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Speaker 2You sound great, I know, but it's different.
Speaker 1I have a cold, so it's going to be like the best, the best voice you've ever heard on a podcast for like ten minutes, and then I'm going to lose my voice and it's going to be over.
So it'll be great on both accounts.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1The other thing I want to address is what are you going to be for Halloween?
Speaker 2Oh my god, man, I'm so thrilled you asked.
I'll probably just dress in all black and put on caddiers.
Okay, but that's what I do most Fridays.
Yeah, right, what about you?
Speaker 1I think I've dies this bullet?
Speaker 2Is it a bullet?
Isn't it just joyful?
Speaker 1Is joyful to take your kids around in their costumes when you're not in a costume?
I shouldn't it?
Like I see like the people with family costers, like, Okay, that's cool, and I kind of want to do it, but like not enough to Yeah, for adults, it's got to be creative.
Speaker 2There are onesies out there, but I hear, yeah, I don't really want to cut around really psyched.
I mean not to go running a one sie.
I spoke too soon, but I'm just I love Halloween so much.
I'm really excited.
I'm an adult and I don't have a child, so I feel like I can't.
But we're going to walk around Hoboken because Hoboken goes hard on Halloween.
A lot of these.
Speaker 1Yes, but okay, I.
Speaker 2Mean I'm not going to like knock on doors and take candy.
If someone with a bucket of candy comes up to me and says, do you want a piece, I'm not going to turn them down.
That'd be crazy.
Speaker 1Are you going to wear your cat ears on air?
Speaker 2No?
No, I won't.
Speaker 1I feel like one year, I want you to wear like a children's ghost costume, you know, just like a sheet of holes for eyes on air.
Speaker 2I usually subtly try to dress up on air.
Speaker 1Like you've worn the cat I feel like we talked about this last year, but you really did.
Speaker 2Some dedicated listener can tell us.
I mean, I always I have this like Christmas shirt that I try to sneak in once a year.
Tomorrow, I've I think I'm going to wear all black, like a black turtleneck and just be kind of spooky.
Speaker 1Okay, just subtle, just a.
Speaker 2Little maybe like a cat eye eyeliner.
But I will mention over and over again that it's Halloween.
I love Halloween.
Yeah, I want to put someone in a ghost costume and just have them walk behind me at some point, just once.
Speaker 1I think you should actually have a ghost cut host who doesn't say anything.
Speaker 2That would be kind of funny.
They just like a human and a ghost, like yeah, like.
Speaker 1Many glasses over the ghost pace, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah.
I turned to them and like say something, and then I turned back like this sounds great.
Speaker 1I've got your TV shows all right, podcast.
Speaker 2Now, we're just trying to run out the clock here.
Speaker 1To the podcast like that.
Speaker 2Yeah scary.
Speaker 1Hello and welcome to the Money Stuff podcast, your weekly podcast.
Where are you talking about stuff related to money?
I'm Matt Levine and I write the Money Stuff column for Bloomberg Get Thing.
Speaker 2And I'm Katie Greifeld, a reporter for Bloomberg News and an anchor for Bloomberg Television.
We're in We are in the heart of magnificent seven tech earnings, which means we are in the heart of those tech companies just saying how much they're going to spend on AI infrastructure, and it is so much.
Speaker 1It's really like either you do or you don't believe that, Like the entire world is going to change with AI.
And if you believe it, you're like, yeah, sure, ten trillion dollars, no problem, right, But it is like it's easy to be nervous or skeptical or make fun of those numbers because it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Well, something that I've been talking about on television and casually with my friends in the newsroom is how a lot of this these hopes and dreams and these ambitions of these big tech companies to spend all this money, A lot of it has been able to be funded from free cash flow, but increasingly they're having to tap the bond markets.
But as you laid out in a column this week, they have stellar credit ratings, so they don't necessarily want to rely too much on the bond market.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a mixed bag, right, Like you have a stellar credit rating, so you can borrow in the bond market, but like you can't do too much because then you lose the credit iting.
So Meta is out this week with a twenty five billion dollar investment grade deal.
Yes, but they want more than twenty five billion dollars and to do that they have tapped the woo like I guess, I don't know.
You call it like people sometimes called the hybrid's market, but also like it's the kind of project finance.
Yeah, it's like off balance sheet financing.
