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The ice cream shop that makes money when it's cold
28 Wishes sells ice cream in Los Angeles. Below 70°F, sales fall about 20%. The weather is out of their hands. Rent isn't.
So the owners started putting about $20 a day into Kalshi weather markets, taking the cold side. The days that keep customers away now pay something back.
This is hedging. Big companies have done it for decades, buying protection against bad weather, fuel spikes and rising rates. It used to take a broker, a trading desk, and an order size no corner shop could meet.
Kalshi opens it up. Contracts on weather, fuel prices, inflation, tariffs and regulation, starting at a few dollars. Take a position on the outcome that would hurt you. If it hits, the payout softens it. If it doesn't, the contract expires and the good month was the point.
You know, sometimes it's the unexpected moments that remind us what really matters.
Yesterday was one of them.
Vice President JD Vance was speaking to a crowd in Nebraska when a woman suddenly had a medical emergency.
Everything stopped.
Vance called for a doctor and asked everyone to stay calm while first responders did their jobs.
Then, instead of simply filling the time or continuing his speech, he asked the crowd to do something together.
Pray.
And hundreds of people joined him.
Afterward, he actually left the stage and went into the crowd to check on the woman himself.
Thankfully, she was okay.
I don't know about you, but I love seeing moments like this.
Not because of politics.
Because of people.
For a few minutes, nobody cared about the speech.
Nobody cared about the reason they were gathered there.
There was a person who needed help.
So people stopped.
Doctors and first responders stepped in.
People nearby tried to help.
And a room full of Americans prayed for a woman most of them had probably never met.
There's something pretty powerful about that.
Maybe We Need More of This
We spend a lot of time talking about everything dividing us.
Politics.
Religion.
Culture.
Race.
Where we live.
What we believe.
Pick a subject and somebody will tell you why we're supposed to be angry at one another over it.
But underneath all that noise, I still believe most Americans want many of the same basic things.
We love our families.
We want our kids to be okay.
We want our neighbors to be safe.
And when we see another human being hurting, most of us still want to help.
Sometimes we just need to be reminded of it.
Yesterday, a room full of strangers was reminded.
So was I.
Pay Attention
I've been thinking a lot lately about how easy it is to move through life on autopilot.
We've all got somewhere to be.
Work to finish.
Bills to pay.
Problems to solve.
Phones buzzing.
Another thing on the schedule.
Another goal we're chasing.
And if we're not careful, we can become so focused on our own lives that we stop noticing the people around us.
That's why moments like this matter.
They remind us to look up.
To notice.
To care.
To pray.
To lend a hand when somebody needs one.
And sometimes just to stop what we're doing for a few minutes and be there for another person.
It doesn't have to be complicated.
Maybe America could use a little less outrage and a little more of that.
A little more faith.
A little more compassion.
A little more looking out for one another.
That's still America too.
And it's the America I choose to believe in.
Have a great weekend.
God bless,
