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The Best One Yet

🌬️ “Chewing Gum is Out” — Orbit’s gum turnaround. GM’s $8B robotaxi hole. Job Promotion dropoff.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Chewing gum sales have fallen for 14-straight years… so Orbit’s pivoting from freshness to mindfulness.

Job promotions have fallen by half in the past couple years… it stinks, but it also helps.

And General Motors has invested $8B into one $-losing startup… and it’s a banned robotaxi.

Plus, Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs just split from 16x hot-dog-eating champ Joey Chestnut… blame vegan wieners.


$MDLZ $GM $LYFT



About Us: From the creators of Robinhood Snacks Daily, The Best One Yet (TBOY) is the daily pop-biz news show making today’s top stories your business. 20 minutes on the 3 business, economics, and finance stories you need, with fresh takes you can pretend you came up with — Pairs perfectly with your morning oatmeal ritual. Hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, June 13th, and today's part it is the best one yet.

0:10.0

It's a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.

0:14.4

Jack, we just got the results on phone etiquette.

0:18.0

Our big poll with the Yetis out there.

0:19.9

400 of you voted on Spotify's Q&A feature about whether you need to text somebody before calling them.

0:25.2

Can you do an unannounced phone call or do you need to send a warning text?

0:29.2

74% of you think you should just call. 74% of you think you should just call.

0:33.0

74% of you think you can just call away

0:36.1

like it's nobody's business.

0:37.2

So there you go, pause the pod

0:38.7

and spontaneously call somebody.

0:40.4

And if they're not ready for it, it's on that.

0:42.3

Send us a text before you do.

0:43.9

And Jack, what are the three stories for today's T-boy?

0:46.6

For our first story, chewing gum sales have fallen

0:49.6

for 14 straight years in America.

0:52.4

So Orbit gum is pivoting how they market gum.

0:55.4

From freshness to mindfulness.

0:58.4

For our second story, General Motors has dropped,

1:01.4

get this, $8 billion into one single startup.

1:05.8

And that one, the single startup is a banned robot taxi.

1:10.0

But Jim just announced they're investing another billion dollars,

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