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The Best One Yet - 🍒 “$200 SmartBra” — Forme’s high-tech bra. Can’t buy house, buy crypto. Fast Casual’s bowl recession.

Nick is back! And he recaps his health ordeal in the intro. Our 3 stories: 

A $200 posture-correcting bra?... It’s gone viral, and could be Apple’s next acquisition target.

Why are Millennials buying crypto instead of homes?... Because nest eggs are stuck in Bitcoin. 

Chipotle, Cava, & Sweetgreen aren’t fast casual anymore, they’re slow… And the solution lies in the Olive Garden.

Plus, Nick’s back from the hospital… He’s eager to share his prognosis (and 3 stock picks)


$CAVA $CMG $SG $LUL $BTC


Want more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… 🏰Disneyland, The Fantasy that Almost Flopped. 


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Native America Calling - Tuesday, August 19, 2025 – Native athletes rally on the local and international levels

Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse player Bean Minard (photo by Charlie Ragusa), boxer George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah (photo by Colin Henderson) and college swimmer, Kaylah Yazzie (photo courtesy UNM Lobo Athletics)

Incoming Tishomingo High School senior golfer Carli Upton. (Photo: Christiana Alford)

Among the big wins in athletic competition this summer is the victory by the Haudenosaunee Nationals at the Pan-American Women’s Lacrosse Championship. They are first time medalists at the senior level and their win over Puerto Rico has far-reaching implications. We’ll hear from a player and a coach for the team and take the opportunity to catch up with some other notable Native athletes, from a Comanche professional boxer to the Diné college swimmer.

GUESTS

Carli Upton (Chickasaw and Choctaw), student and golfer at Tishomingo High School

Bean Minerd (Onondaga Nation), Haudenosaunee Nationals women’s lacrosse team member and head women’s lacrosse coach of Buffalo State University

George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah (Comanche), former professional boxer, North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, and CEO of Numunu

Kaylah Yazzie (Navajo, Comanche, and Sac and Fox), swimmer for the University of New Mexico

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - How algorithms are changing the way we speak

Social media has birthed an entire lexicon replicated by millions online — even if these words don’t actually mean skibidi. On today’s show, we talk to author Adam Aleksic about how TikTok and Instagram's engagement metrics, and viral memes, are rewiring our brains and transforming language at warp speed.

Adam Aleksic’s book is Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language 

Related episodes: 
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Zelensky Brings a Posse to Washington

After visiting with Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European leaders, where does Donald Trump stand on the Ukraine-Russia war—and where does that leave Ukraine?

Guest:  Tim Mak, editor of the Kyiv-based publication The Counteroffensive.

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Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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Chapo Trap House - 961 – The Dogs of War feat. Seth Harp (8/18/25)

Journalist and author Seth Harp returns to the pod to talk about his horrifying and expansive new book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We talk with Seth about America’s forever-war machine and the global drug empire it empowers, with a special focus on the case of Delta Force officer William Lavigne, who killed his best friend before turning up dead near Fort Bragg in a still-unsolved murder. We also discuss the rise of JSOC, the third Iraq War and its ongoing ramifications, the US military’s ties with the brutal Los Zetas cartel, and the eternal shadow war waged in the name of empire. Buy Seth’s book here (and give it 5 stars on Amazon!): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bragg-cartel-by-seth-harp/ And follow him on X at @sethharpesq
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The server-side rendering equivalent for LLM inference workloads

Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning models to large-scale neural networks has made GPU usage challenging, and the potential future of hardware-specific optimizations in AI. 

Episode notes:

Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring AI products to market fast.

Connect with Tuhin on LinkedIn or reach him at his email tuhin@baseten.co. 

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Read Me a Poem - “The Girl in the Ray of Darkness” by Natan Yonatan

Amanda Holmes reads Natan Yonatan’s “The Girl in the Ray of Darkness,” translated from the Hebrew by Richard Flantz. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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It Could Happen Here - Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

In Texas, the world’s richest man is bringing back to life one of the worst ideas of the Gilded Age, local Robber Baron-owned dictatorships called company towns. Elon Musk has already established two in Texas and other high-tech oligarchs like Peter Theil hope to create more. In this episode, journalist Steven Monacelli and historian Dr. Michael Phillips explore the history of company towns in the United States and their disturbing rebirth. 

Sources:

Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

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