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The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Trump jacked up the fee of H-1B visas to $100K… The economic lens? It’s a tariff on people.
Build-A-Bear’s stock is surging this year… because 92% of us still have a childhood teddy bear.
Beli is viral restaurant review site challenging Yelp… because stories are better than stars.
Plus, Saturday Night Live’s key to success?... The Snicker Bar Strategy
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, Tea Boy, Tuesday, September 23rd. 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. I'm sorry, I got a little storytelling here. First date Molly and I have had since the baby. We post up at the bar at Spruce, ready to order the hamburger. and boom, you know what I get, sit in front of me, Jack? Yes, I do. A bottle of champagne from Jack and Alex. How did you even know where you're like going to be at the bar? Well, like Sherlock Holmes, I figured out what restaurant you're going to. I figured out the time. I called the restaurant. I said, I don't think they're getting a reservation. I think |
| 0:39.1 | they're just walking in and going to the bar. But they're going to be there at 7 o'clock. Nick is a very |
| 0:43.8 | punctual guy. And when they show up, can you please give them this bottle of champagne? They're |
| 0:48.8 | celebrating their first dinner since having a baby. Jack, that is Mission Impossible CIA level. Can I tell you two takeaways from |
| 0:55.4 | that experience? What? First, champagne pairs with everything. Nice. Agreed. Second, tell everybody |
| 1:01.2 | where you're going to dinner. You never know what you're going to win. Three stories for today's |
| 1:05.7 | team boy, Jack, what do we got on the pod? For our first story, the best stock of the last five years, you're never going to guess. |
| 1:12.6 | It's gone from a $1 dollar bear to $1 billion. |
| 1:16.3 | It's build a bear. |
| 1:17.4 | It's build a bear. |
| 1:18.7 | Yet he's build a bear has searched 2,500% in five years because 92% of us still own our childhood teddy bear. |
| 1:26.6 | For our second story, President Trump jacked up the fee of an H-1B visa to $100,000, |
| 1:33.8 | Wow. |
| 1:34.8 | Causing weekend chaos. |
| 1:35.8 | Besties, this is an immigration story, but it's also a trade story and absolutely a tech |
| 1:42.0 | story. |
| 1:43.0 | And our third and final story is the one app absolutely eating Yelp right now. |
| 1:47.4 | What is it? |
| 1:47.8 | Because Gen Z's favorite restaurant app is Belly. |
| 1:50.7 | Belly has gone viral because everyone hates the five-star review system. |
| 1:56.3 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:59.2 | I mean, fantastic mix. |
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