Can Skims Rescue Nike? & Meta Reveals Globe-Spanning Undersea Cable

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

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Episode 522: Neal and Toby discuss the Delta Air Lines plane crash and look into how the plane design may have contributed to the survival of all passengers. Then, Nike’s sales have been slumping, so it’s turned to Kim Kardashian’s Skims to give its business a jolt. Also, Meta announces plans to build an undersea cable across the globe to expand its connectivity. Meanwhile, Toby examines how OpenTable is becoming the one spot to make reservations to hot spots in NYC. Finally, a roundup of the biggest headlines from the day. LinkedIn will even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign so you can try it yourself. Go to LinkedIn.com/MBD Terms and conditions apply. Only on LinkedIn ads. 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. Check out https://linkedin.com/MBD for more! 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	Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. Service Now puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can
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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. Good morning, Brew Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell?
0:35.7	Today, how did everyone manage to survive the upside-down plane crash in Toronto?
0:40.4	Then a move over, Michael Jordan.
0:42.2	Kim Kardashian is Nike's newest partner.
0:45.2	It's Wednesday, February 19th.
0:47.2	Let's ride.
0:53.3	Remember that asteroid they found that has a very small chance of hitting Earth seven years from now?
0:58.5	That very small chance is now a small chance.
1:01.7	Yesterday, NASA upgraded the probability of a collision by 2032 to 3.1%, or 1 in 32, up from just 1% in January. It's the highest probability given to an asteroid
1:14.9	strike since 2004. If this thing does impact Earth, still a remote possibility. It could
1:21.9	wipe out a city. The asteroid would make impact at 38,000 miles per hour with the equivalent of around 8 million tons of TNT, or about 500 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
1:34.3	3.1% Toby, it keeps climbing.
1:37.2	Jeez, Neil, get the heart rates going early in the morning just to put that 3% in perspective.
1:42.6	If we were playing poker, Earth currently has aces,
1:45.3	the asteroid has the 4-5 of spades, and the flop is ace 8, 9, no spades.
1:50.8	So yes, technically, a 6 and a 7 could come out next to give the asteroid a backdoor straight,
1:56.8	but more than likely the set of aces is going to win.
1:59.6	That being said, Tom Brady and the Patriots
2:02.6	did come back from 28 to 3 down when the Falcons had a 99.8% chance of winning
2:08.4	based on ESPN's win probability chart. Lester City did win the Premier League at 5,000 to 1 odds,
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