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What questions are being answered in this special episode?
Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell.
Today, you've got questions and we've got answers. A special Q&A edition of the pod where things are gonna get spicy. It's Thursday, January 1st. Let's ride. Let's ride.
Happy New Year and welcome to 2026. Did you know that now we are closer to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza? It's true, and it has been for 500 years. Either way, we're very excited to begin this new chapter with you all this year. And what better way to kick it off than by getting a little vulnerable?
We are in the hot seats today and answering questions that you all submitted to us a few weeks ago. Some of them were too personal, like are we tighty-whitey or briefs guys, but everything else was on the table. We'll run through some business and market-focused questions you had before diving into some lore about the show and ourselves. And I tell you what, we got some young Barbara Walters on our hands because you guys asked some great questions and some horrible ones like the tighty-whitey one. But before we dive in, a word from our sponsor, Rubrik. Neil, you know, in every spy movie, there's that one rogue agent who goes completely off script. That's what today's AI agents feel like. They automate everything.
What interesting fact about history is shared at the beginning?
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My mind immediately went to Liberation Day when Trump... Trump rolled out those tariffs and was holding up the big poster board. It looked like a cheesecake factory menu, but that moment felt like it defined a better part of the year. We said tariffs an ungodly amount of times on the podcast after that day. It definitely spooked the markets and spooked the markets continually over the next few months as well. And I had my quote unquote normie friends asking me about it, which to me shows that something penetrated the general consciousness saying like, hey, is everything going to get more expensive?
What personal questions did listeners submit to the hosts?
Like what's going on with tariffs? So to me, I think that moment where he's holding the board in the, you know, the Rose Garden, that sums up 2025 for me.
And everyone's going through looking at each of the names and each of the percentages that are associated with those particular countries. And we also got the story of the herd of McDonald Islands, which are home to no humans at all, but they got a tariff for the penguins and the polar bears that live there. My most significant moment of 2025 came all the way back in February when the Eagles won the Super Bowl. They crushed the Chiefs. Yeah, so that was a great moment of 2025. Actually, it's true. It's not my most significant moment. One of those moments was the Pope's election. That was pretty cool when we got the first American Pope. And there was a lot of hoopla around that particular election and the process behind it.
And I thought it was a cool marriage of something interesting. ancient truly that's been going on for more than a thousand years and something modern having this dialogue with each other and it was also another moment we saw we saw the rise of prediction markets which was a huge narrative and story this year yes they were big during the election back in november 2024 but also you know everyone was kind of clued into the prediction markets what what was kaoshi and what was polymarket
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What questions are being answered in this special episode?
0:00–1:21
2
What interesting fact about history is shared at the beginning?
1:21–3:03
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What personal questions did listeners submit to the hosts?
3:03–10:23
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What was the most significant moment of 2025 according to the hosts?
10:23–23:11
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What predictions do the hosts have for the hottest jobs in 2035?
23:11–36:03
Speakers
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