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Google Search Gets AI Makeover & Pizza Hut’s Retro Revival
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Google Search Gets AI Makeover & Pizza Hut’s Retro Revival
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Consider this comparison. PwC data found the percentage of CEOs who report revenue gains or cost reductions from AI is almost equal to the percentage who say they're still stuck. What separates these two groups? PwC points to a clarity issue. Even for CEOs, it's hard to tell what's AI hype, what's reality, and where this tech can make a tangible difference. Learn where AI can actually make an impact and what successful adoption looks like at pwc.com us brewai that's pwc.com/us/brewai good
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morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neal Freyman.
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And I'm Toby Howell.
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Today, Amazon is removing support for old Kindles. Can it not e read the room?
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Then Google just changed search forever. It's Wednesday, May 20th. Let's ride.
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Good morning and happy Wednesday. Two more days until the long weekend. We got this. So you've heard of girl dinner, but do you know about boy kibble? It's the new food trend taking over social media. The Wall Street Journal reported. Essentially, it's super customizable bowl slop, typically anchored by ground beef and rice as a base than any veggies and sauce combos you want to throw on top. It's often accompanied on the side by another big trend on social media, cucumber salad. Gen Z boys are the primary consumers of boy kibble, but plenty of women have embraced it too. Toby, what's this obsession with a dish that looks like something you'd feed your dog?
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I'm just going to tell you. My fiancee is going out of town for her bachelorette today in a bowl of lightly seasoned beef and rice is calling my name in the future. Here's my contribution to the boy kibble discourse. If you put a runny egg on it and any sort of herb, it's okay. White rice and beef. Kind of sad, kind of boring, but white rice, beef and egg, and some green onions. You're nearly to a bulgogi bowl at that point. But the reason why I'm team Boy Cable and the reason why so many people are team Boy Kibble is it's efficient. You don't have to think about things. It is budget friendly. It's macro friendly as well. It's very easy to know what you're eating when you just reduce the amount of ingredients. So I am team boy kibble for life. And we'll be indulging at a later date this week. And now a word from our sponsor LinkedIn ads. Neil, did you ever invest in something that just didn't live up to the hype.
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Spend $250 your first campaign on LinkedIn ads and get a $250 credit for the next one. Just go to LinkedIn.com/MBD. That's LinkedIn.com/MBD. Terms and conditions apply. Google search is getting a makeover. The blue links are out and AI is in, and the biggest change to its search box since it launched over 25 years ago. When you search for Morning Brew Daily's latest episode, you won't be greeted by a wall of links anymore, at least not in the top slot. Instead, you'll increasingly enter an interactive experience that's become familiar to AI chat bot users, the company announced at its IO conference yesterday. The changes will show up in minor ways, like a dynamically expanding search box to accommodate longer natural language requests, or in more major ways, like being able to upload photographs and videos directly into your queries, then ask follow up questions all within the main search page. Eventually, Google wants you, the human, to stop searching altogether and instead AI agents could stay on top of which West Village restaurants have 5pm reservations available, or monitor the stock market and send you alerts so you can afford that West Village reservation. Neil to sum it up, Google no longer wants to help you search and navigate the Internet. If possible, it brings the answers right to you without ever having to leave the cocoon of its AI generated experience. At the scale that Google operates. It's not an exaggeration to say this will absolutely change how we interact with and even conceive of the Internet forever.
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I think that's fair. So why is Google doing this? Simply put, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, quote, when people use our AI powered features in search, they use search more. And Google's making more money than ever from advertising via search. Last year, Google's ad clicks were up 6% and it charged 7% more for each click. The company's profit per year has more than doubled since 2022 to $132 billion. Remember when chatbot was released in November 2022. Everyone was calling this the end of Google Search, but it's managed to lean into AI and is now making more money than ever. And now it's completely changing the way we use the Internet toward artificial intelligence.
