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I also want more videos of peregrine falcons flying at 390 kilometers an hour. That is incredibly fast. You were giving me a little bit of shade about falcons last week and so I needed to put you in the falcon zone. Okay. The truth zone on the falcons. What is this video? This is a video of the fastest attack animal in the animal kingdom. Peregrine falcon content warning 390km hour. Also, they live all over America. Fantastic animal, beautiful creature. Crazy. Yeah. And you think that there's a business to be built around home defense peregrine falcons. Take me through your thesis. I did, I did. Yes. And Anduril for the aviation aviary world. Anduril meets falconry. Yes. Sort of an organic anderal for the home. Yes. Yeah. A lot of, you know, guard dogs are popular. Why not have peregrine falcon perched in the highest tree on your property, ready to go? I like this chat from Nicola. A falcon with a bicycle is the most efficient animal on the planet. I completely agree. This fits very well with the early idea from the show with bear security. Yes. Yeah. Bear. Private military contract domestication idea. Early on. I think it's probably easier to domesticate a falcon than. Than a bear. Many falcons are already, you know, domesticated falconry is a historic, historic technique. I just reached out to a local falconer. You did. To set up some time. Okay. I'm not, I'm not Even before the show. No, not for the show, but that would be cool. Wait, no, no, no, no. Before the show you did this. Yeah. The team had. The team had that video pulled up and I just thought, you know. Yes. Now the question is, can we bring back carrier pigeon? Yes. Because we send. Because if we. If John, Sunday morning, he's often reading an article. Yes. He'll text me, hey, you should read this. Yes. But what if he could send. What if he could just take the newspaper. He didn't have to go find the link because obviously he's reading on a physical copy. Yes. What if you could just hand it to a smart bird and have it fly it over to my house? Be way more convenient for me. I wouldn't need to be on my phone. It's the weekend. I don't want to be as. As online as during the weeks. And you don't have to be going. Getting on your phone trying to find the right article. Yeah. So I think there's something there. I think. I wonder. I know Mike Tyson was really into pigeons. I don't know if he got into carrier pigeons, but it does seem like it could have a huge boom. I feel like there's an Instagram account to be built around someone who gets really into using carrier pigeons for everything and lives some sort of, like, pastoral trad life and amasses millions of followers on the back of falconry and carrier pigeon home falcons. Yes, home falcons. It's good content for social media. Also.

Wait, is this, is this a real video? This? No, this is fake. No, this is good though. Costa, yes, Runs the fastest growing oil change only QL in the USA. He says for kicks I started using ChatGPT to give our employees huge muscles and social media posts we use. And finally last night an employee told me on Slack the customer said something about them not being as jacked in person. Look at this second picture here. This guy. If you look like this, you're not changing oil. You're going for the Arnold. You're going to the Arnold. This is so good. I like that. Max Sparrow's in here just tagging Pangram data. Is this the idea that he's always adding to the training corpus? Interesting that he just goes around on the timeline hunting for known edited images to build the model. Very, very cool. Let's talk about Maggie's refuel. Speaking of cool.

