🍂Welcome to Fall

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Good morning. Today, we come baring good news. You can say goodbye to hot car seats, smoldering seatbelt buckles, mosquito bitten ankles, sunburnt shoulders, and sweaty backs because Fall officially starts this Saturday, September 23rd. To commemorate the widely-regarded best season, we put together a list of the greatest Fall movies of all time to put you in that wholesome/spooky mood:

1. Knives Out (2019)

2. Remember the Titans (2000)

3. Good Will Hunting (1997)

4. Coco (2017)

5. When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Agree? Disagree? Reply to this email with your favorite Fall flick and we’ll add them to our watch list 🎬

_{-Bailey Hepler, Mikael Hall}

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WORLD

Prisoner-swap between Iran & US frees 5 Americans

Prisoner swaps are looking a lot like NBA trade-deadline moves these days. On Tuesday, Five Americans landed in Virginia after a 3-way prisoner swap freed them from Iranian custody. These are the moves that brought them home:

• Five Iranians released from US custody who were imprisoned on charges for violating US Sanctions.

• $6 billion in Iranian cash that was held in South Korea was sent to banks in Doha, capital of Qatar.

💸6 Billion?!

Although Biden vowed that the US can track the spending of the $6 billion sent to Iran, critics express their suspicion of the deal that could incentivize Iran to imprison more US citizens and increase the ransom payments, in turn funding Iranian militia and nuclear program. US officials also believe that the five imprisoned Americans were wrongfully imprisoned for political leverage.

😊😊😊🤐🤐The 5 Americans Brought Home

1. Siamak Namazi, 51-year-old Iranian-American businessman, spent eight years in Tehran's notorious Evin prison after flying in to visit his parents and being accused of espionage by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 2015.

2. Emad Shargi, 59-year-old businessman, worked for a tech-investment firm when he was arrested in 2018 on espionage charges.

3. Morad Tahbaz, 67-year-old environmentalist who’s a citizen of US, UK and Iran, was arrested on espionage charges in 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

4. Two others requested to remain anonymous

TECH

Missing Jet Found in South Carolina

Between Aaron Rogers going down and the crash of an F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet, it’s been a rough month for expensive US Jets. A fighter pilot ejected and parachuted to safety on Sunday as his F-35 jet crashed, sending a two-day search for the most expensive air-craft in the world. After many “Dude, Where’s My F-35?” jokes, the debris from the aircraft was finally found in Beaufort, South Carolina, just north of the ejection.

$100 million = The cost of a single F-35 fighter jet like the one that crashed

$1.7 trillion = The cost to tax payers for the F-35 Program

🕵️What’s next?

Details around how the jet went missing are still pending investigation from Joint Base Charleston, which houses military operations and wings for the Air Force and Navy. Units from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard Army and Marines are at the base as well. However, we do know the jet was in autopilot when the pilot ejected.

STOCKS

Roller Coaster IPO Day for Instacart ($CART)

Maybe the most exciting IPO of the year for a consumer-facing company, Instacart (stock symbol $CART) went public at $42 per share on Tuesday, $12 more than it’s high end projected range. After its roller coaster start, it’s currently traded at that high end range around $30, valuating the company at $10 billion.

💹IPO World On Their Toes

Lead by CEO Fidji Simo, Instacart’s IPO is the second high-profile tech firm to go public in less than a week, following a successful New York listing from British chip designer Arm Holdings. If Instacart stock holds steady, this could be a key indicator for other startups and investors that the IPO market is rebounding.

🐂Reasons to be bullish

• Instacart is profitable: $114 net income during second quarter.

• Instacart shows growth: Profits grew from $73 million in 2021 to $428 million in 2022

• Instacart has high-profile investors: PepsiCo purchased $175 million in stock in a private placement

KAEL’S TALES

Amazon and NFL, Colorado Relevance?, Winning Time Cancelled

🚛Amazon NFL Streams. In the second year of NFL's exclusive NFL rights, tech giant Amazon hopes to grow its presence with the NFL after breaking record for viewership in last week’s season debut of “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video. Thursday’s streaming broadcast of the New York Giants at the San Francisco 49ers will attempt to retain 15 million viewers who watched the Minnesota Vikings vs. the Philadelphia Eagles last week. Amazon representatives had hoped audience membership would incorporate its first-party streaming data this year, but Nielsen opted against doing so. With that data, Amazon says the Eagles-Vikings drew 16.6 million viewers.

🏈Colorado Relevance? Unless you have been living under a boulder, the Colorado Football team has dominated national headlines of sports and news media. After a 3-0 start to the season former NFL cornerback and current Colorado coach Deion Sanders faces his most challenging task in the coming weeks as Colorado will have to play Pac 12 heavyweights Oregon and Southern California. For the first time in program history, Colorado has sold out every game for the first time and garnered attention from Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff, ESPN’s College Gameday, and even CBS’s 60 Minutes. This past weekend’s game vs rival Colorado State averaged 9.3 million viewers, making it the largest audience of the college football season and the fifth-largest regular season audience ever for ESPN. According to Nielsen, the game peaked in viewership around 11 p.m. with 11.1 million with the game ending in a Colorado victory around 2:30 a.m. With the help of star talents Shaduer Sanders and Travis Hunter, the Colorado Buffaloes should continue to be the biggest story in sports throughout the season as long as they keep winning.

📺Closing Time. The HBO show ‘Winning Time’ will not be renewed for a third season. After months-long rumors of the show being in trouble and some hope of things getting better for production of future seasons. Low viewership and criticism from some of the people being portrayed in the show have caused HBO not to renew. Earlier this summer HBO leadership said in an interview with Deadline that the network leadership was “having conversations regarding viewership relative to budget” on several shows in their second seasons. The HBO drama witnessed a sharp decline in viewership from Season 1 to Season 2, on August 6th the show returned with 629,000 viewers for the Season 2 premiere compared to the 901,000 who tuned in for the Season 1 debut in March.

_{-Written by Mikael Hall}

THURSDAY SHORTS

• 📷Photo of the Week: Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic. Why a man can’t do the things that makes him happy? The world may never know.

• 🎮You can apply for a refund from Fortnite for all of your in-game purchases that you un-willingly made. Fortnite agreed to a $245 million settlement after the company willingly tricked gamers into unwillingly purchasing in-game merch.

• 🦩Hurricane Idalia have flung flamingos as far north as Pennsylvania after the massive storm surged through Florida a few weeks ago.

• 🍷Watch as a Shining-esque scene occurred in Portugal when red wine flooded the streets after wine tanks ruptured.