Morning Brew Daily - DeSantis Burning Through Cash, Actor and UPS Strikes Could Cost Billions, & Tesla Cybertruck is Here
Episode Date: July 17, 2023Episode 104: Neal and Toby explain how Ron DeSantis spend $7.9 million in his first six weeks of his Presidential campaign and how other candidates are spending and fundraising comparatively. Plus, wh...y the actor and UPS strikes could cost billions, and after two long years Tesla's Cybertruck is finally here. Also, United pilots get paid and Lionel Messi loves Publix. The guys also want to wish a happy 'World Emoji Day' to you and yours and they take a look ahead to what we are watching this week. 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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Good morning, Brew, daily show.
I'm Neil Fryman.
And I'm Toby Howell.
On today's pod, we get our first glimpse of presidential candidates' finances, and one balance sheet in particular, looks like it could use an infusion from Andresen Horowitz.
And it's a good time to be a pilot for United Airlines, we'll tell you why.
Then we'll check in on Hollywood to see if the industry can survive a double rider actor strike.
Plus, after an interminably long waiting period, the Tesla cyber truck is finally here.
It's Monday, July 17th.
Let's ride.
Toby, I was out Friday, and I'm surprised I still have a job here at this podcast.
You and not Toby crushed it.
It was a fun time.
The weirdest part was definitely sitting on your side of the desk.
The lighting is totally different, I realize.
Like, it's a lot darker over there.
I know.
Maybe that's why people say you're better looking at me.
It totally just comes down to lighting for sure.
Tell me a little bit about Maine.
Yeah, so we were in Portland, Maine.
I think I did all of the highlights that I wanted to check off.
I was there for Bachelor Party, so it was a group.
It wasn't just me.
Kayak in Casco Bay.
Went to the Alagash Brewery, which is a great time.
So many Bachelorette parties, which I wasn't expecting.
So if you're a Bachelor party, it might be a good place to consider going.
I'm so happy you had a good time there, honestly.
That's great.
Yeah, because you live there for a year.
Also got a lobster roll from Bight into Maine, which I highly recommend.
It's a food truck.
guess how much it cost it's got to be seasonal prices $27 30 30 oh well that was the smaller size the
four ounce I know it was $30 but it was delicious and I think I don't regret it but I don't know
win in Maine baby it was delicious that is a crazy amount that's a lot that's a lot but uh went in
Maine all right let's get into our first story uh so running a presidential campaign is definitely a lot
like running a business you've got to hire staff run effective digital marketing uh and
this one's key, not run out of money. Well, Ron DeSantis is struggling in that final point.
This weekend, we got a first look at the detailed campaign finances of each of the presidential
candidates. And the one thing that stood out was that the Florida governor's burn rate looks
like something out of Adam Newman era we work. Desantis raised a lot last quarter, about $20 million,
but he's also spent almost 40% of the amount he's raised. That's largely because of his huge
staffed. 92 full-time staffers worked on his campaign by far the most of any candidate.
And even he realized he was overhiring like a big tech company in 2021 and fired about a dozen
of them last week to cut costs. So DeSantis is following Zuck and trying out this year of efficiency.
Did anything else stand out to you from these filings? Yeah. I think also that first of all,
Desantis is doing well. He raised a lot of money, but he's almost tapped out of his voter base a little bit
because more than two-thirds of the cast that he has on hand is from backers who gave $3,300,
which is actually the biggest check that individuals can write in primary elections.
So it kind of shows that there is like this initial burst of enthusiasm.
A lot of people gave a lot of money for an individual donor.
But now that those people have given that money, you're probably-
I did not know this about the $3,300 limit.
Right.
I think you can give as much to a super PAC, which is sort of a, you know, an organization,
that can't really coordinate with a campaign officially,
but still runs ads and does stuff for your campaign.
It's just kind of separated.
Right, yeah.
And then less than 15% of his contributions came from individuals
of under $200, which is kind of a warning sign
because you want to see that strong grassroots support.
And the less than $200 check,
that's what most people are giving,
which is actually the threshold it takes to remain under
having to file a federal filing.
that shows you donated more than $200.
So, yeah, there's, again, he's raised a lot of money,
but there are some of those warning signs blinking and flashing a little bit.
This is like earnings season for political candidates.
Because I need to file this documentation with, you know, federal regulators,
which is the same thing as companies.
