🐭 “DisneyWings” — Spirit should sell to Disney. Chipotle’s dopamine app. SpaceX’s AI pivot. +Mascot $$$
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Spirit Airlines is getting a $500M Gov’t bailout… but once again, we’re pitching Disney Airlines.
Chipotle is turning its rewards app into Nintendo… because dopamine daily drives demand.
SpaceX just made ANOTHER AI acquisition… Elon’s mission statements are just placeholders.
Plus, you wanna make big money? Become a pro sports mascot… $600K for a hawk costume.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday the new Friday. April 23rd in 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. Well, stocks just hit all-time highs for the, um, let me see, 5,000th time this year, Jack. The force of gravity pulls stocks higher neck. It does not apply to the Dow, |
| 0:23.1 | but Jack and I found three fantastic stories for today's tea boy Jack. What do we got on the show? |
| 0:27.9 | For our first story, SpaceX just acquired an AI startup for $60 billion. $60 bill because |
| 0:34.9 | Elon, shockingly, has stopped caring about Mars. |
| 0:38.8 | For our second story, Chipotle has been working on a wild plan to turn around the brand. |
| 0:43.6 | Turn their rewards app into a video game. |
| 0:46.5 | And our third and final story is Spirit Airlines. |
| 0:49.0 | The pinata of the skies just tossed up a GoFundMe page. |
| 0:52.9 | It needs a bailout. |
| 0:53.9 | Your taxpayer dollars might end up |
| 0:55.9 | owning 90% of spirit, but Jack and I have a way better idea. This is good. But Yetis, before |
| 1:02.0 | we hit that wonderful mix of stories, happy playoff season to all those who celebrate. The NBA, |
| 1:06.9 | the NHL, grab some beef jerky and an apparelritz. Enjoy the games. It got us thinking about the most |
| 1:11.8 | lucrative position in all of sports right now. And what is that position, Jack? The mascot. Ain't the |
| 1:17.1 | players, it's the mascot. Because professional sports mascots are making bank these days. |
| 1:22.5 | Get this, Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot, gets paid $250,000. |
| 1:29.9 | Which is almost as much as Pennsylvania's governor. |
| 1:31.3 | No joking. That's a fact. |
| 1:34.3 | But Benny, the Chicago Bowl, makes $400,000. |
| 1:36.8 | And Nick, the basketball season's only six months a year. |
| 1:41.4 | I'm sorry, Jack Harry, the Atlanta Hawk, makes $600 grand a year. |
| 1:45.3 | But topping them all is Rocky, the Denver Nuggets Mountain Lion. |
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