Some good news. Finally. Finally some good news. Circle K, the company won the lottery. Did you hear about this, Jordy? No way. It's true. Yeah. So there's a crazy story out of Arizona. They needed a win. They needed a win. Actually, they've been a fantastic partner to my company, Lucy, Shout out Circle K. But let's tell you about the Circle K winning the lottery. So there's a crazy story out of Arizona that's been brewing over the last six months. Back in February, a Circle K customer named Sun Chun Kim asked the cashier for $85 worth of $1 lottery tickets. So she shows up, she wants 85 tickets. But after all 85 were printed out, Kim found out that she only had 60 bucks on her, only $60. So the cashier gave her 60 tickets and left the remaining 25 tickets on the counter. The next morning, Circle K manager Robert Galitsa learned that the leftover tickets included the $13 million winning ticket. So he clocked out, took off his Circle K shirt, and bought the tickets from another Circle K employee. Being like, what? No one, no one's going to notice. So when Circle K, the company found out about the purchase, it ordered the ticket be held in its corporate office and filed a complaint against the manager who bought the tickets and the Arizona Lottery and claimed that it's right, that it. That Circle K the company is the rightful owner of the lottery ticket. As of a week ago, at least three people slash entities are claiming ownership of the, of the, of the ticket to the original buyer that didn't have the cash. Yes. The. The manager who's like, I don't care if I lose my job as long as I win the lottery. And Circle K is like, we really need to win. We really need, we need, like, we need a win right now. We need this. Yeah. So Galica, a Circle K employee, that Galica got to sign the back of the ticket. Not sure why he had her do all of this. And Circle K. Additionally, the judge presiding over the complaint has ordered that the woman who bought the tickets but couldn't pay for them soon, Chun Kim, be found and brought into court before making a decision on who gets it. So she's going to have to testify and explain her side to. To make sure that that's exactly what happened. Because this is just claims at this point. How did the local Circle K wind up with 25 lottery tickets? Who are you going with? I'm going with manager. I'm going with big Corporate. Big, big, Big. I'm going with the manager not because I think it's ethical, but I think that. I think that there's no way. I think it's unlikely that there is a rule at Circle k that says 100%. There's a rule that if you work at that company, you can't buy lottery tickets at all from your own store, obviously, because you have the machine right there. You can tamper with it. Okay, but they don't. But they don't control. That's probably line number one. Handbook. No, but. But it seems very unlikely that. That the Circle, like, it's. It's a machine that just prints tickets. Yes, it's like. Yes, but there's so many ways you could tamper with it. You're watching the news, you're printing the ticket at the right time. You have access. You refill the ticket. Oh, there's one. But you're saying the corporation can buy its own lottery t tickets? Yes. Why? But the manager can't. That seems also strange. Maybe. Maybe you got. I think I got a ride with the woman. You think she's owed it? The manager. But then. But then the strategy or the original buyer. But then you can just shift the odds in your favor by constantly going to circle phase of $100 of tickets. Oh, I only have 50 bucks. And then you're basically doubling your odds because you still have a claim on those original says. These clerks aren't super hackers, John. Just wait. Just wait. You get the right amount of. I think it's an. I think it's an edge case. I think ultimately the person that. That paid for the winning ticket wins. Who paid for the winning ticket? If it comes down. But the manager knew that the ticket won. He didn't have to put any money. We don't know that yet. No, no, no, no. He did. He did. So there were 25 tickets there. They went through that. Okay. If there's a rule. If there's a rule that managers cannot buy lottery tickets at their own store, then you're correct. But if there's no rule that explicitly I, you know, basically spells that out. I think he might. He might. He might be golden. He might be golden. You think so? I don't know. Let me tell you about Shopify. Lottery is the commerce platform that grows with your business and lets you sell in seconds online, in store, on mobile, on social, on marketplaces, and now with agents and.

