This edition of Sunday Bunch is dedicated to Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Richard Simmons, Bob Newhart, and Shannen Doherty (pictured with the late Luke Perry), all of whom we lost this week.Rest in peace, beloved characters from my youth.🚰 Thirst Things FirstA better you is just a small packet of powder away. It’s a sales pitch that has worked well for diet shakes and drug dealers, now the billion-dollar hydration and supplements markets are embracing it with open, well-toned arms. Analysts project...

This edition of Sunday Bunch is dedicated to Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Richard Simmons, Bob Newhart, and Shannen Doherty (pictured with the late Luke Perry), all of whom we lost this week.Rest in peace, beloved characters from my youth.🚰 Thirst Things FirstA better you is just a small packet of powder away. It’s a sales pitch that has worked well for diet shakes and drug dealers, now the billion-dollar hydration and supplements markets are embracing it with open, well-toned arms. Analysts project...

There’s a good chance this email finds you sitting on a couch–hopefully just sitting–immersed in some mix of table tennis, synchronized diving, women’s rugby, competitive breakdancing, and Kevin Durant (aka the Slim Reaper) torching Serbia. In the weeks leading up to the Paris games, I couldn’t summon any real interest. Eight years since we last saw fans cheering on the athletes, my Olympic fever was low-grade at best. All that changed with the opening ceremonies along the Seine on Friday. Ye...

There’s a good chance this email finds you sitting on a couch–hopefully just sitting–immersed in some mix of table tennis, synchronized diving, women’s rugby, competitive breakdancing, and Kevin Durant (aka the Slim Reaper) torching Serbia. In the weeks leading up to the Paris games, I couldn’t summon any real interest. Eight years since we last saw fans cheering on the athletes, my Olympic fever was low-grade at best. All that changed with the opening ceremonies along the Seine on Friday. Ye...

Sun is beaming, it’s hot out already, and the TV is packed with wall-to-wall Olympic action. We are going to take this week’s editorial direction from the legend Lionel Richie, with an assist from Dave Grohl.🏓 No, You Can’t Beat an Olympic Table Tennis PlayerI mean, you can’t. But I totally can.Fun Fact: I was a pole vaulter on the track team in high school. First thing coach taught us was how to tuck. (In retrospect, he probably shouldn’t have been around minors.)🙊 Texas Longhorns coach an...

Sun is beaming, it’s hot out already, and the TV is packed with wall-to-wall Olympic action. We are going to take this week’s editorial direction from the legend Lionel Richie, with an assist from Dave Grohl.🏓 No, You Can’t Beat an Olympic Table Tennis PlayerI mean, you can’t. But I totally can.Fun Fact: I was a pole vaulter on the track team in high school. First thing coach taught us was how to tuck. (In retrospect, he probably shouldn’t have been around minors.)🙊 Texas Longhorns coach an...

Hello again, The annual post-Labor Day time paradox1 has done its thing and here we are, just days away from the final two months of 2024. Hey, look at us, who would have thought? We have almost made it through the spiciest election cycle in our lifetimes2. A candidate got shot! The other party changed their nominee in July! And yet somehow even the biggest moments–remember how central couches were to our lives for a fortnight this summer?–all faded from memory like Marty McFly backing on ‘Ea...

Hello again, The annual post-Labor Day time paradox1 has done its thing and here we are, just days away from the final two months of 2024. Hey, look at us, who would have thought? We have almost made it through the spiciest election cycle in our lifetimes2. A candidate got shot! The other party changed their nominee in July! And yet somehow even the biggest moments–remember how central couches were to our lives for a fortnight this summer?–all faded from memory like Marty McFly backing on ‘Ea...

Broadway (the one in Nashville) is having a moment1. In the last 3 months, the resume has been impressive: the birthplace of Hawk Tuah, fights between overpriced chicken fingers and card-carrying nazis, and last night, following Vanderbilt football’s massive upset of #1 Alabama, a stolen goal post march (on the way to a bath in the Cumberland River). Hours later, nice guy standup comedy juggernaut and Nashville local Nate Bargatze hosted SNL for the second time in last years, where he celebra...

Broadway (the one in Nashville) is having a moment1. In the last 3 months, the resume has been impressive: the birthplace of Hawk Tuah, fights between overpriced chicken fingers and card-carrying nazis, and last night, following Vanderbilt football’s massive upset of #1 Alabama, a stolen goal post march (on the way to a bath in the Cumberland River). Hours later, nice guy standup comedy juggernaut and Nashville local Nate Bargatze hosted SNL for the second time in last years, where he celebra...

