Morning Brew Daily - Silicon Valley Loves Trump's Tax Plan & GameStop Tanks After 'Roaring Kitty' Stream
Episode Date: June 10, 2024Episode 340: Neal and Kyle chat about Trump’s plan to win over Silicon Valley by expanding his 2017 tax breaks for corporations. Then, another British invasion is happening… This time, in the news...rooms. Why are the English stepping into the helm of major American newspapers? Next, Netflix is being sued for $170M by real-life Martha from ‘Baby Reindeer’ for defamation and misrepresentation. Plus, the biggest losers from the weekend: GameStop and USA Basketball. Meanwhile, a T20 Cricket World Cup between India and Pakistan held in New York draws millions of fans. Lastly, the biggest news you need to know for this week. Download the Yahoo Finance App (on the Play and App store) for real-time alerts on news and insights tailored to your portfolio and stock watchlists. 00:00 - Joro-spider 2:30 - Trump visits Silicon Valley 7:15 - The Brits takeover US Newsrooms 12:00 - Netflix sued for $170M 15:15 - Losers of the weekend 19:20 - Cricket fever in the US 23:00 - Week ahead Get your Morning Brew Daily Mug HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-daily-mug?utm_medium=youtube&utm_source=mbd&utm_campaign=mug Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Want to hear Kyle's takes on all things work life? Check out his new show, Per My Last Email, here: https://link.chtbl.com/59PknMsy 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 Kyle Hagey.
Today, why are so many British people in charge of America's newsrooms?
We also will hear about a new lawsuit that Netflix is facing
and why your friends are all of a sudden talking about cricket.
It's Monday, June 10th.
Let's ride.
Kyle, always great to have you make an appearance on the show.
We're back, ready to talk about the news.
Speaking of making an appearance,
anyone heard about these brightly colored giant venomous spiders
that are supposed to be making their way up the East Coast?
Kyle just gave me a freaked out.
I feel like you're making this up to scare me.
I'm not. Joro spiders, which can grow to the size of a human hand,
are expected to make their move from the southeast United States,
up the coast to New York and New Jersey,
potentially as soon as this year.
It's not as scary as it sounds, though.
A bite from the joro would hurt less than a bee sting,
and they're not even likely to bite you at all
because they're one of the shyest spiders around.
Plus, they eat other pests like lanternflies,
so maybe they'll even contribute to our urban ecosystem.
This seems like one, it seems like a win for us.
Two, a shy little spider.
That's cute.
It's not little.
I like the joros spider.
It can be eight inches.
All right, actually now I am terrified.
They're very brightly colored.
One of the other crazy things, you might have heard that they can fly, which is not true.
They do something that's called ballooning where they throw their silk in the air and they let the winds take them far.
Yeah.
So that's how they move.
They're like paragliding.
Right.
Or they hitch a ride in your car.
and that's how they're expected to get up to the northeast.
So if you see one of these spiders, you know what it is, but don't freak out.
Yeah, do not pick up hitchhikers.
Do not bring them here.
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Let's begin on the 2024 presidential campaign trail where last Thursday Donald Trump found himself in a surprising place, the home of a tech entrepreneur in San Francisco.
The home belonged to David Sacks, who was part of the PayPal Mafia, is BFFs with Elon Musk and co-hosts the popular All-In podcast.
The reason for the visit was a fundraiser for Trump that cost up to $300,000 per ticket, and it raised more than $12 million when all was said and done.
The site of Trump in blue Silicon Valley might sound bizarre, but it reflects tech billionaires'
growing embrace of the former president, despite his criminal convictions on 34 charges just a week
prior.
Go back to the 2016 presidential election.
And it was only the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who publicly endorsed Trump
in Silicon Valley.
Now their ranks are growing and they're not afraid to flaunt their support in front of everyone.
So what's behind this support?
In a post on Twitter, Sack said he was very dissatisfied with Biden over a slowing,
economy, high inflation, and government overreach, such as Lena Kahn's war against mergers at the
FTC, not mentioned, but probably very salient to these folks. Trump has pledged to extend his tax cuts to
the wealthy and corporations that expire next year. Kyle, what do you make of some Silicon Valley elites
bear hugging Trump? It's very interesting. I mean, he called himself also the crypto president,
but he might be the podcast president because this all-in podcast has gained so much popularity.
it kind of represents this Silicon Valley ethos, and we're seeing, like you mentioned, people that you
wouldn't expect maybe to publicly support President Trump are coming out and supporting him.
