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A New York City bodega recently started selling what they're calling loosey eggs. Instead of a dozen or a half dozen, you can buy a little bag with three little eggs in it. The idea got a ton of attention.
It's not loose cigarettes, but loose eggs drawing people to Pamela's Green Deli. He says the idea to sell the loose eggs came after seeing customers being forced to leave a full carton on the counter. Currently, New York State requires eggs to be sold in packages. And while the price of eggs is cracking wallets right now, Rodriguez tells us he just hopes to help his community one day at a time.
Eggs are too expensive. Ask anyone. Ask the President of the United States.
The eggs. Because I'm hearing so much about eggs, you'll figure it out. You've got to figure something out fast.
But on today, Eggsplained, Vox's Kenny Torello is actually going to make the case that eggs are too cheap. Get a load of this guy, will ya?
On this week's episode of Net Worth and Chill, I'm chatting with internet sensation and everyone's favorite Philly influencer, Bran Flakes. He's a social media maverick and content creator turning viral moments into cold hard cash. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on the Your Rich BFF YouTube channel.
We've been doing this whole virtual assistants thing for more than a decade, and yet Siri is still terrible. Alexa and Google Assistant are, you know, better, but they're pretty much just for music and timers. But everybody is convinced, all those companies and many others, that AI is going to change the way that we do everything.
So is now really the time for the voice assistant and virtual assistant revolution? That's what we discussed this week on The Verge Cast, wherever you get podcasts.
Kenny Torellis, senior reporter at Vox, our man on the meat beat. It's been a minute. What is going on with the bird flu?
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