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Job Market Comes Roaring Back & Ring Ad Sparks Mass Surveillance Fears
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Jan jobs report...not bad! & Ring camera can see all
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Neal Freyman
Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neal Freyman.
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Toby Howell
And I'm Toby Howell.
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Neal Freyman
Today rings super bowl ads sparks fears of mass surveillance.
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Toby Howell
Then the jobs market appears to have roared back to Life. It's Thursday, February 12th. Let's ride.
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Neal Freyman
Here's a business lesson you won't find in the textbooks when the going gets tough. Hand out free socks. Yesterday, McDonald's, which had been on the struggle bus for most of the past couple of years, reported a 6.8% US sales boom in its fourth quarter, thanks in large part to its limited edition Grinch meal, which included a pair of colorful socks. CEO Chris Komczynski told analysts that for one week in December, McDonald's was the biggest seller of socks in the world. Toby, did you snag a pair?
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Toby Howell
I did it. But the scale of McDonald's is unfathomable. During the first few days of the campaign, they sold about 50 million pairs. 50 million pairs of socks. This is a burger company. Also, I found some more McDonald's fun facts, courtesy of Harris on X, who works for the market research firm quarter. McDonald's serves 70 million customers every day, and 80% of the population visits at least once a year. In their largest markets, 17 different individual menu items all generate over $1 billion annually. So McNuggets, French fries. Those are billion dollar items. And they have 17 of them. And finally, in Austria, which has a population of 9 million, about 2 million are loyalty members, which means 22% of the entire country want their rewards points and their Grinch socks.
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Neal Freyman
Not like the cuisine in Austria, as much of a competitor to McDonald's. Sorry, I'm throwing shade. Okay, now a word from our sponsor, Flav City. Toby, are you trying to get stronger this year?
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Toby Howell
Yes. Me and my fiance are really dedicated. Every morning she tells me a mean truth about myself, and I do my best not to cry.
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Neal Freyman
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Toby Howell
No.
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Neal Freyman
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Toby Howell
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Neal Freyman
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Toby Howell
Well then head to go.shop flavcity.com/m b d S to try any of their delicious flavors. That's go.shop FlavCity.com MBDS just when you thought the labor market was more frozen than your significant other's feet, as soon as you climb into bed, your calves did their job and brought it roaring back to life. According to the delayed January jobs report, the US economy added 130,000 jobs last month, almost double what economists were expecting, while unemployment ticked down to 4.3%. It's the strongest hiring month we've seen since late 2024, but there's a couple of catches. A lot of those jobs, 82,000 of them, were concentrated in health care, the most jobs added in a month in that sector since 2020. While health care has been putting the team on its back of late, it did have some help with construction pitching in 33,000 jobs and manufacturing eking out 5,000, its first gain in more than a year. The second catch is that these monthly reports have a habit of overstating actual jobs growth. Since this is a new year, the government went through their annual benchmarking process where they go through previous employment numbers and adjust them using more granular data, and found that the US economy added just 181,000 jobs in 2025 versus the 584,000 previously estimated on a monthly basis. That means just 15,000 jobs were added instead of 50,000, making 2025 the worst year of employment gains outside of a recession and in more than two decades. So two takeaways. While the labor market appears to have gotten out of the gate fast and dang, last year was even bleaker than we thought.
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Neal Freyman
Yeah, I'll focus on the positive. Great way to start the year. Like marching down the field and scoring a touchdown on your opening drive. Because not just the top line numbers were good, there were other nuggets sprinkled throughout this report that you could really hang your hat on. It was the biggest drop in people working part time because they couldn't find a full time job. Since June 2022, more workers left their job. This has been something that we've talked earlier this week that the labor market was frozen over because people weren't just leaving their job. If they do leave their job more then that shows they have confidence to find a new one. So another good sign, there was a notable drop in the number of people out of work for at least 27 weeks. So that long term unemployment is shrinking. Average hourly earnings rose a solid 0.4% from December. That was higher than expectations. And also manufacturing had its first monthly gain in employment in more than a year. So a lot of dots out there if that, if you connect them paints a pretty rosy picture of the labor market as we start off 2026.
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Toby Howell
But I did see the reaction to this report from a lot of people on social media saying like, oh, they're just going to revise it. Why do they even put these numbers out if they're going to revise them? So why is the data feel like it's so messed up? Because we had this massive monthly yearly revision, the highest negative revision on record since 1979. And there's a variety of factors of why sometimes the data misses the mark. There's been declining survey responses. Remember these monthly BLS reports are surveys where they go talk to business owners and ask for the response if they don't have responses and they're not getting good data. Sometimes big revisions happens too when the economy is quickly shifting. Right now we've seen AI disrupt a lot of industries. So sometimes it's just a little hard to react in real time to these things. And it's not misleading, it's not deliberately misleading, but it's just difficult to figure out new enclosed businesses. You can misestimate jobs, you can misestimate the amount of foreign born workers in the United States. All of these things go into the fact that it's an imperfect number we get every month. Then you cross reference it with better data and you get these big revisions.
