The Best One Yet
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.
“Deceptively Good Marketing” — A24’s Elizabeth Holmes hit. Hermes emerging suburbs. Supplement acid strips. + Failure Day
“You Can See Everything” has a 21% chance of winning Best Picture… because Nathan Fielder has a strategy.
Hermes’ new emerging market? American suburbs… But Nashville’s store won’t look like Paris.
Olive oil in shampoo bottles, water in beer cans… but supplement in acid strips? Hot new trend.
Plus, Happy International Failure Day… which we failed.
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🥐 “WTFrance?” — France’s economic ills. Mark Wahlberg's longevity gym. Elon’s stock giveaway. +NBA billboarding
France’s worst social crisis in years are because of Inflation… but they’re also based on retirement.
Mark Walburg launched Municipal gym to beat Equinox… Costco proves it works?
Elon Musk is giving 1 share of SpaceX to your kids, Anthropic’s donating stock to charity… but we’ve got a 3rd idea.
Plus, the NBA tip-off is tonight… but its never been more sponsorified.
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🪽 “The Spacester” — Tesla’s flying car. Reese Witherspoon’s boomerang. AI’s hot standup comics. +KFC breakup
Tesla’s flying car might never get sold… but it was marketing the stock, not the car.
Reese Witherspoon bought back Hello Sunshine for 96% off… cause media has human souls.
AI is stealing comedians’ jokes… but as sexier versions of those comedians.
Plus, KFC just broke up with Pepsi after 29 years… but they used to be the same company.
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🥗 “Sultans of Salad” — Sweetgreen Co-Founders Jonathan Neman & Nicolas Jammet
LIVE from sold-out Boston… we sat down with 2 of the 3 co-founders of Sweetgreen.
In this sitdown, Jon & Nic explain how 2 years after college, they booked The Strokes for a salad music festival, eventually landing Kendrick Lamar (for salads!).
Sure, Sweetgreen stock is down 80% from its post-IPO all-time highs, but they’ve bet a comeback on a $12 custom-wrap tortilla that took a full year to build. And they’ve figured out how to keep employees longer by hiring robots (the “Infinite Kitchen”).
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☘️ “LIVE from Boston” — Ben Affleck’s AI genius. Bananas inflation-omics. Uber’s data center piggybacking. +Top-smelling cities
Bumble got acquired in a happier-ever-after Private Equity ending… We call it D.O.P.E.
Apple just unveiled a dozen surprise home products… It’s the new boss’ Living Room strategy.
AI stock investing has become “a casino”... so we’ll tell you how to play it.
Plus, Mark Zuckerberg can’t finish a Guiness… (is that a sip or a struggle?)
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🏡 “iHome” — Apple’s living room strategy. Bumble’s Kate Hudson moment. AI’s casino stocks. +Zuck’s Guiness
Bumble got acquired in a happier-ever-after Private Equity ending… We call it D.O.P.E.
Apple just unveiled a dozen surprise home products… It’s the new boss’ Living Room strategy.
AI stock investing has become “a casino”... so we’ll tell you how to play it.
Plus, Mark Zuckerberg can’t finish a Guiness… (is that a sip or a struggle?)
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🎀 “Doll Bills, Y’all” — American Girl Doll’s 40th. Nobel’s economic therapy. Dutch Bros’ walk-thru. +Self-Driving Zambonis
The Nobel Prize for Economics went to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford… because clear is kind in Economics too.
Dutch Bros opened their first walk-thru location… What's the LCD (Lowest Cost Differentiator)?
American Girl Doll just turned 40 and is worth $1B… because the founder went anti-Barbie.
Plus, Waymo is coming for hockey rinks… The 1st self-driving Zamboni.
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🌯♨️ “Pumpkin Spice Taco” — Starbucks’ Chipotle acquisition. SpaceX’s cellular biz. Airbnb killed MidCenturyMod. +NFL Math Whiz
Starbucks wants to acquire Chipotle… but it all comes down to beans.
SpaceX could be your next cell service provider… Elon has entered the telecom chat.
