💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Trump pardoned the crypto founder of Silk Road… after launching his own Fartcoin. We’ll explain.

Spotify’s CEO co-founded a body-scanning startup to save your life… and it just hit $2B.

EA’s video game stock had its worst day in 17 years… because of 1 huge graphics mistake.

Plus, the hot new Dry January trend is Cannabis Cocktails (replace ABV with THC).

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday. January 24th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This one is a T-boy. Nick, for only two months, you are older than me.
0:14.4	I know. My birthday is March. Then we'll be the same age again. Well, Jack, I hope you keep the birthday bounce continuing. Stocks are still at record highs. I think they're going to just stay record high until my next birthday. Not too shabby.
0:24.6	Should we get into our three stories? We have three fantastic stories. Let's hit him before the weekend,
0:28.0	baby. For our first story, the biggest winners in crypto since Trump became president are fart coins.
0:34.5	Fart coins. We'll explain Silk Road, Trump's meme coin, and how they're all affecting the
0:39.9	crypto crowd. For our second story, Spotify's CEO actually co-founded another company. He's got a
0:46.3	side hustle. It's a body scanning startup that could save your life. It's called NECO, and it scans
0:51.9	your entire body inside and out, and it just hit a $1.7 billion
0:56.6	valuation.
0:57.6	And our third and final story is Electronic Arts.
1:00.8	EA, the video game, just plummeted 17% in its worst day on the stock market in 17 years.
1:07.1	And it's all because of Spider-Man spandex, literally. But Yetis, before we hit that
1:13.3	wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories for the Real Friday. Love the mix. If you're
1:18.2	doing dry January, there's only one week left. That's it. Pretty soon, you can replace that
1:23.3	seltzer for a smear knoff. That's not how I'm into my dry January. It's more of a wet slide,
1:29.6	Jack. Either way, there's a new alcohol alternative that's emerging that you need to know about.
1:35.2	And it's called cannabis cocktails. Cannabis cocktails are replacing ABV with THC, and this category
1:43.8	is surging.
1:44.9	Here's the news. What do we got, Jack?
1:47.1	As of January 1st this year, you can legally order THC-infused non-alcoholic drinks at bars and
1:53.9	restaurants in 24 states.
1:55.7	Hey, bartender, I'll take one mellow mojito.
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