The Best One Yet
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22 Jan 2025
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, January 22nd. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You know, Jack, I don't want to take any credit, but for the second straight year, stocks hit a record high on my birthday. Is that true?
I mean, I want to say you're welcome, but I don't want to take credit. But I am going to take credit on this one. No, it's not your quarter birthday. It's not your half birthday. It's your real 37th birthday, right? It is. Four straight quarters, Jack. Wasn't 37 your jersey number when you were playing lacrosse in college? It wasn't, but to go back to stocks being at a record high.
You're welcome for mentioning on the pod that you played the cross in college. It was bound to happen, Jack. I appreciate it. Yeah, it is. We're going to keep the birthday bounce going. In the meantime, we got three fantastic stories. Jack, what's on today's T-Boy? Happy birthday, Nicholas. Thank you, Jack. For our first story, the theme of Trump's brand new cabinet is venture capital, guys.
The inauguration will be full of CEOs. Trump's White House will be full of VCs. For our second story, Netflix just told us the results of its most wild quarter ever, its first live streaming quarter. So Jack and I have made a connection between Netflix and Adele. And our third and final story, the White House issued a record number of executive orders on day one. Executive orders.
We're going to tell you why presidents love them, businesses hate them, and oil stocks are confused by them. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. It is a news-packed week. Jack, what a mix of stories. Love the mix today. The most important rule of science was just disproven. Not the law of gravity, not the theory of relativity. Jack, what are we talking about?
The five-second rule. Ah, the five-second rule. The greatest, completely unscientific rule of science is toast. The five-second rule states that if one drops food on the floor, it's clean for up to five seconds. Besties, one has only five seconds until bacteria grab onto your frozen, fallen Cheez-It. But according to a new article in Popular Science, the five-second rule is apparently wrong.
Oh, and the five-second rule, it is not even close. A 2014 study at Aston University in the UK says the longer the food is on the floor, the more bacteria latches onto it. But get this, another new study from Clemson University found that some bacteria transfer instantaneously. By five seconds, 99% of the germs on the floor had transferred onto the food, according to Clemson.
So what Jack and I are saying is that they tested the five-second rule with bologna. And determined that the rule is bologna. Hold on to your ham sandwiches today. Because if it falls and you follow the five second rule. Oh, that's now a salmonella sandwich, isn't it, Jack? So grab those grapes and clutch those clementines, man. Don't let go of that ego.
The five second rule's 50 years of fame is officially over. And honestly, Jack, it's kind of like the planet Pluto. I already miss it. If you know, you know. Yetis, let's hit on three stories.
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