House Passes TikTok Ban & Dollar Tree Closing 1,000 Stores

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 279: Neal and Toby have the latest on the House of Representatives voting on a bill that would ban TikTok in the US and what it could mean for the future of the social media platform. Plus, the owner of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar is going to be closing up to 1,000 stores and why are college admissions so confusing this year? Neal shares his favorite numbers and we introduce you to the gold medalists that made their own AI. And finally, why candy companies are trying to bring gum back after slow US sales. Use code MORNINGBREW50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box at https://bit.ly/3UUZGG0 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 for your daily show. I'm Neil Freiman and I'm Toby
0:04.2	Howl. Today the college admissions process is a debacle this year posing a
0:09.0	long-term threat to America's universities. Then legislation to ban Tik-Toc cleared another
0:14.4	major hurdle yesterday. Is this thing actually happening? It's Thursday March
0:19.6	14th. Let's ride. Ride. Happy Pie Day, it's 3.1, a day to celebrate your math teacher's favorite ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter.
0:36.7	As an irrational number, PIs decimal representation never ends.
0:40.6	It goes on forever, but gosh darn it, if some people haven't tried to memorize it all.
0:45.0	In 2016 a Japanese guy named Akira Haraguchi set the unofficial world record for reciting the most digits of pie, a hundred thousand of them
0:55.0	over more than 16 hours and he did it by mentally linking each digit with a
0:59.8	syllable and creating a collection of epic stories from the words those syllables forms.
1:05.3	Toby, we've been teasing this for the entire week.
1:08.2	Are you prepared to break Hariguchi's record right here, right now on Morning Brew Daily.
1:13.0	My story, my epic story filled with syllables
1:16.1	is going to be a little shorter than Heriguji's,
1:18.3	but here we go.
1:19.4	This is 100% off the dome I am not looking at.
1:22.8	I can confirm.
1:23.8	I'm closing my eyes.
1:24.8	3.14, 159, 265, 895, 895, 895, 895, 895, 8979.
1:28.8	823, 846, 264, 3383, 279. I can keep going. 46 264 3383 279
1:33.0	I could keep going
1:35.0	Okay, no Toby good job
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