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The Best One Yet💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake.
The Best One Yet💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake.
💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake.
Update: 2025-01-24
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Trump pardoned the crypto founder of Silk Road… after launching his own Fartcoin. We’ll explain.
Spotify’s CEO co-founded a body-scanning startup to save your life… and it just hit $2B.
EA’s video game stock had its worst day in 17 years… because of 1 huge graphics mistake.
Plus, the hot new Dry January trend is Cannabis Cocktails (replace ABV with THC).
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00:00:00
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the reo Friday January 24th and today's pot is the best one yet
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This one is a T-boy Nick for only two months. You are older than me. I know my birthday is a march
00:00:16
That won't be the same age again. Well Jack, I hope he keeps the birthday bounce continuing. Stocks are still record highs
00:00:21
I think they're gonna just stay record highs for my next birthday. Lot to shabby. Should we get into our three stars?
00:00:25
We have three fantastic stories. Let's hit them before the weekend baby for our first story
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The biggest winners in crypto since Trump became president are fart coins. Spark coins. We'll explain Silk Road
00:00:36
Trump's meme coin and how they're all affecting the crypto crowd for our second story Spotify CEO
00:00:43
Actually co-founded another company. It's got a side hustle. It's a body scanning startup that could save your life
00:00:49
It's called a neco and it scans your entire body inside and out and it just hit a 1.7 billion dollar valuation and our third and final stories
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Is electronic arts EA the video game just plummeted 17% and it's worse down the stock market in 17 years and it's all because of spider-man
00:01:09
Spandex
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Literally, but yet he's before we hit that wonderful mix of stories
00:01:14
Fantastic mix of stories for the real Friday. Love the mix if you're doing dry January. There's only one week left
00:01:21
That's it pretty soon. You can replace that seltzer for a smear knife. That's not how I'm into my dry January
00:01:27
It's more the wet slide Jack. Either way, there's a new alcohol alternative
00:01:33
That's emerging that you need to know about and it's called cannabis cocktails cannabis cocktails are replacing a
00:01:40
BV with THC and this category is surging here's the news. What do we got Jack? As of January 1st this year
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You can legally order THC infused non-alcoholic drinks at bars and restaurants in 24 states
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Hey bartender. I'll take one mellow mojito and one chronic colada. Did you ask for a ganja gimlet? Is that you Jack?
00:02:02
I think it was you you'll take two of them one that we noticed is a brand called palmos which makes a canned margarita
00:02:08
But they swapped out tequila for weed this brand is three years old
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But they already passed 30 million bucks in annual sales now. Here's the key when it comes to cannabis cocktails
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They contain about 10 milligrams of THC per drink. That's the part of the cannabis that gets you high
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10 milligrams of THC is only about a third of a typical marijuana joint
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So that's enough to make you socially high but not make you fully stoned and that is the cannabis cocktail advantage over regular non-alcoholic drinks
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Exactly unlike mocktails cannabis cocktails still give you some kind of buzz just a different kind of buzz
00:02:45
But still not an alcoholic buzz which a lot of people want to avoid for various reasons
00:02:51
So yeah, he's if you're enjoying dry January. Let us know this weekend if you order a dank dacry over there because the non-alcoholic category just got a whole lot more interesting
00:03:00
Hey bartender one weed whiskey sour hold the we hold the whiskey
00:03:05
There's one talking about Jack. Let's hear our three stories
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15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm
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It's the best one yet. But the best is an on Jack Nick. That's it. I don't even think they need to practice
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For our first story the founder of silk road a crypto pioneer and convicted felon
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Just received a pardon. What is silk road? What are fart coins, and how have Trump's first few days affected crypto
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We'll investigate
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Who is
00:05:17
Ross all bricked who is Ross all bricked? That's what everyone was googling after Trump pardoned Ross all bricked
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Well Ross all bricked was the founder of silk road and early pioneer of cryptocurrencies silk road was founded in
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11 as an anonymous online marketplace so without revealing your identification
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You could buy and sell things anything on silk road. It was like an anonymous ebay
00:05:42
Yes, it was and jack to ensure that your identification remained a secret you paid in a new digital currency at the time known
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As Bitcoin and why was anonymity so important? Well jack it's because a silk road was