But I think the last thing you actually said is the most important, which is these tax cuts.
Like, if you start talking to millionaires and billionaires, that's something that's going to get them very interested.
And he's promised more tax cuts, extending all of the Trump tax cuts from previous years would add about $4.6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade,
which I think is very interesting that it's easy to talk about cutting taxes, but then we also want to fix our national debt and national deficit.
And you can't have both.
No, well, what they say is that if you cut taxes, then it spurs economic growth, more investment.
And that accounts for the revenue lost from cutting taxes for the wealthy and for corporations.
There was a report from the nonprofit committee for responsible federal budget that came out just last week.
that kind of took the scope of what Trump is proposing in terms of tax cuts. And they said that
the, this so-called dynamic effect, which is the economic growth that is spurred by tax cuts,
how much will it account, how much will it recoup in revenue for what's lost from tax cuts?
And they say that over the next decade, they would recover, the U.S. economy would recover just
1% to 14% of what's lost in revenue from tax cuts.
Juxtaposes with what Biden is proposing. He's saying let a lot of the tax cuts,
expire like they're supposed to in 2025. I'm going to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
So you have probably what experts are saying, the most distinct different tax policies of any
two candidates in recent memory, where you have Trump wanting to continue tax cuts on corporations
on the wealthy. And then you have Biden who wants to raise them. So there's a literal trillions of
dollars at stake in the upcoming election. That's where I think you're seeing some of these tech
billionaires, which typically supported Democrats and also traditional Wall Street billionaires
coming out of the woodwork to support Trump despite January 6th, despite these criminal convictions.
I think it's also very interesting, too, like this speaks to almost the fragmentation of media
that the fact that there's four Silicon Valley venture capitalists who have a podcast
who are then kind of shaping some political thought in this country and hosting fundraisers
with former presidents, like very interesting the amount of like power, or we assume power that
they've accrued. And it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
That's a really good point. And also, I just want to make a note that Biden and Democrats
are still very popular in Silicon Valley and in San Francisco, which is typically very Democrat.
Reid Hoffman is a major backer of President Biden. He's the co-founder of LinkedIn and
another billionaire tech investor. I feel like I've said that word so many times. But he broke
down sort of in a response to David Sacks, who said why I'm supporting Trump. He said why I'm
supporting Joe Biden. He talked about for American business, the rule of law is essential and said
we can't have investment and prosperity without, you know, a legal foundation and he accused Trump
of sort of breaking down that legal foundation. So you're seeing the side split. Some people in
Silicon Valley are a little more vocal of supporting Trump this time around, but I still think
in general, if you look at San Francisco, it's far more Democrat than than Republican.
Up next, I'm going to do my best Paul Revere impression and warn that the British are coming to
American newsrooms. Yep, new articles by The Wrap in the New York Times highlighted the recent
trend of American media companies being led by people who drive on the wrong side of the road.
And the British invasion could give your news a bit of flavor with a you at an inflection point
for the industry, with the U.S. presidential election heating up many outlets suffering
financially. Here's a short list of all the Brits in charge of iconic American brands.
The Washington Post is now led by Daily Telegraph vet Will Lewis. Emma Tucker is the Wall Street
Journal's editor-in-chief, Mark Thompson is the CEO of CNN. John Micklethwaite, definitely
British, is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. I could go on and on. So why is this happening?
It's not just that their accents make them sound smart, though. That's definitely a factor.
It's also because struggling American news outlets may see British editors known for their
cutthroat style of reporting on a budget as disruptors who could shake up their flailing
businesses. And the disruption has already begun, most notably at the Washington Post,
where new boss Will Lewis is ruffling feathers with a leadership overhaul a week ago
during a contentious meeting last Monday.
He told one staffer, people are not reading your stuff, right?
I can't sugarcoat it anymore.
The Brits don't mince words.
No, and I love this story.
I mean, my breakdown was they cost less.
They're super hard workers.
That is British editors.
