🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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Some Le Pain Quiotidien’s bakeries are turning into night clubs… The hottest pivot in biz history.

How is China handling the Trade War?... It’s making its data disappear.

DoorDash, Uber, Instacart stocks are surging this year… It’s proof of a vibe-cession.

Plus, “Nerd-Sniping” is the new hiring trend in tech… Solve math on the street? Get a job.

$DASH $UBER $CART

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack.
0:02.0	It's Wednesday, Sovice, Wednesday, May 7th.
0:06.0	And today's part is the best one yet.
0:08.0	This is a T-Boy.
0:09.0	The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:12.0	T-boy live tickets on sale today, baby.
0:17.0	July 23rd at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, Buy your tickets now using the link in the episode
0:22.2	description. Yeties go buy your tickets. This live show is the biggest event in Chicago since
0:27.9	Oprah got drafted by the Bulls. Remember that? Yeah, I do remember that. It's our fourth live show and
0:33.0	each one has been an absolute blast. Oh, a thousand seats yet. He's grabbed the tickets now. They're
0:38.8	out. Link in the episode description. But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's pot. What
0:43.6	we got, man? For our first story, Instacart just launched a new app, and DoorDash just acquired two
0:49.6	companies. Oh, besties, are we in a recession? If you want to know the answer, open up your delivery apps.
0:56.0	For our second story, there's a strange thing going on in China right now.
1:00.0	All their economic data is disappearing.
1:03.0	Jack, the GDP, where did it go?
1:05.0	China's PR strategy in this trade war, good news only.
1:09.0	Good vibes only. And our third and final story, La Panco Tdien.
1:14.6	How did I pronounce that, man? Perfectly stuck to lander. That bakery chain is hosting nightclub dance raves.
1:20.6	Yeties, we'll tell you why LPQ is pulling off a discotheca strategy in the bakery.
1:25.6	But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:28.3	Oh, what?
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