Sunday Bunch is a weekly digest of current happenings and fascinations, compiled and published free. This publication grows exclusively via word-of-mouth from readers like you. Please invite anyone you know who’d enjoy the party: Share Sunday BunchWelcome back, faithful readers, as well as all you first timers. A quick note for those of you who read last week’s “check your spam folder if you don’t see the next email come through” then thought today’s late delivery might mean today’s edition d...

Sunday Bunch is a weekly digest of current happenings and fascinations, compiled and published free. This publication grows exclusively via word-of-mouth from readers like you. Please invite anyone you know who’d enjoy the party: Share Sunday BunchWelcome back, faithful readers, as well as all you first timers. A quick note for those of you who read last week’s “check your spam folder if you don’t see the next email come through” then thought today’s late delivery might mean today’s edition d...

So yeah, I took a week off. I officially hit the mid-year mark of 26 episodes, had a lot going on elsewhere, and I figured most of you could use a break too. I missed you. How have you been? Since last we spoke I joined ~75,000 people at the Pink Pony Club in Zilker Park, spent the week in New York, then came home to watch the Longhorns take one on the chin courtesy of Georgia while navigating the dual surge of SEC and F1 traffic spread across Austin. With those merit badges secured, we are b...

So yeah, I took a week off. I officially hit the mid-year mark of 26 episodes, had a lot going on elsewhere, and I figured most of you could use a break too. I missed you. How have you been? Since last we spoke I joined ~75,000 people at the Pink Pony Club in Zilker Park, spent the week in New York, then came home to watch the Longhorns take one on the chin courtesy of Georgia while navigating the dual surge of SEC and F1 traffic spread across Austin. With those merit badges secured, we are b...

Here lies the Oakland Athletics. Murdered by the failson Gap heir John Fisher.I can’t do justice to the injustice of how John Fisher did all of the A’s fans, who stuck by the team through so many seasons of pathetically underfunded baseball. There’s literally a famous book and movie about how hard it was to succeed with these cheap-ass owners. Here are just a few of the many fans and experts who’ve said it better than I could, as we all witnessed the A’s play their final home game at the Oakl...

Here lies the Oakland Athletics. Murdered by the failson Gap heir John Fisher.I can’t do justice to the injustice of how John Fisher did all of the A’s fans, who stuck by the team through so many seasons of pathetically underfunded baseball. There’s literally a famous book and movie about how hard it was to succeed with these cheap-ass owners. Here are just a few of the many fans and experts who’ve said it better than I could, as we all witnessed the A’s play their final home game at the Oakl...

This edition has got it all:The Ballad of Jalen BrunsonA $300 million movie trailerBreakdancing shoesThe dying days of the breastaurantCardiac danger at the Texas State FairThat and much more, this week on Sunday Bunch (cue the theme music)…🏀 Knicks' Jalen Brunson accepts $156.5M, $113M less than '25 dealBrunson agreed to a four-year extension with the Knicks that leaves $37 million over the next three years on the table (Woj has a good breakdown of the financials), giving his team...

This edition has got it all:The Ballad of Jalen BrunsonA $300 million movie trailerBreakdancing shoesThe dying days of the breastaurantCardiac danger at the Texas State FairThat and much more, this week on Sunday Bunch (cue the theme music)…🏀 Knicks' Jalen Brunson accepts $156.5M, $113M less than '25 dealBrunson agreed to a four-year extension with the Knicks that leaves $37 million over the next three years on the table (Woj has a good breakdown of the financials), giving his team...

Sunday Bunch is a weekly digest of current happenings and fascinations, compiled and published free. This publication grows exclusivity through word-of-mouth from discerning readers like you. You obviously have fabulous taste, and surely have great friends as well. Please encourage them to join us for next week’s edition. Share Sunday BunchAdvanced EconomicsLast week I mentioned Prime Video’s upcoming documentary The Money Game, which will shine the spotlight on star athletes at LSU, some of ...

Sunday Bunch is a weekly digest of current happenings and fascinations, compiled and published free. This publication grows exclusivity through word-of-mouth from discerning readers like you. You obviously have fabulous taste, and surely have great friends as well. Please encourage them to join us for next week’s edition. Share Sunday BunchAdvanced EconomicsLast week I mentioned Prime Video’s upcoming documentary The Money Game, which will shine the spotlight on star athletes at LSU, some of ...