Super hard workers that like to get the story no matter what.
Have fuzzier ethics, which is a big kind of red flag to American journalists, much
more common in Britain. They're used to kind of historical legacy institutions that have been around
for a long time. They can do less with more. They've battled through crisis before, and they're not
afraid to scorch sacred cows. It's kind of like a no stone unturned strategy. And they have incredible
accents. And so I understand why we'd want to bring people with that skill set in, particularly we just
talked about fragmenting news media. A lot of these papers and a lot of these media publishers in the
states are struggling. And so they're hoping that someone who's battled through these crises before
can come in and reinvigorate them. There was one really funny story in this broader story,
which was in 1992, the New Yorker actually brought in a Brit, Mr. Chancellor. And they thought he was
going to do great. And he came in and then he told all of his colleagues, have you guys seen
this big tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City? Like, we got to do a story on this. And they're like,
okay, you're a little out of touch. So there is maybe some cultural, uh, relevant.
that they don't have in in terms of American context that they will need to get up to speed on.
But I like that the British are here.
Let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens.
But let's go back to Will Lewis because he is definitely ruffling feathers at the Washington Post.
He kind of booted the top editor there.
And then reports emerged that he tried to kill stories that were portrayed him in a negative light related to a phone hacking scandal.
This NPR reporter David Fulkin flick said, wrote in a report that he talked to Will Lewis.
and Will Lewis offered him an exclusive interview in exchange for him squashing this report about Lewis.
And that did not go over well with Washington Post newsroom.
At the same time, the Washington Post lost $77 million last year.
And their digital traffic has plummeted by 50% since those heydays of 2020 when everyone
was reading the news about Trump and the pandemic.
So there's a big turnaround that needs to happen at the Washington Post and elsewhere.
And at CNN, this guy Mark Thompson, a Brit, who was noted for,
the digital transformation of the New York Times that he did great job on.
So he's moving on to CNN.
Their viewership is also down because of the same reasons as people just not tuning into the news anymore.
And so they're looking to Fleet Street, and I learned this, Fleet Street is sort of the
metonym for the British national press.
And the way you would say, like, Wall Street is the, you know, New York financial system.
Fleet Street is New York.
And they really are hard scrabble there.
You read some of these stories about how they get these scoops and how they get.
It's definitely fuzzy on the ethics.
front that I think Americans would not be so comfortable with, but it is happening. And it's been
here before. I mean, Anna Wintore. Yep. Yeah. She's British. Like it's not, I didn't even know that,
which is slightly embarrassing. Never heard her speak. So this is definitely a thing and we'll see if they
can turn around the news business with their particular different strategies coming from a place where
really news is their blood. And just one particular example, a lot of people have looked at the daily mail
online, this British tabloid, which has become this giant newsroom. It's the largest English-based news
site reaching over 225 million unique visitors globally, 75 million of those coming from the United
States. So they've seen success of this one publication. They're trying to mirror it here.
All right, let's move on to our next story, which is the sequel to Netflix's surprise hit Baby
Reindeer might be called legal nightmare. And it's going to be played out in a courtroom
and not on your television. That's right. Netflix is getting sued for defamation and gross
negligence among other things by Fiona Harvey. Now, Fiona Harvey is the real.
life version of the woman, the quote-unquote stalker on the TV series, she is suing Netflix
for alleging they've told, quote, the biggest lie in history by claiming this story is true.
Lies include that Harvey is a twice convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison
and that Harvey sexually assaulted Gad, Gad, who is the creator and star of this TV show,
might not be doing himself any favors. He said the story is, quote, very emotionally true,
but we wanted to exist in the sphere of art. Now, Netflix does have a disclaimer.
at the end of Baby Rainier, quote,
the program is based on real events.
However, certain character names, incidents, locations,
and dialogues have been fictionalized
for dramatic purposes.
Neil, is this a big nothing burger,
or does Netflix have something to worry about here?
Well, it seems like legal experts
do think that Netflix has something to worry about
because you said they had that disclaimer
at the end of the credits.
