Morning Brew Daily
Unpopular Jobs Are Becoming Desirable & Communal Dining Makes a Comeback
18 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, the latest trend in dining, sitting next to complete strangers.
Then Jeffrey Bezos is back in the arena, this time with a new AI startup. It's Tuesday, November 18th. Let's ride.
May I meet you? In four words, Bill Ackman just changed the dating game forever. In a viral ex post over the weekend that was apparently not satire, the hedge fund billionaire offered advice to young single men who were finding it difficult to meet women in public. Just walk up to them and say, may I meet you before advancing the conversation.
Ackman said he used this pickup line in his younger years and almost never got a no. After his post went nuclear online, Ackman followed up, writing that May I Meet You works much more effectively when you are in motion, so be sure to use it in places like subways, elevators, airplanes, buses, and even walking down the street. Toby, would you have used this in your single days?
No, but a lot were very quick to point out that, hey, Bill, maybe the approach was working because your 6'3 went to Harvard and were super rich, but the general thesis does feel right here. If the two options are A, you don't go up to someone, or B, go up to someone and say, may I meet you?
I do think option B is preferable, but it also has me thinking maybe a new tagline for the show, no more let's ride, it's all may we ride. Let us know what you think about that. All right, now a word from our sponsor, U.S. Bank. Picture this, your favorite band just announced they're heading on a big tour for their new album.
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Chapter 2: What trends are emerging in the job market?
So it was a really bad day on the market yesterday. The Dow was down 1.2%, NASDAQ down 0.8%, S&P down 0.9%. All these AI names are just tumbling like crazy. NVIDIA, Meta, Amazon, AMD, Supermicro, Oracle, CoreWeave, they're all being bad along with Bitcoin. So I guess misery is company.
And if you want kind of the confluence of both the stock market falling and the fact that Bitcoin is falling, look no further than Bitcoin treasury companies. These are companies like MicroStrategy, which is Sensory Band, did to Strategy. They stuffed their balance sheets with Bitcoin earlier this year. They would use their stock to raise liquidity so they could buy more Bitcoin.
And they were trading at a premium for a lot of this time. Now that premium has completely evaporated and some of them are actually trading below the dollar value of their Bitcoin holdings. As you rally has lost a little bit of momentum.
So if you see stocks falling and you see Bitcoin falling, you kind of want to stay away from names like MicroStrategy, who has fallen 50% this year, halved in value as things have kind of lost some of the narrative tailwinds that they've been experiencing. All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with Toby's Trends. Neil, are you hitting your protein goals?
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