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The Best One Yet

🍑 “Colonoscopy Stock Market” — BTS trade war drama. Versace’s Prada acquisition. A Colon econ lesson.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.79.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday we covered the trade war pause… today the behind-the-scenes Trump drama.

Versace was just sold to its Italian cousin Prada at ½ price… because time kills all deals.

Nick just got his 1st colonoscopy… so Jack found our fave economics lesson in the exam.

Plus, Google is now paying AI engineers to do nothing… no joke.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday. April 11th 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. Yeties, remember when stocks rebounded and the S&P searched 10% on Wednesday? Well, scratch all that. Because stocks reversed course yesterday, the S&P 500 fell 4%.

0:22.7

I mean, Jack, we even seen back and forth swings like that since we like first got into finance

0:27.0

after the Great Recession, right? It's whiplash, Nick. Yeah, not since hands across America. Jack,

0:33.4

three stories for today's show. What do we get on the pod? For our first story, yesterday we told you all about the 90-day trade war pause. It was a huge policy reversal.

0:43.3

So today, we'll reveal all the drama that went down behind the scenes over at the White House.

0:48.3

For our second story, it's Versace. Or is it pronounced First Ace? Either way, Versace just sold their dramatic Italian fashion brand to their cousin Prada.

0:58.6

But Versace, not Versailles, sold at half the price because time kills deals.

1:05.0

And our third and final story.

1:07.1

This very morning, Nick got a colonoscopy.

1:09.2

True story.

1:10.2

It's a 36-hour butt procedure, and he passed it with flying colors.

1:13.4

So Jack and I did what we do best.

1:14.9

We found an economic lesson in that colonoscopy.

1:18.9

Yes, we did.

1:20.1

We kept digging and we found it, baby.

1:21.7

But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:24.4

Whoa, what a mix of stories to go into the weekend with.

1:27.8

We just saw a headline on Business Insider, and it was so wild we promoted the story

1:32.7

to the top of the pod.

1:34.1

This is how competitive the battle for tech talent is over in Silicon Valley these days.

1:38.8

Here was the headline.

1:39.8

Google is allegedly paying AI staffers to do nothing for a year rather than join their rivals.

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