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The Best One Yet

📀 “DJ VC” — The Chainsmokers’ VC fund. Uber’s robo-chauffeur. The Fed’s situationship.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

TBOY Live Chicago, July 23rd - tickets on sale here: https://www.axs.com/events/949346/the-best-one-yet-podcast-tickets


The Chainsmokers’ music duo launched a VC fund… but their investing secret is their schedule.

Uber is spending $2B on Lucid’s luxe electric cars to deliver its founder’s original dream… robo-chauffeurs. 

The Fed & President Trump are in a situationship… and it's Wall Street’s biggest soap opera.

Plus, the new Super Man movie is driving dog adoption interest… up 513%.


$UBER $LCID $COIN


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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday, July 18th, and today's pod. Out of all the pods is the best one yet. It's a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yiddies, if you're coming to our live show in Chicago, we're doing our first ever T-boy earnings call. Yes, we are.

0:21.6

And just like Wall Street publicly traded firms, we're doing a Q&A and taking analyst questions.

0:27.1

Your questions.

0:28.0

So DM us or leave a comment wherever you're listening.

0:31.3

But we're also taking live questions from the audience in Chicago.

0:34.6

That's right.

0:35.1

First ever podcast to do a quarterly earnings.

0:37.7

Hey, SCC. You're welcome. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got in the deep boy?

0:43.2

For our first story, Uber is investing $2 billion into lucid, the luxury soon to be self-driving

0:49.9

electric car. But this Uber lucid deal is reallybo-s chauffeurs. For our second story,

0:57.7

President Trump and the Federal Reserve are in a situation ship, and Wall Street is watching this

1:02.8

soap opera. So Jack and I will tell you why an independent Fed is the ballast of our economy's

1:07.8

boat. And our third and final story is the chain smokers. They're not just an

1:12.4

EDM music duo. They just closed a $100 million venture capital fund. And the chain smoker's

1:18.3

secret to making music and making investments, it's all about the schedule. But yet is before

1:24.5

we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix, perfect mix to go into a weekend with.

1:29.7

Superman's greatest skill? Isn't X-ray vision super strength or the ability to fly?

1:35.0

No, no, no, no, no, no. Superman's greatest skill is puppies. Adopting puppies.

1:40.6

Because the latest Superman movie has caused a surge in pet adoption nationwide. That's right,

1:46.7

Superman is saving strays out there. Here's the context. The film in theaters right now is the

1:52.3

eighth Superman, and it's already set an opening weekend record for the Man of Steel. But Jack,

1:57.5

I noticed the real star of the film ain't Clark Kent, it's crypto. Crypto with a K,

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