But at the first episode, at the right beginning of the show,
they display this five words that say,
this is a true story.
if you say this is a true story, you don't make it hard to conceal who the person is you're basing
this off of. And then you tell lies, that could amount to defamation. So X-words expect that, you know,
this may have some legs. It's not likely that maybe it'll go to court. It's more probable that
Netflix will settle. They just recently settled a defamation lawsuit with somebody over the,
a recent show about the Central Park Five, which just happened last week. So we'll see what happens
here, but it does seem like they didn't do
themselves any favors by literally
splashing the line, this is a true story
at the top of the show. I'm not a
lawyer, but do not say this is a true story
if you haven't verified. Or if it's
emotionally true. But it's
crazy what happened with the show about how it
sparked the social media hunt by
people who were trying to figure out
who this person was behind the show
and they did not do, I mean, they say
they tried everything to conceal
her identity and make her not
hard to find, but literally it happened within
days, which kind of blows up their argument. Yeah, I mean, I think any story that is based on
true events now, like people will find out who's in charge. It's just seem like Netflix didn't do a ton
of due diligence on their part to verify this is a true story and to protect identities. However,
this woman, Fiona Harvey, also went on Pierce Morgan recently, and everyone can watch that
interview to kind of assess their viewpoint of her. But Baby Rangers is one of these shows that
I have not seen, but I cannot stop hearing about. It is seemingly...
It's super popular. I mean, it was at the top of Netflix watch list, and many different.
different countries. Viewership was over 65 million. It's one of the biggest hits for Netflix
in years. So, I mean, this whole genre, I don't know if I want to call it true crime or anything
because, I mean, it's like half true crime. We'll see, we'll see what happens with this lawsuit.
It's just so mega for them. And yes, it's definitely been a part of the discourse. I haven't
seen it either, but I guess we're talking about it. So we should probably go watch it.
We've invented a new genre, half true crime. Up next, the U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team
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Welcome back to winners of the weekend, this segment where we typically highlight the best society has to offer.
But it seemed like an off weekend for a lot of folks.
So instead we're pivoting to losers of the weekend.
Sorry to be a downer.
It'll still be fun.
I won the pre-show game of horse, so I get to go first.
And my loser is Keith Gill, the investing legend, better known as a roaring kitty.
Gill earned loser of the weekend status after his much-hyped YouTube live stream on Friday flopped and pushed
GameStop shares down for their worst day in years.
Here's what went down.
On Thursday, Gil shared that he'd be hosting a YouTube live stream.
His first since Memstock Mania went down in 2021.
Gil was the subject of massive speculation online after a post on Reddit showed.
He built a $116 million position in GameStop sending shares skyrocketing last week.
But I watched this live stream Friday.
And like a lot of other people, I was underwhelmed at this so-called investing mythical genius.
He didn't offer any new insights into his investing strategy.
He rambled.
He spent a lot of time sifting through the comments in a word.
It was just boring.
And the fact that GameStop shares plunged 39% on the day showed that maybe this kitty should maybe have just kept his mouth shut and took a nap or something.
While he still holds about $350 million worth of GameStop, he lost $235 million on Friday alone.
Yeah, I mean, he also only streamed for 48 minutes.
Those are rookie numbers.
He used to go for hours and hours.
Trust me.
I wish it weren't longer.
48 minutes was long enough.
Yeah, maybe he should have kept it to like five minutes.
My loser of the weekend is the team USA for Olympic women's basketball,
but it might really be us all that have lost.
Why I'm picking them is that they did not select Caitlin Clark to the team.
And according to unnamed sources, it was, quote,
concern over how Clark's millions of fans would react to what would likely be limited playing time on a stacked roster.
Now, the U.S. Olympic team is no joke.
they've won seven straight Olympic games dating back to 1996.
They're loaded with talent, and there is a legitimate argument that Clark is not top 15 and could make the team.
In fact, Dallas's Areke Agonbolewale is not even on the final roster.
She's the second leading score in the WMBA right now.
However, I think this is a loss for the Olympics because there is probably no bigger women athlete in the WMBA right now than Caitlin Clark in terms of drawing in new crowds and creating a ton of buzz.
and they're going to miss out on all of those new fans,
potentially becoming lifelong fans of the women's Olympic team
and of the players on it.
So maybe an okay basketball move.
I think it's a bad business move,
and I'm disappointed we're not going to see her in the Olympics.
