Cultural Arbitrage // CARB

Episode 10

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 season 08:01 Pope Francis and Religion's Resurging Relevance to Millennials and Gen Z 19:22 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? ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 9

Welcome to your weekly serving of CARBs - whats on the menu, you ask? 00:00 Introductions, including our special guest Flora Macdonald Johnston 01:59 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 craze 10.18 Lauren Sanchez & her girl gang go to space 19.45 Colossal scientists break the internet with Dire Wolf puppies 28:11 Saudi Arabia’s $9 trillion sci-fi gamble ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 8

This week CARB, we are serving up quite the menu: 00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage 01:58 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 renaissance 29:55 Beatles Backlash: 4 A-list actors, 4 movies, no local representation - do we care or do movie-goers just want a box office hit? ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 7

This week on the CARB menu, we are dishing up: 00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage & listener obsessions 04:30 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 tires 11:59 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 Britain 30:14 H&M's AI Digital Twins: H&M is making AI replicas of real models - is this the future of the runway? ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 6

Welcome to the Carb Pod! This week, we are dishing up: 00:00 Introduction to Culture Arbitrage 01:48 Weekly Obsessions: Nat has an aha moment about George Foreman, Pia warns us about microplastics, Laura teaches us about Volkswagen's side hustle 08:16 BYD Electric Cars: Tesla has a new arch nemesis 17:10 Longevity Tech: Is Biohacking the next big thing or just a marketing gimic 30:14 NASA Astronauts: Rescued from space but not from the media's obsession with the 'perfect' female body ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.