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Incredibly bad timing for whiskey has prices way down… Is Whiskey the next Nvidia?Anthropic is renting Elon’s data centers... Musk’s enemy-of-his-enemy is now his buddy.“Netflix Is A Joke” festival took over LA… because media’s most profitable genre is hilarious.Plus, the biggest ...  Show more

What happens if ChatGPT takes over your stock portfolio?... We got the receipts.Uber and Disney just told us the same thing… They told us the 2026 summer travel trend.Familiar is a new Furry-robo-tamagotchi pet… created by Colin Angle, founder of iRobot.Plus, Christopher Nolan dr ...  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

On today's show: we're ... venting.We at Planet Money are an ensemble show – each with different curiosities and styles. But we recently realized many of us have something in common: We're annoyed consumers.So we're going to get ranty ... but then try to understand the people ann ...  Show more

Ever wondered why you can buy fresh Peruvian blueberries in the dead of winter? The answer, surprisingly, is tied to cocaine. Today on the show, we look at how the War on Drugs led to an American trade policy and a foreign aid initiative that won us blueberries all year round. An ...  Show more