🐺 “Dire Wolf of Wall Street” — Colossal’s 1st de-extinction. ThredUp’s tariff win. Shopify’s mandatory AI.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Colossal brought the Dire Wolf back from extinction… by using a strategy from Hollywood.
The #1 winner of the Trade War? ThredUp… The second-hand clothing stock has doubled this year.
Shopify is requiring everyone at the company to use AI every day… AI is part of the dress code.
Plus, introducing “Tasteful Tariffs” — Things that should be tariffed. Think Cargo pants, small talk, QR code menus…
$TDUP $REAL $SHOP $NDAQ
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, April 9th. And today's part is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Ooh, people are terrified out there. The stock market continued its trade or trauma yesterday. The S&P 500 is almost in a bare market. |
| 0:21.3 | It was down 19% from its peak as of this recording. |
| 0:24.5 | Warning for Ann Hathaway, the kingdom of Genovia may get hit with tariffs next. |
| 0:29.4 | No word on what the princess is going to do, Jack. |
| 0:31.6 | Three stories for today's show. |
| 0:33.5 | What do we got on the pod, man? |
| 0:34.7 | For our first story. |
| 0:36.0 | The surprise big winner of the trade war so far is Threadup. |
| 0:39.7 | Threat up! |
| 0:40.5 | Because when it comes to tariffs, the winners are the triple Fs, frugal, friendly finance. |
| 0:45.4 | For our second story, we've covered the startup colossal before. |
| 0:48.7 | They're trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. |
| 0:50.7 | But they actually just brought back a different extinct animal, and that animal |
| 0:54.9 | is the dire wolf. For our third and final story, Shopify's CEO just issued an ultimatum. When it comes |
| 1:02.3 | to AI, it's use it or lose it. And by it, he meant your job at Shopify, because he just added |
| 1:08.3 | AI to the company dress code. But yeties, before we hit that |
| 1:12.4 | wonderful mix of stories. Whoa, what a mix of stories. Love that mix of stories today, Jack. |
| 1:17.5 | Investors are not happy about the trade war tariffs. Yeah, economists hate tariffs. They make |
| 1:22.2 | everything more expensive. But Nick and I were thinking, there's some things we wouldn't mind |
| 1:26.7 | tariffs for. |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, like things that are so annoying, maybe they should be tariffed. |
| 1:32.5 | We call them tasteful tariffs. |
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