Did the World Cup Deliver an Economic Boom? & Christopher Nolan Becomes Hollywood’s Biggest Brand

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**Neal Freyman** (0:29)
Good Morning Brew Daily Show. I'm Neal Freyman.

**Toby Howell** (0:32)
And I'm Toby Howell.

**Neal Freyman** (0:33)
Today, the World Cup is over. Besides Spain, who are the other winners?

**Toby Howell** (0:37)
Then Christopher Nolan is a one-man Hollywood franchise. It's Monday, July 20th. Let's ride.

**Neal Freyman** (0:55)
Good morning, hope you all had a great weekend. How long do you think running like your life depended on it? Would it take you to run a mile? 10 minutes, seven, six? For Josh Kerr, it's three minutes and 42.66 seconds. On Saturday, the British runner broke the 27-year-old world record for the distance by less than one second, and he called the shot. Back in March, Kerr publicly declared his attempt to break the world record with Project 222, which is the number of seconds he would need to break the record. Then, after training all spring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he pulled it off, running at an average of 16 miles per hour over a mile.

**Toby Howell** (1:30)
Man, remember when breaking the four-minute mile was thought to be physiologically impossible? But yeah, that's 16.2 miles per hour for the entire race. To put that into context, just go to your gym, fire up the treadmill. It doesn't even go that fast. Most gyms max out at around 13 miles an hour because it's too dangerous to have a setting that high.
There's two reasons he was able to do this. One, he spent four months preparing. He's a world-class athlete. But two, Brooks, his sponsor designed shoes specifically for him that made it feel like he was running downhill. I was reading into the technology. Kerr is a bigger runner for middle distance. And the Brooks team was like, he generates so much ground force. We made the stiffest shoe ever with a carbon fiber plate. And that is what helped him set this record. But with that in mind, I want to shout out the man who lost the record, Hicham El-Gurouj, who set it way back in 1999 No super shoes, no pacing lights, just good old fashioned running. It took 27 years of advancing its shoe tech and training techniques to take off 0.47 seconds. So both of them are legends, but shout out Hicham El-Gurouj.

**Neal Freyman** (2:39)
All right, I want to know, our listeners want to know, Toby, what is your fastest mile time ever?

**Toby Howell** (2:44)
I've tossed a 4.47 at them. I was back in sophomore year of high school. It is completely pedestrian in the grand scheme of things, but at the time, breaking five was a big deal for me. And you know what? Let's give it another go sometime soon.

**Neal Freyman** (2:59)
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**Toby Howell** (3:04)
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**Neal Freyman** (3:07)
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**Toby Howell** (3:32)
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You know what? Let's kick things off with Winners of the Weekend, the segment where Toby and I picked two things that had a better weekend than Argos learning his master had come home. I won the pre-show rowing competition, so I get to go first. And my winner is the World Cup, which did its job of distracting us from the world's problems for a nearly six week span this summer. The actual winner of the World Cup was Spain, which defeated Messi's Argentino one nil in extra time at yesterday's final. It's Spain's second ever World Cup trophy and a testament to their pure class as a cohesive squad that elevated teamwork over individual superstars. Francis Killian Mbappe, speaking of superstars, won the closely watched Golden Boot contest, scoring the most goals in the tournament with 10