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Major American Cities Are Losing Kids & Ford Wants You to Customize Your Car

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[SPEAKER_01] Good Morning Brew Daily. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, American cities are becoming less Sesame Street, more Bourbon Street.

[SPEAKER_00] And Ford wants more customers to pimp their rides. It's Tuesday, July 28th. Let's ride.

[SPEAKER_01] I've seen enough. There is a definitive song of the summer and it's Ella Langley's Choosing Texas. The country song just spent a record setting 15th week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, passing Mariah Carey's We Belong Together and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. Absolute classics as the longest running number one by a solo woman outside of the holidays. Toby, it's a great track. Catchy, twangy, pairs well with a porch beer. I dig it. And apparently tons of people do as well.

[SPEAKER_01] Are you an Ella fella?

[SPEAKER_00] I am an Ella fella. She won me over eventually because the song is actually good. Most songs in the summers, they get a little annoying to me by the middle and the end of the summer. I'm thinking of Espresso a couple of years ago. But this song is just awesome and it's also so versatile. I was reading a Rolling Stones article about how do you declare a song in the summer. And it needs to be a couple of things.

Major American Cities Are Losing Kids & Ford Wants You to Customize Your Car

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Major American Cities Are Losing Kids & Ford Wants You to Customize Your Car

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.