And so we got a bunch of other candidates details too.
Trump raised $17.7 million last quarter,
which is a little bit less than DeSantis,
but he's got a huge war chest.
He's got about twice as much to spend because apparently doesn't,
hire 92 people to work. And then Biden is literally like this bootstrapped startup, even though he's
the president of the United States. He just spent $1.1 million in the second quarter on his
reelection campaign and employs four full-time staffers. So scrappy. At this point in Obama's
re-election campaign in 2011, he had spent $11 million. So Biden is being a penny pincher here.
I know. Seriously, it's a little crazy when you see it compared to Obama. And then I also just want to talk
about what the other candidates, GOP candidates are doing because they're getting super creative.
So one candidate, Vivek Ramoswami, launched a program to give his backers a 10% cut of the money
they raised for his campaign. So basically, like, created these traveling salesmen.
Tupperware. Yeah, it's, yeah, exactly. It's like a Tupperware campaign. And then the mayor of Miami,
Francis Suarez, also is entering supporters into a raffle to win front road tickets to watch
messy play if they Venmo his campaign at least $1.
And then North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam is handing out $20 in gift cards to anyone
who donates as little as $1.
So you see all these like creative campaigns of maybe questionable legality of
that are creating these financial incentives because the big thing is for these
fringe candidates is to hit that 40,000 donor target.
And if you do that, you get on stage for the first GOP debate.
So you're, we're getting real creative these days.
So you consider yourself a marketer.
I consider you a really good marketer.
Is being on like a campaign interesting to you because it's kind of different?
You're promoting a person or ideas rather than a particular product.
And do you think these, you know, stunts like, you know, offering a free ticket to messy or $20 gift cards are effective?
Well, I would think absolutely they're effective, especially Francis Suarez who's saying Venmo me a dollar.
Because first of all, I would, as a marketer, I need to understand.
understand the legality of all these things.
Like, I don't, there are definitely some more laws around campaign finances and fund pricing.
But if you can get mobilized a population who knows what VEMO is and can use VEMO,
I think that's a great strategy for, like, raising money because, yeah, it's just a dollar.
Venmo is very easy for people.
So I don't know.
I love seeing how creative the fringe people get.
We'll see if anyone make it on the debates.
You just got to, you just got to back out your cost and see if it's worth, you know, the cost
per acquisition, like a very traditional digital marketer.
Apparently this North Dakota, first of all, he's a billionaire.
Right.
So he can afford this.
But it would cost to get 50,000 donors that he's looking for with the gift card scheme.
It would cost not even a million dollars.
And then so you're paying basically a million dollars, getting people into your system.
You get a huge email database.
And then you get to be on the debate stage with Trump and DeSantis and all of them.
So it might be a good scheme if it is legal, but they're not, but they're saying it might not be.
Yeah, let's run one for Morning Rea Daily.
Let's get a little referral system going.
All right, Neil, let's move on to our next story.
So remember last week, the SAG after Union,
which represents 160,000 actors and other Hollywood personnel,
officially went on strike joining the Riders Guild of America.
It's the first time that both the writers and the actors have been on strike
since the 1960s,
and we're finally starting to get a picture of what that might mean
for the film and entertainment industry.
first and foremost, movie premieres are going to look a lot different because strike guidelines
prohibit not only on-camera work, but also promotional activity.
So, for instance, this weekend, Disney held a red carpet for their new movie Haunted Mansion,
and instead of having stars like Tiffany Haddish or Danny DeVito walking the red carpet,
they brought out characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Malifficient, and Cruella,
which is pretty black mirrory, if you ask me, using fictional characters to promote a movie
because your actors are on strike.
We're in some weird times.
I know.
And then you also have the continued chatter around studios' desire to use AI to scan an actor's image
and own it for the rest of eternity in exchange for one day's work.
Speaking of Black Mirror.
They made an episode about that.
Yeah.
Isn't that the exact same kind of plot line in the most recent Black Mirror?
Yes.
I haven't watched it yet, but I did read that.
You are correct.
That was my next line.
And then plus the walkout is also affecting productions
internationally in places like Thailand where the next season of White Lotus is being filmed,
as well as the UK and Europe.
So this walkout clearly is turning into a global issue and maybe even an existential one for
the whole industry.