Right. Jason Gay, the Wall Street Journal,
sports columnist, called it a comical blunder
of industrial self-sabotage.
And it's just, you know, it's an interesting decision.
I mean, so many times in sports we say
that business trumps actual integrity of the sport.
And then for the first time where maybe the best players are actually the ones being showcased
and you're putting business considerations aside.
We're like, whoa, whoa, what do you do?
We're all like, oh, no, you should take business considerations, sell jerseys, grow the sport,
market it at a global level.
It's kind of funny to see the reaction.
Like, actually, let's put some business considerations first when all we've talked about
for the past few years is college football is becoming just, you know, this huge industry
and the integrity of game is being degraded.
and the one time where it doesn't happen like that.
Everyone is in an uproar.
Some have argued that this is the right decision.
Put the best, you know, 12 basketball players out on the court,
which you could argue that they did.
Maybe it's a missed opportunity.
But Clark, she's just been like a pro this whole time.
I mean, we even talked about all the chaos swirling around her first few weeks in the WMBA,
but they interviewed her.
She said, honestly, no disappointment.
I think it just gives you something to work for.
It's a dream.
Hopefully one day I can be there.
And maybe she'll finally get some rest.
because she went straight from Iowa to the WMBA and has been playing a lot of games.
So hopefully she'll get some rest and the women bring home the gold and we'll get a double win there.
Yes, we want to see them win gold.
Now, Neil, they will.
They will.
Confirmed on the podcast, they will win gold.
Neil, it's a tale as old as time.
Americans discover something for the first time and they think it's brand new when it's actually existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
We did it with tacos.
We did it with democracy.
We did it with Formula One.
And now we're doing it with cricket.
So if you had a friend text to you this week about the sport, you're not alone.
Cricket seemed to pierce the mainstream after the U.S. team defeated Powerhouse Pakistan in the T20 World Cup,
which is actually co-hosted by the U.S. and the West Indies this year.
Now, cricket is considered the second most popular sport in the world with more than one billion fans.
And the international cricket council estimates the U.S. is home to 30 million cricket fans.
But that number is largely comprised of immigrants from South Asia.
and the ICC is really hoping to grow the sport in the U.S. of A.
Now, the India-Pakistan match of the T20 World Cup filled an entire 34,000 person stadium up in Long Island over the weekend.
Major League cricket just launched in the U.S.
And cricket has been added to the 2028 Olympics.
Neil, are we bullish or bearish on cricket in the U.S.?
I tried to go to this game.
Yeah.
I couldn't.
It was so expensive.
You got tickets for only over at $1,000.
He was yesterday morning in Long Island.
India beat Pakistan.
This, India rarely plays Pakistan because there are a lot of geopolitical issues between them.
And they're both really, really good at cricket, even though the U.S. beat them, which is awesome.
And one of the biggest upsets in cricket history.
But this game was probably the most viewed sporting event of the year.
More than 400 million people around the world tuned in compared to the Super Bowl,
117 million.
So we almost, or this cricket game almost tripled up because they rarely play.
Tickets were insane.
You said 34,000 was a lot, but that's not, that's a small for a cricket stadium to see these two, these two teams go at it.
So it was just a huge event.
And they're hoping that this T20 World Cup and T20 is a shortened version of cricket.
And it still lasts three hours.
But compared to test cricket, which is the one that can last five days, seems like it goes over in a blink.
So we're hoping that the U.S., you know, all they have to do is maybe win one more game in their next two matches to advance to what they call the Super 8, which is, I guess, the quills.
quarterfinals, then we'll hopefully see a groundswell of support, but it's really hard to
watch. It's on Willow TV, which I'm sure a lot of people don't have. And I think for it to break
into the mainstream in the U.S., it needs to be just more available on television. But this is a sport
that's on the up somehow, you know, as baseball has certainly eclipsed it in the United States.
You know, cricket was around 100 or so years ago. The first international game was actually
played in the United States against Canada. So it does have a rich tradition here, but it does
speak to the globalization of sports that really what's driving cricket here in the United
States now and who made our team win, our South Asian immigrants, Caribbean immigrants who are
really growing this sport and showing how sports are just not confined to borders anymore,
just like news.
