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The Best One Yet

🪨 “Michelangelo Millionaire” — Italian Marble’s resurgence. Apple’s Pixar Lamp. 8 Sleep’s $1B not-mattress.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Apple’s next big product is codenamed “Bubble”... And it’s inspired by the Pixar lamp logo.

Italian Marble has never been more in demand… and never more of a family biz.

8 Sleep just raised $100M for a smart mattress cover… but can you capitalize sleep?

Plus, the 1st ever Robot Olympics has a winner… Gold Medal for Bedmaking.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, August 20th. And today's pod is the best one yet of this. Oh, this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Now, you know, Jack, one of the Yeti said I should accessorize my IV bag with a Labubu doll.

0:20.9

What do you think about that?

0:21.7

Should I pull this off?

0:22.4

I think it's a great idea.

0:23.3

I support it. Put it on the company credit card. We're writing that off. It's a write off. If you've got a slamming salmon labubu referral? No, dude, we should do a mystery box and open it live on the pot. I'm sold. I've never bottle of booboo dog.

0:18.0

But Jack, three fantastic stories for today's pod.

0:21.7

What do we got on the tea boy?

0:23.0

For our friends. on the pot. I'm sold. I've never bought a booboo dog. But Jack, three fantastic stories for today's

0:38.9

pod. What do we got on the tea boy? For our first story. From 2006 to 2016, Apple launched the iPhone,

0:46.4

the iPad, the Apple Watch, and AirPods. In the 10 years since, well, Apple's next big thing, it's

0:53.1

codenamed bubbles.

0:54.8

And it tells us everything we need to know about how Apple has changed.

0:59.0

Bubbles.

0:59.9

For our second story, Italian marble is experiencing its biggest business moment since the Roman

1:06.1

Coliseum.

1:07.3

Because the Italian marble industry doesn't waste the dust, literally.

1:12.7

And our third and final story, 8 Sleep helps Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg lull to sleep every night.

1:19.4

Now, we don't know what lullabies they sleep to, but we do know the business model.

1:23.5

And 8 Sleep just got a $100 million fat check fundraise to do it.

1:27.9

But yet, he's, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:30.6

Oh, no one else is doing that mix.

1:32.6

Feels great.

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