Georgia McCann put Prez Thomas on the next generation NYC cast in Next Gen NYC Season 2 Episode 2. She called him her new boyfriend and said he is not in crypto, but crypto-adjacent. That split defines the scene: a public relationship reveal, and a job description that sounds cleaner on TV than it does in practice.
Episode 2’s six-month timeline
Prez said they met at a dinner party around six months ago, then called the relationship “this beautiful, fiery romance, which we're in the beginnings of.” McCann had already posted a blurry Instagram photo of them kissing in October 2025, so Episode 2 did not introduce the relationship from nothing; it put a face and a title on it.
McCann also told viewers, “I actually know what my boyfriend is doing this time around.” Her line lands because she pairs it with a direct contrast to Omar Zaki, and because she says Prez is one week apart from her in age and a New Yorker born in the same city as she was. This is less about romance wallpaper than about McCann drawing a sharper line around who she is dating now.
FactMachine and the betting pitch
McCann described Thomas as the chief marketing officer for FactMachine, and she explained the business as “a, like, betting platform, and it's opinion-based.” She added that it runs a daily poll and can ask questions such as, “Is Mamdani's wife hot? Yes or no?” The phrasing matters because it places him in a market built around opinion rather than outcome.
FactMachine bills itself as an opinion market through which users can “wager not on what will happen, but what people believe.” McCann said the company got a lot of funding from crypto places because Prez used to kind of be in crypto, while she also insisted, “He’s not in crypto, he’s crypto-adjacent.” For a viewer, that is the real business hook: this is not a generic entrepreneur intro, but a look at a marketing executive inside a crypto-fed betting idea that still needs explanation.
High tea and hand-washing
During a date over high tea in the July 1 episode, McCann asked Thomas if he had gone to manners school while growing up. He answered, “First of all, being a little bit of a slob is kind of cool,” and later said he does not wash his hands as much as he used to. McCann matched him line for line: “Thanks, that's why we're so perfect. You don't wash your hands; I don't wash my hands.”
That exchange gives the relationship its sharpest on-screen texture. McCann says she knows what her boyfriend is doing this time around, but the work still sits in a gray zone between crypto culture and wagering, which is exactly why the introduction plays as more than a cast update. It gives viewers a first read on the person behind the title, and the one question left is what FactMachine is really building beyond the show’s brief description.
