Morning Brew Daily - Cyberattacks Rupture Euro Airports & Michelob Ultra is the King of Beer

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

Episode 677: Toby and Kyle recap the shaking situation over in Argentina as President Javier Milei’s free-market revolution is starting to teeter. Then, a string of cyberattacks rips through Europea...n airports and Jaguar Land Over, Britain’s largest carmaker. And, the OECD raises its outlook on the global economy stating its more resilient to Trump’s tariffs than initially estimated…but not immune. Meanwhile, there’s a new top-spot for beer in the US: Michelob Ultra.  00:00 - Send us your group chats! 3:00 - Jimmy Kimmel is back 7:10 - Argentina’s Milei is having a rough go 11:45 - Cyberattacks tear through Europe 18:20 - OECD updates its outlook 22:00 - Michelob cracks the top spot 25:20 - Sprint Finish! You can try reMarkable Paper Pro Move for 100 days for free. If it’s not what you’re looking for, get your money back. Get your paper tablet at https://www.remarkable.com today Get your MBD live show tickets here! https://www.tinyurl.com/MBD-HOLIDAY Presale code LETSRIDE 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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Starting point is 00:00:42 to late night TV, but not everyone got a chance to tune in. And America has a new number one beer. It's Wednesday, September 24th. Let's ride. Good morning and happy hump day, everyone. Neil is still out, enjoying some time off. But before he left,
Starting point is 00:01:01 he was cooking up an idea for the show. I want to run by you all. He called it, what are you talking about in your group chat? Kyle, what the heck was Neil talking about? Scientists haven't figured out quite what's going on in Neil's brain, but what we do know, you all have that one group chat. It's a constant thrum in the background, your daily lives. You're discussing sports.
Starting point is 00:01:19 You're discussing the market. Obviously, you're talking about the Morning Beer Daily Show. And so we want to know what the recent topic de jour has been in your group chat. We all know it goes down in the GC. It does go down in the GC. So send us an email or a DM on Instagram on Instagram. Instagram or X with some screenshots or a quick explanation of what you all have been talking about. And again, we're looking for the weird and wacky here.
Starting point is 00:01:40 For instance, my group chat is talking about how punting is dying in the NFL. Teams are punting just 3.65 times per game this season. That's the fewest in history. So if we get some good ones, kind of like punting, we'll discuss them when Neil gets back. Toby's group chat has statistics. It's incredible. We just stole Neil's idea. I'm actually going to go with this.
Starting point is 00:01:59 This is my idea. This is my idea all along. It's what he would have wanted. Our email is Morningbrewdaily at morningbrew.com or shoot us a DM on X or IG at MB Daily Show. Let's see those group chats. And now a word from our sponsor, Remarkable. Toby, we have to talk about your notebook, bud. It's brown.
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Starting point is 00:03:52 Kimmel had been off air ever since he made insensitive remarks about Charlie Kirk. murder, which led to Disney pulling his show shortly after FCC chair, Brennan Carr, threatened to take action against the network. But while millions tuned in to watch Kimmel's return, a good portion of the country had to opt for the YouTube cut instead. Sinclair and Nexstar, two of the biggest broadcasters in the U.S. control more than 25% of ABC's local affiliates, and both decided to replace Kimmel's show with other news programming last night and going forward. One person who likely was watching, though, was President Trump, who posted on true social, I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back, about an hour
Starting point is 00:04:32 before Kimmel's show was set to air. Kyle, this has quickly become the story for free speech conversations in this country with people from both sides of the aisle weighing in on the potential suppression of First Amendment rights. I think a lot of people might have stayed up past our bedtimes to catch this episode. Yeah, I had to catch in the morning because you got to go to bed at like 8 p.m. to get up for this show. I thought the monologue was good. It hit the beats. I thought he had to hit. I love when a guy gets a little teary-eyed for the First Amendment as well. That's always a nice touch. I think the one part of this story that we haven't talked about in the intro is the pushback on Disney from creative talent, which might have forced their hand to bring Kimmel back,
Starting point is 00:05:10 actually. At least five Hollywood unions representing 400,000 workers publicly condemned the company. The screenwriters union described it as, quote, corporate cowardice. Damon Lindeloff, the creator of loss that I might not ever work with Disney again if they don't bring them back a former chief executive of Disney, Michael Eisner, which is very rare, rebuked the company. And so Disney kind of found itself in a tough spot here. And I think part of their reason to bring them back was like they have to keep making movies and keep making TV shows. They can't lose the confidence of talent across the globe. And then the other aspect of this is these owners of the ABC affiliates, Next Star, in Sinclair. They are a lot more powerful than you probably
Starting point is 00:05:52 ever realize, these are not names that you think about when you flip on the TV, but their programming reaches about 23% of all U.S. household. So when they make the decision to preempt the show as they did, some of major markets aren't getting the show anymore. A lot of the markets they serve are major metro areas, Washington, D.C., Seattle. So if you were in one of those, maybe when you flipped on the channel that you expected, Jim and Kim will be on. Instead, you've got local news programming. So they are continued to kind of flex their might, maybe align themselves with the FCC because Next Star is trying to get this merger across the finish line. So there's definitely some business implications underneath the service as to why Jimmy Kimmel didn't appear on their
Starting point is 00:06:34 networks last night. And it's not just the merger. They also might need the FCC to change some of its rules because this merger would bring their TV ownership up to more than 39% of U.S. households, which is technically prohibited by law, depending on how you break it down, The FCC would need to grant them basically a rule change. We saw with Paramount CBS and the Colbert show getting pulled that there might be some political calculus here. Next, Star is definitely doing that. Sinclair also announced that it wants to do M&A in 2025 and beyond. And so they're probably trying to get in the good graces of the administration as well.
