🤔 “China’s Factory Revolt” — Trade war moves to TikTok. Moleskine’s Gen Z board. Zuck's FTC lawsuit.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Chinese factories are retaliating in the trade war… with TikTok videos exposing $5 Lulu pants.
Moleskine’s journals are thriving despite the digital age… because they created a Gen Z Board.
Will Instagram get split from Meta?... Zuckerberg testifies this week in FTC vs. Meta.
Plus, the untold origin story of… The Super Soaker.
$LULU $META $SPY
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, April 15th. And today's pod. It's the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yiddies don't withhold any longer. Your taxes are due today. Pause the pod. Yep. File that W-2 like you're writing off your soul. But today's pod is so good. |
| 0:22.4 | It should be an exemption. |
| 0:23.9 | So, Jack, three stories for today's show. |
| 0:26.8 | What do we got on the T-boy? |
| 0:28.1 | For our first story. |
| 0:29.3 | There's a brand new front in the trade war that nobody is talking about. |
| 0:32.9 | True story. |
| 0:33.7 | Chinese factories are exposing American brands on TikTok. Do your $100 Lulu lemon leggings actually cost just five bucks to make? |
| 0:42.3 | We'll tell you in our first story. |
| 0:44.3 | There's a revolution brewing. |
| 0:45.3 | For our second story, how is Moleskin, a brand that makes journals, books, and diaries thriving right now? |
| 0:51.3 | Moleskin is winning because it's got a board of Gen Z's. That's right, |
| 0:56.0 | it's got a Gen Z board of directors. And our third and final story, the epic antitrust lawsuit |
| 1:03.1 | against Meta began on Monday. And here's what's at stake. Zuck could actually lose Instagram. |
| 1:09.6 | But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:11.6 | What a mix of stories! |
| 1:13.6 | Love the T-Boy Tuesday Mixed. |
| 1:14.6 | Yesterday we asked you a trivia question. |
| 1:16.6 | What famous toy was invented by a NASA rocket scientist? |
| 1:19.6 | And the answer is... |
| 1:21.6 | The Super Soaker. |
| 1:23.6 | The billion-dollar toy that was created by accident in a man's bathroom. |
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