PP 32: The Subscription Economy ft Kyla Scanlon

The Ben and Emil Show

Ben and Emil

Comedy

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Crocs got boots, Applebee's got subscriptions. @KylaScanlon joins us to talk about how the subscription model has spiraled out of control, at the cost of good old fashioned innovation. We also get a into what happened at Davos, the CEO of JP Morgan being a bitcoin ignoramus, and a whole lot more. You can follow Kyla everywhere @ Kylascan, and be sure to order her book "IN THIS ECONOMY?" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737854/in-this-economy-by-kyla-scanlon/ In this week's BONUS episode we welcome DILLON!!! So go sign up! https://www.patreon.com/PayPigsPod Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Oh boy. Oh boy. You okay, but you okay? We're kicking it off. They just they they took my
0:09.6	laptop from me. They wanted me to put my water bottle on the ground.
0:14.0	My bottle.
0:16.0	Sound off in the comments if you like Emile's new water bottle.
0:20.0	He's going to need some stickers so send them to them to his, send them to the studio.
0:24.4	We have a special guest in case you didn't notice. We have Kila Scanlon, none other
0:30.1	than. Welcome. Welcome, Kila. Thanks having me. The in-studio audience is going absolutely nothing.
0:36.1	Yeah, they're, would you guys shut up? There's a truck beeping. And we got a dynamite episode for you gang so I guess we can kick it right off we got this I thought that it I mistakenly thought what did I think it was cheesecake factory or no?
0:52.8	Chili's? What's the other restaurant when I texted you?
0:55.4	Not Applebee.
0:56.0	Texas Roadhouse.
0:56.9	No, no, it was it was.
0:59.3	Ah, who cares?
1:00.2	Well, either way, it's Applebee's.
1:01.6	You thought it was Red Lobster. Yeah, I thought it was Red Lobster. Yeah, oh because Red Lobster was the restaurant that did the all you can eat shrimp last year. Oh, yeah, that's right. Is it Yum brands? I think so. Well, no, no. It might be restaurant brands internationally. Yeah.
1:17.2	Wow, come for the better name. Ticker symbol Eat, I think is there. One of them is that I remember in 20 20 at the bottom in the market I bought I but I just thought it was fun to buy all ticker symbols with words like eat
1:31.3	what you end up with I bought eat car jack.
1:35.0	You know what?
1:37.0	And then I sold him.
1:38.0	Jack, jack in the box ended up 10xing.
1:41.0	Eat did, you know know two or three x and then a car actually went from like five bucks to
1:47.9	400 it was yeah yeah airtz is in the toilet.
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