🥞 “Less drinking, less eating” — 24-hour restaurants decline. America’s $109B Chip-vestment. Waymo’s self-driving UberEats.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The number of 24-Hour Restaurants is down 18% since the pandemic — Zillennials no/low-alcohol Dry Wave has ripple effects that are taking down the 24/7 diner.
Samsung and TSMC are investing $109B into Texas and Arizona to build Made in the USA computer chips — Nothing gets an economy going like an arms race.
Google and Uber just partnered on self-driving food delivery — Waymo robo-taxis delivering dumplings changes the math on self-driving car.
And the new status symbol among schoolchildren? Pencils. It’s part of the “Analog Renaissance.” But we want to know: Pencils or Pens. What’s your scribe? Vote at tboypod on instagram.
Want to watch our self-driving robotaxi episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFVA4NWHjYM
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T- Boy, Tuesday, April 9th. And today's part, it is the best one yet. It's a T- Boy. |
| 0:10.3 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:13.4 | Jack, I'm sorry, but to quote man, Fred, man, were you blinded by the light? |
| 0:18.2 | Nick, I experienced three minutes of totality. |
| 0:20.6 | It's one of the coolest experience we've ever experienced. |
| 0:24.1 | All right, walk is through it baby. What kind of stuff were we seen? |
| 0:26.8 | I made special glasses so that Wilder could see. |
| 0:29.8 | Because like it's awkward to tell my son to look up at the sun you know you know what the |
| 0:33.2 | pod sun blinded man we can't have that happen so he was wearing this like dinner plate |
| 0:36.6 | cut-out glasses thing and the ten minutes leading up to totality things started |
| 0:41.6 | getting dark the birds started freaking out, |
| 0:44.2 | mosquitoes came out of nowhere, |
| 0:46.1 | and then when totality hit, |
| 0:48.1 | I looked up in the sky |
| 0:49.6 | and it looked like the ring of Sauron up there. |
| 0:52.1 | It was so cool. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, the next solar eclipse isn't until 24. |
| 0:56.0 | We got 20 years to prepare for this thing. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm gonna be there for it, |
| 0:59.3 | because I need to see this thing again, man. |
| 1:00.9 | You, me, Montana, 2444. By the way, I set up my iPhone like a |
| 1:06.2 | classic YouTube or creator that I am with your neck. We time-lapse video the whole eclipse, |
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