Cultural Arbitrage // CARB

Welcome to your weekly serving of CARBs - what's on the menu, you ask?

02:00 Obsessions of the Week! From lottery winners to allergy season

08:01 Pope Francis and Religion's Resurging Relevance to Millennials and Gen Z

19:22 The Dark Side of AI: Energy Consumption - is it really that bad?

28:35 Extraterrestrial Life & K2-18b: Shall we meet the little green men or be cautious?

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Welcome to your weekly serving of CARBs - whats on the menu, you ask?

00:00 Introductions, including our special guest Flora Macdonald Johnston

01:59 Weekly Obsessions: Flora dishes on Butter (the book, not the food...) & leather jackets, Laura spills the latest espionage drama from the tech industry's hottest payroll companies, Pia gushes over luxury French real estate, Nat shares a very random fact about Chat GPT's latest AI boxed Barbie Doll craze

10.18 Lauren Sanchez & her girl gang go to space

19.45 Colossal scientists break the internet with Dire Wolf puppies

28:11 Saudi Arabia’s $9 trillion sci-fi gamble

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This week CARB, we are serving up quite the menu:

00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage

01:58 Weekly Obsessions: Pia gushes over the new Chanel x Rowing partnership, Laura teaches us about millennials' obsession with saunas, Nat shares the latest on hidden fees in the UK (and we all learn that 'drip' is Gen Z for 'bling')

7:35 Global Tariffs: Let's play Short, Long or Dead!

19:52 CPG is back, baby: The consumer package goods industry is having a renaissance

29:55 Beatles Backlash: 4 A-list actors, 4 movies, no local representation - do we care or do movie-goers just want a box office hit?

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This week on the CARB menu, we are dishing up:

00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage & listener obsessions

04:30 Weekly Obsessions: Nat gushes over the Sydney Sweeney / Glen Powell love affair, Laura nerds out on England's newest 15 year old AI founder, Pia teaches everyone about commercial aircraft tires

11:59 Global Defense Tech: Is this previously unsexy industry having a renaissance?

21:44 The UK's Non-Dom Rule: This new tax regime has the wealthy running for the hills ... outside of Britain

30:14 H&M's AI Digital Twins: H&M is making AI replicas of real models - is this the future of the runway?

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Welcome to the Carb Pod! This week, we are dishing up:

00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage

01:48 Weekly Obsessions: Nat has an aha moment about George Foreman, Pia warns us about microplastics, Laura teaches us about Volkswagen's side hustle

08:16 BYD Electric Cars: Tesla has a new arch nemesis

17:10 Longevity Tech: Is Biohacking the next big thing or just a marketing gimic

30:14 NASA Astronauts: Rescued from space but not from the media's obsession with the 'perfect' female body

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Welcome to the Carb Pod! On this week's menu

00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage

01:13 Weekly Obsessions: Nat <3 F1, Laura Becomes a Cyborg, Pia Makes it Rain

08:51 TikTok's Existential Crisis: National Security vs. Free Speech

17:20 Fertility Rates: A Global Concern

27:29 An Insider's View: Gucci's New Creative Director

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0:20: Introductions

0.54: Weekly Obsessions

6:50: Bezos kills the opinion section of the Washington Post

18.15: Meghan Markle, Sussex or (Martha) Stewart?

29:00: China's AI game isn't just a one trick pony - Manus launches a new AI Agent

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0:20 Weekly Obsessions

07:47: US/Ukraine Mineral Deal - to be or not to be?

21:35 The Future of Robotics - is there anything they can't do?

35:23: Oscar Drama - is AI taking over Hollywood?

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0:20 Weekly Obsessions

07:28 German Elections: A Political Landscape Shift & a Lesson in Polarization

20:02 Flying Cars: A New Era of Transportation

26:15 Amazon's Acquisition of James Bond: Bezos, the New Supervillain?

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(2:00) Obsessions of the week: Denmark takes on Cali, Pete Davidson for Valentine's, Musk’s “Doge Army”

(8:00) US bureaucratic overhaul: Trump & Elon take on USAID

(21:00) The latest Kanye scandal - but with a AI deep fake twist

(29:00) AI copyright lawsuits - is this just the beginning?

(36:00) Weekly bets by Nat, Pia & Laura

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