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The Best One Yet

🧑‍🎤 “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

News, Pop Culture, Tech, Finance, Business, Business News

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.


$SPOT $DG

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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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