Starbucks’ Banana Protein Foam and a Newly Discovered T. Rex Cousin

In today’s Nina’s What’s Trending, we’re blending caffeine, gains, and prehistoric surprises. Starbucks is testing a banana-flavored protein cold foam, aiming to give gym rats and sleepy office warriors a two-for-one boost. But not everyone's sipping the Kool-Aid—or the cold brew. Critics say Starbucks should just focus on making better coffee. Source: CNN Business

Meanwhile, scientists in Mongolia have uncovered a brand-new dinosaur species related to the T. rex. Dubbed the "Prince of Dragons," this middle evolutionary cousin lived around 86 million years ago and bridges the size gap between the smaller early predators and the iconic T. rex. Source: NPR

That's your scroll-stopping dose of innovation and extinction—catch it before it’s extinct from the headlines.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Now that I've got your attention, I think you're pushing
so hard. I don't know why I felt like doing that. Sorry,
thank you, thank you for doing that. You were doing
that before we got on the mic, and I did
not do that.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
One Starbucks is testing a new protein cold foam, so
now you can get a banana flavored protein and get
some gains while you get your caffeine.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hey, Starbucks, I don't think they should do that. You
should go back to making coffee.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, because your actual coffee isn't very good anymore, So
focus on coffee. Okay, Well, the Starbucks coffee company, not
a Starbucks gains company.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Who needs coffee when you can have a unicorn slurpye.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah or whatever it is. I'm just surprised that's drink. Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
You feel like it's a surprise that it's taken them
this long to come up with something that's going to
give you gains while you drink your coffee.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Like, yeah, I'm surprised.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I feels like Acre F other day would have some
protein something like that, yeah, a long time ago, or.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Like brand some coffee flavored protein powder and if you
haven't made they will now because I think it's from Starbucks.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, but like a lot of other companies have it.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
But I'm also like Starbucks kind of just like rip
off a different company or did they just like buy
for a different company or did they actually.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
What they didn't do?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I would try it focus on coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, people like to experiment with their coffee, Brad.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Not everybody just drinks it straight up.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Do it on your own time. This is a coffee company.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, they are feeling there are some sluggish sales and
so they're hoping to rebound by bringing in this banana
flavored protein could phone.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's still it's silly, goose is the sluggish sales are
because you have to figure out which Starbucks to go
to that you can get in. That's not having a
strike today.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Figure it out.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
You've got a lot of feels you are right, Well, I.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just don't understand, like Starbucks.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Just figure it out. Dude, used to be so great,
tell them, Brad, used to be so great. Tell them.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I wonder if they could do this protein cold phone
kind of like they did forrappuccinos, but not like a frappuccino,
because if you be really.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yummy, if it was like iced and like yeah, I'm
still living there. That sounds great. Okay, lastly, you guys,
this news is really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
There's a new dinosaur species that's related to the t
rex that was just discovered in Mongolia.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh yeah, I saw that. They're calling it the Prince
of Dragons. Wait, but it's not a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
The species name is actually kind of Kulu Mongolians.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Nope, but they're calling that Prince of Dragons. It's the
t rex.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's between the little one as it started to evolve
into the really really big one, so it's Prince of
that's so cool.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
They say it's a whole different species, but maybe it
was just like an odd sized t rex.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
It was like a short t rex, little prince.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
We're celebrating the little prince. He lived eighty six million
years ago. He wasn't a king, he was a prince.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
If you're into nerding out on that stuff, it's really cool,
and that is what's trending.