Gold Shines Past $4K First Time Ever & Strava and Garmin Are Beefin’

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

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Episode 687: Neal and Toby discuss why the Trump administration is taking a 10% stake into Canadian mineral company Trilogy Metals. Then, Gold just passed $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever and has jewelry companies worried. Also, Strava is suing Garmin which has fitness freaks freaking out about tracking their workouts. And, California bans loud ads on streaming platforms. Finally, Tesla unveils its most-affordable Model Y car and Polymarket gets a big boost. Spend $250 on your first campaign on LinkedIn Ads and get a free $250 credit for the next one. Check out https://www.linkedIn.com/mbd for more. Get your MBD live show tickets here! https://www.tinyurl.com/MBD-HOLIDAY Join us for October trivia night! https://mbd-trivianight-oct2025.splashthat.com/ Vote for MBD in the Signal Awards! Best Daily Podcast: http://bit.ly/3W4e5ik Best Commute Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pxZidv Best Business Podcast: https://bit.ly/3IE7lEP 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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0:29.2	Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, they're singing Gotta Be, gotta be Golden on Wall Street as the precious metal makes history.
0:38.3	Then Strava and Garmin are beefing right ahead of the Thick of Marathon season.
0:43.3	It's Wednesday, October 8th. Let's ride.
0:50.3	Sometimes you receive life-changing news in the most unexpected places. Paul Ramsdale was hiking
0:56.5	with his wife on a three-week trip through the mountains of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana completely
1:01.2	off the grid. On Monday, he heard her let out a scream and thought they were about to get torn up
1:06.3	by grizzly bears. Nope, it was just the Nobel Prize telling him he won. Ramsdale is a renowned scientist
1:12.3	who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week, but with his phone on airplane mode, the committee
1:16.8	couldn't reach him for 12 hours after it was announced. It was only when he and his wife
1:21.2	activated their phones that they found the messages flooding in. Thomas Perlman, the Secretary General
1:26.2	of the Nobel Assembly, said it had never
1:28.3	been this hard to reach a laureate since he took over the role in 2016, but there have been
1:32.8	other instances of people being hard to reach. What an unbothered, unplugged king. This is
1:38.5	becoming a semi-frequent occurrence with Nobel Prize winners. Bob Dylan ignored his Nobel Prize in literature for a
1:45.6	couple of days back in 2016. And in 2020, the committee was trying to award the prize in economics,
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