Fyre And Lime

PRESENTED BY LIBERTY UNIVERSITY

Happy Thursday, Future Party. And happy National Cheeseburger Day to all who celebrate. If you’re LA-based like us, you are blessed with a lot of great ways to indulge, including patties at Heavy Handed, For The Win, and The Apple Pan. But let’s be real, you also can’t go wrong with just getting some In-N-Out.

The José Andrés Group (JAG), the global restaurant group formed by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés, has officially partnered with food-redistribution platform Copia.

The Big Bite: José Andrés has become famous for his willingness to show up wherever there’s wide-scale hunger, feeding civilians on the ground when no other aid reaches them. With the Copia partnership, he’s moving one step closer toward building a global pipeline to address food insecurity.

Behind The Plates: Copia handles the logistics of collecting excess prepared food from restaurants and corporate dining brands, then redistributes it to local nonprofits they’re matched with.

Future Menu: Tackling food waste is a major challenge. In the US, about 40% of food supply ends up in the trash, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council — enough food to fill Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium every single day. It’s a staggering reality when over 47 million Americans face food insecurity, per the Department of Agriculture. Hunger is often seen as a third-world problem, but it’s clearly an issue in our own neighborhoods.

Next Meal: We wouldn’t be surprised if Andrés becomes a global ambassador for Copia worldwide, signing up brands wherever he goes.

With Liberty University's online programs,
you can complete your weekly assignments from wherever you have internet – giving you online convenience with on-campus benefits.

Our programs are backed by a brick-and-mortar campus ranked among Niche.com’s Top 5 College Campuses in America for 2025.

Liberty University has been an innovator in distance education for forty years.
At Liberty, professors and fellow students encourage your studies — and your faith — with respected programs developed from a biblical worldview.

Liberty is accredited by multiple professional institutions, so you get quality learning in an environment that values your beliefs.

See how a degree from Liberty can help you shape a better world.
Empower your education and apply today!

Apply Today

LimeWire — the early-aughts music file-sharing service reborn as a decentralized content-sharing platform — has announced it’s the new owner of the controversial Fyre Festival brand.

Why It Hits: LimeWire isn’t shying away from calling this a meme-purchase, stirring up headlines about the collaboration between two of the music industry’s most controversial brands (or in Fyre Fest’s case, a would-be music brand). But it may be the sheer absurdity of the partnership that gives it a head start in capturing culture’s attention… positive attention, that is.

Behind The Music: LimeWire was revealed as the winner of July’s online auction for Fyre Festival, paying about $245,000 to outbid Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort for the rights.

The Fake Future: LimeWire COO Marcus Feistl says leveraging the Fyre brand is about showing what happens “when you pair cultural relevance with real execution.” That’s not a crazy idea when marketing firms Maximum Effort and art collective MSCHF (which recently launched its own agency) have cut through the digital noise by turning every piece of content into a stunt. Welcome to the age of the big swing.

Next Up: A Fyre Festival event with real artists onstage and a halfway-decent sandwich to eat? It could happen.

89.8% of you voted Yes in yesterday’s poll: Should Starbucks bring back the coffeehouse vibe?

“Some of my best memories from college are studying at the local Starbucks (free refills!)”

“Bring back CD sales in the store.”

“You don’t go to Starbucks for the community — you go for the routine. They should lean into the ubiquitous experience rather than trying to be the neighborhood café. They’re not that, but they are your faithful siren in the storm.”

“Independent coffee shops already have it covered.”

Let’s keep the conversation going. Join our Poll Of The Day newsletter, so your opinions can shine. Discover how your views line up with your peers’, check out cool insights, and have some fun. It’s data with personality.

🤐 ABC has “indefinitely” suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live after FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to pull the network’s license over his comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassin.

🎤 A deepfake version of Whitney Houston is going on tour with a bit of help from the AI-powered music platform Moises.

📘 Scholastic, the brand behind your childhood book fairs, is launching a streaming app with 9 Story Media Group.

🤖 Beijing is pressuring Chinese tech firms to avoid using Nvidia AI chips, sending the company’s stock down.

🚗 Lyft and Waymo are partnering to roll out a robotaxi service in Nashville.

🫠 xAI’s Grok training team is now being led by a college student after most of its employees were laid off.

👀 The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by a quarter of a point and signaled that two more cuts are on the horizon this year.

🧥 Actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow debuted a new fashion brand called GWYN.

👢 Actor and musician Jaden Smith has been named the first creative director of Louboutin.