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Neal Freyman
Yet another slightly concerning trend is just how much health care has propped up the the labor market. 82,000 positions out of 130,000. And you didn't even mention that 42 other 42,000 other positions came from the social assistance sector, which is very adjacent to health care. That's jobs like home health aides, resident care workers without health care, without social assistance jobs, growth would be negative for the past bunch of months. So if you are looking for some warning signs for some alarm bells in these reports recently besides the revisions, it would be just how outsized the growth has been in health care compared to the rest of the economy.
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Toby Howell
Obviously it's risky to have such heavy reliance on one industry. But the counterpoint to that is health care is not the worst industry to rely on because the the jobs are usually pretty geographically dispersed. It's not just concentrated in Silicon Valley or something like that. It's stable across economic cycles like people usually always need health care. And so if you were to rely on one industry, you might as well have it be a robust one. And it's just less volatile than something like manufacturing or construction that kind of goes through ebbs and flows. So yes, there's risks when you have just immense concentration in one industry. But if we had to pick one, health care would be it.
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Neal Freyman
Okay, we've reached the point in our jobs report story. We have to say, so what does this mean for the Fed? Because that is obligatory. Well, it means that we're not probably not going to see any interest rate cuts anytime soon. If the labor market is coming back, then the Fed is in this wait and wait and see era where it needs to see a very strong deterioration in the labor market for the central bankers to cut rates even more. It looks like the job market is rebounding, as Jerome Powell said a few months ago. So yeah, don't expect a rate cut anytime soon.
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Toby Howell
Moving on, no one wants to feel like they're being watched, but sometimes the digital eyes doing the watching come in handy. On Tuesday, the FBI revealed footage of a masked man on the doorstep of the still missing Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today show co anchor Savannah Guthrie. The man was caught on Guthrie's Nest camera, but the footage was thought to be lost until engineers at Google, which owns Nest, were able to recover it. Guthrie's Nest was disconnected the night she disappeared and and the subscription only saves around three hours of video history before being deleted. And yet footage earmarked for deletion was ultimately recoverable. While it's been an asset in the case that set off red flags for privacy advocates, similar backlash has followed Amazon Ring's super bowl ad, which showed cameras surveilling neighborhoods to locate a lost dog. From there, it wasn't hard for people to extrapolate that hey, couldn't you use this dog finding AI technology to also track humans? This definitely isn't about dogs, it's about mass surveillance, senator Ed Markey, a critic of Ring's coziness with law enforcement, posted on X Another quote tweet said, this is how Batman found the Joker in the Dark Knight, and I don't like it. A Ring spokesperson told the Verge that the dog finding feature can't Currently detect human biometrics. But another new ring feature called Familiar Faces can. So Neil, two separate instances of camera products being used, ostensibly for good, but with dystopian undertones.
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Neal Freyman
Okay, so here's how search Party works. This is the feature that was shown in the Ring ad on super bowl that everyone's talking about. You lose your dog in your neighborhood, you actually notify the Ring app that you lost your dog. That pings all of the ring cameras in your neighborhood. And what they do is search their archival footage, using AI, of course, to see if the dog walked in front of of this camera. If the camera, if a homeowner's camera does indicate that the dog was found at this particular area, it pings the owner of that particular camera and they have the option whether to share that with in multiple different ways, share that with the dog's owner. So that is the search party feature. Yes, of course, a lot of people were saying, okay, that's great that the dog was found, but you could easily extrapolate that to go on a hunt for little Toby who got lost.
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Toby Howell
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people responding to the ad saying this is a very smart way to gaslight people into accepting mass surveillance into their life. But I think the narrative violation here is that the ad was pretty well received by a lot of people. Ring actually had the second most liked ad during the super bowl according to I Spot Data, which is a market research firm. They also earned the highest purchase intent score in the top 10 most liked ads. So a lot of people weren't thinking about the fact that this could be turned into a mass surveillance 2 of humans. They were probably just thinking, wow, this is a great way to locate my lost dog. And that led to a very positive reception of the ad.
