Chase Center + Summer Update

This episode is a scheduling announcement before it is anything else. After ten years without a break, the hosts took six weeks off over the summer, and they are explicit that this meant six weeks of not making episodes rather than six weeks away from work: the time went into the September 10 event at Chase Center, the Warriors' arena in downtown San Francisco, run in partnership with JPMorgan Payments. Zuckerberg is named as one of several acts, with the rest deliberately withheld.

The commercial detail is unusually concrete for a podcast promo, and it is the most checkable claim in the episode: two prices, "$100 for floor seats" and "$50 for everywhere else", described as all-in and inclusive of Ticketmaster fees. Gilbert goes further and asserts this is "the cheapest event that has ever been put on ticket price wise at the Chase Center", while conceding it is "definitely not the cheapest event production budget wise". The pricing is framed as an access decision rather than a revenue one — the stated goal is that as many listeners as possible can attend.