“Dieting, but not cutting out milkshakes” — Uber-as-a-Service. Beyond Meat’s Cookout strategy. The (other) Dow’s filthy environmentalism.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Beyond Meat’s early adopters didn’t care about price, but everyone else does. So it’s launched an “affordable” bulk pack to get beyond them. Dow Inc. (not “The Dow”) is okay making filthy materials because it says they make Tesla possible. And Uber is teaming up with the public transportation it’s historically always crushed — we’re calling it UaaS (“Uber-as-a-Service”).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 Snack's Daily It Is Thursday June 18th.
0:06.6	Nick, yesterday I went to Home Depot for the first time in my life.
0:09.8	Understandable, I know what you went for the week number 14 of coronavirus economy shortage
0:13.8	item.
0:14.8	It was barely a success because we got the last patio umbrella in the entire store.
0:18.9	Snackers, the sun is going direct to consumer this season.
0:22.2	Thank goodness for the sake of our skin that we actually got the last middleman available.
0:26.4	Umbrella's are the new toilet paper, Jack, how you feeling about today's pot?
0:29.4	This is the best one yet for our first story.
0:32.3	Beyond Meat Burgers are typically beyond budget, and that's a problem.
0:35.6	So they just launched the Cookout Classic, a 10 pack of piece, disguised as beef.
0:40.1	For our second story, the other Dow, Dow Inc.
0:42.9	The Michigan-based materials company.
0:44.7	They're saying it's okay that their products are filthy dirty for the environment because
0:48.4	they make Tesla possible.
0:49.9	For our third and final story, Uber is launching its first ever, UAH!
0:54.3	It's a UAH, that's Uber as a service.
0:58.4	We're talking public transportation, which is about to be powered by the Uber app, which
1:02.8	is also competing with public transportation.
1:06.1	But before we hit those three-grade stories, sports!
1:08.8	They're finally back on July 31st.
1:11.2	Their back NBA is officially relaunching their season with all 30 teams down in Disney World
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