Alana

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[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

This tile guy started a concrete coatings business three months ago and he'll do $69,000 this month.

$60k his first full month. and on track for 7 figures

Startup cost?
Under $1,000 if you rent the grinder. Maybe $25K if you buy everything new.

Profit margins? Yes, Thanks for asking.
Over 50%.

This is just garage floor coatings. Nobody NEEDS their concrete coated. It's a luxury product.

But the types of people who want it have money and they're not price sensitive.

Mike charges $8 per square foot. His all-in materials cost is $2.06 per square foot.

A typical two car garage is about 700 square feet. That's $5,600 in revenue and over $3,400 in profit per day.

One crew can do a job in 10 hours. Sometimes less.

Oh and he learned how to do this by watching YouTube videos.

His first job was his own garage.

Then he told people at church he was starting this thing. Booked three jobs that week just from word of mouth.

From there it's been Meta ads at $30-100 per lead, 20% close rate, and booked solid ever since.

In this episode Mike:
- Breaks down the exact unit economics and profit margins
- Shows how he reverse-engineered his pricing model
- Tells me why Facebook ads crush Google for this business
- Gives the three-material stack he uses and why he picked it
- Explains why the bar is so low in blue collar businesses
- Walks through how to start this for under $1,000

Mike's on track to do a million dollars his first year.

It might be one of the best times ever to be AI savvy and in blue collar work. Mike is proof.

Full episodes in the first comment below

[Alana @awexy]

A Note Share https://t.co/enpwd2DCeZ

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Hurry and get your own 20oz Shat Box filled with delicious goodness! 😋
👉🏻 https://t.co/NJErzXSfWw

[Alana @awexy]

Serial hobby enthusiasts, this one's for you. https://t.co/d1ZavNP5FY via @theSkimm

[Alana @awexy]

A Closer Look at the Real-Life Inspiration in Netflix’s ‘Wayward’ https://t.co/RTZ1XwrcrK via @thr

[Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc]

After a survey in the Summer of 1990 suggested that teens thought McDonald's didn't care about them, their marketing team identified New Kids On The Block as the "hottest teen property of the year" and developed and produced this cup and poster set in "mere days."

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

We found the worst World Cup hat

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1989, Rick Moranis did one of the greatest monologues in SNL history without saying one word 😂🔥

[Martin Turnbull, author @TurnbullMartin]

In 2021, I announced that one of the original signs from the Garden of Allah Hotel had been bought by a guy with experience neon restoration. Today he sent me these photos after he had finished filling the tubing with 80-year-old neon gas.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

World of dumplings

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Paul McCartney reveals 10 songs that soundtracked his life:

10. John Lennon - “Imagine”
09. The Beach Boys - “God Only Knows”
08. Bob Dylan - “Tambourine Man"
07. Prince - “Kiss”
06. The Human League - “Don’t You Want Me”
05. The Kinks - “You Really Got Me”
04. Elvis - “All Shook Up”
03. Buddy Holly - “That’ll Be The Day"
02. Chuck Berry - “Maybelline”
01. Gene Vincent - “Be-bop-a-Lula”

(via @BBCRadio2)

📸: MJ Kim

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Bryan Johnson spent $2 million a year for five years trying not to die. He's tested longevity drugs, gene therapies, plasma transfusions, stem cell injections, the works. His final list of what actually works is mostly stuff your grandma would have told you for free.

Johnson is the most measured human alive. Hundreds of blood tests, 30 doctors on staff, his own brand of olive oil. The 41 tips he just sent his "immortal nieces and nephews": sleep 8 hours, walk after meals, see a friend weekly, lift heavy things, floss.

Researchers estimate 80 to 90% of his health gains come from those free habits, not from the gene therapy he flew to Honduras for or the 100-plus daily supplements he takes. Johnson says the same thing himself.

Harvard ran a study on relationships that lasted 85 years and followed 724 men from their teens to their nineties. The result: how long you live depends more on the quality of your relationships than on your genes, your IQ, or your social class. A separate study of 3.4 million people found loneliness raises your risk of dying early by about the same amount as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Tip #20, see at least one friend once a week, is doing real work.

Tip #11 says walk after meals. A 2025 study found that a 10-minute walk right after eating lowers your blood sugar spike more than a 30-minute walk done any other time of day. The spike is what wears down your heart and arteries over decades.

Tip #13 is lift heavy things. A study of about 2 million people found the strongest third had a 31% lower risk of dying than the weakest. You don't need a gym for this. Carrying groceries, lifting your kid, doing pushups in your living room, it all counts.

Sleep dominates the list with about a dozen tips. The data: under 7 hours of sleep raises your risk of dying by 14%, over 9 hours raises it by 34%. Seven to eight is the sweet spot.

Johnson dropped one of his most-hyped pills, rapamycin, this year because of side effects. He keeps simplifying. Even the guy who hired 30 doctors is landing on the boring stuff.

The longevity industry is worth around $80 billion. The advice with the strongest evidence costs zero.

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

This guy makes six figures driving people across a bridge they're too scared to drive over themselves.

He charges $40 cash. 10 to 30 clients a day. Some have been paying him daily for years.

He meets them at a truck weigh station, hops in their car, drives them across in four minutes, and gets driven back by his assistant to do it again.

The alternative route takes four hours through Baltimore.

Here's what's wild... and possibly a little concerning:
He said Airline pilots have used his service.

His wife even makes custom eye masks that say "I hate this bridge."

Steven Eskew has been running this business for years and has made tens of thousands of trips. I'll let you do that math.

There's a business for everything. I promise you.

[brianna @bkoerth]

i’ve had enough of corporate slop, matchbox eye cleanse:

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

Uno is teaming up with the vacation rental company Vrbo to launch a series of game-themed getaways across the country.

A Los Feliz house was decked out with Uno-themed décor, so you can host the ultimate game night!

Rentals are first-come, first-served and just $4 a night. They are available for a limited time, so grab your spot before someone calls Uno on your dream vacation. 😜

[NBC Los Angeles @NBCLA]

A Los Angeles-based animal rescue is urgently seeking responsible fosters willing to open up their homes to a dog in need. https://t.co/ioYbuXfvYr

[Rob Petrozzo @robpetrozzo]

The reason every startup has merch is because Apple perfected it from 1984-1987.

Now it’s all just logos on shirts (🗑️)

(Below: 1984 Mac M0001 Note Cube)

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

Gatorade is pulling artificial dyes linked to hyperactivity in children:

- Red 40
- Yellow 5
- Blue 1

Replacing them with:

- Turmeric
- Butterfly pea flower
- Algae-based colorings

This is a win considering Gatorade owns 60% of the US sports drink market, but it's not all flavors, and other harmful ingredients remain.

Find the cleanest sports drinks and electrolytes on the Oasis app.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Spirit planes are heading to their resting spot in Arizona!

~70% of the world's stored aircraft are in Arizona, about 4,000 planes

It has hot, dry desert climate – the ideal conditions to store, maintain and dismantle airplanes... and land is cheap