🛞 “Restaurants sell Tires” — Michelin’s Guide’s wild history. Meta’s AI celebs. ExxonMobil’s OPEC-killer.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
The Michelin Guide is expanding from restaurants to hotels — This tire company (Michilin) getting into travel guides is one of the great stories of marketing history.
To make AI happen, Meta launched 26 celebrity-based chatbots who look and interact like real people — Zuck paid the celebs millions, proving that AI fortunes favor the huge.
And ExxonMobil is reportedly planning its biggest acquisition since… Exxon acquired Mobil — The $60B deal would make ExxonMobil the 4th biggest oil-producing (country) on Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the best one yet, add free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | This is Nick. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Jack. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:12.0 | It is Monday, October 9th. |
| 0:14.0 | And today's part. |
| 0:15.0 | It is the best one yet. |
| 0:17.0 | It is a T-boy Jack. |
| 0:18.0 | Yet he's will get right to it. |
| 0:20.0 | Over the weekend, war shockingly and suddenly broke out in Israel. |
| 0:24.0 | Hamas, the militant group that governs the Gaza Strip attacked Israel by land, by air, |
| 0:29.8 | and by sea. |
| 0:30.8 | Those armed militants took hostages as they invaded southern Israel and they killed hundreds |
| 0:35.4 | of Israelis, too. |
| 0:36.4 | Besties, just to give you a sense of how scary this was, hostages were even taken from |
| 0:40.8 | a music festival. |
| 0:41.8 | Israel's Prime Minister is planning a retaliation, and the US has pledged support, and we'll |
| 0:46.8 | keep following the story as it unrolls. |
| 0:48.8 | Yetties, in the meantime, were thinking of our Israeli listeners and were making today's |
| 0:53.2 | pod the best one yet. |
| 0:55.8 | It's a T-boy. |
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