Exactly.
And I do want to give a shout out to the team captain of the U.S. team, who is a senior software
engineer at Oracle as well as being the team captain of this cricket team that upset Pakistan.
Incredible story.
Well, they're saying that there's a joke in the South Asian country.
community now that Pakistan, that the United States didn't be Pakistan. It was the Indian H-1Bs
that be Pakistan because H-1B is the visa that allows a lot of Indian immigrants, highly skilled
workers, to come to the United States, work in tech jobs. And so many of the U.S. team roster
got these visas and came over to the United States. So it just speaks to this immigration system
that has allowed a lot of people to come to the United States, work here, study here. And one reason why,
you know, maybe we're not so bad at cricket. Immigration is our advantage, once again.
It really is. Okay, here's what you need to know about for the upcoming week. Apple's big summer event is here and the company's under immense pressure to show it's got a strong AI hand to play. Later today, during Apple's WWDC keynote, execs will reveal a new AI system that integrates across its devices and a new partnership with OpenAI on a chat GPT infused chatbot. So we might be saying goodbye to Siri, but this is a huge moment for Apple to show it's got, you know, it's not. It's not. It's
not certainly leading in the AI race.
It's actually very far behind, so investors will need to be wowed.
It's a very big moment for Apple.
I'm sure we'll be talking about what they announce on tomorrow's show.
Elon Musk might be sweating because at Tesla's annual meeting on Thursday,
shareholders are voting on whether he should be awarded that $56 billion pay package
that was voided by a Delaware judge earlier this year.
Musk and his supporters have been telling shareholders that it's needed to keep his energy
focused on Tesla.
but some of Tesla's large institutional investors, such as Norway's sovereign wealth fund, say they're voting no.
So nothing like an annual meeting, brouh, ha, ha.
I also need $56 billion to keep my energy focused at morning brew.
All right, well, you maybe have my vote.
I'll need to think about it.
If you're into macro economics, Wednesday is your Super Bowl inflation data for May drops in the morning.
Then in the afternoon, the Fed is wrapping up its meeting with a Jerome Powell press conference.
The central bank is pretty much a lock to hold interest rates at their current.
level, but we'll have to see what he says about future interest rates.
Here's what's going on. Everything else. World leaders, including the Pope, are convening at the G7
summit in Italy beginning on Thursday. Guess our invite was lost in the mail again. In hockey,
the Edmonton Oilers are hoping to become the first Canadian NHL team to win the Stanley Cup in 31 years,
but they are down 1-0 in the series to the Florida Panthers and their incredible goalie. Sergey
Bobrovsky, game two is tonight. In the NBA, the Celtics and the Mavericks are continuing
the NBA finals with the Celtics up two games to nil.
Seems like a pretty boring NBA finals.
It is.
Might be missing the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Golfs U.S. Open begins Thursday at Pinehurst number two in North Carolina.
Scotty Sheffler will be on his best behavior, no doubt.
And it's not the World Cup, but it is the next best thing.
The Euro 2024 soccer tournament begins on Friday.
Can't wait for that.
And that is our show, Kyle.
Thanks so much for joining us.
And everyone for listening, I have a wonderful Monday.
Wait, Kyle, I've been meaning to ask you, what is your big job?
I don't even know anymore, but I do co-host another podcast called Per My Last Email, gives you the hot takes and tactics necessary to navigate your career.
We have six or seven episodes out.
It's doing very well now, and we're going to put a trailer right after this.
So we'd love for people to check it out.
What are some of the topics that you've discussed?
Is hybrid work a trap?
How to navigate being a manager?
And we just actually interviewed our head of HR, Kate Noelle, who's amazing.
So that one is coming out soon.
Okay, awesome.
No, that all sounds like things like I want to know about.
So super relevant for our audience.
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Let's roll the credits.
Emily Milliron is our executive producer.
Raven Lou is our producer.
Olivia Graham is our associate producer.
Eugenawa Ogu is our technical director.
Billy Minino is on audio.
Hair and makeup was also left off the Olympic squad, so don't feel bad, Caitlin.
Devin Emery is our chief content officer and our show is a production of Morning
Brew. Great show today, Neil. Let's run it back tomorrow.
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