Millennials’ Mid-Century Modern furniture has gone from cool to cringe… But blame Airbnb.
Plus, economics’ new math whiz… is a former Pro NFL Linebacker from the Baltimore Ravens.
$CMG $SBUX $SPCX $ABNB
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“Slug life” — Vaseline’s creator hack. Agentic shopping bubble. Official hotel cars. +LIVE from NY AdWeek
We’re recording LIVE from NY AdWeek at SeedTag’s headquarters… We're in our MadMen Era. But we still got 3 fantastic stories for ya:
Vaseline turned viral life hacks into new products… and treats the inventors like Youtube creators.
AI assistant shopping is dividing Amazon vs. Shopify… but why outsource something you like to do?
Hotels, complimentary cars, and speeding tickets on us… it’s not a free sample, it’s a fun sample.
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🫵 “Re-Poked” — Facebook’s movie sequel. Crocs’ jibbitz bars. SpaceX’s debt doozy
SpaceX is lining up $40B in debt to buy Nvidia chips… This 1 deal explains our entire economy.
Crocs stock is up thanks to Jibbitz bars, shoe tattoos, and “Shoellery”... (that’s shoe jewelry)
The Social Reckoning premiers tonight… but Mark Zuckerberg’s not the villain, he’s the Anti-Hero.
Plus, we just signed an historic deal with Nasdaq… And rang the stock market opening bell.
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🐟 “Tuna Tuesday” — Sushi Carving surge. Sam Altman’s AI movie. Red-Dye Diesel’s drama. +Warren Buffett YouTube
Restaurants are loving 1,000-pound Tuna Carvings… cause Tuna Tuesday saves biz models.
Diesel prices have officially doubled, but there’s 1 diesel you gotta know… Red-dye Diesel.
The new Sam Altman movie is so controversial, Amazon dropped it… we’ll tell ya why.
Plus, the biggest new YouTube stan?... It’s Warren Buffett (and he loves “Uzbekistan Got Talent”).
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💀 “Scary Good” — Halloween’s Skelly economy. Detroit’s minivan miss. Ramp’s money musical. +Celeb Beauty Bubble
12-foot skeleton decorations make Halloween corporate America’s favorite holiday.
Ramp, the FinTech company, made a Broadway musical inspired by Hamilton.
Detroit’s 3 big car companies had 2 huge misses in 2026: Millennial Minivans & Boomer Hybrids.
Plus, the biggest bubble right now isn’t AI… it’s celebrity beauty & beverage brands.
$HD $ELF $GM
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🥹 “Adorrrrrable” — AI agent’s cute-washing. Arcteryx vs. Patagonia. Skydance’s megastudio. +Publicly traded poetry
Why is every tech brand launching a cute AI mascot?… It’s the Labubufication of AI.
Arcteryx has become an accidental luxury brand… just like Patagonia before it.
Paramount + Warner Bros closes tomorrow… introducing David Ellison’s “Skydance.”
Plus, we wrote poem (a publicly-traded poem)... about Nike
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⛹️♀️ “Pink Tax Break” — Nike’s Caitlin Clark shoes. Chasin’ Texas record. AI Panic-Maxxing. +Hire-a-Hawk
Nike launched the Caitlin 1s, and men are already superfans… “Shrink it and pink it” is over.
Ella Langley broke Mariah Carey’s Billboard Hot 100 record… but you’ve never heard the song?
Accenture just had its best stock market day ever… no AI-pocalypse in consulting. Yet.
A hawk is employee of the month at Ford Motor…
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🏝️ “Bread, shelter, caribbean” — Carnival’s sacrosanct cruises. Google’s space data center. Carnegie Mellon Miami’s $3B. +No-Phone-Zones
Carnival Cruises is setting record after record… because vacations are now sacrosanct.
Google is launching a test data center on a SpaceX rocket… But will it work in space?
Ken Griffin donated $3B to Carnegie Mellon University… To build a campus in Miami.
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⛷️ “Wipeout” — Vail’s ski recession. Anthropic’s IPO leak. Man City’s soccer sham. +Probiotic Undies
Vail Resorts reported a 12% drop in season pass sales… so they’re using a trick from baseball.
