US Soldier Caught Betting in Maduro Raid & Marijuana Reclassified as Less Dangerous

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

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Episode 831: Neal and Toby talk about a US soldier who was involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro arrested for placing Polymarket wagers on the raid itself. Then, US reclassifying state-licensed marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.Then, AI coding startup Cursor inks a $60B deal with SpaceX, making it the Stock of the Week. While QVC files for bankruptcy, making it the Dog of the Week. Finally, the NFL draft was overshadowed by Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Learn more at https://www.schwab.com/oninvesting Get tix for Morning Brew’s live show! https://www.caveat.nyc/events/morning-brew-presents-business-island-4-30-2026 Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ 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 Fryman.
0:05.0	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:06.0	Today a soldier in the Maduro raid was caught betting on the Maduro raid.
0:10.0	Then marijuana is being reclassified as a less dangerous drug.
0:15.0	It's Friday, April 24th. Let's ride.
0:18.0	Good morning and happy Friday.
0:24.6	I just love this.
0:25.6	Someone has invented an anti-grammerly, a tool that adds typos to your emails.
0:30.6	Yesterday, Ben Horwitz revealed sincerely spelled wrong, which is a Chrome plug-in that takes your email and rewrites it with mistakes
0:38.8	to demonstrate to the recipient that a human, not AI, actually composed it. Toby, you downloading?
0:45.0	The only way to fight AI slop is with more slop. I do like the three modes it affords you.
0:51.5	There's subtle, which mixes up an I and an e here and there. There's
0:54.9	human which sprinkles in a few more typos. And then the maximum mode is CEO, which drastically
1:00.3	reduces the word count and also spells a lot of stuff wrong in the process. This is obviously a joke
1:05.7	product, but Kevin Roos, a tech reporter from the New York Times, quote tweeted and said that an
1:09.9	email marketer he knew started intentionally putting typos in their subject lines and open race jumped by
1:15.7	40%.
1:16.8	Maybe something for the Morning Brew newsletter team to think about.
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