$350K to Flee the Middle East? & Target Has a Plan to Win You Back

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Episode 792: Neal and Toby chat about the fallout from the war in the Middle East, with spiking gas prices, luxury stocks slumping, and travelers finding all types of ways to escape the war zone. Then, Target reports another disappointing quarter, but its new CEO has a plan to turn it all around. Meanwhile, the World Cup is 100 days away and most of the focus has been on security. Plus, McDonald’s CEO is getting roasted for his reluctant bite of the Big Arch burger and Burger King took the chance to take jabs at its competitor. Learn more about Bland AI at bland.ai/mbd Join us for trivia! https://mbdtrivianight-march2026.splashthat.com/ Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Good morning for your daily show. I'm Neil Fry apply. Good morning, Brew Daily show.
0:40.2	I'm Neil Fryman.
0:41.0	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:42.0	Today, Target's channeling Fun 101 to turn around a miserable stretch.
0:46.6	Then McDonald's and Burger King are beefing over new beefy burgers.
0:51.2	It's Wednesday, March 4th.
0:53.1	Let's ride. Coming up this Sunday, Americans will
1:00.4	spring our clocks an hour forward for daylight savings time, knowing full well we'll have to
1:04.8	switch them back come November. But in British Columbia, they're switching the clocks on Sunday
1:09.0	and then never changing them again.
1:12.1	The Western Canadian province, home to Vancouver, announced it is adopting year-round daylight saving time,
1:18.0	citing the need to reduce disruptions for families and provide an extra hour of daylight in the evenings.
1:22.8	Premier David Abbey said that the people of British Columbia made it crystal clear that the clock switching wasn't working. In a 2019 report, 93% of participants supported daylight savings time across the year. Here in the U.S., various bills have been floated to make daylight savings time permanent, but they've gone nowhere. Apparently, it doesn't have to be that way.
1:42.2	93% of people supported this, but scientists are not part of that 93%.
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