🥔 “Surge Potato Pricing” — Instacart’s personalized pricing. Utah’s for-profit football. Australia’s teen insta-ban. +In-N-Out’s 67.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Instacart is testing different prices for different people... It’s Personalized Pricing.
University of Utah athletics just sold to PE for $500M… Wall Street is now the Quarterback.
Australia banned social media for kids under 16… Instagram & cigarettes.
In-N-Out burger won’t say the number “67” anymore (and it’s not the only one).
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, December 11th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. |
| 0:09.8 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yeties yesterday, Jerry Powell of the Fed gave us the interest rate cut we all asked for for Christmas. |
| 0:18.1 | Although our central bank said it only plans one additional cut |
| 0:21.8 | next year for all of 2026. Come on, Jerry, we need a Hanukkah gift, too, man. If you want mortgage |
| 0:27.4 | rates to come down, it was mixed news yesterday. Well, stock surprisingly went up, and this pod |
| 0:32.5 | is our best one yet. Jack, three stories for today's T-boy. What do we got on the show? |
| 0:36.7 | For our first story, |
| 0:38.2 | Instacart got caught doing personalized pricing. Real thing. Different prices for different |
| 0:43.5 | customers at the same grocery store. Basties, are you paying $1 for bananas, but your buddy |
| 0:48.5 | is getting charged $2? We have an explanation for it. Mm-hmm. For our second story, for the first time ever, a big university sold a piece of its |
| 0:56.6 | athletic department to Wall Street investors. |
| 0:59.3 | The university, a Utah youths athletics, is officially a for-profit corporation. |
| 1:04.6 | College sports is the new pro sports. |
| 1:06.5 | And our third and final story. |
| 1:08.3 | Yesterday, Australia became the first country to ban social media for kids under 16. |
| 1:13.7 | Is Instagram the new cigarette? |
| 1:16.5 | We'll dive in T-Boy style. |
| 1:17.9 | Speaking of banning, Nick, before we hit those wonderful three stories. |
| 1:22.0 | What a mix of stories for the new Friday. |
| 1:24.3 | In-N-Out Burger has banned the number 67 at all of its restaurants. |
| 1:28.8 | True story, Yetis, will explain. |
| 1:31.1 | Six-seven. |
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