🏖️ “1st Time in Puerto” — Song of Summer, by AI. Salt & Straw’s $200M ice cream. The WFH Hangover. +Elon’s prediction rate

The podcast opens with a viral AI-generated song, 'Puerto Rico,' already dominating charts and TikTok with five million views—crafted not by a musician, but by a YouTube creator named Sax Boy Billy using a secret AI prompt. The episode reveals that while the song's catchy 80s-style melody was engineered for virality, it's built on a legal gray area: Suno, the AI music platform behind it, is being sued for training its models on 61,000 copyrighted songs without permission. This raises a critical takeaway: your AI prompt is a business secret worth protecting like a cheat code. Next, Salt & Straw, the Portland ice cream brand with 900 flavors in 15 years, is up for sale for $200 million. Despite serving only dessert, its revenue per location rivals fast-food giants, thanks to a predictable monthly calendar of wild, themed flavors—from bug-flavored pastrami to buckwheat blue cheese pear crumble. The secret? Use the calendar as your creative canvas. Finally, a Federal Reserve study flips the script on the AI job crisis narrative: young grads aren't losing jobs to AI, but to remote work. The data shows remote workers aged 22–27 have a 50% higher unemployment rate than in-person workers—because mentorship and informal learning vanish in Zoom calls. The solution? Show up in person. The episode closes with Elon Musk’s real success rate: only 19% of his public goals were met on time, underscoring the danger of overpromising in tech.