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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
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How much should I tip during the holidays?
windows because I was a dumb teenager and aftermarket rims. It was a vibe. Can you unlock the car? Oh wait, the handle's broken. I got pulled over so many times because of those tinted windows. License and registration, who is in there? I got suspended before I met you. Jack. Because of the tinted windows. It sounds like a story for another pod. Yetis, Honda, they make a great car, but not
great enough, according to a new report from Reuters. Honda is in talks to merge with Nissan, a company based just 19 miles away from Honda over in Japan.
Jack and I jumped in T-boy style to numbers. That means the number seven and number nine car makers in the world combined would be the number three biggest car maker in the world.
If this merger goes through, Honda plus Nissan would trail just Toyota and Volkswagen in terms of numbers of car produced. It would be the biggest car deal in history. And that is something Nissan really needs. Nissan is struggling right now. If this went through, it'd be basically a bailout of Nissan. Because Nissan's profits fell 85% last quarter.
Nissan is a company in crisis with their chassis. The Nissan Murano has rental car written.
all over.
Yeah, it does. They haven't changed that thing in like 12 years. So as you can expect, Nissan stock surged 24% on the merger news, hoping this will save the company. Even though it's just a rumor. But also, Honda's been struggling too. It's true. Honda's not going through the best times. Honda stock price is lower today than it was 20 years ago when I had a Honda.
It's like Jack and I have always told you, when the going gets tough, the tough get merging. And honestly, it looks like a desperate situation for Honda and Nissan right now. It does look desperate. And we have three facts about China that explain that desperation, and they are completely wild.
When you hear these facts about China, you're going to sit down, stand up, and buckle up three more times again. What's fact number one, Nick? Fact number one, Jack, is that more than half of the new cars sold in China are electric. Electric is the future. We know because China is halfway there already. All right, Jack, fact number two.
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