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Trump Reduces Beef and Coffee Tariffs & Hollywood Stars Aren’t Bankable Anymore?
17 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, will a tariff rollback finally bring down grocery store prices?
Then movie stars just aren't putting butts in seats anymore.
Chapter 2: Will Trump's tariff rollback lower grocery prices?
It's Monday, November 17th. Let's ride. Let's ride.
It is great to be back, though I missed hanging out with you all very much.
Chapter 3: Why aren't Hollywood stars attracting audiences anymore?
Toby, thanks to you and our guest host for holding down the fort last week. And I got to say, that mullet is growing in very nicely. I realize you guys didn't talk about this, so I wanted to mention something that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called a small but happy win. ChatGPT's answers will no longer be littered with em dashes if you tell it not to.
In the last few months, people have recognized that ChatGPT uses an unusual amount of long em dashes when it answers your questions, so it got pretty hard to disguise AI writing as anything else. But Thursday night, Altman wrote that if you tell ChatGPT not to use em dashes in custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do.
This has been a long time coming for me personally because the M-Dash holds a special place in my heart because I learned about them when I got hired to write for Morning Brew. I was reading some of my college writing recently, which don't do that, but my Dash game frankly stunk. Then it became awesome once I was introduced to the M-Dash. I think it was by you yourself.
I did get a little addicted to it as a lot of people have. It is a little bit of a divisive, you know, punctuation mark into the writing community because some call it a crutch. Some say that it's just lazy writing. But then the M-Dash was just corrupted for all of us when AI became so ubiquitous with using this, which helped wean people off. But hopefully now it can be reclaimed by humanity.
So I'm pretty excited about this.
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Chapter 4: What impact do tariffs have on food prices in the U.S.?
And as this bill has soared, they've been desperately trying to back out of the arrangement, saying the sum is, quote, an unprecedented and shocking amount that has exceeded any semblance of reasonableness. Indeed, it appears that Javis' more than $60 million in fees alone is tens of millions more than Elizabeth Holmes spent on her defense.
Toby, what would you buy if Jamie Dimon was paying your bills, and why is it also cellulite butter?
I mean, I would probably order a little room service to go. The cellulite butter is obviously going on the bill. The issue for JPMorgan is technically they have the right to recoup these fees. if it proves that they have been defrauded.
But it looks like they're never going to get most of this money back because the amounts that Javis and Amar owe the bank and the federal government are just well in excess of their actual existing wealth. So it's kind of almost a Sam Bankman-Fried moment where you don't have the assets to pay back the money that you allegedly defrauded them out of.
Also, she went for the absolute top lawyers here in the who's who of a legal defense team. She was initially defended by Alex Spiro, who has represented Elon Musk, Eric Adams. Then she went for celebrity attorneys, Jose Baez and Ronald Sullivan, who defended Harvey Weinstein.
And then now she's appealing her criminal conviction and she hired the same appeals attorney that represented Sam Bankman-Fried. So these billable hours are just shocking news. Well, why not if someone else is paying your bills? Exactly. And looking through these documents, you're seeing that these lawyers are suddenly working 24-hour days. Sometimes one was charging over $2,000 an hour.
So it is just this crazy world that JP Morgan is looking through the receipts and going, how is this even humanly possible? They're saying it's not humanly possible.
We should have gone to law school. Now, I want to give Javis a moment to respond. Her spokesperson said Charlie says she has nothing to do with that. And it's a ridiculous allegation. Talk about the cellulite butter, the hotel upgrades, the meals. And the spokesperson added that Javis, when she was a J.P.
Morgan employee, because they did acquire her her startup, that she always followed all of the policies. The spokesperson said as an employee, she did purchase ice cream and other items in accordance with JP Morgan's code of conduct. She never sought reimbursement for anything that wasn't expressly permitted under the guidelines. She was given any suggestion otherwise is simply incorrect.
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