Basically, like they set up a joint venture where the joint venture will operate their data centers, and the joint venture will be owned by in this case Blue Owl, but in the general case someone who is uh, basically credit firm but is willing to do weird stuff, and so Blue Oul is the equ the owner of the data center, and Meta signs a series of contracts that in the aggregate kind of look like that.
Like they sign like leases and a residual value guarantee, where like at the end of the term of the lease they have to buy the chips in the data center.
But those contracts look enough like debt that Blue Owl can package it into bonds and sell it to Pimcar or whatever, but also enough not like debt that it doesn't affect Meta's accounting or its credit ratings.
So it's like not debt of Meta.
For the purposes of like Meta, but it is kind of debt of Meta for the purposes of the people buying the bonds.
Speaker 2So you talked about how this is a fantastic trick that if you want to call it that that has connotations, but.
Speaker 1It's just like it's just the thing people do.
Right, It's like it turns out there are things that are debt and there are things that are not debt, but then there's like this huge middle ground of things that they kind of that that and like, for the most part, things are pretty binary for like ratings and balance sheet.
Either it's on your balance sheet or it's not.
Either it effects your credit anying credit atings are more not quite binary, like the ratings agency sometimes gives things partial credit.
But you know, if you like check the right boxes, then it's not quite debt.
But you can convince people to buy the bonds because they look pretty much like your debt.
Speaker 2Yeah, give or take you do, right though.
That The bonds for the Hyperion Hyperion the name of the data center.
They price with a coupon of almost six point six percent, which was roughly a percentage point higher than Meta's outstounding corporate bonds and in line with the average jump on yields.
So hear what you're saying.
But at a certain point, I feel like people and investors see through this.
Speaker 1They do, and they don't, right, I mean, they don't treat it like Meta debt exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1They you know, they're happy to buy it at a yield and they're like, oh, yeah, it's great.
It's like it's backed by Meta.
You know, it has structural features that make it not quite as good as Meta debt, but yeah, so it trades that a yield that is a reasonable cut the capital for building a data center and kind of keeps it off of Meta's pristine balance sheet.
Speaker 2Yeah, we're talking about this like weird structure, this SPV that Meta is doing.
Speaker 1It's weird ish a little, but it's also like, you know, the basic format of doing some sort of project finance JV.
They didn't invent that for data centers.
Speaker 2That's true.
Speaker 1It's been done for a while and a lot of industries in different forms.
And you know, I wrote this week about it's very general purpose.
And so Carrig Doctor Pepper is putting its k cup manufacturing in JV so that it can borrow against the k cups without tarnishing its credit rating to do an acquisition.
Speaker 2Okay, so it's not weird.
I do feel like a lot of folks, myself included, have thought more about this in the past two weeks, and maybe I have.
Ever, it's a concept that's being more widely socialized than perhaps in the.
Speaker 1Past and higher profile.
Speaker 2Yes, that's the thing.
Speaker 1And the other thing about it that is interesting is that it's really interacting with the private credit right.
Yeah, you look at all the private credit firms and stereotypically private credit means leveraged acquisition finance.
And the reason for that is because you know, private equity sponsors are willing to pay up for flexible, fast, guaranteed debt, so you can make money doing that, Like you can charge more than the public markets would if you can offer sponsors like user friendly product financing their acquisitions.
But then, like you know, these private credit firms, like they have a lot of insurance clients, they want to deploy a lot of money.
They need to eventually get into investment grade debt, and it is harder to get into investment grade debt because you go to like Meta and you say I'll buy your bonds and metas like, sure, our bond's price that you know, that's right, and it's not super exciting for private credit.
But then you do this project financing, and you can do a thing that gets an A plus rating and also has a yield.
And also you're not competing in the same way with the public markets because regular public market bond investors can't necessarily buy two point five billion dollars of equity in a data center, right, Like the private credit firms are a little bit more flexible and like what kind of financing arrangements they can do, and a little bit more creative, and so they can do this to get tens of billions of dollars of investment grade financing, which is what they want.
Speaker 2Yeah, I do want to talk more broadly about META, Yes, but before we get there, so you made the point that, okay, even with this what they're working out, they also tap the market, the public market for that twenty five billion dollar bond.
Apparently it was super oversubscribed according to our reporting.
But you think about.
Speaker 1You know, META has capacity to do hundreds of billions of dollars then, and they don't do it because they want to keep good rating.
So they Yeah, they want to met a bond.
Speaker 2Yeah, one hundred and twenty five billion dollars of bids for this twenty.
Speaker 1Five So like over subscribe never means anything.
