🏰 “Donald Duck Diplomacy” — DisneyLand Abu Dhabi. Elon’s Texas city. Russell Westbrook's AI funeral app.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Disney just announced its 7th theme park: Abu Dhabi… It’s Donald Duck Diplomacy.
SpaceX incorporated its own city in Texas… But the company town really goes back to Hershey.
NBA star Russell Westbrook just launched an AI app… for funerals.
Plus, the hot new fashion trend is… Dinosaur Leather (#TRexHandbags)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, May 8th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Wow. Wow. Wow. Are we overwhelmed with the support from our Midwestern Yeti's out there? I knew Midwesterners were known for their hospitality, but boy, yeah, that was awesome. |
| 0:25.5 | Thank you for buying tickets to our Chicago Live Show. |
| 0:29.1 | We still got tickets available right now. |
| 0:31.5 | You can grab them with a link in the episode description. |
| 0:33.8 | We're going to be at the Vig Theater in Chicago. |
| 0:36.7 | Wonderful venue. We cannot wait to |
| 0:38.9 | perform there July 23rd. A thousand seats screaming yetis and besties. We can't wait to see you. Grab |
| 0:44.5 | your tickets now and Jack. Three stories for today's show. What do we got? For our first story, |
| 0:49.5 | Disney just announced its seventh theme park. The Magic Kingdom is coming to the Middle East. But the real |
| 0:55.1 | value of Disneyland Abu Dhabi is Donald Duck diplomacy. For our second story, Elon Musk has a new |
| 1:02.4 | title to add to his LinkedIn, founder of a city. That's right, Starbase is the latest |
| 1:07.8 | incorporated city in Texas, and this goes all the way back to the 1880s. |
| 1:12.7 | And our third and final story is a wild headline. |
| 1:15.8 | So true. |
| 1:16.4 | The NBA star Russell Westbrook just launched an AI startup for funerals. |
| 1:21.3 | Because there is no business with a bigger customer base than death. |
| 1:26.2 | The Tam is everyone. |
| 1:27.6 | It's huge. It's huge. But Yeties, before we hit that The Tam is everyone. Huge. |
| 1:28.2 | It's huge. |
| 1:29.2 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, |
| 1:31.4 | fantastic mix of stories, Jack, nobody else is doing that mix today. |
| 1:35.8 | The Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
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