The Best One Yet - 💡 “Ideas = Currency” — TED Talks’ CEO audition. Costco’s girl math. ‘Musking’ the US Gov’t.

TED Talks needs a new CEO… but TED is actually the deepest media biz we’ve ever seen.

Elon’s mission to disrupt the government hit a new level, that requires a new term… “Musking.”

Costco is now paying workers 2x the average… it’s the cost that pays for itself.

Plus, a record 22M Americans called in sick today (got a case of the Super Bowl Mondays).


$COST $WMT $SPY


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Motley Fool Money - What Great Investors Do

The principles of investing are fairly simple to understand. Application requires some intensity.


William Green is the author Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life. Green also hosts a podcast with the same title. Robert Brokamp caught up with him for a conversation about:


- What successful investing comes down to.

- The personality traits of market beaters.

- Investing lessons from Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, and John Templeton.


Companies mentioned: BRK.A, BRK.B, MKL


Host: Robert Brokamp

Guest: William Green

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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Motley Fool Money - Big Tech’s $300B Spending Spree

DeepSeek hasn’t dissuaded big tech’s on cloud buildout spend.


(00:43) Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss:

- What the Jobs report and the tariff headfake mean for the big macro.

- Earnings from Amazon and Alphabet, and big tech’s $300B cap ex plans for 2025.

- PayPal’s good quarter/bad reaction, Spotify’s music streaming supremacy, and Chipotle’s plans to burrito the world.


(19:03) This year’s Super Bowl offers a rematch from two years ago, a Kendrick Lamar halftime show, and if the NFL regular season’s been any indication – plenty of ads for sports betting Ricky Mulvey caught up with Motley Fool analyst Nick Sciple for the investing angle on legalized sports betting and why parlays are the penny stocks of gambling.


(33:46) Ron and Jason break down two stocks on their radar: Academy Sports And Outdoors and Uber.


Stocks discussed: AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL, PYPL, SPOT, CMG, DK, MGM, AOS, UBER


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Ron Gross, Jason Moser, Ricky Mulvey, Nick Sciple

Engineers: Rick Engdahl

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Money Girl - How to Budget with Irregular Income: 6 Steps for Freelancers & Self-Employed Workers

Laura answers a listener's question about how to manage money and create a budget when you have an irregular income.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Best One Yet - 🏈 “The Super Bowl Pod” — Kendrick’s $0 Halftime Show. Wilson’s football monopoly. The Curse of the Commercial.

Dirty secret of the Super Bowl halftime show… The show costs $50M, but the performer gets paid $0.

Wilson makes all of the NFL’s football’s… and their factory in Ohio is freaky.

The Curse of the Super Bowl Commercial is real… and it’s coming for AI.

Plus, one basketball coach trademarked the term “Three-peat”... and could make millions if the Chiefs win.


$AAPL $AS $SPOT


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Motley Fool Money - Americans Take Weight-Loss Drugs, Eat Salty Snacks

Two things can be true.


(00:14) Bill Barker and Ricky Mulvey discuss:

- Legislation to ban DeepSeek on US government devices.

- Hershey’s quarter, and what it reveals about American eating habits.

- Eli Lilly’s blockbuster weight-loss drugs, and questions about its valuation.


Then, (18:26) Ricky continues his conversation with writer Jordan Harper about the challenges of making TV and movies in the streaming era.


Companies discussed: NVDA, HSY, LLY


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Bill Barker, Jordan Harper

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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The Best One Yet - 👵🏻 “Betty White Bump” — The Best Super Bowl ad ever. Waffle House’s egg fee. Shein’s tariff trauma.

The #1 Super Bowl ad? Snickers in 2010… because Snickers acted like a Freudian therapist.

Waffle House is charging a 50-cent-per-egg fee… but we tell ya who to blame for Egg-flation is.

New tariffs just hit Shein and Temu… hand it can all be explained with Barbie dolls.

Plus, the newest job in America is “TikTok Coach”... because there is an “i” in “viral.”


$CALM $MAT $SPY


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Motley Fool Money - How Do You Value Alphabet?

Google – all its apps, smartphones, and the cloud business – is responsible for 99% of Alphabet’s total revenue. But Alphabet is toiling away on quite a few moonshot projects. What if one of them works?


(00:14) David Meier and Mary Long break down earnings from Alphabet and Palantir. They also discuss:

- Why cloud computing isn’t going anywhere.

- YouTube’s secret sauce.

- What Palantir really does.


Then, (17:45), Ricky Mulvey talks with television writer and novelist Jordan Harper about how PR firms shape public opinion and how to spot their work when consuming the news.


Companies mentioned: GOOG, NFLX, PLTR


Host: Mary Long

Guests: David Meier, Ricky Mulvey, Jordan Harper

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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Money Girl - 5 Essential Tax Record-Keeping Tips to Avoid IRS Headaches

Laura reviews tips to manage essential records so you pare down, follow IRS rules, and have what you need for future transactions. 

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The Best One Yet - 🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.

“No Buy 2025” is like “Dry January”… But instead of no alcohol, it’s no shopping.

Spotify hit all-time high after its 1st full-year profit… because it found musical monopoly.

Chick-fil-A’s drive-thru is #1 thanks to military-like precision... Drones, game-tape, & champagne.

Plus, the Philadelphia Eagles linemen are the largest in history… and the most profitable.


$SPOT $AAPL


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