Spirit Airlines on its Deathbed? & July Inflation Remains Sticky
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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| 0:39.4 | Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, inflation was |
| 0:45.2 | more mild than underseason potatoes, teeing up a Fed rate cut next month. Ben Elon Musk claims that |
| 0:50.8 | Apple and Open AI are in cahoots, suppressing his AI chatbot in the app store. |
| 0:56.1 | It's Wednesday, August 13th. Let's ride. |
| 1:03.1 | You've heard on this podcast that Las Vegas is in a major tourism slump this summer, |
| 1:08.0 | but it might be able to turn things around with some help from |
| 1:11.1 | tigers and lions and bears, oh my. Sphere, the futuristic, sphere-shaped venue just off the strip, |
| 1:17.5 | announced this week that it had sold 127,000 tickets to its showing of the Wizard of Oz, |
| 1:23.8 | which debuts on August 28th. The sphere and a team of engineers used AI to widen the 1939 |
| 1:29.6 | films frames to fit the ginormous screen with the goal of making you feel like you were in |
| 1:34.1 | the studio when the movie was being made. James Dolan, CEO of Sphere and owner of the Nix, |
| 1:39.0 | says he thinks the Wizard of Oz will boost the share of people traveling to Las Vegas |
| 1:42.8 | just for the S sphere to 10% from |
| 1:45.3 | 7% currently. As long as people don't balk at the price, which starts at over $100 for a single |
| 1:51.5 | showing, he might be right. He might be right, but I have also seen a lot of backlash from |
| 1:56.9 | film buffs online because obviously when you change the scope of a shot, you're changing |
| 2:01.0 | the feel of a movie. So Slate wrote an article that was titled The Much Hiped New Wizard of Oz |
| 2:06.3 | is an atrocity. Other reporters who got a sneak peek called it gross and disrespectful and an affront |
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