🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you customize a Ferrari, they won’t let you buy another… even if you’re Justin Beiber.

Coca-Cola’s biggest acquisition ever is Fairlife… because milk is having a moment.

DOGE is targeting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau… so we’re look at trim-cuts vs buzz-cuts.

Plus, we wrote a heartbroken love poem ahead of Valentine’s Day… to Peloton.

$RACE $KO $PTON

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday. February 12th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy.
0:09.8	The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Jack, grab me a napkin because Yiddies, we just visited Ben and Jerry's flagship store. We jumped in T-boy style.
0:19.1	We went to the original scoop shop yesterday to promote our
0:22.1	episode of the best idea yet. Yeah. We did a whole episode on Ben and Jerry's. You got the fish food
0:26.3	in a cone, right? There you went? Yeah, I got fish food and a cone. And we went like a man on the street
0:30.4	interview style. Yeah, we did. Everyone we asked trivia questions about Ben and Jerry's. They knew the answers. They did, they did. Vermonters know their company. I was a little surprised you didn't get hot fudge, Jack.
0:39.3	We don't do that here.
0:40.3	We let the ice cream do the talk.
0:42.3	No, no, no.
0:43.3	More is more, Jack.
0:44.3	Yeah, it is three fantastic stories for today's show.
0:47.3	Jack, what do we got on the pod?
0:49.3	For our first story, Coca-Cola's biggest acquisition ever? Milk. Coca-Cola bought Fair Life Milk for $7 billion.
0:57.0	Why is milk their fastest-growing product?
0:59.5	Because they stole an idea from cocktails.
1:02.3	For our second story.
1:03.7	If you give your Ferrari a custom paint job, you can never buy one again.
1:07.9	Ferrari has a blacklist, and Justin Bieber is on it.
1:12.2	And our third and final story, Doge has stopped all work at the CFPB, the Consumer Financial
1:19.5	Protection Bureau.
1:20.6	Well, Jack and I worked at banks back when the CFPB was invented, so we can explain what
1:26.0	the heck is going on. But yet Yeties, before we hit that wonderful
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