🎩 “Cheat on Anything” — Cluely’s cheating app. Home Depot’s secret garden. The Fed’s Batman independence.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Cluely’s founders got suspended for building an AI cheating app… but now it’s venture backed.

Home Depot’s biggest division will shock you… it’s their $20B/year secret garden.

President Trump tanked markets Monday for threatening to fire the Fed… so we explained central bank’s independence with a superhero.

Plus, using “please” and “thank you” in ChatGPT is costing the company tens-of-millions of dollars…

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, so B.J. Wednesday. April 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. Jack, yesterday's breaking news. News was broken on our podcast. If you haven't listened to our exclusive interview yet with Duolingo
0:22.2	CEO, you got it. Yeah, it dropped yesterday on our feed. They announced chess. That's right,
0:27.5	a language app is launching chess. But there's so much more in that interview. Did you hear
0:31.5	when he said that Duolingo is addictive and he loves it that way? He argued why his addictive app is a good thing. I hope he was
0:39.5	happy. He also described that hilarious Super Bowl commercial where the owl's butt kept getting
0:44.8	bigger. That owl. It's got quite a crazy butt. So besties, check out that episode. In the meantime,
0:52.5	Jack and I have an infinite streak of the best
0:56.0	podcast yet. So Jack, what are the three stories on today's team boy? For our first story,
1:01.7	two Columbia University students got suspended for creating an app to help students cheat.
1:06.8	So they launched that app to the public, and they call it the Cheat on Everything app.
1:13.0	For our second story, President Trump wants to fire the Fed for not cutting interest rates.
1:17.8	And this is universally considered a terrible idea.
1:21.1	So we'll tell you why the Federal Reserve is actually our fourth branch of government.
1:25.8	And our third and final story. Home Depot has a little
1:28.9	secret. Yeah, actually a big secret. It's huge. A $20 billion a year secret garden. That's right. Home Depot's
1:34.8	flowers and shrubs are shockingly its biggest business. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful
1:40.3	mix of stories. What a mix of stories to come back to. Love the mix, Jack.
1:44.5	Feels weird saying this, but... Yeah, Jack. Stop being polite. I'm sorry, Jack, but can you
1:49.5	please be more specific? Stop saying please and thank you to chat GPT, because those words are
1:54.8	costing them millions. Thank you, Jack. Get this, yeties. Sam Allman is losing tens of millions
2:00.5	of dollars just by processing your politeness.
2:03.5	We treat Chatchip-T like it was our sixth grade teacher.
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