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Dec 2023
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Google's AI Redo to Challenge ChatGPT & ...

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Episode 208: Neal and Toby explain if Google's new AI 'Gemini' will be able to compete with ChatGPT. Plus McDonald's is making big waves; bringing back the snack wrap and planning to open over 9,000 stores in the coming years. Neal shares his favorite numbers including why Taylor Swift was TIME's person of the year and why Tom Petty's streams are up thanks to GTA 6. Also, women's sports have never been bigger and what are the biggest foods supposed to be for 2024? Finally why a woman who assaulted a Chipotle worker was punished by... working at the restaurant.

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