🥊 “Fight Club” — Paramount’s $7.7B UFC deal. Nvidia’s export tax. Fazit’s $40M face glitter. + Instant Ramen.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Paramount is paying $7.7 billion to stream the Ultimate Fighting Championship for 7 years… because 100 million Americans watch UFC.

Nvidia & AMD will pay the US government 15% of their China sales… it’s training wheels for an AI tax.

Taylor Swift wore Fazit’s face-glitter and sales surged to $40M… Because Fazit had a “Viral Emergency Kit.”

The untold origin story of… Instant Ramen.

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, August 12th. 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. Can I celebrate a little Jack win here today as well, man? Always. Okay, here we go. Jack Yeties put together a Get Ready With Me video where he explains ETFs while putting on makeup. I'm sorry, skincare. People seem to be picking up what I'm putting down. It seems like they are. I'm picking it up. I'm picking it up. Yeah, it is. We threw that GRWM on our TikTok. Check it out. In the meantime, Jack, three fantastic stories for today's T-boy. For our first story, our two biggest chip makers,
0:38.9	Nvidia and AMD, just signed an unprecedented deal with the United States government.
0:43.5	But what this news is really about is an AI tax.
0:47.4	The first ever, AI tax.
0:49.1	For our second story, it's Fosit.
0:51.7	Fosit's face glitter startup saw sale surge after Taylor Swift wore
0:56.3	sparkles to a Chiefs game. The lesson from Foszit, every brand needs a VEK, a virality emergency
1:03.7	kit. And our third and final story. The ultimate fighting championship is ending pay-per-views.
1:09.9	It's all streamable now on Paramount Plus.
1:12.5	And the Octagon is huge.
1:14.9	A hundred million Americans are now fans of the UFC.
1:19.2	But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:22.5	Fantastic mix of stories.
1:23.8	Love the mix today, Jack.
1:25.0	Hang on a sec while I get ready with my five-step skincare.
1:28.8	That's only on TikTok.
1:30.1	Yet is yesterday we asked you the biggest trivia question in the universe, actually.
1:34.3	Yeah, when astronauts are in outer space, what is the most popular dinner option that they eat?
1:39.6	Is it hamburgers, peanut butter, pizza, or instant ramen?
1:43.1	Well, the answer is, drum roll please, instant ramen.
1:47.0	The Japanese noodle soup, most of you actually got that wrong, I want to point out.
1:53.0	It's specifically cup noodle, instant ramen.
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