Apr 23
Meta Surveils Employees to Train its AI & What Happens When You Give Cocaine to Salmon?
Episode 830: Neal and Toby chat about Meta’s plans to track employee mouse movements and keystrokes to help train its AI models. Next, Anthropic’s all new powerful Mythos model has some unwelcomed users. Then, a new Looney Tunes film just dropped a trailer, even though it was nea ... Show More
28m 30s
Mar 2023
⚾🌭 “BoringBall” — Baseball’s biz strategy. Twitter’s April Fools. Egg-flation’s #1 winner.
Major League Baseball has 10x as many games as the NFL, but half the revenue — so it just made three rule changes to fix “The Boring Problem.” Tomorrow, Twitter is yanking away blue check marks from all its legacy famous people, but can Elon go from “free” to “fee?” And we got an ... Show More
19m 58s
Jul 2024
📺 “$4.7B for NFL fans” — NFL Ticket’s lawsuit loss. Grindr’s AI wingman. The Return of the Billboard.
The NFL just lost an antitrust lawsuit over how you watch the NFL… so fans are getting paid.Every dating app stock is down except for Grindr… because Grindr’s got an AI wingman.And Billboards are back, baby… we’ll tell you how in an age of digital ads, Billboards are big.Plus, if ... Show More
23m 23s
Jun 2024
👨❤️💋👨 “Sleeping in Seattle” — Hollywood’s kiss-less movies. Costco’s Chevy car deal. Roaring Kitty’s GameStop return.
Hollywood is in a “Kissing Recession” — Love scenes are disappearing, we’ll tell ya why.Costco struck an electric car deal with GM — Because Costco is the biggest US car dealership.And Roaring Kitty showed his face again to pump Gamestop — But reality has resumed control.Plus, Ic ... Show More
22m 33s
Sep 2025
🚛 “Sloppy Soundtracks” — Spotify’s AI purge. NFL’s 3 huge sales. Starbucks’ McDonald moment. + Anthropologie’s $1K rock.
Starbucks is decaffeinating itself, closing 400 stores… but there’s hope for Starbs at McDonald’s.3 NFL teams just sold at record prices... They sold to Private Equity, but what about fan shares?Spotify deleted 75M AI songs, while AI slop is slowing your work day… Welcome to the ... Show More
22m 56s
May 2024
🫠 “Promotion, Pay Raise, or Taco Tuesday?” — The secret to job satisfaction. Netflix’s NFL Christmas gift. Wayfair’s 1st megastore.
Job satisfaction just hit a record high 62.7% in America, but it also revealed a strange paradox — More Americans prefer company culture than a promotion or pay raise.Netflix just gave itself the biggest Christmas gift of all: NFL football games for the next 3 Christmases — But N ... Show More
23m 18s
Jul 2024
🍯 “How to make $1 Billion” — Steve Ballmer’s money story. Electric Bikes’ Gen Z surge. Citibank’s criminal ATM.
Bill Gates’ former assistant is now wealthier than Bill Gates… it’s a lesson on risk, reward, and makin’ money.E-Bikes are surging thanks to Gen Z… because they don’t sell bikes, they sell freedom.Citibank is now the top bank of money-laundering… thanks to Citi’s (allegedly) crim ... Show More
24m 2s
Episode 396: Neal and Toby discuss the NFL owners’ vote that could be allowing private equity firms take ownership of teams, the last major sports league to do so in the US. Then, Philadelphia is going against the national trend in evictions. Houston has hit a major roadblock in their push for a car-less commute. NYC is struggling with rising fare evasion th ... Show More
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The news to know for Friday, June 6, 2025!</span></p> <p data-start="0" data-end="176"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">What happened between President Trump and Elon Musk? Their former alliance has now turned into a full-blown, public f ... Show More
