeah okay [36:49] If... [36:52] And Splashdown Crew 9 back on Earth. [36:59] It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. And it doesn't look real. Like I keep being like. It doesn't look real. That's crazy. I feel like I'm watching Splashdown. Good main release. [37:11] Now that I'm actually watching it. UC Maine shoots cut. Nick, Alex, Butch, Sunny, on behalf of SpaceX. [37:19] Welcome home. [37:21] It looks like AI. Now that I'm, now that I'm watching it again, you know how there's like all these conspiracy theories about like, we never landed on the moon. And I'm always like, please, this video, I'm like, I don't know that this happened. Like it genuinely, it's insane looking. And it's, if it's real, it's insane and beautiful. But if it's like a rendering of what happened, but like this, that is from the NASA official account, like on Twitter. So anyway, [37:51] I could literally never imagine.

[37:55] nine months in space. I can't go two nights without having plans. Like I would be, I would not, it would not work out for me. I think I saw something that they, they, [38:06] when went around earth like 4 000 times like some some crazy that actually makes me feel claustrophobic like just talking about it would never go to space no thank you okay if you had you wouldn't go if you were i know that question the ocean or the space and that's so hard for me because those are the two that i'm like i don't f with them yeah bottom of the ocean or out of the atmosphere [38:27] I'm out. I just... [38:30] Gun to the head. Gun to the head. Okay. It's good on earth. Yeah. I'm good. Dina, what about you? [38:37] - Yeah. [38:38] I don't... I'm not, like, really trying to get to space, but... [38:43] No, it's not like you're trying to get to either, but if you- I understand. I think I'm not. I think I'm not. It's kind of just which one do you fear more? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's actually the question. [38:51] Huh? [38:52] Um, [38:55] That's a hard question. They're both terrifying. What do you think? Terrifying. I've thought about this a lot. I think that like in my lifetime, [39:03] there's a lot of places on earth I would want to go. So I'm not spending money to go to Mars. If someone like sponsored me and was like, we would like you to go and do the pod. Please do the TCG companion podcast from Mars. I would do it, but I'm not spending my money to that. I like want to go to New Zealand before that. You know what I mean? But if I had to choose between the two, [39:25] What? [39:25] Sorry. I'll go to New Zealand before space too. Yeah, totally. And I...

[39:33] I fear the darkness of the bottom of the ocean. [39:37] I guess what creature are you going to come in contact with? I rather come in contact with an alien than like one of those weird things that we have seen on the bottom of the ocean. That is really not for me. It's like iridescent and has like red eyes. And like teeth, weird claw teeth. And then for some reason I feel like space, which is not true. This is going to, people are going to, [39:56] make fun of me, but like, it feels bright. It feels like we got the sun out there. We got some light happening. You're catching some vitamin D. Exactly. I got my sunscreen on. So anyway, I guess that. Um, [40:11] Okay, that's it for that. That's that. Okay, just a quick update on our story that we covered last week. We talked about how Jay Graber, the CEO of Blue Sky, did a Zuck dig and wore a shirt on stage at South by Southwest, which was a play on a shirt style that Mark Zuckerberg has been wearing lately, which has... [40:34] like [40:36] Latin. [40:37] Yeah, has Latin like... [40:39] wore slogans on it uh and she uh wore a version of it a take on it um [40:47] that was said something like we don't need any caesars or no caesars or something like that and uh [40:54] She and it sold out in 30 minutes. They sold they made some and it sold out in 30 minutes and people on Blue Sky. [41:01] hate Mark Zuckerberg. Do you know what this reminds me of?

[41:05] What's that? Do you know what this brings up for me? What? Remember when the air, the lore of Airbnb, when they almost went out of business and then they sold a cereal, uh, [41:14] To like, keep them in business. [41:16] Yeah, it's giving that to me. Let's get a few more months of runway. Totally. Yeah, but I do love her and I love these t-shirts. So you know the price point of the t-shirts? Yes, $40. [41:31] Oh, that's pretty lucky. [41:32] Not bad. [41:34] She takes a great photo. Just a beautiful woman. Really photogenic. Oh, okay. Here we are back to, back to the jacket. We're back. We're so back full circle. Okay. Yes. Okay. What I wanted to draw attention to here is I think he's wearing a, this is a Tom Ford jacket, right? It looks like it. Yeah. And I think he's worn this jacket before, right? Correct. [41:57] And what I do want to say is that [42:01] He, when he was at CES in... [42:05] January. [42:06] He wore... [42:08] a patent leather [42:10] effect. Like it was like a snake skin patent leather effect, black jacket. Almost $9,000. $9,000. And he went back to Matt for his presentation. We're talking about Jensen Wang and NVIDIA. And we're talking about his leather jackets that he famously wears on stage every time he does a keynote. And so I don't know, recession indicator, perhaps. Matt leather

