Cultural Arbitrage

Welcome to your weekly serving of CARBs - what's on the menu, you ask?02:00 Obsessions of the Week! From lottery winners to allergy season08:01 Pope Francis and Religion's Resurging Relevance to Millennials and Gen Z19:22 The Dark Side of AI: Energy Consumption - is it really that bad?28:35 Extraterrestrial Life & K2-18b: Shall we meet the little green men or be cautious?

Welcome to your weekly serving of CARBs - whats on the menu, you ask? 00:00 Introductions, including our special guest Flora Macdonald Johnston01:59 Weekly Obsessions: Flora dishes on Butter (the book, not the food...) & leather jackets, Laura spills the latest espionage drama from the tech industry's hottest payroll companies, Pia gushes over luxury French real estate, Nat shares a very random fact about Chat GPT's latest AI boxed Barbie Doll craze10.18 Lauren Sanchez & her girl gang go to space19.45 Colossal scientists break the internet with Dire Wolf puppies28:11 Saudi Arabia’s $9 trillion sci-fi gamble

This week CARB, we are serving up quite the menu:00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage01:58 Weekly Obsessions: Pia gushes over the new Chanel x Rowing partnership, Laura teaches us about millennials' obsession with saunas, Nat shares the latest on hidden fees in the UK (and we all learn that 'drip' is Gen Z for 'bling')7:35 Global Tariffs: Let's play Short, Long or Dead! 19:52 CPG is back, baby: The consumer package goods industry is having a renaissance29:55 Beatles Backlash: 4 A-list actors, 4 movies, no local representation - do we care or do movie-goers just want a box office hit?

This week on the CARB menu, we are dishing up:00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage & listener obsessions04:30 Weekly Obsessions: Nat gushes over the Sydney Sweeney / Glen Powell love affair, Laura nerds out on England's newest 15 year old AI founder, Pia teaches everyone about commercial aircraft tires11:59 Global Defense Tech: Is this previously unsexy industry having a renaissance? 21:44 The UK's Non-Dom Rule: This new tax regime has the wealthy running for the hills ... outside of Britain30:14 H&M's AI Digital Twins: H&M is making AI replicas of real models - is this the future of the runway?

Welcome to the Carb Pod! This week, we are dishing up: 00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage01:48 Weekly Obsessions: Nat has an aha moment about George Foreman, Pia warns us about microplastics, Laura teaches us about Volkswagen's side hustle08:16 BYD Electric Cars: Tesla has a new arch nemesis17:10 Longevity Tech: Is Biohacking the next big thing or just a marketing gimic30:14 NASA Astronauts: Rescued from space but not from the media's obsession with the 'perfect' female body

Welcome to the Carb Pod! On this week's menu00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage01:13 Weekly Obsessions: Nat <3 F1, Laura Becomes a Cyborg, Pia Makes it Rain08:51 TikTok's Existential Crisis: National Security vs. Free Speech17:20 Fertility Rates: A Global Concern 27:29 An Insider's View: Gucci's New Creative Director

0:20: Introductions0.54: Weekly Obsessions6:50: Bezos kills the opinion section of the Washington Post18.15: Meghan Markle, Sussex or (Martha) Stewart?29:00: China's AI game isn't just a one trick pony - Manus launches a new AI Agent

0:20 Weekly Obsessions07:47: US/Ukraine Mineral Deal - to be or not to be? 21:35 The Future of Robotics - is there anything they can't do? 35:23: Oscar Drama - is AI taking over Hollywood?