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork leaked… it sells something worth $3 for just $1.
Man City soccer is guilty of 115 fake deals worth £900M… They’re Performance Enhancing Deals.
Plus, why apply skin cream when you can wear skin cream underwear?
$UL $MTN $ANTH
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🍔 "Ball Pit Bailout" — McDonald’s PlayPlace plan. The Pitt’s Figs fashion. Nvidia’s Jurassic Park AI. +Handwritten Resumes
McDonald’s has lost its reputation for low prices… so it’s bringing back the PlayPlace.
Figs makes the scrubs in HBO’s The Pitt… and its stock has doubled in the past year.
Nvidia says it can contain all the rogue AI… with its new AI-proof smart fence.
If you’re applying for a job right now, you better freshen up your cursive.
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🩻 “Hospitality Healthcare” — Neko’s viral bodyscanner. Zuck’s AI tax. Le Labo’s city scents. +French Butter Smuggle
Neko’s $7B bodyscanner launched in NYC to analyze every mole… and 25K are on the waitlist.
Meta’s Muse AI now has an adorable physical form… And Zuck found a new business model.
Le Labo’s fragrances hit $200M with secret smells… but its top-seller is the candle it threw out (and Pokemon).
Plus, the fastest-growing smuggled item in the US… is French butter.
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🦸 “Superhero Money” — Interview with Tim Draper: The Godfather of VC
Live from San Francisco, we sit down with Tim Draper, the venture capitalist who wrote early checks into Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, Coinbase, Twitch and more than 20 unicorns. He was the first investor to say yes to Robinhood after its founders heard 25 no's, he bet on Bitcoin when almost nobody knew what it was, and he holds a Guinness World Record for hearing 52 startup pitches in 52 minutes while sitting in a cold plunge.
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🌁 “LIVE from SF” — The Gap’s boy band. AI’s GrandmaSlop. SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service. +SF Billboard Boom
LIVE from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco…
The Gap just adopted a teenage boy band that toured summer camps… don’t rent a star, raise one.
GrandmaSlop is the most contentious AI in America… Boomers use AI least but love it most.
PE rolled up pool installers, then the cleaners… It’s SaaS: Swimming-as-a-Service.
Plus, San Francisco has 489 billboards… and half of them sell AI.
$GPS $POOL $SF
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🧑🎤 “iConcert” — Apple’s 600-seat rock-hall. Horowitz Andreessen University. Zuck’s bot-blocking. +Iced Coffee Interview
Apple Music Hall has 16 cameras and 600 seats… it’s built for live concert… recordings.
A16z’s new alt-college in San Francisco is for future tech founders… It’s Dropout University.
Meta new AI app is #1 in all the app stores… But Amazon just canceled them.
Plus, should you bring an Iced Coffee into a job interview?
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🍞 “Rage Bait Bread — NYC’s $60 Rye. AI’s All-Star Dinner. GM’s 1st weapon. +Dude Pilates
One NYC bakery is selling only 1 thing: $60 rye bread… but it’s actually a surprise chain.
GM pivoted from cars to weapons… and it’s bringing back Apple Car Play.
The Gods of AI are hosting a dinner in DC with 2 presidents… we have 3 regulation ideas.
Plus, the number of men taking pilates has doubled in 5 years… and so have the complaints.
$GM $NVDA $META
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🏃 “Boot The Swoosh” — On steals Nike’s guy. NYT’s original AI sin. Tall Burger phenomenon. +Coders Smoking Camels
On Running ended Kylian Mbappe’s endorsement deal with Nike… but the stock fell.
OpenAI emails show their “Original AI Sin”... But they might get win anyway, because China.
Burgers are getting taller and smaller at the same time… and the trend explains this economy.
Silicon Valley 20-somethings are smoking cigarettes?
$ON $NKE $NYT
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⚡ “1st Pod in a Nuclear Reactor” — Inside Oklo’s Cancer-Fighting, Waste-Killing Reactor
You read that right: The first podcast we’re aware of recorded inside a nuclear reactor.
