A Snacktacular Costume

One of my all-time favorite podcasts is Snacks Daily, a digestible financial news podcast from Robinhood Snacks with two hilarious hosts that manage to provide a fresh take on the market that anyone can understand. This is the kind of podcast that is creative enough to have a theme song that raps the required financial disclosures.

For fun, my partner and I decided that there could be no better tribute to the podcast than to dress up as the hosts, Nick and Jack, for Halloween in 2019. But when I went to their website for some merchandise that we could wear to represent who we were trying to be, I couldn’t find anything.

So I decided to create my own. Using CustomInk, I grabbed the logo and dropped it onto one of the baseball tees. On the back, I added the podcasts signature phrase that they use to describe each new episode — “TBOY — The Best One Yet” in a bright approachable font that captured the best of the low-key attitude that marks the podcast. And for good measure, I added in my own twist — another phrase for my partner to wear — “TGIRL — The Greatest In Real Life”.

And as a final step, I sent a tweet off to the guys to see what they thought.

I couldn’t have received a better response. Jack and Nick were thrilled — “This. Is. Incredible. The Takeaway: Our Snackers know how to jump in Snacks style and are simply amazing.” They even went one step further and sent us their famed “The Best One Yet” shirts that they reserve for shout-outs and giveaways, along with a handwritten note.