$2B Cruise Ship to Set Sail & US Economy Growth Explodes

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 244: Neal and Toby break down the launch of Icon of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship ever built and what it means for the cruise industry and what it says about the hospitality industry. Next up, the US economy is on fire and media layoffs have been rampant this week. The guys share their stock and dog of the week and why are French farmers protesting? And finally the beef between Americans and Brits over... Tea. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning Bur daily show. I'm Neil Freiman and I'm Toby Howell. Today we're gonna mix a
0:05.6	Peña Kalata and toast to the world's largest cruise ship that's about to set sail
0:10.3	on its maiden voyage. Then US GDP numbers came in and they show an economy firing on all
0:16.2	cylinders. It's Friday January 26th. Let's right. Right. All right, imagine you open up your bank account and see a lot more money than you're supposed
0:32.0	to. Best feeling in the world, right?
0:34.4	Well, Tom Hollander, a British actor who's appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean and White
0:39.2	Lotus, just lived that, but his joy was not to last.
0:43.1	See, the extra cash came from a check
0:45.2	sent to Tom Hollander that was actually meant for Tom Holland,
0:50.0	the actor who portrays your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in Marvel movies.
0:54.0	Hollander and Holland briefly had the same agents which caused the mix-up.
0:58.0	Hollander said the check contained, quote,
1:00.0	an astonishing amount of money, more money than I'd ever seen.
1:04.3	Neil, what a roller coaster of emotions.
1:06.7	Do you have any famous people out there that you might accidentally get mistaken for?
1:10.1	I wish this would happen to me, but with a name like Neil Freiman.
1:13.6	Yeah, it's pretty unique.
1:14.8	I don't know anyone else with anyone kind of close to it.
1:17.6	The two I can think of that anyone might mistake me for and they definitely wouldn't.
1:22.4	Travis Freiman was a third baseman for the Cleveland Indians
1:26.8	a decade ago and I always found a little bit of kinship with him.
1:30.2	He spells it differently.
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