👶 “End the $1K Baby Tax” — Tariffs crush strollers. Star Wars’ epic re-release. UNC’s D1 ath-fluencer class.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The trade war inadvertently created a $1K Baby Tax… So we predict a “family exemption.”
Star Wars re-released Ep 3, bringing in $42M this weekend… Re-releases can save theaters.
UNC is teaching athletes how to become D1 Influencers… The key: “you don’t have to dance.”
Plus, the untold origin story of… the Frappuccino (spoiler: Starbucks acquired it)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. |
| 0:02.5 | It is Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, April 29th. |
| 0:06.1 | That today's show is the best one yet. |
| 0:08.3 | This is a T-boy. |
| 0:09.6 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:12.7 | Yeties, Bill Belichick may not know where he met his girlfriend. |
| 0:16.8 | But Jack and I know that these are the three best business stories you are going to hear anywhere today. |
| 0:22.3 | Great call. We're not getting into that. |
| 0:23.6 | We're not getting into that. We're not getting into that. |
| 0:25.1 | But just trust us on it. |
| 0:26.1 | Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pot? |
| 0:29.5 | For our first story, the biggest tariff in this trade war is on strollers. |
| 0:34.2 | Yep. |
| 0:34.7 | Baby strollers. Yep, baby strollers. Go-go-Gaga, it's a family tax, which is why if the tariffs don't end, |
| 0:40.5 | the exemptions will begin. For our second story, Star Wars Episode 3, The Revenge of the Sith, |
| 0:47.3 | just celebrated its 20-year anniversary by re-releasing in movie theaters, and it made $42 million |
| 0:53.4 | at the box office. The Star Wars re-releaseasing in movie theaters, and it made $42 million at the box office. |
| 0:54.6 | The Star Wars re-release may hold the solution to save movie theaters. |
| 0:59.5 | Help us re-release! |
| 1:00.9 | You're our only hope! |
| 1:02.1 | And our third and final story. |
| 1:04.5 | UNC Chapel Hill just launched a class for its varsity athletes. |
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