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Neal Freyman
And then as for the nest situation in Arizona, what was surprising to many people is that allegedly Guthrie's subscription had lapsed to Nest, but. And yet it was still recording footage. Well, in the fine print that you sign when you sign up for Nest, Google does say that it could potentially record three hours of what's known as event based video history that it doesn't store on the device itself. It sends to its data centers all around the globe. And perhaps this is why it took many days for Google's engineers to go search far and wide in these extensive databases for the footage that eventually found this masked person.
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Toby Howell
Yeah, a good analogy to wrap your head around this is that when you send an email to Trash, when you delete it, that is still on servers somewhere, there's still retention policies for these tech companies, especially a company as large as Google. This data leaves a trail across many data centers, across many, you know, storage systems. So it was technically complex but they were able to track it down. And it is, it's a two sided coin because it is helping the case. Like you want this thing to come in handy when you have a high profile kidnapping such as this. But it also raises a ton of privacy red flags.
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Neal Freyman
Yeah, tech and law enforcement have been frenemies for years. I remember in 2016 Apple was battling with the FBI. The FBI wanted them to open the phone, the locked phone of this San Bernardino, one of the San Bernardino shooters. And Apple went to court with law enforcement and actually won over a series of cases. Moving on across the world, countries are sounding the alarm about falling population numbers. Not Switzerland. In fact, just the opposite. The European country will hold a vote this summer on whether to cap the population at 10 million. Yesterday, the government announced that a vote on the population ceiling will take place June 14 after supporters gained enough signatures to put it on the ballot. Those supporters are led by the People's Party, a right wing group that has long advocated for anti immigration policies. They argue Switzerland has gotten over its cross country skis when it comes to welcoming outsiders, leading to unsustainable pressures on infrastructure and the cost of living. Over the past decade, the Swiss population has grown about five times faster than the European Union, fueled by foreign workers arriving for quality, high paying jobs. Now, according to Bloomberg, more than one quarter of the people living in the country aren't Swiss citizens. Opponents of the cap, which include the Swiss business community, say it will lead to widespread labor shortages for Switzerland's economic engines, pharma, banking, watches and KitKats, aka Nestle. Plus, it'll likely violate existing free movement agreements Switzerland has with the eu, risking trade to the country's largest export market. As the campaigning starts, the vote looks like it'll be close. In a recent poll, 48% said they were supportive of the population cap, showing how there's serious frustration about the way things are going.
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Toby Howell
There's a lot of risks to adopting this strategy because in general you do not want a shrinking population. If you look over to Asia, you look at Japan, you look at Korea, they are doing everything in their power to try to get people to have babies first and foremost because they've had a declining population for a long time. Because you are risking lower economic growth. You need people to drive the economic engines. You need young people so you don't have an aging society. Kind of weighing on those younger people, you risk this trade disruption. If you do pull out from kind of the EU agreements, you just risk export competitiveness as well. This is not an insular economy. Switzerland is not just, you know, making chocolate. They are a very ingrained in the wider global economy. Now there are proponents that say there's counterbalancing effects that do make this a wise strategy to pursue. Because if there's less people, maybe housing rents will become more affordable, maybe there's less strain on just infrastructure in general. There will be lower public welfare costs if there's less people to take care of. And then there's an environmental aspect as well. So you see both sides of the argument here. But in general, you don't necessarily want to restrict population growth.
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Neal Freyman
Yeah, I mean, there has been stagnating economic growth. GDP per capita in Switzerland has not grown in the last three years. Real wages have declined. So the people who are from Switzerland are saying, well, I'm not doing so well. And they're seeing it's not just scapegoating, you know, poor immigrants from other countries, it's scapegoating wealthy foreign workers coming in, working at these banking and pharma jobs and ostensibly driving up housing prices and raising the cost of living overall. But then the business community is saying, look, we're not, if we're not going to invest in Switzerland because we can't find the workers. If you cap the population right now the population is at 9.1 million, so there's not that much room for growth. So if you cap it at 10 million, you know, Roche is a big pharma company and employs 15,000 people from 100 nationalities in Switzerland alone. And then you look at some of those blue chip companies that come out of Switzerland. Many of them were not even founded by Swiss people. Nestle, founded by a German. Rolex, also founded by a German and a Brit. Richemont luxury Goods, founded by South Africa. African Logitech Co founded by two Italians. So those are some of the biggest companies in Switzerland. And if you know, this cap perhaps had been in place when these companies were invented, they would not be located in Switzerland.
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Toby Howell
Side Note, Switzerland has 9 million people, yet they are absolutely wiping the floor with us in some Olympic events. We just lost Super G to them. So it's amazing how much better, you know, these European countries are at the Winter olympics than the U.S. what's also.