Starting point is 00:07:09 And then finally, one aspect of this that is just really ill time is Disney actually announced price hikes yesterday for its streaming service Disney Plus. So they usually do this around this time, but obviously they couldn't have foreseen this brouhaha coming up. And so it's just really awkward timing right now because they are under massive fire right now. So we'll see how the consumer response is to the fact that maybe they'll start boycotting Disney Plus going forward, especially when you're getting the price hiked on you at this very sensitive moment. I think we need to see Bob Auger's group chat. That's the group chat I want to see. That is a stressful group chat right now for sure.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Moving on, yesterday as President Trump took a smiling photo next to Argentina's president, Javier Miele, at the United Nations Summit in New York, all seemed to be well between the two leaders and allies. But under the surface, things are anything but calm in the wake of Miele's free market overhaul of Argentina's economy. Critics point out that the Muley economy is contracting. Tens of thousands of jobs has been lost, and the financial markets are roiling. Muley said that all that pain was a byproduct of his move to reign in Argentina.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Runaway Inflation, and if you just trust him, a V-like recovery awaits on the other side of the tough austerity measures. But that prosperous and stable economy has remained elusive. Unemployment is up to 7.6% from 5.7% when he took office. And Argentina has about 200,000 fewer jobs, according to government data. The charm has worn off, a reverend who works in Son of Buenos Aires' neighborhoods, told the Wall Street Journal. Still, Miele does it have a Trump card and his back pocket, President Trump's support. Treasury Secretary Scott percent said this week that the U.S. is looking at all options to potentially bail out Argentina and help stabilize its currency.
Starting point is 00:08:57 The news sparked a rally amongst investors, lifting Argentine stocks and pushing the peso up 2%. President Trump also offered explicit public support for his friend Muley saying he's done a fantastic job. We're backing him 100%. Kyle, Mielei rose to fame as a chainsaw-wielding right-wing populace, but right now the results haven't quite followed his bravado. Yeah, I mean, he inherited a very difficult situation to his credit. Inflation was a peak of 289% in April 2024 in Argentina. It was dropped to 34% in August. So his move to tame inflation worked in some aspects.
Starting point is 00:09:36 But when you try to do that, other things can go awry. But he was kind of this animal spirit even during the Trump campaign. He was looked at as a political leader, much in maybe the likeness of Trump that was going to disrupt the bureaucracy, bring a lot of change. Him and Elon shared a stage at one point, I believe he was kind of the original Doge father. And we're seeing that while there's some good to that, there's also some things that don't work out quite well. It's not just economical, though.
