Best Earnings Season Ever? & CLEAR Tests Biometric Scanning at Airports

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

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Episode 652: Neal and Toby dive into what’s behind a string of strong earnings that is shrugging off tariff fears. Then, the SPAC king returns and is seeking to raise $250M for his new SPAC. Also, CLEAR and TSA is piloting biometric tech to help airport screening go much faster. Meanwhile, AI-powered sleep tech startup Eight Sleep is planning to open up retail stores by 2026. 00:00 - Guess what ‘TMZ’ stands for 3:00 - Companies are crushin’ 7:30 - SPAC King is back 11:30 - CLEAR clearing up airport screening 17:00 - Eight Sleep’s big dreams 21:20 - Sprint Finish! LinkedIn will even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign so you can try it yourself. Check out LinkedIn.com/mbd for more. Submit your MBD Password Answer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yzrl1BJY2FAFwXBYtb0CEp8XQB2Y6mLdHkbq9Kb2Sz8/viewform?edit_requested=true 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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0:46.9	Good morning, Brewed Daily Show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, plot twist.
0:51.8	This earnings season has been won for the record books as corporate profits soar. Then clear thinks the secret to getting through airport security faster lies in your face.
0:56.1	It's Wednesday, August 20th. Let's ride.
1:03.1	Good morning and happy Wednesday.
1:05.4	MSNBC's rebrand to MSN now sent me down a TV acronym rabbit hole. I'm only climbing out of now, but I come
1:12.7	with loads of interesting facts, like that QVC stands for quality value convenience, CNN is
1:19.7	cable news network, and HBO is home box office. But there was one news acronym that to me was the
1:25.5	most surprising and most clever, TMZ.
1:29.3	Do you have any clue what TMZ stands for?
1:32.8	It's 30-mile zone.
1:34.8	Toby, what the heck does that mean?
1:36.7	Yeah, the 30-mile zone is a term at the film and TV industry uses to describe the
1:41.1	studio zone, which is literally the 30-mile radius around Beverly and Los Angeles,
1:45.7	where most of the studios are clustered.
1:48.1	Back in the day, entertainment industry, labor unions used the studio zone to actually determine
1:52.7	worker compensation and work rules.
1:55.1	And now it's the name of a gossip outlet.
1:57.5	Okay, and final nugget of wisdom I want to pass down is that TMZ is an initialism,
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