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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, more MBA grads are on the job hunt months after graduation. Has the degree permanently lost its luster?
Then the founder behind the infamous short seller Hindenburg Research is shutting the firm down. It's Friday, January 17th. Let's ride.
We lost a couple of legends yesterday. Visionary director David Lynch died at 78. He was beloved for his surrealist, eerie depictions of American life in works like Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and Blue Velvet. Many have tried to copy his style, but as our colleague Jen Walsh put it so eloquently, no one has matched his freak since.
Lynch's family announced his death on Facebook, writing, "'There's a big hole in the world now that he is no longer with us,' But as he would say, keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. Toby, last year I started watching Mulholland Drive because it is considered one of, if not the best movie of the last 25 years of the 21st century. 20 minutes in, I was spooked. I turned it off.
Maybe it's because I was by myself. It was late at night. So maybe we can watch it together because I do hear amazing things about that movie.
Either that or his version of Dune, which is also iconic, albeit for different reasons. It's become a little bit of a cult classic because of just how weird and over the top it is. But yeah, David Lynch, an absolute legend. We also lost Bob Euchre, the iconic announcer known as Mr. Baseball, who is the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers for over 50 years. He was 90 years old.
Even if you never tuned into a Brewers game, you likely know Euchre for his iconic cameos in sports cinema. His just-a-bit-outside call from Major League is as quotable as they come. Norm MacDonald thought Euchre was one of the funniest men he ever met, and I encourage you all to go look up his appearances on the Johnny Carson's Tonight Show to corroborate Norm's claim.
There will never quite be a Mr. Baseball like him. Now a word from our sponsor, Public.com. Neil, you ever use any LLMs or AI chatbots?
I'm kind of an AI Luddite for the most part, although I will pull one up to prove my brother wrong every once in a while.
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