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I think that on the daily basis of searching, it's not going to be a massive change for what Google has already been doing because we've already gotten those AI overviews. They've some growing pains. Remember it used to be like can you someone search, can I put glue on a piece of pizza? And they're like absolutely, you can make pizza with glue. It's graduated from that level. But where I think the big changes might eventually come are these AI agents that are rolling out later this summer that can are basically a souped up version of Google Alerts. But you can track target topics, you can track the markets, and they can do things for you autonomously in the background as you go about your daily lives. That I think will be a big change. But then the other thing that I think will change everything is Google wants you to build your own mini apps within search itself. So for instance, if I want to do a meal planning app, I can just ask Google to automatically sync it to my Gmail, automatically sync it to my calendar. All within the ecosystem of, of Google. So it just wants you to expand your definition of what search can be into a much broader thing.
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And then on the other side of the equation are publishers or the people who blog and write articles that populate the blue links that have dominated Google search for 25 years. This whole industry, SEO, search engine optimization, where you write articles to rank highly on Google search. And for many this is a lifeblood of the Internet. People posting user generated content, providing information to people that Google search used to be a guide to direct you to those. And with Google AI overviews kind of subsuming the entire search process is that we won't have these blue links anymore and that might kill a lot of companies. So we had the CEO of Conde Nast, one of the biggest publishers in the world. They make Vogue, New Yorker, gq, Bon Appetit, all the biggest magazines. He directed all of his company's brands to operate as if their search traffic to their properties will go to zero. They call it Google Zero because there will be no search traffic going to your website. Now that Google has completely leaned into AI and you can't help but imagine that all of these ad supported websites might completely bite the dust because of Google's changes.
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The question is though, once all the websites can't afford keep the lights on anymore. Once their business models are completely subsumed, where's the information going to come from? Where do you actually train the AI models on? Because already we've run out of training data for these big LLMs. If those websites can no longer afford to keep operating, then it starts to become a chicken or the egg thing. What is the Google AI search actually surfacing anymore? The final thing I want to mention is a lot of people are talking about the fact that there's just too many AI things at Google already. Marquez Brownlee, who is a tech reviewer, said it's genuinely getting difficult to keep track of all the names of the AI products being unveiled in the last hour. Google's unveiled Google Pics, which is not Google Photos Updates to Google Flow Nana Banana Veo Google Anti Gravity Gemini Spark gemini omni gemini 3.5 flash so it seems like we're reaching a tipping point. A lot of people already have reached a tipping point of too much infiltrating too many parts of their lives online. And I think just naming all of those products shows how bad the problem has gotten.
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But one product you might be able to wrap your head around, or might wrap around your head is that Google is bringing back Google Glasses. And not exactly Google Glasses was the this was the other big announcement that Google is going to do these smart glasses coming in the fall with Warby Parker. And it's taking a page out of Meta's book, which has had this very lucrative partnership with Ray Ban for Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses. So we're getting Google Smart Glasses infused with AI and a partnership with Warby Parker coming this fall. Moving on, it's speaking of better It's D Day today. The tech giant will cut 10% of its staff, about 8,000 employees, as part of its full court press to take command of technology's next frontier, artificial intelligence. The move was telegraphed weeks ago by a memo from Janelle Gale, Meta's head of hr. Gail didn't explicitly blame AI for the layoffs, but wrote that the cuts will allow the company to, quote, offset the other investments we are making. It's not exactly a secret what those other investments are. Metta is projected to spend $145 billion this fiscal year on AI infrastructure, including data centers. Gail added, I know this leaves everyone with nearly a month of ambiguity, which is incredibly unsettling. And unsettled might be a generous description for how Meta employees have been feeling lately. According to reports from numerous media outlets, morale at the company is lower than Washington's troops at Valley Forge. Not only did matter signal mass layoffs were coming, but days later, the company announced it would start tracking employees work computer use to train internal AI systems. So for workers, it felt like they were onboarding AI to take over their jobs. And they staged a mini mutiny, voicing their outrage. When the cto, Andrew Bosworth, wrote that employees couldn't opt out of the tracking program, they reportedly littered his message with over 100 angry and surprised emojis. Toby Metta isn't the first tech firm to cut jobs because of AI, but this 10% cut feels like a watershed moment.
