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WEF-Hater Elon Musk Makes Davos Debut & ‘Sinners’ Breaks All-Time Oscars Noms
23 Jan 2026
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, Sinners makes Academy Awards history.
And heated rivalry has done the impossible, getting people to care about hockey. It's Friday, January 23rd.
Chapter 2: What major event is Elon Musk attending at the World Economic Forum?
Let's ride.
Good morning and happy Friday, though we are actually recording this Thursday afternoon since we have a flight out of Switzerland in the morning. The Delta Wi-Fi isn't quite there yet to record a podcast from Extreme Basic Economy.
Chapter 3: How has the show 'Heated Rivalry' influenced interest in hockey?
There's been a lot of huge news this week, but for probably the most exciting headline, we're going to hand it over to social producer Annie Bennett. Annie, what's the good word?
We got some breaking news that Morning Brew has a variety show at Caveat in New York City Thursday, February 5th at 7 p.m. If you and your friends want to watch us bully Toby live on stage, this is the show for you.
What about me?
Well, Neil was frankly not invited, but that's okay because he's going to show up anyway, and we'll bully him then, so all good. It's going to be the best video, sketch, stand-up. It's the best Morning Brew content that you can see online, but this time you can't scroll ahead when it's boring. Am I selling this well? Don't answer that.
Annie, you could sell water to a fish, but please get out of our studio now. The link to buy a ticket to the show will be in our show description. I will be there. Neil will probably be there, and we hope to see you there as well.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of AI on workforce trends discussed at Davos?
Winner, winner, chicken sinners. Ryan Coogler's historical vampire epic Sinners scored 16 nominations for the Academy Awards, setting a new record for the most Oscar nominations in history. The previous record was a tie between Titanic, La La Land, and All About Eve with 14 apiece. After Sinners, Paul Thomas Anderson's
action roller coaster One Battle After Another received 13 nods, making those two films the big winners from the Oscar nomination announcement Thursday morning. They also share a common thread. Both Sinners and One Battle After Another are highly original, Americana-focused films with huge budgets that seem to resonate with our cultural and political moment. Who else is in the running?
Well, let's head to Best Picture, the most prestigious category. Joining Sinners and One Battle are Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, and Train Dreams. For Best Actor, Michael B. Jordan from Sinners and Leo from One Battle will go up against Ethan Hawke from Blue Moon, Wagner Mora from The Secret Agent, and Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme.
For Best Actress, Jessie Buckley is the overwhelming favorite for her performance in Hamnet. Also in the running are Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, Kate Hudson in Sing Song Blue, Renata Reinsve from Sentimental Value, and Emma Stone in Bugonia. Toby, I know one of your New Year's resolutions is to become a movie snob. Thoughts on these nominations?
I saw Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme, and I saw one battle after another. It gets a little dicey for me after that, but my big takeaway from this is that all these roads seem to lead back to Warner Brothers' discovery. Sinners and One Battle After Another were both produced by Warner. In total, the studio led the entire Oscars nomination process with 30 nods.
And then you also have to look over at Netflix, because what have we been talking about For months now, Netflix's deal to potentially buy Warner Brothers Discovery. They did pretty well. They had Frankenstein and Train Dreams. They earned 18 nominations as a whole. So you think about combining those two forces into one. That's a lot of Oscar nominations under one roof.
One fun under-the-radar storyline that I think people should look out for. Neon, a very indie producer of foreign language films like Sentimental Value, like The Secret Agent. also racked up 18 nominations, the exact same thing as Netflix with, I would imagine, a little bit of a smaller budget.
Speaking of Netflix, I want to talk about K-Pop Demon Hunters. Now, K-Pop Demon Hunters is Netflix's most viewed movie ever. It got a few weekends in theaters. So it doesn't show up so much in the Oscars, but it is nominated for best song, best original song. Of course, that song is Golden. So I think that's got to win.
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Chapter 5: What predictions did Elon Musk make about AI at Davos?
That's one of my favorite songs of the year.
The amount of times I've prepped for this show while listening to Golden, it is permanently seared into my brain. One other thing to look at as well is Ryan Coogler's deal that made a bunch of waves a few months ago. Remember, Ryan Coogler, director of Sinners, had this very unorthodox agreement with Warner Brothers for Sinners, which means he will actually own the movie Outrate in 2050.
This is not a thing movie studios do. Movie studios are valued based off how good their catalogs are. They don't want to give up those catalogs lightly. This kind of completely changed the game. Is this going to changed the way that Hollywood makes deals with directors.
The fact that Sinners is now the most nominated movie ever is only going to make this movie even more valuable and make that deal look even more present.
So the question now is, is anyone going to watch the Oscars? That's what we've all been asking for the past few years. Last year, Conan O'Brien hosted and the ratings hit a five-year high for ABC, about 19.7 million people tuned in. That was up from 19.5 million the year before as recently as 2019, there were 30 million people watching the Oscars. So Conan O'Brien is going again.
This is happening in the middle of March. And then of course, in 2029, the Oscars is leaving ABC and going to YouTube. And we're going to see how that changes the telecast. I hope it makes it shorter, but it's not going to be because YouTube doesn't have to end for anything coming after. And the problem is this, this thing runtime last year was three hours and 50 minutes.
Listen, we saw the golden globes at a podcast category this year. Oscars, just think about it. Academy Awards, just think about it. We're sitting right here. Moving on, it's Stock of the Week, Dog of the Week time, the segment where we pick one stock that cooks their pasta perfectly al dente and one stock that lets those noodles get soggy.
I won the pre-show game of a biathlon out here in Davos, so I'm up first. And my Stock of the Week has been seeing hockey stick growth. It's literally the game of hockey. In the wake of the breakout HBO hit, Heated Rivalry, Interest in the actual game is heating up too.
SeatGeek said its weekly hockey ticket sales jumped over 20% after the show first aired last year, while StubHub saw searches jump 75%, according to Bloomberg. Hollander and Rosanoff are introducing a lot of new fans to the game.
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