Bezos Wants Blue Origin to Rocket Past SpaceX & TSA in 30 Seconds?

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

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Episode 217: Neal and Toby explain why Jeff Bezos is ready to go all in on Blue Origin to compete with SpaceX. Plus, the Sony hack that exposed how nervous the company is about Microsoft and could Applesauce have been contaminated on purpose? Neal shares his favorite numbers and TSA could be rolling out a self-screening service that could get you through the line in 30 seconds. And finally, why Mercedes-Benz says blue is for self-driving. 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 Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman and I'm Toby Howell. Today Jeff Bays was his blue origin
0:06.7	launched a rocket for the first time in 15 months. Can he catch Elon in the space race?
0:11.6	Then the TSA security line is getting a makeover
0:14.8	and they want you to do more of the work.
0:17.4	It's Wednesday, December 20th.
0:19.2	Let's ride. So,
0:25.0	new renderings were released for a mammoth apartment building that would become the second
0:29.8	tallest building in the United States,
0:32.0	and you'll never guess where it is.
0:34.0	Neil, can I guess? Is it Oklahoma City?
0:37.0	Spot on. Under a developer proposal, the Oklahoma City would get a luxury apartment tower 134 stories tall
0:45.3	dwarfing the current skyline and standing twice as tall as the current tallest
0:49.6	building in O. K.C. Chet Holngren. If this happens, development wouldn't begin for another year or two, and the building will be
0:56.4	constructed in phases, so the height would be contingent on demand.
1:00.2	The more people who want to live there the taller it goes
1:02.8	Toby I'm calling it now in 20 years Oklahoma City is going to be
1:06.5	indistinguishable from Dubai first of all the imagery of one of the least
1:10.7	dead cities in the entire Western Hemisphere getting the second tallest
1:15.2	skyscraper in the USA is surreal and hilarious. It went viral yesterday.
1:20.0	I also think that the developer is kind of doing a psychological trick here and releasing
1:25.2	the rendering of the absolute tallest it could ever be, which might help the smaller,
1:30.1	less ambitious part of the proposal get approved so there's like some psychological
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