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Yeah, we're talking about meta right now, but we could be talking about any number of companies within Silicon Valley at this point, because it really feels like this has been the defining story of 2026. Fewer workers, more AI investment, just leaning out the entire org structure. We talked about coinbase and block reshuffling teams, getting rid of middle managers, trying to compress the layers of the organization. This is the main story of the tech world. And it is so fascinating because there's been such a cultural shift over the last 10, 20 years. The old image of big tech in Silicon Valley was that you won the lottery. If you got a big tech job, it was a little bit more cushy. You were paid very well, your stock options would just rise to infinity. You had free gyms, nap pods, all these great perks. And now it's so much more cutthroat. It feels like you're always on edge. It feels like at any moment I could take your job. You're being surveilled. And it's just such a massive shift from what tech used to be to what it is right now.
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And CEOs are not offering a lot of sympathy. Let's go back to 2022 and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Metta, announced this big year of efficiency push where they did other mass layoffs. They cut 21,000 employees in total over those two years because of perhaps overhiring from the pandemic and two employees. Zuck was very remorseful. He said, I got this wrong and I take responsibility for that. Fast forward to this morning. They're sending. They told everyone to work from home. They're sending an email out at 4am in three different batches to people who will be laid off. Zero apology. Like, this is just completely ruthless right now. Said this is the biggest game in town, is the biggest competition that we as a company will ever fight. And sorry, not sorry.
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Yeah, roughly 110,000 tech workers have been laid off so far in 2026. That's almost to the entire figure from 2025, which was 125,000. The peak was in 2023 when 260,000 plus people were laid off in the tech industry. So it looks like we are on pace to either match or exceed that, which just shows where the vibes are right now in the tech world.
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Up next, Dear owners of Old Candles, Hope you like playing with Legos because your device is about to turn into a brick today. Amazon is going to end support for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 or earlier, according to an announcement made last month. That includes Kindle first generation, Kindle 4, Kindle 5, and the Kindle Paperwhite first generation, along with a bunch more. If you're not sure what kind of Kindle model you have, go to Settings, Device Options and Device Info to find out whether your geriatric e reader will survive the purge. If you have one of the affected devices, your Kindle won't actually turn into a brick. You'll still be able to read all the books you downloaded on it already. However, you won't be able to download any new content on the Kindle and there will be restricted functionality. Needless to say, people who are clinging on to their old Kindles are pretty upset at Amazon about the move. Because Kindles aren't these high tech devices, many folks have kept theirs throughout the years and can't understand why Amazon would pull the plug on them. As one Pittsburgh woman told Reuters about her 15 year old Kindle touch, I've never felt the desire to have another device. It's a part of me, a lifesaver. I fell asleep with it almost every night. So why Toby, why is Amazon killing off these old Kindles?
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Basically Amazon's like, listen guys, these are 14 year old devices and we can't support them forever. We have a limited amount of resources so we're going to devote it more towards new devices and it shows the attitude of most big tech firms when it comes to these older pieces of tech. If they can prematurely end support for them and save a few bucks in the process, they are going to do that. I think of other examples that we've talked about on the show before. Remember the car thing from Spotify? You might not remember it because it is a very niche device, but it was this $90 device that with a big knob that you could plug into your car and it basically lets you do one thing which was help you play Spotify music. They bricked it as well and got a very similar sort of backlash from people who were baffled, like, why you can stop making it, but why do you need to cease supporting functionality for the software? And it brings up this broader debate about what you actually own, because you may own a physical thing, but the software that it runs on is arguably more important than the hardware itself. And just like that, they can pull the rug out from underneath you and make your beloved Kindle a brick, as you described it. So, yes, this is not just a Amazon thing. It's something that you see all across the tech world.
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And one reason why Amazon might be doing this is to get you to buy a newer Kindle. And Amazon does dominate this market. It owns 72% of the E Reader market. What Amazon is doing to people with old Kindles that won't be supported anymore, it's offering a 20% discount that people can apply toward one of their new Kindle models. And you're also getting a $20e book credit that will be automatically applied to your account. But the thing about these old Kindles, they had manual buttons and they just felt like part of the old tech world that was honestly very low tech. And that's why people had them for decades, because they didn't really need to be upgraded. They did one thing which was help you read books without a book, and they did that very well. So that's why people are really clinging on to them and have a soft spot for these old Kindles.
