media animal celebrities yeah, you heard me right and the boss of the world s biggest online pet sitting marketplace. plus, your call is important to us. please hold the line. yep, i m going to be catching up with the president of the customer service tech giant salesforce about their latest ai chatbots looking to take the strain. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, during the pandemic lockdowns, more and more of us looked to pets for companionship and comfort, certainly spurring a huge surge in pet ownership in many countries around the world. and that surge created vast new opportunities for businesses that support our pets, from vet services to rubber toys. the increasing demand has seen the amount we spend on pets follow suit. the uptick in ownership, it s come with a change in the way we treat our animals, with the phenomenon known as humanising. yeah, that s treating our animals more l
greg: it s friday you know what that means less welcome tonight s guest he has been called a heartthrob by experts fox and friends weekend cohost and author of the upcoming book of the war on warriors this judge nose the law and how to make fans a guffaw actor and comedian vince august she s like paul and tiny carried by the wind and often falls out of trees new york times best selling author kat to and he is like matlock he solves many of life s mysteries and old ladies send him their briefs new york times best-selling author and comedian and former world champion tire is. greg: before we get to some new stories let s do this is leftovers right read the jokes we didn t use this week and as always my first time reading them so if we suck will force joe mackey to give jerry nadler a prostate exam without a glove british researchers have found that a person s dietary choices can have a pro town defect on cognitive function we have noticed hillary clinton this week claimed t
hello. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. this is wednesday, she s my three year old german shepherd cross. i ve had herfor about two and a half years, since the middle of the pandemic, and i spend about £250 a month average on her, which is about 17% of my salary. yep, the global pet industry. it has been booming as more and more of us spend big, pampering our pooches and caring for our cats. a surge in ownership during the pandemic has changed how we treat our furry friends, ushering in a new era of humanising our animals, with social media leading the pack. and it s an industry set to be worth half a trillion dollars by the end of the decade. so i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are, the head of an agency representing social media animal celebrities. yeah, you heard me right. and the boss of the world s biggest online pet sitting marketplace. plus, your
president xi told secretary blinken that china and the us should be partners rather than rivals. mr blinken for his part raised concerns over china s support for russia in its invasion of ukraine. he also raised what he described as china s unfair trade practices in a number of key industries that will drive the 21st century economy. solar panels, electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. china alone is producing more than 100% of global demand for these products, flooding markets, undermining competition, putting at risk livelihoods and businesses around the world. now, this is a movie that we ve seen before, and we know how it ends, with american businesses shuttered and american jobs lost. president biden will not let this happen on his watch. let s speak now to our north america business correspondent, erin delmore. in the background to this meeting was a warning we heard from president biden recently that more tariffs on chinese imports could be on the way. wh
thursday everyone everyone has been asking what i did on my vacation and the theories were floated that it was not really a vacation at all that it was some sort of forced leave of absence nothing could be further from the truth here s a little montage i put together of all the things i did on my week off roll it. greg: i don t like to talk about my volunteer work what you forced my hand up to glad i was able to share with all of you let s get to some jokes and a video went viral this week of a dog in florida who was born with limegreen for when asked why the dog had green for his breeder replied that means he is not right yet joe biden once again he claimed he used to drive 18 wheelers he is right, here it is in a devastating tree virus threatening the world supply of chocolate not on my watch said one former official in a pork near stockholm swedish customs officials have seized one point for tons of cocaine meanwhile one american is applying for a job because of sweden s