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Shein Influencers Catch Backlash & Why Air Travel Is So Bad

Morning Brew Daily

Morning Brew

Business News, News, Business

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Episode 92: Neal and Toby cover the multiple reasons why air travel this Summer is in shambles and continues to struggle. Plus, a trip to China goes horribly wrong as social media unleashes its fury towards the traveling Shein influencers. Also, Costco takes a page out of Netflix's playbook and starts cracking down on shoppers sharing membership cards, and is Airbnb on its way towards a collapse? The numbers may surprise you. Lastly, Ireland is looking to pay homebuyers to fix-up their homes. Sounds too good to be true? That's because there's some caveats. 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, Brudely Show. I'm Neil Freeman.

0:02.6

And I'm Toby Howell.

0:03.6

On today's pod, air passengers' stress levels are through the roof ahead of the 4th

0:08.2

of July travel weekend as cancellations have already caused airport havoc this week.

0:13.5

And we'll discuss why you're going to hear a lot about cheap whiskey, dirt roads, and

0:17.4

faded blue jeans on the radio this summer.

0:19.8

Then she and tried to put together a little influencer trip to one of their factories in

0:24.5

China, and it did not go well.

0:27.2

Plus, sharing is no longer caring in the cavernous aisles of Costco after the retailer decided

0:33.4

to crack down on people going splitsies on their membership cards.

0:37.6

Neil, it's Thursday June 29th. Let's ride.

0:40.8

Alright, Neil. Before we start the show, I want to tell you about a little experience

0:48.4

I had last night. I had the grimace shake, which for our less online listeners, McDonald's

0:54.6

is rolling out this big promotion for grimace's birthday, grimace being one of their characters

0:59.3

they launched in the mid 70s. And to commemorate his birthday, they made this thing called

1:04.4

the grimace shake. It's a monstrosity. It's kind of bluish, purplish. It's got like a

1:08.8

berry vanilla flavor. And I can tell you what, I feel awful right now.

1:13.6

Really? It was bad.

1:14.6

It was so good that I drank the entire like extra large milkshake. And here's the

1:19.8

thing. This is why McDonald's gets you. In order to get one grimace shake, you have to

1:24.0

get the entire grimace meal. So last night at like 930, I started pounding like chicken

1:29.2

big nuggets and a large fry and drinking a whole grimace shake. And I was like, I was

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