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I love that people are turning off WI Fi and putting it permanently in airplane mode because if it ever connects, then it will update to the new thing. So they're putting it in, you know, the back of their closet that you're saying never connect to, to WI fi going forward, just to keep, you know, the Eden that they currently have within their E reader world. If I'm Amazon, though, you got to know that people have intense, intense feelings towards their Kindle. So just from a PR perspective, yes, maybe it will take some more resources to support this functionality, but in terms of your most passionate readership base, they're definitely Kindle owners. We all know someone who just, like, really, really loves your Kindle, maybe even a little bit too much. So interesting PR play from Amazon, but from a business perspective, you can see why they're doing it. All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with a story about Pizza Hut right after this.
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Toby, how's your bone density these days?
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Well, according to my doctor, it's not very good.
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That's not how air quotes work, but maybe you should try Flav cities all in one protein smoothies. Not only do they have 10 grams of collagen good for those bones, but they're also made with real whole food ingredients, 25 grams of protein, and functional mushrooms.
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They've got delicious flavors like mint chocolate, banana bread, brownie batter and more that are as good as any dessert.
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Head to shop flavcity.com to get your protein fix. That's shop flavcity.com Toby have you ever made something with less than ideal ingredients?
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Yes. Do not use canned tuna to make sushi.
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Same rule applies for supplements and sports products. That's why IHERB requires brands to provide certificates of analysis coas reflecting batch testing for ingredient identity, composition and quality.
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Head to iherb.com mb daily and use code nb daily for 20% off your purchase. That's iherb.com/and be daily Neil do you
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have any idea how expensive the housing market is?
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You're just finding out about this?
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Yes, but thankfully there's Built. Built is a membership for where you live that rewards you with points on every housing payment.
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Renters and owners can earn points to use toward flights with United and Hyatt, Lyft rides, Amazon.com purchases and so many more.
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Built members also get access to a neighborhood concierge. It can make restaurant reservations, book fitness classes and find new local spots.
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Check it out@joinbuilt.com MBD that's join B I L T.com MBD Pizza Hut built
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its brand on slightly too greasy pizza and red roofs that were a beacon of family friendly fun. It's leaning into the latter to try and grow sales of the former. Franchisees are converting their locations to old school classic Pizza Huts, complete with red plastic cups, Tiffany style lamps, vinyl booths and of course a salad bar in a bid to win back customers. The push for the past comes as Pizza Hut is struggling with sales falling 1% last quarter, leading parent company Yum Brands to close 250 US stores. But the way back to profitability might run through Pac man arcade games and steepled red roofs. And all 144 dine in spots have been converted into Pizza Hut Classics since 2019. One franchise owner, Tim Sparks, told CBS that customers are driving two to three hours away just to visit some of his 38 revamped locations to marvel over the nostalgic details they remember from their youth. The thought processes, sterile remodels, tablet ordering and modern minimalism has made the restaurant experience boring and uninviting by bringing back some of the rough edges to sit down dining. It might also bring back all the kids who loved Pizza hut from the 90s who now have adult money to spend. As Vice framed it, Neil people yearn for the glory days of opaque red cups and oddly shaped roofs.
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This is kind of like the anti cracker barrel, right? They're going retro instead of modern and it's working really well for them. I think the funniest part of this whole thing is that Pizza Hut Corporate doesn't really know about this. They don't acknowledge it on their websites. The New York Times talked to a bunch of execs like the CMO is like, huh, we're going classic. So it does seem to be sort of a grassroots effort by these franchisees to go to the classic model. So it does. Their Pizza Hut is not completely in the dark. There's this arrangement that they have with franchisees where they provide some of the accoutrements that you know of for a classic Pizza Hut, like the checkered tablecloths and things like that. But when it comes to the Tiffany style lamps and other things, this is completely on the franchisees to go get those scouring, I don't know, yard sales or, you know, niche websites to find all of this stuff. But yeah, it's really working for Pizza Hunt and it sure needs it because sales have been down for nine straight. Nine straight quarters. Domino's is completely laughing, laughing it. But in terms of pr, when this is huge. I mean, you can't go on a Pizza Hut forum, which I am on all the time on Reddit or any other sort of blog, and people are just absolutely loving it. They're driving five, six hours to go to these Pizza Hut classics makes them feel like they are kids again, where they went to eat with their families in the 80s and 90s. And it's just a good feeling all around.