00:05:57
It was kind of for criminals wasn't it silk road was where you bought and sold illegal drugs and illegal weapons online
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You weren't going there for a cute top, you know
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There are even cases where users hired hitmen on silk road and then you paid the bad guy at Bitcoin
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So it's not Amazon Prime silk road is Amazon crime. Yeah, and that happens to be what the US justice system thought as well
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It's also what the evidence and the law thought
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Because all bricked was convicted of seven felonies in 2015
00:06:27
And sentenced to prison for life, but here's the news besties this week after 10 years in prison
00:06:34
Ulbrich is now free and pardoned of all crimes by new president trump
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Why did he pardon this guy because Ulbrich is a bit of a hero among libertarians whose votes trump was
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Cording for the last year so when trump was invited to the libertarians parties national convention
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He promised to pardon this felon if he was elected president
00:06:54
But pause the body yet he's because releasing a convicted crypto criminal mastermind from prison was not even the biggest crypto news of the week
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No, it wasn't the biggest crypto news of the week would be trump coins
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trump coin jack, why don't you enlighten us on the eve of the inauguration trump tokenized his personal brand
00:07:15
Creating a viable crypto that anybody could buy on robin hood now president trump still owns 80% of trump coin
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So even though the price is down 42% from its high earlier in the week
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trump coin is still worth billions of dollars to the president now trump coin is completely
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unprecedented and it's brought up a whole bunch of questions and issues well official trump coin is loaded with conflicts of interest
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Plus it's untraceable nature could be used to secretly bribe the president and nobody would be able to find out about it
00:07:51
But still the whole trump family has now gotten involved and everyone's getting a trump coin
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It's kind of like the jacks and five over there melania launched a coin to that also passed a billion dollars in valuation
00:08:02
So jack what's the takeaway for all our buddies right now over in crypto we can choose smart coins or fart coins
00:08:11
Yet he's here's what jack and I found fascinating about these stories most of the crypto community actually appeared disappointed by trump's first two crypto moves
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in fact many crypto leaders who voted for trump voiced their frustration about his moves this week
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Peter McCormick the big crypto podcaster and trump supporter said that it was embarrassing
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He said it was the opposite of what he expected from his trump phone because these moves trump has made
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Further than narrative that cryptocurrencies aren't serious assets
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But they're criminal assets instead and they further than narrative that much of crypto are
00:08:46
fart coins no purpose just gassy speculation fart coins some call these joke tokens
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Another word that runs with it coin, but we're gonna call him fart coins on the pod
00:08:57
We kind of like fart coins on the other hand trump does have an opportunity here to legitimize crypto as the first
00:09:03
Developed nation in the world to fully embrace it on Thursday
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He did sign an executive order to make a crypto council and at the same time the Republican controlled senate created a new
00:09:13
Digital asset subcommittee led by the most pro crypto senator who even wants a bitcoin reserve
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We think crypto's biggest promise is as digital gold. Yes, we do an investible asset with scarce supply
00:09:26
That's both borderless and internationally reputable
00:09:29
But so far in the first few days trump started with a fart coin and needs to go towards smart coin
00:09:38
For our second story neco just hit a 1.7 billion dollar valuation to scale a whole new health care tech
00:09:46
Body scans neco's body scanners perfectly represent the next generational trend of health
00:09:53
Yeti's do you remember our prediction for this year jack what was our big prediction about the i toshi one of them was that apple would launch a smart toilet
00:10:03
Yeah, and i toshi every tech company wants in on health every tech company wants in on health
00:10:08
Including daniel eck the founder and CEO of spotify he wants in too the music streaming CEO has side hustled a new
00:10:16
Health care business that just became a unicorn. It's called neco health
00:10:20
They are scaling health clinics that feature a cutting edge body scanner these health clinics look like a spot designed by ikea
00:10:27
Yeah, they do they're nice, but unlike your doctor's office. There isn't a single stethoscope in this place
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No, instead you're gonna walk into a giant chamber that scans your whole body with a dozen different technologies
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One scan actually measures
