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On Brand with Donny Deutsch

Brands of the Week: AI Voice Clone Scams, Ferrari's EV Fail, Drake Breaks Records & The Brotox Boom

On Brand with Donny Deutsch

Donny Deutsch Podcast Admin

Entertainment News, News, Arts, News Commentary

4.6896 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What's hot, what's not, and what's shaping the cultural zeitgeist right now? Donny Deutsch breaks down the biggest brand moments of the week — from alarming AI scams targeting families to surprising luxury real estate data, viral TikTok trends, and a music history milestone. In this episode: 🔴 Brand DOWN – AI Voice Cloning Scams: The FBI reports over $1 billion lost to AI-related scams. Donny explains the terrifying "voice skinning" technology that lets scammers impersonate your kids — and the one thing every family needs to do right now. 🔴 Brand DOWN – Ferrari's Electric Car (The "Lusso"): Designed with Apple legend Jony Ive, Ferrari's first EV comes with a $640K price tag and fake engine sounds — and the internet is calling it a Honda. Did Ferrari just betray its own brand? 🔴 Brand DOWN – So You Think You Can Dance Cancelled: After 18 seasons and 74 Emmy nominations, Fox pulls the plug. What does this say about reality TV's staying power in 2025? 🔴 Brand DOWN – Disappearing Neighborhood Culture: New data shows only 1 in 4 young adults regularly talk to their neighbors — a drop of nearly 50% in a decade. Is tech killing community? 🟢 Brand UP – The Gap's Comeback: Designer Zac Posen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway, and Demi Moore have made Gap cool again. Ten consecutive positive quarters. The brand revival playbook in action. 🟢 Brand UP – NYC Luxury Real Estate: Despite tax fears and talk of exodus, Manhattan luxury contracts ($10M+) surged over 80%. New York isn't going anywhere. 🟢 Brand UP – Drake Makes History: Drake's "Jani STFU" debuted at #1 — his 14th chart-topper, surpassing Michael Jackson's record. Only the Beatles and Mariah Carey are ahead of him. 🟢 Brand UP – Brotox & Men's Aesthetics: Male cosmetic procedures are up 400% since 2000. Men's beauty spending is growing faster than women's. Is vanity the new masculinity? 🔴 Brand DOWN – Tanmaxxing: The dangerous TikTok tanning trend putting Gen Z's skin at serious risk. Dermatologists are sounding the alarm. Plus: Donny reveals why he turned down Dancing with the Stars, and a preview of Thursday's big interview with activist and entertainer Jonah Platt. 🎙️ Everything is a brand — your favorite celebrities, athletes, politicians, and products. Tune in every Tuesday for Brands of the Week and every Thursday for in-depth interviews. Subscribe, rate & review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Arm Brand with Donny Deutsch.

0:10.0

I'm Donnie Deutsch and this is the podcast dedicated to the premise that everything

0:13.4

is a brand.

0:14.1

Every celebrity, every athlete, every entertainer, every corporation, every product,

0:18.2

every politician, everything is a brand.

0:19.6

You're a brand if you have a Facebook page or an Instagram page. Of course, what is a brand? The brand is a set of values. So it's the way you project yourself and what you stand for. So we're all brands. We do two things on the show on Tuesdays today. We drop our brands as a week. And on Thursdays this week, our big interview is with Jonah Platt. I've got a lot to talk about, about the state of Jews in the world right now. He's been a real activist, and obviously we're going to get into a lot of important issues. But today we do our brands of the week. These are the brands of the shaping the zeit guys. Who's up, who's down? Let's get right into it. Brand down, and this is an important one for AI voice cloning scams. They're

0:56.0

targeting families. There's been over a billion dollars lost in the last year, according to the

1:00.6

FBI, on AI-related scams. And here's the scam you've got to be really careful, particularly

1:05.1

of your parent. There's a technology now where basically you can go on TikTok or Instagram,

1:45.2

lift off somebody's voice. You know, you're actually a kid's voice. And then through a process of voice giving you can talk into a phone and it translates to the whatever you're saying into the kid's actual voice. It's called voice skinning. It's really frightening. So you can get a call and it sounds exactly like your kid saying, I'm lost, I need money, please send me, whatever it is. So have a safe word with your kid because this is a really frightening thing. You know, we talk so much about AI and we talk about the positives and there's such a dark end, so many dark on the bellies. This is one of them. Brand now for Ferrari, Their first electric car, dumb idea, not doing well.

1:46.9

There's some, you know, you have to understand a brand.

1:49.1

Obviously, electric cars are here and they're important.

1:56.1

But when you buy a Ferrari, you're buying it for the, for the driving, the real raw thing,

1:58.4

the stick shift, all that goes with it. And I don't think clearly they don't.

2:00.5

The price is 640 grand.

2:02.7

They designed in partnership with Johnny Ive.

2:04.9

He's Apple's legendary former chief designer.

2:07.3

He's buying the iPhone, the IMac, and the Apple Watch.

2:10.3

It's called the Loose.

2:13.4

It's basically goes zero to 60 under two and a half seconds.

2:17.2

But it's not doing well.

2:19.8

Ferrari stock fell on the news.

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