🕯️ “Everyone’s watching it” — Conclave’s Pope pop. Uber’s robo-VW-hippie-van taxi. The Great Capitalist Pause.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Since the Pope passed, streaming of “Conclave” is up 3,200%... It’s the power of Shelf IP.

Uber & VW just hooked up for robo-hippie-van taxis… It captures Uber’s Switzerland Strategy.

Every company’s put their investment plans on ice… We call it the Great Capitalist Pause.

Plus, Starbucks bought 200,000 Sharpies… now its new CEO wants a doodle on every cup.

$UBER $VWAGY $AMZN $NFLX

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0:00.0	Pump to pod, man. You keep the sweater on. You're keeping the sweater on. I'm keeping it off.
0:03.2	I got a little bit of good thing I'm double old spiced.
0:05.4	I'm calling it. You're going to heat up by the third story. You're taking that off before the takeaway.
0:10.0	All right. There we go. Three, two.
0:12.4	This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Friday, the real Friday. April 25th, and today's pot is the best one yet. This is a T-boy.
0:21.7	The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:24.8	You know, Jack, before the pod, we were saying these are like the three stories we've ever done that are the best we've ever done.
0:29.6	Should we just, should we get right into it?
0:31.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:32.0	That's just hit three stories for today's T-boy.
0:34.0	What do we got, man?
0:34.8	For our first story since pope francis passed away conclave has
0:38.9	become the number one movie on streaming with viewership up 3,000 percent from last week because the
0:44.7	secret weapon of streaming is shelf ip for our second story uber and volkswagen just did the awkwardest
0:52.2	hot hookup we've ever seen. So hot, so awkward.
0:54.9	A robo hippie van self-driving taxi.
0:58.3	Because Uber's using the Switzerland strategy.
1:01.9	And our third and final story is the biggest news and business news right now.
1:05.7	What is it?
1:06.3	No news at all.
1:07.1	Because 2025 has been what Jack and I are calling, the great capitalist pause.
1:13.4	But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, baby. Whoa, what a mix of stories, baby.
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