💸 “$3,600 per Fam” — Tariff Day’s price tag. Tinder’s AI flirt-bot. Nintendo’s Mario Kart Metaverse.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It was T-Day: Tariffs, Tesla, & Trump… We got an update on all of ‘em (and why it’ll cost you $3,600/year).

Tinder launched a Flirt-bot… Because AI’s most powerful use is training pickup lines (seriously).

Nintendo’s Switch 2 is its biggest launch in 8 years… and Mario Kart is getting social.

Plus, we found a Skier’s Arbitrage: It’s cheaper to fly to Japan for a weekend of shredding than staying here in the states…

$NTDOY $TSLA $SPY

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, April 3rd, 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. But first, jetties, we got some wild new data from Spotify that we got to share with you. It turns out only 82% of you who listen to this show actually follow this show.
0:22.7	So 18% of you owe us to follow right now. So pause the pod right now if you're listening on
0:28.4	Spotify and tap follow. Yeah, that way you won't miss any episodes, which by the way, today's episode
0:33.5	happens to be the best one we've ever done. So Jack, three stories for today's show.
0:38.6	For everyone following T-Boy, what's on today's pod? For our first story, yesterday was
0:44.1	tariff day. Trump announced the biggest trade war escalation in 100 years. So what does that mean for
0:50.6	your wallet? $3,600. And we'll explain how we got that number.
0:56.0	For our second story, Tinder just launched an AI chat bot to let you practice spitting
1:00.6	game to a potential date.
1:02.5	We call this hottie the flirt box.
1:04.6	And it actually highlights a key use case of AI.
1:08.4	For our third and final story, after eight years, Nintendo finally launched a new
1:13.5	video game console yesterday. It's called the Switch 2. But here's the wild part. It is not as
1:19.0	powerful and it's not as well funded, but it just might be more fun. But Yetis, before we hit that
1:25.6	wonderful mix of stories. fantastic mix of stories today.
1:29.3	Love the mix. Over in Japan, they have a bizarre and wild problem that I wish I had here in Vermont right now.
1:36.8	Too much snow. Because get this, in one single day last month, Japan got 50 inches of snow.
1:45.2	That's a national record.
1:46.4	We did the math.
1:47.2	That's two inches every single hour, man.
1:49.8	Oh my God.
1:50.7	This year, Japan's ski resorts have two and a half times more snow than they had last year.
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