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Neal Freyman
Interesting about what Switzerland does in its political system, it has this concept of direct democracy where the whole population just kind of votes on particular initiatives. This happens at least or up to four times a year where they just hold a popular vote like the Electoral College means nothing to them and they just go to the polls. They say, hey, the Switzerland government says hey, do you guys want to vote on this? And they all go to the polls and they vote on it. So it will be a very interesting experiment seeing what happens on June 14th.
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Toby Howell
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Neal Freyman
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Toby Howell
I was not great at micro econ either. This explains everything. This explains everything about why people are feeling like the economy is doing so well. And yet I'm not doing well myself. Because your paycheck has an increase in commensurate with the actual GDP growth of America. You have these massive companies with fewer workers than ever, generating higher returns than ever before. Just look at Alphabet. Revenue is up 43% in the past three years. Their headcount has stayed flat. So you have very few workers generating massive amounts of money. And then the other thing about why the economy feels so strong is stock wealth has just accrued in a lot of people's brokerage accounts. In 2019, household stock wealth was 200% of their disposable income. Today it is 300%. And again, that is concentrating in people that invest in stocks, usually in the higher end of the market. So wealth is now the biggest driver of consumption, not actual income. Which is why we are seeing this discrepancy between labor and the actual, you know, returns they're generating to the economy.
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Neal Freyman
Maybe the stock market is the economy.
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Toby Howell
Yeah.
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Neal Freyman
For my next number, if you want to send your kid to a private school in New York City. It'll cost you more than most colleges around the city. At least seven schools are charging more than $70,000 for tuition this year. Bloomberg reported a shocking rise from a median tuition of 40,000 as recently as 2014. Schools say they're dealing with higher costs just like everyone else, especially paying high quality teachers enough to afford living in New York. They point out tuition also can cover things like meals and field trips, which at these schools is not a trip to the museum but a visit to Europe. They also point out they're doling out more financial aid than ever before. Poly Prep, for example, said it provided about 22% of its students with more than $14.5 million in aid. That that's probably not going to prevent sticker shock even from parents who thought they were comfortably in the upper class. Toby $70,000 to learn that Y equals MX plus B. We'll just see how inelastic a good private school is.
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Toby Howell
Oh my gosh, we're back to microeconomics again here because yeah, you're right, these prices are highly inelastic. Demand for education does not drop when prices in a crease because it's seen as a necessity, it's seen as very high value and there's not really something that you can substitute education with. So that means it's an inelastic good. Why are parents paying these astronomical prices? It's because the public school system in New York is under a lot of pressure right now. They actually lost 22,000 students last year. More than one in three students were chronically absent in 2024, and more than 40% of students are below proficiency in reading and math. So that is why you're seeing more people trying to crowd into the private system because they think think it's a better education for their child.
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Neal Freyman
For my final number appropriate ahead of Valentine's Day, A matchmaking platform is consuming Stanford University. According to the Wall street journal, of the 7,500 undergrads at Stanford, more than 5,000 have used date Drop, a site that aims to pair up singles fed up with the swipe and grind. Started by a grad student and launched in September, Day Drop requires you to fill out 66 questions about yourself, which will be fed into an algorithm that pairs you up with a potential date. The Date Drops get it happen every Tuesday night at 9pm and it's turned into an appointment event for students, with many gathering together in dorms and libraries to see who they'll be matched up with. Students told the Journal that Day Job has been so popular because Stanford undergrads are socially awkward and simply having a normal conversation is tough, let alone a romantic one. At the same time, they despise dating apps. Date Shop works because it spares you from making the first move in real life, but also gives you a match that doesn't require endless scrolling.
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Toby Howell
Do you like this idea? Like, would you want to have a 99% compatibility score? I feel like that sets up so much pressure for the first date. Is like, this algorithm has said we are meant to be together. Do you think this would be good?
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Neal Freyman
I think perhaps for the first few times, do you have, you know, high expectations? But as it keeps going and maybe those dates initially fail, that the expectations get lowered and you're like, okay, now I'm just talking to somebody Interesting.
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Toby Howell
I think the smartest part about this date drop, this version of day drop, because we have seen it at other colleges, is the fact that they drop at the same time. It's very like HQ trivia. It's very ritualistic where everyone can be together. So I think that is part of the reason why it's so viral and so sticky on this campus is because you have these just shared moments of who did I get? Who did I get?
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Neal Freyman
What's funny is just the self acknowledgment by a lot of these Stanford students that, like, I just can't talk to each other. They have no game, no Riz at all. And they actually need this app, which is why it's crazy. 5,000 of 7,500 students have used this particular app. It has spread to 10 different colleges and probably will continue.
