🏈 “Coach Buffett” — NFL’s investing strategy. Disgusting Deli AI. America vs. Canada. +PhermoneMaxxers

September 9, 2026

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“Like an alien tried to make a pizza image without understanding the pizza core principle.” That is how one chief technology officer described the new visual horror plaguing America’s delis and bodegas: AI-generated menu photos that look just realistic enough to trigger disgust. That image of a burrito with radioactively bubbling cheese or a shrimp whose tail loops around to eat its own head? That is model collapse in the wild, and it is the most visible symptom of a problem eating the AI industry from the inside.

This episode of The Best One Yet covers three major developments: the NFL’s Warren Buffett-inspired investing strategy, an escalating personal trade war between the U.S. and Canada, and the phenomenon of “AI collapse” visible in disgusting deli menus. Here is what happened and why it matters.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:45) **NFL Kicks Off: The Rams' Warren Buffett Strategy** - The LA Rams are the heavy favorites to win the Super Bowl, and their general manager uses a value-investing approach inspired by Warren Buffett.
2 (11:01) **Trade War 2.0: America vs. Canada** - The US and Canada are in a new, personal trade war with tit-for-tat tariffs, making it the second country (after China) to retaliate against the US.
3 (17:18) **The Gross AI Menu Trend & "Model Collapse"** - Restaurants are using AI to generate menu images, resulting in creepy, disgusting food pictures that reveal a major risk in AI: model collapse.
4 (00:45) **NFL Season Preview & Super Bowl on a 3-Day Weekend** - The NFL season kicks off, with the Super Bowl falling on President's Day weekend for the first time ever.
5 (02:56) **Pheromone Maxxing: The Trend of Men Ditching Deodorant** - A new trend called "pheromone maxxing" sees young men skipping showers and deodorant to supposedly attract women, but the science says it just makes them smell bad.
6 (00:00) **Show Open & Mystery Tease** - The hosts tease a surprise interview from a nuclear reactor in Texas, promising more details next week.
7 (03:03) **Ad Break: Monarch & ZipRecruiter** - Hosts pitch Monarch for financial tracking and ZipRecruiter for hiring, using personal anecdotes.

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Show Notes

The LA Rams are Super Bowl favorites… because the GM learned from Warren Buffett.

Deli menus are populated with gross AI-gen images… because of AI inbreeding.

America is at war (economically) with Canada… and we can see it all in one private jet brand.

Plus, young men aren’t showering… they’re “Pheromone-maxxing.”

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