No One Wants McDonald's Anymore & US Women's Water Polo Sponsored by Flavor Flav?

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

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Episode 376: Neal and Toby explain Venezuela’s key election results have some big question marks which causes a bigger concern about its economic health. Next up they chat about McDonald’s struggling to get consumers back while sales have declined for the first time in 4 years. Then, Elon Musk shares an AI deepfake video of a Kamala Harris political ad on his X profile, which evidently violates X’s own media policies. Plus, colon and rectum cancer among under-50 year olds are on the rise and leaving researchers scrambling to find a reason why. Meanwhile, Toby shares the trend of breakout Olympic stars outside of their respective sport, such as US rugby player Ilona Maher. Lastly, a roundup of the biggest news from the Olympics. Checkout https://beehiiv.link/morning-brew-daily and get a 30 day free trial and also 20% off 3 months with code BREW Get your Morning Brew Daily T-Shirt HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-radio-t-shirt?_pos=1&_sid=6b0bc409d&_ss=r&variant=45353879044316 Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow 00:00 - Medal count 02:30 - Venezuela election 07:30 - McDonald’s slump 13:00 - Deepfake AI Political Ad 19:30 - Colon Cancer screening 22:15 - Toby’s Trends 25:45 - Olympic Stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0	Good morning Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Freiman and I'm Toby Howell.
0:30.0	Today McDonald's gives a heat check on the American consumer.
0:33.2	spoiler alert, we want cheaper food.
0:36.5	Then everything you need to know about the controversial Venezuelan election that just
0:41.2	took place.
0:42.2	It's Tuesday, July 30th. Let's rock. the are in full swing and countries have been racking up the metals which are made from a piece of the Eiffel Tower by the way
0:56.6	So who's on top of the leaderboard? Well it depends on where you look some counters have the USA at number one
1:03.8	since we have the most overall metals with 20,
1:06.7	followed by France with 16.
1:08.7	But the official Olympics website puts Japan
1:11.7	at the top since they've won the most gold so far with six the US
1:15.9	has just three gold medals hmm I think both those ways of counting metals are limited though.
1:23.4	I'm a proponent of weighted metal counts where you assign a value to gold, silver, bronze
1:29.3	metals and then use that to determine who's performing the best.
1:32.9	And the New York Times actually has a sliding weight
1:35.3	calculator where you can do that yourself.
1:38.2	If a gold is worth 20 times a silver and a silver is worth 20 times
1:42.0	a bronze, the US is worth 20 times a bronze.
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