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38 different things about your body. It's basically like graze anatomy in a box
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The scan takes a few minutes
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The doctor read the results afterwards and then chats with you about the red flags if you have some
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Neco's done about 10,000 of these scans so far in the uk and sweeten and there's a 100,000 person wait list right now
00:10:58
The scan costs a little under four hundred dollars and here's the news
00:11:02
They just became a unicorn. Neco raised two hundred and sixty million dollars to hit a one point seven billion dollar valuation this week
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The AI body scanner we'll see you now and with all that money
00:11:13
They're gonna come to the United States. Yeah, and open up some calm
00:11:17
Minermist futuristic doctor's offices
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Made entirely out of Scandinavian. What if it's not Pinewood? I'm not getting scan check now to understand this technology
00:11:27
We wanted to compare it to another health technology
00:11:30
Basically wearables like apple watch, Fitbits or rings they're on your body
00:11:35
24/7 tracking your data and yet that data is limited Neco's various scanners can actually peak inside your body into your organs
00:11:44
Like they're gonna track your blood pressure your cholesterol and then the doc tells you your risk of stroke or heart attack
00:11:50
Because it sees inside of you, but they've also got more basic scanners that will just look at your skin and that thing on your thigh
00:11:57
And that mole on the outside of your body and determine your risk of melanoma or cancer or having to get that thing on your thigh
00:12:04
Checked out a little more and we actually think this technology since it's not a human will be
00:12:09
Conducting a more thorough full body check. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like gonna catch that obscure mole on your little toe that your doctor
00:12:16
Might have missed during that cursory overlook. We all have to do every couple years
00:12:19
I got a full body scan at my dermatologist a couple days ago naked you gonna get your fully naked and they finished the scan in like one second
00:12:26
Yeah, I was actually insulted. Did you spin for them Jack? No, they like barely looked me over and they're like you're fine
00:12:31
I'm like you didn't look anywhere in the next time you got a spin. I think you guys
00:12:35
Put on a little chauffeur the doctor's office had full naked jack everybody knows that
00:12:41
They asked me to put my robot after one second step on the scale step off the scale jack
00:12:45
But yet is of course this new startup is using AI to compare your results to past results and everyone else who they've scanned these days
00:12:54
That way they can tell you if that thing on your thigh looks different than the last time because to save costs in the health care industry
00:13:01
It really comes down to preventative care not showing up at the emergency room with that thing on your thigh
00:13:07
He didn't catch six months before the earlier you can catch something the cheaper it will be to fix it
00:13:11
So Jack could you please strip down turn to the right
00:13:15
And tell us what's the takeaway for our bodies over at neck up boomers did diets millennials do wellness
00:13:23
Gen Z wants to live forever
00:13:25
That is last year jack and I did a story in how every generation rebrands health in its own image and net goes body scanning
00:13:34
Swedish technology is a perfect example of that you know weight watch your stock is actually down 96% because
00:13:41
Dieding was a trend in the 80s and 90s then wellness and mental health took the stage in the 2000s and in the 20s
00:13:48
But since the pandemic a couple years ago
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The health innovators are now shifting the focus to life extension
00:13:54
So neck goes preventative care
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It's not about losing weight or finding like psychological
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No, it's really about extending life by finding issues as early as possible
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Because the new health trend is to try to live forever
00:14:10
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For our third and final story before the weekend
00:16:20
Shares of electronic arts the video game company just had their worst day in 17 years
00:16:27
EA's decline reveals a big mistake across the whole video game industry
00:16:32
Here it is
00:16:33
We don't care about your fancy 4K graphics
00:16:37
We don't care about Spider-Man's spandex EA sports
00:16:44
Not in the game apparently. No, it's not. No, it's not. The iconic video game developer behind Madden
00:16:49
The Sims and Metal of Honor just headed to worst day on the stock market since 2008
00:16:53
EA sports their stock fell 17% on Thursday and Jack was the reason
00:16:58
They simply didn't sell as many games as they hoped in the fourth quarter
00:17:01
For example EA's latest soccer game, which used to be called FIFA, missed expectations
00:17:06
Even worse was the role-playing game Dragon Age, which came up 50% short of sales this past holiday season
00:17:12
Not to drop the f-word again, but electronic farts
00:17:15
This dog fell to a seven year low on the news of the bad quarter
00:17:21
But yet he's Jack and I were fascinated about this story
00:17:24
Because electronic arts doing poorly presents a paradox
00:17:29
Because aren't we living in the golden age of video games?
00:17:32
Yeah, Jack, what was that wild hero stat we shared with the yetis about the video game industry?
00:17:36
The amount of time American spend playing video games is more than the amount of time we spend watching movies
00:17:43
Watching TV and listening to music
00:17:45
Combine!
