🐺 “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

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K 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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