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It's great for content creators too. You know, it goes viral whenever you can sit down at a tablecloth and say, hey, this is what we all used to experience. The problem with the roofs and the problem with doing this in general and why maybe Pizza Hut Corporate is not so on board is that once you reconvert a Pizza Hut into that iconic steepled roof, it makes that building in that location a lot more difficult to sell. Should you have to close that store, Should Another buyer come in the spot. There's a church near me in Michigan, and it was always the Pizza Hut church because the roof is so iconic. Once that roof is in place, it's very difficult to become something else. Which is why you've seen this blending out of a lot of fast food locations. Think about what McDonald's used to look like, and think about what McDonald's looks like now. It's basically just a gray box because it's a lot more modular. You can put a Starbucks in there if you need. You can put something else in there if McDonald's or Pizza Hut leaves. When you customize these locations to look very much like what they used to, it becomes much more difficult to sell to any other person.
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What was your favorite part about an old Pizza Hut? I was a big salad bar guy. I know it sounds weird because I'm anti boy kibble, but I did. I did like taking. I just remember the peppers from the Pizza Hut salad bar being a huge. I was just a huge draw for me.
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That was crazy to me when you said that yesterday because I'm like, who goes to Pizza Hut gets fired up by the salad. I loved the pizza. Like, it had a little bit more heft to it than any other. You know, Papa John's out there. So I just loved how greasy it was, how cheesy it was. You can go eat your salad in the corner. I'm chowing down some pieces of pizza
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if you want to go visit a Pizza Hut classic. There's no database, but there is one that's probably the most famous of any that people have driven long, long nights for. It's. It's in Tunk Hannock, Pennsylvania, which is northwest of Scranton. And I went to the Google reviews of that yesterday, and people were like, I. We had nothing to do on Saturday afternoon, so we drove three hours from like Binghamton, New York, or other parts of the country.
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How do you spell that?
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Oh, God, I'm trying to you and you're making me find it here.
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And it. All right, well, people can look you
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and K H A N, N O C, K. The most Pennsylvania sounding.
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Yeah. I only asked because you've showed some Pennsylvania towns to me that I literally could not pronounce. So I'm glad it's a little more.
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It's about an hour west of Ballot Canva, which you definitely can't to pronounce. Okay, let's sprint to the finish with our final headlines. A much hyped book called the Future of Truth, which examines truth in The Age of AI contains more than six quotes that were made up or misattributed by AI. Stephen Rosenbaum, the author acknowledged that the book had quote, a handful of improperly attributed or synthetic quotes after being approached by the New York Times which discovered the fakery. He said he was transparent about his use of ChatGPT and Claude during his research process, but now is working with his editors to correct the passages. This isn't just any bottom of the barrel beach read. Rosenbaum is a well known media expert who received promotional blurbs on the book from the likes of the Atlantic CEO and a forward from a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rosenbaum said that if his embarrassing mess up serves as a warning about the risks of AI assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book. That's one way to spin it.
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Obviously. Very ironic that this happened and plays into a lot of consumer spheres too that AI is taking over a lot of the creative arts. One part of the book industry that isn't that mad or scared of AI is actually Barnes Noble. Barnes Noble CEO James Dunn basically said we will sell AI written books if readers want them. His stance that the real issue with AI isn't whether it helped write the book, it's just the transparency around that. He said that the books are fine as long as, quote, it doesn't masquerade or pretend to be something that it isn't. So clearly that was the case with this, even if it was a honest mistake. But yeah, the Rosenbaum scandal becomes the very nightmare version of what the industry fears. It's that AI generated material is quietly being verified as human material. It's very difficult to determine which is a which. And yeah, it's just ironic that the book isn't fiction. It is exactly about the topic that is happening within the very pages of the book they made.
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They made up a quote about Kara Swisher is a tech journalist and they talked to Kara Swisher like, did you say that? She's like, no. And also chatbots makes me sound like I have a stick up my butt,
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which is very funny. Of all the people I would not want to misattribute a quote to. Kara Swisher is top of the list because one, I do think she remembers what she says and two, she will let you hear it if you misattribute something to her as well. Moving on. Here's a sentence I never wanted to or thought I'd write. Arsenal have won the Premier League, the richest league in Europe has been conquered by one of its most long suffering teams, with London based Arsenal wrapping up the league thanks to a last minute sports stumble from rivals Manchester City. It had been 22 years since Arsenal won the league. 22 years of memes, of bottle jobs and doubts on whether the Gunners could ever return to the summit. Doubts that have since been erased and forgotten after one bruising set piece, goal after another. Neil A lot of people expected Liverpool to win back to back titles after spending £550 million in the offseason. And yet it was Arsenal and their American owners, the Cronkies, who held their nerve and came out on top. I hate him, but I'll admit Arsenal fans, you probably deserve this one.
