🍔 "Ball Pit Bailout" — McDonald’s PlayPlace plan. The Pitt’s Figs fashion. Nvidia’s Jurassic Park AI. +Handwritten Resumes
The Best One Yet

🍔 "Ball Pit Bailout" — McDonald’s PlayPlace plan. The Pitt’s Figs fashion. Nvidia’s Jurassic Park AI. +Handwritten Resumes

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202620 min

McDonald’s has lost its reputation for low prices
 so it’s bringing back the PlayPlace. Figs makes the scrubs in HBO’s The Pitt
 and its stock has doubled in the past year. Nvidia says it can contain all the rogue AI
 with its new AI-proof smart fence. If you’re applying for a job right now, you better freshen up your cursive. Join the waitlist to attend our live NY show at Seedtag on Oct 8th near in Flatiron: https://6c05jscjq8k.typeform.com/to/RlYICxJi More details o...

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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, Team Boy, Tuesday, September 29th. Since he's spot, he's the best one yet.

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This is a Team Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yeah, and he's Jack and I. We got a little surprise for you. Want to tell him what we're doing, Jack?

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We're doing a pop-up live show next week at New York City's Ad Week on October 8th. No one saw this coming. We got invited by C-Tag Pump to be at New York Ad Week our first time there. So we're basically adding an extra live show to the IPO tour.

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