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Toby Howell
And they raise venture funding. Of course, that is another just such Stanford thing is like, here's a great thing. Let's try to turn it into a business and raise some money for it.
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Neal Freyman
All right, let's bring to the finish with some final headlines. Operations at El Paso's airport are back to normal after a bewildering and unprecedented closure of airspace for eight hours Wednesday morning. And it's all because a US military laser shot down party balloons. Late Tuesday, the FAA announced a shock airspace closure for 10 days around El Paso, Texas, citing special security reasons. Without elaborating, airlines and passengers in Texas's six largest cities scrambled to rejigger their plans, while local officials complained that no one had told them what is going on. By Wednesday morning, 10 days had become eight hours and the flight ban was lifted. The Trump administration said the ban was prompted by a Mexican cartel drone that had crossed into US Airspace. But news outlets Like Fox said, this wasn't the case. Sources inside the government said that what actually led to the flight ban was miscommunication between the Pentagon and the FAA around a new counter drone laser system that was being tested nearby. One that could pose a threat to commercial aviation. Earlier in the week, DHS used a laser to take down what was thought to be a drone, but later was found to be party balloons, resulting in an interdepartmental squabble that led to panic around El Paso. Toby, this was a chaotic flight stoppage. That could have just been an email.
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Toby Howell
Yeah, send some emails to people because the Pentagon was not telling anyone they were doing this high energy counter drone laser. The FAA was did not tell the White House is going to close the airspace either. So that was a double miscommunication. You look online, everyone immediately just goes, it was aliens. This is a UFO that is going on right now because it was unprecedented to just rip a 10 day closure initially of this airspace, but more likely just basic communication error rather than aliens. Finally, it's never too late to push some granite around on I Rich Ruhonen is an alternate for Team USA in curling. He's also 54 years old and will become the oldest Olympian ever. If a teammate goes down, that is. And that's ironic because for his day job Ruhonen works as a personal injury attorney. So as the Wall Street Journal pointed out, he's literally waiting for a slip and fall to happen in order to play. I love these stories. Not every athlete has the luxury of devoting all their time to their sports. Rou Honen works 80 hour weeks in the summer so he can curl in the winter. And the silver medal winning mixed doubles curling team was made up of a lab technician and a realtor. Neal. This has me thinking of tossing some stones around on the ice. The first podcaster to embarrass his country on the international stage. It's got a nice ring to it.
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Neal Freyman
You're also the first person to ever watch the Olympics, especially the Winter Olympics, and think, oh, I could do that. I think especially curling. US they don't look particularly athletic. It looks like the thing an average person could do. Meanwhile, Team USA is coming on strong. We had a big day yesterday. Jordan Stoltz won the gold medal in the 1000 meter speed skating. He's the best speed skater in the world. He set an Olympic record. He is amazing. Madison Shock and Evan Bates won silver. A little disappointing in the ice dance. US took both gold and silver in the freestyle women's moguls There are nine medal events today, including Chloe Kim going for third straight Olympic gold in the women's half pipe. More speed skating. And then Team USA and Canada are making their hockey debuts. And what's interesting about the hockey this year is that Olympian or NHL players are back. So it's going to be very high quality skating. Canada is playing in the morning and Team USA is taking on Lafayette at 3:10pm and if we look at the leaderboard, so Norway and Italy both have 13 medals, but Norway has seven golds. Norway has the most medals at the Winter Olympics by far, but Team USA 12 medals. So we're just one off the pace. Only four golds, but you know, there's a long way to go.
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Toby Howell
If it doesn't have granite, I'm not watching. I'm curling pilled.
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Neal Freyman
All right, well yeah, we got, we got some big curling games today too with, with the team events. All right, that is all the time we have. Thanks so much for starting your morning with us and have a wonderful Thursday. Before we go, we need your help. We'd love to learn more about what matters most to you about this podcast, what aspects speak to you, what doesn't, and what kind of content you'd want more of. Which brings me to the ask. Please fill out our survey which you can find in the podcast description. Once you do, you'll be entered into a Raffle to win $500Amex gift card which you can use to buy anything you want. Once again, you can find the survey in the podcast description. Thank you so much. If you want to otherwise get in touch, send an email to Morning Brew daily at Morning Broadcom or DM us on Instagram at the Daily Show. Let's roll the credits. Emily Milian is our executive producer. Raymond Lu is our producer. Our associate producers are Olivia Graham and Olivia Lake. Hair and makeup is waiting patiently for their date drop. Devin Emery, our is president and our show is a production of Morning Brew.
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