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The hosts discuss three eye-catching non-market stories: competitive subway speedrunning on San Francisco's BART, the trend of schools assigning fewer full novels, and an AI-themed bar in China's tech district that reflects China's open-source AI startup culture. - Competitive subway speedrunning is centered on San Francisco's BART system. - A 17-year-old is attempting a sub-five-hour BART speedrun with a bike. - Schools are assigning fewer novels amid teaching-to-the-test pressure and ChatGPT use. - The AGI Bar in Beijing and Shanghai has robot bartenders and attracts AI startup founders. - The China AI bar story highlights China's open-source approach in frontier AI models. - No explicit investable securities or market trades are discussed.