👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 “9pm Mystery” — Date Drop’s college takeover. MrBeast’s teen bank. Eddie Bauer’s crapitalism. +Google’s 100-Year Bond.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Eddie Bauer rose thanks to capitalism... It’s now bankrupt thanks to “Crapitalism.”
72% of Stanford undergrads are using Date Drop… It’s taken over Tuesday nights.
MrBeast bought Step, a Fintech app for teens… but they’ll be customers for 19 more years.
Plus, AI demand is so crazy Google dropped a Century Bond… Get paid back in the year 2126 (it’s a great Valentine’s Day gift)
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| 0:37.7 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's a Wednesday, Saviche, Wednesday, February 11th. 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. All right here, Jack. I'm P-to-P. I'm P-to-P. I'm pumped-a-P-P. What's R-2P? Ready to Pod? Okay, Pump to Pod, ready-to-pod. We pod. Wait, the show, get three fantastic stories, my friend. For our first story, one dating app is spreading across Stanford, just like Facebook, spread across Harvard. Date drop. It's used by 75% of Stanford students, and it chose the model for 2026 dating. For our second story, 106-year-old Eddie Bauer just filed for bankruptcy. Pour one out for your down jacket. |
| 0:39.2 | If you want to know what killed Eddie Bauer, it wasn't capitalism. It was capitalism. |
| 0:43.6 | And our third and final story, Mr. Beast acquired Step, a teen finance app, the bank of Mr. |
| 0:49.4 | Beast is now a real thing. And with it, Mr. Beast now has seven million teens hooked up for 19 years, |
| 0:55.4 | and we got the data to back that up. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:00.2 | I mean, like we said, P-to-P, R-to-P, love the pod jack. We just saw the craziest signal yet of froth |
| 1:06.6 | in artificial intelligence. Because get this, investors are now offering AI companies 100-year loans. |
| 1:14.7 | To sprinkle on some context, Google is investing $185 billion this year on AI and data centers. |
| 1:21.4 | But not even Google is profitable enough to pay for all that, man. |
| 1:24.4 | So now Google is launching their first ever century bond. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm sorry, century bond, Jack? |
| 1:29.7 | An I owe you that's not to be paid back for 100 years. |
| 1:33.7 | A full century. |
| 1:35.7 | If you buy this bond from Google, you'll see your money again in the year 2126. |
| 1:41.8 | We repeat, you get paid back in the 22nd century. In 2126, your great, great grandkids will be doing |
| 1:48.7 | spring break on like Venus. Jack, in 2026, our hands will have evolved without pinky fingers. |
| 1:53.5 | But 26, McDonald's soft serve machines will actually be fixed. And the guac will be free because |
| 1:58.8 | there won't be any avocados. Besties, most investors don't even know what they're doing this Friday night. |
| 2:04.2 | And yet they're okay making a date with Google for 100 years from now. |
| 2:08.1 | Artificial intelligence. |
| 2:09.4 | Investors wanted so badly, they're basically just giving their money away. |
| 2:12.6 | So besties, if you're still looking for a Valentine's Day gift, |
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