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The Best One Yet

🦇 “Your Self-Flying Taxi is arriving” — Volocopter’s $2B flying cab. Bed Bath & Beyond’s Chewy.com. Your $150 gas fillup.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

If you own a Chevy Suburban, you’re paying up to $150 at the pump. We’re calling it — it’s an energy crisis. Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock nearly doubled yesterday thanks to one word: Chewy. And Volocopter hit a nearly $2B valuation to make self-flying electric air taxis a thing… but they forgot about the “self-flying” part.$JOBY $BBBY $XOMGot a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYorkWant a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form:https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewformLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. And this is Snacks daily. It is Tuesday, T-boy Tuesday, March 8th.

0:06.8

Rough day for stock markets yesterday. Good day for a pub. T-B-O-I. Yes, it's the best one yet. It really is.

0:12.2

It really is the best one yet. What's our first story? For our first story, the GameStop guy just bought 10% of Bed Bath and Beyond.

0:19.6

And Jack, what happened to Bed Bath and Beyond Stock? Bed Bath and Beyond Stock almost doubled in one day. Yeah, like GameStop used to.

0:26.6

It pulled off the GameStop stockpile. For our second story, if you drive a Chevy Suburban in California, it costs you $150 to fill up the text. Yeah, the Ukraine War, it has triggered an energy crisis.

0:38.0

And we've got four examples to prove it. For our third and final story, Velocopter. Can I call it Velocopter? I really want to call it Velociraptor, but all right, Jack.

0:46.3

We hit a $2 billion valuation to make self-driving, sorry, self-flying electric robot tax. So one term was missing from their announcement. Self-flying.

0:58.4

Snackers, before we hit that wonderful mix, this is such a good mix today. I love this mix. We have a special announcement today.

1:06.2

Happy birthday to the happy birthday song. It actually is a belated birthday. It was the birthday song's birthday over the weekend, but still.

1:13.1

And I'm sorry, Adele, but this is the most popular song in the English language. It's not us. It's against book of

1:18.7

World Records saying that if you didn't get candles or cake or serenaded this past weekend, Jack, did you even turn a year older?

1:25.0

Nick, this birthday song is the only tradition that's never not happening in your life. It's honestly the most consistent thing any of us have ever ever had.

1:32.4

Snackers, you know this one, the birthday song, the birthday song originally written this week in 1893. Yeah, it's original name, though, was not the birthday song.

1:42.3

It was good morning to all. Good morning to you. Good morning to me.

1:49.0

Perfectly, I'll dante, Jack. It was a really good morning to all by the sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill.

1:55.7

Patty and Mildred Hill, the Simon and Garfunkel of celebratory song.

1:59.8

Now, things really kicked up in watch for them back in 1931 when the birthday song made it into a Broadway musical.

2:05.6

The birthday song's big break happened on Broadway.

2:08.6

Then things went from funny to money for the birthday song. Oh, yeah, the Hill Sisters copyrighted the birthday song.

2:15.5

If you say it looks like a monkey and you smell like one, two, you better lawyer up.

2:20.1

So for 50 years, anytime the birthday song was used in a commercial purpose for profit.

2:25.5

Yeah, like in a movie, a TV show, an actual ad.

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