Follow the video game industry. Loser alert. Loser alert, alert. But the thing that you get excited about with Xbox is Modern Warfare 2 Rust and 1v1ing your best friends. Yes, but you buy in the secondary market. That's not really printing any pennies. They're not printing on me income statement. It's rough over there. Let me tell you about MongoDB. What's the only thing faster than the AI market? Your business on MongoDB? Don't just build AI, own the data platform that powers. If you've done enough. Forza Horizon 5, Forza Horizon 6. You've burned out on your gaming simulator with your Xbox. You gotta get over to Ferrari and pick up a Dolce Trelandri. Manuel, let's pull up this video. The 12 cylindri is the first car with a gated manual shifter to come out of Maranello since 2012. Have you noticed that they said shifter, not transmission? Yeah, shifter. That's what people wanted, right? We'll debate it. Let's play this video. And a shifter. It's a six. Let's see. Hell is frozen over, Pigs can fly. And Ferrari is building a new car with a manual transmission. This is the 12 cylindri manual. As you can see, it's a manual gearbox in a Ferrari. And what it really is is a Mode of the 8 speed speed DCT. But Ferrari has added a clutch pedal and a shifter. It's a six speed shifter. When you switch to manual mode, the shift knob turns amber in color. But you can also leave it in automatic. Unlike the other 12C lingeries, there's no paddle shifters, which you'll notice there's. If you want manual mode, you push the clutch in. Provided you're going under 62 miles an hour, it'll go into manual mode and then you can start driving. They tell us you can stall it. So if you are too quick with the clutch, too quick with releasing the clutch, if you try to start it in second or third gear, you pop the clut. You'll stall it. If you push the clutch in, you can rev it to the 9,500rpm redline and do a massive clutch drop. It does have some safeguards. If you try to do, you know, a six to one shift or some shift that isn't allowable, it won't let you do it. Ferrari put a ton of effort into the shift feel. So you can sort of, as you move from the center plane, there is a little bit of resistance to sort of simulate the synchronizers meshing and Then it sort of falls into gear. So it feels very much like a manual gearbox in a Ferrari has always felt, provided that gearbox is warmed up. As you can see, the gated shifter is here. The clicks are very much here. Although the DCT is an eight speed, you only get six speeds with transmission, which lowers the top speed from over 200 miles an hour. I think 211 miles an hour in seventh gear at redline to sixth gear, which is at the 9,500 rpm red line, to 196 miles an hour. So if you want to go just that little bit faster for top speed, you got to go switching in the automatic mode. The manual goes on sale at the beginning of next year, at the beginning of 2027. Ferrari has said that the price will be right around half a million dollars for starters. I'm sure most of them will be optioned out with lots of goodies and cost a lot more. They're building 1,499 of them, and I would imagine they're already spoken for. But this sort of does give us a look that Ferrari sees the value in the manual transmission. They love the connection of it. Their customers have been asking for it. They didn't really have a manual transmission to put in the car. But with this solution, this essentially a manual mode with a shifter and a clutch, they have shown us that it is possible to take a dual clutch and make the manual experience happen for buyers. So I'm hoping this trickles down into the rest of the lineup. Okay. Manual by wire. They're trying to answer every. They don't make them like they used to. Complaint. How does it land with you? Do you think this checks the box? Does this count as a manual Ferrari? Are they giving their manual fans what they want or is this a poor simulacrum of what it means to have three pedals? I think it's an obvious step in the right direction. I think a lot of people will be satisfied with this. I don't know. I think this checks enough of. Purists are in shambles. I'm in shamble over the spec that they use in that example. Why? I just think it looks terrible. It does look very base back. Yeah. But I think this is a fantastic. TJ Parker does not like it. He says this is far more embarrassing than the Luce Faceplant. And people are saying, wow, that's bad. As long as it's fun, who cares? TJ Parker says he cares. It's corny, but Koenigsegg, approved by the New Bugatti CEO. Seems look, when I see this, I think that they're gonna sell at least 1499luce because you have to imagine if you want, they claim they're not doing. They claim they're not doing it, then you're going to need to buy a Luce. They claim they're not doing it. They obviously will be doing it. You think so? These are never things that are, these are never rules that are written down anywhere, but they are understood. The details are hilarious and kind of brilliant. Listen to this. You can skip gears, heel, toe, downshift, and even stall the car if you mess up the clutch. But the system will also stop you from doing something truly stupid like over revving the engine or, or money shifting the car into the wrong gear. If you're not familiar with the money shift, that's where you shift. You skip a gear too much and it grinds the