Yeah, I mean, you have these big media CEOs going on interviews and saying this is kind of
going to destroy our industry.
You had Barry Diller, who is this, if you haven't heard of him, he's this huge media mogul.
He's the chairman of IAC and executive.
Expedia. He went on CNBC and said these conditions will potentially produce an absolute collapse of the entire industry because there's this flywheel if you know a negative flywheel where if you don't have content, then people cut their subscriptions to Disney Plus and Hulu because they're like, well, I don't need to see all this stuff again. And then there's then there's no revenue to produce new shows even when this strike ends potentially, you know, a few months from now or whenever it does. And so he's just like warning that, you know,
this entire Hollywood industry will collapse.
Yeah, I could totally see it.
It is kind of that doom loop that we've described.
I think we described it with San Francisco,
but yeah, you're totally right.
Like, if there's no new content,
then there's no new money to film new content.
So I can see it getting ugly.
Then again, it's coming from him,
and he's trying to stake out his negotiation
and put pressure on the actors and writers
to come back to the table.
Well, but he also says his plan for going forward
is that he thinks the top studio execs
and top paid actors.
should take a 25% pay cut as a good faith measure.
So I don't know about that.
Like, in reality, who knows if that's ever going to happen,
but that's his path forward as like to bring some stability to the negotiation table.
But then I also just want to talk a little bit about the SAG after president,
Fran Drescher, who's been on an absolute press tear recently.
So during our Toby not Toby show on Friday, we actually talked about Bob Eiger's Disney CEO's comments on the strike,
where he called for the picketers to be, quote, realistic with their demands.
Well, Fran was none too happy with those comments,
and we have a little clip that illustrates the extent of her distaste.
What did you think about Bob Iger's comments yesterday?
I found them terribly repugnant and out of touch, positively tone-deaf.
And, you know, I don't think it served him well.
If I were that company, I would lock him behind doors
and never let him talk to anybody about this because it's so obvious that he has no clue as to what is really happening on the ground with hardworking people that don't make anywhere near the salary that he's making.
So obviously you can kind of hear the charged nature of the discourse around the strike, which is almost shifted into a bit of class warfare where you have the unions representing the common person, pitted against the 1% in COs.
like Warner Bros. Discoveries David's Last 11, of course, Disney's CEO, Bob Iger. It's crazy, though,
how, like... Right. She was talking about how much Bob Iger was making, and I think he earned
$65 million from Disney in 2018, which was about 1,400 times the company's median employee
salary. And he just signed this new contract where he's going to get paid up to $31 million.
So he's getting paid a lot, but also it's a little bit odd to see super highly paid actors,
like Fran get up there and talk about the working man.
But you just kind of have to think about the fact that the vast majority of the people
in this actors union are not people like her and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.
It's these background actors that, you know, when you see, you know, King's Landing
and he's walking and they're all walking through, it's all the people saying shame.
And they're there are actors and, you know, they get paid about like $26,000 from acting
over the course of the year.
So you have really rich people talking on behalf of not rich people against really rich people.
So, yeah, it's a very interesting class dynamic.
For sure.
And then just looking ahead a little bit to another strike, UPS workers are potentially going to go on strike this week for a variety of reasons from working conditions.
Most of their trucks don't even have AC in them to better pay.
And experts think it could be one of the costliest strikes in at least the same.
entry, it would likely cost $7 billion for a 10-day work stoppage. So we got strikes on strikes
coming right now because UPS is the lubricant that makes the economy function to...
That one's going to be far more debilitating for the global economy. It's just to have Hollywood
actors on the picket line with and then UPS workers. It's going to be... It could be the summer
of strikes. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Neil, for our next story, I want you to think back to
November 22nd, 2019. Remember that day? I do. Oh, wow.
I absolutely do. I'll tell you why.
It was the day that Elon brought a cyber truck on stage
and threw some metal balls at its windows to show how unbreakable they were.
Well, he absolutely shattered those windows
and apparently the capabilities of Tesla to produce the truck itself.
But after a global pandemic, one purchase of a social media platform
and a potential cage match with Mark Zuckerberg,
the cyber truck is finally here for real.
Over the weekend, Tesla built its first cybertruck,
at its plant in Austin, Texas.
It's been such a long time coming, Neil.
But now the question is,
do you think this will meaningfully move the needle for Tesla in anyway?
