The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
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.
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Oct 4, 2023 • 21min
💰 “Geniuses are eccentric. So are frauds” — SBF’s trial begins. Mean Girls on TikTok. Millennials’ financial win.
Sam Bankman-Fried's trial begins with wild details, highlighting the similarities between geniuses and frauds. Paramount Pictures releases 'Mean Girls' on TikTok, showcasing our preference for snacking on content. Despite criticism, millennials excel in retirement savings thanks to the 'auto-401k' policy.
Oct 3, 2023 • 20min
🧸 “Toy-vasion” — Toys ‘R’ Us’ land-air-sea plans. Covid’s Nobel Prize. Sphere’s U2 concert.
Toys 'R' Us is back with an ambitious expansion plan called 'land, air, and sea'. UPenn surprises as the winner of the COVID vaccine. The Sphere in Las Vegas hosts its first concert and experiences a stock increase. The podcast also mentions the decline of tipping percentages and other news such as Taylor Swift and Beyonce's movie theater tours.
Oct 2, 2023 • 20min
🍽️ “Death of a Meal Kit” — Blue Apron’s autopsy. The Stock Market’s sad September. Porsche’s 1st apartment.
Guest from Wonder talks about Blue Apron's 95% decline, S&P 500's 5% drop explained, luxury car brands moving into condo sales.
Sep 29, 2023 • 20min
🥇 “Gollllllld” — Costco’s gold bars. Microsoft’s nuclear reactor. Levi’s over-firing strategy.
Costco's gold bars are the newest and fastest-selling product at Costco. Microsoft is hiring for someone to build its own nuclear power plant. Levi's outgoing CEO regrets not firing more people.
Sep 28, 2023 • 20min
💿 “The Last DVD” — Netflix’s brilliant self-disruption. The Electric Cars election. ChatGPT’s physical “chatpod”.
The guest, the designer of the iPhone, talks about Netflix's pivot from DVDs to streaming, the impact of EVs on politics, and the development of a physical AI product called chatpod.
Sep 27, 2023 • 18min
🤸♀️ “Grandpa wears Lulu” — Lululemon’s multi-generational strategy. Amazon’s monopoly lawsuit. Yelp’s hall of shame.
Lululemon's secret to success is appealing to multiple generations by prioritizing function over fashion. Amazon is facing a monopoly lawsuit from the FTC and 17 states, with the biggest challenge being the law itself. Yelp is cracking down on fake reviews with a 'Hall of Shame'.
Sep 26, 2023 • 19min
🔫 “Super Soaker World” — Nerf’s theme park. Writers’ strike finale. Spotify’s podcast translator.
Hasbro is opening its first Nerf theme park, the writers' strike finale is fantastic for writers, and Spotify has launched a podcast translator feature. Hatch and Mudwater are the podcast sponsors, and Amazon has invested in AI startup anthropic.
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.
