Good Morning Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Fryman, and I'm Toby Howell.

On today's pod, we will check in on the writer's strike, which has now reached 101 days,

and why does everyone want to work for UPS all of a sudden?

Then, the vibes in China are off as a world's second largest economy may be slipping into deflation

territory. Plus, as Virgin Galactic conducts its second commercial spaceflight today,

I have an important question for everyone. Would you go to space with your mom?

It's Thursday, August 10th. Let's ride.

All right, before we get into the business news this morning, I do want to mention the wildfires

in Maui that we've learned killed 36 people as of this morning. These fires have devastated the

historic town of La Hena, which I actually visited this past December, and it is just this

incredibly charming place with a historic downtown, this beautiful Main Street, and we're just

thinking of everyone in Maui and across Hawaii right now. They're resilient people, but this is

really tragic. Something I learned that was quite interesting about Hawaiian fires is that

fires were not common in Hawaii or other Pacific islands before humans got there. These ecosystems

evolved without knowing fires and having this cycle of destruction and regrowth, so they're even

more prone to damage than places in the West that have experienced fires for a much longer time.

Yeah, it's just kind of an untouched place for the most part. I also saw some tweets of people with

loved ones over there saying that there's no cell service, so Apple's emergency SOS feature has been

the only way a lot of people have gotten in contact with authorities, and so it's kind of been

doing extremely well because that is truly the only way if you're stranded from a wildfire,

fire, so it is interesting to see that emergency service, but you always see on your iPhone or

Apple Watch actually coming into the gear. Yeah, kick into high gear. All right, let's go to some

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