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It's time for bookmarked some of the stories that caught our eye this week.

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And, uh, I'm going to go first. Oh, wow.

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You're probably first just playing in the ground.

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Okay. Uh, here's a story that I found in the

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Washington Post. And, uh, here's here's the line to get

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us started here. It's a good time to be in the bunker

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because we've got a lot of undercover business.

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Bunker business. We've talked a lot about our social

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intelligence, and there's this sense that the people who are pioneering this

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in making a lot of money off of it are also building bunkers in case things go

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south. So Mark Zuckerberg has this, like 1400

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acre estate in Hawaii. Uh, other types of bunker included.

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And I didn't realize that. And so it's a fascinating look here in

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this Washington Post piece, um, at what these wealthy and worried billionaires

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are looking for. Yes, it's amenities like you want to

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have, you know, maybe a meditation room. Oh, goodness.

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So you want to enjoy it. You want to enjoy the time when the

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world is falling apart. Can we get a treadmill and get a

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journalism business? Yes.

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Lisa needs a treadmill and an ample supply of protein snacks.

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Thank you. Maybe like one of those little hamster

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feeders. Just the protein comes out for Lisa.

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Yes, we have these, um, during the Cold War, we're worried about what would

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happen if you see one of the great writers, and I think that the thinking

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is were there to be a nuclear attack, you'd have to be in one of these places

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for like two weeks. The radiation would subside

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sufficiently, and we're not dealing with that threat in the same way anymore.

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It has to do with like what might happen to the grid.

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And so part of constructing these things, which can cost many hundreds of

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thousands, millions of dollars, is how long you have to stay down there.

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And they have to be bigger based on how much food and supplies you have to have

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down there as well. You don't have one.

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You're not building a bunker in my tiny apartment, Central Park.

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No. But look, growing up out west, there's a

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lot of preppers. And this has been a thing for a long

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time in Western states, but it's less bunker related and more just being able

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to be off the grid. But maybe now they're getting younger.

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I don't know, it's been it's been a while since I checked in on the

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preppers. Before we go to one of you just want to

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know Vivo's X point shared survival community.

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Built from 575 concrete bunkers at a former Army munitions depot in South

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Dakota. You could lease a place there if you

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wanted to, an unfinished 20 200 square foot bunker for 99 years, for about

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$55,000, 99 years, 99 years. Or you can buy one with land for about

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75. So we're subscription modeling our

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bunkers now. Yeah.

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You know, you don't even know me. You know, I hope you live a long life,

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Christina. But I think a 99 year lease is going to

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be more than adequate. It's good enough anyway.

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Bunker's popular. All right.

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Excellent. I'm going to claim the next one because.

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Related to his. If that's okay.

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Okay, good. All right, so we're talking about losing

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power. Natural disasters.

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The grid going down. What comes to mind if I say waffle House

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and next to you. Oh, that's the weather.

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I know right. You covered under.

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Well, you heard governor DeSantis talking about it.

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And in presser he said the waffle House is open.

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But, you know, he did say it. So this is an actual tool.

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We use it. We report, but FEMA uses it.

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Um, it's it's started by Craig Fugate, who was the female administrator when

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they were looking for, you know, what was open, what was operating.

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He noticed that the Waffle Houses were staying open in our global audience.

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That was a waffle House. Christina.

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Waffle. Oh, how does one describe a waffle

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House? If you are unfamiliar with the YouTube

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fight videos of waffle House, I don't know where you've been, but, um, it is a

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breakfast place, a diner. It is not a lot of frills, but it's a

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counter, usually in the southeast or in the southeast.

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Uh, I don't know the answer to that. I know that they're in Texas, and it's

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always a dry place to play with right off, but I used to drive from Colorado

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to Texas. We would always stop at the waffle

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House. They're open mostly 24 hours a day.

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You can get a hot meal for a good price. And this is something.

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So they were staying open when communities were hit with hurricanes,

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bad weather and and emergency responders started noticing this and tracking the

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status of the Waffle Houses because that tells you about the community.

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So if it's yellow they have a limited menu.

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If it's a green dot, it means they're serving a full menu, which indicates

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minimal damage to the surrounding area. There's a map of the chain's 1900

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locations. David Gura concentrated in the southeast

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and Mid-Atlantic. I was held up at gunpoint at a waffle

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House. Wait, what?

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Are you serious? I'm sorry.

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Come on. Get in there.

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I mean, for the crews. It's the only place I've been held up at

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gunpoint. Are you?

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Did they get you some? Okay?

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No. Two guys came in, was right off, and we

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found out afterward. I mean, it was a startling moment as

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they came around and got all our cell phones.

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Uh, not mine. Didn't get mine.

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Um, that they just been hitting all of these places a lot, like Exit by Exit.

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Because, you know, I live in North Carolina, you'd have them every few

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exits. And that was like a routine for weeks.

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They were doing it just like, I don't know.

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Learning something new about having, you know, where every day it's my own waffle

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House. That's like the toughest story of any of

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us. And it came from David Graham, so I

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didn't mean to bring us down. No kidding.

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You look like you got street cred. I had no idea.

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That's why I'm always angling for. So I've derailed a man who I think you

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know, walks his dog in a blazer. Yeah, well, that's street correct.

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Who's late is late night. That's amazing.

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All right. I'm glad everybody was okay.

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Yeah, we're all good. All right.

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David. Good.

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Oh, my gosh. Now.

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And I forget it. I'm going to the Chicago Marathon.

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Those people are running right now as we speak.

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As we speak, they are running all the miles.

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Um, so these are elite runners, right? They do all the things.

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They get the top coaches, top equipment, um, they run in, like, all these

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different kind of atmospheres. But there's this one guy, his name is

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Vinny Mauri. He.

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This is in the Wall Street Journal. He's a 25 year old breakout star from

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Ohio. Okay.

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In April, he won Toledo's Glass City Marathon.

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He finished in two hours and five minutes, 54 seconds.

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Now, here's what's different about him. He is self coach and he runs on a

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treadmill at Planet Fitness. Unbelievable.

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And that is all he did. I saw this.

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This is this guy. I said something about this.

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I mean, you think Planet Fitness was at 25 bucks a month?

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Maybe. Yeah.

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In 1999, my daughter was doing lots of purple, but he runs it, like,

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constantly. And that's what he does because Chicago

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winters are tough. He's indoor there.

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And then he just says, you know what? He watches YouTube videos.

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He calls his friends and he just runs nonstop.

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Good luck to him. Good luck to a friend of the show, Phil

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Crowther of the AP. I believe he's out on Earth Day as well,

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and so we'll have to see how they all do.

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We have one more producer's pick only 30s to do it.

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30s oh my gosh. Okay, so this was a tweet from Prunella.

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Yes. Okay.

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She said, everyone wants to tell me the Great Office pantry is.

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But after the Bloomberg pantry, nothing surprises me.

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This was her tweet. She actually did a summer internship

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here at Bloomberg Markets Resources of a small regional.

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And I think this is her. Yeah, she's a rotator on the show like

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this because of our Bloomberg pantry. But so many people Myles Miller, Erin

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Burnett, Pat Kiernan, they all responded because they've all been to the pantry.

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All right. Well we're going to visit that shortly

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after we leave you. Thank you for joining us uncovered this

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weekend.

Interactive Summary

This episode covers a variety of interesting stories including the rise of luxury bunker building among the wealthy, the use of the Waffle House Index by FEMA to gauge disaster impact, the unconventional training methods of marathon runner Vinny Mauri, and a nostalgic discussion about the legendary Bloomberg office pantry.

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