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Yeah, first of all, congrats to all the Arsenal fans like my brother who became Arsenal fans only because it was the default team you play on with FIFA. So you used to load up FIFA and you would see Arsenal versus Tottenham who are their rivals in North London. And Arsenal was always there because it was just the first alphabetically in the entire league. So it won a lot of fans that way just because of that video game. And I think this also crystallizes the global reach of English soccer. This morning I saw videos of just complete bedlam on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya because Arsenal won the Premier League. Just so many fans all over the world. There were also reports of gunshots fired off at the sky in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Celebratory.
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Celebratory gunshots because they are also huge gunner fans. So Arsenal, a long suffering fan base, finally gets their day in the sun. And finally we close out every Wednesday show with Suggestion Box, the segment where Toby and I hand out two free recommendations to help you live better. I can go first and my suggestion is bird watching, the perfect summer activity for putting down your phone, being in nature and exercising your body and your brain. Well, you can't completely put down your phone because there are two apps that every aspiring birder needs to know. They are Merlin and Ebird, which are both run by Cornell's ornithology lab and completely free to use. They work in tandem. Ebird is where you log your bird finds and Merlin allows you to identify birds based on their bird calls. These apps have fueled an explosion in birding since the pandemic. Kind of like Chess.com Last year there were 16.3 million active users on Merlin, a 35% increase from the previous year. Toby, all the cool kids are getting into birding this summer.
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It's also what caused the hantavirus pandemic on that Cruise ship to the two people were birdwatching. But I do have to be that intense. I do support your your recommendation there also. You got to watch Listers too, which is this documentary that was published on YouTube. Free documentary. You can go search it up today about two guys who do a Big Year, which is where they travel the country to see how many birds they can identify. That will make you want to get into bird watching more than any other piece of content I've ever consumed. So my recommendation on top of your recommendation is Go watch Listers. It's one of my favorite things that I've ever watched, but that's not my real recommendation. My real recommendation is a simple one that I'm servicing more a reminder to myself. And that's the five minute rule. Not to be confused with the five second rule. The five minute rule is that if you can do something within five minutes, do it right now. Huge for checking things off the to do list. So many tiny things that pile up and just cause anxiety, make you feel overwhelmed in life can be knocked out in five minutes. And after you do it you're like, I've been letting that stress me out for a week. So it's anything like laundry, mailing a letter, you know, calling your mom, just do it now. If you can do it with with under five minutes or less.
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I am a world class procrastinator.
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I know it's for you, Neil, but
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I think of all the a lot of CEOs are known for replying to if they ever reply to your email, they'll do it right away. Like Mark Cuban is a great example of this where if you email him, if he will respond to you, he'll do it right away. Because he probably adopts the man. I don't think he would call it the five minute rule. He probably is just like ingrained into his brain. He's like, well if I can do something now or I can do something later, why don't I just do it now?
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I don't even text you back when you text me and I see you every single day. Maybe that's why I don't do it. But yes, the five minute rule is great. Not to be confused with the five second rule. If you leave a piece of food on the ground for five minutes and then eat it, that's on you, buddy.
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No, but the five second rule is also great. That is all the time we have. Thanks so much for starting your morning with us and have a wonderful Wednesday. If you'd like to reach us, send an email to Morning Brew daily at Morning Broadcom or DM us on Instagram at me Daily show let's roll the credits. Emily Milian is our supervising producer. Raymond Lu is our senior producer. Our producer is Olivia Graham, and our associate producer is Olivia Lake. Technical direction by Nina Miller. Hair and makeup is driving through the night to reach the retro Pizza Hut. Devin Emery is our president, and our show is a production of Morning Brew.
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Great show, Danielle. Let's run it back tomorrow.