He's looking at a video of it and making up my mind.
I'm going to say, no.
I don't think this thing is going to sell really well.
It is ugly, like objectively.
I mean, it's been, it's interesting because this pickup segment is so profitable
for car companies and there are so many classic names in there like the RAM and the F-150 and the way
Ford has gone about its electric transition is it wanted to model its electric Ford F-150 lightning
so much to the T of Ford the actual Ford F-150 to get you know people you know those guys who love the
truck drivers who love their F-150 to come over and buy electric and say look it's it's the same
thing. Like, you're not going to see anything different. You know, you don't have to explain to people
that this is electric and stuff. Like, don't worry about it. And then Elon's gone the complete alternate
route by creating something that is so obviously different and electric from a design perspective.
And I'm not sure that's going to resonate with the people who buy pickup trucks. It might
resonate with, you know, Elon fanboys and people who are really on the cutting edge. But when it
comes to a car, I think you want to go basic and you don't want to stand out.
It seems like he overthought it a little bit and like, yeah, if he just made an actual pickup truck that looked like one, then it probably would have gone fine.
I do want to talk a little bit about the price of the cyber truck real quick.
So initially it was estimated to be priced at $39,000 for the lowest model.
That model is now expected to cost $50,000 and have a range of over 300 miles.
But get this, the priciest version starts at around $70,000, and we'll have three electric motors with a range of 500 miles.
So three electric motors and 500 miles is actually kind of a selling point.
This thing is a beast.
Yeah, it's a big.
It can tow a lot.
It's comparable to the biggest pickup trucks like the RAM.
Like, it is a very good pickup truck design, notwithstanding.
It can tow a lot of crap.
Yeah.
And then just in terms of pricing against other competitors.
the Rivian starts at $74,000.
So it's right around the same price as the Rivian.
And then the Chevy Silverado is actually coming out.
And that will start the electric version of the Chevy Silverado.
And that will start at $77,000.
So this is on the lower end.
This is the affordable pickup EV.
It's a classic Elon move.
Like he loves lowering his prices.
All right.
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All right, let's hit our Winners of the Weekend,
a segment that is pretty self-explanatory.
My winner of the weekend is United Airlines pilots because they are on the verge of getting a massive raise.
The pilots union and United reached a preliminary agreement that would boost pay by up to 40% over four years and a contract valued at $10 billion.
This is a big win that highlights two existing trends.
First is this pilot shortage.
The airline industry is short thousands of pilots because so many decided to take buyouts and retire during COVID.
so the pilots have a lot more bargaining power, the ones that remain.
Also, it speaks to the incredible resurgence in air travel demand post-pandemic.
Airlines are adding routes all over the place and they need to staff up to serve all these travelers.
Pilots are obviously a big part of the equation because they're driving the thing.
I know. It is crazy that flying is already back to pre-pandemic levels, which was not a guaranteed thing by any means just a few years ago.
And then, honestly, I do love that United looked at Delta.
Delta just gave their pilots a big raise and said,
listen, we're not flying unless you give us something on par with Delta as well.
So, yeah, definitely 40% over four years.
Like, that's not nothing right there.
That's outpays.
It's a big race.
They already make $100,000, you know, at least $100,000.
But also, we talked about this a few weeks ago.
The requirements to become a pilot are so stringent in the United States.
You need 1,500 hours of flight time compared to 200 in Europe.
So there is an
You could say there's an artificial shortage of pilots
And this union wants to keep it that way
Because they can do things like negotiate 40% raises
Hey, I'm on team pay the pilots though
Like our lives are in their hands
Like yeah let's make sure they're qualified
And pay them a pretty penny
All right, Neil, my winner of the weekend
Is a place very near and dear to my heart
And that is the grocery store chain Publix
Publix is a staple of Floridians everywhere
Including apparently the newest Floridian
Lino Messi.
The goat was spotted shopping in Publix over the weekend,
and it sent the internet into a tizzy.
People were pumped that the greatest soccer player of all time
was shopping at the greatest grocery store of all time.
But Neil, honestly, Florida and Miami in particular,
have really rolled out the red carpet for Messi
ahead of his move to enter Miami.
Murals have been popping up in the city left and right.