Speaker 2Yeah, well nothing truly means anything, Matt.
But something I've been thinking about, not just as it relates to Meta, but all the spending that all these big tech companies are doing.
You think about the typical profile of investing in tech from the equity market perspective, It's like, Okay, these companies have pristine, tidy balance sheets, they're very capital light businesses, et cetera, et cetera.
And I do wonder, you know, if the nature of investing in the tech space is starting to change, And I keep asking people.
Speaker 1That just not capital light these days?
I know, I know it's the opposite.
Speaker 2It's just you think, like five years ago, the conversation was about you know, intangible assets, and that week.
Speaker 1Meta right like five years ago was Meta called Facebook.
Yeah, but like you think, like the stereotypical business model of Facebook is like it serves a web page, right, It's like marginal cost is zero, right, so it's scales like really really effectively.
So Facebook is this classic investment where you know, venture capitalists put money in and it goes from being a dorm room project to being a one hundred billion dollar company with kind of no additional spending.
Yeah, and that switch just flipped and now it's just everything is a trillion dollars of data centers.
Speaker 2Well, I love talking about meta because you remember the reason why Meta is called meta because they do.
Hey, one's so big on the metaverse, which I never talked about before Mark Zuckerberg was lighting money on fire.
Speaker 1I don't really know what that entel, but it would be funny if there were like data centers out there that were optimized only for the metaverse and are now just like tumbleweed is blowing through them.
Speaker 2I love it.
I love it.
But that led to Meta's year of efficiency, et cetera.
Speaker 1It was this whole thing and now the opposite.
Speaker 2Alphabet and Microsoft.
You can make a case for why they're going so hard on AI when it comes to Meta.
I'm not sure what the payoff is.
They said that they're investing so hard because it's going to help better target their advertising.
But is that is that?
Is that a trillion dollar endeavors?
It's wild, it's wild, and I've.
Speaker 1Learned is that the purpose of the economy is to serve customized ads.
Speaker 2For sure, for sure, all the water sources be damned.
But I don't know.
I'm curious to see how this plays out for Meta Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg did say on the earnings call they reported on Wednesday this week that the company has options if it ends up spending too much on infrastructure.
In one scenario, he said, the company could use the extra computing capacity for its core business.
In another, it could sell the power to other companies.
Speaker 1Or or really good metaverse.
Speaker 2That metaverse, really good metaverse.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's the centers full of legless Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 2I mean, they're still committed to that in there.
I believe that falls under the Reality Labs division, which reported a loss of four point four billion dollars for the third quarter.
Speaker 1On revenue of twelve cents revenue.
Speaker 2Of four hundred and seventy million.
I'll have you know.
Anyway, I think it's super interesting.
At least Mark Zuckerberg's thinking about the prospect of maybe they're overbuilding.
Speaker 1Also, we're in hundreds of billions of dollars of a spending open AI is a regular company.
Speaker 2Now I know it's exciting so regularly anti climactically.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was assuming there'd be like years of litigation, and like all the state attorney generals and Microsofts were like, okay, good, it's fine, So cool.
They did their.
Speaker 2Conversial at this moment too.
Elon Musk is a bit distraction, which will brew we'll get to I'm sure he'll keep suing, but yeah, we'll get to that anyway.
Open Ai apparently is so normal that maybe they're going to IPO in next two years or so.
Speaker 1Yeah, sure, maybe, right.
Speaker 2That's what Reuter's told us.
Speaker 1Sure.
I just feel like any large private tech company might IPO in the next two years.
Speaker 2I know, but this one I feel like it urgently needs to really.
Okay, Yeah, they've committed to like one point four trillion dollars of spending.
Where are they going to get the funds.
Speaker 1From, like an IPO?
Maybe a little from an IPO?
Sam Almons, if open Ai and Fanny and Freddie I'll go public like next year, God, what IPO?
Speaker 2So many good podcasts?
No.
Sam Almons said that I think it's fair to say that it's the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have.
Yeah, during a live stream on Tuesday.
Speaker 1Matt find the the public equity markets and the public bond markets and the project finance markets.
It's amazing, so much money for AI.
Yeah, so they're a normal company.
Speaker 2I don't know, a normal company.
Speaker 1Owns twenty seven percent.
Speaker 2Twenty seven percent.
Speaker 1The nonprofit owns twenty six percent but has like super voting board control.
It's very hard.
Yeah, you be like, we started as a non profit.
We shore donations.
