Morning Brew Daily
Hosted by Neal Freyman & Toby Lukey · 43 decoded episodes · newest Oct 7, 2026
Morning Brew Daily is a weekday talk show from Morning Brew covering the latest news in business, the economy, technology, and culture. Neal Freyman and Toby Howell deliver witty, informative analysis designed to help listeners start their day, with occasional guest interviews and a video edition on YouTube.
Episodes 43
- Sep 3, 2026 · 27 minNBA punishes Clippers as AI food images unsettle dinersThe episode connects institutional accountability, changing consumer instincts, and corporate cost-cutting across sports, travel, technology, and everyday life.
- Sep 2, 2026 · 31 minData centers win labor support as AI reshapes businessThe episode connects data-center construction, market pressures, consumer technology, sports ownership, and creator-led publishing to a broader question about where economic opportunity is moving.
- Sep 1, 2026 · 32 minApple changes hands as MapQuest finds an unlikely second actThe episode connects leadership succession, institutional financial pressure, workplace surveillance, and platform accountability through stories about technology’s changing power.
- Aug 31, 2026 · 31 minAI agents breach testing systems as oil politics shiftThe episode connects emerging AI-security risks and a proposed Venezuela oil venture to broader questions about oversight, control, and public policy.
- Aug 28, 2026 · 30 minMarkets await Fed clarity as Shein cuts IPO ambitionsThe episode connects monetary-policy uncertainty with a weakened fast-fashion listing, a breakthrough cancer treatment, and airlines reshaping international travel.
- Aug 27, 2026 · 32 minMeta’s settlement puts youth safety defaults under scrutinyThe episode connects Meta’s proposed youth-safety changes and NVIDIA’s AI boom to a broader question about technology’s social costs and concentration of power.
- Aug 26, 2026 · 32 minFootball’s CTE evidence collides with business and culture fightsThe episode connects new concerns about repeated football impacts with market missteps, AI-era credibility questions, and escalating trade tensions.
- Aug 25, 2026 · 31 minSanctions, ticket prices and friction reshape everyday marketsThe episode connects geopolitical pressure, consumer backlash and deliberately slower technology to a broader question about who absorbs the costs of change.
- Aug 24, 2026 · 27 minCanada escalates tariff fight as AI enters everyday messagesThe episode connects a widening North American trade conflict with the privacy questions raised when AI gains access to personal communications.
- Aug 21, 2026 · 30 minBond yields rise as consumers and brands lose momentumThe episode connects market stress, cautious household spending, corporate weakness, and attention-driven entertainment to a broader picture of economic pressure.
- Aug 20, 2026 · 31 minModerna advances personalized cancer vaccines as delivery and debt pressures mountThe episode connects a potentially important medical advance with the operational, financial, and environmental strains reshaping everyday business.
- Aug 19, 2026 · 32 minDisney challenges FCC pressure as borrowing costs climbThe episode connects higher financing costs, political pressure on media, emerging robotics, and essential-expense debt to broader economic and institutional strains.