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Shots, shots, shots, shots! Espresso shots, that is. Thanks for the reminder, Lil’ Jon. Very prescient of our current work from home situation. Yeeeeeeaahhhhh, etc.

This week: Korean baseball, Ryan’s new Ziggurat desk, and considering whether HBO Max’s marketing already needs to “Pivot!” ¹. 🛋

¹ This is the only Friends quote I know, tbh.

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• KBO Home Run

We’re going to level with you: it’s week nine of sheltering in place and we’ve gotten to the point where we’re just taking quizzes off the HGTV homepage. Email complaints to [email protected].

This week: more Coronatalk®, United airline’s clean skies initiative, and the lose-lose-lose world of food delivery.

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• Drizzy Dr6ke on Instagram: “In My Feelings - peep the iPhone as the stage #Drake @drakepolska”

I mean, I know there’s ballooning deficit and everything, but you’d think Congress could appropriate a few bucks for the pro plan of Zoom.

This week: face masks, pandemic politics, and the unlikely food world mensch and his iconic frosted tips in the era of coronavirus. 🌶.

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• Igor Bobic on Twitter: "Senate HELP committee holding a Zoom party right now https://t.co/aPNqJUDqWc" / Twitter

The stark reality of 2020 is that many business models will have extreme difficulty adapting to a post-COVID reality. It is with this in mind that we humbly propose all movie theaters be converted into mini Disneylands for no more than 10 visitors at any one time. Keep six feet away from Daffy. Tickets are $1,399. No upgrades, Points Guy.

This week: magic keyboards, dogvertising, and adding some caffeine to Still or Sparkling®. ☕️.

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• Baboy (@dogwithsign) • Instagram photos and videos

Where Bada meets Bing meets oh no they’re really just going to package and sell the streaming service equivalent of that one kitchen drawer filled with random stuff that made it through three moves over two decades okay i see you at&t i mean you paid for it so you do you i guess.

This week: getting frunky, betting the spread on the over under, and Ryan hops in the metaphorical Camaro for some quarantine Trip-D. 🔥.

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• BCS Frunk

For over 200 episodes, we've been here for you. Through thick and thin, boom and bust, dark mode and light. And though these may be unprecedented times, we want you to know that we're committed to navigating these insufferable Magic Keyboard reviews — together.

This week: sit stand sleep desks, runner particulate clouds, and thawing a pint in honor of Three Twins. 🍨.

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• Chipotle — 4Heroes

We’re all learning a lot during this pandemic. About ourselves, about government, about humanity. But also we’ve also learned something we already kind of knew: ain’t nobody buying Bubly®.

This week: paper product supply chains, the Pepsi Universe, and an extremely specific reference for people who remember where North Hall Room 1110 is.

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• In Brief: The Wrong Kind of Breathtaking

Sure, Top Chef gets the class-leading sparkling water sponsors like San Pellegrino, but where does that leave Bubly? Even the people at Last Chance Kitchen asked them to “pack their bubbles and go”.

This week: cronchifying some potatoes, trying to remember how to spell Kracizynski, and watching as Sterling Cooper helps decade old startup Zoom navigate a PR crisis. 🥃.

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• Quibi launches its mobile streaming service in the middle of the quarantine era | TechCrunch

In uncertain times, it's helpful to remember this ancient proverb: sometimes to keep moving forward, you have to stop at every green light.

This week: the iPad gets some pointers from its brother Mac, Disney also finds time has no meaning, and pod listening habits in the shelter-in-place era. 🦠 .

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• Coronavirus Causes Dip in Podcast Listening – WWD

Um. Anything eventful happen while we were gone?

This week: sleep is canceled, sports are canceled, outside is canceled. Bull market conditions for existential dread, tho. 📈.

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• On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus - The Washington Post