Bonus episode! You're welcome, teamsters.

• Is Tom Cruise the last movie star and... one of the best marketers? (Hear us out.)
• Duolingo purges its TikTok and Instagram and comes back... with a bizarre video. (Presumably to win us back after its AI-first disaster.)
• All-American Rejects playing in your backyard. (We wish.)

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On the Meme Team podcast, we talk about the logic behind virality. Because marketing isn’t just logic — it’s culture… and this podcast decodes both.

• Sesame Street is now available on Netflix (but still on PBS!)
• Uber's route share announcement gets bungled (it's really not a bus!)
• HBO finally drops the "Max" (it's cleaner)
• Is everything going to become an AI chatbot?

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More about Sonia's consulting firm: https://www.bendgrowth.co/

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https://amandanat.com/

Marketing isn't just logic — it's culture. The Meme Team podcast decodes both. Let's goooo!

• Apple Vision Pro and Bono (it's like they're trying to make 'fetch' happen)
• Skechers doubled down on this one audience segment — and got to a $9.4 billion valuation
• Final Destination's brilliant guerilla marketing (but if I see a truck with logs on the freeway, I am taking the next exit)
• Pope Leo XIV (is this America's big marketing opportunity?)

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Sonia Baschez (@soniabaschez): ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter/X⁠

Amanda Natividad (@amandanat): ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠Twitter/X

More about Sonia's consulting firm: https://www.bendgrowth.co/

More about Amanda and her newsletter:

https://amandanat.com/