“A nasty Dunkin styrofoam cup” — Dunkin’s gas station makeover. Sunrun’s solar-powered merger. Under Armour’s $475M botched acquisition.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Dunkin’s boldest move yet is cutting out 450 gas station locations because it wants to upscale its brand (fancy coffee). Sunrun is merging the #1 and #2 solar companies because the industry needs a leader. And Under Armour is trying to sell the fitness app it splurged half-a-billion dollars on 5 years ago (it did nothing with it).Learn 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 at his Wednesday, July 8th.
0:06.5	Nick, I'm glad you started off the podcast because these stories are teaboy.
0:10.3	You're welcome, Snackers Jack and I was reminiscing about a summer we spent in Burlington, Vermont,
0:14.3	the only thing we consumed, whatever came off of George Foreman Grill.
0:17.5	And Buenos Isano, great burritos, and Burlington College Street.
0:21.5	Salantro for days, Jack, what's in this TBOY we got the best?
0:25.4	Somewhere in your head, there is a memory of a nasty Dunkin' Donuts Styrofoam cup
0:30.4	jammed between two different Slurpy machines.
0:32.7	That's because our first story is about Dunkin' which wants to crush the ugly aspects of its brand legacy
0:37.2	by eliminating gas station Dunkin' Atts.
0:40.8	Dunkin' Atts, can we call them Dunkin' Atts?
0:42.7	They don't want us to call them Dunkin' Atts.
0:44.1	Our second story, Sun Run, has been sunbumbing since COVID-19 started.
0:48.7	So the number one and number two home solar panel companies are doing a little merge in Jack, UVA3.
0:54.5	Third and final story, Jack.
0:55.7	Underarmor is trying to undo its 2015 acquisition of My Fitness Pal.
1:00.1	Five years into that acquisition, it's gone nowhere.
1:03.8	Underarmor has gone 0.0 miles at a pace of 0 miles per million dollars spent.
1:09.5	Get on the scale, get off the scale.
1:12.0	Now Snaggers, before we jump into those three wonderful stories that you won't see anywhere else,
1:17.7	there are three things that Elon Musk hates, Jack.
1:21.1	Can you remind us of them?
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