There's a brewery selling a Messi-themed beer
that comes in a special can.
and then the Hard Rock Cafe already created a messy chicken sandwich that comes with a chicken
cutlet, provolone, aoli, arugula, and tomatoes, which is supposed to resemble one of Messi's
favorite Argentinian dishes growing up.
Honestly, seeing Maxi at Publix, Neil, pump me up a little bit.
Yeah.
I think he was destined to play in Florida.
I was about to say that.
It's like, this seems like the perfect move.
I mean, he could have been Saudi Arabia, right?
For a lot more money, but he's coming here.
and with all the very strong Latin American community in Miami and their love for soccer,
it might just turn Miami into a sports town, Messi's arrival.
Miami is the sports town.
Remember, they had the Florida Panthers?
Just because they're good doesn't mean people care.
All right.
Well, still, I mean, they've had a...
Same with the Tampa.
I mean, the rays are good.
Champa Bay?
The rays are good, but no one goes.
But I'm saying this might actually make people care because soccer is such a global sport.
Miami's such a global city.
And Messi is this larger-than-life character who came to MLS and he's Miami's savior.
It honestly, it warmed my heart seeing him in Publix, like with his kids.
They were picking out just like Captain Crunt cereal.
It was a fun little video.
But yeah, just seeing him in the place that I have stepped foot in, that was a little surreal.
What is like the thing you order from PubSubs?
PubSub, baby.
Publix sub.
Is it just a sandwich?
Yeah, they just have like Deli Department over there.
and you, it's just like a very famous, they got good bread, and you know how people love their sandwich
chains, but pub subs do hit. So the day that Messi orders a pub sub, that's the day you know he's a
true Floridian. Okay, Neil, let's move on to our next story. I can't believe I forgot to mention this
at the top of the show today, but happy international emoji day. Happy international emoji day to you.
Thank you. Honestly, I'm pretty staunchly against national days because I think they're usually
contrived by some sort of corporation, but I'll give an exception for today, because I'll give an exception for
today because I think emojis are pretty cool
and deserve their time in the sun.
First, a little history lesson.
Emoges were first created by a Japanese
artist who saw the way young people
loved getting a little heart symbol
on some of the first generations
of pagers and set out to
design some symbols for modern textors.
That was back in 1999
and he used Chinese kanji characters
as well as marks used
in weather forecasts as inspiration.
And then they really hit mainstream though
when Apple added an emoji.
keyboard to its iPhone in 2011. Fun fact, emojis are actually rendered by developers, so that's
why an Apple emoji looks different than an Android emoji. Android emoji is obviously better.
Disgusting, absolutely not. But now in modern day, emojis are as integral to communicating as text
and voice. So Neil, before we get into some of the ways emojis are infiltrating modern society,
what is your favorite emoji? Definitely, though, the straight face one, where he's just kind of looking into
space and then there's no expression where he's just like,
mm.
That one just,
I think that that encapsulates my personality so much,
just the deadpan,
you know.
That's funny.
So that one always strikes a chord with me.
I'm just like that.
He me for real for real.
What about you?
I like the handshake emoji just because,
oh, you love the handshake emoji.
Like, whenever someone congratulates you or says like,
oh, I love listening to the show,
you just give them the handshake emoji.
He says like,
I'm right there with you,
brother like yes absolutely so that one and then like the new added Italian one oh the
Italian ones that just is perfect for showing that something else is perfect yeah before we move
on we should talk quickly about the fact that emojis have been popping up in legal cases as like
normal language crazy so a one judge in the United States ruled that an emoji like rocket ship
stock chart and money bags count as investment advice crazy which we've known kind of for a while
because those are so associated with the stock market.
But legally, you know, we shouldn't be using those without being like a registered broker.
And then another case, a Canadian judge ruled that the thumbs up emoji is as valid as sign as is as valid as a signature.
Yeah.
I agree with that one.
Thumbs up.
If someone said like, do you approve of this document?
Like a thumbs up is pretty unambiguously a consent to that.
So I'm on the, I'm on the judge's decision on that one.
That's what it was.
It was a guy, a buyer, texted it to a farmer saying,
please confirm that this flax contract,
I'm buying $60,000 worth of flax from you
and you're going to deliver it, right?
And in reply, he got a thumbs up to it.
And then the farmer, and so he's like,
okay, where's my flax?
And then the farmer is not happy with this.
He said, that means I received it.