Theydn't think that much in donations, but in donations, and now we're a five hundred million dollars private company for the benefit of our investors.
And one way to sort of smooth that transition is that the nonprofit will continue to control the company and have like supervoting rights.
I don't know how that will go for an IPA, but it'll go fine.
Like no one cares.
You could imagine being like, if this company is not run for profit, maybe I shouldn't invest in it.
Yeah, seeking an enormous financial return, But no one has ever had that thought.
Speaker 2Yeah, or ever will.
Yeah, that's so clean.
Speaker 1It's like I is definitely looking to give you a high financial return on your investment, which is nice.
Speaker 2So do you not take Samulmon at his words, which words that they need to do this to get the capital that they need to know.
Speaker 1I believe that they need to do this to get the capital.
But like even now that they're a for profit company, they're a public benefit company, which is slightly less than for profit but still pretty for profit.
But they're controlled by a nonprofit board, right, Like the nonprofit boards to put the interest of humanity first.
But no one cares about that.
No one's worried about that.
Speaker 2I thought that a nonprofit board couldn't fire members.
Speaker 1Well, they're not going to fire him like that, lesson.
Speaker 2Well I know that, but even other members, like other open AI executives.
So when when you say they're in control, I mean, what does that mean if they're not going to fire the people running it?
Speaker 1That's a good question the board of directors, right, So, like typically one of the main things the board does is decide whether or not to do a merger.
And they're too big to do a merger, you know, yeah, right, Like, I don't know how much operational control they have.
One thing the board of directors does is fire the CEO if he does a bad job.
But there's a constraint on that job number one, Right, Like the board of open Ai within recent memory has fired Sam Altman, not for doing a bad job of developing products or leading the people or achieving shareholder value, but for the crime of, I don't know, something else.
No one really understood it.
But it was kind of in the ballpark of like not being for the benefit of humanity or like deceiving the board.
And I'm like, no one really knows, and they quickly unfired him and then fired themselves.
Yeah, so that won't happen again.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was just about two years ago.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's amazing in theory, Like you can look around a lot of like boards of big founder led tech startups.
Sometimes those founders do weird stuff and you can imagine a board firing them, but you can't really because they never would.
You know.
Speaker 2There's been so many natural segues to yes.
Speaker 1Right, let's move straight along.
Speaker 2Okay, Well, the only thing I was going to say is that when it comes to the capital needs, obviously we've talked a lot about the private markets and the public markets melding that if you're a private company, you can get most of the funding that you need in the private markets.
This obviously is such an extreme example that maybe it's not even worth mentioning, but it is a limit perhaps of the private markets.
Speaker 1Yeah, sure, right, I tak that point, although we're not there yet, right, No, this is like they're rumored to be interested in going public in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2My mind, they're already public for now.
They have floated a trial balloon with Reuters.
Speaker 1No, Like, what do they need capital for?
They need to like get chips and data centers and compute like they're getting all of that, right, but they're funding it with vague promises of future trillions of dollars of capital raising, right, Like they have not needed to go public to meet their enormous capital spending needs yet.
Yeah, right, they're incurring obligations that might require going public.
But loo, I agree with you that, like, if Sam Altman is feeling the pressure to go public, that does show some limit on the ability of private markets to fund absolutely everything.
Yeah, that he's got a five hundred billion dollar company that keeps signing trillion dollar deals and is not public.
So true, the limit is we haven't hit it yet.
Speaker 2If we're looking for another segue, SpaceX obviously is private company that has a lot of capital needs.
Speaker 1Yes, so it turns out that shooting rockets to Mars costs much, much, much less than training chatbots.
Speaker 2What a world.
It's what a world, right, Elon Musk, he's the whole company, the whole board of Tesla.
Well really, Robin Denholm has been on a media tour.
Speaker 1Yeah, Robin Denholm and the board of Tesla are going around to big shareholders and also frankly media, Yeah, to drum up support for Elon Musk's big pay package because the sharelders have to vote on it, and the big shaholder advisory firms Iss and Glass Lewis have recommended that the sharelders vote against giving Elon Musk a pay package that has a nominal value of one trillion dollars.
Yeah.
I really don't like that framing.
No, because like basically what it is that they want to give Elon Musk twelve percent of the company, and twelve percent of the company right now is worth one hundred and eighty billion dollars.
There's a lot of money.
Yeah, not a trillion dollars.