Yetis, the team at Oklo are fans of the show - And they paid to fly us down to Texas to visit their Nuclear Reactor and sponsor this episode. We sat down with their co-founder and CEO Jake DeWitte literally feet from a silo with splitting atoms so we could explore this wild new technology. And we interviewed Jake just like we would any CEO.
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🍻 “Barley Legal” — Oktoberfest’s beer cartel. The Fed’s rate-a-palooza. College football player payroll. +Nuclear tease
The world’s biggest beer fest may actually be an illegal cartel… Even a Prince can’t get in.
Kevin Warsh of the Fed just raised interest rates… for the 1st time since 2023.
We just got College Football team payrolls… as freshman trade dormrooms for mansions.
Plus, we just recorded the first ever podcast inside a nuclear reactor (no joke, no spoilers).
$BUD $SPY $OKLO
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🫐 “Great Fruit Heist” — China’s blueberry theft. AI Anti-Doomers. Vegas’ $70M stock gift. +Champagne Extra Alc
What do Driscoll Blueberries, farmers, & undercover Chinese spies have in common?... China and America’s Situationship.
Trump, Jensen, and the All-In oppose AI regulation… so we give that argument some airtime.
Red Rock Resorts gifted its employees free stock… right after it lost in the Supreme court.
And France is waiving its rules on max alcohol allowed in champagne… just this once.
$RRR $NVDA $LVMUY
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🤑 “Get Rich Quiet” — Main Street Millionaires. AI’s nuclear pause. JonnyPops’ $175M popsicle. +Wellness Darties
All 3 leaders of AI agree: AI needs regulation… but we’ve seen this same thing before: Nuclear.
Jonny Pops is selling $175M of popsicles thanks to one growth hack… wooden kindness sticks.
3 million millionaires got rich on Main Street… and they’re looking for heirs to their fortune.
Plus, the hot new trend at college is the Wellness Darty… 11am non-alc cold plunge at the Frat.
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😈 “Evil Genius” — Hollywood’s 4 Tech Villains. Lacoste’s room service. Inflation’s rate-squatters. +Uber smells
Hollywood’s new villains aren’t Big Banks, it’s Tech CEOs… and 4 new films prove it.
Lacoste is only selling its new polo collection through hotel room service… It’s fancy by association.
The Consumer Price Index came in at 3.4%… so let’s talk about “Interest Rate Squatters.”
Plus, the #1 new complaint in your Uber… is the smell of that Very Cherry chemical Air Freshener.
$LYFT $UBER
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🗽 “Miracle Below 34th St” — New York’s 9/11 comeback. Bumble’s ultimate breakup. The Boring Company’s fundraise. +Pokemon $$$
25 years after September 11th, we found the ultimate comeback story… NYC’s Financial District.
Bumble is going through a breakup with a finance guy… We think AI will acquire it.
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company just hit a $23B valuation… but it’s only in 1 city.
Plus, the future currency of an AI apocalypse world?... Pokemon Cards.
$BMBL $TSLA $SPCX
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📖 “New phone, who dis?” — Apple’s $2k iFold. Dior’s Maternity Spa. Open AI’s math drama. +NFL’s Jet Lag Test
John Ternus launched Apple’s iPhone Duo… We call it the iFold and it’s a lesson in launching.
Christian Dior isn’t a fashion brand, it’s now a spa chain… obsessed with rich new moms.
Open AI solved an unsolvable Millennial Prize math Question… by upstreaming a human.
Plus, tonight’s NFL game in Australia is really a Battle of Jet Lag… Arrive 7 days early or 1 day?
$AAPL $LVMUY $PPRUY
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🏈 “Coach Buffett” — NFL’s investing strategy. Disgusting Deli AI. America vs. Canada. +PhermoneMaxxers
The LA Rams are Super Bowl favorites… because the GM learned from Warren Buffett.
Deli menus are populated with gross AI-gen images… because of AI inbreeding.
America is at war (economically) with Canada… and we can see it all in one private jet brand.
Plus, young men aren’t showering… they’re “Pheromone-maxxing.”
