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The Best One Yet

🤬 “Annoyance Economy” — Why Surcharges surge. Amazon’s car biz. Sotheby’s starving artists. +Tomato Blockade

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business, News, Finance, Pop Culture, Business News, Tech

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We waste $165B in time and money on The Annoyance Economy… and Surcharges are Surging.

Amazon is the biggest car dealer in America… but it doesn’t sell cars, it sells access.

Sotheby’s auction house should have a Picasso-worthy business… so why is it low on cash?

Plus, want to understand the Straight of Hormuz, Trade War, & Economy?... Look at the humble tomato.


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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, April 14th. 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. Yet is happy earnings week to all those who celebrate. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, blockaded or both. Yep. Oil is not passing through. But stock markets

0:21.8

don't care. The hold on to the gains from that ceasefire announced last week. Nick and I are back

0:26.7

in our home studios and we whipped up the best mix in business news. It's just the best pod we've

0:31.4

ever done or what? Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. What have we got on the T-Boy?

0:35.5

For our first story, Amazon is now America's biggest car dealer.

0:40.3

Seven car brands are now in the Everything store.

0:43.1

Because Amazon doesn't sell stuff.

0:45.0

Amazon sells access.

0:46.9

For our second story, something strange is going on in the art market right now.

0:51.4

Sotheby's is spiraling.

0:53.7

Besties, why is the auction house Sotheby's not paint its painters?

0:57.2

Jack and I jump in D-Boystile.

0:58.7

And our third and final story, we found an articulation that captures everything we hate

1:03.6

about this economy as consumers.

1:05.5

This is the annoying economy, and everywhere surcharges for everything.

1:10.2

But yet, he's, before we hit that wonderful mix of

1:12.0

stories. I mean, like we said, best mix out there, Jack. Love the mix today. Nick, nine of the 10

1:17.5

biggest stock moving days of the last year were caused by either tariffs or the war in Iran. But best,

1:23.3

is nothing in our economy has been more affected than the tomato. The ripe, red, vegetable-ish fruit

1:30.7

is at the center of the geopolitical stage right now. Because yet he's the price of the humble

1:35.9

tomato has jumped by 15% in the last month. Because multiple macro forces are crushing our tomatoes.

1:42.8

First, Jack, we buy two-thirds of our tomatoes from

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