The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
This is the best one yet (it's a TBOY). Feel brighter every day with our 20-minute pop-biz news podcast. The 3 business stories you need, with fresh takes you can pretend you came up with — Pairs perfectly with your morning oatmeal ritual. Hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Formerly known as “Snacks Daily”, Nick and Jack continue their podcast independent from Robinhood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Sep 25, 2023 • 20min
🎙️🎙️“TBOY signs with Wondery” — Return of the TV Rerun. Deion’s $5M sunglasses. Snapchat’s surprise+.
The podcast discusses the popularity of reruns during the writers' strike, the success of Snapchat with 5 million paid subscribers, and how personal PR by Dion Sanders caused a $5M sales surge for a sunglasses startup.
Sep 22, 2023 • 20min
🐒 “Elon’s Luke Skywalker monkey startup” — Neuralink’s brain computer. Rupert Murdoch’s succession. Walmart’s puppy splurge.
Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink, discusses how his startup is connecting humans to computers to save the world from robots. Rupert Murdoch, the influential media mogul, is retiring from Fox News and News Corp. Walmart is adding vet clinics to its stores as they shift focus from competing with Amazon.
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Sep 21, 2023 • 19min
🧑🎤 “Why has music gotten shorter?” — Spotify’s algo-music. Renting homes beats buying. Dollar General’s worst job ever.
Spotify's algo-music explains why songs are getting shorter on the platform. Renting is the better choice in the housing market due to expected high interest rates. Dollar General has the worst job in America with problems of rat infestation and low pay for workers.
Sep 20, 2023 • 21min
⌚👶 “iOvulation” — Natural Cycles’ fertility watch. Disney’s stimulus plan. Elon’s X paywall.
Elon, founder of a major social network, discusses topics such as the FDA approval for a birth control app on Apple Watch, Disney's $60 billion plan for theme parks, and Elon's idea of introducing a paywall for his social network, X.
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Sep 19, 2023 • 21min
🥕 “$CART” — Instacart’s IPO surprise. SF’s cash for kindergartners. Car-workers’ 40% raise.
Instacart, a tech company IPO'ing with a profit, has pivoted from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. San Francisco's past initiative gave every Kindergartner a college savings account. The UAW auto workers strike demands a 40% raise. The podcast discusses these topics and more.
Sep 18, 2023 • 21min
💏 “The Prenup Podcast” — Prenups’ Millennial pop. Salesforce’s boomerang job. NFL’s turf obsession.
Jets QB Aaron Rodgers is out for the season due to artificial turf; millennials embracing prenuptial agreements; Salesforce's boomerang strategy; hidden costs of business turnover; controversy surrounding artificial turf in NFL games
Sep 15, 2023 • 21min
🃏 “Caesars Locked Palace” — Casinos’ Hack Attacks. Arm’s Coolest IPO. Surge Pricing for Beer.
Liam Neeson discusses the solution to ransomware attacks. The biggest IPO in 2 years is Arm computer chips. Surge pricing for beer in British pubs. Topics also include cyber attack on MGM resorts and the implications of paying ransom to hackers.
Sep 14, 2023 • 19min
🙋🛠️ “Uber built my house” — Uber’s secret taskrabbit. Detroit’s car strike . Coca-Cola’s AI soda.
On this episode, guest_name_1 discusses the upcoming strike by Detroit autoworkers and compares their wages to Tesla workers. They also delve into Uber's new feature, Uber Chores, and Coca-Cola's limited-time-only strategy for boosting sales with AI-designed sodas.
Sep 13, 2023 • 20min
⚡ “Goodbye, Lightning” — iPhone 15’s dongle surprise. Bey’s Etsy surge. The Promotion Paradox.
Apple's new iPhone 15 marks the end of dongles. Beyonce's request for fans to wear silver boosted Etsy. Getting promoted often leads to quitting in the workplace. Also, discussing shopping styles, the promotion paradox, news topics, Instacart's IPO, Lyft's new feature, and a fun fruit fact.
Sep 12, 2023 • 19min
🧠 “The Genius Ingredient” — Elon’s biography takeaway. Twinkies’ snack sale. Google’s antitrust megatrial.
Walter Isaacson, biographer of geniuses like Elon Musk, discusses the common ingredient among them: curiosity. Twinkies' parent company is being acquired for $5.6B, highlighting the snack industry's importance. Google faces an antitrust megatrial, with the focus on losing its competitive mindset. The podcast also delves into a fascinating fraudulent scheme and America's obsession with parking.
