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The Best One Yet

🖼️ “1/1000th of a Bob Ross” — Cruise’s $50B robo-taxi ride. Masterworks’ unicorn painting. Google’s carb nudge.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Pop Culture, Tech, Finance, Business, Business News

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Cruise’s robo-taxis are already driving through the streets of San Francisco, which could deliver GM an extra $50B in sales. Masterworks hit a $1B valuation by letting you buy a piece of a Picasso. And Google whipped up 4 new carbon-crushing features for your life that all come down to “The Nudge.”$GOOG $GMGot a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYorkWant a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form:https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewformLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. And this is Snacks daily. It is Thursday the new Friday, October 7th.

0:06.8

Uh, the debt ceiling just went up one floor. We got ourselves an agreement in the Senate Jack.

0:11.8

Short-term increase? A short-term increase in the debt ceiling until December,

0:15.8

which means the US won't default on their government debt until December. Oh, yeah.

0:20.1

Which means stocks rose yesterday. Jack, there's nothing better than a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

0:25.9

Snackers, today's pods, uh, the best one yet. It's a TVOI. Jack, what's our first

0:29.9

story on the TVOI? Cruz. Cruz is the silent Robo Taxi you never saw come.

0:34.6

Literally, it's really quiet. I saw one yesterday.

0:37.8

This is General Motors first taxi without a driver. And it's worth billions of dollars.

0:43.0

That is thrilling. Second story, what do we got? Masterworks just did a $1 billion valuation

0:48.4

to help you buy a little piece of Picasso. Here's what it comes down to. It's all about

0:52.6

pizza-fying the painting. We got to pizza-fine the painting. For our third and final story,

0:57.0

Google just tweaked four big Google products to help you and everyone else cut their own carbon

1:02.6

fluff. Behold the power of the nudge. Not the grudge, the nudge. But Snackers, before

1:09.7

we hit those three great stars. This is a wonderful mix for a new Friday. For a decade, serial sales

1:16.2

or tanky. They were living their worst life. You got sugarcoded milk-soaked flakes. That was breakfast.

1:21.8

That was a different world. That had a good run, but that run ended. Yeah, because then you

1:26.0

grabbed an Rx bar, slurped the macchiato and sprinted out the door instead. I'm still big

1:30.1

up me, young guy. But for the first time in a decade, serial sales jumped last year in the United

1:35.9

States. And here's the shocker. The more sugar in all these serials, the more popular these

1:41.0

new serials were in the last year. That's right. Last year, it wasn't about Kashi. It was about

1:46.3

Cocoa Puffs. It was. Well, Jack and I noticed that the newest collaboration in serial is a trend

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