“You might not like it now but one day when you’re older, you’ll thank me for this.” Rivian’s CEO, probably.

This week: extreme couponing with premium travel cards, Roundball Rock’s return, and the nothingburger-est wearables update there ever was. 💦.

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• Cocktails - Hawksmoor

While the San Francisco ‘doom loop’ was never real, we stan and co-sign the ‘boom loop’ comeback story. It’s the 2012 Giants but with Waymos humming in the background.

This week: peanut butter creme (not cream, per legal), pumpkin spice Apple hardware, and SCDP tries to win the Heinz light switch account. 🫘.

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• SF Doom Spiral Tote

Get in loser, we’re driving down to the 280 to go watch an extended iPhone ad in Cupertino.

This week: Timmy C., the other Timmy C., and Carlos got an electric car. Zoom zoom. 🏎️.

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• timothée chalamet pronouncing his name for almost 2 minutes - YouTube

Not trying to Matt Levine you here, but the modern American economy can be perfectly explained in two stories: Taylor Swift’s engagement and the new Reese’s Oreo.

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This week: bangin’ sound on your next Alaska flight, the tragedy of Roomba, and televised sports. 🥌.

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• The New ‘Perfect Combination’: The Reese’s Oreo Cup? The Oreo Reese’s Cookie? - WSJ

Wait wait, Eddy Cue prints out his calendar like they’re MapQuest directions in 1999? Are we getting this right?

This week: hypebeast coffee pop-ups, electric cars, and Wemo is Nomo.💡.

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• Gen Z Is Answering the Phone in a New Way That's Confusing Us All - Business Insider

Despite David Z.’s best efforts, we’re still solidly in a golden age of TV. Your favorite “famously sparkling” pod has fresh recs and picks just for you.

This week: Big Bird auditions for the “Die Another Day” remake, Etsy copyright infringement, and a ProPublica style exposé of the Target App. 🎯.

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• SF Chronicle - Someone left a Tesla in the middle of S.F.’s Alta Plaza Park

Bears hibernate for the winter, sometimes podcasts hibernate for the spring. What’d we miss?

This week: escape room Google Sheets, demo day for real this time, and a quick check in with everyone’s favorite increasingly problematically monopolistic fruit company. 🪚.

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• The Property Brothers Have Done ‘Hundreds’ of Escape Rooms - WSJ

Every year we think we’ve hit ‘peak tenuously-linked brand integration’ and year after year we’re shown that no, there’s no lemon that a David Zaz-type won’t try to squeeze into a diamond.

This week: dank memes, TV for boomers, and asking Alexa+ to pour one out for Skype. 📺.

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• We want to make sure it's perfect 🥲 #PhizCoffee #MintMojito

At this point, we’re like eighteen months away from the Property Brothers having their own cereal. Honestly it’s been a slippery slope ever since Reese’s Puffs.

This week: TCL’s bush league OLED fear-mongering, Detroit style cookware, and the predictable end of the fast casual city challenge. 🌁.

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• Kelce Mix

This Sonos shakeup is the biggest corporate drama to hit the Santa Barbara area since the Silvergreens in Isla Vista closed.

This week: a change of Venu, entertainment centers frozen in time, and more intrigue in the fast casual running challenge world. 📺.

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• Wolf Blitzer on X: "I’m very happy. #GoBills! https://t.co/Ull9zkpThn" / X