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The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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NFL players are pounding pickle juice to kill cramps… It’s an opportunity for Gatorade

You can now order DoorDash or search Zillow in ChatGPT… AI just killed the app.

Spunge is the first major sneaker company since AllBirds… They’re Salehe Bembury’s shoes.

Plus, you should never have more than 150 friends. Your brain can’t handle it.

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, October 9th. And today's pod,
0:06.5	at all the pods, this pod is the best one yet. It's a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories
0:13.5	you need to know today. Yeah, it is. Big news tomorrow. After the show, Jack and I are interviewing
0:18.6	the iconic founder of Outdoor Voices, Ty Haney.
0:22.8	The Ty Haney.
0:23.4	We're going to publish that interview next week. So DM us today, the questions that you think we should ask her. She basically invented ath leisure. So, you know, we got a lot of questions going. But if you got a question, hit us up, send us a voicemail. We'll get it on the pot. Also, sorry to those we couldn't give Sora invites to.
0:38.2	We got in dating.
0:39.0	By 601 a.m. yesterday. We'll get it on the pot. Also, sorry to those we couldn't give SORA invites to.
0:38.1	We got in date.
0:39.0	By 601 a.m. yesterday, we had like 20 requests for our Sora codes.
0:44.0	We only had like two invites each, so we were sorry we couldn't get them to everyone.
0:47.5	But in the meantime, Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's tea boy.
0:52.0	What do we got on the pod?
0:53.0	For our first story,
0:59.6	runners, bikers, and NFL players are all drinking pickle juice. Picklejuice is becoming the unofficial drink of athletics. And that is a threat to Gatorade, which needs to get out of the lab
1:04.5	and look at real life. For our second story, it's the latest big thing from OpenAI. You can now
1:09.9	order DoorDash or search Zillow within
1:12.8	chat GPT. First, we said chat would kill the website, but now chat is killing the app. And our third
1:19.4	and final story. For the first time since Allbirds, we're covering the launch of a brand new sneaker
1:23.8	company. If you want to see the future of sneakers, Basties, then you need to know
1:28.0	about Sponge. But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a tease? What a mix?
1:34.5	Love the pod today, Jack. What's the real number of friends you can actually squeeze into your life?
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