gears and you have to pay for to fix your engine, which costs a lot of money, especially in a 12 cylinder Ferrari. It's slower if you shift it yourself and you need automatic mode to hit the full 211 mile per hour top speed. But that's basically the whole point. Ferrari customers apparently told the company that they were willing to trade performance for the old school physical joy of driving a gated manual. Yeah, ultimately I like that they're partially listening to customers. It seems they're not necessarily fully listening to customers because I don't know any of Ferrari's, you know, out of the handful of Ferrari's top customers that I know. Yeah, I don't know any that were like, yeah, give me a fly by wire, like gated man, you know, gated manual. Yeah, they were not asking for that, but they were asking for the experience. They were asking for a knob that you can put your hand on three pedals. They want the third pedal. I am thinking of the Hyundai Ioniq 5N. Are you familiar with this vehicle? You've told me all about it. So the Hyundai Ioniq 5N is a, an electric hatchback essentially. But the gentleman who runs Hyundai's N division formerly ran BMW's M division. What's the letter that comes after M? It's N. So he went over to Hyundai and said, give me a bunch of your cars and I will create M versions, performance versions of these cars. Now Hyundai is funny because it's like a family car company for the most part. Not the same muscle car, German performance, ultimate driving machine base to work with like at BMW. But that individual has done a Fantastic job. Adding some drama to what it feels like to drive an electric Hyundai. Specifically with the Hyundai Ioniq 5N. It has something like 600 horsepower. Very quick on the track because of the position of the battery. It stays very planted even though it is a heavy vehicle. So it is good on the track in automatic mode. But they added paddle shifters and a simulated dual clutch transmission. LARP mode. And it pipes in fake noise from a fake engine. And you can redline it virtually. And it's almost like, can you roll it physically? You can physically roll it if you get really crazy, I'm sure. But it's a very interesting. It's very interesting because it has all the hallmarks of something that would be hated by the car community. But in fact, when I watched a lot of reviewers, a lot of car fans drive it, they said, yeah, after a couple laps on the track, it just felt like a lot of fun. And it was just fun. And also at the price point, you're getting the performance of a 2 to $300,000 car, probably 600 horsepower. It feels like a manual and you can really throw it around, drift it and do all sorts of fun stuff with a much lower entry price. And so I was surprised that we didn't see that technology quickly come to the Taycan and other electric sort of sports cars. I think it will eventually. I think it takes time. Also, the sound choice was interesting. They used. They used the exhaust from another Hyundai instead of like licensing something more brawny or powerful or more exciting. But there's clearly something there that I don't. I don't know if the car's selling very well, but it was at least satisfying to the critical eye of Matt Farah, which was interesting. So, yeah, it's funny because our dear friend tj, no matter what Ferrari does, he just hates it. He's just. I haven't. I haven't seen. There has not been a launch. He was sort of pro Luce. He was relative. But he says this is far more embarrassing than the Luche. Yeah. You're saying that's a positive stance. He took a. He took a heretical stance on the Luche. I'm actually the Ferrari that I'm most excited about is that is the street legal version of the 296 challenge. I think that's going to be a hit because that's obviously it's going to be paddles, sure, but internal combustion engine. They're ditching all the hybrid stuff. They should have a version, you know, the really old Model T, like the really Old cars. We had to crank them to start from the front. They should have a virtual version of that. So it's like a fully electric car, 2000 horsepower, 400 mile range, but you can get out a crank from the back of the TR trunk and crank it to start it. That would be very fun. Something like that. But anyways, step in the right direction. Give them some credit. They are partially listening to their customers. I think between the luce and the 12C manual, they're solving their emissions problems. Headed in the right direction. And I do think that the Luce will have been a big enough wake up call because it's something that no one can defend. Okay, the Luce, famously low slung, famously small windows. Should they do a version with huge square windows like this old Land Rover? Do you see this? Was just noticing how bad this has gotten. One of the primary appeals of retro cars is the big old square windows. Are you a fan of this? Is this a discovery? I don't know which one this is, but I was watching an old 90s. Is that not a range? I don't know. I was watching an old 90s. Like, okay, pull up the car there. Comedy or something. Which one? If you click in. Whoa, that is so ridiculous. Why are we building cars where the window sills are at chin level? Why is greenhouse. Why is the greenhouse less than a third of the height of the vehicle? Oh, the greenhouse is the top. Interesting. I've never heard that term. Why is the dot.