But in order to justify doing this, they're like, we'll only give him twelve percent of the company if he hits like these really ambitious operational and stock price targets, and if he hits all those targets, the company will be worth eight point five trillion dollars, and his twelve percent package will be worth a trillion dollars.
But like they're trillion dollars today.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're not giving him a trillion dollars, right, They're.
Speaker 1Giving him the chance to get twelve percent of the stock.
Speaker 2Well, listen, you don't like the trillion dollar framing, but everyone listening to this podcast now is thinking about it differently.
Speaker 1So no, they're not.
It's fine anyway.
But yeah, I wrote today on Thursday, it's interesting to me, like the trillion dollars is really embarrassing.
No one wants to vote to give Elon Musk a trillion dollars.
Yeah, I think it sounds insane.
It's clearly like part of the pushback to the proposal is it's a trillion dollars, right.
Elon Musk has been very clear that what he wants is to control twenty four percent of the votes of TESLA.
He's like, I don't want to be voted out by like dom shaolders.
I want to have like enough voting control that I have a lot out of control, but not so much that I can't be voted out if I become insane, which is okay.
And so it seems to me the obvious solution there is to give him twenty five percent of the voting power without giving him any more stock, which is not easy to do, and in fact, in an interview with the Ft, Robin Henholmes said, we tried to do that and we couldn't find a way to do it.
I don't know, man, it seems to be like you could do it.
You could like find a way to give him super voting shares.
You could get shareholders to approve that, and then you wouldn't have to give him a trillion dollars.
You could just be like, we're giving him twenty five percent of the vote because that's what he wants.
Speaker 2Robin Denholm went on Bloomberg TV.
You could have stopped her in person and told her about that idea.
I was writing, you were busy, it's busy, well, and.
Speaker 1I wrote it, and she can whatever, because surely they've had that idea, because she did say to the Ft, like, we tried to do it, and it couldn't find a way to work.
But I don't know why I couldn't find a way to make it work.
Speaker 2Yeah, it didn't tricky.
Didn't you say we searched high and low or something.
Speaker 1It seems tricky.
Like I'm not saying it's trivial to be like, we're going to give this guy a new super voting share, but you know, yeah, doesn't seem impossible.
So no, that's just the guy.
Speaker 2That was an interview she did with The Financial Times.
She also went on Bloomberg Television and said that the board is looking at internal CEO candidates should Elon Musk leave.
Speaker 1Right, They're definitely going around being like if this Preybaggers doesn't get approved, he is out the door, which is you know, maybe.
Yeah.
Speaker 2She said that the company has a deep bench of executives, which I always like hearing because we never hear from them or about them.
Speaker 1So I think she's also said there's no Elon mark too.
Right, it is possible that you can have both a deep bench of very excellent car executives and also not have yeah, Elon Musk light waiting in the wings.
You know.
Speaker 2Well, apparently one of them is their global production chief.
In China head tom Ju, which is funny, I guess because initially when I read that headline, it was like, oh, well, it's going to be really interesting to see if like Elon Musk fires all of them, because he has CEO, so he could, but I guess there's potential internal candidates.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't think he will.
I think, like, if you take them at their word, that Elon Musk might quit if he doesn't get this control.
Yeah, it would still be a terrible idea for him to sabotage Tesla on his way out the door.
Like he could be mad at the shareholders and he could be like, I'm going to spend my time on something where I have more control, because what I want to do is build a robot army, and I need to have twenty zero present voting control of anywhere I build a robot army.
Right, you believe what they're saying.
Right, That's still not a reason for him to sabotage Tesla because Tesla remains more or less the majority of his wealth, right, and so like if he were to leave in a huff, the stock would tank, Yes, but if he were to leave in a huff, but also saying, I've left this in charge of my good friend who's really good at this, Tom Hu, then it's better for his wealth than leaving in a huff and burning it down on his way out the door.
Speaker 2That's true.
He seems logical way to think about things, Matt.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know he's not illogical.
Speaker 2No, he does host somewhat emotional.
Speaker 1Weird stuff, but I think he's going to be rational.
Speaker 2Well you know, well, maybe find out but probably not.
Speaker 1Probably not.
Probably the shareholders will appear of the package.
Yeah, I'm guessing.
I don't.
I don't have no basis in saying that.
I just they always do.
Speaker 2Well, it's thirty percent of their investor bases retail shareholders.
Speaker 1He'll be fine.
Yeah, they're like creating drama, but they'll be fine.
But if they're not fine, I'll be very interested to see if he quits.
Speaker 2Yeah, me too, mail Bag, mail Bag.