00:17:47
So you would think that the leading video game studio like electronic arts would be at an all-time high right now
00:17:54
But it's not. No
00:17:54
And the reason might be found in a recent New York Times article about the video game industry
00:18:00
Now here's how the Times described it
00:18:02
To understand the video game industry's current crisis
00:18:05
Look closely at Spider-Man's spandex
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Look closely here
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Because every year graphics and video games have gotten more and more lifelike
00:18:16
Yeah, they have
00:18:16
The New York Times showed a picture of the first Spider-Man game that came out in Atari in 1982
00:18:21
Jack, I'm looking at it now
00:18:23
It's like a series of huge blue and red squares that form something that kind of looks like a human being
00:18:28
It's pixelated
00:18:29
But today, the latest Spider-Man video game has insanely lifelike Spider-Man figures
00:18:35
Jumping around an insanely lifelike looking New York City
00:18:38
The newest Spider-Man video game looks like a high death 4k movie
00:18:42
It looks real
00:18:42
And the reason is because studios like electronic arts have spent a ton of money
00:18:47
Upping the graphic fidelity of their games
00:18:49
But here's the plot twist yetis
00:18:52
It turns out gamers don't care about lifelike figures
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And they're not willing to pay for them
00:18:59
And the reason you don't care about Spider-Man's fancy spandex
00:19:04
Is our takeaways
00:19:05
The jack what's the takeaway for all our bodies in video games
00:19:09
Kids don't want high definition
00:19:11
They just want to hang out
00:19:12
Yadis, the Times found also that 40 to 50 year old video game players
00:19:18
Really do care about real life graphics
00:19:20
And that small subset of video gamers are willing to pay 80 bucks a game
00:19:25
To electronic arts to get it
00:19:27
But the majority of gamers, young gamers, the future of the industry
00:19:31
They prefer playing games like Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite
00:19:34
Games that don't look realistic
00:19:36
Because less important than the graphics
00:19:38
Is that you can play online with friends
00:19:41
Video games are a virtual hangout
00:19:42
So EA sports, they want you to pay an 80 bucks for lifelike graphics of FIFA football
00:19:47
Or you can play old school looking Fortnite with friends for free
00:19:52
So the way Jack and I see it
00:19:53
EA should shift their investment from better graphics into better interactive gameplay
00:19:59
Or maybe they should have done a customer survey
00:20:02
Yeah, for investing so much money in fancy graphics
00:20:06
Those like a survey could have saved them a lot of cash, Jack
00:20:08
Hello there kids, do you care about interest spandex?
00:20:11
Because besties kids, they don't want Hollywood graphics
00:20:14
Kids just want to hang out
00:20:16
Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us before the weekend
00:20:22
Trump's first crypto moves were to release the Silk Road criminal from prison
00:20:27
And to launch the official Trump coin
00:20:29
Going forward, we hope you can choose smart coins over fart coins
00:20:33
For our second story, it's Neko
00:20:35
It's now a $1 billion company that scans your body to measure 38 different things
00:20:40
Boomers did diets, millennials do wellness, but Gen Z
00:20:43
They want to live forever
00:20:45
And our third and final story, electronic arts invested tons of money in high graphic video games
00:20:51
But kids aren't paying for it
00:20:52
And we see it in Spider-Man spandex
00:20:54
In video games, we don't want Hollywood graphics
00:20:56
We just want to hang out
00:20:58
But yetis, this pod's not over yet
00:21:02
Here's what else you need to know today
00:21:03
First, President Trump's executive order ended federal DEI programs
00:21:08
As well as a 1965 rule against discrimination in federal contractor hiring
00:21:13
But Costco and JP Morgan Chase are standing firm on their DEI initiatives
00:21:18
In fact, of the DEI push back Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan said, "Bring him on
00:21:23
And second, we just got the Oscar nominations and leading the pack
00:21:27
Amelia Perez, my mom's favorite from this year, with 13 numbs
00:21:31
Not leading the pack was gladiator, too
00:21:33
I really wish I had gone that day to see wicked instead
00:21:37
And I was way more popular
00:21:38
Oh, and Conan O'Brien, he's going to host the Oscars on March 2nd in LA
00:21:42
It's going to be emotional given all the fires
00:21:44
Just, it's probably going to be an incredible night
00:21:46
And finally, Target had a shockingly good fourth quarter
00:21:50
Way more foot traffic than analysts expected
00:21:52
Oh, why did the beleaguered big box chain of Target do so well?
00:21:55
Taylor Swift?
