Episode 472: Neal and Toby discuss the wave of merchandise that is popping up everywhere on marketplace platforms such as Etsy, eBay, TikTok Shop, and Amazon, and why these retailers are needing to take them down. Then, it’s been one year since President Javier Milei pledged to overhaul Argentina’s government spending and it has come with some surprising results – both good and bad. Plus, shoppers on Amazon can now add a Hyundai car to their cart. Meanwhile, a new study shows a growing number of US adults lacking literacy skills. Finally, a roundup of the biggest headlines to end your day. Visit https://www.sage.com for more! Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow 00:00 - Time Person of the Year Nominees 03:00 - CEO Killer Merchandise Virality 08:00 - One Year of Milei in Argentina 12:00 - Amazon Sells Cars Now 17:45 - American Adult Literacy is Down 21:45 - Headlines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the latest on the Person of the Year nominees?
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Chapter 2: How did CEO Killer merchandise go viral?
Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, more Americans are falling behind on basic skills. Is it TikTok's fault?
Then you really can buy anything on Amazon. It's now selling cars. It's Wednesday, December 11th. Let's ride.
Earlier this week, Time Magazine released the shortlist for its Person of the Year, who will be announced tomorrow. So I want to play a little quiz with you all. Toby, you can participate too. I'm going to give you a list of six names. Five are finalists for Time's Person of the Year, and one is not a finalist. Try to guess which one is the imposter I included on the list. Here we go.
Oh, my gosh.
They all seem that my initial thought was Caitlin Clark, because maybe she's just not quite big enough. But my other thought was Mark Zuckerberg, because I don't know, other than come on our podcast, what really big thing did he do this year? But tell us what is the correct answer?
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Chapter 3: What are the results of Javier Milei's presidency in Argentina?
The correct answer is Caitlin Clark is the imposter. Oh, wait. So Mark Zuckerberg is shortlisted for Times Person of the Year, but I agree with you. I'm not exactly sure what he did except, you know, get a makeover a little bit. Caitlin Clark did win Times Athlete of the Year yesterday. So she is going home with some hardware, but she is not up for Person of the Year.
Who do you think is going to win Person of the Year?
That was sneaky, Neil. I think, wait, is Elon Musk on the shortlist? Yeah. Okay, so he might go back to back. Oh, no, he didn't win it last year. So I think probably Elon Musk. He's pretty dang influential.
You know who else is influential? Donald Trump. He is by far the odds-on favorite to win this thing tomorrow morning.
Chapter 4: How can you buy a car on Amazon now?
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Chapter 5: What does the decline in American adult literacy mean?
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On Monday, Luigi Maggioni was charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And just hours later, online stores were flooded with merch that sported his name and likeness alongside phrases like, in this house, Luigi Maggioni is a hero. T-shirts, coffee mugs, stickers, you name it, people were selling it.
Wired found nearly 100 listings featuring Mangione's name or image on Etsy alone, and over 800 results come up if you search for deny, defend, depose, the three words that were etched into the bullet shell casings at the scene of the murder last week.
It's been one of the stories within the story of the assassination, how different parts of the internet have reacted and in some cases embraced Mangione. The McDonald's that Mangione was spotted at in Altoona, Pennsylvania, it's been review-bombed with hundreds of people flooding the restaurant's Google page with negative reviews calling the workers rats and snitches.
Chapter 6: What are today's biggest headlines?
This reaction is something we saw right from the outset, too. A Facebook post from UnitedHealth Group, soon after Thompson's killing, received 62,000 reactions, and 57,000 of those were the laughing emoji.
speaks to the deep animosity people have toward the healthcare insurance industry, but also shows just the internet's intense fascination with this character whose privileged background in Baltimore haven't deterred people from standing him as a folk hero, despite him allegedly fatally shooting someone in Manhattan.
It is odd, Neil. Most of these sellers on the merch side of things are just trying to catch in. You see a lot of print-on-demand shops with products for sale because they let these opportunistic sellers capitalize on trends very quickly. You see it really any time a meme goes viral from something as harmless as Mudang to something as serious as an assassination of a healthcare CEO.
If you go to some of these sellers' pages, you'll find other merch maybe related to MAGA or Donald Trump or Some featuring a ray gun. They are just these sellers who jump in on any internet train. But I think part of the reason why the internet has had such a field day with this particular story is that so much of Mangione's public life is out on the internet for people to see.
People are going through his Goodreads account to see what books he was interested in. Going through his X account to see what he was into. I saw a screenshot from the UPenn podcast. crushes group, a Facebook group where, uh, man, she only went to school. So this is a capital V capital O very online story.
And, and how are companies responding to this? So you mentioned that, uh, the McDonald's and Altoona was review bond with all these one star, uh, reviews. Well, Google has removed all of them because they don't want, uh, They don't want reviews pertaining to a particular location from people who have not even been there. So they've cracked down hard on that.
And then when it comes to these online selling platforms, so something like eBay, They have taken down the ones that glorify or celebrate the actual murder, the violence, but they're allowing the ones to stay on that just say deny, defend, depose because that is within their guidelines. Amazon has taken a harder approach and removed more of these listings.
And then the crowdfunding site GoFundMe took down some campaigns that popped up in support of the suspect because it has a policy against raising money for the legal defense of violent crimes.
Another interesting wrinkle to this case is that, that is related to social media, is that usually in high profile crimes like this, you will see kind of this outpouring of internet sleuths that jump online and try to solve the murder alongside or solve the case alongside police. But in this case, the Wall Street Journal documented multiple instances of the online community actively using
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