Not that I agreed to the contract,
but the judge was like, nope,
that is literally a signature.
Yeah, well, there's plenty of ambiguous emojis.
Like, what does this truly mean?
But I think a thumbs up is not one of them.
Like, that is consent for sure.
Yeah. All right. Happy emoji day. It's super fun. I was such an emoji hater, and now I am fully embraced.
I do have one final emoji fact. Today is June 17th is emoji day because the calendar emoji that you see in your app is on June 17th. So that is why today is emoji day.
All right, July 17th. July 17th. Thank you. Take us. Take us. All right. Our final segment is a week ahead where we preview what's going on this week. Get you excited.
number one thing,
Barbienheimer.
And I should say,
it's not Barbieheimer.
It's Barbenheimer.
And when they write about this in the history books,
they will call it Barbenheimer apparently.
So this is the day, obviously, on Friday,
when Barbie and Oppenheimer,
two movies that couldn't be any more different,
are hitting theaters at the same time.
And it's created this marketing cyclone.
That has maybe probably helped both movies
that are playing off one another.
and I can't wait to go see them both.
Yeah.
I'm a little sad, though, because the writers and actors strike,
there's no red carpets for these things,
which I feel like robbed them of some big, like,
Barbenheimer moments.
You watch a lot of red carpet.
Well, I don't know.
Like, the memes that come out of it will be good,
so I'm a little sad.
And we should revisit our wager
where we talked about Mission Impossible,
Barbie, and Oppenheimer,
and you rank them in terms of Box Office gross.
You said it would be Mission Impossible,
then Barbie, then Oppenheimer.
Well, Mission Impossible,
came out this past weekend.
Kind of a disappointment.
Only $56 million in domestic box office revenues over three days.
I don't know whether Oppenheimer or Barbie will top that, but...
I'm a little nervous because...
You can cash out for like 50% of what you put in, by the way.
Yeah, but my bet was I would dye my hair pink if I got it around.
And you want to.
So 50% would that just be like 50% of my head, think?
All right, take his forward.
All right, let's go.
We have earning season is kicking or is really going into full swing after Big Banks
kicked it off on Friday.
Bank of America, Tesla, major airlines, and American Express.
The biggest one to watch will definitely be Netflix on Wednesday because of obviously what we talked about in terms of the writer's strike and how it's impacting their business, as well as how its password crackdown.
Password sharing crackdown is doing, and so far it seems to be doing really well.
So we'll get an update.
I hope it was worth it Netflix.
All right.
What else is going on?
The World Women's World Cup begins on Thursday, which means a lot of early morning wake-ups for everyone.
including us, who wants to be with us, because it is in Australia and New Zealand.
So the time difference is going to be super whack.
But the United States plays Vietnam in its first game on Friday night at 9 p.m. Eastern.
I'm nervous for the team.
I've always nervous for the team.
Well, this is a whole new set of players.
Give us one name that will be a breakout star.
Trinity Rodman, for sure, which is Dennis Robin's daughter.
But I think this is going to be her moment for sure.
She's a heck of a player.
Cool.
What else is going on?
British opening golf tees off on Thursday at Royal Liverpool in Merseyside, England.
Rory's got to make it happen.
He's got to be the odds on favorite.
But I was just looking at the golf course names in England and Britain.
They're so much cooler than they are here.
Absolutely.
Royal Liverpool.
And there's also Royal Trune and Carnusty and the old course at St. Andrews and Turnberry.
You're telling me we just got to put Royal in front of everything.
Okay.
Yeah, you got to put Royal in front of thing.
but it has to be, you know, nice at the end.
I'm on your side. I'm on your side.
It's just beautiful to look at.
And then there's San Diego Comic Con starts on Thursday.
That's also going to be very muted affair because of the Hollywood strike.
And I got to mention this because he should have been a winner of the weekend.
Steph Curry documentary is coming out on Apple TV Plus.
And, damn, damn, you got a hole in one and won this celebrity golf tournament.
And he's just kind of beasting right now.
He's having a moment.
All right.
We have to wrap it up there.
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Hope everyone has a great start to your week.
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today, Neil. It's running back tomorrow.
Spring just slid into your DMs.
Grab that boho look for that
rooftop dinner, those sandals that
can keep up with you, and hang some string
lights to give your patio a glow up.
Spring's calling.
Ross, work your magic.