Speaker 1I do want to talk briefly about some emails.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm not going to sing mail bag with us mail.
Speaker 1Bag those voice.
But I don't know if you listened to last week's podcast episode, But if you did, insisted entirely of Katie reciting facts about the new JP market Headquarters.
But here are some more facts about the new JP Market Headquarters.
Speaker 2I was worried that people wouldn't like that.
Speaker 1But I was sure people would like.
Speaker 2People did well.
We got a lot of age.
This is from Eric Okay.
I went on a tour of the HQ as part of an annual meeting earlier this year, and during the tour they highlighted the HVAC system for the flag.
It is actually capable of mimicking the conditions outside the building, so the flag always waves in the way it would if it were outside.
Man, it must be going crazy today because it's raining.
There's a story it's raining in the lobby.
Maybe it's like the Hogwarts ceiling really good.
Speaker 1Yeah, because we were talking about like there's a flag in the lobby that blows in the breeze and yeah, you mentioned the fanning system and I was like, is it a guy with a desk fan on a stick?
And no, it's a very fancy HPY system that makes it rain inside.
Speaker 2I have to say that the flag was waving like there would have to be a strong gust of wind the way it was waving last Tuesday, and I don't remember it being that one.
Dy outside maybe.
Speaker 1Like mimics but somewhat amplifies.
Speaker 2Yeah, it enhances, it makes it a little Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1This is from Riot regarding Matt's observation that the building has a precarious overran.
I don't want to say it just looks sick.
It might fall on you.
Yeah, surely you were aware of the design and construction flow of the City Court building in the late seventies.
This is taught in basically all engineering programs today.
I assume it must be well known in finance circles too.
I think less well known in finance, but not unknown.
But yeah, there's a city building.
Speaker 2I did not know this.
Speaker 1So it's on like near us.
It's at like six o one Lex.
It's like just kind of down the street from the Bloomberg offices, and they built it in the late seventies and it's very cool.
It's like very much like you know, there's a plaza underneath it and like, yeah, big massy building is on top of like little stick legs.
And the famous engineer who designed it didn't take into account quartering wing winds.
Quartering winds they're like the winds that don't hit the thing head on.
And then like, you know, it's a fancy building, and so a couple of like engineering and architecture students like studied it for class projects and they were like, wait a minute, if this gets a wind from the run direction, it'll fall over.
And they emailed him or they wrote to him, and he was like, oh, no, you're right, And so they like know while people were working in the building every night they'd go home and like people would come in and shore up the bolts in the building to make sure it didn't fall over.
Speaker 2Right, that the engineer was humble enough to take the feedback, but also maybe he should.
Speaker 1Skis a little grab.
It's like he contemplated the suicide.
Speaker 2Oh that's not good.
But I was gonna say maybe he shouldn't work again.
Speaker 1I think he was fine, but yeah, it was a little not a great day for him.
Speaker 2I can't wait to read the Soukapedia article.
I will say I would love to see the JP Morgan lobby flag in a quarter England.
Yeah, sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 1They should do that, just as like a little engineering and side jack.
Speaker 2Yeah Nick Nick says, I just went to a meeting there and wanted to share a couple of things.
Apparently the pub doesn't start pouring beer until four pm.
The rumor going around was that Jamie Diamond himself was refused to drink at three pm.
We haven't fact tracked any of this, By the way, I kind of don't.
Speaker 1Believe that Jamie Diamond was like wandering down to the in office pub at three pm and to be like, I'll have a beer, Like that doesn't sound like.
Speaker 2DAMMI maybe they like Also, I don't like you.
Speaker 1Could imagine him being like I'm going to do a little like stunt of like order a beer to like demonstrate the pub to people, and like he wasn't served.
Speaker 2Yeah, but I feel like they would make like refuse him once but then be like, actually, here's the pier.
But I don't know.
I only have a parasocial relationship with Jamie Diamond, so I'm not actually sure.
Speaker 1Right, we do need to interview the bartender who a drink at the Jamie Diamond controlled pub, and.
Speaker 2I want to go there and we can look at the flag.
Speaker 1If you're that bartender.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, I want to do a podcast from the.
Speaker 1Pub Whipping Wind.
The pub is the pub is not.
Speaker 2In that's on the thirteenth floor.
The flag is in the lobby.
Speaker 1We're going to do the podcast from the pub.
Speaker 2It'll happen.
Speaker 1And that was the Money Stuff Podcast.
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