Starting point is 00:10:05 I think you've brought up kind of this political element. His sister is involved in some corruption scandal, which has maybe some voters a little worried that he's not all he's made up to be. And so the U.S. support will be important. I wonder how much here internally at the U.S. we're willing to support Argentina. Yeah. And Argentina has historically been a little bit of a rough bet for people trying to bail them out because there is this running joke, essentially, that Argentina is kind of like the worst investment in global economics because they end up defaulting on their debt so frequently that is just, something that happens as you are trying to, you know, get a country out of trouble when it's
Starting point is 00:10:48 just been systemically had issues with inflation and whatnot. But I do think that you're seeing the U.S. position themselves as an ally to Argentina right now saying it's a systemically important ally saying that there are resources there that we want, but maybe it is, if you read between the lines, they're just friends, and that's why we're going to backstop them. But Miele's overall plan in general was to bring down inflation by kind of devaluing the or revaluing the peso against the U.S. dollar. Let's make this currency a little bit stronger. And the upside is you have cheaper imported goods, stuff like cars, tires, clothing.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Coming in the country, it's a lot cheaper now because your currency is stronger. But what that does do is suddenly make your exports less competitive as well, which has affected some of those core industries like manufacturing that all political leaders want to be strong in their country. Yeah, you mentioned the investment in Argentina. By some accounts, Argentina accounts for about a third of the IMF's overall lending, which is just a huge number. And the IMF will give out loans to countries that need a little more financial capital to get things in a good spot. But those come with certain rules. And then basically, if you can't initiate those reforms and get in a good spot, you need more loans to cover the old loans. And you get in this really vicious cycle. So Argentina finds itself kind of between a rock and a hard place here. Yeah, it's defaulted on foreign debt nine times in its history, three times since 2000 alone, and as recently as 2019. So that is why there is that joke that sometimes lending money to Argentina feels like it's a black hole.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Yeah, and a story that's certain to make your company's IT guys say, see, I told you those cybersecurity trainings were important. Several airports across Europe, including London's Heathrow, suffered delays and disruptions after a cyber attack was launched against automatic check-in systems. The attack started on Friday, and its effects were felt over the weekend and into this week. Brussels, for example, asked airlines to cancel half of yesterday's flight departures due to persistent problems. Berlin and Dublin's airports were also affected similarly. The problem originated from Collins Aerospace, a software provider that worked with several airlines across the world.
Starting point is 00:12:57 And the EU agency for cybersecurity said on Monday that Collins had suffered a ransomware attack, where hackers attempt to lock up the targets data and systems in attempt for, you guessed it, a ransom. Now, zooming out, this attack is just one of several cybercrimes that have struck European businesses, hospitals, and charities over the summer and in the past year. Marks and Spencer, one of Britain's largest retailers, was hit in April by a sophisticated cyber attack that cost $405 million in lost profits. And Jaguar Land Rover, Britain's largest carmaker, was hit with a cyber attack in September, that disabled many of its systems for weeks.
Starting point is 00:13:36 It expects production to remain halted until at least October. Now, Rachel Reeves, a chancellor in the British government, said that officials were working closely with J.Y. Land Rover, and quote, there is a wider issue here of ensuring that foreign states, including Russia, cannot bring down production or flights or public services in Britain. It is a new and growing threat. Now, it's not conclusive yet who is behind any of these attacks, but obviously a strong statement from Chancellor Reeves.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Toby, this story has got me a little nervous of accidentally clicking on a fishing attempt email here, so I'm a little scared. You are not wrong because cyber attacks in the aviation sector are up 600% this past year. This is a disaster at these European airports because the automatic check-in systems, the thing that we all use when you get to the airport,
Starting point is 00:14:23 are down right now, so they're asking flight attendants to, not flight attendants, but people working in the airports, to manually check people in, which just sounds absolutely awful. But I do want to talk about just the size of this Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack, because this is a very critical business in the UK. It's one of the UK's largest employers. They have 32,000 direct employees in Britain, but they also have 104,000 jobs supported throughout its supply chain,
Starting point is 00:14:51 so it's its parts, materials, logistics. And then also those wages that people are garnering from working at Jaguar Land Rover support, 62,000 more jobs indirectly. So in total, the impact on the UK economy is 200,000 jobs, not even talking about the actual impact on the company itself, who is losing millions of dollars every single week as they are not able to pump out these cars. So just this entire business has been ground to a halt, which is going to have ripple effects throughout the entire economy. And we have to talk about AI in every story. So I think AI represents kind of this unique new vector in cybercrime. One, actors now have tools to like make fishing emails a lot better.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Like chat, you can cook these up very well. But also, as we're connecting more and more tools together through these kind of nascent technologies, security sometimes doesn't catch up. And so threat actors have found ways into some of these new systems. And I think we're going to see cyber attacks continue to rise. And you did say that we're not sure who's behind the airport attack. That is still up in the but we do have a good sense of who's behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack, and that is, there's this telegram channel that has posted screenshots saying, hey, we're in the system, and it's calling itself Scattered Lapsis Hunters, which is actually a loose alliance of three hacker groups that maybe we've talked about
Starting point is 00:16:11 on this show before. One, Scattered Spider, they were behind that Marks and Spencer hack from earlier this year. And then Lapsis is a very big group at this point. They have made a name for themselves attacking companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber. Most of these are young English-speaking people, too. So it's not necessarily the foreign actors of, like, the Russian that the Chancellor was talking about. It is just young Gen Ziers who just want to do this for financial gain. So, again, not sure about the airport attack, but at least Jaguar Land Rover.
