We go deep on Starbucks as a “coffee bank”—gift cards, breakage, and why rewards make your balance feel free when it’s not. We hit the siren logo (myth vs marketing), CEO pay vs baristas, and the difference between lobbying and splashy donation narratives. Local in the Lou covers the Gateway Arch highway rethink and Missouri’s lawsuit against China, plus CITY SC’s new coach. We round it out with online fraud basics, EV safety tradeoffs, gun-violence stats, and the inflation/currency/Bitcoin argument you’ll hear at every holiday party. Conservative comedy, St. Louis flavor, usable money takes.

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