🦇 “Batgirl For Never” — DC Comics’ cancellation. Colleges’ merging. Amazon’s iRobot deal.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Batgirl has already cost $90M to film and produce, but it was still canceled last week because Warner Bros hasn’t figured out “The Franchise Formula.” Forget ‘Bama Rush videos (#RollTideTok) — The newest trend on college campuses… is mergers and acquisitions. And iRobot is getting acquired by Amazon for $1.7B because there’s no data more powerful than a map… that your vacuum learned by vacuuming. $IRBT $AMZN $WBD Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack.
0:02.3	Welcome back, it is Monday, August 8th, and today's pot is the best one yet.
0:07.4	TBOI, Nick, welcome back.
0:09.4	The number one topic at brunch this weekend, what was it, Jack?
0:13.3	Jobs.
0:14.1	Jobs, baby.
0:15.1	On Friday, we got another sign that really confuses the whole recession narrative.
0:19.6	Apparently, the economy added a whole lot of jobs in July, 528,000 jobs.
0:25.2	We haven't seen that kind of job creation since...
0:28.5	Hands across America, Nick?
0:30.5	Hands across America, TBOI, Jack, what's the first story for the pot?
0:34.4	Warner Brothers Studios spent $90 million to produce the Batgirl movie.
0:38.8	But $90 million later, Warner Brothers shockingly killed the Batgirl.
0:43.9	For our second story, a strange trend is happening across college campuses nationwide.
0:49.1	Colleges are buying other colleges.
0:52.1	Our third and final story.
0:54.4	At Roomba, Robot Vacuum was just acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion.
1:00.1	Now, Amazon knows how dirty you really are.
1:03.1	Oh dear.
1:04.1	You're gonna want to flick that spot over there.
1:06.1	But yet, he's before we hit that wonderful mix.
1:08.5	Just a fantastic mix to kick off the week, Jack.
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