Starting point is 00:16:43 This is a group of English-speaking, profit-minded young people who are going after this major company. All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with our next story right after this. Today we helped a latte for Sam. Coffee shop get an insurance quote simply and easily. And made sure
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Starting point is 00:17:58 Give me the good news. I knew you were an optimist. The good news is that the U.S. and the world economies aren't slowing down as much as people thought they would, with a lot of countries holding up better than expected this year. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecasted in its quarterly report that the U.S. economy will grow 1.8% this year up from the 1.6% previously expected, while the global economy will expand 3.2% this year stronger than the 2.9% projected in June. Now for the bad news, the global economy is expected to take a hit from Trump's trade policies,
Starting point is 00:18:32 with growth expected to sink to 2.9% in 2026 from 3.2% this year, while U.S. expansion is slowing from its growth rate last year as higher tariffs and uncertainty take hold. So it really depends on how you like your glass, Kyle, half full or half empty. If you're a half-full guy, the OECD did bump up its 2025 forecast, pointing to businesses rushing orders ahead of tariffs, strong investment in AI in China's fiscal stimulus. But if you're a half-empty guy, then the OECD points out that the full impact from the overall effective tariff rate of 19.5 percent, the highest since 1933, has yet to be felt. So expect slower growth going forward. It's Schrodinger's economy, both stronger than expected, but weaker than in years past. And I'll stop there before I make another metaphor, Kyle.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Well, show out to my glass half full, guys. That's me. I found there was like three main trends coming out of this report. The first is that it's the investment in new technologies that's keeping the global economy humming. We talked about Nvidia and Open AI, $100 billion deal yesterday. Basically, AI, whether you like it or not, is at least keeping investment flowing. I mean, the global economy basically hangs in like Jensen Wong's hands right now. The second is that there's a drop in net immigration, particularly in the United States,
Starting point is 00:19:51 reductions in the federal workforce. That's also going to hurt the labor market and soften economic growth. So that's something to watch out for. And then I think the third thing is we've talked about tariffs all year. And this report's really saying like the worst is yet to come. And many firms just started stockpiling goods before the tariff took effect. And so we're going to see the effects of the tariffs in 2026, at least according to the OECD. Yeah, as people and businesses burn through those inventories, that is going to start cutting into profit a little bit more.
Starting point is 00:20:20 And yeah, the OECD is basically warning that, hey, we haven't seen the worst of it. And the economy is actually doing better than we expected at this point. But maybe let's look a little bit down the road, a little into the future. And it does look like maybe AI investment won't be enough to outgrow tariffs or something like that. Now, there are some critics of this report in general, basically calling it an economic horoscope that is mostly, just reactive and too often wrong to actually draw any major conclusions from. But technically, it does give a detailed and transparent look into how they build their model. So don't take it with a grain of salt because obviously no one has a crystal ball and can predict the future,
Starting point is 00:20:57 but also, you know, don't completely discard it out of hand because it is something that they do put a lot of, you know, thought and have models that go into creating this. And people use it to, you know, create policy recommendations going forward. So it is something that is important. Yeah, it's definitely something that's taken very, you know, seriously in the U.S. by lawmakers. And the fact that it's a prediction for next year is, you know, gives you a little more confidence in the prediction. Obviously, the farther you get out, the less confidence you can have in your models. 95 calories, 2.6 grams of carbs, 4.2% alcohol by volume. Those are the stats of America's new top-selling beer, Micalob, Ultra.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Now, this is a big win for Anheiser-Busch who launched Mikhailob Ultra in 2002 and aimed to target a more health-conscious and active lifestyle consumer, which has become an even more important segment today. Mickelope dethroned Modelo Especial from the number one spot, which held dating back to 2023. Prior to that, Bud Light was often America's top-selling beer. Now, shout-outs all my marketers out there because Mikalob Ultra might be the perfect case study of using marketing to elevate a product. that is relatively undifferentiated from its competitors. Mickelope Ultra's ads went hard into the sports and active lifestyle with ads such as, quote, athletes love water right. This is basically water.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Time for a beer run featuring Usain Bolt. It's original, lose the carbs, not the taste slogan. And the most recent one with Willem Defoe and Catherine O'Hara playing pickleball, they also have sponsored an incredible amount of sports competitions, including the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Now, if Americans love two things, they are beer and pretending they're still athletic way past their prime. And Mikhailob Ultra is a dart right in the middle of that Venn diagram. Toby, you're an athlete.