Mr. Beat Up

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680 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

Mr. Beat Up’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.

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Pinterest, they saw, was successful, so they launched Hobby.

Hobby spelt with an I and no E. And then Clubhouse.

Do you remember when it had its brief moment in the sun and Mark Cuban and stuff were doing Clubhouse?

Facebook tried to launch Live Audio Rooms.

So a long list, and now we can add prediction markets to it.

Yeah, as long as they've got one of the most profitable core products in the world, whatever Zuckerberg wants, he can basically employ people to do.

Let's turn to oil.

The past few months with the war in Iran, we've been seeing oil above $100 a barrel.

But since this peace deal has been announced, it's fell massively.

Yeah.

There's some data that Allianz, the insurer, released around what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz.

So there's about 1,200 cargo ships waiting to pass with goods that are worth $125 billion collectively.

A separate company, Lloyd's, has been tracking the number of ships that have passed out of the Gulf, so coming one way.

There was 24 last week.

There's been 69 this week.

So it is increasing.

But when you think about a 1200 ship backlog, it's going to take a while.

And then there was some interesting reporting about a novel challenge that some of these ships now face as they start moving again.

Have you been hearing about the barnacles?

Yeah.

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