Mailbag Episode! Morning Routines, Best Career Advice, and More

Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, you've got questions, and we've got answers. A special q and a edition of the pod where things are gonna get spicy. It's Thursday, January 1. Let's ride. Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026. Did you know that now we are closer to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the construction of the Great Pyramids Of Giza? It's true. And it has been for five hundred years. Either way, we're very excited to begin this new chapter with you all this year. And what better way to kick it off than by getting a little vulnerable? We are in the hot seats today and answering questions that you all submitted to us a few weeks ago. Some of them were too personal, like, are we tighty whitey or brief skies, but everything else was on the table. We'll run through some business and market focused questions you had before diving into some lore about the show and ourselves. And I tell you what, we got some young Barbara Walters on our hands because you guys asked some great questions and some horrible ones like the tighty whitey one. But before we dive in, a word from our sponsor, Rubrik. Neil, you know in every spy movie, there's that one rogue agent who goes completely off script. That's what today's AI agents feel like. They automate everything. They move insanely fast, but one wrong move and suddenly they deleted the wrong files or optimized something straight into the ground. I love me a spy movie. And the scary part, they can do 10 times the damage in a tenth of the time, which is why Rubrik Agent Cloud is basically the studio director for your AI agents. It's the only platform that lets you monitor, govern, and rewind their action. It's running in the background like a behind the scenes crew, full visibility and guardrails so your agents don't go rogue, and if something breaks, you just roll it back, like hitting undo on an entire plot twist. And the rewind is fast. It's why hospitals and banks rely on it. If your business relies on AI agents, you need the ability to monitor, govern, and rewind their actions. Right now, our listeners get exclusive early access to Rubrik Agent Cloud. Head to rubrik.com. That's rubrik.com, rubrik.com. Okay. Let's head to our first question. This one was from golden boy brawl stars on Instagram. They asked us, what was the most significant moment of 2025? Toby, I'm tossing it to you first. My mind immediately went to a Liberation Day when Trump rolled out those tariffs and was holding up the big poster board. It looked like a Cheesecake Factory menu, but that moment felt like it defined a better part of the year. We said tariffs in ungodly amount of times on the podcast after that day. It definitely spooked the markets. It spooked the markets continually …