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Does Miklob have you convinced? One thing that I do like about Miklob that I think is resonating people is their form factor, their skinny can. Again, this is something that you probably don't necessarily think about when you're picking a beer. But canned cocktails have become increasingly popular with Gen Z. I mean, you think about high noon's rise recently, all these other kind of skinnier-looking white clock is another example. That form factor mirrors Mikulub Ultras can. So it is clearly that's something that's resonating with Gen Z as well. And I think they've just threaded the needle quite well between generations by, you know, targeting this more active lifestyle.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Something people call out is when they are going into a bar in the morning to watch a Premier League game as it's become more popular. You don't want something heavy. You want something light. so you want something like Mickelope Ultra. So it really has found this resonance with a more health-conscious, athletic group of young people. Yeah, they've also, they've rolled out a zero alcohol version. And they've said that that has really helped the brand of Mickelope, too. So I think you're right on the money there of who they're targeting and the segment they're going after.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Miclope's gain has been Modelo's losses. So Constellation Brands, which distributes, has the U.S. distribution rights for Modelo, have seen its stockfall 39% year to date. You look at AB InBev, on the other hand, it's up about 17% year to date. A.B. InBev, too, we have to give a shout out too because they were embroiled in the bud light controversy of years gone by, which knocked that off the number one beer in America thrown. It looked like they were in trouble, but AB&B.M. Bev is a massive beverage conglomerate for
Starting point is 00:24:26 every budd light that they lost. Mikulib Ultras stepped in to take. its place. So it's been a comeback story for that conglomerate when it looked like Madela was going to be the air apparent for a while. But actually due to some of Trump's immigration policies and just the general climate, a lot of Hispanic consumers have been pulling back on their consumption habits, which has led to Madelo kind of slipping from that top spot as well. Finally, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines. Kyle, what do you have for us to start off? I have 10 contestants.
Starting point is 00:24:59 Six pilots, a biomedical engineer, an anesthesiologist, a geologist, and a former SpaceX launch director. No, these aren't the next contestants on Love Island in space. They're the next batch of NASA astronauts. The space agency on Monday introduced these 10 new astronauts and highlighted they came from a pool of over 8,000 applicants. They'll begin training for future flights to the International Space Station and possibly Mars, with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy saying, one of these 10 could actually be one of the first Americans to put their boots on the Mars surface, which is very, very cool.
Starting point is 00:25:32 The new astronaut candidates will spend two years training at the Johnson Space Center around the world with partner space agencies before becoming flight eligible. I know I got you excited about Mars. However, most experts say no such NASA mission is likely to launch within the next decade, but fingers crossed, I'll be alive for it. The biggest takeaway for these 10 people, when they said, I want to be an astronaut when I grow up, It actually came true. So shout out to them. Shout out to them. This is also the first time that women outnumber men in a NASA astronaut class.
Starting point is 00:26:02 So there's six women and four men this time around. One, I want to shout out is Anna Menon. She's the first astronaut to have already flown into orbit before joining NASA because she was a former space X engineer. She actually flew in that private mission, Polaris Don, that flew higher than any crude spacecraft had in decades. so she definitely has some experience going up to space. And then what comes next? Obviously, you have to do a bunch of training going forward. You have to learn Russian to be able to converse with other cosmonauts up in space.
Starting point is 00:26:35 But also, this is a different NASA landscape that they are entering into, whereas before a lot of their astronauts' time was spent training for life on the ISS. The ISS is going to be sunsetted in the early 2030s. And so maybe there's more deep space readiness preparation. we are looking to go further into space, to the moon obviously is a big priority, but also maybe beyond to Mars as well. Finally, Chick-fil-A is branching out beyond chicken this fall with a new beverage-focused concept called Daybright that will debut in the Atlanta area. The spin-off will serve specialty coffees, smoothies, and cold press juices, but none of Chick-fil-A's traditional menu items, aka chicken. This has been a trend of late, Kyle, fast food restaurants
Starting point is 00:27:19 investing more heavily into drinks. McDonald's spun up a a standalone concept called Cosmix that focused specifically on drinks before looping in some of those options to its core restaurants. And now Chick-fil-A is looking to get a little liquid with it with Daybright. Kyle, how do we think a Chick-fil-A-adjacent specialty coffee is going to hit? Look, if people know one thing about me is that I love beverages, so I'm excited to try these all. Obviously, it's a very high-margin product for these companies, too. So I think it's a really smart place for Chick-fil-A to play in. Me too, but I'm wondering what could be a Chick-fil-A-inspired coffee?
Starting point is 00:27:54 Is it just going to be like normal speciality coffee? We'll have to go together and try it out. Atlanta Road Trip. All right, that is all the time we have. We hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. Remember, send us what you're talking about in your group chats. Our email is Morning Brew Daily
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