🧑‍🎤 “Why has music gotten shorter?” — Spotify’s algo-music. Renting homes beats buying. Dollar General’s worst job ever.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
No, you’re not crazy. Songs are getting shorter — Because artists aren’t writing music for fans, they’re writing for Spotify’s algorithm.
The Fed thinks interest rates will stay high through the end of 2024 — Which is why renting is the clear winner right now.
Dollar General is the biggest retail chain in America with more stores than Walmart and McDonald’s combined — But Dollar General also has the worst job in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, September 21st, and today's pod is the best one yet. |
| 0:09.4 | Do you want to issue a correction to yesterday's pod? Yesterday yet is. I told you we were going to the Dodgers game. |
| 0:14.3 | Yes, and what did you say? I promised I was going to get fried food. What I always get at baseball. |
| 0:18.7 | You only get fried food at baseball games. The baseball games are your cheat zone, Jack. |
| 0:22.2 | But then someone recommended I get the Dodger dog. Jack got the Frank Futters. One for Fiesta. |
| 0:27.6 | At the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dodger Dog, which was pretty much just a hot dog battle. |
| 0:32.3 | That thing was a flex, Jack. You always some fried food tonight yeties. |
| 0:35.8 | You look fantastic. First story, what have we got for the show? |
| 0:38.6 | You're not crazy yeties. It's not just you. Music. All music is getting shorter. |
| 0:43.8 | Artists are changing how they sing music because the audience has become the algorithm. |
| 0:49.6 | For our second story, it's the existential question of our time. Should you rent or should you buy? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, Jack and I got the answer. Renting is the answer. You should rent. |
| 0:59.7 | It's renting and a third and final story. We just found out about the worst job in America. |
| 1:04.5 | Bestie is the biggest retail chain in the country has the worst job in America. |
| 1:10.1 | But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix, I mean, what a fantastic mix for the new Friday, Jack. |
| 1:14.7 | This is a great mix, but Nick, the biggest thing stopping you from your Starbucks coffee |
| 1:18.9 | is it's not the 1200 calories or the double digit price. It's the time. |
| 1:24.2 | It's the wait. It's I have to get out of here. Can you please just give me that coffee? |
| 1:29.2 | Yeties, Bloomberg reporting just confirmed what we've all been feeling. |
| 1:33.0 | Starbucks is taking forever to make that monkey out of it. |
| 1:36.7 | That's right. The average time to make a Starbucks coffee has reached an all time high. |
| 1:41.6 | Get this for more than a third of Starbucks orders. |
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