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Yeah, the T-Swift concert tour coffee table book
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Yeah, could only be bought this holiday season at Tarjet
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It was exclusive to Tarjet
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So, Swifties targeted target stores
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Target benefited
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Now time for the best fact yet
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This one sent in by Yeti Sinsiana Ursu from lovely Austin, Texas
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Who happens to have a fantastic birthday
00:22:19
Sinsiana and Nick both have a January 22nd birthday
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So, Sinsiana got curious, how common is it
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That you have a birthday with that person right there
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Well, I actually looked into a Jack
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Because it led to the birthday paradox
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A real probability theory that describes the likelihood of two people
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Sharing a birthday within the same group
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All right, so the likelihood that you and that random person have the same birthday
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Is 1 out of 365
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But, if there's 23 people in the room with you
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Chances are, two of you have the same birthday
00:22:52
That's right, it only takes 23 people in a room
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To likely have the same birthday between two of them
00:22:57
That's wild
00:22:58
Wouldn't you think it needs more people in the room?
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You, you think it's countertube
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I mean, basically, Jack, what you're saying is
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The next time you go to a big dinner
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Just ask everybody what their birthday is
00:23:07
What a conflictar
00:23:08
There's a good chance, two of you have the same birthday
00:23:10
Yet he's that is the birthday paradox
00:23:12
And it also shows how bad humans are at intuitive probability
00:23:15
Happy birthday, Sinsiana
00:23:19
Yet he is, you look fantastic today
00:23:23
Jack, thank you for that epic Instagram story
00:23:27
Of all those incredible pictures together from a birthday
00:23:29
That was really, really cool
00:23:31
The ones on the dock, they're doing the yoga
00:23:33
Running across the street now
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Yeah, I posted like eight pics on my Instagram
00:23:37
Tagging Nick and H1
00:23:38
It was really fun to look through the photos we had
00:23:41
The only one missing was some of the dorm room ones
00:23:44
We could throw some of those up there
00:23:45
And the East Village ones
00:23:47
I know, but we went to college right before the iPhone era
00:23:49
I don't have that many college pictures of us
00:23:52
Yeah, yeah, those photos
00:23:53
They're like in a darkroom somewhere
00:23:55
No, all the photos I do have of us
00:23:57
We're basically just playing beer pong
00:23:59
We just played it off
00:24:00
And it's now free
00:24:02
They're not on our phones
00:24:04
Besties, we loved hanging with you this week
00:24:06
If you want to hang out more this weekend
00:24:07
Check out our weekly show The Best Idea Yet
00:24:10
Because we got a full episode on the guitar
00:24:13
That set up rock and roll
00:24:14
We got a link in the episode description
00:24:16
Either way, Nick and I I'll see you Monday
00:24:18
Celebrate the wins if you know
00:24:20
You know
00:24:21
And before we go
00:24:27
Speaking of the birthday paradox
00:24:28
Happy birthday to Chris Paul
00:24:30
40 years old over in lovely St. Petersburg
00:24:33
And happy birthday to Sarah Jorgensen
00:24:35
Who's also turned 40 over in Seattle
00:24:37
And Rocky Wanda was in
00:24:38
This turned into 23 years old
00:24:40
In Columbus, Ohio, Blue Jacket land
00:24:43
And happy birthday to charity team
00:24:44
From Fort Collins
00:24:45
Who's actually in Vegas to close a business deal
00:24:48
I assume she's expensing this birthday weekend
00:24:52
Which is awesome
00:24:53
And get this Jack
00:24:54
Sarah Gregory, who soccer number is 37
00:24:56
And Aime Handle was 37
00:24:58
Her parents were 37 when she was born
00:25:00
Her husband was 37 when they got married
00:25:02
She bought her her spouse at 37
00:25:04
She's turned 37
00:25:06
And her son is in the class of 2037
00:25:08
And you just turned 30 so
00:25:10
And I just turned 30 so
00:25:11
And Daria Sprague down the street in San Francisco
00:25:14
Get this shout out for letting her best you know about T-boy
00:25:17
Mary Catherine has been listening every day
00:25:19
She's now a bestie
00:25:20
And just in case your name's pronounced sprig
00:25:23
Happy birthday Daria Sprague
00:25:24
And Kieran Nygard from Lovely Exeter New Hampshire
00:25:28
Just had a successful college interview
00:25:29
She nailed the question
00:25:31
Why do you want to study business
00:25:33
Because she listens to this spot
00:25:35
That's awesome
00:25:36
Thank you Kieran
00:25:37
If you know, you know
00:25:39
This is Jack, I own stock of Roblox
00:25:44
And Nick and I both own stock of Spotify
00:25:46
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00:25:47
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00:25:49
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