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David Protein got Bella Hadid to eat ice cream on a yacht… It’s the Breadcrumb Launch Strategy.Robinhood’s AI will trade stocks for you autonomously… and it can do your shopping.The Pope says AI is the new “Tower of Babel”... but he also wants to delete GDP.Plus, men are doing bu ...  Show more

Ferrari’s 1st electric car was mostly hated... but we think they win even if they sell zero.Spotify will let you create remixes with AI… That’s not AI Slop, it’s Slap (we’ll explain the diff).Shibumi disrupted the umbrella, selling $127M of beach blockers… and now it’s banned.Plu ...  Show more

Memecoins are having a moment. Everyone from Hawk Tuah to President Donald Trump to animal influencers like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have been turned into cryptocurrency. But what are the costs of all the hype?On today's show — a modern parable. How an orphaned baby rodent became ...  Show more

In the past couple years, demand has gone wild for drugs like Ozempic – and its cousins, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. For people who had never been able to lose weight before, suddenly the numbers on the scale were plummeting. And everybody wanted to get their hands on them. N ...  Show more

It's that time of year again! Our annual year-end tradition of checking in on the stories we've reported and the people we met along the way.We'll hear from a Hollywood strike captain who tried to pull off one last job, an update from the data detective trying to uncover the trut ...  Show more

Ba-dee-yah! Say do you remember? Ba-dee-yah! Questions in September!That's right - it's time for Listener Questions!Every so often, we like to hear from listeners about what's on their minds, and we try to get to the bottom of their economic mysteries. On today's show, we have qu ...  Show more