[42:40] re-wearing an outfit to an event. You're running it back. There you go. Is this one not custom? Is this one off the rack? [42:52] Another recession indicator here. Kate, take it away. Yeah. This I saw last night and I died laughing because I used to do Depop reselling. But this TikToker is saying, recession indicator this, recession indicator that. Here's the real one. [43:10] lowering the prices they're coming back down to earth the girlies are no longer selling their denim shorts for 70 80 dollars they're like 30 40 so thank god thank god thank god get on depop are you still doing depop sales um not depop sales but i still have a closet full of stuff that i [43:32] could absolutely make some money on. [43:34] Okay. Are you selling elsewhere or you're just not, you're out of the game right now? I was on Poshmark and Grailed for a little bit, but I just deactivated it for now. You did. Okay. [43:43] Okay. I've never been a deep hop girly, but I'm starting to consider. I'm starting to consider. I have a mood board that my friend LJ sent me for this spring summer. She seems to believe it's going to be my spring summer, which I accept that reality. And so, but, you know, I got to find, I got to be Kate about it. I got to be bargain shopping. [44:07] The issue is you got to really know your sizes, measure, ask for measurements because you can't return. You can't. I mean, they say you can, but then they kind of like push back. It's like you can't really return most of the time.

[44:20] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. Maybe you can give me a little like best practices. I can definitely do that for you. [44:29] Okay, great. [44:31] Can you tell us what's happening here with this story? This isn't really that new of news. So Dick's Sporting Goods is... [44:42] They're expanding. They're making their stores more experiential, which they have forever. We had one growing up. I remember in the early 2000s, a Dix opened up and you're like, oh my gosh, you could try out the golf clubs on the little putt-putt mat. [44:59] beforehand you could run around the mini track in your sneakers before buying but um this one was really funny because it's a rock climbing wall at the house of sport uh and it can be rented for birthday parties oh my gosh and a nice thing right [45:16] And an ice rink, yep. So this one, the CEO started with the concept House of Sports in New York, I think was the first store. And it's like twice the size of regular [45:28] Dick's boarding goods, which those are already huge to begin with. [45:32] Okay. I have some comments on this. First of all, I grew up in upstate New York. The dicks that we had did not have any experiential touch points in it. So I feel like Florida is built different. Yeah. We got the best pro shops and all that. I just want you to know, Kate, that I don't know that that's a shared experience where everyone knows dicks as having experiential. This to me,

[45:59] feels like the dicks that I'm thinking of is like a bunch of hangers and it's like chaotic and it's whatever. There's some footballs in the corner. Um, [46:09] The second thing I want to say to this point is that I can't help but feel like this is speaking to also a dead mall phenomenon where they – [46:18] need to figure out how to fill square footage in malls. [46:25] with things that people will do and pay for that is like, I don't know. It reminds me of the go-kart stuff. That's exactly it. It's like the malls. This was a big strategy when I was with Urban Outfitters back in like the 2010s. And they were like, we're an experiential space. How do we get people in? How do we pull people in? And then they just happen to buy stuff. And you're like, okay. And also taking up square footage in spaces that are like, [46:52] dead where they can't build anymore yeah yeah um i feel as though we're doing a little too much here that's that would be my take we're doing a little too much we could scale it back [47:04] fair but as a kid i would love this oh [47:09] Love, love, love, which made me lead to the next slide. [47:13] um here we go oh my gosh uh i mean this is really this is part mcdonald's because [47:22] king in my book, but, you know, [47:25] Okay, explain the meme here. The meme is that evil doesn't die. It reinvents itself. And so here, evil doesn't die. It was the McDonald's play place in the 90s. And now it reinvents itself. And it is the Dick's Sporting Goods. Oh, my God. That's so funny. I love that. Oh, my gosh. What an appropriate place.

[47:48] to end here. Any other stories that we got going on? [47:51] No other stories. It's so fun to be here. We will be back on this live stream at 4.30 this afternoon. If you can believe it, so can I. If you want more of us. [48:09] I can't stop thinking about that, Margot Robbie. I'm going to post it again today. I put in the newsletter last week. But Margot Robbie at the end of her Barbie campaign, she was like, I need to... [48:18] I need to get off. People are going to be sick of seeing my face. Like everybody's going to be like, why is she here again? And it's all I can think about like every, every day, but, uh, we're having fun anyway, 4 30 today, join us live. We will be talking to Dylan and, um, maybe other guests. [48:34] for the finale and thanks for joining Dumb Bitch Hour. [48:38] Always a pleasure. See you next week. See you next week. [48:42] Okay, that was DBH. Join us live on Twitter every Wednesday at noon. Or here, I guess.