$SPY $NKE $BBD
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🎾 “Shhhhhh” — US Open’s Influencer issue. Open Rogue AI. Hershey’s S’Mores bet. +Burning (Old) Man
US Open has an influencer problem/opportunity… cause to get reach, you gotta give up control.
The Hugging Face hack by OpenAI reads like a Hollywood movie… It’s a criminal AI conspiracy.
Hershey’s doesn’t own the “S’More”, but it’s making $250M on it… because Hershey let go.
Plus, Burning Man is now Burning Old Man… It’s now an elder Millennial retirement community.
$HSY $OURA $MSFT
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🏀 “Flagrant” — LA Clippers financial foul. Uber vs Cybercab. Goodles’ $100M mac-&-cheese. +State Fair PE
The LA Clippers just got the biggest punishment in NBA history… but Labor Day explains the paradox for owner Steve Ballmer.
Uber is now friends with taxi unions? Tesla Cybercab has no steering wheel?... It’s a showdown.
The world’s oldest pasta brand bought the youngest… Barilla acquired Goodles Noodles.
Plus, the biggest opportunity in finance right now… is your 200-year-old local State Fair.
$KHC $UBER $LYFT
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📚 “Vandanova” — 2 winning colleges. Bond Market’s unsubscribe. Baseball’s craziest hire. +Non-Alc Lawsuit
The Bond Market is selling the USA… we'll explain it using brunch with your buds.
Vanderbilt & Villanova University are both expanding right now… thanks to the Pope, the Knicks, and our takeaway.
The MLB hired a guy who knocked off their baseball app… It’s a lesson on how to get promoted.
Plus, non-alcohol beer is not necessarily non-alcoholic… so Heineken got sued.
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🍹 “Spritz School” — Aperol’s secret academy. Meta’s Ray Ban ban. James Patterson’s MrBeast book. +$500 AI toothbrush
We found the 1st restaurant to ban smartglasses… and it’s because of Kylie Jenner.
James Patterson has published more books than anyone… but his Mr Beast book could be busted.
The Aperol Spritz didn’t happen by accident… It’s because Campari built a secret Spritz School.
Plus, the biggest AI product this year… is a $500 AI-enhanced live-streaming toothbrush.
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📖 “iFold” — Apple CEO’s 1st day. Gap’s 1994 strategy. BYD’s Carmageddon. +Baldness Stocks
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus starts today… but he’s already folding (literally).
The Gap surged 12% on a brand-new-old strategy… Feels like ‘94.
The wildest car in the world can’t be bought in America… It’s BYD’s Carmageddon.
Plus, the hottest investing trend on Wall Street is… baldness stocks ($MANE is up 500%)
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👑 “It’s a G thang” — Gucci’s fake myth. The Big Mac Index’s winner. Grand Theft Auto’s super-trailer. +Influencer University
Gucci’s luxury comeback is based on a made-up myth… and we got the receipts.
The Big Mac Index reveals you have more money than you think… but in the wrong place.
Grand Theft Auto is the biggest video game in history… so they invented a new thing.
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🦅 “Fed Prez” — REPLAY: Interview with Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Money, Inflation, & When You Can Buy a House
Whip open your wallets, because no one affects your paycheck like this man. We just sat down with Austan Goolsbee — President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He’s a Macarthur Genius, former Chair of Obama’s Economic Advisors, and the coolest economist we know: Picture Ted Lasso meets Paul Volcker… He’s the Maestro of our Money Supply, and he guided the economy through the ‘08 financial crisis and today’s Inflation Situation.
So Auston spilled the money beans for us: The 2009 phone call with the President that was the worst financial briefing since the Great Depressi...
👾 “Reddit vs AI” — REPLAY: Our Interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Reddit… it’s the most important company in social media right now, because it’s the most different. It’s the 5th most visited website in America, the internet’s front page, and the most valuable source of content to train artificial intelligence (Sam Altman pays *them*). They’ve got a partnership with OpenAI… yet the content is anti-AI. And co-founder / CEO Steve Huffman runs the most real company in tech right now… and he's a classically-trained ballroom dancer.
In this interview episode, you’ll hear…
