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US Debt Rating Gets Downgraded & How Uber Is Finally Making Money

Morning Brew Daily

Morning Brew

News, Business, Business News

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Episode 116: Neal and Toby discuss Fitch downgrading the US debt rating from AAA to AA+, citing how close Congress was to defaulting on the debt ceiling as well as the insurrection. The guys also go through their biggest takeaways from yesterday's earnings reports and get into how Uber is finally making money. Plus, which independent film has raked in more money than Mission Impossible and MrBeast is taking legal action against the company making his burgers. And finally the medical lawsuit that reached settlement after more than 70 years. 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, Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Freeman, and I'm Toby Hell.

0:03.5

On today's pod, Uber just did something it has never done as a company,

0:08.1

and will tell you about the life, and even longer after life, of a woman named Henrietta Lacks.

0:13.8

Then, the US has lost its pristine triple A debt rating,

0:17.6

and Jenna Yellen is none too happy about it.

0:20.3

Plus, Mr. Beast has beef with his restaurant partner,

0:23.9

and much like the burgers he sold to fans, the lawsuit is getting bloody and raw.

0:28.8

It's Wednesday, August 2nd, let's ride.

0:35.9

Toby was baby's first Miss Alarm this morning.

0:38.8

I know, Neil showed up a little late to the studio.

0:42.1

I'm not going to lie, I was plotting through, okay, if I had to do it by myself,

0:46.6

how would I do it?

0:47.4

And how would you have done it?

0:48.3

I would have just had really dramatic pauses,

0:50.2

like the sports talk show radio hosts, where they just don't say anything for a while,

0:53.8

and then you come back on, so...

0:55.6

I could have done it.

0:56.0

You could have tick phone calls.

0:58.0

If one of us misses a taping, because we didn't wake up,

1:02.1

you could just take phone calls from listeners.

1:04.0

Interesting.

1:04.4

What do you think about this?

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