🐟 “Tuna Tuesday” — Sushi Carving surge. Sam Altman’s AI movie. Red-Dye Diesel’s drama. +Warren Buffett YouTube
October 7, 2026
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5 min readTuna Tuesday, Red-Dye Diesel, and the Sam Altman Movie Amazon Didn’t Want
Warren Buffett, the 96-year-old legendary investor who famously reads 500 pages a day, now spends two hours before bed watching YouTube — 1950s TV commercials, Glenn Close movie clips, 50-minute videos of freight trains rolling down railroad tracks, and Uzbekistan's version of America's Got Talent. His last big investment before retiring was in YouTube's owner Google. Charlie Munger’s nighttime ritual was simpler: a chocolate chip cookie, a glass of milk, a good book, and one episode of Seinfeld.
Restaurants Are Carving 200-Pound Tunas to Fill Slow Nights
The restaurant business model is broken. Rising labor, food, and energy costs collide with diners' unwillingness to pay more. One Minnesota restaurant took prices off the menu entirely and switched to pay-what-you-want — and made more money because customers voluntarily paid above the old prices. Another restaurant offered a dice roll at the end of meals: roll a six, your meal is free, a creative way to offer roughly 17% off while generating buzz.
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- 1 🐟 “Tuna Tuesday” — Sushi Carving surge. Sam Altman’s AI movie. Red-Dye Diesel’s drama. +Warren Buffett YouTube
- 2 (00:00) **Show Open & Teaser** - Nick and Jack introduce the episode with three business stories: public tuna carvings, red-dye diesel legalization, and the Sam Altman movie
- 3 (01:05) **Warren Buffett's YouTube Obsession** - The legendary investor's surprising late-night viewing habits revealed
- 4 (05:30) **Story 1: Public Tuna Carvings Save Sushi Restaurants** - Restaurants are using theatrical fish butchering as a profitable event to fill slow nights
- 5 (08:01) **The Economics of Tuna Carving** - How restaurants profit from the spectacle despite the logistics
- 6 (09:22) **Tuna Tuesday Strategy** - Why restaurants schedule carvings on slow nights rather than weekends
- 7 (10:28) **Story 2: Red-Dye Diesel Drama** - The president legalized red-dyed diesel for everyone to combat record fuel prices
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Show Notes
Restaurants are loving 1,000-pound Tuna Carvings… cause Tuna Tuesday saves biz models.
Diesel prices have officially doubled, but there’s 1 diesel you gotta know… Red-dye Diesel.
The new Sam Altman movie is so controversial, Amazon dropped it… we’ll tell ya why.
Plus, the biggest new YouTube stan?... It’s Warren Buffett (and he loves “Uzbekistan Got Talent”).
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